Getelo

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 28 '  N , 6 ° 51'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	County of Bentheim
Joint municipality :	Uelsen
Height :	60 m above sea level NHN
Area :	20.24 km 2
Residents:	531 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	26 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	49843
Area code :	05942
License plate :	NOH
Community key :	03 4 56 006
Address of the municipal administration:	Ringstrasse 84 49843 Getelo
Website :	www.uelsen.de
Mayor :	Hartmut Menken ( Free Voting Association Getelo (FWG) )
Location of the municipality of Getelo in the county of Bentheim

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

geography

location

Getelo is located northwest of Nordhorn on the border with the Netherlands . The municipality belongs to the joint municipality Uelsen , which has its administrative seat in the municipality Uelsen .

Community structure (districts)

• Getelo
• Getelomoor

Neighboring communities

Itterbeck		Uelsen
	Tubbergen ( Netherlands )	Hall

history

Place name

The High German “goat” is best known from Grimm's fairy tale “The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats”. The Low German variant "Gete, Jete" for "goat, goat" is documented in "Gietelo" (Gelderland / Netherlands), 13th century "Ghettlo", which echoes "Getelo", 1188 Ghetlo. The second part contains “-lo (h)” (“forest”). In the Eastern Netherlands, numerous place names end in "lo" z. B. Almelo, Hengelo, Markelo and Venlo, sometimes with two "oo" like Hoenderloo and Dwingeloo.

The place name means "goat forest", probably in the sense of "goat breeding, herding".

Population development

year Residents source 1885 351 1910 480 1925 519 1933 521 1939 548 1950 647 1956 623 1973 559 1975 0597 ¹

year Residents source 1980 585 ¹ 1985 598 ¹ 1990 662 ¹ 1995 656 ¹ 2000 651 ¹ 2005 656 ¹ 2010 671 ¹ 2015 564 ¹ 2018 535 ¹

¹ as of December 31st

politics

Municipal council

The municipality of Getelo consists of 8 council members. This is the fixed number for the member municipality of a combined municipality with a population between 501 and 1000. 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 mayor is also entitled to vote and sit on the council.

The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following distribution of seats immediately after the election:

Free voter community Getelo (FWG) : 9 seats

mayor

The current mayor of Getelos is Hartmut Menken (FWG), who succeeded the previous mayor Lukas Scholte-Hagen (FWG) in November 2019. Scholte-Hagen had resigned from office for personal reasons. His deputies are Gerwin Wolbink (FWG) and Günter Grote (FWG).

• 2001–2011: Jan-Hindrik Schipper
• 2011–2019: Lukas Scholte-Hagen
• since 2019: Hartmut Menken

coat of arms

Blazon : "In silver over seven red hills in the arrangement 4: 2: 1 a rooted black oak tree with ten green leaves ."

Justification of the coat of arms: The Uelsen municipality writes about this on its website: “The symmetrically designed coat of arms shows in the upper 2/3 area an upright oak with ten strong and distinctive leaves that form the crown. The top six leaves, three to the left and three to the right, symbolize the six letters of the place name Getelo. They each outgrow three strong branches, which in turn represent the three main settlement areas of the municipality: In the north the area "Holthuise / Krakenhoek", in the south-east the old village and in the west the extensive lowlands and relatively late-populated "Getelomoor", or how it is called in dialect, "het Get'ler Venn". The four leaves in the lower treetop area are supposed to stand for the four letters Moor or Venn. The oak is shown with its roots pointing downwards and broadly, below this root area, arranged in three levels, are the “Söben Pölle” mentioned above, which fill the lower arch of the coat of arms as almost semicircular design elements. The overlying oak root area illustrates the awareness that has grown over many generations that the roots of the local population are anchored in the past, which is attested by the presence of the prehistoric "Söben Pölle". "

Buildings

Söven Pölle are barrows from the Bronze Age , originally there were around 26.

See also : List of natural monuments in the Grafschaft Bentheim district

traffic

The federal highway 403 can be reached in approx. 10 km away via various state and district roads .

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.

Personalities

• Ludwig Sager (1886–1970), teacher , poet and local history researcher , teacher in Getelomoor from 1906 to 1907

Web links

Commons : Getelo  - collection of images

• Website of the Uelsen community

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. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; accessed on August 2, 2019 .  
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. County of Bentheim ( see under: No. 19 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  
4. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Register of local authorities in Germany 1900 - County of Bentheim. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 .  
5. ↑ ^{a b} Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p.  195 ( digitized version ).
6. ↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 49 , Grafschaft Bentheim district ( digitized [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on January 31, 2020]).
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} community directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on January 31, 2020 .  
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} About Getelo. In: Website of the Uelsen community. Accessed January 31, 2020 .  
9. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG); Section 46 - Number of Deputies. In: Lower Saxony Regulations Information System (NI-VORIS). December 17, 2010, accessed January 31, 2020 .  
10. ↑ ^{a b} Coat of arms of the municipality of Getelo. (PDF; 235 kB) In: Website Samtgemeinde Uelsen. Accessed January 31, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Line network. (PDF; 760 kB) In: Website Verkehrsgemeinschaft Grafschaft Bentheim. July 7, 2019, accessed January 31, 2020 .  
12. ^ Bentheim Railway. In: be-mobil.de. Accessed January 31, 2020 .