Detern

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 13 '  N , 7 ° 40'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Empty
Joint municipality :	Jümme
Height :	3 m above sea level NHN
Area :	43.3 km 2
Residents:	2760 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	64 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	26847
Area code :	04957
License plate :	LER
Community key :	03 4 57 006
Community structure:	7 districts
Association administration address:	Rathausring 8-12 26849 Filsum
Website :	www.detern.de
Mayor :	Franz-Gerhard Brakenhoff (Citizens pro Jümme)
Location of the municipality of Detern in the district of Leer

Detern is a small East Frisian community in northwest Germany . It belongs to the joint municipality of Jümme in the district of Leer in Lower Saxony (Germany).

geography

Geographical location

The place is about 50 kilometers from the border with the Netherlands and 50 kilometers from the North Sea coast. The Jümme flows through the community.

Community structure

• Amdorf
• Barge
• Detern
• Deternerlehe
• Neuburg
• Stickhausen
• Velde

history

The Battle of Detern took place near Detern on September 27, 1426 . The local fire brigade was formed with Stickhausen and Velde.

Place name

An old name Deterns was Dedarden / Detarden in 1752. The basic word of the place name probably goes back to "-ard" for "settlement, home". The first part of the place name has its origin in “thiotan” for “rustle, sound”, probably based on a water body name. It has the meaning "the noisy, rushing"; so probably "rushing water", as the Aper Tief is nearby. Accordingly, the place name stands for "settlement on the rushing water".

Incorporations

On January 1, 1973, the communities of Amdorf, Barge, Neuburg, Stickhausen and Velde were incorporated. The community lost the addition of stains .

politics

Municipal council

The Detern municipality council consists of 13 councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 2001 and 3000 inhabitants. The 13 council members are elected for five years each by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats	Change voices	Change seats
CDU	37.6%	5	−2.4%	0
SPD	34.7%	4th	+ 12.5%	+1
General voter community (AWG)	13.9%	2	−4.2%	0
Citizens per Jümme (BpJ)	13.8%	2	+ 13.8%	+2

The SPD recorded the greatest gains. Despite losses, the CDU remained the strongest party. FDP and Greens missed the entry into the municipal council. The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 56.5%, slightly above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%. For comparison - in the previous local election on September 11, 2011, the turnout was 58.4%.

mayor

Franz-Gerhard Brakenhoff (Bürger pro Jümme) has been honorary mayor of the Detern community since October 22, 2015. He replaced his predecessor Klaus-Dieter Bleeker (Bürger pro Jümme), who had been in office since November 2006, and left the local council on October 22, 2015.

Culture and sights

St. Stephen's and Bartholomew Church

Tower of Stickhausen Castle

Buildings

• Stickhausen Castle (built in 1498 by Hamburg merchants to protect against robbers. Round tower preserved to this day.)
• The classical St. Stephen and Bartholomew Church .

Nature reserves

The Barger Meer natural monument has been a nature reserve since 1941 and covers 6.3 hectares.

Sports

The gymnastics and sports club Detern e. V. offers football, tennis, badminton, athletics, gymnastics and gymnastics. The largest division is football, the first men's team plays in East Friesland class B and the second team in East Friesland class C. The women play in the district league again from the 2010/2011 season after a year of abstinence.

traffic

The Stickhausen-Velde depot is on the Oldenburg – Leer railway line . The trains pass the station without stopping.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Carl Heinrich Ihmels (1888–1967), Protestant theologian and publicist
• Bernhard Harms (1876–1939), economist

Web links

Commons : Detern  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Stickhausen in the Topographia Westphaliae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

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. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on January 26, 2016 ; accessed on March 11, 2019 . 
3. ^ 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. 262 .
4. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG); Section 46 - Number of Deputies. In: Lower Saxony Regulations Information System (NI-VORIS). December 17, 2010, accessed December 29, 2016.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Samtgemeinde Jümme - Detern municipal council election 2016. ( Memento from December 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved on December 29, 2016.
6. ↑ Local elections: All information, all results. In: www.hna.de. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
7. ↑ Joint municipality Jümme - overall result of local council election Detern 2011. ( Memento from December 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on December 29, 2016.
8. ^ Detern local council. ( Memento of March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved March 27, 2016.
9. ↑ Bleeker decides the choice in Detern for itself. In: www.oz-online.de. Retrieved December 29, 2016.