Hoyerhagen

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 50 '  N , 9 ° 5'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Nienburg / Weser
Joint municipality :	County Hoya
Height :	15 m above sea level NHN
Area :	22.67 km 2
Residents:	980 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	43 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27318
Area code :	04251
License plate :	NI
Community key :	03 2 56 015
Address of the municipal administration:	Schloßplatz 2 27318 Hoya
Website :	www.grafschaft-hoya.de - Hoyerhagen
Mayor :	Carsten Borstelmann ( Hoyerhagen voter community )
Location of the municipality of Hoyerhagen in the Nienburg / Weser district

Hoyerhagen is a municipality in the county of Hoya in the Nienburg / Weser district in Lower Saxony .

history

Place names

Old names of the place are around 1219 Indagine, 1250 Indago comitis, 1282/1288 Indagine, around 1368 Hoyerhagen, 1530 Hoyer Hagen and around 1535 Hoier Hagen.

The older, Latin name "indago" of the place name means "Hagen". In place and field names, “Hagen” can indicate a fenced area, district such as a pasture or a fenced in forest. Hoyerhagen is an older Hagen settlement, more precisely a manorial clearing plant in the Bruch lowlands along the Syker-Vilsener Geest north-west of Hoya. The settlement goes back to the Counts of Hoya.

politics

Local council election 2016

Turnout: 60.8%

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78.14%

21.85%

Flat share

SPD

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Hoyerhagen consists of eight councilors and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with 501 to 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 mayor is also entitled to vote in the council.

The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

Parties and constituencies	Number of seats	percent
Voting community Hoyerhagen	7th	78.14
SPD	2	21.85

(The two parties have merged to form the WG / SPD Hoyerhagen group)

mayor

The mayor is Carsten Borstelmann (group WG / SPD Hoyerhagen). His deputy is Cord Rengstorf (group WG / SPD Hoyerhagen).

coat of arms

Blazon : “Diagonally divided by gold and green ; above a growing Dutch windmill , below a jumping white horse . "

Foundation of the coat of arms: A Dutch windmill with a multi-storey substructure defines the image of the spacious rural community. The colors gold and black establish the relationship with the Counts of Hoya. Horse breeding, the predominantly agricultural structure of the community and the bond with the state of Lower Saxony are expressed by the white horse. The green in the coat of arms refers to the fields, corridors, meadows and forests.

Culture and sights

Geographical center of Lower Saxony

The geographic center of Lower Saxony

Hoyerhagen is the geographical center of Lower Saxony. The measurements were carried out in 2001. A stone was placed about 1.5 m high on May 23, 2003 to make it clear.

church

St. Crucis Church

It belongs to the Syke-Hoya church district and has a Furtwängler organ.

Jewish Cemetery

Jewish Cemetery

The Jewish cemetery is located in a wooded area and in 1714 was not only used as a burial place for the Hoya synagogue community . The last burial took place in January 1941. In March 1945 the cemetery was badly devastated and many of the old tombstones were stolen and / or destroyed. The 180 remaining stones with their artistically executed ornaments and the individually designed Hebrew inscriptions indicate the cultural and historical importance of the Hoyerhäger Jewish cemetery.

Memsen domain

The Memsen domain, located in the southwestern part of the municipality of Hoyerhagen, was first mentioned in a document in 987 and was the property of the Bücken Collegiate Foundation . Later it was a Vorwerk of the Counts of Hoya , who used it as a stud for work horses until 1582 . After the Hoya Counts died out, the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg took over the estate. One of the stables preserved today dates from this period (1653). The Memsen domain experienced its heyday in the 18th and 19th centuries with the breeding of white borns - gray horses that are born white and do not change color. These horses were used exclusively as draft horses and riding horses for the kings of Great Britain and electors of Hanover . With the end of the personal union , the stud was closed. The Memsen domain, which today belongs to the state of Lower Saxony , has been part of the German Veterinary Cooperative Association since 1949. G. (WDT) leased. The WDT uses the domain as a serum plant (90 horses) and agricultural operation (185.4 hectares). In the Memsen there is also a forest district for the Lower Saxony State Forests .

Windmill Hoyerhagen

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Hoyerhagen train station

Hoyerhagen is on the Eystrup – Syke railway line , which is used by museum traffic.

literature

• Kerstin-Melanie Kraatz: ... and only the dead are still there. The old Jewish cemetery in Hoyerhagen / Nienburg. Bremen 1994, 116 p. M. numerous Fig.
• Daniel Fraenkel: Hoya. In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Volume 1 and 2 (1668 pp.), Göttingen 2005, pp. 893-899; therein: Jewish cemetery Hoyerhagen.

Web links

Commons : Hoyerhagen  - collection of images

• Hoyerhagen on the website of the municipality of Grafschaft Hoya

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. ^ 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 .  
3. ^ Municipality of Hoyerhagen - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election. In: Website Zweckverband Kommunale Datenverarbeitung Oldenburg (KDO). September 11, 2016, accessed October 11, 2019 .  
4. ↑ ^{a b} Committees - Hoyerhagen community. In: Internet site Grafschaft Hoya / Provox system planning. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .  
5. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG); Section 46 - Number of Deputies. In: Internet site for the Lower Saxony Regulation Information System (NI-VORIS). December 17, 2010, accessed October 11, 2019 .  
6. ↑ Allocation of seats in Hoyerhagen - overall results of the 2016 municipal council elections. In: Website Zweckverband Kommunale Datenverarbeitung Oldenburg (KDO). September 11, 2016, accessed October 11, 2019 .  
7. ↑ Michael Christian Müller: Organ Monument Maintenance . 2003, p. 61 .
8. ↑ The WDT - A company in the hands of the German veterinarians. (No longer available online.) In: www.wdt.de. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014 ; accessed on October 11, 2019 .