Langen (Geestland)

Long City of Geestland
Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 42 ″  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 12 ″  E
Height :	7 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.83 km²
Residents :	11,577  (Jun. 30, 2017)
Population density :	1,479 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2015
Postal code :	27607
Area code :	04743
Location of Langen in Lower Saxony
Langen in the city of Geestland

Langen mit Baggerkuhle I (2012)

Langen ( Low German Langen ) is a district of the city of Geestland in the Lower Saxony district of Cuxhaven . Until December 31, 2014, Langen was an independent city, which then merged with the municipality of Bederkesa to form the city of Geestland.

geography

Former city structure

former city structure

In addition to the main town of the same name, the former city of Langen consisted of the following villages:

• Debstedt (Low German Debst ) is 3 km east of Langen near the A 27 and is the oldest church village in the city of Langen
• Holßel (Low German Holsseln ) is located 10 km north of Langen on federal highway 6
• Hymendorf ( Hemendbod in Low German ) is 6 km northeast of Langen
• Imsum (Low German Imßen ) is located 4 km west of Langen directly behind the dike of the Outer Weser
• Krempel (Low German Krümpel ) is located 12 km north of Langen near the A 27
• Neuenwalde ( Niewohl in Low German ) is located 10 km north of Langen on the A 27
• Sievern (Low German Sievern ) is located 5 km north of Langen on the state road 135

The main town of Langen, which is now part of the city of Geestland, has developed from an old village center with many farms into a place of residence for commuters from the regional center of Bremerhaven. Due to the growing population, Langen was divided into the districts of north, south and center.

In the entire city of Langen, 18,494 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2014) lived on 121.99 km².

Neighboring places

Wremen (municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast )	Sievern
Imsum		Debstedt
	City of Bremerhaven ( Free Hanseatic City of Bremen )

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history

Until the end of 2014, Langen consisted of the following locations:

• Debstedt : The old church village had existed since the 11th century, the church was built in the 12th century. Two major fires in 1847 and 1912 destroyed the place, which was gradually rebuilt until around 1914. Until 1852 the parishes of Debstedt and Holßel formed an administrative district "Börde Debstedt" at the Bederkesa office
• Holßel : An old document tells of a Holleborg between Debstedt and Holßel in which nobles lived. The church was built in 1111. Around 1654 the place remained Evangelical / Reformed in a Lutheran environment. In 1971, Holßel became a municipality of the Neuenwalde joint municipality and, from 1974, a part of the municipality of Langen
• Hymendorf : Founded as a bog settlement in 1829 according to a uniform plan by the Bederkesa office. To develop the moor, dead straight solid paths were laid
• Imsum was first mentioned in a document in 1091. The districts Weddewarden , things and the peasantry Lebstedt formed the parish Imsum and the old ox church stood in the middle between the three villages. Lebstedt was "recaptured" in 1717 by the advancing sea and Weddewarden was incorporated into Wesermünde in 1927 . In 1954 the Bremerhaven Transport Company (VGB) introduced a bus route to Imsum
• Krempel : The original heath village lived mainly from sheep and beekeeping. Due to the reclamation at the beginning of the 20th century, the landscape changed completely. In 1906 the place received telephone and post, in 1921 electricity and only in 1960 connection to the public water network
• Langen was first mentioned in a document in 1139. Until modern times, the farming village and the area were sparsely populated. In 1549 Langen consisted of only 4½ yards and 23 cottages. Only in the 20th century, the population Langen increased by the proximity to Bremerhaven significantly
  • In 1919 the extended tram line operated by the Bremerhaven transport company (VGB) runs from Lehe via Speckenbüttel through Leherheide to Langen train station. In 1927 the line was extended to Friedrichsruh. From 1960 to 1982 tram line 2 ran to the Bremerhaven city limits and a bus line to Debstedt. In 1961 the VGB bus depot on the city limits in Langen was put into operation
  • In 1953 the new building of elementary school I near Friedrichsruh (today grammar school) was inaugurated and in 1964 the gymnasium was opened. This was followed in 1965 by elementary school II on Hinschweg, which was expanded until 1973, and by the school and cultural center on Nordeschweg in 1975
  • In 1967 the Friedrichsruh restaurant was demolished
  • In 1976 the new fire station was built
  • In 1987 two phantom fighter-bombers from Jagdgeschwader 71 crashed in the meadows on the western outskirts of the city
• Neuenwalde : The village on the Geest was first mentioned in a document in 1334. The relocation of the Benedictine convent from Altenwalde to Neuenwalde in the same year was significant
• Sievern was mentioned for the first time in 1139 in a document issued by the Archbishop of Bremen Adalbert II (1123–1148) about the donations to the monastery of St. Paul in front of Bremen . However, people certainly lived in this area five thousand years ago. From 3000 BC Peasant cultures can be demonstrated in this region. The megalithic systems such as the Bülzenbett and ramparts with burial mounds such as the Pipinsburg , the Heidenstadt and the Heidenschanze with the nearby gold bracteate find from 1942 and the "Seven Mountains" east of the Heidenstadt come from earlier times .

