Dörverden

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Verden
Height :	16 m above sea level NHN
Area :	83.29 km 2
Residents:	9009 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	108 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27313
Primaries :	04234, 02431 , 04239 , 04254 , 05165
License plate :	VER
Community key :	03 3 61 003
LOCODE :	DE DVE
Community structure:	10 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Große Str. 80 ; 27313 Dörverden
Website :	www.doerverden.de
Mayor :	Alexander von Seggern (independent)
Location of the municipality of Dörverden in the district of Verden

Dörverden ( Low German Dörbern , Dörb'n or Dörveern ) is a unitary municipality in the south of the Verden district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Dörverden is located in the north of the Central Weser region . The rivers Aller and Weser form an east-west boundary of the municipality.

Community structure

Since the regional reform in 1972 , the previously independent communities of Ahnebergen , Barme , Barnstedt , Diensthop , Hülsen , Stedebergen , Wahnebergen and Westen belong to Dörverden, as well as Stedorf and Geestefeld.

history

Numerous barrows from the Bronze Age indicate settlement between 2000 BC. BC and 1200 BC Chr. Excavations on the southern outskirts show a burial site from the Iron Age (from 800 BC). In the Hülsen district , remains of a long house from the time around the birth of Christ were found during excavations .

The oldest documented mention of Barme and Drübber is between 1076 and 1084 AD. Today's community lies in the Aller-Weser triangle, which was fought over between the bishops of Verden, the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and the county of Hoya . Only in 1575 was there a settlement between the parties. After the Hoya Counts died out and the Diocese of Verden ended after the Thirty Years War , the region fell to Sweden in 1648 and then to the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in 1679.

Of economic importance were in modern times, the connection to the railway network (1847), the mining of rock salt deposits in sleeves and ancestor Bergen (1911), the Weser barrage with lock and power plant (1912) and the construction of a powder factory Eibia in the forest between Doerverden and Barme (from 1934).

The Lower Saxony barracks was completed in 1958 and the Bundeswehr moved into it until the site was closed in 2003. A Wolf Center has been located on the former barracks site since April 2010 .

Place name

The “Tulifurdon” mentioned by Claudius Ptolemy († 175) was long accepted as Dörverden, but other places claim the same for themselves (e.g. Daverden , Verden and Hanover ). The name ending -verden means ford .

Incorporations

With effect from October 1, 1962, Dörverden and Stedorf merged voluntarily. A service shop was added on January 1, 1971. On July 1, 1972, the merger of the former communities of Barme, Dörverden, Hülsen, Wahnebergen (with the Ahnebergen and Stedebergen incorporated on February 1, 1971) and Westen (with the neighboring community of Barnstedt, which was incorporated on February 1, 1971) became today's unified community Dörverden formed.

politics

Municipal council

The municipality council of the municipality of Dörverden consists of 24 councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 9,001 and 10,000. The 24 council members are elected by local elections for five years each. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The full-time mayor Alexander von Seggern (independent) is also entitled to vote in the council of the municipality.

The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

CDU : 10 seats (47.41%)
SPD : 7 seats (29.41%)
Green list : 2 seats (8.33%)
UWDuD: 1 seat (6.48%)
ALFA Lower Saxony: 1 seat (4.66%)
Die LINKE : 1 seat (3.69%)

mayor

The full-time mayor of the municipality of Dörverden is Alexander von Seggern (independent). In the last mayoral election on May 25, 2014, he was elected with 51.4% of the vote. His opponent, the previous incumbent, Karin Meyer received 48.6%. The turnout was 61.8%. Von Seggern took office on November 1, 2014.

coat of arms

Blazon : “On a blue background, a silver sloping wave bar, in the upper field on the right a gable cross with horse heads turned outwards. A post mill at the bottom left. "

The coat of arms of Dörverden and the surrounding (meanwhile incorporated) localities ( Barme , Diensthop , Stedorf ) was designed by the heraldist Heinz Bannier (* December 12, 1912, † August 26, 1999; he led the Lower Saxony coat of arms from 1983 to 1991). The silver sloping bar that divides the coat of arms symbolizes the Weser. Below is a post windmill, the predecessor of today's gallery Hollandermill in the old cemetery. The gable cross with the crossed horse heads is intended to indicate that it belongs to Lower Saxony .

