Lahn (Hümmling)

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Emsland
Joint municipality :	Werlte
Height :	30 m above sea level NHN
Area :	21.25 km 2
Residents:	863 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	41 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	49757
Primaries :	05951, 05952
License plate :	Tbsp
Community key :	03 4 54 027
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Ahmsener Strasse 8 ; 49757 Lahn
Website :	www.lahn-emsland.de
Mayor :	Bernhard Winkler ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Lahn in the district of Emsland

Lahn is a municipality in the integrated municipality of Werlte in the east of the Emsland district in Lower Saxony (Germany).

geography

Geographical location

Lahn is located in the Emsland a few kilometers east of the Hümmling Geest hill . The community is located southwest of Werlte between the Nordradde and Mittelradde .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities in the north and east are the communities Werlte , in the south the community Lähden in the joint municipality Herzlake and in the west the communities Hüven and Sögel in the joint community Sögel .

history

Lahn is assumed that the first settlement took place before the turn of the millennium; several stone and hill graves indicate an ancient settlement. Lahn is mentioned for the first time in the free peasant charter from 1394 . It describes the separation of the Hümmlings from the territory of the Counts of Tecklenburg . Wording: "... Ludeke Srappers and Willeken söne to Löhn, ..."

In a directory of the feudal courtyards of the parish Werlte, which researchers date to the 11th century, three courtyards are already mentioned that can be assigned to Lahn. It is therefore not necessary to give precise details here. The first tax list with the names of the residents of Lahn dates from 1498/1499.

Lahn consisted of 13 full-grown farms, one of which was described as impoverished as early as the 16th century. Seven of these farms still operate full-time farming today and can look back on a farm history of up to 500 years.

Lahn has the typical shape of an old clustered village , although this structure has largely been preserved today.

The Lahner Schützenverein eV was founded in 1883 and celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2008.

Lahn special ammunition dump

From 1963 to 1992, the Lahn special ammunition depot for nuclear weapons, commonly known as the “Lahn nuclear weapons depot”, existed in the municipality . The 170 hectare site was north of the village of Lahn. The access to the Lahn nuclear weapons depot was the scene of several demonstrations by the peace movement , in particular by Pax Christi , in the 1980s .

Origin of name

Meaning of the place name "Lahn": Low German: to de Laen = "to" or "near the woods"

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Lahn consists of nine council women and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of a joint municipality with a population between 500 and 1,000 inhabitants. The nine council members are elected by local elections for five years each. The current term of office began on November 1, 2011 and ends on October 31, 2016.

The last local election on September 11, 2011 resulted in the following:

CDU - 9 seats

mayor

Bernhard Winkler ( CDU ) is the honorary mayor of the community . The deputy mayors are Wilhelm Hüntelmann (CDU) and Hans-Georg Menke. The previous mayor was Joseph Thesing.

coat of arms

Above a red shield base, with a silver stone grave consisting of a capstone and two supporting stones, there are three green oak leaves growing from a stem on a golden field.

The megalithic grave, which points to the prehistoric roots of today's municipality of Lahn, is located on the road to Hüven. The three oak leaves symbolize the possible meaning of the place name Lahn . The colors red and gold were chosen to represent the diverse connections to the Samtgemeinde Werlte. Furthermore, these were the colors of the old Corvey monastery , to which the Hümmling was subject to tithing in the Middle Ages.

Personalities

Bernhard Köster (born October 20, 1869, † June 23, 1944 in Bad Iburg ), German Roman Catholic priest and writer

literature

Werner Kaemling: Atlas on the history of Lower Saxony . Gerd J. Holtzmeyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1987, ISBN 3-923722-44-3 .
Hermann Abels: The place names of the Emsland, in their linguistic and cultural-historical significance . Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 1929.
Ernst Förstemann, Hermann Jellinghaus (editor): Old German Name Book , Volume II, 1 and 2: Place names , Bonn 1913/1916 (Reprint: Volume II, 2, Hildesheim 1967/1983, ISBN 3-487-01733-4 ).