Incorporations

The Langen and Neuenwalde municipalities existed from 1971 to 1974 and were incorporated into the Langen municipality on March 1, 1974 on the occasion of the regional reform in Lower Saxony . On July 1, 1990, the municipality received city rights.

On January 1, 2015, the city of Geestland was created from the merger of the city of Langen and the joint municipality of Bederkesa .

Population development

year Residents source 1910 1,037 1 1925 1,549 1 1933 1,885 1 1939 2,196 1 1946 3,350 1 1950 3,926 1 1951 4,000 1 1956 4,484 1 1961 10,651 20 1970 13,067 30 1973 7,883 1

year Residents source 1975 14,757 4 1980 14,919 4 1985 14,821 4 1990 15,624 5 1995 16,907 5 2000 18,163 5 2005 18,702 5 2010 18,477 5 2014 18,494 5 2017 11,577 6 0 0 0

¹ community Langen
² Municipality Langen including 1,974 unincorporated places (census results on June 6)
³ community Langen including 1,974 unincorporated places (census results on 27 May)
⁴ unit community Langen, December 31 respectively
⁵ Langen, each 31 December. December
⁶ Langen according to the info box

politics

Local council

The local council of Langen consists of a councilwoman and ten councilors. There are also four advisory members in the local council (SPD: 2, Die Linke : 1, non-party: 1).

Distribution of seats

• SPD : 5 seats
• CDU : 4 seats
• Non-party : 1 seat
• Greens : 1 seat

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor of Langen is Thomas Fahse (SPD). His deputy is Matthias Keck (CDU).

Chronicle of the former mayors and local mayors

mayor Thorsten Krüger (SPD): 2005 to 2014 ¹ Gerhard Scholtz (1909–1990) (SPD): 1959 to 1976 Johann Renken (SPD): 1956 to 1959 † Johann Mattheis (SPD, independent): 1949 to 1956 Johann Renken (1902–1959) (SPD): 1946 to 1949

Local mayor Thomas Fahse (SPD): 2019 to date Rotraut Keßler (SPD): 2014 to 2019

¹ Since January 1st, 2015 Thorsten Krüger has been mayor of the new city of Geestland, which is the legal successor to the city of Langen

coat of arms

The design of the municipal coat of arms of Langen comes from the heraldist and coat of arms painter Albert de Badrihaye , who designed around 80 coats of arms in the district of Cuxhaven.

	Blazon : "In gold over a black hill , covered with a golden urn over a silver strip of waves , a red rising sun wheel ."
	Foundation of the coat of arms: The hill with the urn indicates the community's landmark, the Jedutenberg , near which many urns have been found. The strip of waves indicates the Weser .

