Barley

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Emsland
Joint municipality :	Lengerich
Height :	39 m above sea level NHN
Area :	28.83 km 2
Residents:	1225 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	42 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	49838
Area code :	05904
License plate :	Tbsp
Community key :	03 4 54 015
Association administration address:	Handruper Str. 3 ; 49838 Lengerich
Website :	www.gersten.de
Mayor :	Karl Köbbe ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Gersten in the district of Emsland

Barley is a municipality in the Lengerich municipality in the Emsland district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Barley is located about 12 kilometers east of the Ems and the Dortmund-Ems Canal between Lingen and Haselünne .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities in the north are the town of Haselünne , in the east the community Lengerich , in the south the community Langen and in the west the community Bawinkel .

History and derivation of place names

Barley (old: Giureston 890, Gerustan ) is mentioned very early in the Werden levy register . Around 890 Thiatgrim and Redwin each had to deliver 15 bushels of grain, 16 denarii army shillings and two bushels of flour. The latter is said to have been a particularly valuable achievement, as grinding with hand mills was very difficult. The residents of Barley are said to have immigrated from East Frisia (source: Teachers' Association of the Diocese of Osnabrück 1905). According to H. Bahlow , the name is synonymous with garst = spoiled, rancid, lazy; compare old north. gerstr = putrid water, fallow water.

Population development

1880: 1007
1885: 953
1900: 934
1925: 1115
1933: 1173
1939: 1124
1950: 1383

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council has eleven elected members. As a result of the local elections on September 11, 2016, it includes two parties.

CDU - 9 seats
FDP - 2 seats

Culture and sights

Megalithic tomb
Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Neo-Romanesque, built 1921, architect: Karl Determann)

Sports

The women's team of the soccer department of SV Victoria Gersten plays in the 2nd Bundesliga . For the 2011/12 season, the department joined the SV Meppen .

literature

Teachers' association of the Diocese of Osnabrück: The Lingen district. Contributions to local studies in the Osnabrück administrative district, volume I , R. van Acken publishing house, Lingen / Ems 1905

Werner Kaemling: Atlas on the history of Lower Saxony , Gerd J. Holtzmeyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1987, ISBN 3-923722-44-3

Hermann Abels: The place names of the Emsland, in their linguistic and cultural-historical significance , Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 1929

Christoph Oberthür, Franz Busche, Franz Barth, Heinrich Dünheuft: Home map of the Lingen district with statistical information , Verlag R. van Acken, Lingen / Ems 1953

Ernst Förstemann, Hermann Jellinghaus (editor): Old German name book , Volume II, 1 and 2: Place names , Bonn 1913/1916 (Reprint: Volume II, 2, Hildesheim 1967/1983, ISBN 3-487-01733-4 )

Statistics of the German Reich - results of various censuses , Berlin 1883–1944

Lower Saxony Office for State Planning and Statistics - Statistical Yearbook 1950 , Hanover 1950

Web links

Commons : Barley - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-NI-1] State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).

[2] ttp://www.lengerich-emsland.de/fileadmin/lengerich/dokumente/Wahlen/Wahlen_2016/Wahlresult_Gersten_2016.pdf