Grossenkneten

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Coat of arms of the community of Großenkneten
Grossenkneten
Map of Germany, position of the community of Großenkneten highlighted

Coordinates: 52 ° 57 '  N , 8 ° 15'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Oldenburg
Height : 37 m above sea level NHN
Area : 176.28 km 2
Residents: 16,027 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 91 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 26197
Primaries : 04435, 04487, 04433, 04407
License plate : OIL
Community key : 03 4 58 007
Community structure: 20 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Markt 1
26197 Grossenkneten
Website : www.grossenkneten.de
Mayor : Thorsten Schmidtke ( SPD )
Location of the community of Großenkneten in the district of Oldenburg
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Großenkneten is a municipality in the Oldenburg district in Lower Saxony .

geography

location

The community of Großenkneten lies between the rivers Hunte and Lethe and is physiogeographically assigned to the Cloppenburger Geest . The village is located in the Wildeshauser Geest Nature Park and consists, among other things, of the districts of Ahlhorn , Huntlosen , Sage , Döhlen and the village of Großenkneten itself. Großenkneten has a strong agricultural character and is increasingly being chosen as a place of residence by commuters (especially to Oldenburg ).

Due to the large forest areas in its vicinity, Ahlhorn is the seat of a Lower Saxony Forestry Office, which is not only responsible for large parts of the Oldenburg district, but also for forests in the Oldenburger Münsterland , which in the west and south in the form of the Cloppenburg and Vechta districts to the municipality Grossenkneten is adjacent. Set in a vast wooded area Ahlhorner fish ponds whose shores and the cattails (also fools piston , Lampenputzer called clubbing) have a home, as well as numerous scattered throughout the municipality megalithic monuments are worth seeing. What is striking is the relatively large number of preserved sheep pens (i.e. sheep stalls) in the area of ​​the municipality of Großenkneten, where sheep farming used to play a major role on the heather .

Community structure

Großenkneten consists of 19 districts (places of residence): Ahlhorn (8.503), Amelhausen (110), Bakenhus (51), Bissel (298), Döhlen (489), Großenkneten (3.017), Hagel (31), Halenhorst (240), Haschenbrok (87), Hengstlage (144), Hespenbusch -Pallast (74), Hosüne (588), Huntlosen (1,904), Husum (58), Sage (626), Sage-Haast (288), Sannum (205), Steinloge ( 119) and western rite (95). (in brackets: population figures for 2018)

Neighboring municipalities and places

Neighboring towns, starting from the north in a clockwise direction, are their own district Huntlosen , the Dötlinger district Neerstedt , the municipality Dötlingen , the Visbeker peasantry Rechterfeld , the municipality Visbek, their own district Ahlhorn , their own district Sage and the Wardenburg district Littel .

Littel (11 km) Huntlosen (6 km) Neerstedt (11 km)
Sage (3 km) Wind rose small.svg Dötlingen (9 km)
Ahlhorn (5 km) Visbek (13 km) Rechterfeld (14 km)

The distance information relates to the distance to the town center.

history

Evangelical Lutheran St. Mary's Church in Grossenkneten

The area of ​​today's community of Großenkneten was already settled at the time of the Neolithic (4800–2000 BC). From this time so-called hune graves of the funnel cup culture have been preserved in the municipality . Mention should be made, for example, of the large stone grave Bakenhus between Ahlhorn and Großenkneten, the hill grave Huntlosen southeast of Huntlosen, the large stone grave Wittenhöge west of Huntlosen and the burial mound field Hespenbusch east of Großenkneten. Other barrows were either destroyed or are on private property.

After Charlemagne (* probably April 2, 747 or 748; † January 28, 814 in Aachen) from 780 AD onwards nine mission districts for the Christianization of the subject Saxons were established, Abbot Gerbert Castus from the Visbek mission cell founded the first parishes in the area. These counted in Lerigau the parish Großenkneten.

The places like Großenkneten, Huntlosen, Döhlen and Sage were mentioned in documents as early as the 9th century . In 1933 the former community of Huntlosen was incorporated into the community of Großenkneten. This gives Großenkneten its current size.

