Neuenkirchen (Schwanewede)

Neuenkirchen Schwanewede municipality
Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 3 ″  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 16 ″  E
Height :	5 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.81 km²
Residents :	3477  (Jun. 30, 2018)
Population density :	207 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	28790
Area code :	0421
Location of Neuenkirchen in Lower Saxony
Location of Neuenkirchen in the municipality of Schwanewede

Neuenkirchen ( Ne'enkarken in Low German ) is a district of the Schwanewede community in the Osterholz district in Lower Saxony .

geography

location

Neuenkirchen is located on the east bank of the Unterweser at the northwestern end of the Geestrücken in Bremen Switzerland . The Bremer districts of Rekum and Farge in the southeast , which originally belonged to the parish of Neuenkirchen , are located south of the town and town limits . The Osterstader March begins north of Neuenkirchen .

structure

The localities belong to the district:

• Göspe
• Actuator break
• Advance

history

In 1588 the village received market rights .

In October 1943, the Farge concentration camp was established in the Neuenkirchener Heide . There in the heathland between Farge, Neuenkirchen, Lüssum and Schwanewede there was already a work education camp of the Gestapo control center in Bremen, which had previously been set up in the Neuenkirchen community naval camp . In May 1945, the community marine camp became a US Army hospital, which later became the Evangelical Hospital Neuenkirchen .

In 1966 the joint community of Neuenkirchen was formed.

For the territorial reform in Lower Saxony , the previously independent municipality of Neuenkirchen was incorporated into the municipality of Schwanewede on March 1, 1974.

politics

Local council

In Ortsrat eight councilors following parties are represented:

• SPD : 4 seats
• CDU : 2 seats
• Schwanewede community of voters : 2 seats

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor of Neuenkirchen is Angelika Cordes (SPD). Your deputy is Frank Schneider (SPD).

coat of arms

The design of the municipal coat of arms of Neuenkirchen comes from the heraldist and coat of arms painter Albert de Badrihaye , who designed around 80 coats of arms in the district of Cuxhaven. On August 25, 1967, the municipal coat of arms was created and approved by the district president in Stade and thus received official significance as a municipal seal.

Blazon : "In shields divided by red and silver , above a silver church tower with a black gate and two black sound windows , accompanied on the right and left by a silver upright linden leaf , below ared bar slanting to the right ."

Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms indicates the Michaelsturm as a local landmark, which was built around 1100 as a defense tower. The two linden leaves symbolize the former court of Neuenkirchen. The silver shield with the red bar on the right is the coat of arms of the noble family “von Stelle”, who among others acted as builders of the church and thus are remembered as an important family of the place.

Culture and sights

Evangelical Reformed Michael Church

The predecessor of the “new” church was built in the 9th century. At the end of the 11th century, this church received a stone defense tower. At that time, a ministerial family of the Archbishop of Bremen was enfeoffed with the court office in Neuenkirchen , which was sold to the city of Bremen in the 15th century . In 1192 the nave was rebuilt from field stones. Since then the place has been called Nygenkerken ( Neuenkirchen ). In 1768 the dilapidated nave of the field stone church was torn down while the Romanesque west tower was preserved and replaced by today's brick building in simple baroque forms.

Museums

Since 2007/2008 the Heimatverein Neuenkirchen e. V. in a historic barrack, which is located on the site of the Weser-Geest barracks of the Bundeswehr , which was dissolved in 2004, and the former community camp, naval hospital and Protestant hospital in Neuenkirchen in the Neuenkirchener Heide, the museum facility Baracke Wilhelmine ( documentation and learning place barrack Wilhelmine ). The project, funded by the community exhibition project documented in a small regional museum, the history of use of the site and is also a memorial to the forced laborers of the Nazi - labor camp and the victims of the concentration camp Farge or the construction of submarine bunker Valentin in Bremen - Rekum . A separate exhibition area deals with the topic of " Lebensborn " and the former Lebensborn home "Haus Friesland" in the Hohehorst manor on Gut Hohehorst near Löhnhorst .

The Association of History Trail Lagerstraße / U-Boot-Bunker Valentin e. V. runs the exhibition project and museum Baracke 27 in Neuenkirchen.

traffic

Neuenkirchen is served by the bus lines of Bremer Straßenbahn AG as well as bus lines from other transport companies or companies of the Bremen / Lower Saxony transport association (VBN):

• Bus line 90: Neuenkirchen– Gröpelingen
• Bus line N7: Neuenkirchen – Hauptbahnhof
• Bus route 650: Neuenkirchen - Schwanewede - Osterholz-Scharmbeck
• School bus route 643: Neuenkirchen – Rade – Haariersand

literature

• Martin Baake: From the past and present of the village of NEUENKIRCHEN. Published by Friedrich Pörtner, Bremen / Blumenthal, 1983

Web links

Commons : Neuenkirchen  - Collection of images

• Neuenkirchen on the website of the community Schwanewede
• Local family register Neuenkirchen
• Heimatfreunde Neuenkirchen e. V.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Data and facts: population figures and area sizes of the individual localities. In: Website of the community of Schwanewede. June 30, 2018, accessed March 13, 2019.
2. ↑ Information on the various camps in Bremen-Farge and Schwanewede. In: Relict.com. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
3. ↑ Documentation and learning location “Baracke Wilhelmine”: From the Nazi barracks camp to the hospital. In: Heimat-Rundblick. History, culture, nature. No. 100, 1/2012 ( spring 2012 ). Druckerpresse-Verlag, ISSN  2191-4257 , pp. 26-27.
4. ^ 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. 244 .
5. ↑ ^{a b} Neuenkirchen - Council members of the SPD. ( Memento from September 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: SPD Schwanewede website. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
6. ^ Neuenkirchen - Council members of the CDU. In: CDU Schwanewede website. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
7. ^ Neuenkirchen - Council members of the Schwanewede voter community. In: Website WG Schwanewede. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
8. ↑ Landkreis Wesermünde (Ed.): Coat of arms of the Landkreis Wesermünde . Grassé Offset Verlag, Bremerhaven / Wesermünde 1973, ISBN 3-9800318-0-2 .
9. ↑ ^{a b} Chronicle - design of coat of arms by Albert de Badrihaye. In: Website Heimatfreunde Neuenkirchen from 1960 e. V. Accessed March 5, 2018 . 
10. ^ ^{A b} Martin Baake: From the past and present of the village of Neuenkirchen . Friedrich Pörtner Verlag, Bremen / Blumenthal 1983 (coat of arms taken from the cover / front page).
11. ↑ Wilko Jäger : Resilient and defiant through the ages. In: Heimat-Rundblick . History, culture, nature. No. 100, 1/2012 ( spring 2012 ). Druckerpresse-Verlag , ISSN  2191-4257 , pp. 28-29.
12. ^ Documentation and learning location Baracke Wilhelmine. In: www.baracke-wilhelmine.de. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
13. ↑ Documentation and memorial site on the history trail Lagerstraße / U-Boot-Bunker Valentin e. V. In: www.geschichtslehrpfad.de. Retrieved August 13, 2018.