Engelschoff

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′  N , 9 ° 19 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Stade
Joint municipality :	Oldendorf-Himmelpforten
Height :	4 m above sea level NHN
Area :	19.69 km 2
Residents:	719 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	37 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	21710
Area code :	04144
License plate :	HOURS
Community key :	03 3 59 015
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Mittelweg 2 21709 Himmelpforten
Website :	engelschoff.de
Mayor :	Sven Frisch ( FWG )
Location of the Engelschoff community in the Stade district

The Moorstieg: An old connecting path between Engelschoff and Kehdingen

Engelschoff ( Low German Engelschopp ) is a municipality in the Stade district in Lower Saxony, part of the Oldendorf-Himmelpforten municipality .

geography

Engelschoff lies in the marshland of the Oste .

Neighboring communities

Engelschoff borders the community of Himmelpforten with the districts of Ochsenpohl and Breitenwisch in the south . In the southeast and east it borders in the area of ​​Burg and Hammahermoor on the municipality of Hammah with Groß Sterneberg . In the north, Engelschoff is separated from the municipality of Drochtersen by a narrow strip of land that belongs to the northwestern municipality of Großenwörden . In the west Engelschoff is separated from the Oste by the municipality of Hechthausen and the town of Kleinwörden .

history

Engelschoff was created as a settlement in the course of the elder colonization , in which Dutch settlers came to the Archdiocese of Bremen and helped to reclaim the flood-prone marshes.

Engelschoff was badly hit during the Christmas flood of 1717/1718. The water came from Kehdingen over the Kehdinger Moor and over the Ostedeich on December 25th and from Christmas to April the whole district was under water up to the roofs of the houses. Four people and many cattle drowned. According to an official list, 349 of 560 horses died, 934 of 1077 cattle, 331 of 432 pigs and 488 of 623 sheep. 77 buildings were lost and 264 were badly damaged. The total damage was estimated at 58,640 Reichsthaler and 20 schillings. In the summer the Sietwende on the border of Großenwörden to the east was repaired and expanded, but on November 19th it broke anyway and Engelschoff was also under water again for months, so that the winter grain was again drunk.

Religions

The community is evangelical-Lutheran and belongs to the parish of Horst in the parish of Stade .

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the neighboring community Neuland was incorporated.

Population development

• 1961: 865 inhabitants (Engelschoff: 447 inhabitants, new territory: 418 inhabitants)
• 1970: 774 inhabitants (Engelschoff: 400 inhabitants, new territory: 374 inhabitants)
• 2002: 741 inhabitants
• 2004: 755 inhabitants
• 2011: 766 inhabitants

politics

Municipal council

The Engelschoff community council consists of nine councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 501 and 1000 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
Engelschoff flat share	100%	9

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 73.54%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

Previous election results

Political party	2006	2011
Free community of voters	9 seats	9 seats

mayor

The council elected council member Sven Frisch (WG Engelschoff) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

Previous incumbent

• around 1861: Johann Diedrich Winter
• 1868 to?: Johann Diedrich Schlichting
• ? until 1889: Hinrich Jarck
• 1889 to?: Claus Diedrich Jarck
• ? until 1916: Hinrich Winter
• 1916 to 1930: Hinrich Jarck
• 1930 to 1943: Hans Seebeck
• 1943 to 1945: Heinrich Jarck
• 1945 to 1972: Hinrich Jarck
• 1972 to 1976: Hermann Koppelmann
• 1976 to 1986: Horst Horeis
• 1986 to 1996: Heinrich Winter
• 1996 to 2016 Heinz Düe
• since 2016: Sven Frisch

coat of arms

Blazon : “Under the silver tin shield head, blue from green divided by a silver wavy bar; above a silver mill diagonal cross with two-lobed leaf ends inside; below two silver fallen scythes with golden leaves facing away from each other in stakes. "

The scythes indicate the agricultural character of the municipality, whereby the position of the scythes is reminiscent of an “E”, the first letter of the municipality. The wave bar symbolizes the east and the location in the floodplains of the river, which were transformed into cultivated land by the settlers. The blue field above is supposed to symbolize the wide sky over the flat land, the mill wheel in it is reminiscent of the two grain mills that once existed in the community. Finally, the crenellated edge or tournament collar is reminiscent of the legendary robber baron Schwab in Burg.

