Lower County (Bentheim)

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Niedergrafschaft, remaining county of Bentheim in white

The north-western region of the Grafschaft Bentheim district in Lower Saxony is now called Niedergrafschaft . It borders the Netherlands ( Drenthe and Overijssel ) in the north, west and south and the district of Emsland in the east . The landscape is dominated by agriculture , but there are also some medium-sized companies based.

Neuenhaus is the only town in the Niedergrafschaft and was formerly the administrative seat of the Hanoverian and Prussian offices of Neuenhaus (1824 to 1885), which coincided with the area of ​​the then Niedergrafschaft; Large parts of today's Nordhorn city ​​area also belonged to the Neuenhaus district. Until recently there was a district court and other authorities in the city.

Traffic arteries are the federal highways 403 and 213 , the federal highway 31 , the railway line of the Bentheimer Eisenbahn as well as the Coevorden-Piccardie-Kanal , the Ems-Vechte-Kanal and the Süd-Nord-Kanal .

Other regions of the Grafschaft Bentheim are the Obergrafschaft and Nordhorn .

The Poascheberg (89 m above sea level) is the highest elevation in the Niedergrafschaft and the second highest in the entire county of Bentheim after the Schlossberg zu Bad Bentheim (92 m above sea level).

cities and communes

The following cities and municipalities are in the Niedergrafschaft (in brackets: residents on December 31, 2019):

  1. Emlichheim (7312)
  2. Hoogstede (2844)
  3. Laar (2129)
  4. Rings (2014)
  1. Getelo (531)
  2. Gölenkamp (579)
  3. Hall (666)
  4. Itterbeck (1756)
  5. Uelsen (5687)
  6. Wielen (516)
  7. Wilsum (1577)
  1. Ash (579)
  2. Georgsdorf (1216)
  3. Location (1029)
  4. Neuenhaus , City (10,049)
  5. Osterwald (1192)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the establishment of the Neuenhaus office by the Kingdom of Hanover, cf. Christian H. Ebhardt (Ed.): Laws, ordinances and tenders for the Kingdom of Hanover from the period from 1813 to 1839. Volume 2, Hanover 1839, p. 39.
  2. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).