Kuhla (Himmelpforten)

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Kuhla
Community Himmelpforten
Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 51 ″  N , 9 ° 17 ′ 36 ″  E
Residents : 46  (2020)
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 21709
Area code : 04144
Kuhla (Lower Saxony)
Kuhla

Location of Kuhla in Lower Saxony

Kuhla ( Low German Kuhla ) is a district of the municipality of Himmelpforten in the Lower Saxony district of Stade .

Geography and transport links

Geographical location

Kuhla is on the Hosterbeck .

Neighboring places are Himmelpforten in the northeast, Düdenbüttel in the west, Heinbockel in the southwest, Sunde and the Timmerlade in the south, Oldendorf in the east and Bossel in the northeast. To the north is the Neukuhla residential area belonging to Kuhla .

Transport links

Street

Kuhla is 500 m off the national road 114, which connects Oldendorf with Himmelpforten. To the south there is a small side road that leads to Sunde to Kreisstraße 72.

rail

The next rail connection is 4 km away in Himmelpforten to the Niederelbebahn ( Cuxhaven - Hamburg ).

history

Kuhla was first mentioned in a document in 1059. The Kuhla manor , which was owned by the von der Kuhla knights , has been in the village since 1280 . It was sold in 1709 and changed hands several times. In 1828 Otto Christian von Gruben acquired the estate. The noble estate is still owned by the von Gruben family, who farm there . Mainly asparagus and Christmas trees are grown.

A wind farm has existed in Kuhla since 2009 . The four wind turbines have a combined output of 6.60 MW. The operator of the wind turbines is WKN Windkraft Nord AG .

Administrative history

Before 1885 Kuhla belonged to the Börde Oldendorf in the office of Himmelpforten . After 1885 Kuhla belonged to the district of Stade and since 1932 to the current district of Stade .

In the period before 1972 Kuhla formed with Breitenwisch and Himmelspforten a first Samtgemeinde Himmelpforten . This was dissolved in 1972 and Kuhla and Breitenwisch were incorporated into Himmelpforten on July 1, 1972. Himmelpforten was incorporated into the new municipality of Himmelpforten . On January 1, 2014, this merged with the joint community of Oldendorf to form the new joint community of Oldendorf-Himmelpforten .

Population development

year Residents
1824 16 fire places
1848 143 people, 24 houses
1871 135 people, 19 houses
1910 155

The number of inhabitants in Kuhla has been declining for years, in 2020 the place only had about 46 inhabitants.

religion

Kuhla is evangelical-Lutheran and belongs to the parish of the Martinskirche in Oldendorf .

Buildings

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. CHCF Jansen: Statistical Handbook of the Kingdom of Hanover . In Commission of the Helwings̓chen Hofbuchhandlung, 1824 ( google.de [accessed on May 27, 2020]).
  2. Friedrich W. Harseim, C. Schlüter: Statistical Manual for the Kingdom of Hanover . Schlueter, 1848 ( google.de [accessed on May 27, 2020]).
  3. Prussia (Germany) Royal Statistical Bureau: The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population: Based on the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871 . Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, 1873 ( google.de [accessed on May 27, 2020]).
  4. Welcome to Gemeindeververzeichnis.de. Retrieved May 27, 2020 .