• The sun wheel was found during an excavation on Long Mountain . The red cross in the coat of arms symbolizes this valuable find.

Community merger

→ Main article : Geestland

On January 1, 2015, the city of Langen and the municipality of Bederkesa merged to form the city of Geestland . The first suggested name for the new city was Wesermünde . Langen's neighboring town Bremerhaven refused this name because the seaside town itself was called Wesermünde from 1924 to 1947 . In a legal opinion from Bremerhaven it is said that the name Wesermünde is "in blatant contradiction to the actual geographical location". The new city only has contact with the Weser in Imsum. The name therefore contradicts the information function required by law. For the merger partners Langen and Bederkesa, this argumentation was incomprehensible, as a good part of the city created by the merger lies in the area of ​​the former Wesermünde district . Langen's mayor Thorsten Krüger (SPD) suggested the name Neu Wesermünde in order to avoid a neighborhood dispute and not to launch the new city with legal proceedings . At the same time, Krüger stated: " The city name is only a first working title ". But there was also protest from Bremerhaven against this proposal. In order not to jeopardize the legislative process of the Lower Saxony state parliament as well as the agreements of the future contract and to be able to start the merger as quickly as possible, Wesermünde was distanced in Langen and Bederkesa . After various proposed names had been discussed for about half a year, the councils decided on April 23, 2012 for the merged city with over 90% the name "Geestland".

Culture and sights

Ox tower (Imsum)

Bülzenbett near Sievern, large stone grave of the funnel cup culture

Buildings

See also : List of architectural monuments in Geestland - Langen

• Debstedt: The Dionysius Church has existed since the 12th century. Inside the stone church there is a baptismal font from 1497
• Imsum: Ochsenturm as a landmark and viewing platform of the place. Legendary remains of the medieval church.
• Holßel: Medieval church from 1111, which is looked after by Reformed pastors to this day.
• Hymendorf: Replica of an old moor cottage
• Krempel: Old School from 1910; after renovation fire station
• Neuenwalde: Monastery complex of the Benedictine nuns from 1334 consisting of the church, two buildings, the office with four buildings, the rectory, the sexton's house and the hereditary interest mill. In 1500 the Neuenwalde monastery burned down . Later components: extension of the south wing (1719), peat barn, grain barn (1873). Today the monastery is inhabited as a monastery
• Sievern: Bülzenbett , a large stone grave from the Stone Age

Museums

• Debstedt: Heimatmuseum (private property)
• Neuenwalde: local history museum
• Sievern: John Wagener House (privately owned)

Parks

• Langen: Park Friedrichsruh

Natural monuments

• The Pipinsburg (Sievern) rises on the Sieverner Auetal as a mighty round wall. The exact age and meaning of the name are unknown. Nearby there are other places of worship with the Bülzenbett and Heidenschanze (burial mound)
• Lange Berg von Langen northeast of the train station in Langen: 90 meters long dam-like former burial mound on the crest of a bump;

Culinary specialties

Hearty specialties from this region are tubed cabbage , caraway cabbage , as well as bacon and kohl .

Regular events

The local community festival (OGF for short) and the platform festival are popular.

Sports clubs

The gymnastics club Langen from 1908 offers: Aikido , badminton , fistball , soccer , handball , karate , athletics , bounce ball , tennis , table tennis , gymnastics . The TV Langen was from 2002 to 2006 organizing the Int. Volksbank high jump meeting Langen . The meeting record for men is 2.35 m (2002, Andrej Sokolovskii UKR) and 1.90 m (2006, Gaelle Niare FRA). In 2007 he directed the Int. Volksbank pole vault meeting from Langen . The jumping was carried out as a marketplace jumping. Three jumpers crossed the height of 5.70 m, including Richard Spiegelburg .

The 1st men's handball team plays in the North Sea Association League.

The TSV Debstedt offers: football, badminton, basketball, jazz dance, gymnastics / gymnastics, table tennis, volleyball and hiking.

