Lengerich (Emsland)

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '  N , 7 ° 32'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Emsland
Joint municipality :	Lengerich
Height :	41 m above sea level NHN
Area :	31.73 km 2
Residents:	2713 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	86 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	49838
Area code :	05904
License plate :	Tbsp
Community key :	03 4 54 031
Association administration address:	Mittelstrasse 15 49838 Lengerich
Website :	www.lengerich-emsland.de
Mayor :	Gerhard Wübbe ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Lengerich in the Emsland district

The municipality of Lengerich is the largest municipality in the combined municipality of Lengerich in the Emsland district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Lengerich is located on the northeastern edge of the Lingener Höhe, about 15 km east of the Ems and the city of Lingen .

Townscape

Due to the dense development in the town center, the community of Lengerich has the character of a clustered village , a type of settlement that is rarely found in the Emsland. Old, well-preserved or renovated residential and farmhouses complete this picture.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities in the north are the town of Haselünne and the community Dohren , in the east the communities Handrup and Wettrup , in the south the communities Andervenne , Freren and Thuine , in the west the communities Langen and Gersten .

history

The treasure trove of Lengerich (in the district Sudderwehe), consisting of Roman gold and silver coins as well as golden jewelry, is evidence of early settlement .

After the year 800 a half-timbered chapel was built on the site of today's market square. It was replaced around 1000 by a Romanesque stone church. Lengerich is first mentioned in a document in 890 AD as "Lengirichi", later as "Lengreke".

A fortified church was built around 1150 . It had a curtain wall, fortified gates and stone granaries. The lower part of the tower of today's Evangelical Reformed Church served the Lengerich people as a place of refuge.

Lengerich belonged to the county of Tecklenburg in the Middle Ages . After the defeat of the Tecklenburg Counts in the Schmalkaldic War , Lengerich became part of the County of Lingen in 1548 . A school in Lengerich is documented in 1550. In 1702 King Friedrich I inherited the County of Lingen, and Lengerich became Prussian . In 1807 Lengerich was occupied by Napoleon's French troops. During the French occupation, Lengerich belonged to the Ems department (from 1811 Département de l'Ems-Supérieur ). After the Congress of Vienna , Lengerich came to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1815 .

Stumbling block at Mühlenstrasse 1

In 1960, the then independent community of farmers Lengerich was incorporated.

On December 11, 2018, Gunter Demnig laid a total of 17 stumbling blocks in three locations in Lengerich .

Population development

	1880	1900	1933	1939	1950	2015
Lengerich farmers	969	977	1,235	1,228	1,504	k. A.
Lengerich village	499	511	566	737	756	k. A.
total	1,468	1,488	1,801	1.965	2,260	2,662

politics

Municipal council

The council has 13 elected members. As a result of the local elections in 2011, eleven of them belong to the CDU and two to the SPD .

Local elections 2016:

• CDU: 12 seats
• SPD: 1 seat

mayor

• Since 2006 Gerd Wübbe (CDU)
• 1980-2006 Josef Duisen (CDU)

Sports

Skiker on the riverside path on the north bank of the Saller See

The area around the Saller lake in the south of the village is in 2008 to a " Skike - Park " have been expanded. The Skike Park is the oldest of its kind in Germany.

SV Lengerich-Handrup

The SV Lengerich-Handrup eV is - next to the later founded VfL Handrup - the only sports club in the Emsland communities of Lengerich and Handrup and currently has around 900 members.

The sports club was founded on February 10, 1946 as the Lengerich sports club with the club colors "black and white". Two years later the club got its current name through the merger with the sports club Handrup, whereby the club colors were changed to today's "blue / white".

The most important, oldest and largest department of SV Lengerich-Handrup is the soccer department with three men's, one women's and nine youth teams. The first team of SV currently plays in the Möbel Wilken district league. In the 2005/2006 season, the former Finnish national player Marko Myyry was active as a player- coach in Lengerich. The women's team currently plays in the 1st district class middle / south. The club also offers volleyball, bowling, women's gymnastics, cardiovascular exercise, children's gymnastics, swimming, tennis, water aerobics and a running club.

