Stavern

This article explains the community of Stavern in Emsland; for the Norwegian municipality of the same name, see Stavern (Norway) .

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 47 '  N , 7 ° 26'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Emsland
Joint municipality :	Sögel
Height :	28 m above sea level NHN
Area :	50.96 km 2
Residents:	1064 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	21 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	49777
Area code :	05965
License plate :	Tbsp
Community key :	03 4 54 050
Address of the municipal administration:	Sögeler Strasse 2 a 49777 Stavern
Website :	www.stavern.de
Mayor :	Helmut Rawe ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Stavern in the district of Emsland

Stavern is a municipality in the Emsland district in Lower Saxony and is part of the Sögel municipality .

geography

location

The municipality of Stavern is located at the southern end of the Hümmling , a geest landscape in the Emsland around 15 kilometers northeast of Meppen . A section of the Nordradde , an eastern tributary of the Ems, runs past the town to the east .

West of the town, the 3200 extends ha large nature reserve (NSG) Tinner and Staverner box . It is part of the approximately 3500 ha large NSG Tinner Dose-Sprakeler Heide , which was designated as a nature reserve on March 31, 2012.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are in the northwest the community Lathen , in the northeast the community Sögel , in the east the communities Groß Berßen and Klein Berßen , in the south the city Meppen and in the west the city Haren .

history

Great stone graves

The Stavern region has a long tradition of settlement. This is evidenced by the large stone graves, including the large stone grave Groß-Stavern 1 , the large stone grave Groß-Stavern 3 and the large stone graves Deymanns Mühle I-IV on the eastern edge of Klein-Stavern.

Incorporations

The municipality of Stavern was created on March 1, 1974 through the merger of the municipalities of Groß Stavern and Klein Stavern. Since then, the new community has been part of the Sögel municipality .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council has eleven elected members. Since the local elections on September 11, 2011, two parties or voter communities have belonged to it. The mayor is Helmut Rawe from the CDU.

• CDU - 8 seats
• UWG - 3 seats

coat of arms

Blazon : "Divided from gold over blue in a wavy cut, inside a red megalithic grave with two carrying stones and a large capstone, below a golden water mill wheel."

The megalithic grave refers to the prehistoric megalithic graves, the wave division and the blue of the lower half of the shield refers to the watercourse of the Nordradde, the mill wheel to the Bruneforth water mill . The colors red and gold are the colors of the coat of arms of the Imperial Abbey of Corvey, which Stavern came into possession of in 1037, and also those of the Principality of Münster, to whose Niederstift the place belonged from 1252 to the Imperial Deputation Main Council in 1803. The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Ulf-Dietrich Korn from Münster.

traffic

In terms of transport, Stavern is close to federal highways 70 and 402 and can be reached via the Meppen and Lathen junctions of federal motorway 31 . The nearest train stations are also in these places.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Clementine Deymann , Franciscan and religious priest in America (1844-1896)

literature

• Werner Kaemling: Atlas on the history of Lower Saxony. Gerd J. Holtzmeyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1987, ISBN 3-923722-44-3
• Hermann Abels: The place names of the Emsland, in their linguistic and cultural-historical significance. Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 1929
• Ernst Förstemann, Hermann Jellinghaus (editor): Old German name book. , Volume II, 1 and 2: Place Names. Bonn 1913/1916 (Reprint: Volume II, 2, Hildesheim 1967/1983, ISBN 3-487-01733-4 )

Web links

Commons : Stavern (Emsland)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Stavern on the website of the Sögel municipality
• Large stone grave "Klein Stavern 5", Deymanns Mühle, Klein Stavern
• Large stone grave "Groß Stavern 1", Bruneforth near Groß Stavern
• Large stone grave "Klein Stavern 1" ("Am Osteresch"), Klein Stavern
• For on-site shopping: Stavern gets down to business on July 15, 2017 on ndr.de

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. 258 .
3. ↑ http://www.soegel.de