Dörpen

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 58 '  N , 7 ° 20'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Emsland
Joint municipality :	Dörpen
Height :	16 m above sea level NHN
Area :	33.07 km 2
Residents:	5392 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	163 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	26892
Area code :	04963
License plate :	Tbsp
Community key :	03 4 54 008
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 25 26892 Dörpen
Website :	www.gemeinde-doerpen.de
Mayor :	Manfred Gerdes ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Dörpen in the district of Emsland

Dörpen is a municipality and at the same time the administrative seat of the combined municipality Dörpen in the district of Emsland in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality of Dörpen is located in the southeast triangle of the coastal canal and the Ems . The district town of Meppen is about 30 kilometers south, and the city of Papenburg is about 14 kilometers north of Dörpen.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are in the north the communities Heede , Lehe and Neulehe , in the east the communities Surwold in the combined community Nordhümmling and the community Neubörger , in the south the communities Wippingen and Kluse and in the west the communities Walchum and Dersum.

history

The community was probably first mentioned in a document in 854, but the document in question was destroyed. Thus, the first documentary mention of the community is in the 10th century.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1973, the neighboring community Neudörpen was incorporated.

Municipal council

The municipal council has 15 elected members. After the local elections on September 11, 2016 , the SPD is no longer represented in the council, resulting in the following distribution of seats.

• CDU : 12 seats (+2)
• UWG : 3 seats (+1)

Economy and Infrastructure

Nordland Papier GmbH is located to the northeast on a branch canal of the coastal canal .

coal-fired power station

The STKW energy Dörpen GmbH & Co. KG , a subsidiary of EnBW and the Swiss energy company BKW Energy , planned the construction of a coal-fired power plant with a capacity of approximately 900 MW and an efficiency of 46 percent in Dörpen by 2015. BKW had the Project already pursued since 2007, EnBW got involved in 2009. The approval process was initiated at the end of June 2007. Commissioning was initially planned for 2013, but was later postponed to 2014 and finally 2015. The power station should be fired with imported coal.

The project was the cause of a controversy between the local government and the citizens' initiative "Clean Energy". While the citizens' initiative feared harmful effects on the life of the population in the area and questioned the ecological sense of the project, the local government promised itself above all new jobs during the construction and operating phase as well as economic incentives in the region.

A high point of the disputes between the municipal administration and the citizens' initiative was the residents' demand for a citizens' survey on the construction of the coal-fired power station. With a petition from 2,019 adults - a majority of residents eligible to vote in federal elections - the initiative asked for an official survey, which was rejected by the CDU majority in the local council. The petition was supported by over 5,000 German citizens who took part in the action Germany writes Dörpen von Campact .

On December 9, 2009, EnBW announced that it would give up the project. The reason given was that the previously envisaged customer for the heat, the Nordland paper mill , wanted to build its own thermal power station. The citizens' initiative welcomed the construction of the gas power plant with combined heat and power by the Nordland paper mill.

traffic

Dörpen is located on the A 31 between Emden and Bottrop and the federal roads 70 ( Meppen - Papenburg ) and 401 (Dörpen - Oldenburg ). An extension of this road further into the Netherlands is planned. Dörpen is also on the Rheine – Norddeich Mole railway line . The RE 15 Emsland Express , which runs from Münster to Emden, stops every hour in Dörpen. For inland navigation, the Dörpener Schleuse is important as the start and end point of the coastal canal .

The 'Güterverkehrszentrum Emsland' (GVZ) is located in Dörpen. It is considered the most powerful freight transport center in Lower Saxony and is trimodal (water / rail / road). As of 2013, 500 people work there. The main user and client is the shipping company UPM nortrans. It controls the inbound and outbound logistics of the UPM Nordland Papier factory in Dörpen.

Bike trails

Several long-distance cycle paths and local cycle paths lead through the municipality of Dörpen .

• The Dortmund-Ems Canal Route is a 350 km long and almost incline-free long-distance cycle path that connects the Ruhr area with the North Sea coast .
• The EmsRadweg begins at the Ems source in the village of Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock on the edge of the Teutoburg Forest and follows the Ems over a distance of 375 km.
• The United Countries Tour is an approx. 600 km long circuit through the northern and central Emsland to the left of the Ems, through the border areas of the Dutch provinces of Drenthe and Groningen and the northern county of Bentheim .
• The local cycle route is the coastal canal cycle path (32 km).

Partner communities

Dörpen has been partnered with the Dobroń Municipality in Poland since 1993 .

Others

Transrapid

The north loop of the Transrapid test facility in Emsland runs south-east of the municipality. Traffic was suspended in connection with the accident there on September 22, 2006 and because the operating license has expired.

Dörpen has a fun and adventure pool (dune pool) as well as various soccer fields, tennis courts, a riding hall, a fitness trail, tennis hall, skater facility, Gorodki facility, sports halls, shooting range, archery facility, dog exercise area, a sports boat harbor and the like. v. m.

Personalities

• Adam Pastor (* after 1500; † after 1560), Anabaptist
• Albert Wilkens (1790–1828), clergyman and local researcher
• Bernd Busemann (* 1952), politician (CDU)

literature

• 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.
• Ernst Förstemann, Hermann Jellinghaus (ed.): 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 .
• CHCF Jansen, Statistical Manual of the Kingdom of Hanover, In Commission of the Helwings̓chen Hofbuchhandlung, 1824, p. 138

Web links

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

• Official homepage of the municipality

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 in 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. 252 .
3. ↑ http://wahlen.doerpen.de/KW_2016/454101_000052/index.html Samtgemeinde Dörpen - Result of the municipal elections Dörpen 2016
4. ↑ Klaus Diekmann: Coal-fired power station is to be built in Dörpen.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Ems-Zeitung, June 2, 2007. Retrieved October 8, 2014.  
5. ↑ BKW and EnBW are jointly planning a power plant in Dörpen. Press release EnBW, March 12, 2009. Retrieved October 8, 2014.
6. ↑ ^{a b} No coal-fired power plant in Dörpen! Website of the Green Emsland South. Retrieved October 8, 2014.
7. ↑ Daniel Fischlin: "Not 40 years with the same standard". Interview in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, May 15, 2009. Retrieved October 8, 2014
8. ↑ Citizens' Initiative Clean Energy ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ^ Appeal Germany writes Dörpen! Against coal power plant on campact.de ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Due to the lack of the possibility of combined heat and power, EnBW is withdrawing from the project. EnBW press release, December 15, 2009. Accessed October 8, 2014.
11. ↑ Coal power fails due to the uncomfortable truths of climate change - power plant project in Dörpen abandoned. Press release klima-allianz Deutschland, December 18, 2009. Accessed October 8, 2014.
12. ↑ www.gvze.de
13. ↑ www.gvze.de
14. ↑ Article in the Osnabrücker Zeitung about the partnership between Dörpen and Dobroń.Retrieved on April 15, 2019, 11:42 pm