Emstek

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Emstek
Emstek
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Coordinates: 52 ° 50 ′  N , 8 ° 9 ′  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Cloppenburg
Height : 57 m above sea level NHN
Area : 108.14 km 2
Residents: 12,254 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 113 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 49685
Primaries : 04473, 04447
License plate : CLP
Community key : 03 4 53 005
LOCODE : DE EXK
Community structure: 8 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Am Markt 1
49685 Emstek
Website : www.emstek.de
Mayor : Michael Fischer ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Emstek in the district of Cloppenburg
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Emstek is a municipality in the district of Cloppenburg in Lower Saxony .

Located in the northeast of the municipality of Emstek: the Halener See (behind), the upper reaches of the Lethe with the Lether Baggersee (below) and the federal highway 29

geography

Geographical location

The community is located on the Soeste in the Oldenburger Münsterland , seven kilometers east of Cloppenburg . In the northeast the municipality ends on the Lethe , which flows through the nature reserve Ahlhorn fish ponds in this part . The northernmost part of the municipality of Emstek belongs to the Wildeshauser Geest Nature Park .

As a topographical feature, the Weser-Ems watershed cuts through the Emsteker municipality from southeast to northwest. Coming from the Visbeker peasantry Halter , the watershed runs over the Emsteker districts Garthe and Halen , and further between the Vehne and the Lethe towards the North Sea.

Community structure

The municipality is made up of the following eight localities:

The largest towns are Emstek, followed by Höltinghausen, Halen and Bühren.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring municipalities, starting from the north in a clockwise direction, are the municipality of Großenkneten , the municipality of Visbek , the city of Vechta , the municipality of Cappeln , the city of Cloppenburg and the municipality of Garrel .

Garrel (16 km) Grossenkneten (14 km)
Cloppenburg (7 km) Wind rose small.svg Visbek (11 km)
Cappeln (4 km) Vechta (15 km)

The distance information relates to the distance to the town center.

history

The Reuterweg , a long-distance route that is said to have existed as early as the Bronze Age and leads from the Netherlands over the Ems and Weser to the Lüneburg Heath , runs through the area of ​​the municipality of Emstek . On this path was Gogericht on the Desum built. The section of the path in the area of ​​the municipality of Emstek was named Herzog-Erich-Weg after 1563 . A street that crosses the municipality now officially bears this name.

Emstek in sources

After Charlemagne (* probably April 2, 747 or 748; † January 28, 814 in Aachen) from 780 AD onwards nine mission districts for the Christianization of the subject Saxons were established, Abbot Gerbert Castus from the Visbek mission cell - the apostle of the Oldenburger Münsterland - the first parishes in the area founded. These counted in Lerigau the parish Emstek.

The village of Emstek was first mentioned in 872, the village of Halen, from which Höltinghausen was formed, in 890. Hoheging was founded as a colony in 1910, and Westeremstek was first mentioned in a document in 1259. The parish of Emstek belonged to the end of the French era in 1814 to the rule of Vechta .

Name development

  • 947: "emphstece"
  • 1014: "emstecki"
  • 1159: "emstice"
  • 1218: "emestecke"
  • 1350: "emesticke"
  • 1696: "emstecke"

"Emp" means "place on the river". The Soeste rises in the Garthe district, from which the name Emstek can be traced back.

Political Affiliation

Religions

Catholic

Parish Church of St. Margaretha, Emstek

Evangelical

  • Laurentius Church, Emstek: The Evangelical Lutheran residents of the communal communities Emstek and Cappeln are part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church . Parish Emstek Cappeln-together. In Cappeln the ev.-luth. Parishioners in the Martins Church, in Emstek in the St. Laurentius Church. Emstek-Cappeln belongs to the Oldenburg regional church .

Others

  • Free Evangelical Christian Congregation Emstek e. V.

politics

Town hall of the municipality of Emstek

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Emstek currently consists of 26 councilors. The stipulated number for a parish with a population between 11,001 and 12,000 is usually 28 councilors. By resolution of the municipal council, this number was reduced by two council members to 26 for the current electoral term. 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 full-time mayor Michael Fischer (CDU) is also entitled to vote in the local council.

The results of the last local council elections were as follows:

Political party 11th September 2016 September 11, 2011 September 10, 2006
CDU 81.18% 11,844 21 seats 82.8% 11,482 21 seats 87.8% 11,177 24 seats
SPD 13.12% 1914 3 seats 14.0% 1948 2 seats 1 7.7% 985 2 seats
FDP 5.70% 831 2 seats 3.1% 436 1 seat 4.6% 587 1 seat
voter turnout 53.8% 54.3% 53.2%

1 After the election result, the SPD received 4 seats in the municipal council (2: election of persons / 2: list election). Since the nomination only contained 2 candidates, 2 seats could not be filled.

mayor

A full-time mayor was elected for the first time in April 2007. The CDU candidate Michael Fischer received 74.9% of the vote with a 36.7% turnout. On February 22, 2015 Michael Fischer was re-elected with 92% of the vote and a voter turnout of 33.7%.

coat of arms

Emstek coat of arms

On a red shield a castle in silver with a blue pointed roof and a golden ball. To the right and left of the building two stylized trees ( hawthorn and linden ) in gold. In front of the final arch of the castle gate an ornamented capsule ("Desum-Knop") in gold on a string .

