Lotte (Westphalia)
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Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ' N , 7 ° 55' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
Administrative region : | Muenster | |
Circle : | Steinfurt | |
Height : | 66 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 37.71 km 2 | |
Residents: | 14,095 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 374 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 49504 | |
Primaries : | 05404, 0541, 05405 | |
License plate : | ST, BF, TE | |
Community key : | 05 5 66 048 | |
LOCODE : | DE LOT | |
Community structure: | 4 districts | |
Address of the municipal administration: |
Westerkappelner Strasse 19 49504 Lotte |
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Mayor : | Rainer Lammers ( SPD ) | |
Location of the Lotte community in the Steinfurt district | ||
Lotte ( Low German Luote ) is a municipality in the Westphalian region of Tecklenburger Land ( Steinfurt district ). In its current expansion, the municipality emerged on January 1, 1975 from the Lotte office, to which the previously independent municipalities Lotte and Wersen belonged. Nationwide, the community is best known for the Lotte / Osnabrück motorway junction and the former third division soccer team Sportfreunde Lotte . Due to the direct border location to the Lower Saxon city of Osnabrück, the municipality is one of their metropolitan areas .
geography
Geographical location
Lotte is located in the very north of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Community structure
The Lotte area comprises a total of four districts:
Neighboring communities
The municipality is surrounded by a total of six cities and municipalities. Lotte borders the Tecklenburger rural communities of Westerkappeln and Tecklenburg in the south and west . The Osnabrück region in Lower Saxony borders in the north and east . These are the cities of Osnabrück and Bramsche and the communities of Wallenhorst and Hasbergen .
![]() Bramsche 15 km |
![]() Wallenhorst 11 km |
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![]() Westerkappeln 5 km |
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![]() Osnabrück 9 km |
![]() Tecklenburg 9 km |
![]() Hasbergen 7 km |
history
Prehistoric times
In the area of the municipality of Lotte there are three grave systems of the Neolithic funnel cup culture , see large stone graves near Wersen .
Middle Ages to 1400
The history of the village Lotte (now Alt-Lotte) and the peasantry Osterberg is closely related, yet both towns are not formed together. Lotte once belonged to the parish of St. Marien in Osnabrück and Osterberg in what is now the Tecklenburg district of Leeden .
Osterberg was first mentioned in a document as early as 1251. In this document, the knight Hermann Hake donated the Catherine Altar to Iburg to the Osterberg farm. Lotte first appeared in a document in 1272, when the Gertrudenberg Monastery was given ownership of villa Lothe dicta ac in Dhuthe (in the village of Lotte and in Düte) by Bishop Konrad von Osnabrück. On February 26, 1312 Count Otto III founded. of Tecklenburg the parish Lotte. The new church in Lotte was consecrated on December 4, 1315. This ended the Sunday lottery walk to St. Marien in Osnabrück, of which the street name Lotter Kirchweg still reminds us today.
1400 to 1600
In 1410, the Osterberg estate was sold to build a male monastery for the fraternal lords . The small monastery community was evidently not viable in the long term. In 1427 the fraternal lords handed the Osterberg monastery over to the general chapter of the Kreuzherren , who occupied the monastery with canons from Cologne . The monastery has been an important institution for the community for over 200 years. Big disputes between the monastery and Count Konrad von Tecklenburg broke out when he converted to the Protestant faith. Until 1538 the canons tried to oppose the will of the count. But this culminated in the expulsion of the Lords of the Cross and the appropriation of the monastery property by the count. It was not until 1552 that the Lords of the Cross won protracted legal disputes over the monastery and returned after the death of Count Konrad in 1557. In 1574 the Reformation was introduced in Lotte and in 1580 the first school was built in Lotte.
1600 to 1900
In 1618, Count Adolf von Tecklenburg seized the Osterberg monastery and placed it under secular administration. On March 6, 1629 Emperor Ferdinand ordered the return of all confiscated goods and pens to the Catholics with the edict of restitution . During the Thirty Years War , Swedish troops occupied the monastery in 1633, after which the canons finally left it.
The founding of the Count's rifle club Lotte dates back to 1659. From this time a sign with the inscription Lotte Anno 1659 and a silver bird on the Lotter rifle chain have been preserved. With the sale of the county of Tecklenburg in 1707 Lotte came into Prussian possession.
On November 18, 1810, the first mayor's office was established in Lotte. In 1832 and 1850 there was a wave of emigration in the Tecklenburger Land. At that time 147 people emigrated from Lotte, some to the Netherlands, but mostly to North America. On December 6, 1844, the Lotte office was set up, in which the municipalities of Lotte and Wersen were combined.
1900 until today
The new school on Osnabrücker Strasse was built between 1910 and 1911. With the local government reform on 1 January 1975. henceforth Lotte and Wersen formed the unified community Lotte. From then on, the settlement focus was concentrated in the area of Wersen / Büren, due to the better location to Osnabrück. This resulted in the relocation of the municipal administration from Lotte to Wersen. The districts of Alt-Lotte, Büren, Halen, Osterberg and Wersen, which have a local character or are designated as a closed village, are part of today's Lotte municipality. The Lotte community is still very closely connected to the city of Osnabrück and can be seen as an Osnabrück suburb.
