Burweg

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 37 '  N , 9 ° 16'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Stade
Joint municipality :	Oldendorf-Himmelpforten
Height :	4 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.23 km 2
Residents:	1017 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	63 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	21709
Area code :	04144
License plate :	HOURS
Community key :	03 3 59 009
Community structure:	3 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Hüßlohstraße 10 21709 Burweg
Website :	www.burweg.de
Mayor :	Matthias Wolff (Independent Burweg List)
Location of the municipality of Burweg in the district of Stade

Aerial photo (May 2012)

Burweg is a municipality in Lower Saxony in the combined municipality of Oldendorf-Himmelpforten in the Stade district .

geography

Geographical location

The community lies in the Marsh of the Oste on the edge of the Geest . In addition, the location Horst belongs to it, which lies on a sand ridge between the core village and the Oste.

Community structure

The community consists of the districts Burweg , Blumenthal and Bossel .

history

Incorporation

In the course of the regional reform, the formerly independent municipalities of Blumenthal , Bossel and Burweg were merged to form the new municipality of Burweg on July 1, 1972.

Until January 1, 2014, Burweg was a member community of the combined community of Oldendorf , which merged with the combined community of Himmelpforten to form the new combined community of Oldendorf-Himmelpforten .

Population development

date	Residents
December 31, 1987	912
December 31, 1992	930
December 31, 1997	941
December 31, 2002	957
December 31, 2007	1016
December 31, 2012	970

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Burweg consists of nine council women and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 501 and 1000 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
Independent Burweg list	100%	9

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 70.70%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The local council elected councilor Matthias Wolff (Independent List Burweg) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality of Burweg was approved by the municipal council on February 23, 1983 and approved by the Stade district on March 22, 1983.

Blazon : "In green under a golden key, a silver wall anchor."

The green indicates the location of the municipality Burweg in the area of ​​the Ostemarsch together with the parishioners Blumenthal, Bossel and the district Horst with its church consecrated to Saint Peter , to which the key indicates attributively; At that time it regulated the field conditions and the ecclesiastical as well as the moral life in the community and the families. Remains of an early medieval house, which were discovered in 1934 in Bossel, in front of Borstel (formerly: buristalda = farmyard), show the today's community of Burweg with the wall anchor that it was an old settlement area.

Culture sights

Worth seeing

Church of St. Petri on the Horst

• The Romanesque St. Petrus Church on the Horst was built in the course of the elder colonization by the immigrant Dutch, who were involved in the reclamation of the marshes, around 1200 from field stones with medieval baptismal font. The old bell from this period was sold to the Lüneburg Museum in 1912.
• Cemetery at the church with impressive old tombstones.

Association

• Burweg and Blumenthal volunteer fire brigades
• Wastewater disposal cooperative (AEB)
• Burweg shooting club from 1926
• Blumenthal shooting club from 1929
• Burweg sports club from 1970
• Bosseler Boßel Association from 1987
• Lower Eastern cultural association

Transport and infrastructure

traffic

The federal highway 73 runs through the municipality , which leads in the northwest over the Oste to Cuxhaven via Hemmoor and in the southeast over Himmelpforten to Stade . There is a motorway connection in Stade to the BAB 26 .

The Niederelbebahn runs through the community. The next train stations are in Himmelpforten and Hechthausen .

literature

• Friedrich Holst: Three villages and their history. History of the Burweg community , 1985, ISBN 3-925076-08-5 .
• Ann-Katrin Clauder: And back then it was Borchweghe ... Chronicle of the development of the area between Oste, Horsterbeck and Bahnschienen . 2009/10.
• Angelika Franz: Riddle about the North Sea Inn . In: Spiegel Online from January 4, 2016.

Web links

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

• Website from the municipality

• Bernhard Goossen: Bossel experienced the world wars. A contribution against forgetting and a reminder for the future. (Goossen was born in 1943)

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 for municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 245 .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Home. Retrieved September 13, 2019 . 
4. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on April 2, 2017.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Burweg - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on April 2, 2017.
6. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016, accessed April 2, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Council members of the Burweg community ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 April 2, 2017. 
8. ↑ Coat of arms information on the Samtgemeinde website ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.