The coat of arms is reminiscent of the Desum court that sat on the Desum near Emstek for centuries. It contains the same motifs as the court seal of the Go Court on the Desum. This seal, made to adopt the "Vechtischen court order" on 26 February 1578 for the Desum Court, was Münster Episcopal of the Gografen out. Together with the Wildeshauser Desum Count, he still attended the four “stevelich” court days in an old, real thing place on the Desum, but he held his materially more important part-courts on the “Freiheit” in front of Vechta Castle under the Hagedorn.

The seal image from 1578 corresponds to the latter situation. It does not depict the thing chair on the Desum, but the Vechta Castle, flanked by two trees, the "linden tree" and the "hawthorn" (hawthorn). The seal is interesting because of its "talking" symbol. The ornamented ball is a "Desum-Knop" (muskrat button, a container filled with "desem" Boisam musk).

The colors of the coat of arms express the different sovereign affiliations of the municipality Emstek. At first it belonged to the county of Vechta-Ravensberg (red and silver), in 1252 it came to the diocese of Münster (red and gold) and in 1803 to the Duchy of Oldenburg (red, gold, blue). In the same year the communities Emstek and Cappeln were assigned to the district of Cloppenburg.

On January 28, 1930, the municipality of Emstek applied for a seal image with the above-mentioned motifs based on a design by Ministerialrat Rauchfeld. The Ministry of the Interior in Oldenburg approved it on June 23, 1930. According to the records of the archives, Emstek initially did not seek a municipal coat of arms after the Second World War .

On June 30, 1969, the above coat of arms was approved by the local council, which the district president of the Oldenburg district government approved on August 27, 1969.

Culture and sights

Attractions

The municipality of Emstek offers a number of sights and leisure destinations. These include the Halen bathing lake , the jungle tree path , the parts of the Ahlhorn fish ponds nature reserve to the left of the Lethe , the Gogericht on the Desum and the Kokenmühle watermill in Gartherfeld.

  • Jungle tree path

  • Dianasee in the Staatsforst Baumweg

  • Farm shop of the State Pond Management Ahlhorn

  • Go court in Desum

  • The coke mill on the Aue in Gartherfeld

Bathing lake in Halen

Sports

During the 2007/08 season, the SV Höltinghausen women's team played in the regional soccer league .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Natural gas station on the A 29

The economic structure of the municipality of Emstek is characterized by small and medium-sized companies from the plastics processing, metal construction, sanitary and ventilation technology, environmental technology, construction and electrical industry, food and feed production, gardening, sand-lime brick production and energy generation industries.

The agriculture plays in spite of structural change in recent years a dominant role in the community (such as in the entire Oldenburg Münsterland). The farms form the basis for further processing in the regional food industry.

The intermunicipal industrial park ecopark is located in the municipality of Emstek .

traffic

Emstek is connected to the A 1 motorway in the Bremen and Osnabrück directions via the “Cloppenburg” junction (63) and to Oldenburg and Wilhelmshaven via the A 29 motorway . In addition, Emstek has another connection to the federal trunk road network with the bypass road B 72 ( European road E 233 ). Other federal highways in the municipality are the B 213 and the B 69 . In the far east of the municipality, in the Garther Heide corridor , is the traffic junction at the Ahlhorner Heide motorway triangle . Furthermore, until 1965 there was a train station on the Vechta – Cloppenburg line, which has now been dismantled .

health

In 2008, the Sankt Antonius-Stift hospital (under Catholic ownership) was named one of the “365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas” by the Germany - Land of Ideas initiative . The specialist hospital for orthopedics and rheumatology has been closed since 2013. In some rooms, an orthopedic specialist treated patients by appointment.

media

Personalities

literature

  • Dieter Zoller: Archaeological investigations on the Garther and Lether Burg as well as on the Citadel Vechta . In: Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland 1984 . Vechta 1983, pp. 105-117

Web links

Commons : Emstek  - 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. ^ Municipality of Schweringen: village renewal planning for the localities of Schweringen, Holtrup and Eiße . May 18, 2009. p. 16
  3. ↑ Michael Bönte: Abbot Gerbert Castus - A missionary from the second row. Church site ((former) online newspaper of the Münster diocese). October 29, 2004 ( Memento of May 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved from the web archive on October 3, 2017.
  4. ^ Oldenburg official district . Retrieved October 14, 2013.
  5. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on January 28, 2017.
  6. ↑ Reduction in the number of council members from 2016 to 2021 ( memento of the original from August 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 28, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.emstek.de
  7. ↑ Municipality of Emstek: Result of the local elections of September 11, 2016 ( Memento of the original of November 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 28, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.emstek.de
  8. ↑ Place of the day: Emstek. (No longer available online.) Land of Ideas, archived from the original on October 4, 2013 ; Retrieved October 1, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.land-der-ideen.de
  9. ↑ Catholic Church Emstek: St. Antonius-Stift, Emstek ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). This status is no longer current in 2017.