Cappeln (Oldenburg)
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Coordinates: 52 ° 49 ′ N , 8 ° 7 ′ E |
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| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | Cloppenburg | |
| Height : | 46 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 76.24 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 7127 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 93 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 49692 | |
| Area code : | 04478 | |
| License plate : | CLP | |
| Community key : | 03 4 53 003 | |
| Community structure: | 9 localities | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Am Markt 3 49692 Cappeln (Oldenburg) |
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| Mayor : | Marcus Brinkmann (individual applicant) | |
| Location of the municipality of Cappeln (Oldenburg) in the district of Cloppenburg | ||
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Cappeln (Oldenburg) is a unitary municipality in the district of Cloppenburg in the Oldenburger Münsterland in Lower Saxony .
geography
Community structure
The following parts of the municipality belong to the municipality of Cappeln (population figures in brackets as of June 30, 2014):
- Bokel (481)
- Cappeln (3095)
- Elsten (629)
- Mintewede (37)
- Nutteln / Tegelrieden (217)
- Schwichteler (277)
- Sevelten (1613)
- Tenstedt (1251)
- Warnstedt (171)
Neighboring communities
Neighboring communities, starting clockwise from the north, are Emstek , Vechta , Bakum (Vechta), Essen , Lastrup and Cloppenburg .
- Surrounding villages at a glance
| Cloppenburg (5 km) | Höltinghausen (Gem. Emstek) (5 km) | Emstek (4 km) | |
| Lastrup (17 km) |
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Visbek (14 km) | |
| Essen / Oldenburg (16 km) | Lüsche (Gem.Bakum) (9 km) |
Bakum (10 km)
Vechta (15 km) |
The distance information relates to the distance to the town center.
Land use
The community of Cappeln is predominantly agricultural and widely populated. 82% of the area of the municipality is used for agriculture, another 11% consists of forest. The remaining areas are to be regarded as wasteland, settlement and traffic areas.
history
At Calhorner Mühlenbach there are the remains of a ring wall system called “ Quatmannsburg ”. The main part of the castle is formed by a circular rampart 90 to 100 m in diameter. Its wall is up to 2 m high and up to 22 m wide. The age of the plant is not known. However, there are more finds from the 11th and 12th centuries. The castle owes its name to the current property owners.
The first documentary mention was in 1159, when Cappeln broke away from Emstek and founded an independent parish. The name "Cappeln" means "chapel". The first church was built in Cappeln before 1150, and it only had to be demolished in 1900. The villages of Elsten, Bokel, Tenstedt and Osterhausen were first mentioned in a document in 1217. After lengthy negotiations, the first chapel was built between Warnstedt and Elsten in 1889.
The place Sevelten is already mentioned in an imprecisely dated document of the Corvey monastery from the period between 1000 and 1090 as "Swiveldon", later "Svivulten" (1110). The first chapel in Sevelten is from this time.
The place Schwichteler received a Dominican monastery in 1929, called Christinenhof. On December 31, 2015, the monastery, which had been run as an educational institution, was closed. Unaccompanied refugee minors are currently housed in the building.
Political Affiliation
- until 1252 to the county of Ravensberg-Vechta
- 1252–1803 to the Principality of Münster
- 1803–1810 to the office of Cloppenburg and the Duchy of Oldenburg
- 1811–1814 to the French Hanseatic Département de l'Ems-Supérieur (department of the Upper Ems)
- 1814–1918 to the office of Cloppenburg and the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg
- 1918–1946 to the office of Cloppenburg and the state of Oldenburg
- since 1946 to the district of Cloppenburg and the state of Lower Saxony
Religions
The majority of the inhabitants of the municipality of Cappeln belong to the Roman Catholic denomination with 55.15% . 13.33% of the population are Evangelical Lutheran and 31.52% belong to another or no denomination.
Roman Catholic churches
History: Cappeln and Emstek belonged to the Diocese of Osnabrück until 1668, and since then to the Diocese of Münster.
- St. Peter and Paul in Cappeln
- St. Franciscus of Assisi in Elsten
- St. Marien in Sevelten
- Dominican monastery in Schwichteler
Evangelical Lutheran Churches
- St. Martin in Cappeln
politics
Municipal council
The council of the municipality of Cappeln consists of 18 council women and councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 6001 and 7000 inhabitants. The 18 council members are elected by local elections for five years each. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.
