Heinbockel

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '  N , 9 ° 20'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Stade
Joint municipality :	Oldendorf-Himmelpforten
Height :	15 m above sea level NHN
Area :	22.71 km 2
Residents:	1373 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	60 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	21726
Primaries :	04144, 04149
License plate :	HOURS
Community key :	03 3 59 024
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Mittelweg 2 21709 Himmelpforten
Website :	www.oldendorf-himmelpforten.de
Mayor :	Andreas Haack
Location of the community Heinbockel in the district of Stade

Heinbockel is 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 . It consists of the districts Heinbockel and Hagenah . It has about 1493 inhabitants, of which about 804 are in Heinbockel and 689 in Hagenah.

history

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the neighboring community of Hagenah was incorporated.

Population development

year	1987	1992	1997	2002	2007	2012
Residents	817	920	1213	1576	1535	1492

(as of December 31st)

politics

Municipal council

The Heinbockel community council consists of eleven council members and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 1001 and 2000 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
WG Heinbockel / Hagenah	66.71%	7th
CDU	33.28%	4th

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 62.28%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

Previous election results

year	CDU	SPD	Flat share
2001	6th	1	4th
2006	5	2	4th
2011	4th		7th

mayor

The local council elected council member Andreas Haack (WG Heinbockel / Hagenah) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

Previous incumbent

- 1998	Heinrich Heins (shared flat)
1998 - 2006	Heinz Meyer (CDU)
2006 -	Andreas Haack (shared flat)

coat of arms

The coat of arms was adopted by the local council in 1948 and awarded on February 2, 1949 by the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior.

Blazon : "In gold on a green shield base covers a black barn with a golden urn."

The coat of arms was designed and designed by the heraldic advisor Landschaftsrat von Holleufer. The community has included the still well-preserved stone chamber grave in its district in its coat of arms. The urn points to other prehistoric finds and the old settlement of the municipality.

Culture and sights

Also worth mentioning is the regionally well-known music store Heinbockel, which is a meeting point for young people and adults from the area every Friday evening.

Pubs and restaurants

In addition to the restaurant in Heinbockel, there is another one in Hagenah: the Gasthof Hellwege in Hagenah. The second pub in Heinbockel can be found on Düdenbüttler Strasse, the Lindenhof .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Important companies, especially in Hagenah, are the civil engineering company HMH (Helmut Meyer Hagenah) and the agricultural machinery dealer NEWTEC directly on the B 74.

traffic

The district road 57 connects the place with the federal road 73 in the north and the federal road 74 in the south, both of which converge at Stade and also offer further connections to Hamburg . After Oldendorf the west county road leading 72nd

literature

• Bernhard Hellwege: Heinbockeler Chronik. 1989

Web links

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

• Integrated community of Oldendorf-Himmelpforten
• Heinbockel 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. ^ 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. 246 .
3. ↑ LSKN-Online
4. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on April 7, 2017.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Heinbockel - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on April 7, 2017.
6. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016, accessed April 7, 2017 . 
7. ^ Council - Heinbockel local council , accessed on April 7, 2017.
8. ↑ Coat of arms information on the Samtgemeinde website