Population development
Lotte parish
Population development in the municipality of Lotte:
date | population |
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December 31, 1985 | 10,307 |
December 31, 1990 | 10,593 |
December 31, 1995 | 11,594 |
December 31, 2000 | 12,974 |
December 31, 2005 | 13,677 |
December 31, 2010 | 13,912 |
December 31, 2015 | 14,175 |
December 31, 2017 | 14,121 |
politics
Local election 2014
The local election was scheduled for May 25, 2014. On the same day, in addition to the Lotte local council, the European Parliament and the district council were re-elected. The office of mayor was not up for election as in some neighboring communes. The turnout in the local elections was 47.1%.
Municipal Council:
Current distribution of seats in the municipal council:
Local election 2009
The local elections took place on August 30, 2009. The district administrator, the district council, the mayor and the local council were elected. The turnout was 44.0%.
mayor
Mayor of Lotte has been Rainer Lammers (SPD) since 2004. He was directly re-elected in the 2015 mayoral election with an absolute majority of 88% in the first ballot. There was no opponent. The next mayoral election will take place in 2020.
Municipal council
Allocation of seats in the municipal council 2009-2014:
- SPD : 11 seats (± 0)
- CDU : 8 (9) *) seats (-1)
- FDP : 3 seats (+1)
- GREEN : 3 seats (± 0)
- independent 1 (-) *) seat
*) When a parliamentary group member left the party, the CDU parliamentary group had one seat less than it would be entitled to after the election result.
coat of arms
Blazon : "In red a silver oblique left wave bar, above a fallen golden anchor, below a silver lily pad." | |
Coats of arms: The coats of arms of the former municipalities Lotte and Wersen are reflected in this coat of arms.
The diagonal wavy bar indicates the Düte. The fallen anchor comes from the coat of arms of the bailiff of the sovereign (von Harde family), who lived in Lotte in the 16th century. The lily pad symbolizes the affiliation to the Tecklenburger Land. |
- Coat of arms until 1975
Parish partnership
There has been a partnership with the French Lys-lez-Lannoy since 1991 . This is a municipality neighboring the city of Roubaix in northern France. At the moment, mainly club representatives from both municipalities (especially the members of the art circle, motorcycle enthusiasts and representatives of the sports clubs) as well as municipal representatives visit each other every year.
Evangelical Church Lotte
The Protestant church is a typical architectural monument of the village Gothic in the region. It was built between 1312 and 1315. The main features of the church building are
- Domical vault with two side niches on the west side
- stylized crown of thorns as a round window
- Early Gothic rectangular hall with Art Nouveau windows in the south wall
- Baroque organ prospect from 1684
- Flemish chandelier from 1777.
A special feature is the leaning, west-sloping tower, curious is the imprint of a hand with six fingers in a pillar on the north wall.
Personalities
The family of the later bishop of the Evangelical Church of Hesse-Nassau, Pastor Martin Niemöller , comes from (today's Lotter district) Wersen. Pastor Martin Niemöller lived in Wersen after the First World War and was buried there. After he initially had an attitude that was very loyal to the German Emperor, he came into resistance during the Nazi era and was active there in the "Confessing Church".
Sons and daughters of the place
- Rudolf Wulff (1786–1856), German colonel and member of parliament
- Heinrich Wessel (1904–1996), SS-Obersturmführer and adjutant to the camp commandant in Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Overview
The Lotte community is conveniently located at the intersection of the A 1 and A 30 motorways .
The Löhne – Rheine (Hanover – Amsterdam) railway with the Lotte (Tecklenburg) depot crosses the municipality, but the trains on this route do not stop in the municipality. The only active stopping point is in the Halen district on the Oldenburg – Osnabrück railway line .
The Muenster / Osnabrueck Airport is located about 25 kilometers away and is easily accessible by highway.
Road traffic
The junction Lotte / Osnabrück , the on the motorways A 1 ( European route E 37 ) and A 30 ( E 30 intersect) is located on municipal land. It was opened in 1968 and since then has offered a quick connection to the German and European motorway network.
The municipality of Lotte is connected to the trunk road network via the motorways and junctions listed below :
- A 1 Bremen - Osnabrück - Münster (junction 71 Osnabrück-Hafen)
- A 30 Amsterdam - Osnabrück - Bad Oeynhausen (junctions 13 Lotte and 15 Hasbergen-Gaste).
In addition, the following state roads run through the municipality and thus establish the connection to the neighboring municipalities:
- L 501 Rheine - Ibbenbüren - Lotte - Osnabrück
- L 589 Lengerich - Tecklenburg-Leeden - Lotte
- L 597 Ladbergen - Tecklenburg - Lotte
- L 595 Hopsten - Recke - Westerkappeln - Lotte - Osnabrück
Local public transport
Lotte has a local public transport network that focuses on connections in the direction of Osnabrück. From 1949 to 1968 there was a connection to the trolleybuses of Stadtwerke Osnabrück , which drove from Osnabrück (Rißmüllerplatz) to Eversburg-Büren. A city bus has been running here since the catenary operation was discontinued.
