Elmlohe

Elmlohe Elm ( Low German ) City of Geestland
Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 39 ″  E
Height :	8 m above sea level NHN
Area :	23.3 km²
Residents :	850  (June 30, 2017)
Population density :	36 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2015
Postal code :	27624
Area code :	04704
Location of Elmlohe in Lower Saxony
Elmlohe in the city of Geestland

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

geography

location

The village of Elmlohe is located in the Elbe-Weser triangle between the cities of Bremerhaven, Cuxhaven and Bremervörde. In addition to the main town Elmlohe, Marschkamp also belongs to the village. The Geeste runs along the southern edge of the local area . The next big city is Bremerhaven (approx. 10 km westward as the crow flies).

Neighboring places

	Drangstedt
Wehden (municipality of Schiffdorf)		Kührstedt
Bramel (municipality of Schiffdorf)	Elmlohe - Marschkamp district

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history

Elmlohe was built at the beginning of the 14th century by the Lords of Bederkesa from the Quabben brook on the Geeste as a low castle. Co-founder of the fortified settlement was Werner von Bederkesa, who is mentioned in 1308 in a document from the Neuenwalde monastery . On the "Freie Damm" leading to the castle, craftsmen and small farmers were settled in the elm forest there (i.e. Elmlohe). In 1346 the Lords of Elme and von der Lieth had a church built here near the castle. The church named for the Mother of God Mary was removed from the parish of Debstedt. The reason given is the long way to Debstedt and the “mortal hostility” to the Frisian Wurtsaten . Because of the disobedience to his feudal lord, the Elmloh castle under Cord von der Lieth was besieged and destroyed by an army of the Bremen council in 1485. The von der Lieth hereditary lords remained in possession of their Elmloh property until the 18th century. For the 700th anniversary of Emlohe, the event was celebrated on July 20, 2008 with a parade through the town. A comprehensive account of the history of the place was published under the title "Elmlohe - a village through the ages 1308-2008".

Until the mid-1990s, a bus route 15 connected Elmlohe with Bremerhaven and Köhlen. The timetable provided for trips every day of the week.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1968, the previously independent municipality of Marschkamp was incorporated into the municipality of Elmlohe.

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

Population development

Population development of Elmlohe from 1910 to 2017 according to the table below

year Residents source 1910 364 1925 375 1933 378 1939 391 1950 671 1956 501 1973 773 1975 0751 ¹ 1980 0742 ¹

year Residents source 1985 731 ¹ 1990 749 ¹ 1995 823 ¹ 2000 883 ¹ 2005 861 ¹ 2010 842 ¹ 2014 827 ¹ 2017 850² 0 0 0

¹ as of December 31
² according to the info box

politics

Local council

The local council of Elmlohe consists of five councilors from the following parties:

• CDU : 1 seat
• SPD : 1 seat
• WG WEM : 3 seats

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor of Elmlohe has been Henning von der Lieth (CDU) since January 20, 2015. His deputy is Arne Brauer (WG WEM).

coat of arms

The first draft of the municipal coat of arms of Elmlohe comes from the heraldist and coat of arms painter Gustav Völker , who designed around 25 municipal coats of arms for the district of Cuxhaven. When it was merged with the municipality of Marschkamp, ​​the design by the heraldist and coat of arms painter Albert de Badrihaye , who designed around 80 municipal coats of arms for the district of Cuxhaven, was incorporated into the coat of arms.

	Blazon : "In blue three golden elm leaves in forked position , the stems turned towards each other, between two silver oak twigs laid to form a half-wreathover a silver bar in a wavy cut ."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The elm leaves indicate the interpretation of Elmlohe as an elm tree. The oak branches are symbols of the forest in the village of Marschkamp. The wave-cut bar indicates the Geeste .

Old coats of arms of Elmlohe and Marschkamp

These old coats of arms merged after the regional reform to form the current coat of arms of Elmlohe.

