Landesbergen

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Landesbergen
Landesbergen
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Landesbergen highlighted

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '  N , 9 ° 7'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Nienburg / Weser
Joint municipality : Mittelweser
Height : 31 m above sea level NHN
Area : 41.92 km 2
Residents: 2717 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 65 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 31628
Area code : 05025
License plate : NI
Community key : 03 2 56 017
LOCODE : DE LJN
Community structure: 4 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Behind the Höfe 13
31628 Landesbergen
Website : www.landesbergen.de
Mayoress : Heidrun Kuhlmann ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Landesbergen in the district of Nienburg / Weser
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Landesbergen is a municipality in the district of Nienburg / Weser in Lower Saxony (Germany). The community is part of the Mittelweser community .

geography

Landesbergen is located in the Steinhuder Meer nature park directly on the Weser and roughly halfway between Nienburg / Weser and Stadthagen .

The community is divided into the four districts of Landesbergen, Brokeloh , Hahnenberg and Heidhausen.

history

Memorial stone 950 years of Landesbergen
Landesbergen town hall

In 2005 the community celebrated its 950th anniversary with a festive event: Landsbergen was first mentioned in a document in 1055: At that time Sullethe (probably today's Süllhof) was mentioned for the first time as the identifiable field name of Landesbergen. In 1099 a certain Anno from the noble family zu Landesbergen , which had its ancestral seat in the village, became a bishop in Minden. The brothers Everhardus and Henricus von Landesbergen were followers of Duke Henry the Lion in the 12th century , whose territory reached as far as the Weser. Barthold von Landesbergen was bishop in Verden until his death in 1502. The von Bothmer family later moved to Landesbergen.

In 1797 2/3 of the village was destroyed by the great fire in Landesbergen. During the time of emigration around 1840, many Landesbergers went to North America. a. to Illinois and Michigan . A Landesberg church was even built near the town of Saginaw . There are still several gravestones with Landesberg family names in the cemetery there. In the early 1960s grew the place by the construction and operation of the power plant Landesbergen by Preussen Elektra was built a separate settlement for the workforce.

Landesbergen was initially the seat of the municipality of Landesbergen . This came about through an administrative reform on July 1, 1967, with which the independent communities of Hahnenberg, Landesbergen, Leese and Leeseringen were merged. In the course of the territorial reform in Lower Saxony, it found its final form on March 1, 1974 with the member communities Estorf , Husum , Landesbergen and Leese . On November 1, 2011, the combined community of Landesbergen and the community of Stolzenau formed the combined community of Mittelweser , based in Stolzenau.

On March 1, 1974, the communities Brokeloh and Hahnenberg were incorporated.

politics

2011 municipal council election
Turnout: 57.41% (2011: 63.56%)
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48.53%
42.86%
7.23%
1.37%
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+ 6.53  % p
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+1.37  % p
-1.32  % p

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Landesbergen consists of 13 councilors.

  • CDU : 6 seats (± 0)
  • SPD : 6 seats (± 0)
  • GREEN : 1 seat (± 0)

(Status: local elections from September 11, 2016 )

mayor

Heidrun Kuhlmann is the honorary mayor.

Community director

The municipal mayor Jens Beckmeyer has been the municipal mayor since November 1, 2016.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Under a silver shield head, in it a running red fox, in red a silver diagonal wave bar, accompanied above by golden lightning, below by a golden ear."

The fox comes from the coat of arms of the noble family " von Land (e) sberg ", which was also the inspiration for the name, the diagonal bar symbolizes the river Weser . Ear of wheat and lightning stand for agriculture and energy generation by the Landesbergen power plant.

