Kirchseelte

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Coat of arms of the Kirchseelte community
Kirchseelte
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Kirchseelte highlighted

Coordinates: 52 ° 57 '  N , 8 ° 41'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Oldenburg
Joint municipality : Harpstedt
Height : 29 m above sea level NHN
Area : 14.98 km 2
Residents: 1155 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 77 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 27243
Primaries : 04206, 04244
License plate : OIL
Community key : 03 4 58 011
Association administration address:
Freedom of office 1 27243 Harpstedt
Website : www.kirchseelte.de
Mayor : Klaus Stark
Location of the municipality of Kirchseelte in the Oldenburg district
Landkreis Oldenburg Niedersachsen Landkreis Vechta Landkreis Diepholz Delmenhorst Bremen Landkreis Cloppenburg Landkreis Ammerland Oldenburg (Oldenburg) Landkreis Wesermarsch Colnrade Winkelsett Wildeshausen Großenkneten Prinzhöfte Beckeln Dötlingen Wardenburg Hatten Harpstedt Hude Ganderkesee Dünsen Kirchseelte Groß Ippenermap
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Kirchseelte is a municipality in the Harpstedt municipality in the Oldenburg district in Lower Saxony . The community had 1263 inhabitants at the end of 2010 and covers an area of ​​14.98 square kilometers.

geography

Geographical location

The municipality of Kirchseelte is located around 23 kilometers southwest of Bremen . It is located on the edge of the Harpstedter Geest in the middle of the Wildeshauser Geest Nature Park .

The Klosterbach runs through the village in a south-north direction. It forms the eastern boundary of the municipality and flows into the Ochtum after 16 kilometers .

Community structure

In addition to the village of Kirchseelte, the municipality also includes the district of Klosterseelte . One district is called Ördekenbrück. However, this name is no longer in use and is only used in some online route planners.

history

The village of Kirchseelte was first mentioned in 1211 as Selete .

Incorporations

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

Assignments

On July 1, 1972, an area with then around 200 inhabitants was assigned to the neighboring community of Heiligenrode .

politics

Municipal council

The council of the Kirchseelte community consists of eleven council members and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of a joint municipality with a population between 1,001 and 2,000 inhabitants. The eleven council members are elected by local elections for five years each. 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
SPD 45.21% 5
CDU 37.75% 4th
Alliance 90 / The Greens 9.29% 1
FDP 7.73% 1

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 63.15%, well above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%. For comparison - in the previous local election on September 11, 2016, the turnout was 57.66%.

mayor

The council elected council member Klaus Stark (SPD) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality shows a black fitting in the form of a stylized "K" and its adjoining mirror image with a total of ten silver nails on a gold background.

traffic

The historic “Jan Harpstedt” small train , which runs between Delmenhorst and Harpstedt , runs through the village.

The state road L 338 runs from Harpstedt towards Heiligenrode through the village.

Infrastructure

In Kirchseelte there is a village community center with a playground and barbecue hut and a volunteer fire brigade.

Personalities who work on site

  • Julius HW Kraft (* 1917 in Bremen ; † 2008 in Kirchseelte) has been very committed to the preservation of old farmhouses for decades . He was the founder (1973) and long-time chairman of the Bauernhaus interest group , which has set itself the goal of preserving and caring for old half-timbered houses that characterize the village and thus preserving and caring for the rural landscape throughout Germany.

literature

  • Angelika and Reinhard Rambusch: 800 years of Kirchseelte - chronicle of a village . Carl Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 2011

Web links

Commons : Kirchseelte  - 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. ↑ 800 years of Kirchseelte , accessed on January 9, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 190 .
  4. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on January 21, 2017
  5. ↑ a b c Result of the Kirchseelte municipal council election on September 11, 2016 , accessed on January 21, 2017
  6. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .