Fassberg

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Fassberg
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Coordinates: 52 ° 54 '  N , 10 ° 10'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Celle
Height : 71 m above sea level NHN
Area : 101.95 km 2
Residents: 6240 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 61 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 29328
Area code : 05055
License plate : CE
Community key : 03 3 51 010
Community structure: 4 localities
Address of the
municipal administration:
Great Horststrasse 40-44
29328 Fassberg
Website : www.fassberg.de
Mayor : Frank Bröhl
Location of the municipality of Faßberg in the district of Celle
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Faßberg is a municipality in the north of the district of Celle in Lower Saxony .

geography

location

The community of Faßberg is located in the Lüneburg Heath in the area of ​​the Südheide . Larger forest areas extend northwest and southeast in the immediate vicinity of the settlement area. The Haußelberg , located to the south, is the highest point at 117 m above sea ​​level . The immediate vicinity of Faßberg is characterized by large heather areas. In the east is the Schmarbecker Heide with the summit cross of the Fassberg (92 m above sea level). To the south-east of the town are the large heather areas on Haußelberg and Oberohe. In the south, near Gerdehaus, is the "Ritterheide". The equestrian grave of Hankenbostel , a cremation grave from the 2nd century, was located here. These heather areas have been protected by the Heiden und Magerrasen nature reserve in the Südheide since July 30, 2019 . Another heathland extends south of Müden, on the Wietzer Berg . In the northeast of Faßberg is the nature reserve Kiehnmoor and southeast of Oberohe is a former mining area of kieselguhr . The most important bodies of water are the Allern tributary Örtze , which flows through the districts of Müden and Poitzen, and the Heideseen in Müden (6 ha) and Oberohe (4 ha).

The neighboring towns are Wietzendorf in the west, Munster in the north and Hermannsburg and Unterlüß in the south. The southern district town of Celle is 38 kilometers away by road and can be reached via state road 240, which runs west of Faßberg. The next federal highways run with the B 3 in the west and with the B 71 in the north. The next motorway exit Soltau-Süd of the A 7 is 24 km away. The closest train station on the Hanover – Hamburg line is in Unterlüß .

Community structure

The following districts belong to the municipality of Faßberg:

  • Müden (Örtze) with the residential areas Haußelhof, Willighausen and Winterhoff
  • Poitzen with the residential areas Gerdehaus and Hankenbostel, Niederohe and Oberohe
  • Schmarbeck

history

Faßberg district

According to Christoph M. Glombeck (→ see: Literature ), the place name Faßberg is derived from the 92 m high Fass-Berg located four kilometers northeast of the town center in the Kiehnmoor. Glombeck describes historical interpretations as unscientific speculations.

Faßberg owes its establishment to the National Socialist Reich Aviation Ministry , which began to look for locations for the future air force in 1933, circumventing the Versailles Treaty . In addition to other planned locations, they began to buy up land on a large scale west of Schmarbeck on which an air base was to be built. Construction work began as early as November, as stated in the “History of the Air Base”: “On November 6th [1933] the first groundbreaking for the construction of the Faßberg Air Base ... was done ... The name Faßberg was named after the nearby 92 m high Faßberg, a modest hill. ” On May 1, 1934, the air base was put into operation. Although it served military purposes from the start, it was initially given the cover name "German Aviation School". In 1939 the official name "Great Fighting School" was finally introduced.

Parallel to the air base, the construction of residential areas for the staff and their families began in 1933. Depending on the status, separate and qualitatively graded living areas were built, the "red settlement" for the officers and civil servants, the "gray settlement" for the lower officials and non-commissioned officers and the "white settlement" for the workers. The construction of the settlement was essentially completed in 1938. At this point in time around 2300 people lived in Faßberg, including 1600 members of the Wehrmacht.

Towards the end of the Second World War Faßberg was the target of bombing attacks, which primarily targeted the air base, but which also killed civilian buildings. On April 16, 1945, Faßberg was captured by Canadian tanks. Then the place came under English occupation. In 1945 work began to repair the civilian infrastructure that had been damaged by the war. At that time, Faßberg had 2,395 inhabitants, including around 500 refugees. In 1948 the first municipal council election took place. With Hugo Weisner, a civil mayor was elected for the first time in Faßberg's history. On August 21, 1948, American transport planes landed on the air base as part of the Allied airlift in support of the sealed off West Berlin . The action lasted until August 27, 1949.