The municipal area is also crossed by three railway lines. The Lotte depot (Kr Tecklenburg) is on the Löhne – Rheine railway line , but all trains pass through it without stopping. However, there are considerations to reactivate the station or to move it to a more favorable location.
In the district of Wersen there was also a train station on the Tecklenburger Nordbahn (Osnabrück - Recke - Rheine). This has not been served by regular passenger trains since 1967, but by museum trains. As part of a planned reactivation of the Tecklenburger Nordbahn between Recke and Osnabrück, regional trains are scheduled to stop again in Wersen.
The only stop currently in operation is in the Halen district on the Oldenburg – Osnabrück railway line . The RB 58 ( Delmenhorst – Hesepe railway line ) stops there every hour .
commuter
Lotte is a classic out-commuter community in which significantly more people commute than commute. The number of out-commuters in 2015 was 6,228 people, the in-commuters 3,534. The most important places of work for the Lotter population are Osnabrück, Westerkappeln and Ibbenbüren. In addition to the inbound commuters, 1421 Lotter citizens are also employed locally, which results in a total of 4955 social security employees.
Commuters
workplace | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
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Osnabrück | 3167 | 3193 | 3122 |
Westerkappeln | 276 | 346 | 405 |
Ibbenbueren | 234 | 244 | 247 |
Wallenhorst | 195 | 198 | 218 |
Georgsmarienhütte | 204 | 209 | 211 |
Hasbergen | 183 | 190 | 183 |
Bramsche | 132 | 139 | 135 |
Muenster | 112 | 112 | 111 |
Tecklenburg | 104 | 102 | 99 |
Mettingen | 99 | 96 | 95 |
Commuters
place of residence | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
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Osnabrück | 836 | 864 | 904 |
Westerkappeln | 411 | 409 | 404 |
Ibbenbueren | 285 | 273 | 276 |
Wallenhorst | 169 | 173 | 171 |
Mettingen | 157 | 143 | 155 |
Bramsche | 127 | 123 | 127 |
Georgsmarienhütte | 96 | 115 | 112 |
Hasbergen | 81 | 89 | 89 |
Warrior | 88 | 85 | 84 |
Tecklenburg | k. A. | 61 | 61 |
Lengerich | 65 | k. A. | k. A. |
Established businesses
Important companies are, for example, Elster Kromschröder , Vedes -spielwaren and Lekkerland with their profit center . The company headquarters of the tool and system manufacturer FRIMO is also located in Alt-Lotte. Furthermore, the family company Wulff GmbH u. Co. KG , wholesaler for car paints , marine paints and building paints as well as manufacturer of adhesives and fillers, has had its headquarters at Lotte train station for over 120 years.
education
In the municipality of Lotte, a comprehensive basic supply with doctors, dentists, shopping centers, supply and disposal companies, schools, kindergartens, libraries, sports facilities, etc. is ensured. There are seven kindergartens in the districts of Lotte. The three primary schools in the districts of Büren, Wersen and Alt-Lotte offer open all-day care. In the district of Wersen there is a location of the five-class Lotte-Westerkappeln comprehensive school founded in 2014/15 with a bound all-day operation. Years 8 to 10 will be accommodated here from the 2020/21 school year. The comprehensive school has replaced the former secondary school in Wersen and the former secondary school in Westerkappeln. The three-course upper level is under construction at the Westerkappeln location 3.5 km away. The first year will start in the upper secondary school in 2020. The private Krüger school (boarding school) with a vocational college for business and administration is also located in Wersen. Other secondary schools are available in the neighboring communities of Westerkappeln, Mettingen, Tecklenburg and Osnabrück.
For the older generation there are numerous meeting places, a service residential complex for assisted living and the senior citizens' home "Zwei Eichen". Youth centers in Alt-Lotte and Wersen offer a wide range of open youth work. The community library is spread over three locations in Wersen, Lotte and Büren.
See also
List of architectural monuments in Lotte (Westphalia)
Web links
- Official website of the municipality
- Lotte (Westphalia) in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
- http://www.habenschule-lowe.de/
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
- ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X .
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated August 14, 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. LWL - The municipality of Lotte
- ↑ http://www.gemeinde-lotte.de/startseite/ueber-lotte.html Internet site of the Lotte community - About Lotte
- ↑ http://www.te-gen.de/index.php?id=160 Familienforschung Tecklenburger Land - Ortschaft Lotte
- ↑ “From 2839 to over 14000 inhabitants” in Westfälische Nachrichten of February 12, 2017; accessed on January 11, 2019.
- ↑ IT.NRW: Municipal profile - short version (pdf)
- ↑ election results.nrw.de
- ↑ Results of the mayoral elections 2015 Website of the Lotte municipality, accessed on September 18, 2015
- ↑ election results.nrw.de
- ↑ Internet presence of the Protestant parish Lotte
- ^ Initially it was called Station 64: Lotte Station: Stop for a Healer , in: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung of June 28, 2012
- ↑ https://www.pendleratlas.nrw.de/ Data from the Lotte community