Hoogstede

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Hoogstede
Hoogstede
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Coordinates: 52 ° 35 '  N , 6 ° 57'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : County of Bentheim
Joint municipality : Emlichheim
Height : 14 m above sea level NHN
Area : 49.77 km 2
Residents: 2844 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 57 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 49846
Area code : 05944
License plate : NOH
Community key : 03 4 56 009
LOCODE : DE 76R
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Bathorner Diek 12
49846 Hoogstede
Website : www.hoogstede.de
Mayor : Fritz Berends ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Hoogstede in the county of Bentheim
Landkreis Grafschaft Bentheim Niedersachsen Königreich der Niederlande Landkreis Emsland Nordrhein-Westfalen Bad Bentheim Ohne Samern Schüttorf Schüttorf Quendorf Isterberg Engden Nordhorn Wietmarschen Georgsdorf Osterwald Lage (Dinkel) Halle (bei Neuenhaus) Uelsen Getelo Wielen Itterbeck Wielen Ringe Emlichheim Laar (Grafschaft Bentheim) Wilsum Gölenkamp Esche (Grafschaft Bentheim) Neuenhaus Hoogstedemap
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The Vechte near Hoogstede

Hoogstede (until 1968 Hoogstede-Bathorn ) is a municipality in the Grafschaft Bentheim district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Hoogstede is located northwest of Nordhorn on the border with the Netherlands . The Vechte flows through the village, the tributary Lee flows into it here. The municipality belongs to the Emlichheim joint municipality , which has its administrative seat in the Emlichheim municipality .

In the municipality of Hoogstede are the nature reserves Neuringer Wiesen , Vechte-Altarm Kalle and moor siltation area Tinholt .

Community structure

The seven districts of the municipality are:

  • Hoogstede
  • Kalle
  • Tinholt
  • Arkel
  • Bathorn
  • Scheerhorn
  • mountains

history

The earliest documentary mention of the Hoogsted district Scheerhorn is found in 1209 in a document from Count Balduin von Bentheim .

Old Reformed Church

The story of Hoogstede begins in 1821 when the chapel of the Evangelical Reformed parish was moved from Arkel to Hoogstede. In 1859 the catholic church was built, so a town center gradually developed. In 1953 the Protestant old reformed church was built, in 1961 the Lutheran one.

In 1938, Emslandlager XIV was established east of the Bathorn district . It functioned as a prison camp for prison inmates and was designed for 1,000 people. After the outbreak of World War II , the Wehrkreiskommando VI Westfalen ( Münster ) took over the facility as a team main camp (Stalag VI C) for prisoners of war . The branch camps (Stalag VI C / Z) Groß Hesepe (Emslandlager XI), Dalum (Emslandlager XII), Wietmarschen (Emslandlager XIII) and Alexisdorf (Emslandlager XV) were subordinate to him. In May 1942 the Stalag VI B Neu-Versen / Emsland including its branch camps Oberlangen , Wesuwe and Fullen was subordinated to the main camp Bathorn. There were prisoners of war from France , Belgium , Italy , Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union . The death rate in the Bathorn camp was relatively low compared to other prisoner of war camps. On April 5, 1945, the camp was liberated by the Canadian military.

On December 9, 1968, the municipality of Hoogstede-Bathorn was renamed Hoogstede.

In 2009, on the occasion of the celebrations for the 800th anniversary of the first documentary mention, the chronicle of the municipality of Hoogstede was published by the Hoogstede-Arkel Heimatverein.

Today about 2900 people live in Hoogstede and its districts.

Incorporations

On June 21, 1890, the municipalities of Hoogstede and Bathorn were combined to form the municipality of Hoogstede-Bathorn. On March 1, 1974, the municipalities Berge, Kalle, Scheerhorn and Tinholt were incorporated.

Religions

There are four churches in Hoogstede:

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Hoogstede consists of 13 councilors.

(Status: local elections from September 11, 2016)

mayor

Fritz Berends (CDU) was re-elected honorary mayor at the constituent meeting of the municipal council in November 2016.

Associations and associations

  • Sports club Hoogstede e. V.
  • Country youth Hoogstede
  • Local fire department Hoogstede
  • DRK local association Hoogstede
  • Grafschafter Autocross Club (GACC)
  • IG Modellflug Adler Scheerhorn
  • Heimatverein Hoogstede-Arkel e. V.
  • Rifle club Hoogstede
  • Schützenverein Niedergrafschafter Edelweiß-Schützen Bathorn

traffic

Hoogstede is located on Landesstraße 44. Regional buses (line 20) of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Grafschaft Bentheim (VGB) via Esche (Grafschaft Bentheim) and Veldhausen to Neuenhaus , where connections to the RB 56 train line in, run every hour on workdays, Sundays and public holidays Direction Nordhorn and Bad Bentheim as well as the regional bus route 30 in the direction of Nordhorn. There is also an hourly VGB on-call bus service on weekdays, Sundays and public holidays, which connects Hoogstede with Emlichheim , ringen , Neugnadenfeld , Bathorn , Kalle and Tinholt .

literature

  • Heimatverein Hoogstede e. V. (Ed.): In the Scheerhorn Guild. Hoogstede, chronicle of a village and its districts Arkel, Bathorn, Berge, Hoogstede, Kalle, Scheerhorn and Tinholt. Hoogstede 2009 ( online )
  • Bernd Faulenbach , Andrea Kaltofen (ed.): Hell in the moor. The Emsland camps 1933–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3137-2 .
  • Geeste community (ed.), Martin Koers: "Who of us no longer remembers those long struggles of Russian prisoners ...". Documentation on the historical traces of the Groß Hesepe and Dalum camps and the camp cemetery (Dalum war cemetery) . Geeste 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063302-7 .

Web links

Commons : Hoogstede  - 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. ^ Chronicle of the municipality of Hoogstede, p. 24.
  3. ↑ (Stalag VI C / Z) (Emslandlager XI) Groß Hesepe
  4. ↑ (Stalag VI C / Z) (Emslandlager XII) Dalum
  5. ↑ (Stalag VI C / Z) (Emslandlager XIII) Wietmarschen
  6. ↑ (Stalag VI C / Z) (Emslandlager XV) Alexisdorf
  7. ↑ Stalag VI C Bathorn at "Relteilungen.com"
  8. ↑ a b History of the districts (von Hoogstede) , p. 137, accessed on January 15, 2020, PDF
  9. ^ 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. 255 .
  10. ↑ https://www.be-mobil.de
  11. ↑ Line network of the VGB (PDF)