Jade (parish)

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '  N , 8 ° 14'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Wesermarsch
Height :	5 m above sea level NHN
Area :	93.56 km 2
Residents:	5830 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	62 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	26349
Primaries :	04454, 04455, 04480
License plate :	BRA
Community key :	03 4 61 005
Address of the municipal administration:	Jader Strasse 47 26349 Jade
Website :	gemeinde-jade.de
Mayor :	Henning Kaars (UWG)
Location of the municipality of Jade in the Wesermarsch district

Jade is a municipality in the western part of the Wesermarsch district in Lower Saxony (Germany).

geography

location

The municipality of Jade is the westernmost municipality in the Wesermarsch district. It is located around 25 kilometers north of Oldenburg and around 30 kilometers south of Wilhelmshaven . The district town of Brake is 20 kilometers away. It borders on the Jade Bay for 12 kilometers . The Wapel flows with jade in the jade , which runs through the community and the community gives its name. The Bollenhagener Moorwald lies in the area .

Neighboring communities

The municipality borders on the Jade Bay to the north, the municipality of Stadland in the northeast and the municipality of Ovelgönne in the southeast . Like Jade, both communities belong to the Wesermarsch district . In the west it borders with the municipality of Rastede on the district of Ammerland and in the northwest on the city of Varel in the district of Friesland .

Community structure

The main settlement areas in the municipality of Jade are:

• Jaderberg (about 3200 inhabitants)
• Schweiburg (about 750 inhabitants)
• Jade (about 360 inhabitants)
• Mentzhausen (about 335 inhabitants)
• Diekmannshausen (about 290 inhabitants)

The seat of the administration is in Jade.

In addition to the aforementioned settlement priorities belonging Bauerschaften Achternmeer, Bollhagen, Jaderaußendeich, Cross Moor, Norder Schweiburg, Sehestedt, August Hausen, Rönnelmoor , Wapelersiel and Wapelergroden to the municipality jade.

Land use

The land use table shows the very high proportion of agricultural land in the total area of ​​the municipality of Jade. Around 84% of the community area consists of agricultural land. The building and open spaces, on the other hand, only account for around 5%. The total other land use can be seen in the following table:

Land use in 2011	Area in ha
Buildings and open spaces	501
Traffic areas	342
Operating areas	7th
Agricultural land	7879
Forest areas	273
Bodies of water	219
Recreational areas	27
Areas of other use	108
total area	9357

history

The Count of Oldenburg built Vry-Jade Castle in 1415 as a bulwark against the Rüstringer Frisians. The Frisians were able to completely destroy the castle in 1423. It was only rebuilt in 1450 by Oldenburg Count Gerd the Brave , but was finally dragged through the Hamburgers in 1480 . The Hamburgers were certainly targeting the pirates , as Gerd the Brave regularly had pirate trips carried out on their merchant ships and waged war against the Hanseatic city of Bremen . The still existing settlements Kreuzmoor and Bollenhagen were founded around 1500.

Place name

In the 11th century the place was called Jaden and in the 13th century Jatha .
Jade is a water body name, an old, pre-Germanic, Indo-European education. It contains the same basis as Jena as an old name for a section of the river Saale between Naumburg and Jena, approx. 830–850 Iani , points to a basic form Jania .

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the neighboring community of Schweiburg was incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council is elected for five years and consists of 16 council members. The 16 council members are elected by local authority for each. The last term began on November 1, 2011 and ended on October 31, 2016.

The full-time mayor Henning Kaars of the UWG is also entitled to vote in the municipal council.

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

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats	Change voices	Change seats
UWG	39.14%	6th	+ 5.32%	+1
SPD	18.59%	3	−4.47%	−1
Alliance 90 / The Greens	19.70%	3	−0.55%	0
CDU	16.93%	3	−1.6%	0
Individual applicants	3.70%	1	+0.61%	0
FDP	1.93%	0	+ 0.69%	0

With 4,863 eligible voters, the turnout in the 2016 local elections was 57.23%. (2011 = 56.25%)

mayor

Henning Kaars from the Independent Voting Association was elected full-time mayor of the municipality in 2007. He was re-elected in 2015.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a saloon gate with closed yellow saloon doors on a blue background with a swimming fish underneath; everything set off in black, the door hangings are red.

Community partnerships

Since 2001 there has been a community partnership with the Hungarian town of Bakonynána . Bakonynána is a village in Veszprém county with about 1,100 inhabitants. It is located around 40 kilometers northeast of Lake Balaton and is around two hours' drive from the capital Budapest .

