Grossenwörden

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Grossenwörden
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Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′  N , 9 ° 16 ′  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Stade
Joint municipality : Oldendorf-Himmelpforten
Height : 0 m above sea level NHN
Area : 12.35 km 2
Residents: 462 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 37 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes : 21712,
21706 (Am Rönndeich)Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / zip code contains text
Area code : 04775
License plate : HOURS
Community key : 03 3 59 019
Association administration address: Mittelweg 2
21709 Himmelpforten
Website : www.oldendorf-himmelpforten.de
Mayor : Bernhard Witt ( FWG )
Location of the community of Großenwörden in the district of Stade
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Großenwörden ( Low German Grootwöörn ) is a village and a municipality in the Stade district in Lower Saxony . The community belongs to the combined community of Oldendorf-Himmelpforten , which has its administrative seat in the community of Himmelpforten . The place was first mentioned in 1255 as were mentioned in a deed of donation from the knight Friedrich von Haseldorf II.

geography

Grossenwörden lies in the Oste Marshes on the edge of the Kehdinger Moor . The Rönne flows into the Oste on the north-western edge of the municipality.

Neighboring towns are envelope in the north, Dornbuscher Moor , Theis Bruges Moor and Drochtersen in the Northeast, Aschhornermoor , Drochtersermoor and Gauensiekermoor the east, Engelschoff and territory in the southeast, wiping the south, Kleinwörden , Hechthausen and Bornberg in the southwest, Basbeck and Sethlerhemm the west and east , Altendorf and Rönndeich in the northwest.

history

Population development

  • 1848: 518 people 87 houses
  • 1858: 544
  • 1910: 508
  • 1925: 454
  • 1933: 467
  • 1939: 586
  • 1988: 461
  • 1993: 460
  • 1998: 490
  • 2003: 476
  • 2008: 459
  • 2012: 462

Administrative history

Before 1885, Großenwörden belonged to the Himmelpforten office . In 1885 the community became part of the Neuhaus district , but in 1932 it moved with Hüll and Neuland to the current district of Stade .

In the course of the territorial reform , Großenwörden became a member of the integrated community of Himmelpforten on July 1, 1972 , which merged with the integrated community of Oldendorf on January 1, 2014 to form the new integrated community of Oldendorf-Himmelpforten .

religion

Grossenwörden is evangelical-Lutheran and belongs to the parish of Horst in Burweg / Großenwörden . For the few Catholics the church is the Holy Spirit in Stade responsible.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the community of Großenwörden consists of seven councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population of up to 500 inhabitants. The council members are elected for a five-year term by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

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

Political party Proportional votes Number of seats
Grossenwörden flat share 100% 7th

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 76.72%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

Previous election results
Political party 2006 2011
Free community of voters 7 seats 7 seats

mayor

The council elected the council member Bernhard Witt (WG Großenwörden) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

Community leader:

  • 1856–1862: Johann Hinrich von Holten
  • 1862–1868: Ernst Friedrich von Rönn
  • 1868–1873: Claus Hinrich Bammann
  • 1874–1916: Johann Oelrich
  • 1916–1933: Ernst von Rönn

Mayor:

  • 1933–1945: Gustav Schlichting
  • 1945–1946: Heinrich von der Lieth
  • 1946–1968: Hinrich Braack
  • 1968–1991: Gerhard Doerksen
  • 1991–2001: Erich Kahrs
  • 2001–2006: Hubert von der Lieth
  • since 2006: Bernhard Witt

coat of arms

Blazon : “In green, a low, silver wave bow; above a silver half-timbered house with a silver front gable and red infill; at the bottom a fan-shaped silver alder branch with two cones on the right and a leaf on the left. "

The municipal coat of arms, designed by the Bremen heraldist Horst Scheffler in the spring of 2001, shows the typical Lower Saxony house with red infill and silver half-timbering and a silver wave arch symbolizing the Großenwörden Ostebogen on a grassy green ground. An alder branch indicates the alder stocks that line the drainage ditches in Großenwörden.

Culture and sights

Marienkirche in Großenwörden
War memorial

Buildings

Regular events

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The next train station is 8 km away in Himmelpforten on the Niederelbebahn .

education

The elementary school in Großenwörden was closed in 1975. Since then, the students from Großenwörden have attended elementary school in Himmelpforten and secondary schools in Himmelpforten ( secondary school with a high school branch ) and Stade ( Vincent-Lübeck-Gymnasium ).

  • Companies
Volksbank Stade-Cuxhaven had a branch in Dorfstrasse, which was closed on April 28, 2017.

tourism

The place is on the German ferry route .

Personalities

The pomologist Eckart Brandt lives and works in Großenwörden. The travesty artist Lilo Wanders also lives here.

literature

  • Thomas Schütt: NEULAND in the Ostemarsch - On the trail of a village , Lamstedt / Neuland 2018
  • G. von Issendorff: Kloster and Amt Himmelpforten , Himmelpforten 1911/13
  • Edited by Oskar Karpa: The art monuments of Lower Saxony - district of Stade, 1965

Web links

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

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. ↑ Friedrich W. Harseim, C. Schlüter: Statistical Manual for the Kingdom of Hanover. 1848, p. 134 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
  3. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian State and their population. Berlin 1873, p. 142 ( GoogleBooks )
  4. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  5. ^ A b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. stade.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ↑ a b c d e f LSKN-Online
  7. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on April 6, 2017.
  8. ↑ a b Community of Großenwörden - overall results of the 2016 local council election , accessed on April 6, 2017.
  9. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016, accessed April 6, 2017 .
  10. ^ Council - Großenwörden local council , accessed on April 6, 2017.