Embsen

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the eponymous district of Achim near Bremen see Embsen (Achim) .

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 11 '  N , 10 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Luneburg
Joint municipality :	Ilmenau
Height :	44 m above sea level NHN
Area :	22.66 km 2
Residents:	2783 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	123 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	21409
Area code :	04134
License plate :	LG
Community key :	03 3 55 016
Community structure:	3 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Lindenstrasse 2 21409 Embsen
Website :	www.embsen.de
Mayor :	Stefan Koch (voluntary) ( UWI )
Location of the municipality Embsen in the district of Lüneburg

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

geography

Geographical location

The 530 hectare large nature reserve Hasenburger river valley is partly on the territory of the municipality Embsen. The Hasenburger Mühlenbach (also Hasenburger Bach ), a left tributary of the Ilmenau , has its source west of Embsen.

Community structure

Today's community Embsen consists of the villages Embsen, Oerzen and Heinsen.

history

The prehistoric settlement: Numerous archaeological finds in the collection of the Lüneburg Museum prove that an intensive settlement of the districts of the individual villages can be assumed since the end of the Neolithic Age; Individual sites, discovered by the amateur archaeologist Otto Nottorf from Oerzen, even date to the older and middle sections of the Stone Age. In the prehistoric settlements, including those from the time around the birth of Christ in Embsen and Oerzen, the direct predecessors of today's villages cannot necessarily be seen. They come from a time in which the Germanic tribe of the Lombards is mentioned in ancient sources as living in northeast Lower Saxony. In 2003, when a pipeline was being built, four ovens were discovered in the neighboring district of Rettmer, which were used for iron extraction around the time of the birth of Christ. The Lüneburg Museum had already received two more such ovens there in 1935. However, today's villages only got their permanent location with the introduction of medieval manorial rule in the region; in the middle of the 9th century at the earliest.

The beginning of the written history: In the case of Oerzen, a point in time before or in the 10th century is likely. At this time (to be precise: in 988) the neighboring village of Tellmer is said to be owned by the Saxon counts of the Bardonen. According to the historian Gudrun Pischke, it is a Mainz document from 1104/1105 that cannot be precisely dated and which owes its first mention to Oerzen (and probably also the nearby Glüsingen) - although in the case of Oerzens it is the first document from the Year 1298. One of the oldest mentions of Oerzen in the local history literature can be found in the Lüneburg customs officer Urban Friedrich Christoph Manecke. The relevant quote reads: “Oerzen, also Verdisch-Oerzen, in which 7 house points. (Oerzen belongs) ... to the district bailiwick of Garlstorf. ”According to the historian Thomas Vogtherr, Embsen himself appears in a loan register of the von Oedeme family in the middle of the 13th century.

Katharinenkirche in Embsen, Gothic, windows in the 18th century baroque and in the 20th century redesigned Gothic

The oldest monument in Embsen stands on the border with the Heiligenthal district. It is the so-called Schnedestein and another, small stone with an arrow on it immediately next to it. These well-known boundary stones between Oerzen and the Heiligenthal district, which appear again and again in local literature, allow an interesting look at the history of the early political and ecclesiastical units in this area. Since a first border relationship is said to be verifiable as early as 1418, it is certainly possible to date at least the smaller "Kreuzstein" near Oerzen, which is documented no later than 1582, to the Middle Ages.

As the most important monument of the Middle Ages within the municipality of Embsen, however, the Embsen church is definitely to be mentioned. As already passed down in the family history of the von Estorff family , the church was founded by the von Estorff family in 1288, at a time when they gave up their original seats in Bardowick and probably also in the now-submerged town of Estorf (near Ebstorf) and founded or took over new seats in Uelzen-Veerßen (1292) and Barnstedt.

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the communities Heinsen and Oerzen were incorporated.

Explanation of the place name

Old names of the place are 1330-1352 emmessen, 1357 Emmessen, 1360 empsen, 1375 Empsen, 1375 Emsen, 1384 Empsen 1388 Empsen, 1406 Empsen and 1409 to Emptzen. The place name could be derived with the ending “-husen” from a personal name “Immo” or “Emmo”. The tradition and today's form of Embsen speak more for the origin of the personal name Emmo. The origin "Erm-" from the Germanic for "large" is less likely.

politics

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

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of twelve council members and the mayor (UWI). The 2016 local elections resulted in the following allocation of seats for those elected:

• SPD - 3 seats
• CDU - 4 seats
• UWI - 4 seats
• Green - 2 seats

mayor

Mayor is Stefan Koch (UWI).

Economy and Infrastructure

Industry

• Gypsum works Embsen of Knauf KG, Iphofen

Infrastructure

• Kindergarten, forest kindergarten
• Primary school and integrated comprehensive school
• youth Center
• Three-field sports hall
• sports ground
• shopping mall

Sons and daughters of the church

• Agnes Karll , German nursing reformer
• Hermann Hahn , member of the state parliament and district administrator of the Lüneburg district

Others

• In 2004 the ADAC opened a driver safety center here.

Web links

Commons : Embsen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the joint community

Individual evidence

In detail: Gehrke, D .: Chronicle of the community of Embsen I. The prehistoric and early historical settlement around Embsen, Heinsen and Oerzen, Melbeck 1998

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. 234 .
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. ↑ Landtag constituencies from the 16th electoral term. Constituency division for the election to the Lower Saxony state parliament. Annex to Section 10 (1) NLWG, p. 4. ( PDF ( Memento from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); 87 kB)
5. ↑ Description of the constituencies. Annex to Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the Federal Election Act. In: Eighteenth law amending the federal electoral law. Annex to Article 1. Bonn March 18, 2008, p. 325 ( PDF ( Memento of July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); 200 kB)