Lütetsburg

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 36 '  N , 7 ° 15'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Aurich
Joint municipality :	Hage
Height :	0 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.73 km 2
Residents:	719 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	43 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	26524
Area code :	04931
License plate :	AUR, NOR
Community key :	03 4 52 016
Association administration address:	Main street 56 26524 Hage
Mayor :	Gerd Mammen (United Citizens List Lütetsburg)
Location of the municipality of Lütetsburg in the Aurich district

Lütetsburg Castle

Bilingual place-name sign

The municipality Lütetsburg ( ostfriesisch-Low German Lütsbörg ) is a member of the Association of Municipalities Samtgemeinde Hage in the district of Aurich in northern East Frisia and is situated between the town of Norden and the spots Hage . A special attraction of the place is a moated castle with adjoining landscaped garden.

Geology and geography

The community is mostly located on Gley - Podsol - soils with plague, which in Lütetsburg rise to heights of up to 2.3 meters above sea ​​level (NN). In the east and west there is an area with Plaggenesch (underlain by Podsol-Gley), in the north an area with Gley-Grund. In total, the district covers an area of ​​16.73 square kilometers. The scattered settlement is located about two kilometers west of Hage and about three kilometers east of the north. In addition to the eponymous main town, the municipality of Lütetsburg also includes the suburbs, colonies and residential areas Hilgenbur , Moorriege , Sandhöchte , Tidofeld and Westekelbur . The community has a total of 782 inhabitants. Lütetsburg is on the East Frisian Coast Railway ; A museum train runs between the north and Dornum .

history

In Lütetsburg there was a "Uthof" (= outer courtyard) of the Manninga family of chiefs as early as 1373 . Lütet Manninga expanded this into a castle around 1400. He became the namesake of the village that was developing around the property. This is mentioned for the first time in 1433 as Lützborch , Lutzborch or Lutetzborch . The current name has been official since 1852. Lütetsburg has been the ancestral seat of the Counts of Inn- and Knyphausen since 1588.

In 1965, the municipalities of Berum , Blandorf-Wichte , Hage , Lütetsburg and Westdorf merged to form a single municipality. On May 3, 1965, the Hage council declared its accession. At that time the district of Bargebur still belonged to the municipality of Lütetsburg, which was ceded to the city of Norden in 1972 as part of the administrative and territorial reform.

Lütetsburg had a train station on the East Frisian Coast Railway (Emden-Norden-Dornum-Wittmund-Jever-Wilhelmshaven). On the Norden-Lütesburg-Dornum section, this railway line is operated as a museum railway in the summer season.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the community of Lütetsburg consists of nine councilors and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 501 and 1000 inhabitants. The nine 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	Change voices	Change seats
United Citizens' List Lütetsburg (VBL)	59.41%	5	+ 4.53%	0
SPD	23.00%	2	−3.92%	0
CDU	17.58%	2	−0.61%	0

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 62.71%, above the average for Lower Saxony. For comparison - in the previous local election on September 11, 2011, the turnout was 56.06%.

mayor

The local council elected local council member Gerd Mammen (United Citizens List Lütetsburg (VBL)) as honorary mayor for the current electoral period.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Split of black and green, topped with a gold-armored, gold-tongued and gold-crowned silver lion."

Attractions

The Castle Lütetsburg , eponymous for the community, is a moated castle with outer bailey and significant Park .

The landscape garden at the castle , which was laid out by Edzard Moritz Freiherr von Inn- und Knyphausen in 1790–1813, is an extraordinary piece of garden art . With 30 hectares of old trees, rare exotic species, rhododendrons and azaleas , it is one of the largest in northern Germany . The Lütetsburger Park is one of the few examples of the early romantic garden type preserved on the continent.

Sons and daughters (selection)

• Dodo zu Innhausen and Knyphausen (1583–1636), general in the Thirty Years War
• Philipp Wilhelm von Innhausen and Knyphausen (1591–1652), nobleman and large landowner
• Carl Philipp zu Innhausen and Knyphausen (1711–1784), nobleman and large landowner
• Wilhelm zu Innhausen and Knyphausen (1716–1800), general of the subsidiary troops of Hesse-Kassel under British command in the North American War of Independence against George Washington
• Edzard Moritz zu Innhausen and Knyphausen (1748–1824), nobleman, landowner and president of the East Frisian landscape
• Dodo, Prince of Innhausen and Knyphausen (1876–1931), nobleman, landowner and politician

literature

• Udo von Alvensleben-Wittenmoor : The Lütetsburger Chronicle. History of a Frisian chief dynasty . 2nd Edition. Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 1988, ISBN 978-3-89244-005-5 .
• Wolfgang Kehn (ed.): The castle garden to Lütetsburg. With contributions by Wolfgang Kehn and Birgit Alberts , (Worms 1998) [= Die Gartenkunst 1998, no. 1, pp. 1–73].

Web links

Commons : Lütetsburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Health resort Hage
• Old photos from Lütetsburg

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 c d} local chronicles of the East Frisian landscape: Lütetsburg, Samtgemeinde Hage, district Aurich (PDF; 686 kB), accessed on May 23, 2013.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Samtgemeinde Hage: Gemeinde Lütetsburg , accessed on April 29, 2019.
4. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on December 31, 2016.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Lütetsburg - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on December 31, 2016.
6. ↑ hna.de: Local elections: All information, all results , accessed on December 31, 2016.
7. ^ Municipality of Lütetsburg - overall results of the 2011 municipal council election , accessed on December 31, 2016
8. ↑ Samtgemeinde Hage - Gemeindeorgane , accessed on January 22, 2017
9. ↑ Schlosspark Lütetsburg: A landscape garden as a work of art and a way of life , accessed on April 29, 2019.
10. ↑ The founder of the park: Baron Edzard Mauritz zu Inn- und Knyphausen (1748 - 1824) , accessed on April 29, 2019.