Rotenburg (Wümme) district

This article covers the current district of Rotenburg from 1977; on the previous group see the Rotenburg (Wümme) district (1885–1977) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 15 '  N , 9 ° 19'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
Administrative headquarters :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Area :	2,070.45 km 2
Residents:	163,782 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	79 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Circle key :	03 3 57
Circle structure:	57 municipalities
Address of the district administration:	Hop garden 2 27356 Rotenburg (Wümme)
Website :	lk-row.de
District Administrator :	Hermann Luttmann ( CDU )
Location of the district of Rotenburg (Wümme) in Lower Saxony

The district of Rotenburg (Wümme) is a rural district in Lower Saxony on the southwestern edge of the Hamburg metropolitan region . It lies between Hamburg and Bremen in the center of the Elbe-Weser triangle . The county seat is Rotenburg (Wümme) .

geography

Neighboring areas

The district of Rotenburg (Wümme) borders in a clockwise direction in the northwest, beginning with the districts of Cuxhaven , Stade , Harburg , Heidekreis , Verden and Osterholz .

Natural conditions

The fourth largest district in Lower Saxony in terms of its area is located in the Stader Geest and can be divided into various natural areas. The north-western part consists of geest areas that continue to the northwest as far as the district of Cuxhaven . To the east of these geest areas with the striking terminal moraine wall of the Lamstedter terminal moraine lies a lowland up to 15 km wide from Ostendorf and Iselersheim via Fahrendorf and Karlshöfen to west of Breddorf and Wilstedt , which continues in the neighboring district of Osterholz . It is the Oste-Hamme-Niederung, popularly known as the Teufelsmoor . Large parts of these former raised bog areas have been systematically cultivated over the past 200 years. East of a line from Bremervörde via Sandbostel and Tarmstedt to Sottrum is the so-called Zevener Geest , which extends to the eastern border of the district . A distinctive part of this natural area is the Ostetal. The Wümmeniederung natural area extends south of the Zevener Geest and includes numerous charming tributaries. In the Stemmen / Vahlde area, several larger raised bog complexes such as the Tister Bauernmoor , the Ekelmoor and the Königsmoor have formed. Southwest of the Wümmeniederung, the Achim-Verdener Geest is followed by a sandy geest area, which in the direction of Ahausen / Kirchwalsede has an increasingly gently undulating to hilly relief. Raised moors have developed in drainless hollows, e.g. B. the Great and White Moor near Kirchwalsede. The south-eastern tip of the district in the area around Visselhövede is characterized by a gently undulating geest, which is already part of the Lüneburg Heath natural area . A terminal moraine begins around Visselhövede, which runs northeast towards Neuenkirchen and forms the highest point in the district at 93 m at Höllenberg south of Drögenbostel .

Urban catchment areas

Although the district has joined the metropolitan region of Hamburg, large parts of the district area - in particular the community Gnarrenburg , the combined communities Sottrum , Geestequelle and Tarmstedt - could also be included in the catchment area of Bremen and Bremerhaven. Many residents commute to the greater Hanover area from the south of the district . Overall, the rural district thus fulfills an intermediary function between the surrounding cities, especially between Hamburg and Bremen. On December 15, 2019, the Rotenburg (Wümme) district joined the Hamburg Transport Association (HVV) tariff area .

Historical and institutional catchment areas

In terms of historical development, the Rotenburg district is part of the former Bremen-Verden territory , which stretched across the Elbe-Weser triangle . In addition to the Rotenburg (Wümme) district , this includes the current districts of Cuxhaven , Osterholz , Stade and Verden . Many catchment areas of ecclesiastical, cultural, societal or social institutions such as the Chamber of Commerce, Protestant church district , landscape association and others are still based on the borders of this historical area. The territory of Bremen-Verden later formed a continuity with the Landdrostei Stade and the administrative district of Stade . The latter disappeared in 1978 in the enlarged administrative district of Lüneburg, which had also no longer existed in 2004 .

history

Middle Ages and early modern times

Historically, the district formed the core of the Bremen Archbishopric and Verden Monastery . After the Reformation , both territories became secular duchies that first became Danish and later Swedish . These areas were jointly administered from Stade as the territory of Bremen-Verden , to which the Hanseatic city of Bremen itself did not belong . During the Thirty Years' War , heavy fighting between Swedish and imperial troops took place in the area of ​​today's district.

