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coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 45 '  N , 7 ° 34'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Emsland
Joint municipality :	Heart sheet
Height :	30 m above sea level NHN
Area :	79.88 km 2
Residents:	4725 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	59 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	49774
Area code :	05964
License plate :	Tbsp
Community key :	03 4 54 026
Community structure:	5 districts
Association administration address:	Neuer Markt 4 49770 Herzlake
Location of the municipality of Lähden in the district of Emsland

Lähden is a northern member municipality in the integrated municipality of Herzlake in the east of the Emsland district in Lower Saxony .

geography

location

Lähden is located in the Hümmling region a few kilometers south of the Hümmling Geest hill . In the northwest, the Mittelradde forms the municipal boundary , in the southeast the Südradde . The Ems runs a few kilometers west and the Hase a few kilometers south .

geology

During the Ice Age , Scandinavia was covered by an approximately 2,500 m thick glacier . During the largest ice expansion, it advanced about 1,200 km into northern Germany and over 2,500 km deep into Eastern Europe . Whole parts of Northern Europe ( England , Ireland , Scandinavia, Northern Germany and Poland ) were covered with ice. The ice masses of the glaciers pushed huge scree masses in front of them and deposited them on the sides (side moraine ) and at the end of the glacier tongue (front moraine). But larger boulders were also dragged along and remained as erratic blocks after the glaciers had retreated . In their search for flint stones for the manufacture of weapons and tools , Stone Age hunters were the first to become aware of Ice Age debris. After that, erratic boulders from Ice Age moraines played a certain role in popular belief and superstition .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities in the north are the communities Groß Berßen and Hüven in the combined community of Sögel , as well as the communities Lahn and Werlte in the combined community Werlte , in the east the city of Löningen in the district of Cloppenburg , in the south the community Herzlake and in the west the city Haselünne .

Community structure

In addition to the village of Lähden, the municipality of Lähden includes the districts of Ahmsen , Herßum , Holte-Lastrup and Vinnen .

Location of the districts in the municipality

Ahmsen Around Holte-Lastrup Loading Vinnen

history

The local large stone grave Lähden I (Sprockhoff No. 866) is one of the longest passage graves in the region at 21.5 m . It has remains of a double oval edging. In the Herßum district there is the large stone grave in the large sand (Sprockhoff No. 867) a system with remains of an oval border.

The municipality of Lähden in its current form has existed since 1974. The largest district is Lähden with about 2,000 inhabitants. In 1998 the 1050th anniversary was celebrated.

The districts of Holte (Hümmling) and Lastrup (Hümmling) were first mentioned in 947, Vinnen 1000 and Herßum 1074. Until 1814 these villages were also politically oriented towards Holte. Only then did the villages become independent. In 1964, Holte, only 103 hectares in size, merged with the significantly larger neighboring municipality of Lastrup to form the new municipality of Holte-Lastrup.

With the community reform, which came into force in the old district of Meppen on March 1, 1974, Lähden became a member community in the integrated community of Herzlake .

Incorporations

On February 1, 1971, the communities Holte-Lastrup, Ahmsen, Herßum and Vinnen were incorporated into the community of Lähden. Before that, there was a bitter battle over the school location, the name and the seat of the community. The school association advocated Holte-Lastrup as the historical center and seat of the parish church. Lähden referred to its larger area, its higher population and its commercial focus.

In the name they agreed on Lähden, while Holte-Lastrup became the location for the secondary school.

politics

Municipal council

The mayor is Franz Strüwing (CDU) from Lähden. He is in his first term of office. The municipal council has 15 elected members. Since the local elections on September 11, 2016, two parties have belonged to it.

• CDU - 12 seats
• SPD - 3 seats

The next local elections will take place in 2021.

coat of arms

Description: In green two silver wavy left bars under a golden shield head with a red barrow .

Symbolism: The stones show the five districts belonging to the municipality

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• Ahmsen
• Vinnen
• Holte-Lastrup

The two white wavy left bars represent the central and southern radii and the boundaries of the municipality in the north and south.

Culture and sights

Churches

There are four churches in the joint congregation.

• Ahmsen

In 1922 the Marists built a monastery on a piece of land given to them by the Ahmsen community . There the Marist Brothers and the prospective Fathers were trained. At the same time, the monastery chapel served as a church for the Catholics of the small village. The Gestapo confiscated the monastery during the Second World War .

The Ahmser then set up an emergency church in a barn, as the way to Holte to the parish church was too difficult. After the war, a separate church was built in Ahmsen, but it still belongs to the parish of Holte. The deceased from Ahmsen are buried in the cemetery in Holte.