The Lethe estate was built around 1400, the lands of which extend on both sides of the Lethe , so in part also to the area of ​​the municipality of Emstek in the district of Cloppenburg . The manor house was initially placed on the left bank of Lethe, but was rebuilt around 1900 on the right bank (Ahlhorner).

Sage War Cemetery

During the First World War , one of the largest military airship ports was set up for the Imperial Navy from 1916 in the area of ​​what is now the Ahlhorn district . On the airship port Ahlhorn there were six large airship hangars that were partially destroyed in January 1918, when a gas explosion. The area of ​​the former airship port was used for military purposes until 2006. After the Second World War , a British cemetery of honor for those who died in the war from Commonwealth countries, the Sage War Cemetery , was established in the district of Sage .

On the Buhlertsberg in the center of the Ahlhorn fish ponds stands the Ahlhorn blockhouse, a Protestant youth home since 1946 . Construction began in 1934, in 1937 it was expanded into a Gau comradeship home and in 1945 it was even used as a prison camp for the British Army . In 1946 the log house was taken over by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg . Since then, it has primarily been run as a meeting place for young people. However, in recent years the facility has increasingly opened up to informal groups and individual travelers.

The “Ahlhorner Jugendwaldheim” (JWH), an extracurricular location for environmental education, is located near the log cabin between several Ahlhorn ponds. Initially renamed as “Ahlhorn Forest Education Center”, it has been operating as “Forest Education Center Weser-Ems” (WPZ Weser-Ems) since July 1, 2016.

Between 1952 and 1957 Karl Poggensee and the DAFRA (= German Association for Rocket Affairs) founded by him operated a launch site for small test rockets with a summit height of a few kilometers near the Hespenbusch homestead . In 1957 the available area became too small and the start-up activities were relocated to Cuxhaven .

Natural gas processing plant

One of the world's largest, most modern and most environmentally friendly natural gas processing plants is located in the Sage district. Here the sour gas , which occurs frequently in northern Germany, is cleaned by removing the hydrogen sulfide . It is operated by Exxon Mobil .

At the beginning of the 1980s the place became known nationwide when the local music group Trio printed their private address in the Regent settlement in Großenkneten on their first long-playing record (see illustration below). In 1997 the Oldenburg-Ostfriesische Wasserverband (OOWV) bought the organic farm in Bakenhus. Here, possibilities for ground and drinking water protection are researched, applied and groups of visitors communicated. The Bakenhus organic farm cultivates approx. 130 hectares of pasture or grassland in the Großenkneten water protection area and grows cereals on approx. 60 hectares. The approx. 200 cattle of the Aberdeen Angus breed on the grounds of the organic farm are worth seeing.

Origin of name

Old names of the place are (kneading): 890 Gnettum, (large kneading): around 1000 Gnidon and around 1000 Gnydun, (small kneading): around 1000 Gnidun, around 1150 kneading, 1160 aput knitting, 1189–1205 kneading, 1247 kneading and 1417 large kneading . Grossenkneten is a very difficult place name to interpret; both places lie in a valley, a cut, in a depression. Therefore, the name is one of an old word root that is probably no longer attested in the Germanic languages, but in the Slavic: "gneid (h) - / gnoid (h) -" belongs to "gnětiti" and means "to press, squeezing, pressing ”; a distant relationship exists to "knead".

Fragment "Bissel" from the Oldenburg meteorite (1930)

Meteorite impact in Bissel

On September 10, 1930 at 2:15 p.m., a meteorite struck the Bissel district . It is part of the “Oldenburg” meteorite , which broke up about 4 km above the village of Döhlen into at least two main parts, which fell in Bissel and Beverbruch ( Garrel municipality ). The fragment 'Bissel' with a weight of 4.84 kg was kept in the museum village of Cloppenburg . It was last seen in 2000 as a loan in an exhibition at the Oldenburg State Museum. In 2012 it could not be found in either Oldenburg or Cloppenburg and has since been considered lost.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the community of Großenkneten consists of 32 councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 15,001 and 20,000. The 32 council members are elected for five years each by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The full-time mayor Thorsten Schmidtke (SPD) is also entitled to vote in the municipal council.

