Eimke

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Eimke
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Coordinates: 52 ° 58 ′  N , 10 ° 19 ′  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Uelzen
Joint municipality : Suderburg
Height : 64 m above sea level NHN
Area : 82.88 km 2
Residents: 824 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 10 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 29578
Area code : 05826
License plate : UE
Community key : 03 3 60 007
Community structure: 4 districts
Address of the
municipal administration:
Apfelweg 5
29578 Eimke
Website : www.suderburg.de
Mayor : Dirk-Walter Amtsfeld ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Eimke in the district of Uelzen
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Eimke is a municipality in the middle of the Lüneburg Heath in the district of Uelzen , Lower Saxony . The municipality of Eimke is part of the Suderburg municipality .

geography

location

Eimke is located in the Lüneburg Heath . The central town of Eimke is traversed by the Ilmenau tributary Gerdau , whose tributary Häsebach rises in the Dreilingen district.

Community structure

The community Eimke consists of the localities Dreilingen (including the district Niebeck), Ellerndorf , Eimke and Wichtenbeck.

history

The first written mention of the main town Eimke comes from the year 1148 . But there are testimonies from the Stone and Bronze Ages such as B. Finds of flint tools , axes made of rock and about two dozen barrows .

The church was probably built at the beginning of the 14th century. It's the forecast for that sooner one to Ebstorfer associated monastery church chapel was. There is also a fabulous story about their creation. After that, the villages Eimke, Ellerndorf, Brambostel, Three Lingen and Wicht Beck became a the merger congregation determines the place Wicht Beck for church site, he was yet in the center of the parish . Everything was already prepared there for the construction of the church when the Eimker rushed there in one night and carried all the building materials to Eimke, where the church was finally built.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the communities Dreilingen, Ellerndorf and Wichtenbeck were incorporated.

Surname

An old name of the place is around 1148 Embike. The basic word of the place name "-beke" is Low German and stands for Bach, so that Eimke is based on a river name. The defining word is handed down as "En-". For a river name, the roots “ei-”, “oi-”, “i-” speak for “go” and their extensions.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Eimke consists of nine councilors.

CDU SPD WSL total
2006 6th 3 9 seats
2011 6 (63.8%) 2 (26.6%) 1 (9.5%) 9 seats

Last local election on September 11, 2011

mayor

Eimke's mayor since 1925:

  • August Kuhlmann (1925–1934)
  • Richard Kuhlmann (1934–1944)
  • Robert Löhr (1946–1964)
  • Klaus Ostermann (1964–1989)
  • Dirk-Walter Amtsfeld ( CDU ) (since 1989)

coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: The coat of arms shows in silver a red "E" growing from the left edge of the shield next to a gold-reinforced black Heidschnucken ram's head.

Culture and sights

Village church

Village church

St. Marien was built from field stones. The wooden church tower was added during the Thirty Years' War . The furnishings include a Pietà , a prieche from 1677 with carvings and an organ from 1870 with eleven stops from the workshop of Folkert Becker from Hanover.

The place Brambostel also belongs to the parish of Eimke.

Natural monuments

  • Oak next to the church with a chest height circumference of 7.67 m (2016).

Sons and daughters of the church

literature

  • Marlies Vollmer, Heinrich Porth: The families and residents of the parish Eimke. Local family book 1727–1900, study of the population history and ownership successes of the farms in the places Brambostel, Dreilingen, Eimke, Ellerndorf and Wichtenbeck ( sources and representations on the history of the city and district of Uelzen. Vol. 10). Museum and local history association of the Uelzen district, Uelzen 2010, ISBN 3-929864-18-5 .

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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 238 .
  3. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 3, 2016 ; accessed on August 4, 2019 .
  4. ^ Result of local elections 2011
  5. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments - Bremen Lower Saxony. 1992, p. 428
  6. ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017

Web links

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