Since 1980, the Marist monastery has also been used as a “house of encounters”. When the Marists gave up the management of the house in 2010, it became the "Ahmsen Retreat House". Since January 1, 2019, the former monastery has been used as an education and meeting place for the Ahmsen youth monastery. The operator is the association "Marstall Clemenswerth and Jugendkloster Ahmsen eV"

• St. Clement's Church, Holte-Lastrup

The St. Clemens Church is one of the oldest churches in the Emsland. It was the center of the parish Holte, to which the communities Holte, Lastrup, Herßum, Vinnen, Ahmsen and Lähden belonged. The church was first mentioned in a document in 1276. The church was rebuilt in 1523, the tower dates from 1852.

The church tower has three church bells ringing . The smallest dates from 1340, is 94 cm in diameter and weighs around 500 kg. It is said to be the oldest bell of the humpback. The middle and large bells date from 1509. The middle one has a diameter of 118 cm and weighs 1050 kg, the large bell with a diameter of 129.5 cm weighs 1350 kg.

After the tower was completed in 1852, the bells, which had been hung in a temporary church bell cage in a wooden tower next to the church, moved to their final location today. They also got stuck in the church tower, although they were confiscated during the war and were to be processed into ammunition.

The baptismal font and the Holter cross date from the 14th century. The first organ was purchased in 1698. In 1705 the sculptor Thomas Simon Jöllemann relocated his workshop from Quakenbrück to Holte. He had been commissioned to refurbish the St. Clement Church. He created a high altar , two side altars, the pulpit, the communion bench , a Pietà and the life-size Holter cross, which are also known as "Holter Jews". A monstrance is also said to come from this time. In 1738 the order was completed.

In the last years of the 20th century the church was completely renovated and shines in new splendor. The new curtain painting should also be mentioned. The St. Clemens Church is one of the churches in the Emsland that is well worth seeing.

• Immaculate Conception of Mary, Lähden

In 1920 the Church of the Immaculate Conception of Mary was built in Lähden and the parish was parish from the parish of Holte. Their dead are now buried in their own cemetery in Lähden. In 1910, collections were made for the expansion of the Holter Church. The money was then used to build a church in Lähden. A special feature in this church is the original Madonna. This was brought with them by people from Holland around 1800 as a thank you for their hospitality. During renovations in 1980, the high value of this statue was discovered. Relics were found inside. A copy is in the Ostlähden bell tower. The church itself was renovated in the early 1990s and shines in an unusually modern style for churches.

• Prayer school, Lähden

The bell tower is from around 1700. It was initially part of the prayer school, which the Ostlähdenern also used for regular church attendance. At the beginning of the 20th century, the school section unfortunately fell into disrepair and it was decided to tear it down. in 2006, this part was rebuilt together with the young Kolping as part of the 72-hour campaign of the KLJB and thus shines in new splendor today.

• St. Antonius Church, Vinnen

The St. Antonius Church was built in the years 1853-1858 by the architect Josef Niehaus from Haselünne . The existing baptismal font (Bentheim type) and an old missal, which was written especially for Vinnen, date from 1430 to 1450. It is a "Promptuarium" in which only those parts were included that were required on site because masses were not celebrated every day. The book illuminations deserve special mention, especially an elaborate crucifixion scene and the unusual score, which provide an indication of the sacred music of the time. The baroque altar, created around 1760, comes from a Franciscan monastery in Aschendorf.

Other sights

Bell tower in Lähden

Around 1800 a prayer school was built in Ostlähden. This was used by the residents until it was demolished in the early 20th century. A copy of the Madonna is exhibited in it, which was brought back by Holland-goers in the 18th century. Due to the high value of this sculpture, the original is exhibited in the Lähden church.
In 2006 the preschool was rebuilt by young people from Lähden and now shines in new splendor.

Equestrian area in Lähden

Every two years, one week after Pentecost, the Lähden Horse Days take place on the huge PSG Lähden show grounds. This site is located on Ostlähdener Straße / Schillerberg.

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In 2005 Lähden won the award "Our village has a future - Most beautiful village in Emsland 2005".

The old school

In 1356, the first documented school in the Emsland was mentioned as a grammar school in Holte.

Holte-Lastrup war memorial

The Jöllemannsche Kreuztrachtgruppe, called the "Holter Jews", now stands in the 1950 war memorial in the churchyard.

Waldbühne Ahmsen

Open-air plays have been performed on the forest stage in the Ahmsen district since 1949 . A religiously oriented play has been offered every year since 1949, and a fairy tale game since 1964 . The performances take place annually from May to September.

