Dahlem (Lower Saxony)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 12 '  N , 10 ° 45'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Luneburg
Joint municipality :	Dahlenburg
Height :	42 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.04 km 2
Residents:	620 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	36 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	21368
Area code :	05851
License plate :	LG
Community key :	03 3 55 012
Community structure:	4 districts
Association administration address:	Am Markt 17 21368 Dahlenburg
Mayoress :	Elke Allers ( single nomination EA )
Location of the municipality of Dahlem in the Lüneburg district

Dahlem is a municipality in the district of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony .

geography

location

Dahlem is located on the western edge of the Elbhöhen-Wendland Nature Park . The community is part of the Samtgemeinde Dahlenburg , which its administrative headquarters in the spots Dahlenburg has.

Community structure

The municipality of Dahlem is divided into the following districts:

1. Dahlem (core town)
2. Harmstorf
3. Köstorf
4. Marienau

history

Origin of the place name

Old names of Dahlem were 1330-1352 Dalem, 1355 Dalem and 1380 Dalem. There are two ways of interpreting names. Either Dahlem can be traced back to a Slavic name or it means "valley and" pasture place "(from" Dal-ham "). Dahlem is easiest to explain with" settlement in the valley "(" Dal-hem ").

Incorporations

For the territorial reform in Lower Saxony , the communities Harmstorf and Köstorf were incorporated into the community Dahlum on March 1, 1974.

Population development

year Residents source 1910 166 1925 185 1933 279 1939 246 1950 413 1956 268 1973 401 1975 0810 ¹ 1980 0844 ¹

year Residents source 1985 697 ¹ 1990 480 ¹ 1995 526 ¹ 2000 513 ¹ 2005 529 ¹ 2010 506 ¹ 2015 599 ¹ 2018 628 ¹ 0 0 0

¹ as of December 31st

politics

Constituencies

The municipality of Dahlem belongs to the state electoral district 48 Elbe and to the federal electoral district 38 Lüchow-Dannenberg - Lüneburg .

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Dahlem consists of 8 council members. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 501 and 1000 inhabitants. The eight 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 mayor is also entitled to vote and sit on the council.

The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats
Dahlem List (DL)	93.7%	8th
Individual nomination Elke Allers (EA)	6.3%	1

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 71.8%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The honorary mayor is Elke Allers (single nomination EA). She was re-elected on December 29, 2017 .

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In a split shield in frontfour scattered golden acorns in green , behind in red an upright golden ear and below in a curved, silver tip a golden mill wheel , below on both sides accompanied by blue double waves ."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms of the municipality shows the 4 parts of the municipality in the form of stylized acorns, the predominantly rural character with the stylized ear of wheat, the watermill in Marienau with the water wheel and the network as well as the Harmstorfer Bach in the form of the two double waves on the side of the water wheel.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

To the federal road B 216 Lüneburg - Dahlenburg - Dannenberg (Elbe) , which is south of the community, it is approx. 3 km.

education

The Marienau Rural Educational Home School, founded in 1923 by the Jewish reform educator Max Bondy , is located in the Marienau district of the Dahlem community .

Personalities

People connected to the community

• Max Bondy (1892–1951), Jewish reform pedagogue and co-founder of the rural educational homes , he founded the rural educational home school Marienau
• Oswald zu Münster (1917–2003), photographer, he was a pupil in the Marienau rural education home
• Anneliese Knoop-Graf (1921–2009), younger sister of Willi Graf , who belonged to the core of the student resistance group White Rose, from 1946 to 1969 she ran the Marienau educational home with Bernhard Knoop
• Henry Makowski (* 1927), naturalist and author of books and films, lives in Dahlem
• Dirk Sager (1940–2014), journalist, he was a student at the Marienau State Education Home
• Wolf-Dieter Hasenclever (* 1945), politician (SPD, AUD, Greens, most recently FDP) and educator

Web links

Commons : Dahlem (Lower Saxony)  - Collection of images

• Website of the joint community
• Website of the Landerziehungsheim Schule Marienau , a reform pedagogical boarding and day care center

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. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: Website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on January 26, 2016 ; accessed on August 2, 2019 .  
3. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p.  233 .
4. ↑ Ulrich Schubert: Municipal directory Germany 1900 - district Bleckede. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed January 15, 2020 .  
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Lüneburg district ( see under: No. 24 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  
6. ↑ ^{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.  182 ( digitized version ).
7. ↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 40 , Lüneburg district ( digitized [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on January 15, 2020]).
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} community directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on January 15, 2020 .  
9. ↑ Landtag constituencies from the 16th electoral term. Constituency division for the election to the Lower Saxony state parliament. (PDF; 87 kB) Annex to Section 10 Paragraph 1 NLWG. In: nls.niedersachsen.de. December 28, 2004, p. 4 , archived from the original on July 25, 2011 ; accessed on January 15, 2020 .  
10. ^ Eighteenth law amending the federal electoral law. Annex to Article 1. (PDF; 194 kB) Description of the constituencies. Annex to Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the Federal Election Act. In: bundeswahlleiter.de. March 18, 2008, p. 325 , archived from the original on July 25, 2011 ; accessed on January 15, 2020 .  
11. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Results of the Dahlem municipal election 2016. In: wahl.luenecom.de. September 11, 2016, accessed January 15, 2020 .  
12. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG); Section 46 - Number of Deputies. In: Lower Saxony Regulations Information System (NI-VORIS). December 17, 2010, accessed January 15, 2020 .  
13. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. In: Website Norddeutscher Rundfunk . September 12, 2016, accessed January 15, 2020 .  
14. ↑ Main statutes of the municipality of Dahlem. (PDF; 107 kB) In: Website Samtgemeinde Dahlenburg. September 26, 2018, accessed January 15, 2020 .