Lathen

This article deals with the community of Lathen, for the writer Emma Lathen see there

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 52 '  N , 7 ° 19'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Emsland
Joint municipality :	Lathen
Height :	13 m above sea level NHN
Area :	38.01 km 2
Residents:	6711 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	177 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	49762
Area code :	05933
License plate :	Tbsp
Community key :	03 4 54 029
Community structure:	5 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Grosse Strasse 3 49762 Lathen
Website :	lathen.de
Mayoress :	Luise Redenius-Heber ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Lathen in the district of Emsland

Lathen is a municipality in the district of Emsland , Lower Saxony . It is the administrative seat of the Lathen municipality .

geography

Geographical location

Lathen is located between Dörpen and Haren on the Ems and on the Dortmund-Ems Canal , on federal road 70 , the Münster - Emden railway line ( Emsland line ) and close to federal motorway 31 . Eight kilometers east of the town center begins the Hümmling , a wooded Geest ridge .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities in the north are the communities Fresenburg and Renkenberge , in the east the community Sögel in the joint municipality of the same name, in the south the town of Haren and in the west the communities Oberlangen , Sustrum and Niederlangen .

Community structure

In addition to the main town of Lathen, Kathen-Frackel, Hilter, Kathen-Siedlung, Dünefehn and Lathen-Wahn belong to the municipality.

history

Lathen first appeared in 854 as "Lodon". It is one of the very old localities and was important even before the transition of the north to Corvey in 834 and at the time of Christianization under Charlemagne . It can be assumed that Lodon represents the capital and center of the Gau in the conversion of Agredingo, which took place under the direction of the mission bishop of Osnabrück, by the mission cell in Meppen . Speaks for it

• that near Lathen on the Flütenberg near Düthe there was probably the ancient people's court of the Gau,
• that the Church of Lathen before Corvey went to St. Vitus was consecrated, St. John the Baptist was his patron (now a co-patron) and probably the main and mother church of the Gau, which can be found nowhere else, was and
• that Corvey himself, although Lathen tried to push it back out of consideration for his headquarters in Meppen, set up a Curia (administrative and tax office) encompassing the northern part of the north, including the Hümmling.

origin of the name

The oldest name Lodon , which is added around 1000 Lodun , can mean Lode , Schößling, so that on or un should be understood as the basic word and lod as the defining word. But you can just as easily separate: lo-don, i.e. wood or clearing in wood on or near a dune. Don and dun appear next to each other in Old Low German. The spelling of plumb bobs is only found in later Corveyer records, the details of which cannot be precisely dated and can range from around 1100 to 1400. The name goes back to the same Germanic origin as London. The Ems shares its name with the Thames in the same way.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1973, the communities Hilter (Ems) and Kathen-Frackel were incorporated.

• 

  Aerial photo of Lathen (2013)

• 

  former Marienheim hospital (now nursing home)

• 

  SV Rasensport Lathen, Meppener Strasse

Municipal council

The last four local elections in Lathen had the following results:

Town hall in Lathen

Parties and constituencies		2016		2011		2006		2001		Municipal election 2016  % 60 50 40 30th 20th 10 0 57.15% 36.27% 6.58% n. k. CDU SPD Green FDP Gains and losses compared to 2011  % p    8th    6th    4th    2    0   -2   -4   -6   -8th -7.82  % p + 7.30  % p + 2.41  % p -1.88  % p CDU SPD Green FDP
		%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	57.15	11	64.97	11	72.54	12	69.73	13
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	36.27	7th	28.97	5	22.38	4th	25.85	4th
GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	6.58	1	4.17	1	-	-	-	-
FDP	Free Democratic Party	-	-	1.88	-	5.08	1	4.42	-
total		100	19th	100	17th	100	17th	100	17th
voter turnout		48.93%		48.82%		49.13%

Honorary citizen

Erna de Vries is an honorary citizen of Lathen . The survivor of the Holocaust , born in Kaiserslautern in 1923, was married to Josef de Vries, who was born in Lathen and who spent six years in German concentration camps as a Jew.

On May 17, 1991, the municipality of Lathen was granted honorary citizenship for the first time. At that time, Heinrich Middendorf, mayor until 1997, and head of administration Wilhelm Eiken handed over the certificate and the ring of honor to Hermann Frerker (1912–1993) in “recognition of his services to research into local history”. In the Ems-Zeitung of May 21, 1991 it was further to read that “the life path of the medicin known far beyond the borders of the Emsort began in Ankum ... 1950 the Frerkers settled in Lathen, Dr. Hermann Frerker opened a practice here ... In a dedicated effort to research into home and family history, Dr. Frerker keep records and collect documents. He was a regular guest in state archives and in the archives of the Corvey Monastery. Folder after folder filled up and the 'Frerkersche Archive' quickly became an indispensable reference work for local culture and history ... Hardly anyone who dealt with local, church, family or club history came off without expert advice Dr. Frerker from ... ".

Infrastructure

Lathen has a station for Regional Express trains (RE 15) on the Rheine – Norddeich Mole railway line ( Emsland line ). The Lathen – Werlte railway branches off in Lathen .

There are also buses from the train station to Sögel and the villages belonging to the Lathen municipality.

Several long-distance cycle paths and local cycle paths lead through the municipality of Lathen .

• The Dortmund-Ems Canal Route is a 350 km long and almost incline-free long-distance cycle path that connects the Ruhr area with the North Sea coast .
• The Ems cycle path begins at the Ems source in the village of Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock on the edge of the Teutoburg Forest and follows the Ems over a distance of 375 km.
• The United Countries Tour is an approx. 600 km long circuit through the northern and central Emsland to the left of the Ems, through the border areas of the Dutch provinces of Drenthe and Groningen and the northern county of Bentheim .
• Local circular routes are left and right of the Ems (74 km) and the United Countries Tour - Smokkelroute (157 km).

Culture and sights

• Business premises of the " Transrapid-Versuchsanlage Emsland " (TVE; closed, see also Transrapid accident in Lathen ).
• Windmill from 1818 in the Hilter district
• St. Vitus Church in Lathen
• Market fountain

• 

  Transrapid

• 

  Windmill Hilter

• 

  Market fountain decorated at Easter (2011)

• 

  Town hall Lathen (Easter 2018)

literature

• 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 )
• Hermann Abels: The place names of the Emsland, in their linguistic and cultural-historical significance , Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 1929
• Heinz Pinkernell: At that time in Lathen , Verlag Kenning, Nordhorn 2001, ISBN 3933613507

Web links

Commons : Lathen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official homepage of the joint municipality
• Local history association Lathen

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. ^ 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. 252 .
3. ^ Samtgemeinde Lathen - Result of the Lathen municipal election 2016