Drangstedt

Drangstedt Drangst ( Low German ) City of Geestland
Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 56 "  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 11"  E
Height :	12 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.02 km²
Residents :	1571  (June 30, 2017)
Population density :	92 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2015
Postal code :	27624
Area code :	04704
Location of Drangstedt in Lower Saxony
Drangstedt in the city of Geestland

Drangstedt station (2015)

Large stone grave Drangstedt (2015)

Drangstedt Forest Hospital

Drangstedt ( Low German Drangst ) is a village in the city of Geestland in the Lower Saxony district of Cuxhaven .

geography

location

The village of Drangstedt is located in the Elbe-Weser triangle between the cities of Bremerhaven , Cuxhaven and Bremervörde .

Neighboring places

	Hymendorf Flögeln00	Bad Bederkesa - Fickmühlen district
Debstedt		Bad Bederkesa
Wehden (municipality of Schiffdorf )	Elmlohe	Kührstedt - Alfstedt Kührstedt district

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history

The place and the name Drang-Stede is around 500 BC. Until 300 BC And can be traced back to a cattle trough that existed there earlier ; because only at this time did places on the Geest get a name with the ending -stedt . Drangstedt was first mentioned in a document in 1312. There is evidence that people have lived in the area for more than 6000 years. The giant beds of Drangstedt are located in the "Knüppelholz" between the L 120 (Hafenstrasse) and the railway line. There are still around 100 barrows in the area that are at least 4000 years old and older. However, over time, all of them were opened and looted. Of its kind, it is the largest contiguous burial ground in Europe .

The local homeworker and local writer is Helmut Wöhlke.

Forest hospital

During the Second World War, a barracked forest hospital was built in 1942 in the “Knüppelholz” forest area. After soldiers were treated here until 1958, an old people's home moved into the barracks. From 1967 to 1983 they were used as accommodation for the US Army and then for the Bundeswehr. The buildings were served from Langen train station by a bus line D operated by the Bremerhaven AG transport company. After that, the entire system was incompletely leveled. One barrack ruin is unsecured (2019).

Incorporations

On January 1, 2015, Drangstedt formed the new city of Geestland with the other municipalities of the combined municipality of Bederkesa and the city of Langen .

Population development

year Residents source 1910 423 1925 531 1933 586 1939 610 1950 14550 1956 12010 1973 10340 1975 1655 ¹ 1980 2536 ¹

year Residents source 1985 2364 ¹ 1990 1320 ¹ 1995 1316 ¹ 2000 1474 ¹ 2005 1486 ¹ 2010 1462 ¹ 2014 1469 ¹ 2017 1571² 0 0 0

¹ as of December 31
² according to the info box

politics

Local council

The local council of Drangstedt consists of a councilwoman and six councilors from the following parties:

• CDU : 5 seats
• SPD : 1 seat
• Non-party : 1 seat

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor of Drangstedt is Rafael Platek (CDU). His deputy is Uwe Lorenz (SPD).

coat of arms

The design of the municipal coat of arms of Drangstedt comes from the heraldist and coat of arms painter Gustav Völker , who designed around 25 coats of arms in the district of Cuxhaven.

	Blazon : “In silver two floating, rooted green fir trees over a green hill , covered with a golden , silver- horned ox head ; the hill over a silver shield base . "
	Reasons for the coat of arms: The firs are symbols of the Drangstedter forest. The hill is reminiscent of the stone graves and the ox head above the silver shield base indicates the interpretation of the place name as a cattle trough.

Culture and sights

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Geestland - Drangstedt

Regular events

• Holy Saturday : Easter fire
• Pentecost: setting up the maypole
• July: sports week

Economy and Infrastructure

The originally purely agricultural place lost its rural character with the construction of the railway from Bremerhaven to Bad Bederkesa in 1896 . Business people and captains from Bremerhaven and the surrounding area built spacious houses here, some of which are listed . The transport links to the nearby port city made it possible for many rural residents to work in port handling. The railway line was shut down for passenger traffic in 1968, but has since been regularly used by the Bremerhaven – Bederkesa museum railway as a railway line in the style of the 1950s. The village has a forest area of ​​6.34 km², one of the largest forest areas in the district of Cuxhaven and thus an attraction for those looking for recreation.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Barbara Ambrosius (* 1944), lawyer and former judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• Bernd Ravens (* 1944), politician (non-party, formerly CDU), Member of the Bremen Parliament and Vice-President of this Parliament for 16 years
• Brigitte Adler (1944–2004), politician (SPD), member of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg, member of the Bundestag
• Torsten Lange (* 1945), politician (Greens), member of the Bundestag from 1985 to 1987
• Werner Hoyer (* 1946), politician from Bremerhaven (SPD) and member of the Bremen citizenship (1983-2003)

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. 7 ([ digitized version ( memento from October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )] [PDF; 431 kB ; accessed on October 23, 2019]).

Web links

Commons : Drangstedt  - Collection of Images

• 700 years of Drangstedt - from 1312 to 2012
• Internet presence of the town of Drangstedt on the website of the city of Geestland

Individual evidence

1. ^ Municipalities in Germany by area, population and postcode. (XLS; 4.8 MB) See under: Lower Saxony, No. 1997 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 2014, accessed on December 23, 2019 .  
2. ↑ Overview map of the Cuxhaven district. In: cuxland-gis.landkreis-cuxhaven.de. November 2016, accessed December 23, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Local homeland caretaker and local chronicle. In: Website City of Geestland. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .  
4. ↑ Dieter Albers, Gerda Thies and Lothar Wolf: The alternative hospital Drangstedt-Knüppelholz. In: relict.com. Retrieved August 18, 2017 .  
5. ↑ Paul Homann: Bremerhaven's route networks (ÖPNV) from June 26, 1881 to April 27, 2020. (PDF; 2.7 MB) In: Website BremerhavenBus. P. 25 (bookmarked October 15, 1947) , accessed August 11, 2020 .  
6. ^ Law on the reorganization of the city of Geestland, district of Cuxhaven . In: Niedersächsische Staatskanzlei (Ed.): Niedersächsisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt (Nds. GVBl.) . No.  26/2012 . Hanover November 8, 2012, p. 430 , p. 4 ( digitized version ( memento of July 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 454 kB ; accessed on September 25, 2018]).
7. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Register of local authorities Germany 1900 - Lehe district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed August 11, 2020 .  
8. ^ ^{A b c} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wesermünde district ( see under: No. 19 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  
9. ↑ ^{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 ).
10. ↑ 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 June 3, 2020]).
11. ^ Municipalities in Germany by area and population. (XLSX; 895 kB) See under: Lower Saxony, No. 1912 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 1975, accessed on June 11, 2019 .  
12. ↑ ^{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 December 23, 2019 .  
13. ↑ ^{a b} The local council of Drangstedt. In: Citizen Information System City of Geestland. Retrieved February 22, 2018 .  
14. ↑ ^{a b} Landkreis Wesermünde (Ed.): Coat of arms of the Landkreis Wesermünde . Grassé Offset Verlag, Bremerhaven / Wesermünde 1973, ISBN 3-9800318-0-2 .