After the establishment of the Bundeswehr , the last 400 English soldiers left Faßberg on December 8, 1956 and the Bundeswehr took over the air base. On August 1, 1958, the still existing and federal subordinate manor district Faßberg was abolished in favor of the "community-free district Faßberg". However, nothing has changed in the federal subordination. The expanded operation of the air base made it necessary to create new living space for the families of the stationed soldiers, and in 1960 a new residential area with 287 apartments was created with the Schwagenscheidt settlement . As a result, the number of residents increased to almost 5,000. In order to enable better road connections to the surrounding area for Faßberg, a connection road to the L 240 in the direction of Trauen was created in 1969 and the connection to the L 280 in the direction of Müden in 1970. The inauguration of the newly built town hall took place on July 16, 1971.

Between 1978 and 1998, touring car and motorcycle races were held at the air base.

On January 1, 1973, the municipalities of Faßberg, Müden, Schmarbeck and Poitzen merged to form the Faßberg joint municipality , with the district of Faßberg remaining a municipality-free district under federal financial sovereignty. This state of affairs was ended by the Lower Saxony law on the "formation of the community of Faßberg" of December 10, 1976, with which the integrated community was converted into a unified community on January 1, 1977 and the status of the community-free district was revoked. August Bruns was elected as the first mayor of the new unified municipality.

In 1978 the Red Settlement and the Schwagenscheidt Settlement were placed under monument protection. A modern central sewage treatment plant was built on the L 280 in 1983. On March 11, 1988, the newly created municipal coat of arms was unveiled at the town hall. On June 16, 1990, a city partnership agreement was concluded with the French city of Yerville .

for the history of the other districts see:

religion

St. Michael Church

There are two churches in the Faßberg district:

The Church of St. Michael was built in 1938 as a simultaneous church (Fuchsbau 8); today it belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran St. Laurentius parish of Faßberg-Müden. A bell with a cast swastika has been hanging in the roof turret since 1938 ; it is to be replaced in 2018. The parish in Faßberg also includes a daycare center built in 1977 and later expanded (Hasenheide 52).

The Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit was built in 1967 (Hasenheide 3), it also serves as the local church and today belongs to the parish of St. Michael in Munster . Before the church was built, Catholic services were held in what is now the Protestant Simultankirche.

Another evangelical church is located in the Faßberg district of Müden, St. Laurentius .

politics

Town hall of the municipality of Fassberg

Municipal council

The current council of the municipality of Faßberg consists of 18 members. This is the fixed number for a municipality with a population between 6001 and 7000. The council is elected for five years in local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The full-time mayor is also entitled to vote in the council .

The last local elections resulted in the following distribution of seats immediately after the election:

Local election CDU SPD New voter community (NWG) Voting Community Faßberg (WGF) FDP Green total
11th September 2016 7
(41.4%)
6
(32.6%)
- 3
(15.8%)
1
(5.5%)
1
(4.6%)
18 seats
September 11, 2011 8
(43%)
7
(40.8%)
1
(5.5%)
1
(7.8%)
1
(2.8%)
- 18 seats
September 10, 2006 8
(41.6%)
7
(33.9%)
2
(11.8%)
2
(7.3%)
1
(5.5%)
- 20 seats
September 9, 2001 10 6th 4th - - - 20 seats

mayor

The full-time mayor has been Frank Bröhl ( individual applicant ; now CDU) since October 1, 2013 , who entered his first term of office in the election on September 22, 2013 with 53.8% of the votes. The opposing candidate Kay Peters (SPD) received 46.2% of the vote.

Deputy: Angelika Cremer (SPD) and Carl-Wilhelm Kuhlmann (SPD)

Mayor

  • Faßberg: Korbinian Bocksch (CDU)
  • Tired: Volker Nickel (CDU)
  • Poitzen: Torsten Ahrens (CDU)
  • Schmarbeck: Carsten Bubke

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Community partnerships

A partnership with the municipality has existed since 1989

Blason ville for Yerville (Seine-Maritime) .svg

Yerville in France .

A friendship has existed since 1997 and a partnership with the community since 2013

POL gmina Duszniki COA.svg

Duszniki in Poland .