Belonging to Hanover

Towards the 18th century , the area became part of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg ( Kurhannover ), which later became the Kingdom of Hanover , where it belonged to various offices of the Landdrostei Stade . Lauenbrück belonged to Landdrostei Lüneburg, also from Hanover . After the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia in the course of the German War in 1867, the Prussian district constitution was introduced in the entire province of Hanover on April 1, 1885 . The Bremervörde , Rotenburg districts in Hanover and Zeven were founded in what is now the district area . Even after the dissolution of Prussia and the re-establishment of the state of Hanover , the administrative structure was retained.

Post war history

In 1946, the re-established state of Hanover merged with Schaumburg-Lippe , Braunschweig and Oldenburg to form the state of Lower Saxony, which also included the districts of Rotenburg (Wümme) and Bremervörde, which in turn included the old districts of Bremervörde and Zeven since 1932. Both districts belonged to the then administrative district of Stade , which consisted of the historical Bremen-Verden territory and the former Landdrostei Stade and thus continued this continuity. The first post-war years were marked by the influx of large numbers of refugees from the former East German territories , Czechoslovakia and other areas. Likewise, many bombed-out people from big cities found refuge in the region. After the Second World War , the old district of Rotenburg took on the sponsorship of the district of Angerburg in East Prussia , while the old district of Bremervörde took on the sponsorship of the Stuhm district in West Prussia . The old district of Rotenburg (Wümme) was called Rotenburg in Hanover until June 18, 1969, or Rotenburg (Hann) for short. On August 1, 1977, the districts of Bremervörde and Rotenburg (Wümme) merged. After the district reform , the sponsorships were transferred to today's Rotenburg (Wümme) district. He supports Stuhmer and Angerburger in maintaining the intellectual and cultural heritage of their homeland . The historic landscape of the duchies of Bremen and Verden continues to exist in the modern Stade Regional Association . The landscape association primarily serves to maintain the homeland, promotes regional culture and strives for regional marketing through to economic development . More recent history has been shaped by a structural change in the area with increasing commuter flows to the neighboring cities. This development is favored by the central and easily accessible location between Hamburg and Bremen and the expansion of the traffic connections leading through the district. This resulted in several large industrial areas near Sittensen and Bockel along the motorway. The railway connections leading through the district have also been modernized, and further modernizations are planned. This takes place both as part of the seaport connection for freight traffic and for commuters in passenger traffic, where more attractive trains are now being used by EVB, Erixx and the takeover of the so-called Hanse network by the metronom railway company. Since the 1970s, the district town of Rotenburg has developed into a nationally important hospital location. Various projects such as the promotion of natural gas , which is widespread in the district, and the planned but now postponed construction of the Y-route also determined local politics.

Population development

year	Residents	source
1980	138,400
1985	140,100
1990	141,383
1995	152,688
2000	161,692
2005	164,875
2010	163,860
2015	163.253
2018	163,455

Religions

Traditionally, the area of ​​today's Rotenburg (Wümme) district is evangelical-Lutheran : most of the parishes belong to the regional church of Hanover . Especially after the war , large Catholic parishes formed due to the influx of many expellees from Silesia and Warmia , immigration from southern and western Germany , guest workers from southern Europe and resettlers from central and eastern Europe , which became the Verden deaneries (southern district ) and Lower Elbe (northern district) belong within the Diocese of Hildesheim . There are also residents of Islamic faith, mainly of Turkish and Arab origin, Jehovah's Witnesses , members of free churches , Baptists , members of the New Apostolic Church and a growing group of non-denominationalists.

politics

The administration of the district is housed in the district building, a building complex from the years 1967/1968, which the architect couple Friedrich Spengelin and Ingeborg Spengelin designed together with Lothar Loewe. For this they received the BDA Lower Saxony Prize .

