Hellwege

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Coat of arms of the community of Hellwege
Hellwege
Map of Germany, position of the community Hellwege highlighted

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′  N , 9 ° 14 ′  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality : Sottrum
Height : 15 m above sea level NHN
Area : 27.44 km 2
Residents: 1090 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 40 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 27367
Area code : 04264
License plate : ROW, BRV
Community key : 03 3 57 022
LOCODE : DE HWX
Community structure: 4 parts of the community
Association administration address: Am Eichkamp 12
27367 Sottrum
Website : www.gemeinde-hellwege.org
Mayor : Wolfgang Harling ( SPD )
Location of the community Hellwege in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme)
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Hellwege is a municipality in Lower Saxony in the Sottrum municipality in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district with 1,114 inhabitants and is located on the Wümme .

geography

Neighboring communities

Hellwege borders on Ahausen in the east, Sottrum in the north, Ottersberg in the west and Langwedel in the south. The latter two are in the Verden district .

Community structure

The communities Auf der Meente , Breitenfeldermoor and Stelle belong to the community of Hellwege .

history

Hellwege was first mentioned in a document in 1275.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the community of Hellwege consists of eleven council members and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of a joint municipality with a population between 1,001 and 2,000 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
SPD 67.82% 7th
CDU 32.17% 4th

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 73.50%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The local council elected councilor Wolfgang Harling (SPD) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows on a red background, which represents the color of the State of Lower Saxony, a silver sloping bar, which stands for the light paths (sand paths) or military paths of the municipality, which gave it its name. On the silver bar, in turn, there is a blue sloping wave bar, which stands for the Wümme river. A silver pointed nail cross, which stands for the diocese of Verden, is shown at the top in front . A silver acorn is shown below, symbolizing the forest in the community.

Infrastructure

  • Administration in the town hall of the Sottrum municipality, Am Eichkamp 12 in Sottrum
  • Municipal office (mayor's office), Dorfstrasse 17
  • Community library, Dorfstrasse 17
  • Hellwege volunteer fire department
  • Weser-Wümme airfield in Hellwege

Educational and social institutions

  • Hellwege crib, Bremer Damm 1
  • Hellwege kindergarten, Bremer Damm 1
  • Hort in Ahausen
  • Primary school in Ahausen, Verdener Weg 3
  • secondary schools in Sottrum

Parish

  • Evangelical parish of Ahausen in the Rotenburg (Wümme) church district: Ahausen church, Eversen chapel, Hellwege chapel with Gut Stelle and Unterstedt chapel as well as part of Haberloh.

societies

  • Fishing club
  • DRK local association
  • Friends of the Ahausen primary school
  • Reservists Comradeship (RK) Hellwege-Posthausen
  • Schützenverein Hellwege from 1966 eV
  • Turn- und Sportverein (TUS) Hellwege von 1924 eV
  • Aviation group Airbus-Bremen eV

Personalities

  • Heinrich Benjes (* 1936), teacher, landscape gardener and Low German author, lives in Hellwege

Web links

Commons : Hellwege  - 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. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on March 3, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Hellwege municipality - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on March 3, 2017.
  4. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016, accessed March 3, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Hellwege municipality - mayor and municipal council , accessed on March 3, 2017.