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

Political party  Proportional votes  Number of seats
CDU 36.54% 11
SPD 27.68% 8th
FDP 14.17% 4th
Communal alternative / independents 11.68% 4th
AfD 8.85% 3
PIRATES 1.05% 0

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 54.15%, slightly below the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms of the municipality Großenkneten in 1948 by the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior awarded. The drawing of the coat of arms comes from the heraldist Manfred Furchert .

Great kneading coat of arms
 Blazon : “ Divided by blue and gold ; above a golden sheaf of grain , each accompanied by a floating, upright, mutilated silver branch ; below a red stone grave . "
Justification of the coat of arms: Manfred Furchert writes about this in his book:

“The coat of arms refers to the megalithic graves near Engelmannsbäke as evidence of prehistoric settlement. In the upper half of the shield, the sawn off and trimmed trunks and the sheaf signify the transformation of forest and heather into rich arable land. At the same time, the tree trunks point to the coat of arms of the Dorgeloh family , who founded Gut Lethe and sat in the Münster castle there for centuries . The sheaf was also featured in the coat of arms of Count von Wasaburg , the illegitimate son (= Gustav Gustavson ) of King Gustav Adolf of Sweden , who bought the Huntlosen estate in 1650 and built a castle. The main colors blue, gold and red are reminiscent of the Oldenburg coat of arms. "

Partner communities

traffic

The community is connected to the Oldenburg – Osnabrück railway via the Huntlosen, Großenkneten and Ahlhorn stations . The stations are served by the RE 18 (Wilhelmshaven - Osnabrück). The Ahlhorn signal box is to be observed as a monument .

In the west of the municipality runs the federal highway 29 , which also connects Osnabrück with Oldenburg. The center of Ahlhorn has been significantly less polluted by road traffic since then

  • the former federal highway 69 was demoted to the state road as part of the construction of the A 29 and
  • the former federal road 213 between the Ahlhorn junction of the A 29 and the Wildeshausen-West junction of the federal motorway 1 was downgraded to a municipal road and at the same time international and national road traffic was diverted via the Cloppenburg junction of the A 1.

Personalities

The cover of the successful music album Trio shows the performers' private address in Grossenkneten extensively, making the place known nationwide

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Dirk Fass (* 1955), writer and winner of the Oldenburg Culture Prize
  • Janna Meiners (* 1981), fistball player at SV Ahlhorn

People connected to the community

  • Peter Behrens (1947–2016), musician of the group “Trio”, lived and worked from 1980 to 1984 in the Regent Siedlung
  • Hans Jörg Butt (* 1974), soccer goalkeeper, played for TSV Großenkneten in his youth
  • Astrid Grotelüschen (* 1964), former Minister of Lower Saxony
  • Walter Hulverscheidt (1899–1989), headed the Ahlhorn Forestry Office from 1946 to 1964
  • Kralle Krawinkel (1947–2014), musician of the group “Trio”, lived and worked from 1980 to 1989 in the Regent settlement
  • Peter Lehmann (1921–1995), sculptor, lived and worked in Bissel since 1968
  • Stephan Remmler (* 1946), musician of the group "Trio", lived and worked from 1980 to 1984 in the Regent settlement
  • Karlheinz Schwuchow (* 1958), university professor, grew up in Großenkneten
  • Eilert Tantzen (1929–2012), forester, local politician, conservationist and genealogist
  • Hans Troschel (1899–1979), painter, lived in Ahlhorn from 1955 to 1979
Grossenknetener farm and view of Exxon Mobil Production
Between Grossenkneten and Döhlen
Between Grossenkneten and Döhlen

