Gölenkamp

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Coat of arms of the community of Gölenkamp
Gölenkamp
Map of Germany, position of the municipality of Gölenkamp highlighted

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '  N , 6 ° 55'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : County of Bentheim
Joint municipality : Uelsen
Height : 19 m above sea level NHN
Area : 20.95 km 2
Residents: 579 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 28 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 49843
Primaries : 05941, 05942
License plate : NOH
Community key : 03 4 56 007
Association administration address: Itterbecker Str. 11
49843 Uelsen
Website : www.uelsen.de
Mayor : Jan Beniermann
Location of the community of Gölenkamp in the Grafschaft Bentheim district
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Between Haftenkamp and Hardinghausen

Gölenkamp is a municipality in the Grafschaft Bentheim district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Gölenkamp is located northwest of Nordhorn . The municipality belongs to the joint municipality Uelsen , which has its administrative seat in the municipality Uelsen .

Community structure

The three districts of the municipality are:

  • Gölenkamp
  • Haftenkamp
  • Hardinghausen

Incorporations

On April 1, 1929, the Hardinghausen community, and on March 1, 1974, the Haftenkamp community was incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

The Gölenkamp municipal council consists of nine council members, all of them men. They were last elected in the Lower Saxony municipal elections in 2016 .

mayor

The current mayor of Gölenkamps is Jan Beniermann, who was re-elected in November 2016.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold a red, three-legged church flag with three rings, under the side bibs accompanied by two red acorns and covered with a gold, rounded bottom, the wall of which is decorated with beads and rows of balls."

Reason: The coat of arms of the local lords of Godelinchem from the 13th / 14th centuries. Century showed a church flag with three rings without a pole. The cup symbolizes a find from the Bronze Age that a farmer found while digging in 1840. The coat of arms designed by the heraldist Ulf-Dietrich Korn in 1991 combines the church flag from the coat of arms of the Lords of Godelinchem with the Gölenkamper gold cup. The two acorns stand for the districts of Haftenkamp and Hardinghausen. The colors red and gold are the coat of arms colors of the Counts and Princes of Bentheim. They show the affiliation of the community to the former county and to today's county of Bentheim.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Spöllberg

In the cemetery on Spöllberg (Spielberg) an (earlier) golden cup with a relatively thick wall was found in 1840.

artfully

As part of the kunstwegen project , a 270 meter long anchor chain was laid around the Spöllberg in 1999. The anchor chain was laid around the Spöllberg with great protest from the residents, even the NDR reported at the time.

Barrows

Around Gölenkamp there are some barrows from the Bronze Age .

traffic

There is a regular on-call bus connection of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Grafschaft Bentheim (VGB) to Uelsen , where there is a connection to the regional bus line 10 in the direction of Emlichheim and Neuenhaus . In Neuenhaus there are connections to the train line RB 56 in the direction of Nordhorn and Bad Bentheim and to the regional bus line 30 in the direction of Nordhorn.

literature

  • Siegfried Fröhlich: The grave mound field on the Spöllberg. Community of Gölenkamp, ​​County of Bentheim. Location of the golden cup . Rasch, Bramsche 1992 ISBN 3-922469-72-8

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. ^ 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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 255 .
  3. ↑ http://www.uelsen.de/staticsite/staticsite.php?menuid=110&topmenu=6
  4. ↑ gn-online: Who is mayor and where?
  5. ↑ Line network of the VGB (PDF)
  6. ↑ https://www.be-mobil.de

Web links

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