District council

Parties and constituencies		percent 2016	Seats 2016	Percent 2011	Seats 2011	Percent 2006	Seats 2006	Percent 2001	Seats 2001
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	41.88	23	43.20	23	48.3	26th	49.5	28
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	29.45	16	33.22	18th	32.4	17th	35.3	19th
Green	Alliance 90 / The Greens	10.25	5	12.65	7th	6.6	4th	5.5	3
FDP	Free Democratic Party	3.06	2	3.01	1	5.4	3	3.4	1
left	The left	1.98	1	1.61	1	0.9	0
NPD	National Democratic Party of Germany	0.39	0	1.2	1	1.4	1
WFB	Voting community of free citizens	4.93	3	4.98	3	5.01	3	6.3	3
CM	Christian center			0.10	0
ALFA	Alliance for progress and awakening	0.40	0
AfD	Alternative for Germany	6.56	3
FW	Free voters	1.04	1
total		100	54	100	54	100	54	100	54
Turnout in percent		60.3		57.7		58.6		61.6

Allocation of seats in the district council (as of March 6, 2020)

17th

4th

3

3

24

3

17th 4th 3 3 24 3 

A total of 54 seats

• SPD : 17
• Greens : 4
• WFB : 3
• FDP : 3
• CDU : 24
• AFR : 3

• Elke Twesten has been a member of the CDU parliamentary group since August 2017 (previously Alliance 90 / The Greens parliamentary group),
• Since January 2018 the deputies Dr. Karsten Hoffmann (independent, formerly AfD), Rainer Sommermann (independent, formerly AfD) and Matthias Kröger (independent, formerly AfD) the AFR parliamentary group in the Rotenburg district (Wümme).
• Since June 2019, Frank Peters has been a member of the FDP parliamentary group (previously Free Voters).
• Since January 2020 the MP Nils Bassen has been a member of the SPD parliamentary group (previously Die Linke).

Chief administrative officer since 1977

• 1977 to 1985 Johannes zum Felde
• 1985 to 2000 Gerhard Blume
• 2000 to 2006 Hans-Harald Fitschen
• since 2006 Hermann Luttmann

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided by a black bar (better thread or bar ); above in silver (white) a golden (yellow) crowned, blue armored and tongued red lion, which holds a black nail-pointed cross in the right front paw, below in silver (white) and blue, and with a red crossed over a silver (white) key , both beards upwards and outwards, occupied. "

The coat of arms of the Rotenburg (Wümme) district was approved by the Lüneburg district government on May 31, 1979 . The coat of arms combines the symbols of the coat of arms of the former districts of Rotenburg (Hanover), ( Welfenlöwe with the cross of the bishopric of Verden ) and Bremervörde with the Petri keys of the ore monastery of Bremen .

Sponsorships and partnerships

Sponsorships

After the war, the Rotenburg district in Hanover sponsored the displaced persons from the Angerburg ( Węgorzewo ) district in East Prussia . The Bremervörde district took on the sponsorship of the expellees from the Stuhm ( Sztum ) district in West Prussia . Both sponsorships were taken over by the Rotenburg (Wümme) district after the two old districts merged. The sponsorship for the expellees from Stuhm was connected to a partnership with the Polish powiat Malborski ( Marienburg district ), to which large parts of the old Stuhm district now belong after a Polish regional reform.

Partnerships

There are partnerships with the French Sainte-Foy-la-Grande , following on from a previous partnership between Sainte-Foys and the old district of Rotenburg. Another partnership is maintained with the British Falmouth , which continues a previous partnership between Falmouth and the old district of Bremervörde. As already mentioned in the paragraph about sponsorships, there is a partnership with the Polish district of Malbork . In addition, there was a partnership with the district of Güstrow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, which today belongs to the district of Rostock.