See also

literature

  • Dierk Feye: Great kneading in old and new times . Published by the Grossenkneten Citizens' Association. Holzberg, Oldenburg 1990, 461 pages, ISBN 3-87358-345-3
  • Dirk Faß : The community of Großenkneten in the 3rd Reich . Isensee, Oldenburg 2003, 184 pages, ISBN 3-89995-016-X
  • Dirk Faß: The community of Großenkneten in the old days . The archive images series. Sutton, Erfurt 2004, 128 pages, ISBN 3-89702-728-3
  • Dirk Faß: What was new? Large and small reports from the community of Großenkneten from 872 to 2000 . Isensee, Oldenburg 2006, 194 pages, ISBN 3-89995-372-X
  • Heinz Edzards: The interested forest in the parish of Großenkneten. The history of logging in the Ahlhorn, Döhlen, Grossenkneten and Sage farming communities . Isensee, Oldenburg 1993, 218 pages, ISBN 3-89442-138-X
  • Hans Duhme: village and street names in the community of Großenkneten . Holzberg, Oldenburg 1988, ISBN 3-87358-314-3 .
  • Großenkneten community: Forays through the Großenkneten community . Isensee, Oldenburg 2003, ISBN 3-89995-037-2 .

Ahlhorn

  • Heinz Edzards: The development of Ahlhorn in the 19th century. Representation of the change processes in a rural settlement . Isensee, Oldenburg 1997, 219 pages, ISBN 3-89598-478-7

Döhlen

  • Hans Duhme: Döhlen, the Eschdorf on the Wühr . Holzberg, Oldenburg 1984, 220 pages, ISBN 3-87358-222-8
  • Hans Duhme: Döhlen, dat ole Dorp . Holzberg, Oldenburg 1982, 224 pages, ISBN 3-87358-155-8

Halenhorst

  • Dorfgemeinschaft Halenhorst eV (collective of authors): 150 years of Halenhorst. 1854-2004 . Village community Halenhorst, Großenkneten 2004, 352 pp.

Huntlose

  • Dirk Faß: A journey through time through Huntlosen. A local reader . Isensee, Oldenburg 1998, 196 pages, ISBN 3-89598-579-1

legend

  • Dirk Fass: Sager Heide . Isensee, Oldenburg (1996)
    • Volume 1: Sager Heide. A local reader.
    • Volume 2: Sager Heide and surroundings. A local reader . 1996

Web links

Commons : Großenkneten  - Collection of images
Wikivoyage: Großenkneten  - travel guide

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. ^ NWZ online from April 7, 2013
  3. ↑ Lower Saxony State Forests: Our Forestry Offices ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landesforsten.de
  4. ↑ Bernd Rothmann: Map of the sheep pens . September 3, 2006
  5. ↑ Population figures on www.grossenkneten.de, this website is updated regularly by the municipality. The figures mentioned in the article for the reference date July 6, 2018, accessed there on February 4, 2019, result in a total of 16,927 inhabitants, this may differ from other statistics.
  6. ↑ Michael Bönte: Abbot Gerbert Castus - A missionary from the second row. Church site ((former) online newspaper of the Münster diocese). October 29, 2004 ( Memento of May 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved from the web archive on October 3, 2017.
  7. ^ Oldenburg official district . Retrieved October 14, 2013.
  8. ↑ Franz Hellbernd: Münsterländische castles and noble houses , 1963 ( Memento of 19 April 2014 Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Ahlhorn Air Base .
  10. ^ Lower Saxony State Forests: Forest Education Center Weser-Ems
  11. ↑ Biohof Bakenhus Landwirtschaft ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bakenhus.de
  12. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; accessed on August 4, 2019 .
  13. ↑ http://www.nwzonline.de/jubilaeum-wohl-ohne-meteorit_a_8,3,1133488161.html
  14. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on January 20, 2017.
  15. ↑ a b Overall results of the municipal council election on September 11, 2016 , accessed on January 20, 2017
  16. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2017 .
  17. ↑ a b c Manfred Furchert: Oldenburg Wappenbuch . The coats of arms of the districts, cities and municipalities of the Oldenburger Land. tape 1 . Isensee Verlag , Oldenburg 2003, ISBN 3-89995-050-X , p. 81 .
  18. ↑ Drawings of the coat of arms by Manfred Furchert. In: Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
  19. ^ "Partnership with the municipality of Evergem / Belgium" Retrieved on March 19, 2019, 18:17
  20. ^ "Partnership with the municipality of Supraśl // Poland" Retrieved on March 19, 2019, 18:19