Sports festivals

The Hoeketurnier takes place in Lengerich every two years . At the Hoeketurnier, teams selected from the individual fast evenings, hoeke or neighborhoods compete against each other in several disciplines. The soccer competition is the main focus.

Public facilities

Indoor swimming pool

The Lengerich indoor swimming pool was built in 1978 with a 16.66 meter long swimming pool with a lifting floor . Between 2018 and 2019, the entire bathroom was completely renovated. The indoor pool, now called LenieBad, celebrated its reopening on August 11, 2019.

Annual events

• Last Saturday in January "public fire brigade festival"
• Spring market (last Sunday in April)
• Marksmen of the shooting club Lengerich-peasantry eV (the weekend before Pentecost)
• Shooting festival of the Lengerich-Dorf eV shooting club (on the 2nd weekend in July)
• Lengericher Trecker Treck (on the 4th weekend in August)
• Fair (on the 2nd weekend in September)
• Nikolausmarkt (on the Sunday after St. Nicholas Day )
• Since 2017 Viking market in June

Ramings Mill

Attractions

Torhaus Lengerich in the Bürgerpark

• Ramings Mühle , a watermill that was built around 1550, with a bakery in an idyllic location in a wood.
• Evangelical Reformed church with a Romanesque tower and a late Gothic nave, with the largest medieval wall paintings in the Emsland.
• Catholic Church of St. Benedict , built 1870–74 in neo-Gothic style.
• Saller See recreation area , with a campsite, skike park, mini golf course , Kneipp bath and fishing opportunities (the southern part of the lake is in the area of ​​the municipality of Freren ).
• Gatehouse of the former Lengerich Castle in the Bürgerpark and the rest of the former moat. Today the gatehouse is maintained by the Heimatverein, rental options exist.

Personalities

People born in Lengerich

• Johannes Wübbe (born February 23, 1966), Auxiliary Bishop in Osnabrück since 2013

literature

• Teachers' association of the Diocese of Osnabrück: The Lingen district. Contributions to local studies in the Osnabrück administrative district, volume I , R. van Acken publishing house, Lingen / Ems 1905
• 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
• Christoph Oberthür, Franz Busche, Franz Barth, Heinrich Dünheuft: Home map of the Lingen district with statistical information , Verlag R. van Acken, Lingen / Ems 1953
• Ernst Förstemann , Hermann Jellinghaus (editor): Old German Name Book , Volume II, 1 and 2: Place names , Bonn 1913/1916 (Reprint of Volume II, 2: Hildesheim 1967/1983, ISBN 3-487-01733-4 )

Web links

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

• Site of the Lengerich community
• Lengerich local archive
• Writings on heimatarchiv.de (concerns Lengerich)

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. ↑ Law on the merger of the municipalities of the Lengerich and Lengerich village from October 1, 1960
3. ↑ In the Lingen daily mail of November 5, 2018: "Soon 17 stumbling blocks in Lengerich"
4. ↑ https://lengerich.more-rubin1.de/gremien_pers.php
5. ↑ https://www.noz.de/lokales/lengerich/artikel/380078/lengericher-ehrenburgermeister-josef-duisen-starb-im-alter-von-70-jahren New Osnabrück newspaper on December 14, 2011: "Lengericher Ehrenbürgermeister Josef Duisen died at the age of 70 "; accessed on September 23, 2018
6. ^ Touristik-Verein Freren-Lengerich-Spelle eV: SKIKE Park Saller See
7. ↑ New trend sport at Saller See in Freren. First skike park opened in Germany - "Easy to learn sport"  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Grafschafter news . September 26, 2008  
8. ^ SV Lengerich-Handrup Retrieved June 15, 2012.
9. ↑ LenieBad is officially opened . In: Lingen daily mail . August 10, 2019.