Economy and Infrastructure

Since the 1990s, the Rotenburg district has gained increasing importance in the production of natural gas in Germany. The companies ExxonMobil and DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG are significantly involved in this. In 2015, with 1.2 billion m ^{3 of} raw gas, this was the gas field with the highest production.

In the 2016 Future Atlas , the Rotenburg district was ranked 213 out of 402 districts, municipal associations and urban districts in Germany, making it one of the regions with a “balanced risk-opportunity mix” for the future.

Economic structure

Favored by the central location between Hamburg and Bremen as well as the good transport accessibility of the neighboring centers, the district of Rotenburg (Wümme) has developed above average overall in the last decades. This is reflected in the unemployment rate , which has been below the national and state average for years , which was 4.3% in September 2014. The population has risen by almost 27,000 since the last census in 1987, with the majority of the population growth being attributable to gains in migration . Since 2007 the number of inhabitants has decreased slightly. The economic centers are Rotenburg (Wümme) , Bremervörde , Zeven and Sittensen . The food industry , the health sector, crafts and logistics are of particular importance . While the tax revenue power in the district is slightly below average, a pronounced mix of branches of small and medium-sized companies offers extensive employment opportunities and leads to a good employment situation. In addition to the processing of agricultural products in the food industry, many trade , craft and service companies are directly or indirectly linked to agriculture . In the field of biomass use , the district plays a leading role in Lower Saxony with over 140 biogas plants . Zeven is the seat of the Sparkasse Rotenburg-Bremervörde and the Zevener Volksbank . Bremervörde is also in the area of ​​activity of Volksbank Osterholz-Scharmbeck , Rotenburg has branches of Volksbank Wümme-Wieste , which is active in the old district of Rotenburg and the Ottersberg area, as well as Bremische Volksbank . Scheeßel is the seat of the Sparkasse Scheeßel , whose business area includes the southeast part of the district. Visselhövede has a branch of Volksbank Lüneburger Heide .

traffic

Road traffic

The main traffic arteries in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district are the A 1 motorway ( Hamburg - Bremen ), which crosses the district in the middle over a length of 40 kilometers, the federal highways 71 , 74 , 75 , 215 and 440 as well as numerous state highways that connect to the neighboring economic centers of Hamburg and Bremen. There are four connections to the A1 . Connections to the Autobahn 7 (Hamburg- Hanover ) and A 27 ( Cuxhaven - Bremerhaven -Bremen-Hanover) can be reached at a short distance from the southern district border.

Rail transport and public transport

There are rail connections to the regional centers of Hamburg, Bremen and Bremerhaven as well as via Verden (Aller) to Hanover / Minden and via Soltau to Uelzen. The railway line from Bremen via Rotenburg to Hamburg , which is served by the metronome trains in regional traffic, is of particular importance . The travel time from Rotenburg to Hamburg Hbf is 49 minutes. While in the Bremervörde area the " Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser " (EVB) provides a rail link to Hamburg and Bremerhaven, in the southern district the Erixx connects Visselhövede via the Uelzen – Langwedel railway with Bremen, Soltau and Uelzen. From May to October, the so-called “ Moorexpress ”, a historic EVB rail bus , commutes through the Teufelsmoor between Bremen, Bremervörde and Stade and offers tourists unusual insights into the moor landscape . Bus routes are operated by various companies. In the northern and middle third of the district, the bus service is carried out by the Omnibusbetriebe von Arentschildt (OvA), in which the EVB and the districts of Rotenburg and Osterholz are involved. Some lines that cross the district are also operated by other companies such as KVG Stade . In the southern third, buses of the Weser-Ems-Bus , which is part of the Deutsche Bahn, operate , for example, the Rotenburg city traffic. From Zeven there is an express bus line to Tostedt , where you can change trains to Hamburg. There is also an express bus connection from Zeven to Bremen. The OvA offer a connection from Bremervörde via Zeven to Rotenburg. The city traffic Visselhövede is carried by a citizen bus system.