Culture and sights

regional customs

During the “Neijohrskloppen” the young people of the village went from house to house, wishing them a Happy New Year and drinking a Kööm with a lump of sugar at each station. However, this custom ceased some time after the Second World War. Today it has been revived as “New Year's wishes”, older people and women now also walk through the village, usually a rumgrog is drunk.

In Burg, the Fasslom- Going (also called egg-scroung) is common, in which the men walk through the village and "scrounge" eggs and schnapps in the houses, which are then consumed together in the evening at a festival in Danzhus and Klönhus.

Association

Castle shooting club

The Burg Schützenverein was founded in 1929. Two of the club's own small-bore rifles were used for shooting in the Burgschanze, with the dike of the Burgbeck serving as a bullet trap. This very makeshift shooting range was replaced in 1936 by a permanent one next to the Jarck inn on the instructions of the authorities. The first flag was purchased and consecrated in 1934. In 1939 the shooting had to be stopped due to the war. The flag and rifles were lost during the war. Presumably the flag was burned at the end of the war because of the swastika it contained . After the war there were thoughts about reviving the club, but these fizzled out and the shooters joined neighboring clubs.

horseclub

The Engelschoff riding club was founded in 1924. Shortly afterwards a riding arena was set up in Wasserkrug and some jumping obstacles were purchased. In 1926 a standard was also bought. In the beginning, membership fees were paid by the members looking after lambs over the summer, which had been purchased in the spring and sold again in the autumn for the benefit of the club's treasury. In 1938 the riding arena was moved to a location right next to the Bardenhagen inn. But already in 1939 the club life came to a standstill and was only resumed in 1947. In 1979 a riding hall in Sittensen was acquired for demolition and was rebuilt in Engelschoff at the Drewes inn.

Dance circle

The Engelschoff dance group later formed from the rural youth group founded in the 1950s, which organized, among other things, theater performances, trips and folk dance performances. Danzun Klönhus was built by him with the support of the community.

Engelschoffer guild

The Engelschoffer Gilde was probably founded during or shortly after the Thirty Years War as a community within which the members committed to mutual assistance in times of need. A letter from 1705 reports that the guild is said to have existed for more than 50 years at that time. At the meetings of the brotherhood on the Sunday after Midsummer , several people each had to give a ton of beer. The congregation, which began around 1 a.m. with an Our Father and the singing of the song Now we ask the Holy Spirit , had the rule that no weapons were allowed to be carried and that the members also had to behave respectably in other ways. The guild, whose purpose had increasingly changed from a support association to the organization of the guild festival, was dissolved in 1859.

Volunteer firefighter

The volunteer fire department of Engelschoff was founded 1902nd

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The state road 113 leads through the district Neuland, which leads to Großenwörden in the north-west and in the south in Himmelpforten connects to the federal road 73 , which continues to Stade and Hamburg. Rail traffic on the Niederelbebahn in the direction of Hamburg also runs through the Himmelpforten station. The district road 62 leads through the village of Engelschoff, which leads over the K 63, K 3 and K 27 via Asselermoor to Stade and south-east to Hammah and Himmelpforten.

literature

• Heinrich Winter: Engelschoffer Chronicle. Life in a Dutch settlement. Kreissparkasse Stade, Stade 2004
• Heinrich Winter †: Engelschoffer courtyards and houses. Pictures from Engelschoff - yesterday and today. Engelschoff 2007
• Henry Jungclaus: NEULAND. Once the Elbe beach, now new land. A village remembers. Engelschoff new territory in 2007
• Thomas Schütt: NEULAND in the Ostemarsch - On the trail of a village , Lamstedt / Neuland 2018

Web links

Commons : Engelschoff  - 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. ↑ ^{a b c} 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 245 .
3. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on April 4, 2017.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Engelschoff - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on April 4, 2017.
5. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2017 . 
6. ^ Council - Engelschoff local council , accessed on April 4, 2017.
7. ↑ Traditional village - Neijohrskoppn. Immobilienscout24, accessed on October 10, 2016 (German).