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • historical center of Müden
  • Berlin Airlift Memorial (see below: Museums)
  • St. Laurentius Church in Müden
  • Staircase storage from the 18th and 19th centuries
  • former village square at the old forge with sod and seesaw
  • old cemetery with the grave of the heath poet Felicitas Rose and the painter Fritz Flebbe
  • former home of Felicitas Rose
  • Löns memorial plaque on Haus Salzmoor 2a
  • Heidehöfe with staircase storage in Schmarbeck and Oberohe
  • Historic watermill in Müden (tourist office, library, wedding room)

Architectural monuments

Green spaces and recreation

  • Lönsstein with heather on the Wietzer Berg (towards Hermannsburg on the L 240)
  • Haußelberg with large heather areas near Gerdehus
  • Juniper forest with split boulders in the heather of Schmarbeck
  • Kiehnmoor nature reserve near Schmarbeck
  • Müden Wildlife Park, Heuweg 23 in Müden

Associations and associations

There are around 60 registered clubs, organized groups and associations in Faßberg. These include, for example, the Allgemeine Sportverein Faßberg e. V. (ASV Faßberg) or the men's gymnastics club Müden (MTV), which is over 100 years old and was founded in 1913. The Müden-Faßberg men's choir, which emerged from the Müden men's choir, which was founded in 1899, is just as old.

Theaters and museums

Museum grounds of the Airlift Berlin memorial with the C-47 (Faßberg Flyer) of the US Air Force

The Airlift Berlin Memorial in Faßberg was opened on March 2, 1990 by the then Defense Minister, Gerhard Stoltenberg , and is the military history collection of the Air Force's technical training center.

In four Nissen huts and two closed railway wagons, original documents, exhibits and old films are used to show how American and British planes supplied a total of 539,112 tons of coal from Faßberg in West Berlin.

The cooperation of the Allies with the approximately 5000 German employees of the GCLO , who were responsible for the work on the airfield and housed in the Trauen camp, is also documented here.

Since 1999, a real Douglas C-47 airlift aircraft - the Faßberg Flyer - has been exhibited in the outdoor area of ​​the memorial site . The Allied aid aircraft were affectionately known by the Berliners as “ raisin bombers ”.

In addition, the history of the Bundeswehr at the Faßberg location from 1956 to the present is shown in the memorial site in a fourth Nissen hut. a. 50 years of the Technical School of the Air Force 3 (TSLw 3) and 25 years of Army Aviation in Faßberg show the development of the air base.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

Public facilities

  • Library (Immenweg 1 in Faßberg and Unterlüßer Str. 5 in Müden)
  • Herrenbrücke outdoor swimming pool

Personalities

  • Rüdiger Krause (born July 30, 1961 in Faßberg), lawyer and university professor

literature

  • Christoph M. Glombek: Chronicle of the municipality of Fassberg with the villages of Müden / Örtze, Poitzen and Schmarbeck . Fassberg 2002.
  • Hans strenght: history of Fassberg . Fassberg 1971.
  • Matthias Blazek: The secret large construction site in the Heide - Faßberg and his air base 1933–2013 . Ibidem, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-95538-017-5 .
  • Faßberg - aerospace in the heath. Brochure for AeroSpaceDay Faßberg, self-published by the municipality of Faßberg, Faßberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-042877-7 .
  • Michael Ende, Peter Müller, Urs Müller: Celle - city and district . Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937843-11-7 .

Web links

Commons : Faßberg  - Collection of Images

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. https://mtc-fassberg.de/?p=1225
  3. Peter Maxwill: Dispute over Nazi symbols on bells. "There is a swastika ringing". In: Spiegel Online website . February 27, 2018, accessed October 10, 2019 .
  4. ^ Council of the community of Fassberg. In: Website of the community of Faßberg. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  5. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG); Section 46 - Number of Deputies. In: Internet site for the Lower Saxony Regulation Information System (NI-VORIS). December 17, 2010, accessed October 10, 2019 .
  6. Local council election Faßberg 2016. In: Website Landkreis Celle. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  7. ^ Local council election Faßberg 2011. In: Website of the municipality of Faßberg. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  8. ^ Local council election Faßberg 2006. In: Website of the municipality of Faßberg. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  9. ^ Committee - Mayor. In: Website of the community of Faßberg. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  10. ^ Clubs and associations in Faßberg. In: Website of the community of Faßberg. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  11. ^ Faßberg Airlift Museum - memorial site. In: www.luftbrueckenmuseum.de. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  12. ^ Faßberg Airlift Museum. In: www.luftbrueckenmuseum.de. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  13. Homepage. In: oase-fassberg.de. Retrieved October 24, 2019 .