Transport associations

Since the Rotenburg district is geographically in a middle position between the greater Hamburg and Bremen areas and - in its southern part - Hanover, it has not joined any of the respective transport associations in its entirety. In local public transport, the tariff of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Nordost-Niedersachsen applies , which extends over the Lower Saxon part of the Hamburg metropolitan region, which also includes the Rotenburg district. In the direction of Hamburg, the tariff for the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV), of which the district is a member, applies in some cases only to season tickets.

For parts of the district to the west, the tariff of the Bremen / Lower Saxony transport association (VBN) applies in order to take into account the orientation of the western peripheral areas of the district towards Bremen. The ROW tariff applies here .

Waterways

A connection to the waterway network exists only via the Oste, which is navigable as far as Bremervörde . The small harbor in Bremervörde is used for recreational shipping; the option of commercial use is kept open.

Air traffic

Airfields are located in the district town Rotenburg (Wümme) , in Hellwege and Karlshöfen, with the developed airfield in Rotenburg economic significance for the business travel.

Healthcare

Rotenburg is the location of the Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum Rotenburg , which is a maximum care hospital and one of the largest hospitals in Lower Saxony. In Bremervörde there is a regular care hospital of OsteMed, which belongs to the Elbe Kliniken Stade-Buxtehude . After the decision of the district council of April 11, 2018, the Zeven hospital was closed and inpatient care was bundled in Bremervörde. Brauel bei Zeven is the location of a forensic psychiatry, in Gyhum there is a rehabilitation clinic.

The district is divided into three areas with a center in Rotenburg, Zeven and Bremervörde with regard to the on- call medical service . Some communities were incorporated into standby districts outside of the district area, for example Sottrum belongs to the on-call service district Achim (Verden district), Visselhövede zu Walsrode (Heidekreis district) and Hemslingen zu Soltau (Heidekreis district).

Rescue stations are located in Bremervörde, Gnarrenburg, Lauenbrück, Rotenburg, Sittensen, Sottrum, Tarmstedt, Visselhövede and Zeven. Emergency doctor locations are in Rotenburg, Zeven and Bremervörde.

Turned up hospital beds in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme)

hospital	Seat	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum Rotenburg	Rotenburg (Wümme)	753	753	758	708	708	721	711	711	706	706	706	706
From 2001 to 2013, OsteMed Klinik Bremervörde was part of the Sana Kliniken association with 49.9%	Bremervörde	160	160	160	147	136	136	128	120	120	110	110	110
OsteMed Martin Luther Hospital Zeven (closed in 2018) was part of the Sana Kliniken group from 2001 to 2013 with 49.9%	Zeven	126	80	80	80	80	80	90	90	90	90	87	87
Gyhum Rehabilitation Center	Gyhum	32	32	30th	30th	30th	30th	27	27	22nd	22nd	22nd	22nd
	total	1071	1025	1028	965	954	967	956	948	938	928	925	925

Culture and sights

The most famous music event in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district is the " Hurricane Open Air Festival " with up to 80,000 visitors at times, which has been taking place since 1997 on the grounds of the Eichenring in Scheeßel . Up to 60 bands play on three stages over three days of the festival.

Events such as the Rotenburg Guitar Week (since 1982) and the Zeven Guitar Week are regularly well received by the population. The annual costume festivals of the dance and costume group “De Beekscheepers” and the “Original Scheeßeler Trachtengruppe” on the Meyerhof premises in Scheeßel are also very popular . Finally, the “ Tarmstedt Exhibition ” is the most important major event in the district and takes place annually on the 2nd weekend in July. About 100,000 visitors come to this largest agricultural fair in the north every year.

Readings from the work of the poet Walter Kempowski take place once a month in Haus Kreienhoop in Nartum . The author of " Tadellöser & Wolff " and famous chronicler (" Echolot ") lived from 1960 until his death in 2007 in the Rotenburg district, first in Breddorf , and from 1965 in Nartum.

