Bothel (Lower Saxony)

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′  N , 9 ° 30 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality :	Bothel
Height :	31 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.75 km 2
Residents:	2376 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	142 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27386
Area code :	04266
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 006
Association administration address:	Horstweg 17 27386 Bothel
Website :	www.bothel.de
Mayor :	Heinz Meyer ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Bothel (Lower Saxony) in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme)

The community of Bothel is a member of the community association Samtgemeinde Bothel in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme) in Lower Saxony .

geography

Scenic location

Bothel is located in a nature Greater Stader Geest belonging Wümmeniederung between the rivers Rodau and Wiedau , two tributaries of the Wümme eight kilometers southeast of Rotenburg . The place is surrounded by several forests, namely the Hartwedel and the Trochel.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are within the combined community Bothel Brockel in the northeast and Hemsbünde in the northwest. Bothel is bordered to the south by the Wittorf district of Visselhöved .

Settlement structure

The municipality of Bothel is not divided into districts . It is difficult to locate a clear center: On the one hand, the area where the district roads from Rotenburg, Brockel and Kirchwalsede meet and where shops and restaurants can be found are important. In the old, village center on Hauptstrasse and Dorfstrasse there is a branch of Sparkasse Scheeßel , a post office, other shops and restaurants next to old farms . Spacious new single-family housing estates are grouped mainly around the newer administrative center on Horstweg with schools , a doctor's practice , a community center and the town hall .

In the extreme south, with the settlement of Bretel, there are some plots of land in the village of Bretel, which otherwise belongs to Visselhövede, in Botheler municipal area.

history

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Emergence

Bothel is a medieval foundation of farm workers from the Trochel estate, which was then in the Verden territory . The name is derived either from the Old Low German Bostel (small forest), which can indicate clearing within a forest, or it contains the root word Bod (rule). Bothel was first mentioned in a document in 1226.

Early modern age

Bothel shared the history of the Verden territory and later of the Bremen-Verden area , which was part of Sweden after the Thirty Years War and later became part of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , later the Kingdom of Hanover . Napoléon Bonaparte laid out a large military road (now Bundesstraße 440 ) past Bothel .

post war period

After the Second World War , the place grew initially due to the influx of refugees from the former German eastern regions , Czechoslovakia and Bessarabia . From the 1960s onwards, the old town center became more densely populated and several residential areas were built, to which many new residents from southern Germany , eastern Germany or from the countries of the former Eastern Bloc moved. Today, Bothel is characterized by large new development areas with single-family houses . A large part of the population commutes to the district town of Rotenburg or to the neighboring cities of Hamburg and Bremen. In the town center there are still agricultural farms, but only a few farms are left.

religion

Bothel does not own a church, just a cemetery chapel. Most denominational citizens belong to the Evangelical Lutheran parish Brockel within the church region Visselhövede are on, in which the municipalities Brockel, Kirchwalsede and Visselhoevede combined. The Roman Catholic residents belong to the Corpus Christi community in Rotenburg . There are also residents of the Islamic faith, Jehovah's Witnesses , members of free churches , Baptists , members of the New Apostolic Church and, as in all of Germany, a growing group of non-denominationalists.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Bothel consists of 13 councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 2,001 and 3,000 inhabitants. The council members are elected for a five-year term by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats
CDU	50.67%	7th
SPD	49.32%	6th

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 66.30%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The local council elected local council member Heinz Meyer (CDU) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

Partnerships

The Bothel community has no partnerships.

Buildings

• several buildings in the old town center in regional half-timbered architecture (including the former restaurant "Botheler Landhaus")
• War memorial

Sports

In Bothel, there is a sports club in several branches with the TuS Bothel.

Regular events

• Easter fire
• Shooting festival
• Harvest Festival
• National archery tournament
• Village sports festival

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

There are several medium-sized companies in Bothel , including a building construction and civil engineering company, a large blacksmith's shop, a contractor and a bodywork and sales car company. There are also several restaurants.

traffic

Bothel is located between federal highways 71 and 440 . The public transport with a regular bus connection to Rotenburg (Wümme) and to Visselhövede , which runs almost only during school hours, is insufficiently developed. There used to be a train station between Bothel and Brockel on the Bremervörde – Walsrode railway line . The next train stations are in Rotenburg (Wümme) and Visselhövede. According to plans, the Y-route should run through the district of Bothel .

media

The most important newspaper is the Rotenburger Kreiszeitung .

Public institutions, social and health

Bothel is the geographically central and, in relation to the number of inhabitants, the largest town in the joint municipality of Bothel, with the seat of the joint municipality administration and other central facilities such as schools, shops, a general practice practice , a dental practice , a practice for physiotherapy and the police.

Educational institutions

Bothel is the location of the primary school at Trochel and the Wiedau school , a secondary and secondary school . The closest high schools are in Rotenburg and Scheeßel.

Personalities

Personalities associated with the community

• Sarah Kirsch (1935–2013), writer, lived in Bothel from 1981 to 1983
• Wolfgang von Schweinitz (* 1953), composer, lived in Bothel

Trivia

According to a local anecdote, the Brockeler Church should originally have been built in Bothel. This should have failed because the building material was stolen and brought to Brockel. Among other things, this anecdote shows a traditional rivalry between the neighboring towns.

Web links

Commons : Bothel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of Members , accessed on February 27, 2017.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Bothel - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on February 27, 2017.
4. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved February 27, 2017 . 
5. ^ Bothel community - mayor , accessed on February 27, 2017.