Culture and sights

Jaderpark zoo and leisure park

In the floating moor of Sehestedt

Observation station in the floating moor

Attractions

The Jaderpark in Jaderberg is a privately run zoo and amusement park with rides and a play barn. The target group are parents with children up to 12 years of age. The ride attractions are open in the summer season, the zoo and the play barn all year round. The Jaderpark, which emerged from the Jaderberger Zoo founded in 1950, was given a new theme park concept in the 1990s and completely rebuilt in several steps. The animal population shows around 600 animals from around 120 different species.

The water cascade in the Jader district of Diekmannshausen is an information center on the subject of water. The storage pumping station of the Oldenburg-Ostfriesischer Wasserverband (OOWV), which was built in 1956 and shut down in 1996, offers useful information about drinking water and the history of drinking water supply.

Natural monuments

The south of the Jade Bay located municipality has an approximately 12 km long, directly to the Jade Bay adjacent dike line . The wadden area directly in front of the dike is part of the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park .

The Sehestedt outer dike bog on the Jade Bay near the Jader district of Sehestedt is unique . The ten hectare area, also known as the “ floating moor ”, has been part of the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park since 1986.

The Jaderberg nature reserve is also located in the municipality . The 18.5  hectare nature reserve with the NSG WE 094 label serves to protect a colony of gray herons that have settled in the treetops of a wood for at least 50 years.

Regular events

• October: Jader Wasserwand - light and water spectacle by the Jader fire brigade, since the early 1990s

Economy and Transport

traffic

The community is connected to the A 29 motorway from Oldenburg to Wilhelmshaven via the Jaderberg motorway exit . The two state roads L 820 and L 862 run from the Jaderberg motorway exit to the B 437 federal road , which runs from Varel through the municipality to the Weser tunnel .

The Wilhelmshaven – Oldenburg railway runs across the municipality . However, the municipality currently does not have its own train station on the railway line. The next train stations are in Varel or Rastede. Since October 2009, the community has been trying to re-establish a stopping point. In the meantime, the state of Lower Saxony is planning to set up a stop.

Within the Bremen-Lower Saxony transport association (VBN) , regular buses run between Jaderberg and the individual neighboring towns. The regional bus routes are operated by different service providers, including a. operated by Weser-Ems Busverkehr GmbH.

Long-distance cycle routes

Two long-distance cycle paths lead through the municipality . The Deutsche Sielroute is a long-distance cycle route through the Wesermarsch district . It has a length of 220 kilometers and is mainly characterized by the typical landscape of the Wesermarsch . The Tour de Fries is a 250-kilometer circuit around the Jade Bay through parts of the Frisian landscape . The long-distance cycle path first leads from Wilhelmshaven by boat to Eckwarderhörne on the eastern side of the Jade Bay and then by bike around the Jade Bay to Varel . From there it goes south to Linswege, via Wiesmoor , Friedeburg and Wittmund again north to Carolinensiel and from there via Horumersiel , Hooksiel , Jever and Schortens back to Wilhelmshaven.

Infrastructure, public facilities

General

• Town hall, Jader Strasse 47
• Voluntary fire brigades in Jade, Jaderberg, Schweiburg and Südbollenhagen as well as the Jade youth fire brigade
• Gyms in Jaderberg

education

• There are two primary schools in Jade, which are run as reliable primary schools . Their sponsorship lies with the municipality.
• The Jade-Gymnasium in Jaderberg is a state-recognized, privately owned gymnasium. The sponsor is a registered non-profit school association that makes schooling for children at the grammar school dependent on the membership of one of their parents.
• The Jade Oberschule from 1969 in Jaderberg has been an all-day school since 2007/2008 . The responsible body is the Wesermarsch district.