The Bachmann Museum in Bremervörde , as a museum for regional history , shows significant exhibits from geological history , archeology and folklore in the last remaining building of Vörde Castle . Readings, concerts, lectures, markets, special exhibitions and activities are held regularly in the reconstructed Stone Age village. The Queen Christine House in Zeven offers a special setting for changing exhibitions of North German artists. In the Museum Kloster Zeven , products from the former Zeven porcelain factory are on display. There is also documentation on the development of the monastery and the city, a collection of costumes and a description of the work of the local researcher Hans Müller-Brauel .

On the Schlossberg in Rotenburg (Wümme) , a Lower Saxony farmhouse and several rural outbuildings form the local history museum. There is a permanent exhibition on the subject of “Rural house and work tools”. In the Rudolf-Schäfer-Haus in the Rotenburg pedestrian zone there is an exhibition about the former church painter Professor Schäfer as well as the Rotenburg town history and civil culture.

In the Augustendorf Moorhof in the Gnarrenburg community , visitors are shown the life and work of the moor farmers in the colonist villages of the 18th and 19th centuries. In Gnarrenburg , the “Glasmuseum Marienhütte e. V. ”in the old station building an extensive collection of tools and glasses from the former Marienhütte is on display. In the handicraft museum in the watermill in Sittensen old handicrafts are presented.

In Visselhövede , the water tower of the former honey and wax factory "Sonnentau", built in 1889, serves contemporary artists from the region and from outside as an extraordinary exhibition opportunity. From March to October, sculptural and painterly works as well as photographs and installations are shown alternately on the Vissel & Sonnentau campus.

The Metronom Theater is a small, fully equipped theater with 100 seats in the small village of Hütthof with just under 20 residents. Own productions are shown in the evening program, plays for children and young people, guest performances by other theaters and the results of theater projects in around 60–70 performances per year. The theater is located in a converted hall on a farm.

Village churches, various administrative and manor houses as well as windmills and water mills are among the structural attractions of the district. Notable church buildings are the St. Vitus Church in Zeven , built 1141–50 with a round tower, a specialty in Northern Germany , and the St. Vitus Church in Heeslingen , the oldest preserved stone church in the Elbe-Weser area (973) and the old fortified church of St. Bartholomew in Kirchwalsede (1150). The windmill in Brockel from 1860 is completely preserved. The "Eckes Hus" in Ostereistedt , built in 1564, is the oldest farmhouse in the Rotenburg district.

In Sandbostel , 25 buildings from the Stalag XB prisoner-of-war camp built in World War II have been preserved in their basic substance. An ensemble consisting of 11 historical barracks is owned by the Sandbostel Camp Foundation. A documentation and memorial site has been set up on this site.

Jewish culture

There are three Jewish cemeteries in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district : in Bremervörde , Rotenburg (Wümme) and Zeven . These are cultural monuments that are worth protecting . In the center of Rotenburg there is a Jewish museum with the Cohn barn .

Communities

The number of inhabitants on December 31, 2019 in brackets.

Unified municipalities

1. Bremervörde , City (18,582)
2. Gnarrenburg (9187)
3. Rotenburg (Wümme) , district town (21,956)
4. Scheeßel (12,988)
5. Visselhövede , City (9598)

Joint municipalities with their member municipalities

* Seat of the joint municipality administration

• 1. Samtgemeinde Bothel (8209)

1. Bothel * (2376)
2. Brockel (1363)
3. Hemsbünde (1142)
4. Hemslingen (1429)
5. Kirchwalsede (1176)
6. Westerwalsede (723)

• 2. Fintel municipality (7578)

1. Fintel (2856)
2. Helvesiek (818)
3. Lauenbrück * (2399)
4. Chisel (826)
5. Vahlde (679)

• 3. Geestequelle municipality (6314)

1. Alfstedt (852)
2. Basdahl (1369)
3. Ebersdorf (1042)
4. Hipstedt (1234)
5. Oerel * (1817)

• 4. Selsingen municipality (9534)