Great stone graves

From around 2000 BC Even today there are visible traces that there were permanent settlements in the community in prehistoric times. Examples of this are the barrows from the time of the so-called funnel cup culture . These large stone graves, built from large boulders weighing tons, served as burial chambers for entire clans. Particularly long chambers with a short corridor on one of the long sides are typical of the region and are also known as Emsland chambers .
There were several large stone graves in the municipality of Lähden. For example in the Herßumer Wald between Holte and Ahmsen (this grave is still well preserved). In Lastrup near the "Tiefen Vehn" there is another barrow, which was used as a quarry and is only partially preserved. The stone grave in Lähden, just before the Hüvener mill , is well preserved .
Of more than 90 large stone graves in the Emsland, only about 30 have been preserved. They were destroyed by using the stones in the foundations of buildings or as "giant gravel" in road construction, which was itself delivered to the city of Münster .

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  Forest path to the stone grave

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  At the stone grave

Remains from the Third Reich in Lähden

Contemporary witnesses from the Second World War can still be found on Berßener Strasse in Lähden . The remains of a labor camp suggest that the Nazi era in Lähden did not remain without traces.

Economy and Infrastructure

Lähden in particular has seen strong economic development in recent years and has become an attractive settlement location for around 5 years with the second industrial park.

traffic

Hourly / two-hour bus connections Vinnen – Herßum – Holte– Haselünne and Ahmsen – Lähden – Haselünne with connection to Meppen train station .

The Europastraße 233 leads south past the community.

Personalities

Sons and Daughters of Lähden

• Lukas Memken (1860–1934), sculptor, b. in around
• Karsten Ocker (1945–2015), Senior Admiralty Medical Officer D., born in Holte
• Lambert Pohlmann (born May 30, 1823 in Herßum; † February 2, 1914 in Osnabrück), pastor in Sögel (1870–1894), cathedral chapter in the Osnabrück cathedral chapter from 1891, vicar general of the Osnabrück diocese and the North German missions (1894–1907) , Capitular Vicar in the episcopal vacancy (1898–1899), holder of the Royal Prussian. Order of the Red Eagle III. Class (60) from 1907
• Anton Buchholz (born June 4, 1854 in Holte; † July 16, 1931 in Osnabrück), cathedral pastor in Osnabrück (1897–1917), clergyman from June 1917, prosynodal examinator from January 1916, cathedral chapter in the Osnabrück cathedral chapter from June 1917
• Bernhard Kohnen (born March 20, 1876 in Holte; † January 21, 1939 in Rome), Father of the Congregation of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus ( Comboni Missionaries ), missionary on the White Nile (1909-1939), researcher in the Shilluk tribe in South Sudan, whose language he first recorded in (English) grammar
• Mother M. Theresia (born Angela Freese) (* December 10, 1894 in Holte; † January 6, 1970 in Sögel), member of the "Missionary Sisters of the Holy Name of Mary" ("Nice Sisters") and as such First Superior General over 30 Years (1932-1950 / 1956-1968)

Personalities who have worked on site

• Thomas Simon Jöllemann (* 1670 in Quakenbrück ; † unknown) was a German baroque sculptor in northwest Germany from a widely ramified family of sculptors.
• Pastor Ostermann, who was pastor in Holte from 1703 to 1746. The church owes its rich furnishings to him.
• Pastor Jansen, under whom the Holter cemetery was expanded from 1897 to 1908.
• Christoph Sandmann , world champion in equestrian sport from Lähden, co-founded the horse days, which are one of the most important tournaments in Germany

literature

• Friedrich-Wilhelm Wulf , Wolfgang Schlueter : Archaeological monuments in the independent city and in the district of Osnabrück - Hardcover, Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2000, ISBN 3-7752-5661-X
• Parish archives Holte
• Teachers' Association of the Diocese of Osnabrück - The District of Lingen. Contributions to local studies in the Osnabrück administrative district, volume I , R. van Acken publishing house, Lingen / Ems 1905
• Werner Kaemling - Atlas on the history of Lower Saxony , Gerd J. Holtzmeyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1987, ISBN 3-923722-44-3
• Hermann Abels - The place names of the Emsland, in their linguistic and cultural-historical significance , Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 1929
• Christoph Oberthür, Franz Busche, Franz Barth, Heinrich Dünheuft - home map of the Lingen district with statistical information , Verlag R. van Acken, Lingen / Ems 1953
• Ernst Förstemann, Hermann Jellinghaus (editor) - Old German name book , Volume II, 1 and 2: Place names , Bonn 1913/1916 (Reprint: Volume II, 2, Hildesheim 1967/1983, ISBN 3-487-01733-4 )

Web links

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

• Homepage of the Samtgemeinde Herzlake
• Homepage of the village of Holte-Lastrup

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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 257 .
3. ^ History of the Ahmsen Retreat House , accessed on January 21, 2014.
4. ^ Entry in the Lower Saxony State Library , accessed on August 7, 2010