A coat of arms "AMBT Westen 1679" was drawn by Heinz Bannier from a seal of the former "Ambtes Westen", which existed from 1679 to 1859, in the 1980s. The former municipality of the west did not have a coat of arms.

Drawings of the coat of arms of the localities of Ahnebergen, Barnstedt, Geestefeld, Stedebergen, Wahnebergen are shown in “The book about the municipality of Dörverden” (2005). They are privately designed and were not official coats of arms.

Karl Kämpf , Fallingbostel, designed the coat of arms of the former municipality of Hülsen .

St. Cosmae and Damiani Church

War memorial in front of St. Cosmae and Damiani Church

Culture and sights

church

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Cosmae et Damiani is a rectangular hall church with a Romanesque core . The three western bays are built in Romanesque style from porta sandstone . The enormous wall thickness of the western yoke shows that it originally supported the tower. In the 15th century, the church was extended to the east by adding a brick extension to the width of the old nave. A stepped gable with slim, pointed arches forms the east end . The windows of the church were later enlarged somewhat roughly. After the old tower was removed, Conrad Wilhelm Hase added a neo-Gothic church tower to the west side of the church in 1877/78 . The interior of the church is vaulted. The walls of the Romanesque part have remains of a Romanesque wall structure, which are partially covered by the service pillars and ribs of the vault; apparently the vault was added later. The late Gothic extension in the east was originally covered by a six-part star vault. After this vault was removed in 1843, the eastern part has been spanned by two yokes, each with four-part ribbed vaults made of stucco, since 1962. On the walls of the eastern part there is a circular arched frieze at eye level . The baroque altarpiece was designed in 1750 by the Verden artist Arnold Meyer. In the middle he carries a panel depicting Mary and the disciple John under the cross of Christ. The pulpit comes from the Rococo and has typical rocaille ornamentation. It was subsequently placed in the altarpiece in place of the panel painting; today it stands free on the north side of the choir. The font dates from the 13th century and has the shape of an inverted folding dome; because the original foot is missing, it is now set on an old millstone. The bell in the neo-Gothic tower dates back to the second half of the 13th century, weighs around 800 kg, measures 1103 mm in diameter and has the tone f sharp '-4. The church in Dörverden used to be closely connected to the Verden Cathedral. Apparently it was built at the same time as him. According to the record of the church visitation of 1585, it belonged to the table benefices of the Verden bishop and the cathedral dean assigned the pastoral position. Today it belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran church district of Verden.

Mill

Gallery Dutch windmill

A windmill was mentioned as early as 1148. A post mill is assigned to the 15th century, which was destroyed by fire in 1856. In 1857 the current Galerie-Holländermühle was built, which was renovated in 1994 to be fully functional.

Dörverden had a second Dutch mill built in 1855 (the Meyer or Geilsmühle; corner of Diensthoper Straße / Drögenkamp), but it could not be renovated. It was demolished in 2003.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The distance over the federal highway 215 to the district town Verden is about eight kilometers. Dörverden is connected to the rail network of Deutsche Bahn on the Hanover - Nienburg - Verden - Bremen lines ( Wunstorf - Bremen line ) and on to Norddeich and Bremerhaven via the station that was reopened in 2000. In terms of tariffs, Dörverden is included in the Bremen / Lower Saxony transport association .

media

The Lower Saxony television broadcaster FAN Television had its headquarters in Dörverden.

Former Bundeswehr property

In 1958, the Lower Saxony barracks were rebuilt in the Barme district . At times up to 4,000 soldiers from the German Armed Forces and the US armed forces were stationed there and the site administration was located in the Drübber district. After troop reductions, the location was finally given up completely in 2003 and the buildings demolished in 2012/2013.

There was a special ammunition store in the Diensthop district .