Social

• Kindergartens and day care centers
  • Municipal kindergarten Jaderberger Regenbogen
  • Evangelical day care center Jaderberger Strandläufer
  • Municipal kindergarten in Schweiburg
  • Mentzhausen day care center

Busch organ from 1739 in the Trinity Church

Churches

• The Evangelical Lutheran parishes of Jade and Schweiburg are represented in Jade . Both belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg .
  • The Jade parish has around 3000 members, 2000 of whom live in Jaderberg. The Trinity Church of the parish is located on Kirchweg in Jaderaltendeich. It is the oldest church in Jade. A previous building was built around 1524/1525. The community center of the parish is located in Jaderberg and was inaugurated in October 1968.
  • The parish of Schweiburg is located in the north-eastern district of Schweiburg. In 2012 the church was renovated and was named St. Vitus Church .
• The Roman Catholic parish Jaderberg has around 350 members and is part of the parish of Varel . The parish is looked after by the Varel pastor. The Heilig Kreuz church of the parish, built in Jaderberg in 1958, has a fish-shaped floor plan and offers space for 80 people.

media

• The regional and local daily newspaper for Jade is the Nordwest-Zeitung from Oldenburg with its local section Wesermarsch-Zeitung. In addition to the print edition, there is an online edition.
• Jade belongs to the circulation area of ​​the weekly advertising paper Friesländer Bote . In addition to the print edition, there is an online edition.

Sports

• The TuS Jaderberg from 1911 is the largest sports club in the community with around 730 members. It offers badminton, soccer, handball, netball, athletics, table tennis, trampoline, volleyball and gymnastics.
• Other sports clubs are the Jader Reitclub , the Jaderberg shooting club and the Jade-Wapel water sports club . All clubs are members of the Kreissportbund Wesermarsch.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Gerhard Ahlhorn (1815–1906), politician, member of the Oldenburg Landtag and the German Reichstag
• Diedrich Hobbie (1897–1949), farmer and politician (NSDAP)
• Wilhelm Büsing (* 1921), veterinarian and former German eventing rider, won two Olympic medals in 1952
• Fredrick Toben , (1944-2020), Australian right-wing extremist and Holocaust denier
• Gerold Wefer (* 1944), geologist and until 2012 director of the Marum at the University of Bremen

People connected to the community

• Walter Spitta (1903–1945), Protestant pastor in Jade from 1931 to 1942, leading member of the Confessing Church in the Oldenburger Land
• Otto Ammermann (* 1932), eventing rider who won the Olympic silver medal with the team in 1976 , started his career at the Jader Reitclub Jaderberg

literature

• Uwe Niggemeyer: The Trinity Church in Jade - a cultural-historical church leader. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89995-441-8

Web links

Commons : Municipality of Jade  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jade village community

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. ↑ ^{a b} Brief portrait of the Jade community ( memento from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 30, 2014.
3. ↑ State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony - 461005 Jade , accessed on April 10, 2012.
4. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; accessed on August 4, 2019 . 
5. ^ 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. 277 .
6. ↑ ^{a b} Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 16, 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. Jade municipal council election 2016 - preliminary final result, accessed September 12, 2016  
7. ↑ https://www.nwzonline.de/politik/niedersachsen/kaars-wahlsieger-in-jade-henning-kaars-ist-wahlsieger-in-jade_a_30,1,1835544557.html
8. ↑ § 2, Paragraph 1 of the main statute of the Jade municipality ( memento of December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 172 kB), accessed on April 8, 2012
9. ^ Jaderpark - We about us ( Memento of December 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 9, 2012.
10. ↑ The Jaderpark on Zoo-Infos.de , accessed on April 9, 2012
11. ^ Water cascade in Diekmannshausen: An excursion into the history of drinking water supply , accessed on April 9, 2012.
12. ↑ The floating moor in Sehestedt - Unique treasure of nature , accessed on April 9, 2012.
13. ↑ Jader Wasserwand: 45 firefighters are on duty  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 10, 2012.  
14. ↑ http://www.nwzonline.de/wesermarsch/wirtschaft/zusage-fuer-den-bahnhaltpunkt_a_3,0,4106362633.html
15. ↑ VBN - Busse & Bahnen ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 8, 2012.  
16. ↑ Tour de Fries - route description , accessed on April 11, 2012.
17. ^ The Jade-Gymnasium today , accessed April 8, 2012.
18. ↑ Jade Oberschule - Geschichte , accessed April 8, 2012
19. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Church Congregation Jade - About us  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 9, 2012.  
20. ↑ NWZOnline: Jubilee Schweiburger Church is 250 years old  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 9, 2012.  
21. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius Varel - Heilig Kreuz, Jaderberg  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 9, 2012.  
22. ^ News from Jade. In: NWZ-Online. Retrieved May 16, 2020 . 
23. ↑ Friesländer messenger Online , accessed on 21 April 2012 found.
24. ↑ Sports offer from crawling to senior age , accessed on April 9, 2012.