Geversdorf
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Geversdorf
Geversdörp ( Low German ) Cadenberge municipality
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| Height : | 0 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 21.62 km² | |
| Residents : | 726 (December 31, 2015) | |
| Population density : | 34 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | November 1, 2016 | |
| Postal code : | 21781 | |
| Primaries : | 04752, 04753, 04772 | |
Location of Geversdorf in Lower Saxony |
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 Geversdorf with harbor and drawbridge
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Geversdorf ( Low German Geversd Körper ) is a district of Cadenberge in the municipality of Land Hadeln in the northeast of the Lower Saxony district of Cuxhaven .
geography
Geographical location
The district of Geversdorf is on the left of the Oste , but the district also extends over to the area on the right.
Local division
- Thingwörden
- Geversdorf (main town)
- Itzwörden
- Laak
- Neuendeich
history
The place was first mentioned in 1146 as Geverstorpe. Due to the ending “village” in Geverstorpe, the place probably dates back to around 850. The first settler, a fisherman named Gevers or Gevert, is said to have been the namesake. The name Gevers comes from Gevetke, the old Germanic term for craftsmen in the village.
A schoolmaster and a private school were first mentioned in Geversdorf in 1580. From 1619 until the purchase of the second building at An der Kirche 93 in 1625, the first schoolhouse was a building at Deichstrasse 119. A larger schoolhouse was bought in 1680 and rebuilt in 1726 after it burned down in 1720. The last Geversdorfer school building was built in 1858 at No. 103. It served as a school in Geversdorf until it was closed in 1969.
Other schools in the municipality were the “secondary school” Laak from 1700, from 1837 in Itzwörden and from 1877 the “Wiese” schoolhouse, which served as the central school for the municipality on the right of the Oste until 1958.
A “nyge vere”, that is, a new ferry between Geversdorf and Itzwörden, was first mentioned in 1423. It was founded around 1400 by the Archbishop of Bremen. With the construction of the ferry house in Geversdorf in 1870, the Prussian state took over ferry operations until after the First World War. From 1920, the ferry was leased to private operators who, with one interruption in 1945, ensured the ferry service until September 13, 1988. After 565 years, the ferry service was stopped with the provision of the Geversdorfer bascule bridge.
Geversdorfer whalers started their whaling ventures in Greenland without any great economic success in the period from 1766 to around 1821 from the Oste.
The first fire engine in Geversdorf was purchased in 1821 for 200 "Reichsthaler". It was replaced by newer fire engines in 1839 and 1902. From 1939 motorized motorized syringes were used. A first syringe house stood in the curve of today's Deichstrasse and was replaced in 1937/38 by the construction of the new syringe house on the sports field. A compulsory fire brigade carried out its duties until 1934 , after which the voluntary fire brigade took over their duties.
Incorporations
On November 1, 2016, Geversdorf merged with Cadenberge to form a new municipality called Cadenberge.
Population development
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¹ 74 fireplaces
² in 217 houses (Geversdorf parish as a whole)
³ as of December 31st
politics
City council and mayor
The district of Geversdorf has been represented by the council of the municipality of Cadenberge since November 1st, 2016 .
Last mayor
The last mayor of Geversdorf was Walter Peterson ( SPD ).
coat of arms
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Blazon : "Under a red shield head coveredwith a silver plow in silver on blue waves, a left-facing red one-master with black sails and a red pennant on the mast." |
| The reason for the coat of arms: the plow and the ship symbolize the traditional professions of the Geversdorfer residents, agriculture and shipping as well as fishing. |
Culture and sights
Buildings
→ See also: List of architectural monuments in Geversdorf
- The local history museum with the local history archive is located in the old town hall from 1883 on an area of around 250 m² . The museum and the bascule bridge over the Oste are part of the German ferry route .
- In the center of the district, the St. Andrew's Church rises on a hill . It was first mentioned in 1233. At that time Neuhaus , Belum and Kehdingbruch also belonged to the parish .
- The classical interior of the church contains a three-legged baptismal font by Hinrich Kock , cast in 1505, and a Furtwängler organ. The current building with a turret was erected in 1843, the spire was completed in 1906.
