Kranenburg (village)

Kranenburg Community Kranenburg
Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 22 ″  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 21 ″  E
Height :	3 m above sea level NN
Area :	8.15 km²
Residents :	546  (Dec. 31, 2003)
Population density :	67 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	21726
Area code :	04140

Kranenburg ( Low German Kronenborg , until 1953 Cranenburg ) is a Lower Saxon town on the Oste in the Stade district with 546 inhabitants. It is part of the community of Kranenburg (for information on the political community, see there) and the joint community of Oldendorf-Himmelpforten .

geography

Kranenburg lies on the edge of the march in the eastern lowlands. The neighboring towns of Kranenburg are Blumenthal in the east, Oldendorf in the southeast, Brobergen in the south and Laumühlen and Klint in the north.

Kranenburg consists of the main town Kranenburg and the smaller residential areas Am Damm and Im Viert.

history

Kranenburg is first mentioned in 1375 as Kronesborg .

In 1852 the jurisdiction of the Marschalck von Bachtenbrock family was transferred to the state rulership. In 1859, when the Kranenburg municipal code was revised, the Himmelpforten office was added.

In 1943 a whole Hamburg school class including teachers was quartered in Cranenburg as part of the Kinderland deportation during the Second World War . Towards the end of the war, a British fighter attempted an emergency landing at Rienbeck. The pilot survived and was cared for in Kranenburg. On May 3, 1945, Cranenburg was captured by British troops. After the capture, a house on Am Damm was set on fire by a British tank, as the British suspected that German soldiers were hiding there. As a result of the eastward flight, around 200 additional people came to Cranenburg.

religion

Kranenburg is evangelical-Lutheran and belongs to the parish of Oldendorf. It has its own cemetery, which also includes a cemetery chapel. The Michaeliskapelle, which was built in 1811, also exists on the Brink. Kranenburg has always belonged to the parish of Hechthausen, as the lords of the castle of Kranenburg, the Marschalck von Bachtenbrock family, were also patrons of the Hechthausen church. It was not until February 1926 that the place was reclassified to the parish of Oldendorf, as Oldendorf was more favorable than Hechthausen on the other side of the Oste River.

Incorporations

As part of the municipality reform , the municipality of Kranenburg was merged with the formerly independent municipality of Brobergen on July 1, 1972.

Population development

In 1855 there were 437 residents in 87 houses.

mayor

The mayors of the municipality of Kranenburg until the merger with the municipality of Brobergen in 1972 were (for later mayors of the municipality of Kranenburg see article in the municipality ):

time	mayor
around 1866	Hinrich Spreckels
1878-1890	Diedrich Hinck
1890-1906	Hinrich Dankers
1906-1919	Hermann Martens
1919-1938	Claus Hellwege
1938-1945	Heinrich Schulze
1945-1948	Claus Plate
1948-1984	Heinrich Schulze
1984-2016	Horst Wartner
since 2016	Margitta Bertram

coat of arms

The Kranenburg coat of arms shows three blue tips on a silver background. It is the coat of arms of the Marschalck von Bachtenbrock family , which today has its seat at Gut Hutloh in Hechthausen .

After the municipality was merged with Brobergen, the Kranenburg coat of arms has also appeared at the top of the municipality's coat of arms since 1983.

Street names

The street names for the individual streets were only determined with the municipal reform, before the houses of the entire town were numbered consecutively.

• At the dam

The old starting point of the place directly on the Oste in the Marsch, today separated from the main place. At the free dam.

• Möhlendiek

This name is Low German and the street leads to the mill and the mill pond, the Möhlendiek .

• Village street

Formerly old village street .

• Broberger Strasse / Blumenthaler Strasse

These two streets are the result of the former Ostestrasse, which previously ran through several communities along the Oste, but was renamed the Kranenburg community.

• Pin barg

Pinnbarg is Low German and actually means the Pienbarg so “Peinberg”, that is, the place where the Kaak was.

• High air
• Brandmoorweg
• At the Brink

The street is directly on the Brink and represents the village center.

• To the Fuchsberg
• Puggenhorst
• In the horn

Culture and sights

Association

fire Department

The first fire engine was purchased in Kranenburg in 1830. But it wasn't until April 7, 1895 that 24 founding members founded the Kranenburg volunteer fire department . In 1898 a cart sprayer was purchased. During the National Socialism, like all fire brigades , the Kranenburger was converted into an auxiliary police force. During the Second World War, women were called in for fire service due to a lack of emergency services. The small power syringe that the fire brigade received during the war was confiscated by the British in 1945. A new fire station on the Brink, which also housed a community office, was inaugurated in 1951. The Opel Blitz motor vehicle, which was purchased from old Wehrmacht stocks in 1950, was replaced by a VW van in 1960. In 1963 the power syringe was replaced by a newer model. The fire station has been housed in the village community center since it was built in 1982. In 1982, a portable pump vehicle (TSF) from Mercedes-Benz was purchased to replace the aging VW transporter. It was replaced on January 9, 2010 by a new TSF with a Ziegler body on a Mercedes-Benz chassis type 516 CDI. The fire brigade currently has 40 active firefighters and an age department of 12 comrades. The Kranenburg volunteer fire brigade has had an AED (First Responder) group since January 2012 and thus supports the rescue service. Fire chief Marcel Brandt is in charge.

