Langförden

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Langförden
City of Vechta
Langförden coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 47 ′ 9 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 16 ″  E
Height : 46 m
Residents : 4500
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 49377
Area code : 04447

Langförden is a district of the Lower Saxony city of Vechta . Until the municipal reorganization in 1974, Langförden was a municipality . The Lower Saxony “Law for the reorganization of the city of Aschendorf and the municipalities of Langförden, Vörden and Mulsum” of March 28, 1990, which was supposed to restore the municipality of Langförden, did not come into force by order of the Federal Constitutional Court .

geography

Laurentiusbrunnen and bell tower of St. Laurentius
Börgerdings mill in Spreda (reconstructed in 2007)

The district has around 4,500 inhabitants and is located about six kilometers north-north-west of Vechta on federal road 69 and east of federal motorway 1 and the disused Ahlhorn – Vechta railway line .

Geology and hydrogeology

Langförden is located in the North German Plain. The area around Langförden consists mainly of glazio-fluvial deposits, primarily loamy and sandy deposits from the Pleistocene. Boreholes showed that the uppermost sediment layers are about 5 to 7 m thick. Underlying this layer is a 10 m thick, loamy and muddy sediment layer. Sandy layers at a depth of 25 to 30 m form a productive aquifer for pumping groundwater. The top aquifer is at a depth of two to six meters.

Neighboring towns

Neighboring places, starting from the north in a clockwise direction, are the Emsteker village of Schneiderkrug, the municipality of Visbek , the municipality of Goldenstedt , the Goldenstedt village of Lutten , the city of Vechta , the municipality of Bakum , the municipality of Cappeln and the municipality of Emstek.

Emstek (9 km) Tailor's pitcher (3 km) Visbek (7 km)
Cappeln (10 km) Wind rose small.svg Goldenstedt (12 km)
Bakum (6 km) Vechta (7 km) Lutten (7 km)

The distance information relates to the distance to the town center.

climate

The annual precipitation is 756 millimeters. The precipitation is in the middle third of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 53% of the German Weather Service's measuring stations . The driest month is February, with most rainfall in June. In June there is 1.7 times more rainfall than in February. Precipitation hardly varies and is evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at only 15% of the measuring stations .

Districts and farmers

  • Langförden
  • Langförden-Nord
  • Gut Bomhof
  • Spreda
  • Deindrup
  • Good straws
  • Calveslage

history

Remembrance of the Ahlhorn – Vechta railway at the former Calveslage station
Remains of the colorful mill in the Langförden village park

The Langfördener peasantry Holtrup has 851 first mentioned. Langförden and the farmers' Calveslage were mentioned in a document in 890.

  • In 1011 the first church was built from boulders and field stones . The later independent parishes of Vechta (until 1221) and Oythe (until 1300) also belonged to the parish .
  • In 1652 the first school was established in Langförden.
  • 1837 was the first street of stones, the state highway Vechta- Ahlhorn , today's B 69 was built.
  • In 1885 the Ahlhorn – Vechta line of the Grand Ducal Oldenburg Railway was opened. Passenger traffic ceased in 1952 and freight traffic in 1967. In the area of ​​the municipality of Langförden, the railway stations Langförden and Calveslage were on this route.
  • In 1913, today's St. Laurentius Church was consecrated.
  • 1933-1945 Langförden was part of the municipality of Bakum .
  • In 1974 the municipality of Langförden was incorporated into the city of Vechta.
  • In 2008 the Lower Saxony Mill Road was expanded; Since then it has also led through Langförden. Borgerdings Mühle in Spreda is a stop on the Lower Saxony Mill Road in Langförden. The "Bunten-Mühle" is shown on the map of Mühlenstrasse as another station; However, it was dismantled in February 2018 and is said to be rebuilt in the Netherlands. In fact, members of the Langförden Heimatverein saved the millstone of the Bunte Mühle from being shredded in the Netherlands. Like the remains of the mill foundation, it was placed in front of the Spieker in the Langförden village park.

politics

Partnerships

The Langförden district maintains a partnership with the French Le Cellier .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Neo-Romanesque parish church of St. Laurentius

The neo-Romanesque parish church of St. Laurentius , built between 1910 and 1912, with the free-standing bell tower from 1011 made of boulders and field stones.

The Holtrup Chapel from 1718 is located on a farm in the Holtrup farming community .

Sports

In Langförden, the SV BW Langförden is also active as an overall sports club. There are all kinds of sports in the club (soccer, table tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.). SV BW Langförden also organizes a large football tournament for C-youth teams (U15). This tournament traditionally takes place on Pentecost. Individual teams are then accommodated there with host parents. Many teams from Europe have already participated in the tournament.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

The economy is mainly agriculturally oriented with intensive poultry farming and fruit growing. Big Dutchman has its headquarters in the Calveslage district . Big Dutchman is a world leader in the manufacture of feeding systems and housing equipment for keeping poultry and pigs .

traffic

Langförden is covered by bus routes 690 (Vechta – Langförden – Deindrup), 691 (Spreda – Langförden – Vechta), 600 (Ahlhorn – Vechta – Lohne) and 970 (Vechta – Cloppenburg) during the week and on weekends with the surrounding area and the urban area Vechta connected. The buses all run in the tariff area of ​​the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Landkreis Vechta (VGV)

Son of the place

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DFR BVerfGE 82, 310 - Aschendorf
  2. ↑ Franz Hellbernd: Münsterländische castles and noble houses , 1963 ( Memento of 19 April 2014 Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Deanery Vechta: St. Laurentius, Vechta (Langförden) , accessed on November 11, 2011
  4. ^ Mühlenstrasse working group in the Mühlenvereinigung Niedersachsen-Bremen eV: Börgerdings Mühle
  5. ↑ Mühlenstrasse working group in the Mühlenvereinigung Niedersachsen-Bremen eV: Bunten-Mühle Langförden
  6. ↑ otterdvd film: Dismantling the Langförden colorful windmill in Vechta. . February 24, 2018. 7:08 pm
  7. ↑ Lars Chowanietz: Friends of home save stone from Bunter [sic!] Mill. At the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the association on Sunday, the piece should now invite you to rest on the Spieker . "Oldenburgische Volkszeitung". November 22, 2018, p. 10
  8. ↑ nordkreis-vechta.de: Sights , accessed on May 13, 2020.