Bookholt

Bookholt City of Nordhorn Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ N , 7 ° 2 ′ 43 ″ E
Height :	19 m above sea level NN
Area :	11.85 km²
Residents :	685 (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density :	58 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	48527
Area code :	05921
	Location of the Bookholt farmers in the city of Nordhorn and in the Grafschaft Bentheim district

Bookholt is a farming community and former municipality in the Grafschaft Bentheim district in Lower Saxony . The district belongs politically to the town of Nordhorn .

geography

location

Bookholt is located in the southwest of Lower Saxony, about 4 kilometers from the Dutch and 28 km from the North Rhine-Westphalian border. The nearest towns are Nordhorn (4 km southeast) and Neuenhaus (10 km northwest). The district is bounded in the east by the south-north canal, in the south partly by the Ems-Vechte canal and in the west partly by the Vechte .

Neighboring places

Bookholt borders in the north on Bimolten and Hohenkörben , in the east on the Bakelde farmers, in the south on the Nordhorn district of Bookholt and in the west on Frenswegen .

history

20th century

Nordhorn area from 1914

Reorganization of the municipalities in 1929

In 1904, the Bußmaate settlement was built directly on the city limits of Nordhorn for the growing number of textile workers. Other settlements followed in the southern part of the municipality. Incorporation of this southern part to Nordhorn initially failed in 1913, but was implemented on July 1, 1929 with 2642 inhabitants. At the same time, a parcel of the Altendorf community was incorporated into Bookholt. On March 1, 1974 the Bookholt farmers were incorporated into the district town of Nordhorn.

Culture and sights

societies

In Bookholt there are the sports clubs Sparta Nordhorn 09 and Blau-Weiß Bookholt e. V. and the Schützenverein Bookholt e. V. 1910

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Road traffic

The district road 12, which connects Nordhorn and Veldhausen and the K 17 (Nordhorn – Georgsdorf) runs through Bookholt . The Lingen junction of the A 31 ( Emden - Bottrop ) is around 15 km, the Nordhorn / Bad Bentheim junction of the A 30 around 17 km away.

Local public transport

The Bookholt farmers are only served by one school bus route; The district, which was incorporated in 1929, is served by a city and a regional bus line of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Grafschaft Bentheim (lines 30 and 31), which run every hour during rush hour. The next passenger station is in the center of Nordhorn, approx. 4 km away; there is a connection to the train line RB 56 in the direction of Neuenhaus and Bad Bentheim .

air traffic

The airport of the same name is located in Klausheide , about 10 km away . Motor planes with a maximum total weight of 10 t and gliders can take off and land here. The nearest international airport is Münster / Osnabrück Airport in Greven .

media

The regional daily newspaper in Bookholt is the Grafschafter Nachrichten .

Photo gallery

Vechte at Bookholt
War memorial
Resting place
Veldhauser Strasse
Fairground of the Bookholter shooters
Confluence of the Ems-Vechte Canal and the South-North Canal in Bookholt

literature

Gerhard Klopmeyer: Bookholt, Bimolten and Hohenkörben under French rule. In: Der Grafschafter, F56, p. 447

Heinrich Specht (edit.): The district of Grafschaft Bentheim (administrative district of Osnabrück). District description and regional planning plan together with statistical annex (Die Landkreise in Niedersachsen, Series D, Vol. 9), Bremen-Horn 1953.

Heinz Aldekamp, Werner Rohr: Nordhorn after 1945. Ed. VHS Grafschaft Bentheim. Adult Education Center, Nordhorn (Hellendoorn, Bad Bentheim) 1977, 1987, 1994 (5th edition).

Bernd-Andreas Knoop: The big book of the county. Knoop, location 1984.

Margret Delißen (editor), Helmut Röh (ill.), Bärbel Görtzen: Nordhorn - border town without borders. Neomedia-Verlag, Reken 1999.

Hubert Titz: Nordhorn - a journey through time. County of Bentheim, museum coordination and adult education center, Nordhorn 1998, ISBN 3-922303-30-7 .

Steffen Burkert (ed.): The county of Bentheim - history and present of a district . Publishing house Heimatverein Grafschaft Bentheim e. V., Bad Bentheim 2010, ISBN 3-922428-87-8 .

Individual evidence

^ Geodata Center - Bookholt
^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 254 .
↑ Joh. Hinr. Derr: 62 became 25. In: Yearbook 1975, Verlag Heimatverein Grafschaft Bentheim, p. 290, Nordhorn 1974.
↑ Line network of the VGB (PDF)
↑ https://www.be-mobil.de

[1] Geodata Center - Bookholt

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982-2] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 254 .

[3] Joh. Hinr. Derr: 62 became 25. In: Yearbook 1975, Verlag Heimatverein Grafschaft Bentheim, p. 290, Nordhorn 1974.

[4] Line network of the VGB (PDF)

[5] ttps://www.be-mobil.de