Emsland landscape

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Effective area of ​​the Emsland landscape (dark red) in Lower Saxony

The Emsländische Landschaft is a registered association in Lower Saxony with its seat at Clemenswerth Castle in Sögel . The Emsland landscape is one of the landscape associations in Lower Saxony and was founded in 1979. Your sphere of activity includes the districts of Emsland and Grafschaft Bentheim .

tasks

The Emsland landscape, like the other landscapes and landscape associations in Lower Saxony, has mainly cultural and political tasks. It has the legal form of a registered association and, on behalf of its regional authorities and the State of Lower Saxony , performs central municipal and decentralized state tasks in the fields of culture , science and education .

The work spectrum of the Emsland landscape includes:

  • exploring the history of space and family history
  • maintaining the local literature and the Low German language
  • folklore and customs
  • monument protection and preservation
  • the arts and crafts
  • the preservation and shaping of the natural landscape
  • music and music education
  • the promotion of child and youth culture
  • the promotion of theater education

The Emsland landscape maintains several working groups and institutions to carry out these tasks. A family research working group has existed since 1980. The seat of this group is the library of the Emsland Heimatbund in Meppen , with which the Emsland landscape is also closely linked in terms of personnel. The working group includes around 170 genealogists from the region and neighboring areas of the Netherlands and northwestern Germany. It comes to the public with lecture afternoons, an annual genealogical ancestry exchange in Nordhorn and a magazine, the Emsländische and Bentheimer Familienforschung .

The History Working Group followed in 1980. It aims to strengthen interdisciplinary cooperation between university and non-university research across the region. Every year researchers from the region and across the Emsland / Bentheim region meet at the beginning of November for an exchange. The Emsland / Bentheim series , of which the 20th volume was published in April 2008, is published from this working group . In order to promote knowledge of the regional past, the working group The Region in Education in the Emsland Landscape also publishes collections of sources, primarily for school use, for example in 2000 on the development of the Emsland and in 2007 on regional history during the Empire. The volume followed in 2009 over the period from the November Revolution in 1918 to the end of 1933 in two volumes and as a CD-ROM.

One focus of the cultural promotion is the Theater Pedagogical Center in Lingen (Ems) ( TPZ Lingen ), founded by the Emsland landscape in 1980 , which has a branch in Nordhorn. Far larger in terms of personnel than the Emsland landscape, the TPZ Lingen is one of the largest institutions of its kind in the Federal Republic of Germany. There are children's and youth theater workshops, theaters for disabled people, as well as dance and circus groups. The large service area such as the costume rental or a recording studio is also available to other theater groups and private individuals. The TPZ Lingen organizes important theater festivals, such as the International Puppet Festival and the World Children's Theater Festival .

The working groups of Low German Theater and Folk Dance and Folklore also emerged from the TPZ Lingen . Since the Emsland landscape is also heavily involved in further musical training and also awards an artist scholarship, numerous other activities are also available in this area, such as the publication of a Low German CD Children sing and dance .

The structures of the Emsland landscape

Members are the two districts of Emsland and Grafschaft Bentheim as well as the two umbrella organizations of the home associations of the Emsland and the Grafschaft Bentheim. The seat of the Emsland landscape is Clemenswerth Castle near Sögel ; The managing director is Josef Grave. The organs of the Emsland landscape are the general assembly, the board of directors and the advisory board. The term of office is five years.

The general assembly consists of ten representatives each from the district of Emsland and the Emsland Homeland Association as well as five representatives each from the district of Grafschaft Bentheim and the Heimatverein of Grafschaft Bentheim.

The board consists of the president, Hermann Bröring (former Emsland district administrator), the vice-president and contribution chairman, Josef Brüggemann (former chief district director of the Grafschaft Bentheim), the managing director, the treasurer and the two incumbent district administrators. The advisory board consists of twelve people and advises the board primarily on the preparation of the annual program and the formation of working groups and working groups.

To carry out its tasks, the Emsland landscape has founded the following six specialist groups, which are publicly active with publications, exhibitions or performances.

  • Exhibitions
  • Child and youth culture
  • Rural area
  • music
  • Regional forms of culture
  • Region in class

Landscape medal

Since 2004, the Emsland landscape has awarded the landscape medal to people who have made outstanding contributions to cultural and homeland preservation or to regional historical research.

  • 2004: Jan Ringena; Josef connector
  • 2006: Heinrich Voort; Friedrich Berentzen
  • 2009: Albert Rötterink; Josef Hanekamp
  • 2010: Heinrich Book
  • 2012: Alexander Herbermann; Gudrun Thiessen-Schneider
  • 2014: Werner Franke
  • 2016: Helmut Lensing; Horst Heinrich Bechtluft
  • 2018: Ludwig Remling; Michael Singer; Gerolf Küpers, Bernd Robben

literature

  • Josef Grave: "... for the districts of Emsland and Grafschaft Bentheim" - The "Emsländische Landschaft eV ..." as a cultural bracket , in: Bentheimer Jahrbuch 2010 (Das Bentheimer Land vol. 195), Bad Bentheim 2009, p. 331 -346 ( ISBN 3-922428-99-1 ).
  • Between tradition and innovation. Emsländische Landschaft eV for the districts of Emsland and Grafschaft Bentheim, Sögel 2008 (information brochure).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.emslaendische-landschaft.de/kulturfoerderung/landschaftsmedaille