Breddorf

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 18 '  N , 9 ° 5'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality :	Tarmstedt
Height :	18 m above sea level NHN
Area :	36.47 km 2
Residents:	1019 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	28 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	27412, 27726
Primaries :	04285, 04794
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 007
Community structure:	2 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	To the Wolfskuhlen 1 27412, 27726 Breddorf
Website :	www.breddorf.de
Mayor :	Günther Ringen (WG)
Location of the municipality of Breddorf in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district

Breddorf is a municipality with 1011 inhabitants in the Lower Saxon municipality of Tarmstedt in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district . In addition to the main town of Breddorf, the towns of Hanstedt , Breddorfermoor and Ehebrock also belong to the municipality.

barn

geography

The Swatte Flag nature reserve is located in the municipality . It is close to Hepstedt and Rhade.

history

Breddorf was first mentioned in a document in 1236.

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the neighboring community of Hanstedt was incorporated.

Origin of the place name

Breddorf was first mentioned in 1236, was known from 1237 to 1246 Breddtorpe and around 1352 in Brettorpe. The name comes from the Low German "brēd" for broad. In connection with “dorp” for village, one can conclude that the place name apparently refers to the location or shape of the settlement, i.e. broad village.

Sports

Breddorf shares a sports club with Hepstedt (SV Eintracht Hepstedt / Breddorf). Sports: running, badminton, volleyball, table tennis, gymnastics and much more. The soccer division was reorganized in 2012.

The soccer club FC Ummel has existed for this purpose since 2012. It was created through the merger of the men's and youth football departments of the two clubs TSV Timke and SV Eintracht Hepstedt / Breddorf.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Breddorf consists of eleven council women and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 1001 and 2000 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
Voting Community Breddorf I	57.51%	6th
SPD	36.16%	4th
Green	6.31%	1

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 75.36%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The council elected council member Günther Ringen (Breddorf I voter community) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

Personalities

The writer Walter Kempowski (1929–2007) lived in Breddorf from 1960 to 1965, where he taught together with his wife Hildegard as a teacher at the local elementary school.

The entrepreneur and honorary consul general Andreas Maske (* 1959) grew up in Breddorf in the entrepreneurial household of his parents. His father Eckard Maske was the founder and former managing director of the Maske group of companies.

traffic

The Breddorf stop was on the Wilstedt – Tostedt railway line . This is shut down.

Web links

Commons : Breddorf  - 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. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 242 .
3. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 28, 2014 ; accessed on August 3, 2019 . 
4. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on March 8, 2017.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Breddorf - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on March 8, 2017.
6. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved March 8, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Members of the Breddorf Municipal Council ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 8, 2017.