The TSV Holßel has an intense table tennis department.

In football there is a syndicate with TSV Krempel.

The TSV Imsum offers football, table tennis, gymnastics, volleyball.

The TSV Krempel offers: table tennis, soccer (game community with TSV Holßel).

The TSV Neuenwalde offers badminton, football, athletics, dance sports, table tennis, gymnastics.

The TSV Sievern 1911 offers badminton, football, athletics / gymnastics / Zumba / Bokwa, swimming and table tennis. The first men's soccer team was represented in the highest Lower Saxony league until 2002. In youth football there is a syndicate with TSV Holßel and TSV Neuenwalde.

The DLRG Langen is a local association of the German Life Saving Society that guards the local Sieverner See .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Center of Langen with Lindenhof Center : crossing Leher Land-, Sieverner-, Imsumer- and Debstedter Straße

Langen takes i. S. of the regional spatial planning was the function of a basic center with a central sub-function . Many residents work in Bremerhaven.

Public facilities

• Town hall in Langen, Sieverner Strasse 10
• Langen city library in the Lindenhof center
• Voluntary fire brigade as local fire brigades in Langen, Debstedt, Hymendorf, Holssel, Imsum, Krempel, Neuenwalde and Sievern
• Seepark Clinic in the Debstedt district, Langener Straße 66
• Police station in the village of Langen
• Police station with motorway tasks in the village of Debstedt - Telephone: 04743 - 9280
• Debstedt motorway maintenance depot
• District Court Langen

education

School Lankenweg, middle / left

Primary school on the wild moor

• The three primary schools:
  • In Langen Am wilden Moor and Am Hinschweg
  • In Neuenwalde, Schulstrasse
• Oberschule Nordeschweg  52
• The Gymnasium Langen (voluntary all-day school) leads up to grade 10
• The Seeparkschule Wesermünde in Debstedt is a special school for physical and motor development with a boarding school
• The adult education center in Langen, branch of the adult education center in the district of Cuxhaven, with a radius of action from Nordholz, Dorum, Bad Bederkesa, Schiffdorf, Spaden, Beverstedt, Hagen and Loxstedt
• The municipal music school in Langen, Ziegeleistraße 16, has around 400 students
• A private music school
• Previous schools
  • Former school center Langen (also called parrot school - because of the colored painting of the building after Otto Herbert Hajek ) with grammar school, secondary school and secondary school
  • former orientation level in today's Lühr-Immen grammar school
  • Hauptschule and Realschule before being renamed to Oberschule

Social

Kindergartens :

• There are 16 institutions in Langen and its districts (as of 2008)

youth

• Children's and Youth Center Langen, Sieverner Straße 8 (next to the town hall)
• Sports hall "Am Wilden Moor" in Langen, Alter Postweg Ost
• Youth welfare station Langen of the DRK, Leher Landstrasse 2 a
• Youth rooms in Debstedt, Holßel, Hymendorf, Imsum, Krempel, Neuenwalde and Sievern

Seniors

• Meeting place , Leher Landstrasse 14
• Senior service in the citizens' office in the town hall
• Lindenhof retirement home in Langen, Ziegeleistraße 19 a
• Astor-Park residential complex Langen , Debstedter Straße 26–30
• Amer nursing home in Langen, Hinschweg 1
• Magarethenhof , retirement and nursing home in Debstedt
• DRK dormitory Seepark in Debstedt
• Senior citizens' residential park Langen , Auf dem Berge 2

Churches

• Langen: Ev.-luth. St. Petri parish with telephone counseling, Lesotho group, gospel choir, choir or various discussion groups as well as Noah's Ark kindergarten
• Neuenwalde: Ev.-luth. Parish
• Holßel: Protestant Reformed Church Community
• Debstedt: Ev.-luth. Parish

traffic

Road traffic

Langen lies on the A 27 between Bremen and Cuxhaven and can be reached via the Bremerhaven-Überseehäfen, Debstedt and Neuenwalde junctions. The former federal road 6, which was degraded to a state road after the completion of the A 27, now runs through the villages of Langen, Sievern and Holßel, it is now the L 135.

