Cappel (Wurster North Sea Coast)

Cappel Community Wurster North Sea Coast
Coordinates: 53 ° 43 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 26 ″  E
Height :	0 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.25 km²
Residents :	705  (2017)
Population density :	85 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2015
Postal code :	27639
Area code :	04741
Location of Cappel in Lower Saxony
Cappel in the municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast

Cappel ( Low German Cappel ) is a village in the municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast in the district of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony .

geography

location

Cappel is located in the Land Wursten landscape north of Dorum within sight of the North Sea coast . The Bremerhaven – Cuxhaven railway runs through the village .

Neighboring places

Nordholz - Cappel-Neufeld district	Nordholz - Spieka-Neufeld district	Nordholz - Spieka district
	Dorum	Midlum

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history

St. Peter and Paul Church

The area of ​​Cappel, like the whole of Wursten, was populated by Frisians from the 8th century after the Saxons had left the area.

The Peter and Paul Church in Cappel was founded in 1198 by the Cistercians . The place name refers to the church or the chapel and means "by the chapel, by the church". In 1483 the old name was given to der Cappel .

Incorporations

In the course of the regional reform in Lower Saxony , which took place on March 1, 1974, the localities of Cappel, Mulsum , Midlum , Padingbüttel , Dorum , Misselwarden and Wremen merged to form the municipality of Land Wursten .

On January 1, 2015, the joint municipality of Land Wursten and the municipality of Nordholz formed the new municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast in the district of Cuxhaven.

Population development

year Residents source 1910 743 1933 712 1939 915 1950 11620 1956 918 1973 729 1975 0700 ¹ 1980 0674 ¹

year Residents source 1985 719 ¹ 1990 731 ¹ 1995 695 ¹ 2000 721 ¹ 2005 750 ¹ 2010 727 ¹ 2014 703 ¹ 2017 7050

¹ as of December 31st

politics

City council and mayor

At the municipal level, Cappel is represented by the council of the Wurster Nordseeküste community.

See also : Wurster North Sea Coast - Politics

Mayor

The mayor of Cappel is Rolf Bohlen ( SPD ). His deputy is Hauke ​​Allers. The term of office runs from 2016 to 2021.

coat of arms

The Cappel municipal coat of arms was designed by the heraldist and coat of arms painter Gustav Völker , who designed around 25 coats of arms in the Cuxhaven district.

	Blazon : "In blue on a green hill, a silver church with a golden gate and a golden weathercock ."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms indicates the place name, which can be traced back to a chapel from the 13th century. The high church tower, built at the end of the 15th century, used to serve as a navigation mark.

Culture and sights

Schnitger organ in Cappel

Buildings

See also : List of architectural monuments in Wurster North Sea Coast - Cappel

• The St. Peter and Paul Church stands on a church mound of the 13th century in the town center. The church tower of the chapel, built in the 15th century, was also used as a navigation mark for the ships in the Weser estuary to the North Sea . For this purpose the tower of the church wore white rings. The church building was destroyed by fire in December 1810 and rebuilt in the following years.
• The organ of St. Peter and Paul was built in 1679/1680 by the famous master organ builder Arp Schnitger and is still used today for concerts by international artists. It originally comes from the St. Johannis monastery church in Hamburg and was moved to Cappel in 1816 after the original organ was destroyed by fire. It has 30 registers on two manuals and a pedal and is considered to be one of the best preserved Schnitger organs.

See also : Organ of the St. Peter and Paul Church

Associations and associations

• Friends of the Arp Schnitger Organ
• Cappel Hunting Association
• Cappel shooting club
• Singing group Cappel
• Social Association Cappel
• Cappel theater group
• TuS Cappel

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Ernst Friedrich Adickes (1811–1878), politician and member of the Reichstag

People connected to the place

• Arp Schnitger (1648–1719), one of the most famous organ builders of his time and the finisher of the North German baroque organ. In 1680 he created the organ of the Hamburg Dominican monastery of St. Johannis, which was transferred to Cappel in 1816
• Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy (1748–1806), organ builder in Northern Hesse and later in Stade, he created the organ of St. Peter and Paul Church from 1800 to 1801, which fell victim to a fire in 1810
• Johann Heinrich Wohlien (1779–1842), master organ builder from Altona, in 1816 he created the packaging for the Arp Schnitger organ of the Hamburg Dominican monastery of St. Johannis for transport to Cappel
• Johann Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy (1781–1858), organ builder in Stade, in 1816 he moved the Arp Schnitger organ from Hamburg to Cappel and rebuilt it. In 1846 it was repaired
• Wilhelm Wieger alias Will Wieger (1890–1964), painter, draftsman, illustrator and graphic artist, lived and worked in Cappel-Altendeich from 1936 until his death
• Paul Ott (1903–1991), organ builder and representative of the organ movement of the 20th century, he carried out repairs and changes to the Arp Schnitger organ from 1937 to 1939

Myths and legends

• Faust and the devil
• From the good horse boy

literature

• Fritz Hörmann, Ude Meyer, Christian Morisse, Eberhard Nehring, Irmgard Seghorn, Egon Stuve, Else Syassen: Wesermünde field names collection - the field names of the property tax cadastre from 1876 . Ed .: Kulturstiftung der Kreissparkasse Wesermünde (=  new series of special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elb- und Wesermuende eV Volume 27 ). Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1995, ISBN 3-931771-27-X , p. 5 ([ digital copy ( memento from October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )] [PDF; 431 kB ; accessed on October 23, 2019]).
• Friedhelm Bartels, Birgit Deppe, Renate Grützner, Wolfgang Köthe, Wilfried Kuhl: Land Wursten and Nordholz - yesterday & today - Wurster North Sea coast . Kellner Verlag, Bremen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95651-128-8 .

Web links

Commons : Cappel  - Collection of Images

• Spa administration website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Friedhelm Bartels, Birgit Deppe, Renate Grützner, Wolfgang Köthe, Wilfried Kuhl: Land Wursten and Nordholz - yesterday & today - Wurster North Sea coast . Kellner Verlag, Bremen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95651-128-8 , pp. 224 .
2. ↑ Overview map of the Cuxhaven district. In: cuxland-gis.landkreis-cuxhaven.de. November 2016, accessed August 13, 2020 .  
3. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". (No longer available online.) In: Website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; accessed on March 13, 2019 .  
4. ↑ Friedhelm Bartels, Birgit Deppe, Renate Grützner, Wolfgang Köthe, Wilfried Kuhl: Land Wursten and Nordholz - yesterday & today - Wurster North Sea coast . Kellner Verlag, Bremen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95651-128-8 , pp. 35 .
5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the community Wurster North Sea Coast, district Cuxhaven . In: Niedersächsische Staatskanzlei (Ed.): Niedersächsisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt (Nds. GVBl.) . No.  26/2012 . Hanover November 8, 2012, p. 428 , p. 2 ( digital copy [PDF; 454 kB ; accessed on September 26, 2018]).
6. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Register of local authorities Germany 1900 - Lehe district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed August 13, 2020 .  
7. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wesermünde district ( see under: Kappel, No. 44 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  
8. ↑ ^{a b} Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p.  192 ( digitized version ).
9. ↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 47 , Wesermünde district ( digitized [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on August 13, 2020]).
10. ^ Municipalities in Germany by area and population. (XLSX; 895 kB) In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 1975, accessed on June 11, 2019 (see: Lower Saxony, No. 1910).  
11. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Community directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on August 13, 2020 .  
12. ↑ Mayor Cappel. In: Website of the municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .  
13. ↑ ^{a b} Landkreis Wesermünde (Ed.): Coat of arms of the Landkreis Wesermünde . Grassé Offset Verlag, Bremerhaven / Wesermünde 1973, ISBN 3-9800318-0-2 .
14. ^ Wilhelm Wieger. In: artnet.de. Retrieved August 13, 2020 .  
15. ↑ The work of Will Wieger . In: Nordsee-Zeitung . 29 August 2018, p.  23 .
16. ↑ Eberhard Michael Iba (Ed.): Hake Betken siene Duven. The saga of the Elbe and Weser estuaries (=  special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund at the Elbe and Weser estuaries . Volume 16 ). 3. Edition. Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1999, ISBN 3-931771-16-4 .
17. ↑ The sagas of the land of Wursten - Faust and the Devil on YouTube , accessed on August 13, 2020.
18. ↑ The sagas of the country Wursten - From the brave horse boy on YouTube , accessed on August 13, 2020.