Hesel

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coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 18 '  N , 7 ° 36'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Empty
Joint municipality :	Hesel
Height :	9 m above sea level NHN
Area :	43.99 km 2
Residents:	4553 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	104 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	26835
Area code :	04950
License plate :	LER
Community key :	03 4 57 010
Address of the municipal administration:	Rathausstrasse 14 26835 Hesel
Website :	www.hesel.de
Mayor :	Gerd Dählmann ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Hesel in the district of Leer

Hesel is a municipality in the district of Leer in Lower Saxony and is part of the Hesel municipality , whose administrative seat it is.

location

Hesel is centrally located in East Friesland at the intersection of the East Frisian-Oldenburg Geestrücke with a branch of the Geest in the direction of Leer. The Hesel area is one of the highest regions in East Frisia. The highest point in the municipality in the Heseler Wald is 17 meters above sea level. The soils are rather sandy, around the Geest there were many moor areas, all of which are now peated and are significantly lower than the Geest. Hesel is drained to the north in the river Bagbander Ehe and to the south in the Holtlander Ehe.

Community structure

The community takes up a large part of the area of ​​the integrated community of Hesel, not least because several small towns were incorporated into Hesel. The following villages belong to the municipality of Hesel:

Beningafehn Kleinhesel Kiefeld Hasselt

Stikelkamp Heseler Horn Neuemoor

history

Hesel is an old town. A prehistoric fireplace was found here that is around 10,000 years old. This is the oldest evidence of human culture in East Frisia. There are also many other prehistoric traces in Hesel. Traces of a 3000 year old cult site were recently discovered when a market was being built. The oldest house floor plan found dates from around 2000 BC. There are also numerous prehistoric burial mounds in Hesel. By the 5th century BC The Hesel area was continuously populated, followed by a gap in the settlement up to the early Middle Ages . Human settlements can be detected again around the time around 800.

Coin find

A treasure of around 800 Frisian silver coins was found in the vicinity of the Barthe monastery desert in 1838 . At first it was not known when and by whom the unusual pieces were made. Later comparative finds made it clear that these were coins from the Frisians from the 8th century. These coins are particularly widespread on the Frisian and southern English North Sea coasts. As a barter and commodity, the Frisian Sceattas are evidence of trade in the North Sea area. Hesel's prehistory is one of the best-researched in East Frisia.

Around the year 900 Hesel is mentioned for the first time in the registers of the Werden monastery . The Premonstratensian Monastery of Barthe was founded between 1170 and 1184, and the Hasselt commander around 1300 . Both had several outbuildings in what is now the municipality.

In the Middle Ages, Hesel belonged to the Frisian state municipality of Moormerland . After the time of the Frisian freedom , no local chief rule could be established because the soils of Hesel were too sandy and did not produce any wealth. The importance of Hesel can therefore be found in the local monastery complex. In the conflict between the chief Focko Ukena and the Freedom League of the Seven East Friesland , Hesel was probably the site of at least one argument. Hesel belonged to the " Hooge Loogen " of East Friesland.

After the establishment of the county of East Friesland, Hesel belonged to the Stickhausen office. Militarily, Hesel was poorly protected. In the Thirty Years War , Hesel was haunted by the Mansfeld fields. Among other things, the Barthe, Hasselt and Stikelkamp estates were looted or destroyed. Some of Hesel's settlement areas were abandoned after these incursions. During the roll-call war , Hesel was plundered by the insurgents of Leer, and in Prussian times the place was a target of the Conflan's troops in the Seven Years' War in 1761 . The residents resisted the occupiers and were able to drive them away. From 1764 the peripheral areas and the moor around Hesel were colonized.

Under French administration from 1810 to 1813, Hesel was the seat of a mairie , in the Kingdom of Hanover a bailiwick . In 1885 Hesel became part of the district of Leer. In the 19th century, a number of Hesel families emigrated to the USA . Some of them settled in South Dakota down and founded in Hamlin County the place Hazel .

During the last days of the Second World War, Hesel was the scene of a few battles. Canadian and Polish troops advanced from the south and entered Hesel on May 1, 1945. After the war, Hesel had about a quarter of the population as refugees.