As a result of the withdrawal of the Bundeswehr, Dörverden suffers from major economic and financial problems. The closure of the barracks in connection with the restructuring measures of the German armed forces particularly affected small and medium-sized enterprises providing primary basic services. The former Landbäckerei Ruge GmbH could not cover the order deficit and had to cease operations. The approximately 10,000 m² area on Bundesstrasse 215 was acquired in 2009 by schuhplus - Shoes in Oversize GmbH.

Wildlife Park Wolf Center in Barme

Part of the site, the Heisenhof , was used by the Bundeswehr as an officer's home for a long time. In 2004 he was transferred to the right-wing Wilhelm Tietjen Foundation for Fertilization Ltd. sold. This brought the village of Dörverden in the context of neo-Nazi activities in the headlines across Germany. After the Wilhelm Tietjen Foundation was liquidated by the British authorities, there is still a legal dispute surrounding the Heisenhof (as of June 2010).

A small portion of the site was sold to a Spezialzoo for Wolves in early 2010, the privately operated Wolf Center . The municipality of Dörverden hopes to attract tourists.

Another part of the former Bundeswehr site is being used by the company Wiebe, which specializes in the construction of railway systems .

Public facilities

In Dörverden there is a large nursing home run by the district ( Haus am Hesterberg ) and a privately operated nursing home ( Casa Verita ). The closest hospitals are the Aller-Weser Clinic in Verden (Aller) and the Mittelweser Clinic (part of the Helios Clinics ) in Nienburg / Weser .

In the district of Drübber is the Drübberholz conference center, game center Lower Saxony with one of the largest publicly accessible collections of board games in Germany.

education

Aller-Weser high school

Sons and daughters of the church

Basilius von Ramdohr (1757–1822), lawyer, journalist, writer and diplomat

literature

Dörverden. Church. In: The art monuments of the province of Hanover. Vol. V: Stade administrative region. Part 1: The districts of Verden, Rotenburg and Zeven. ed. by the Provincial Commission for the Research and Conservation of Monuments in the Province of Hanover, edited by G. Meyer, H. Siebern, C. Wallmann, Hanover 1908, pp. 7-12.
WH Zimmermann: A Celtic bronze device from the Weserkies near Dörverden, Verden district (Aller). In: New excavations and research in Lower Saxony. 4, 1969, pp. 123-130.
Walter Bredthauer: The large community Dörverden and the neighboring communities Barme-Diensthop. 1965, published by the municipality of Dörverden.
Walter Bredthauer: The unified community Dörverden, contributions to economic and social history. 2nd Edition. 1979, published by the municipality of Dörverden.
Walter Bredthauer: DOCUMENT BOOK of the unified municipality Dörverden. 1985, publisher: Dörverden municipality.
Werner Rengstorf / Helmut Lohmann: The book about the community Dörverden. 2006, publisher: Dörverden municipality.
Klaus Schütte: The stone camp Dörverden / A report. (1987), published by the municipality of Dörverden.
Johann Osmers: Office and Village West / With a list of houses by Friedhelm Bluhm. (1997), Stint-Verlag Bremen.
Ahnebergen / history of a village. (1994), editor: Chronicle working group of the Ahnebergen harvest club.
DÖRVERDEN. Ev. Church of St. Cosmas and Damian. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 392 f.
Noun nominandum : New construction of the Dörverden lock on the Mittelweser , A4 leaflet (6 pages), ed. from the Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development, Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration - New building office for the expansion of the Mittelland Canal in Hanover, Hanover September 2013

Web links

Commons : Dörverden - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Dörverden - travel guide

Individual evidence

↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).

↑ Tulifordon. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .

↑ Dat Melkerschepp. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .

↑ Alexander Rosenbrock, Otto Voigt: The field names of the district of Verden . Ed .: Series of publications of the Verdener Heimatbund eV Verden 1961.

↑ Slüüs-Oppasser Lawayt. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .

↑ Forer stops Töög. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .

^ 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. 247 .

^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on December 1, 2014

↑ KDO election presentation. Retrieved March 23, 2018 .

↑ Individual results of the direct elections on May 25, 2014 in Lower Saxony ( Memento of the original from March 3, 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 December 1, 2014 @1@ 2