Shooting club

The Kranenburg rifle club was founded in the spring of 1900 to encourage the people of Kranenburg to be sociable and defensive. He first had his club house on the embankment near the ferry terminal that was still in existence at the time. In 1910 the decision was made to give up the simple shooting range on the embankment and to set up a permanent shooting range at the current location in the village. In the years 1915 to 1919 and from 1940 to 1949 the club life was suspended due to the two world wars. In 1974 an additional air rifle shooting range was built and, after the 75th anniversary, a women's department was set up for the first time in the following year.

The shooting club, with over 300 members and numerous events throughout the year, such as the two-day shooting festival on the second weekend in July, is one of the most important pillars of community life in the village. A pageant through the village is organized on both days, with the rifle majesties (queen and young rifle queen) from the previous year being picked up from home on Saturday and the new rifle majesties (king and young rifle king) on ​​Sunday with the participation of foreign rifle delegations.

Sports club

The gymnastics and sports club was founded in the spring of 1921 by young people from Kranenburg and initially named "Unity". Among other things, a horizontal bar and a parallel bars were purchased. Apparatus gymnastics , athletics and fistball were the dominant sports of the time. As a result of the global economic crisis , club life was suspended between 1929 and 1932. With the revitalization in 1932, a real sports field could be prepared for the first time, so that a separate soccer team could be set up. From 1939 to 1946 the club life was inactive. After starting over, the football department was quite successful and played for three years from 1952 to 1954 in what was then the district league. Another highlight were two games against FC Tiergarten Berlin in 1959 and 1960, one in Kranenburg and one in Berlin. But in the following years it was no longer possible to set up a full team. It was not until 1969 that the game was resumed. In 1973 a floodlight system was purchased. In 1983 the association reached a peak of 310 members in five branches. In 1994 the football division was merged with VfR Graepel and MTV Estorf to form FC Eintracht Oste.

Choral society

In 1910 the men's choir Euterpe was founded (named after the Greek muse Euterpe ), which from 1952 became a mixed choir. It existed until 1965, when the club's activity came to an end as no new choir director could be found.

Water sports community

The water sports community Kranenburg, which is dedicated to fishing at Oste and at the Kranenburg Baggerteich Kampen, was founded by 20 founding members on June 7, 1973.

theatre

Low German amateur theater groups have existed since the emperor's time. Most of the time, rough peasant taunts were performed. Since 1975 the group has been operating under the name De Ostedoler within the Kranenburg sports club .

Buildings

Village community center

The village community center next to the sports field was inaugurated on June 4, 1982. In addition to the common room, it houses the fire station , rooms for the sports club and a play area.

Economy and Infrastructure

The place was connected to the electricity network in autumn 1924. By the summer of 1927 at the latest, the work in the whole town was completed, at that time the innovation was celebrated with the “Stromball” in the Gasthaus Hagenah. The connection to the natural gas network took place in 1997.

traffic

Kranenburg is connected to Brobergen and Blumenthal via Kreisstraße 82. This provides a connection to the federal highway 73 near Burweg , which is the most important traffic connection to Stade and Hamburg , and to the federal highway 74 near Elm , which continues to Bremervörde . District road 4 leads to Oldendorf.

Due to the natural barrier that forms the Oste, the traffic contact with the areas west of the Oste runs mainly over the bridge at Hechthausen .

The shuttle service to Hamburg runs partly through the train station in Himmelpforten.

education

Today there is only one play area at educational institutions in Kranenburg for the children of kindergarten age. In addition, the children usually attend the primary school in Estorf and finally the secondary or secondary school in Oldendorf or the Gymnasium Stade or the Gymnasium Bremervörde .

From around 1735 there was a separate school in the schoolmaster's house. The number of students was around 50 to 60 in 1750, 79 in 1798 and 100 in 1853. In 1879 a new school building is built. For the first time in 1904 it became necessary to employ a second teacher. In 1919 the school was rebuilt and renewed. The number of pupils, which was 75 in 1919, fell to 53 in the period after the First World War by 1926. In the period shortly after the Second World War, the number of pupils rose to 133 as a result of the new refugees, who are now looked after by a single teacher for some time had to be. In 1955 the school was expanded again. In 1966, Kranenburg and the other municipalities of the later combined municipality of Oldendorf decided to submit a center school in Oldendorf. As a result, the number of students, which had previously been around 50, fell to 36 with a falling trend. When teacher Hinsch left the school in 1970 and no new teacher could be found, the school was closed in 1971 and the students switched to the school in Estorf.

economy

In addition to a few family-owned full-time farms, there is a carpentry business and a shop for daily needs.

There is also a wind farm with four wind turbines to the east of the village.

literature

• Friedrich Holst: Roland and the Cranes, The History of the Ostedörfer Kranenburg and Brobergen (1983)
• Lühmann and Bohmbach: The Geest and Buxtehude, land of prehistory between glacial valleys (1984)
• Borchers, H. et al .: Chronicle of the villages Brobergen and Kranenburg , Kranenburg (2005)