The full-time mayor Marcus Brinkmann is also entitled to vote in the local council.
The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following result (with comparative figures from the previous election):
| Political party | 11th September 2016 | September 11, 2011 | |||||
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| be right | proportion of | Seats | be right | proportion of | Seats | ||
| CDU | 5236 | 54.04% | 10 | 6602 | 75.99% | 15th | |
| UWG | 2556 | 26.38% | 5 | - | - | - | |
| SPD | 1119 | 11.54% | 2 | 1534 | 17.65% | 4th | |
| FDP | 492 | 5.07% | 1 | 551 | 6.34% | 1 | |
| GREEN | 286 | 2.95% | - | - | - | - | |
| voter turnout | 61.01% | 58.19% | |||||
mayor
In the mayoral election of September 10, 2006, Reinhold Grote from the CDU was the only candidate with 2,211 votes in favor. He ended his term of office prematurely for reasons of age.
In the direct election on September 22, 2013, Marcus Brinkmann received 1,886 votes (50.03%) as a single candidate against two party-affiliated candidates. One vote was enough for an absolute majority. The turnout was 71.40 percent. His tenure began on November 1, 2013.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the municipality of Cappeln shows a black, red bridled horse's head in gold. The coat of arms refers to the horse breeding that used to be practiced in the whole municipality . Particularly noteworthy is the Vorwerk farm, which has been a breeding station for Oldenburg horses for over 100 years.
Town twinning
On July 5, 1991, a partnership agreement was signed with the community of Langenstein in the district of Halberstadt (Saxony-Anhalt).
Culture and sights
- Cappelner Bruch, landscape protection area
Buildings
- Church of St. Peter and Paul (Cappeln)
- Pastorate, built 1711 (Cappeln)
- Vorwerk Stud (Cappeln)
- Church of St. Mary (Sevelten)
- Church of St. Franziskus (Elsten)
St. Peter and Paul (Cappeln)
St. Marien (Sevelten)
St. Marien (Sevelten)
St. Francis (Elsten)
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Cappeln is on the national road B 72 ( Europastraße E 233 ) and the Federal Highway A 1 ( 37 E ) to the road network connected. From 1914 to 1965, the small train Vechta – Cloppenburg opened up the community with stops first in Schwichteler, later in Tenstedt and Cappeln.
education
Various institutions in the field of education and culture can be found in Cappeln, including a .:
- two elementary schools
- a high school
- a music school
- three kindergartens
- five libraries
Sons and daughters of the church
- Maria Brand (1877–1956), first female member of the state parliament in the Oldenburg state parliament
- Leo Reinke (1909–1978), Lower Saxony state politician (CDU), member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from 1951 to 1974
- Günter Dreyer (1943–2019), Egyptologist, from 1998 to 2008 first director of the Cairo department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI)
- Hermann Kokenge (1949–2014), German landscape architect and rector of the TU Dresden
- Christoph Eilers (* 1969), member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Cappeln
- Franz Ostendorf: A walk through the community of Cappeln around 1750
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ↑ a b Cappeln municipality. Numbers, data, facts. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
- ↑ a b Cappeln community: community portrait - past and present , accessed on October 11, 2014
- ^ Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation. Archeology Department - Castle Research -: The Quatmannsburg near Elsten (Gde. Cappeln, Ldkr. Cloppenburg) . 2008
- ↑ Jade University: Quatmannsburg, Cappeln / Elsten ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2014 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. Main survey exercise 2008.
- ↑ pastors in Cappeln . Edited by the parish of Cappeln. (2010)
- ^ Sr. Cherubine Kemper: Homepage of the Dominican Sisters in the Christinenhof . 2016
- ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on January 28, 2017.
- ↑ KDO election portal 2016 municipal elections , accessed on January 28, 2017
- ^ Partner community Langenstein. Cappeln municipality, accessed on July 16, 2014 .
- ^ Gestüt Vorwerk. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
- ^ Cappeln municipality. Schools, kindergartens, libraries. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
Barßel | Evil | Cappeln (Oldenburg) | Cloppenburg | Emstek | Essen / Oldenburg | Friesoythe | Garrel | Lastrup | Lindern (Oldenburg) | Loeningen | Molbergen | Saterland
Bokel | Cappeln (Kernort) | Elsten | Mintewede | Nutteln / Tegelrieden | Schwichteler | Sevelten | Tenstedt | Warnstedt