1. Anderlingen (829)
2. Deinstedt (664)
3. Farven (608)
4. Ostereistedt (930)
5. Rhade (1088)
6. Sandbostel (778)
7. Seedorf (1036)
8. Selsingen * (3601)

• 5. Sittensen municipality (11,268)

1. Gross Meckelsen (500)
2. Hamersen (465)
3. Calf (580)
4. Klein Meckelsen (914)
5. Lengenbostel (454)
6. Sittensen * (5968)
7. Tiste (888)
8. Vierden (760)
9. Residential (739)

• 6. Sottrum municipality (14,800)

1. Ahausen (1912)
2. Botersen (1077)
3. Hassendorf (1160)
4. Hellwege (1090)
5. Horstedt (1274)
6. Reeßum (1765)
7. Sottrum * (6522)

• 7. Tarmstedt municipality (10,758)

1. Breddorf (1019)
2. Bülstedt (778)
3. Hepstedt (978)
4. Kirchtimke (919)
5. Tarmstedt * (3835)
6. Vorwerk (1048)
7. Westertimke (431)
8. Wilstedt (1750)

• 8. Zeven municipality (23.010)

1. Elsdorf (1996)
2. Gyhum (2360)
3. Heeslingen (4832)
4. Zeven , City * (13,822)

Protected areas

In addition to landscape protection areas and natural monuments, there are 32 designated nature reserves in the district (as of February 2017).

See also:

• List of nature reserves in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district
• List of landscape protection areas in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district
• List of natural monuments in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district
• List of protected landscape components in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign ROH (Rotenburg (Hanover)) when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . On October 15, 1970, the renamed district received the new identifier ROW . This is still issued today.

November 15, 2012, because of the characteristics liberalization also the distinguishing sign BRV (Bremervörde) available.

literature

• Wendula Dahle (Ed.): In the land of moors and dykes. Excursions left and right of the Weser. A travel and reading book. Bremen 1998, 352 p. M. numerous Fig .; ISBN 978-3-86108-466-2
• Fischerhuder Kunstkreis e. V. (Ed.): On the way…. between moor and heather. A culture and nature travel guide for the region. Bremervörde, Geestequelle, Gnarrenburg, Zeven, Selsingen, Sittensen and Tarmstedt. Fischerhude o. J. [2000], 320 p. M. numerous Fig .; ISBN 978-3-88132-300-0

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Rotenburg  - Collection of images

• Literature from and about the Rotenburg district in the catalog of the German National Library

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. ↑ [1]
3. ↑ [2]
4. ↑ [3]
5. ↑ [4]
6. ↑ [5]
7. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1981
8. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1986
9. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Regional database Lower Saxony
10. ↑ Architecture Prize of the BDA Lower Saxony , in: Bulletin , Bund Deutscher Architekten BDA in Niedersachsen e. V., issue 3, October 1976, unpag. (P. 5)
11. ^ Results of the local elections in 2001 and 2006 , nls.niedersachsen.de
12. ↑ Result of the 2011 local elections ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , nls.niedersachsen.de 
13. ↑ KDO election presentation. Retrieved April 12, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Stadler, Klemens; German coat of arms; Volume 1, Bremen 1964; P. 21 and 78
15. ↑ Coat of arms and logo of the Rotenburg (Wümme) district. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 5, 2014 ; Retrieved May 5, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ↑ Page of the district on partner circles ( memento of the original from January 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
17. ↑ http://www.erdgas-aus-deutschland.de/de-de/wir-vor-ort/rotenburg-heidekreis/rotenburg-heidekreis/rotenburg-heidekreis
18. ↑ Oil and gas in the Federal Republic of Germany 2015 - annual report, download (PDF, 4.56 MB)
19. ↑ Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 4, 2018 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
20. ↑ Rotenburg district (Wümme) . In: Jewish cemeteries according to the current administrative structure - Lower Saxony. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany
21. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).