New marriage

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Emsland
Joint municipality :	Dörpen
Height :	8 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.62 km 2
Residents:	798 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	59 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	26909
Area code :	04968
License plate :	Tbsp
Community key :	03 4 54 038
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Ringstrasse 113 ; 26909 New marriage
Website :	www.neulehe.de
Mayor :	Reinhard Gansefort ( CDU )
Location of the community Neulehe in the district of Emsland

Neulehe is a municipality in the Emsland district in Lower Saxony . It belongs to the integrated municipality of Dörpen , which has its administrative seat in the municipality of Dörpen .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality of Neulehe is located in the northern part of the district between Leer and Meppen on the coastal canal .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are in the north the city of Papenburg , in the east the community Surwold in the integrated community Nordhümmling , in the south the community Dörpen and in the west the community Lehe .

history

Aerial photograph of Neulehe (2013)

Neulehe was founded in 1788 by the Prince-Bishop of Münster, Maximilian Franz of Austria, as a moor colony northeast of Dörpen. It was named after the nearest existing village Lehe .

Settlement A was founded in 1936/37 as part of the development of the right-hand Emsian moors with 11 settlement sites. This actually belonged to the community of Surwold . Neulehe was united in 1939 with the settlement A under the new name Eggershausen . After the Second World War , the renaming was reversed.

Until the municipality reform in Lower Saxony, which came into force on January 1, 1973, new marriage was a member municipality of the joint municipality of Aschendorf / Ems . Since the community reform it has been a member community of the integrated community Dörpen.

politics

Municipal council

The community council from Neulehe consists of 9 council women and councilors. After the local elections on September 11, 2011, two parties or groups belong to it .

CDU - 6 seats
UWG - 3 seats

Culture and sights

Buildings

Church with the Madonna of the Driving People

Regular events

Shooting festival on the last weekend in June

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The state road 62 from Aschendorf / Ems to Börger runs right through the community. The federal road 401 runs in the south along the municipal boundary parallel to the coastal canal . The motorway junction of the federal motorway 31 in Dörpen , about 15 kilometers to the west, can be reached via this federal road .

literature

Werner Kaemling - Atlas on the history of Lower Saxony , Gerd J. Holtzmeyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1987, ISBN 3-923722-44-3
Hermann Abels - The place names of the Emsland, in their linguistic and cultural-historical significance , Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 1929
Ernst Förstemann, Hermann Jellinghaus (editor) - Old German name book , Volume II, 1 and 2: Place names , Bonn 1913/1916 (Reprint: Volume II, 2, Hildesheim 1967/1983, ISBN 3-487-01733-4 )

Web links

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

Individual evidence

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-NI-1] State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).

[2] Joint municipality Dörpen