Culture and sights

music

There is a fire brigade music train, a trombone choir, a men's choir, a singing group, the vocal choir "Die Tontreffer" and the "Landesberger Brettspielclub"

Buildings

  • The Landesbergen gallery Dutch windmill stands on a two-story square base from 1872. After a fire between 1915 and 1980, it was operated with an electric motor without blades. In a large-scale renovation between 1985 and 1987, the so-called wedding mill was given a museum of local history and a wedding room inside .
  • The Mühlenplatz today forms the community's cultural center with the mill and other adjacent half-timbered houses that have been moved here.
  • The former Schweringen Weser ferry has been standing at Mühlenplatz in Landesbergen since December 1999. Such a ferry was first mentioned in 1560.
  • The town's Romanesque stone church was built from 1230, the tower was only added in 1806. Your organ was rebuilt in 2006 using the case and some pipes from the previous organ .

  • Field stone church

  • Half-timbered house

  • Wedding mill

  • Former Schweringen Weser ferry

Sports

In the village there is the Landesberger SV (LSV), whose footballers play in the district league. There is also the Landesbergen riding and driving club, the Milan Landesbergen model flying club e. V. and the shooting club Landesbergen.

Regular events

The live role-playing game Conquest of Mythodea has been held annually in the Brokeloh district since 2004 . Every year around 6,000 fantasy role-playing game fans from Europe, Japan, America and other countries take part in the event.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

The Landesbergen power plant was a natural gas power plant from the start, which went online in 1962. Of the original four blocks, only one is still in operation today. A biomass cogeneration plant has also been operated at the site since 2009 , which, in addition to district heating, also generates electricity and is fired with waste wood .

traffic

The community is located directly on the federal highway 215 , which leads south towards Minden and north via Nienburg (Weser) towards Verden (Aller) .
In the past, the place with the Landesbergen (Han) train station had a connection to the " Natobahn " Minden (Westphalia) - Leese-Stolzenau - Nienburg (Weser). Trains have not stopped there since 1986 and the building is now rented.

Personalities

literature

  • Friedrich Freitag: Around Landesbergen. Historical images between Meerbach and Weser . 1971
  • Günther Deking among others: Landesbergen 1055-2005, The book for the festival! 2005
  • Jörg Backhaus and Thomas Mosimann: Gravel mining creates a new landscape . Geographical Institute of the University of Hanover (Geosynthesis M3, multimedia CD), 2005; ISBN 3-927053-42-2 see also: Kiesabbau Mittelweser

Web links

Commons : Landesbergen  - 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. ↑ Cyriacus Spangenberg: "Chronicon, or life-description and deeds, of all bishops of the Stifft Verden, who had their seat there and ruled there from the times of the Emperor Caroli Magni bit to the Münsterischen and Oßnabrügischen peace, from the beginning d. Verdischen Stifftes foundation and appointment of the first bishop Anno Christi 776 bit Anno Christi 1623 (...) ”. Page 167.
  3. ↑ Evangelical parish of Landesbergen: "A little guide through the history of Landesbergen"
  4. ↑ Andreas Voigts (ed.), Günther Deking, Fritz-Karsten Hüneke a. a .: "The miracle of Landesbergen". 226 pages, self-published by the Samtgemeinde Mittelweser, 2005
  5. ^ Niemeyer, M .: "German Place Name Book " . De Gruyter, 2012, p. 346
  6. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory 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. 199 .
  7. ↑ https://sgmittelweser.wahlen-aktuell.de/GR_Ldbg_16/160823160340827_0_1_txt_p_.html
  8. ↑ https://sgmittelweser.wahlen-aktuell.de/GR_Ldbg_16/160823160340827_0_1_txt_p_.html
  9. ↑ April 2020. Retrieved on August 18, 2020 (German).
  10. ↑ Statkraft: "Functional diagram of the gas-fired combined cycle power plant Robert Frank" (pdf 1 MB)
  11. ^ Working group DREHSCHEIBE eV, Cologne: stations of the "Natobahn" Minden (Westphalia) - Leese-Stolzenau - Nienburg (Weser) . online 2010
  12. ↑ Blickpunkt Nienburg: “The next train station was history - Landesbergen closed too” . Report of October 6, 2014, Aller-Weser-Verlagsgesellschaft mbH