Hipstedt

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 30 '  N , 8 ° 58'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality :	Geeste spring
Height :	24 m above sea level NHN
Area :	29.38 km 2
Residents:	1234 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	42 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27432
Area code :	04768
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 027
Community structure:	2 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Bahnhofstr. 24 27432 Hipstedt
Website :	www.geestequelle.de
Mayor :	Johannes King
Location of the community Hipstedt in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme)

Hipstedt ( Low German : Hipst ) is a municipality of the Geestequelle municipality in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in Lower Saxony . The Geeste rises near Hipstedt and flows into Bremerhaven as the northernmost tributary of the Weser.

Neighboring communities

Hipstedt borders on Beverstedt , Geestland , ( district of Cuxhaven ) and Ebersdorf , Oerel , Basdahl ( district of Rotenburg (Wümme) ).

history

Hipstedt was a pure farming village until the middle of the 19th century. With the inauguration of the railway line from Geestemünde to Stade at the end of the 19th century, the place developed in the direction of the Heinschenwalde train station. "This development experienced a great boom when the Marine Blocking Equipment Office was established in the nearby Hinzel Forest and the associated construction of 50 apartments for the employees there. While around 130 people lived in Hipstedt in 1850, the number of inhabitants tripled in eighty years. In the meantime, in addition to the marine settlement, as the new district was called, other building areas have been designated. In the meantime, this district has received its name Hipstedt-Löh based on the forest area Löh. Church, children's play area, elementary school have been built in the last 50 years. "

During the First World War in Hipstedt-Heinschenwalde, there was a camp on the Bokelah road for around 1,000 Russian prisoners of war, who were mainly used for cultivating peatlands, forestry work and building dikes. The prisoner-of-war cemetery with the graves of 32 Russian prisoners of war from the First World War and 1 Polish slave laborer who died in 1944 is also nearby.

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the Heinschenwalde community was incorporated.

religion

The community is predominantly evangelical-Lutheran and, together with the Bethlehem Church in the Löh district, which was built from 1958 to 1960, has been its own parish since 1961 , which includes the villages of Neu Ebersdorf and Frelsdorf in addition to Hipstedt-Dorf, Hipstedt-Löh and Heinschenwalde . The parish has about 1,500 members. Before the church was built, Hipstedt was part of the parish of Oerel .

For the (few) Catholics is St. Michael's Church in Bremervörde responsible, since 1 September 2010 on the parish of the Holy Spirit in Stade belongs.

politics

Municipal council

Bethlehem Church in Hipstedt-Löh

The council of the municipality of Hipstedt 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
WFB Hipstedt-Heinschenwalde	77.22%	8th
CDU	22.77%	3

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 65.76%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The municipal council elected the council member Johannes König (WFB Hipstedt-Heinschenwalde) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term. His predecessor Gerhard Oetjen was mayor from 2012 to 2018. Before that, Karlheinz Poredda was in office from 1961 to March 2012, making it the longest-serving German mayor.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold (yellow) over a silver (white) picket fence with black tips on a green mountain covered with a silver (white) river, a green oak branch with two upright acorns."

Justification of the coat of arms: Wall and palisade fence indicate the prehistoric fortification "Heinschenwall" near a former ford in the upper reaches of the Geeste . The oak branch refers to the extensive oak forests that used to exist in this area, while the acorns are to be interpreted as a sign of fertility on the merging of the two districts Heinschenwalde and Hipstedt to one community. The wavy band in the lower part of the coat of arms indicates the Geeste river, the source of which can be found on the Friday farm in the Hipstedt district.

Town twinning

Since 1990 there has been a partnership with Hüpstedt in the community of Dünwald in the Unstrut-Hainich district .

Economy and Transport

Hipstedt is with the Heinschenwalde station on the Bremerhaven – Buxtehude railway line . The preferred variant of the planned federal motorway 22 runs south of the village .

There are several businesses and self-employed people in Hipstedt

Personalities

• Karlheinz Poredda (1920–2012), was posthumously appointed honorary mayor on February 6, 2013 .

literature

• Heinrich Krankenberg: Hipstedt: History of a village between Geest and Moor. Books on Demand, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-2642-9 .

Web links

Commons : Hipstedt  - 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. ^ Heinrich Krankenberg: Hipstedt: History of a village between Geest and Moor. Books on Demand, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-2642-9 .
3. ↑ volksbund.de
4. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 242 .
5. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on March 6, 2017.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Hipstedt community - overall results of the 2016 local council election , accessed on March 6, 2017.
7. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016, accessed March 6, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Municipalities of the combined municipality Geestequelle - municipality Hipstedt , accessed on March 6, 2017.
9. ↑ http://www.geestequelle.de/wir-%C3%BCber-uns/wappen/
10. ↑ firmenschau.com