On January 17, 1972, the municipality of Hesel became a member and administrative seat of the joint municipality of Hesel as part of the municipality reform in Lower Saxony.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1973, the community of Neuemoor and an area of ​​the community of Großefehn ( Aurich district (Ostfriesland) ) with about 200 inhabitants at that time were incorporated.

religion

Church of the SELK in Hesel

Hesel is located in the traditionally Lutheran area of ​​the Protestant East Frisia. In addition to the Evangelical Lutheran Church Congregation Liudgerikirche , which belongs to the Regional Church of Hanover , there has also been an independent Evangelical Lutheran Church Congregation (SELK), the Kreuzgemeinde Hesel-Bagband, since 1937 . In 2007 a free evangelical congregation was founded , which converted a former commercial building into a community center. Even Evangelical Free Church Christians ( Baptists ) have a center, called in Hesel backstage . Organizationally, this facility is linked to the mother community in Firrel .

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Hesel consists of 15 councilors and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 3001 and 5000 inhabitants. The 15 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 last local election in Lower Saxony on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following result:

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats	Change voices	Change seats
SPD	35.2%	5	−10.4%	−2
CDU	51.9%	8th	+ 8.0%	+1
General voter community (AWG)	9.6%	1	+ 2.9%	0
The left	2.8%	1	+ 2.8%	+1

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 58.1%, slightly above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%. For comparison - in the previous municipal election on September 11, 2011, the turnout was 51.2%.

mayor

The municipal mayor is Gerd Dählmann ( CDU ).

coat of arms

Blazon : "In silver over a green shield base covered with a gold post horn, three green fir trees."

traffic

Hesel is located at the intersection of the former federal highway 75 (B 75) with the federal highways 72 and 436 that still exist today . The old route of the B 75 to Oldenburg was mainly downgraded to a state road. Road traffic to and from Leer , Aurich and Friesoythe meet here. Until the completion of the Federal Highway 28 from 1974, the main traffic to and from Westerstede also flowed here .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Liudgerikirche Hesel

• Protestant Liudgerikirche , 1742, post-Gothic

education

In Hesel there is a primary school as well as the high school "Kloster Barthe". There is also the Wilhelm Busch School for learning assistance. There is also a branch of the adult education center in Leer in Hesel.

Sports

The Ostfriesland district sports school is located in Hesel. There are also sports and swimming clubs as well as a shooting club.

Events

The harvest festival, which has been taking place since 1984, is known far beyond the borders of Hesel. The highlight is a large harvest parade in the center of the village, at which up to 20 motif wagons pull past several thousand visitors. The organizer is the home and tourist association of the Hesel municipality.

economy

The discounter -Company Aldi -Nord is established with one of its regional offices, plus a large central warehouse.

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. ↑ Dettmar Coldewey: Frisia Orientalis - data on the history of the country between Ems and Jade
3. ^ 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. 261 and 263 .
4. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on December 27, 2016.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Hesel municipal council election 2016 , accessed on December 27, 2016 (PDF).
6. ↑ hna.de: Local elections: All information, all results , accessed on December 27, 2016.
7. ↑ Downward trend in voter turnout stopped. In: ndr.de . September 12, 2011, archived from the original on August 25, 2013 ; accessed on December 28, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Coat of arms of the municipality of Hesel ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 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. , Joint municipality of Hesel  
9. ↑ http://www.kirche-hesel.de/unsere-Kirche/Kirche

literature

• Hans-Jürgen Häßler (Ed.): Prehistory and early history in Lower Saxony. Theiss, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-8062-0495-0 , p. 450.
• Rolf Bärenfänger , Wybrand Op den Velde: The Anglo-Frisian Sceatta Hoard of "Kloster Barthe", Gem. Hesel, Ldkr. Leer, East Frisia from 1838

Web links

Commons : Hesel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Hesel
• ( http://www.hvv-hesel.de ) Web presence of the Heimat- und Verkehrsverein der Samtgemeinde Hesel e. V.