Rail transport

The next train station with regular passenger traffic is Bremerhaven-Lehe .

Langen is crossed by the railroad tracks:

• Bremerhaven – Cuxhaven with the former Imsum stop
• Museum Railway Bremerhaven – Bederkesa with the stations Langen, Debstedt-Seepark and Debstedt; the route has been a museum railway for a long time and is only used on a few Sundays in summer

Public transport

Langen is served by the bus lines 505, 506, ML and NL from Bremerhaven Versorgungs- und Verkehrs-GmbH . Line 509 leads to the Imsum district.

The regional bus routes also run via Langen

• 525 Bremerhaven - Bad Bederkesa
• 528 Bremerhaven - Otterndorf (only single trips)
• 550 Bremerhaven - Midlum - Nordholz (only single trips)

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Horst von Hassel (1928–2020), politician (SPD) and Bremen Education Senator
• Heinz Hermann Brauer (1929–2016), Chief Public Prosecutor and Church President in Bremen
• Horst Kirschner (* 1932), dentist and university professor
• Annette Faße (* 1947), politician (SPD) and member of the German Bundestag (1994–2009)
• Lukas Strobel alias Alligatoah (* 1989), a rapper under contract with Trailerpark

People connected to the place

• Friedrich Wilhelm Wencke (1806–1859), shipbuilder and shipowner, lived in the Langen country estate of Friedrichs-Ruh
• Gesine Wencke (1807–1866), shipbuilder and shipowner, lived in the Langen country estate of Friedrichs-Ruh
• Leopold Ziegenbein (1874–1950), navigator and commodore at North German Lloyd (NDL) in Bremen, is one of the most prominent captains of merchant shipping and was buried in Langen
• Ernst Klemeyer (1904–1992), lawyer and chief district director of the Wesermünde district from 1951 to 1969, died in Langen
• Karl Franzius (1905–1993), architect and painter, died in Langen
• Gerhard Olbrich (1927-2010), pedagogue, painter and sculptor, teacher for artistic drawing and works at the grammar school in Langen (1975-1993)
• Roland Kutzki (* 1942), architect and town planner, grew up in Langen since 1951
• Ulrich Marseille (* 1955), entrepreneur and former politician ( Rule of Law Party ), opened his first own nursing home "Senioren-Wohnpark Langen" in 1984

Myths and legends

• The dwarfs in the Long Mountain near Langen
• The sea female and the male
• The witch of Sievern
• The treasures of the Pipinsburg
• From the Bülzenbett near the Pipinsburg
• The Imsumer baptism
• The ox tower

literature

• Karl Hauck, Klaus Düwel: Gold bracteates from Sievern: Late antique amulet pictures d. Dania Saxonica et al. d. Saxe-Origo with Widukind von Corvey . In: Münster medieval writings . tape 1 . W. Fink Verlag, Munich 1970.
• Fritz Hörmann, Ude Meyer, Christian Morisse, Eberhard Nehring, Irmgard Seghorn, Egon Stuve, Else Syassen: Wesermünde field names collection - the field names of the property tax cadastre from 1876 . Ed .: Kulturstiftung der Kreissparkasse Wesermünde (=  new series of special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elb- und Wesermuende eV Volume 27 ). Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1995, ISBN 3-931771-27-X , p. 13 ([ digitized ( memento of October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )] [PDF; 431 kB ; accessed on October 23, 2019]).