- The Geversdorfer Bockmühle, already mentioned in 1670, was called “Unrechte Mühle” because its blades and the mill structure turned to the left and thus differently than was usual. Four different stories describe this fact.
- Manor house in the district of Laak (Mannhausen 1), former residence of the Bremer family
Town hall and local history museum
Town view
Former ferry station Itzwörden
The St. Andreas Church
societies
TSV Geversdorf e. V. is the district's sports club and was founded in 1949. The number of members as of December 2007 was 453.
Regular events
Every year on the first weekend in August, the three-day Geversdorfer Schützenfest takes place, which has been celebrated since 1632.
Economy and Infrastructure
Geversdorf is the home port for one of the last fishing cutters, which is still used for environmentally friendly hat fishing in the Tidal Elbe area.
The Ostewerft shipyard operations were discontinued after 300 years of history. The company building was partially rebuilt and parts of the company were converted into holiday apartments. The roof garden on the large shipyard hall offers a unique view of the Oste. The shipyard's large tower crane is the widely visible identification symbol for the shipyard and Geversdorf in the flat landscape on the lower Oste .
traffic
Geversdorf is on Landstrasse 111, which has been crossing the Oste in two lanes over a bascule bridge since 1988 . The bridge has a clearance height of 3.80 meters, is 206 meters long and 11 meters wide. Before the bridge was built, the traffic over the Oste was handled by the Geversdorf Ost ferry .
The narrow-gauge Kehdinger Kreisbahn , which connected the district of Itzwörden with Freiburg / Elbe and Stade , was shut down in 1933 and completely dismantled by 1935.
Harbor view
Fishing cutter Geversdorf
The Ostewerft
Bascule bridge over the Oste
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the place
- Karl Geffken (1908–2005), Head of Studies at the Pestalozzischule (today Lloyd-Gymnasium) in Bremerhaven, son of Johann Geffken (see below)
- Frank Horch (* 1948), Senator for Economics, Transport and Innovation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
People connected to the place
- Jost Fitschen (1869–1947), botanist and author, elementary school teacher in Geversdorf
- Johann Geffken (1876–1956), organist, teacher in Geversdorf (1906–1956), father of the aforementioned Karl Geffken
- Alfred Führer (1905–1974), organ builder; from 1973 to 1975 he restored the organ in St. Andrew's Church
- Reinhold Friedl (* 1948), writer and crime writer, lived in Geversdorf from 1987 to 2007, the place plays an important role in his detective novels Tödliches Tabu , The Great Wedding and Tödliche Scrolls vom Nile
- Bartelt Immer (* 1956), master organ builder, he restored the organ in the St. Andreas Church in 2006
- Reinhard Gramm (* 1961), musician and composer, since 2003 state trombonist for the Stade district
literature
- Rolf Geffken : A North German Century. Work and life of the Bremerhaven headmaster Karl Geffken from Geversdorf an der Oste . 2nd Edition. VAR-Verlag, 2008, DNB 137225113 .
Publications in the Niederdeutschen Heimatblatt
- Rolf Geffken: The teacher and organist house in Geversdorf. Testimony of a schoolmaster's life in the country at the beginning of the 20th century . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 774 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven June 2014, p. 3 ( digital version [PDF; 2,3 MB ; accessed on June 12, 2019]).
- Heiko Völker: Consequences of pregnancy and involuntary marriage. The suspension of the Cadenberg preacher Alardo Butienter in 1679 . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 814 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven October 2017, p. 3 ( digital copy [PDF; 5.4 MB ; accessed on July 12, 2019]).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c municipalities in Germany by area, population and postcode. (XLS; 4.4 MB) See under: No. 1983 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 2015, accessed on October 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Information board for the community in front of the former ferry station.
- ^ Holger Kuhne: Greenland driver from the Oste. (No longer available online.) In: Niederelbe.de. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016 ; accessed on June 12, 2019 .
