Lohne (Wietmarschen)
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community Wietmarschen
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 50 ″ N , 7 ° 13 ′ 32 ″ E
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| Height : | 27 m above sea level NN | |
| Residents : | 7291 (Feb. 1, 2017) | |
| Postal code : | 49835 | |
| Primaries : | 05908, 0591 | |
Location of Lohne in Lower Saxony |
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 St. Antonius in Lohne
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Lohne is a basic center and seat of the unified community Wietmarschen in Lower Saxony Grafschaft Bentheim . With 7,291 inhabitants (2017), Lohne is the largest town in the municipality.
geography
location
The place is southeast of Wietmarschen on the federal highway 213 ( Nordhorn - Lingen - Bremen ). The A 31 ( Emden - Bottrop ) runs not far to the west . The Nordhorn air / ground shooting range is located five kilometers to the southwest and Nordhorn-Lingen airfield to the west .
North, the 145 is hectare large nature reserve Moor Schlatts and Gentiles in Wachendorf .
The Ems and Dortmund-Ems Canal run five kilometers to the east . The Ems-Vechte Canal crosses the local area four kilometers to the south .
Neighboring places
Lohne borders in the east on Schepsdorf and Herzford (both town of Lingen), in the south on Elbergen (municipality of Emsbüren ), in the west on Klausheide (town of Nordhorn), in the north-west on Lohnerbruch and in the north on Nordlohne (both township of Wietmarschen).
history
The place Lohne was first mentioned in 1152 and 1154 when the Sünte Marienrode monastery was founded . The place names Südlohne , Mittellohne , Nordlohne and Lohne appeared on the Oerde as early as 1285 . In the 14th century it belonged to the possessions of the bishops of Münster , who resided at Herzford Castle (today Lingen).
The Church of St. Antonius was built between 1849 and 1851. It was demolished in 1970 and replaced by a new building in 1972.
In 1870 the Ems-Vechte Canal was built through the municipality with the help of French prisoners of war and opened in 1879.
After the First World War , the German Wasteland Culture (Dökult) drained a few thousand hectares of swamp and wasteland in the Lohner field and made them usable as agricultural land.
In 1933 the fire brigade was founded in Lohne.
Ein and Umgemeindungen
Until February 28, 1974, Lohne formed the municipality of Schepsdorf-Lohne in the district of Lingen with Nordlohne, Lohnerbruch, Herzford and Schepsdorf . While Schepsdorf was incorporated into the city of Lingen, the other parts of the municipality were combined with the municipalities of Wietmarschen, Schwartenpohl and Wachendorf to form the new municipality of Wietmarschen. During the district reform on August 1, 1977, the new community was incorporated into the Grafschaft Bentheim district. In 1978 the towns of Herzford and Wachendorf were renegotiated to the town of Lingen.
Culture and sights
In Lohner Sand , a nature trail and a Bee Trail was established. Cultural monuments are the preserved remains of large stone graves in the vicinity.
Economy and Infrastructure
In Lohne there are four kindergartens, a primary school, a high school and a public library. The Kulturkreis Lohne is committed to the preservation of historical buildings and runs a local museum.
traffic
Lohne can be reached via two bus routes operated by the Emsland-Süd transport association: bus route 161 from Wietmarschen to Lingen and bus route 165 from Nordhorn to Lingen. The tariffs of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Grafschaft Bentheim apply . Line 165 runs every hour during rush hour. At certain times of the year, route 161 is equipped as a Fietsenbus on Saturdays and Sundays . The Fietsenbus has a trailer that allows passengers to carry bicycles with them. In Lingen at the ZOB you have a connection to the trains of the Deutsche Bahn AG and to other bus lines of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Emsland-Süd.
Personalities
- August Perk (1897–1945), resistance fighter from Lohne
- Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), writer, worked as a teacher in Lohne from 1919 to 1920
- Franz Schoo (1899–1970), trade unionist, MdL (1951–1955), born in Lohne
- Hermann Lange (1912–1943), priest, chaplain in Lohne in 1939, was one of the Lübeck martyrs , beatified in 2011
- Reinhold Hilbers (* 1964), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament, councilor of the Wietmarschen community (1986–2011), Lower Saxony finance minister (since 2017), lives in Lohne
- Holger Waldmann (1964–2011), soccer referee, lived in Lohne
Web links
- Pay on the website of the municipality of Wietmarschen
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Numbers of the Wietmarschen community
- ^ Districts of the municipality of Wietmarschen
- ↑ Kulturkreis Lohne, Heimatmuseum
- ↑ Timetable lines 161/165. In: meyering-verkehr.de. Retrieved May 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated August 8, 2007 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.
