Acquired

Acquired Visbek municipality Coordinates: 52 ° 49 ′ 55 ″  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 8 ″  E
Height :	54  (48-57)  m
Residents :	400  (Feb. 19, 2020)
Postal code :	49429
Area code :	04445

Erlte is one of thirteen farming communities in the municipality Visbek in South Oldenburg region district of Vechta in Lower Saxony , and is located in the county of Oldenburg Munster country .

View from Erlter Esch to Visbek

Size and location

The village of Erlte is about two kilometers southwest of the Visbeck town center and extends mainly north of the L 873 state road to Schneiderkrug, which cuts through it. Part of the peasantry is south of this street. Erlte is a so-called scattered settlement with houses and farms that are differently spaced apart on an area of ​​782 hectares. The place currently has less than 100 households with a population of around 400 (as of February 19, 2020) . There has been a school in the village since 1949. It was initially run as a two-class elementary and secondary school (elementary school), and finally in 1977 it was merged with the school of the neighboring Hagstedt farmers to form a primary school. As a topographical peculiarity, the Weser-Ems watershed cuts through the southern part of the peasantry, for example from the state road L 873 at the Meyerhöfen junction towards the southeast to the Feldhaus Fels residential area, and from there towards east-northeast across the Hundenschlatt corridor and along the K 334 district road ( Visbeker Damm) to the Fahrfeldskämpe corridor east of the Visbeker Damm.

history

The oldest documented mentions (Erelithe, Erelte, Erlete) date from the 9th century. From 780 AD the Saxon missioning initiated by Charlemagne took place, the regional starting point of which was the cellula fiscbechi monastery founded in Visbek . The first detailed official mapping of the courtyards and parcels of the place took place in the Napoleonic period (1808).

economy

The Erlter coat of arms - with alder twig ("Erelithe") and tailor's scissors

The place is characterized by agriculture. Most of the companies have specialized in the past few decades. Pig farming is predominant, but cattle and poultry farming are also available. The extensive strawberry fields occupy an important place in agriculture and fruit growing. The building trade is a focus of the craft businesses. In addition, there is an inn in the village with a hall and hotel and connected holiday apartments. The once many tailoring workshops, founded in 1842, to which the scissors refer in the local coat of arms and which gave the village the name tailor town , have long since ceased operations.

Life in the village

Erlte has a lively village community. It is supported by a number of clubs and groups, especially the shooting club and football club. Many traditional rural customs are actively cultivated: the Easter bonfire, the setting of the Pentecost tree, the field walk, the harvest festival. The meeting point for communication and exchange is usually the centrally located and only restaurant in the village. A source of supply for the needs of daily living has been missing since the closure of the only grocery store (1986) and is very much missed.

In 1975 the place took part in the national competition Our village should become more beautiful , received a gold medal and since then has presented itself as a well-tended gold village with a carefully designed townscape of which the villagers are proud. Not least because of the ongoing beautification campaigns, Erlte is now an attractive place to live in charming rural surroundings.

Management of the peasantry

The senior district chairman is Georg Deeke (as of February 13, 2020).

literature

• Franz Hellbernd, Heinz Möller: OLDENBURG. A local history reference work. Vechta printing house, Vechta 1965.
• Association of Education and Upbringing: OLDENBURG. A local history reference work. Schmücker, Löningen 1999. ISBN 3-9806575-1-5
• Erlte village community: Our beautiful village of Erlte. Vechtaer Druckerei, Vechta 2001.
• Reinhard Schilmöller: My family: Schil (l) möller in Erlte. Self-published by the author, Münster, 2nd edition 2008.
• Reinhard Schilmöller: "Castle on the Pond". A childhood in the country in the post-war period. Isensee-Verlag, Oldenburg 2013. ISBN 978-3-89995-965-9

Web links

• Erlte.de - website of the Erlte village community
• Navigator - interactive, geared towards the farmers. Official map service of the LGLN

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.visbek.de/gemeinde Municipality of Visbek, The municipality, farmers, district chairman