Elmlohe	March Camp
Designed by Gustav Völker	Designed by Albert de Badrihaye

Culture and sights

Buildings

See also : List of architectural monuments in Geestland - Elmlohe

• The Liebfrauenkirche has existed in Elmlohe since 1346. It was founded with the consent of the Archbishop of Bremen , because the way to the mother church in Debstedt was too dangerous at the time due to the hostility with the Frisians of the state of Wursten . The altar dates from 1645, the altarpiece shows the Last Supper. The church was always Evangelical-Lutheran after the Reformation, after the Bederkesa office was reformed under the city of Bremen.
• In 1962, the preparatory work for the construction of the basic network switching and switching center of the Bundeswehr (GSVBw) 22 began in the Elmlohe district. This heavily bunkered telecommunications system was part of the nationwide Bundeswehr communication network and was intended to ensure communication in the event of a defense. Military operations ceased in 1996. In February 2009 the association Vorbei e. V. acquired the system from the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks in order to set up a museum there.

Sports

Tournament ground

Every year on the last weekend in July, the Elmloh Riding Days take place. This horse show with international and high-ranking members has made Elmlohe known far beyond the boundaries of the Cuxhaven district.

Economy and Infrastructure

Farms

Elmlohe is characterized by agriculture, with the focus here on livestock farming. In addition, horse breeding and equestrian sports have also established themselves as economic factors. This, as well as the location in a holiday region, ensures that the leisure and tourism sector (rental of holiday apartments) also plays a major role in the summer months.

Established businesses

In the village there are, among other things, a gas station, a beverage trade, two catering businesses, three biogas plants, an agricultural machinery trade, a branch of the Raiffeisen cooperative , a joinery and a carpentry shop.

education

Together with the village of Drangstedt , Elmlohe shares a primary school with all-day courses, with the first and second grades being taught in the Elmlohe location and the third and fourth grades in the Drangstedt location. Secondary schools are located in Bad Bederkesa . There is the secondary school and the Lower Saxony boarding high school (NIG).

Myths and legends

• The Liethenburg in Elmlohe
• The murder of the priests and its atonement

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]).
• Eberhard Michael Iba (Ed.): Hake Betken siene Duven. The saga of the Elbe and Weser estuaries (=  special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund at the Elbe and Weser estuaries . Volume 16 ). 3. Edition. Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1999, ISBN 3-931771-16-4 .

Web links

Commons : Elmlohe  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the town of Elmlohe on the website of the city of Geestland
• Liebfrauenkirche Elmlohe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} municipalities in Germany by area, population and postcode. (XLS; 4.8 MB) See under: Lower Saxony, No. 1998 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 2014, accessed on November 13, 2019 .  
2. ↑ Overview map of the Cuxhaven district. In: cuxland-gis.landkreis-cuxhaven.de. November 2016, accessed December 11, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Paul Homann: Bremerhaven's route networks (ÖPNV) from June 26, 1881 to April 27, 2020. (PDF; 2.7 MB) In: Website BremerhavenBus. P. 61 (bookmark March 30, 1995) , accessed July 5, 2020 .  
4. ^ Verkehrsgesellschaft Bremerhaven AG (Ed.): Timetable 1995 . March 30, 1995.
5. ^ Fritz Hörmann, Ude Meyer, Christian Morisse, Eberhard Nehring, Irmgard Seghorn, Egon Stuve, Else Syassen: Field names collection Wesermünde - 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. 15 ([ digitized version ( memento of October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )] [PDF; 431 kB ; accessed on October 23, 2019]).
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 January 18, 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. 22 ). (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 version ( memento from August 7, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) [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. 1914 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 1975, accessed on June 11, 2019 .  
12. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} municipality directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on November 13, 2019 .  
13. ↑ ^{a b} Local Council Elmlohe. In: Citizen Information System of the City of Geestland. Retrieved August 31, 2017 .  
14. ↑ ^{a b} Landkreis Wesermünde (Ed.): Coat of arms of the Landkreis Wesermünde . Grassé Offset Verlag, Bremerhaven / Wesermünde 1973, ISBN 3-9800318-0-2 .