Elsdorf (Lower Saxony)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 15 '  N , 9 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality :	Zeven
Height :	19 m above sea level NHN
Area :	49.01 km 2
Residents:	1996 (December 31, 2019)
Population density :	41 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27404
Primaries :	04281, 04282, 04286
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 013
Community structure:	10 districts
Association administration address:	Am Markt 4 27404 Zeven
Website :	www.zeven.de
Mayor :	Andreas Bellmann ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Elsdorf in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district

Elsdorf is a municipality in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in Lower Saxony . In addition to the main town of Elsdorf, the towns of Badenhorst , Bockhorst , Ehestorf , Frankenbostel , Hatzte , Nindorf , Poitzendorf , Rüspel and Volkensen also belong to the municipality.

history

Elsdorf was first mentioned in 1024/1028 as Alliestorpe in a document from Verden Bishop Wigger.

Probably not in Elsdorf itself, but in the neighboring Elsdorf Castle, lived a lady of the highest nobility named Ida around 1050. According to the chronicler Albert von Stade on her father's side, who wrote two hundred years later, she was a niece of Emperor Heinrich III. and on his mother's side a niece of Pope Leo IX.

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the communities Ehestorf, Frankenbostel, Hatzte, Rüspel and Volkensen were incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the Elsdorf community consists of 13 councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 2001 and 3000 inhabitants. The council members are elected for a five-year term by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

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

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats
CDU	61.86%	8th
SPD	24.94%	3
WFB Elsdorf	13.18%	2

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 66.84%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The local council elected council member Andreas Bellmann (CDU) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Elsdorf is divided and split at the top. It shows a silver knight with a red shield on a blue background, which in turn shows a silver cross. A silver cross and a silver chalice on a gold background are shown at the top at the back. Below is a red castle wall with a silver passage.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The A1 motorway (Hamburg – Bremen) with the Elsdorf junction is located in the municipality of Elsdorf. The 2.35 km long bypass , completed in 2012, connects the junction, also completed in 2012, with Elsdorf.

Elsdorf is located on the Bremervörde − Rotenburg (Wümme) railway line, which today is only used for freight traffic .

Established businesses

The most important companies in the community are the "Heideblume" - Molkerei Elsdorf-Rotenburg AG and Elsdorfer Feinkost AG.

societies

TuS Elsdorf is the local sports club with almost 1000 members and several branches in different sports.

The Elsdorf Volunteer Fire Brigade is also based in the village .

There is also a shooting club that celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2014.

additional

Since September 2016, the Kliemannsland web series has been produced in Rüspel with Fynn Kliemann for the Funk media service .

literature

• Wolfgang Dörfler / Luise Knoop / Bernd Ulrich Hucker (eds.): The year 1112, Ida von Elsdorf and her contemporaries , in: Rotenburger Schriften 92. 2012, including contributions.
• Dieter Riemer : Saxon inheritance law and the "Iden estate" . Pp. 17-44.
• Armin Wolf : Who was Ida von Elsdorf? . Pp. 45-68.
• Bernd Ulrich Hucker : On the location of the eight main courtyards of the Ida von Elsdorf estate . Pp. 69-80.
• Wolfgang Dörfler: Idas von Elsdorf's place of residence on the high medieval border between Bremen and Verden . Pp. 237-264.

Web links

Commons : Elsdorf (Lower Saxony)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. 241 .
3. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on March 14, 2017.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Elsdorf municipality - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on March 14, 2017.
5. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2017 . 
6. ^ Elsdorf municipal council , accessed on March 25, 2019.
7. ^ Message from the North German Broadcasting Corporation about Kliemannsland http://www.ndr.de/der_ndr/presse/mitteilungen/Kliemannsland-und-Wumms-Mit-diesen-Formaten-startet-der-NDR-bei-funk,pressemeldungndr17712.html