- ^ History of the Geversdorf fire brigade. (No longer available online.) In: voluntige-feuerwehr-geversdorf.de. Archived from the original on June 21, 2015 ; accessed on June 12, 2019 .
- ^ Frauke Heidtmann: Geversdorf volunteer fire brigade has existed for 75 years. In: Website Cuxhavener Nachrichten / Niederelbe-Zeitung. September 6, 2009, accessed June 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Minutes of the 13th public meeting of the municipal council on Thursday, July 17, 2014, 8 p.m. in the "Ostekrug" (Ostehalle), Ostehallenstrasse, 21784 Geversdorf.
- ↑ Lower Saxony State Chancellery (Ed.): Law on the new formation of the community of Cadenberge, district of Cuxhaven . Lower Saxony Law and Ordinance Gazette (Nds. GVBl.). No. 19/2015 . Hanover November 12, 2015, p. 303 ( digitized version ( memento from July 5, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 464 kB ; accessed on June 12, 2019] p. 5).
- ^ Friedrich Jansen: Statistical Manual of the Kingdom of Hanover (= Statistical Manuals for the Kingdom of Hanover ). Helwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Celle 1824, p. 208 ( digitized version in Google book search).
- ↑ Friedrich W. Harseim, C. Schlüter: Statistical Handbook for the Kingdom of Hanover (= Statistical Handbooks for the Kingdom of Hanover ). Schlüter'sche Hofbuchdruckerei, Hanover 1848, p. 136–137 ( digitized in the Google book search).
- ^ Ulrich Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900 - Neuhaus an der Oste district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. February 3, 2019, accessed June 12, 2019 .
- ^ A b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Land Hadeln ( see under: No. 13 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Official municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany . Final results according to the September 13, 1950 census. Volume 33 . W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart / Cologne August 1952, p. 49 , col. 1 ( digital version [PDF; 26.4 MB ; accessed on June 12, 2019] Landkreis Land Hadeln, p. 58).
- ↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 44 ( digital version [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on October 10, 2019] Landkreis Land Hadeln).
- ^ Municipalities in Germany by area and population. (XLSX; 895 kB) See under: No. 1796 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 1975, accessed October 10, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i municipality directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on October 20, 2019 .
- ^ Municipalities in Germany by area, inhabitants and postcode. (XLS; 3.1 MB) See under: No. 1826 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 2000, accessed October 10, 2019 .
- ^ Municipalities in Germany by area, population and postcode. (XLS; 4.9 MB) See under: No. 1992 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 2013, accessed on October 10, 2019 .
- ^ Rudolf Lembcke: Land Hadeln district. Past and present . Ed .: District of Hadeln. Buchdruckerei Günter Hottendorff, Otterndorf 1976, p. 24 (coat of arms).
- ↑ Eberhard Michael Iba (Ed.): Hake Betken siene Duven. The saga of the Elbe and Weser estuaries (= special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund at the Elbe and Weser estuaries . Volume 16 ). 3. Edition. Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1999, ISBN 3-931771-16-4 , p. Cover ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ The Geversdorfer Bockmühle. (No longer available online.) In: zummuellerhaus.de. Archived from the original on May 5, 2015 ; accessed on June 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Heiko Völker: Consequences of pregnancy and involuntary marriage. The suspension of the Cadenberg preacher Alardo Butienter in 1679 . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 814 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven October 2017, p. 3 ( digital copy [PDF; 5.4 MB ; accessed on July 12, 2019]).
- ↑ a b Rolf Geffken : A North German Century. Work and life of the Bremerhaven headmaster Karl Geffken from Geversdorf an der Oste . 2nd Edition. VAR-Verlag, 2008, DNB 137225113 .
- ^ Rolf Geffken: The teacher and organist house in Geversdorf. Testimony of a schoolmaster's life in the country at the beginning of the 20th century . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 774 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven June 2014, p. 3 ( digital version [PDF; 2,3 MB ; accessed on June 12, 2019]).
- ↑ Reinhard Gramm. That can actually become a position in life. In: Website Cuxhavener Nachrichten / Niederelbe-Zeitung. January 5, 2006, accessed June 12, 2019 .