Web links

Commons : Langen  - collection of images

• Internet presence of the village of Langen on the website of the city of Geestland
• Link catalog on the subject of Langen bei Bremerhaven at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Community directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 47 , Wesermünde district ( digitized version ( memento from August 7, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on June 3, 2020]).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} municipality directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on December 23, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Overview map of the Cuxhaven district. In: cuxland-gis.landkreis-cuxhaven.de. November 2016, accessed December 23, 2019 .  
4. ↑ ^{a b c} 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p.  249 .
5. ^ Law on the reorganization of the city of Geestland, district of Cuxhaven . In: Niedersächsische Staatskanzlei (Ed.): Niedersächsisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt (Nds. GVBl.) . No.  26/2012 . Hanover November 8, 2012, p. 430 , p. 4 ( digitized version ( memento of July 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 454 kB ; accessed on May 19, 2019]).
6. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Register of local authorities Germany 1900 - Lehe district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed March 13, 2020 .  
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wesermünde district ( see under: No. 50 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  
8. ↑ ^{a b} Hermann Westedt: SPD characterized the post-war in Langen . In: Langener Zeitung . No. 128 , November 2013.
9. ↑ ^{a b} Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p.  192 ( digitized version ).
10. ^ Municipalities in Germany by area and population. (XLSX; 895 kB) See under: Lower Saxony, No. 1922 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 1975, accessed on June 11, 2019 .  
11. ↑ ^{a b} The local council of Langen. In: Citizen Information System City of Geestland. Accessed May 1, 2019 .  
12. ↑ ^{a b} Landkreis Wesermünde (Ed.): Coat of arms of the Landkreis Wesermünde . Grassé Offset Verlag, Bremerhaven / Wesermünde 1973, ISBN 3-9800318-0-2 .
13. ↑ Information on the merger. In: Website City of Geestland. Accessed May 1, 2019 .  
14. ↑ The city relies on a report by Bremerhaven city archivist Hartmut Bickelmann , who thinks Wesermünde is "historically and currently clearly documented". “A takeover by another local authority can therefore only lead to misunderstandings, irritation and the impairment of grown identities.” ( See: Nordsee-Zeitung , January 21, 2012 ).
15. ↑ Not legally smudge-proof . In: Nordsee-Zeitung . March 10, 2012, p.  13 .
16. ↑ Andreas Schoener: Krüger rebukes Seestadt. (No longer available online.) In: Website Nordsee-Zeitung. August 3, 2012, archived from the original on August 3, 2012 ; accessed on February 2, 2018 .  
17. ↑ Andreas Schoener: A double name should fix it. (No longer available online.) In: Website Nordsee-Zeitung. March 20, 2012, archived from the original on September 5, 2012 ; accessed on February 2, 2018 .  
18. ↑ Andreas Schoener: "Geestland" is the new favorite. (PDF; 246 KB) In: Website of the Geestland municipality. April 14, 2012, accessed on February 2, 2018 (excerpt from the Nordsee-Zeitung of April 14, 2012, front page).  
19. ↑ Andreas Schoener: Councilors vote for “Geestland”. (No longer available online.) In: Website Nordsee-Zeitung. April 24, 2012, archived from the original on September 8, 2012 ; accessed on February 2, 2018 .  
20. ^ Turnverein Langen from 1908 e. V. In: tvlangen.de. Retrieved May 19, 2019 .  
21. ^ TSV Sievern from 1911 e. V. In: tsvsievern.de. Retrieved on May 19, 2019 (currently switched off due to the new GDPR!).  
22. ↑ Seepark Clinic. In: kliniken-wesermuende.de. Archived from the original on April 30, 2012 ; accessed on May 19, 2019 .  
23. ↑ Paul Homann: Bremerhaven's route networks (ÖPNV) from June 26, 1881 to April 27, 2020. (PDF; 2.7 MB) In: Website BremerhavenBus. P. 100 (bookmark January 1, 2017) , accessed July 27, 2020 .  
24. ↑ Eberhard Michael Iba (Ed.): Hake Betken siene Duven. The saga of the Elbe and Weser estuaries (=  special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund at the Elbe and Weser estuaries . Volume 16 ). 3. Edition. Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1999, ISBN 3-931771-16-4 .