Hepstedt

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 16 '  N , 9 ° 5'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality :	Tarmstedt
Height :	30 m above sea level NHN
Area :	29.96 km 2
Residents:	978 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	33 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27412
Primaries :	04283, 04289
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 026
Association administration address:	Hepstedter Strasse 9 27412 Tarmstedt
Website :	www.hepstedt.de
Mayor :	Markus Schwiering (WG Hepstedt)
Location of the municipality of Hepstedt in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme)

Hepstedt ( Low German : Hepst ) is a municipality in the Tarmstedt municipality in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in Lower Saxony .

history

Hepstedt 1004 first mentioned when King Henry II. The monastery Kemnade in Bodenwerder at the Weser Hepstidi confirmed as possession.

In the Ummel state forest there is a so-called “Russian cemetery” with five graves. There are buried prisoners of war who were placed by the Stalag XB in Sandbostel to work in Hepstedt. Because they were poorly cared for, many of these prisoners of war died - some were shot for minor offenses. The mayor of Hepstedt had the prisoners buried in a burial place in the forest. In 2012, an employee of the Sandbostel Memorial, Ronald Sperling, determined the names of the prisoners buried in the Ummel.

Origin of the place name

Old names of the place are around 1004 Hepstidi (Heinrich II.).

Stidi or stide is the East Westphalian form of stede and stands for “place”. The first part of the word comes from Old Saxon from the word hiopo for "thorn bush". The term is similar in the English language: hip for "thorn bush", or in Norwegian: hjupa for "rose hip". From this it can be concluded that Hepstedt refers to a site near thorn bushes.

religion

68% of the population are Protestant, 2% Catholic. The Lutherans include the parish Kirchtimke in the church district Osterholz-Scharmbeck the Church of Hanover . On the Reformed side, Hepstedt is part of the Ringstedt community in Synodal Association VIII of the Evangelical Reformed Church . The Catholics belong to the parish Corpus Christi in Rotenburg (Wümme) , which has a branch church ( Christ König ) in Zeven .

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Hepstedt consists of nine councilors and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 501 and 1000 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
Shared apartment Hepstedt	100%	9

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 70.21%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The council elected council member Markus Schwiering (WG Hepstedt) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

Town twinning

Hepstedt has been part of the European Charter - Villages of Europe community , a group of rural communities from all EU countries , since 1988 . The partner communities are Esch / Haaren ( Netherlands ), Bièvre ( Belgium ), Cissé ( France ), Cashel ( Ireland ), Lassee ( Austria ), Tisno ( Croatia ), Samuel ( Portugal ), Bucine ( Italy ), Kannus ( Finland ), Bienvenida ( Spain ), Ockelbo ( Sweden ), Kolindros ( Greece ), Desborough ( United Kingdom ), Ibănești ( Romania ), Holmegard / Naestved ( Denmark ), Nagycenc ( Hungary ), Strzyzow ( Poland ), Nadur ( Malta ), Moravce ( Slovenia ), Medzev ( Slovakia ), Põlva ( Estonia ), Kandava ( Latvia ), Žagarė ( Lithuania ), Lefkara ( Cyprus ), Starỳ Poddvorov ( Czech Republic ), Troisvierges ( Luxembourg ) and Sliwo Pole ( Bulgaria ).

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The K 114, which comes from Rhade and continues to Tarmstedt , meets in Hepstedt, which runs north-south and the K 133, which connects the town to the east with Kirchtimke . There is also a small stop on the Wilstedt – Tostedt railway line , which is only used for trolley transport on the line from Wilstedt to Zeven.

Personalities

• Manfred Hüttner (1930–2017), economist

Web links

Commons : Hepstedt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Site of the municipality of Hepstedt
• Page for the 1000th anniversary of the community
• Page of the partnership association
• Page of the partner communities

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. ↑ Irene Niehaus: The five dead men in the forest. Osterholzer Kreisblatt, September 3, 2012, p. 5 , accessed on September 4, 2012 . 
3. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on November 27, 2015 ; accessed on August 4, 2019 . 
4. ↑ census database
5. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on March 8, 2017.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Hepstedt - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on March 8, 2017.
7. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved March 8, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Members of the Hepstedt municipal council ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2017 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. , accessed March 8, 2017.