Neugnadenfeld
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Neugnadenfeld
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Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 43 ″ N , 6 ° 58 ′ 12 ″ E
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| Height : | 17 m above sea level NN | |
| Residents : | 719 (Dec. 31, 2013) | |
| Postal code : | 49824 | |
| Area code : | 05944 | |
Location of Neugnadenfeld in Lower Saxony |
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Neugnadenfeld is one of three districts in the municipality of rings in Lower Saxony . The community is a member of the Emlichheim community . Rings borders the Netherlands in the north, the Emsland district in the east, the municipality of Hoogstede in the south and the municipality of Emlichheim in the west . A total of around 2000 people live in the community, 650 of them in the districts of Großringe and Kleinringe and 700 in Neugnadenfeld.
Origin of the place
Neugnadenfeld was founded in 1946 in the former barrack camp for Soviet prisoners of war Alexisdorf . The government of Lower Saxony presented at the instigation of leading members of the Moravian Church of the Evangelical Free Church the camp as a gathering place for their scattered through the chaos of war members available.
Within a few months, hundreds of refugees from Central Poland, West and East Prussia , Poznan and Pomerania came to the camp, which soon housed more than 1000 people. The local church leadership gave the new settlement the name "Neugnadenfeld" based on Gnadenfeld near Cosel in Upper Silesia , a center of the Moravian Brethren.
From the beginning there were plans to build a completely new Moravian settlement. In 1949 the final form of the development plan was available. Soon afterwards, the Grafschaft Bentheim district and the cultural office in Meppen as well as the Hannoversche Siedlungsgesellschaft took the decision to expand the barracks camp. From the beginning of the 1950s to 1963, a total of 109 small settlements (residential buildings and stables with 0.5 to 2 hectares of land) and 10 large estates (farms with 15 to 20 hectares of land) were built in two construction phases Refugee families distributed.
The local arrangement corresponds to the tradition according to which the Moravian Brethren's settlements were built: In the center of the village there is a central square where the church is located and all the important roads lead to it. The existing warehouse streets were integrated into the plan. The tree plantings on the larger streets in the village have now grown into large avenues . The necessary construction work was carried out by joint work columns, whose work was coordinated by the church leadership. Global aid organizations and other congregations of the Brothers' Union, but also local farmers from the surrounding area, provided important help for the development of the place.
The greatest gift was made by a Dutch aid organization: They had a fully equipped kindergarten built and paid for a kindergarten teacher for the first year. From 1967 the first houses were built by private individuals in a new building area. This construction activity continued in the following decades and continues to this day.
Neugnadenfeld today
Characteristic for the townscape are the uniform settlement houses made of red bricks (the architectural style is different depending on the street) on the large plots, the fencing of the gardens with hedges, the avenues and windbreaks. Almost half of the residents are currently members of the Moravian Brethren , the only church in town.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, a number of houses were only inhabited by one or two elderly people whose children had moved elsewhere, often for work. The situation changed from the mid-1980s: Young people who were born and raised here increasingly came back to the village after their training, and many houses were also bought by young families from the community. After the German reunification and the subsequent opening of Eastern Europe, many families of repatriates also moved to Neugnadenfeld. All living space in the village is currently occupied. Accordingly, more and more new houses have been built in recent years.
Jobs and businesses
In the early days of Neugnadenfeld, the inhabitants found work opportunities in peat cultivation and peat extraction, later also in the Scheerhorn oil field . Many employees also commuted to what was then the large textile industry in Nordhorn and to the Klausheide Bundeswehr depot . All of these job opportunities have increasingly lost their importance in the following years. Local employers in particular have grown in importance. In commercial areas on the outskirts of Neugnadenfeld, two large companies in the plastics processing industry, a larger mechanical engineering company, a painting and varnishing company and a specialist company for air conditioning technology offer numerous jobs.
In the place itself as family or craft businesses u. a. a slaughterhouse, a restaurant with a restaurant, a grocery store with a bakery, a hairdressing salon and a branch of Volksbank Niedergrafschaft eG. Employees also commute to companies in the surrounding villages.
Public institutions and social life
The church and the village community center , which were both built in 1959, are located in the center of the village . The village community center now offers space for groups of up to 200 people. The former laundry in the front part of the building has been converted into a smaller meeting room. In the basement of the house, in the rooms of the former communal freezer, there is now the sports facility for the local sports club's shooting group. The “nurses station” is housed in a side extension of the building, where doctors from Emlichheim and Hoogstede hold consultation hours two days a week.
The kindergarten in Neugnadenfeld has been run in three groups with a total of 75 places since the new building in 1995. At the moment handicapped and non-handicapped children are looked after together in a group. There are also two privately organized play groups that meet once a week in the kindergarten.
The church of the Herrnhut Brethren in the center of the village offers a special feature with its architecture and interior design, as does the cemetery - called "Gottesacker" - on the outskirts. In 1991, the church youth and community center was added directly to the church. In addition to meeting rooms for the various working groups and offices, the house offers space for up to 20 people for overnight stays and stays. In the basement there are rooms for local child and youth work as well as practice rooms for wind instruments (approx. 35 people) and choirs (approx. 25 people).
The ring-Neugnadenfeld local fire brigade was housed in one of the two remaining buildings from the camp . With the annual open house and numerous services for private individuals and the village community, it is of great importance. It has 33 members. The volunteer fire brigade has been housed in a new building on the outskirts since 2009.
The Neugnadenfeld sports club has existed since 1949. Nine sports are offered to around 700 members. The sports facility on the outskirts of Neugnadenfeld includes the clubhouse with changing rooms, three soccer fields, two tennis courts and a football field. The sports club is also an integral part of the village structure as an organizer of important social events: Summer and winter festivals, bowling tournaments, ascension bike tours, sports weeks, etc. are fixed dates throughout the year.
Anglers and hunters have also come together to form local interest groups. The six street communities, which with their annual neighborhood festivals, make it easier for the "newcomers" to settle in in the village, in particular, are an integral part of village life.
Neighboring towns to Neugnadenfeld within a radius of around 8 km include Weusten , Großringe , Rings , Kleinringe and Neuringe .
literature
- Albert Rötterink: The history of the settlement of the Moravian Brethren in Neugnadenfeld . In: Bentheimer Jahrbuch, ISSN 0723-8940 , year 1990, pp. 241-279.
- Bernd Faulenbach , Andrea Kaltofen (ed.): Hell in the moor. The Emsland camps 1933–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3137-2 .
- Geeste community (ed.), Martin Koers: "Who of us no longer remembers those long struggles of Russian prisoners ...". Documentation on the historical traces of the Groß Hesepe and Dalum camps and the camp cemetery (Dalum war cemetery) . Geeste 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063302-7 .