Neuschoo

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Neuschoo
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Neuschoo highlighted

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '  N , 7 ° 31'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Wittmund
Joint municipality : Holtriem
Height : 6 m above sea level NHN
Area : 14.47 km 2
Residents: 1171 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 81 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 26487
Primaries : 04975, 04977
License plate : WTM
Community key : 03 4 62 011
Association administration address: Auricher Str. 9
26556 Westerholt
Mayoress : Elfriede Rabenstein ( SPD )
Location of the community Neuschoo in the district of Wittmund
Landkreis Aurich Langeoog Spiekeroog Landkreis Friesland Nordsee Landkreis Aurich Landkreis Friesland Landkreis Leer Wilhelmshaven Blomberg (Landkreis Wittmund) Dunum Esens Eversmeer Friedeburg Holtgast Moorweg Nenndorf (Landkreis Wittmund) Neuharlingersiel Neuschoo Ochtersum Schweindorf Stedesdorf Utarp Werdum |Westerholt Wittmundmap
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Neuschoo is a municipality in the integrated municipality of Holtriem in the Wittmund district in Lower Saxony , which in 2004 had around 1,200 inhabitants.

location

The municipality of Neuschoo extends over an area of ​​14.47 square kilometers. It borders (clockwise, starting in the west) on the municipalities of Westerholt , Utarp , Schweindorf and Ochtersum (all also in the joint municipality of Holtriem), the municipality of Moorweg ( joint municipality of Esens ), the municipality of Blomberg (again joint municipality of Holtriem) and in the south on the Aurich districts Dietrichsfeld and Tannenhausen .

history

In Neuschoo, with the inauguration of Bethlehem Church in 1868, one of the first congregations of today 's Methodist Church in Germany was founded as the daughter of a German-speaking Methodist community in America.

The Dutch mill Neuschoos, which also has a compass rose, was built in 1921 to replace another mill.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the Neuschoo community consists of eleven councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 1001 and 2000 inhabitants. The eleven council members are elected by local elections for five years each. 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
SPD 58.37% 7th + 3.53% +1
CDU 28.94% 3 −11.69% −2
Citizens' Initiative Neuschoo (BI) 10.16% 1 + 10.16% +1
Free Democratic Party 2.51% 0 +1.45% 0

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 61.15%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%. For comparison - in the previous local elections on November 1, 2011, the turnout was 52.63%.

Mayoress

The council elected council member Elfriede Rabenstein (SPD) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

Web links

Commons : Neuschoo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Clinker brick factory in Neuschoo

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. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on November 18, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b Municipality of Neuschoo - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on December 26, 2016.
  4. ↑ Local elections in Lower Saxony 2016 , accessed on December 26, 2016.
  5. ^ Municipality of Neuschoo - overall results 2011 election of the council , accessed on December 26, 2016.
  6. ↑ The municipalities of the Holtriem municipality , accessed on May 6, 2019.