Niederlangen

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Niederlangen
Niederlangen
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Coordinates: 52 ° 51 '  N , 7 ° 17'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Emsland
Joint municipality : Lathen
Height : 9 m above sea level NHN
Area : 29.35 km 2
Residents: 1261 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 43 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 49779
Area code : 05933
License plate : Tbsp
Community key : 03 4 54 039
LOCODE : DE NLG
Community structure: 2 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Hauptstrasse 17
49779 Niederlangen
Website : www.niederlangen.de
Mayor : Heinrich Schwarte ( CDU )
Location of the municipality Niederlangen in the district of Emsland
Niederlande Landkreis Cloppenburg Landkreis Grafschaft Bentheim Landkreis Leer Landkreis Osnabrück Andervenne Bawinkel Beesten Bockhorst Börger Breddenberg Dersum Dörpen Dohren (Emsland) Emsbüren Esterwegen Freren Fresenburg Geeste Gersten Groß Berßen Handrup Haren (Ems) Haselünne Heede (Emsland) Herzlake Hilkenbrook Hüven Klein Berßen Kluse (Emsland) Lähden Lahn (Hümmling) Langen (Emsland) Lathen Lehe (Emsland) Lengerich (Emsland) Lingen (Ems) Lorup Lünne Lünne Meppen Messingen Neubörger Neulehe Niederlangen Oberlangen Papenburg Rastdorf Renkenberge Rhede (Ems) Salzbergen Schapen Sögel Spahnharrenstätte Spelle Stavern Surwold Sustrum Thuine Twist (Emsland) Vrees Walchum Werlte Werpeloh Wettrup Wippingenmap
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Niederlangen is a municipality in the Emsland district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Niederlangen lies between Papenburg and Meppen on the Ems . The municipality belongs to the Lathen municipality , which has its administrative seat in the municipality of Lathen .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are in the north the community Sustrum , in the east the communities Fresenburg and Lathen , in the south the community Oberlangen and in the west the city Haren .

Community structure

The community is made up of two districts:

  • Niederlangen
  • Niederlangen settlement

history

The community is first mentioned in a document around the year 1000 . Around 1884, the farmer H. Paschen discovered 48 denarii from Roman times in Niederlangen.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council from Niederlangen consists of 11 councilors.

(As of: local election on September 11, 2011 )

mayor

The honorary mayor Hermann Albers was elected on September 11, 2016 .

coat of arms

Blazon : “In the red field, rising from the golden wave shield base to the upper corners, a golden ear of wheat in front, a golden cattail in the back, a golden bell in between. The stalks are covered by a golden, arched bridge that hovers over the base of the corrugated shield. "

The coat of arms illustrates geographical, topographical and historical elements of the municipality of Niederlangen. The waves at the base of the shield symbolize the location on the Ems and the abundance of water with the backwaters reduced to ponds and the moor drainage ditches. Ears and cattails indicate that Niederlangen is predominantly agricultural and that around a third of the municipal area was moor, which was cultivated according to plan in the 2nd third of the 20th century. The Niederlangen-Siedlung district was established here in 1946. The bell is a reminder of the various functions of the former school bell, which today hangs in the bell tower in the center of Niederlangen. It serves as a prayer, death, emergency and fire bell and in a certain way has the character of a landmark. The bridge makes it clear that numerous bridges in the municipality play an important role as a connecting element of traffic. This applies both to the Emsbrücke, which connects Niederlangen with Lathen and the federal road 70, as well as to the bridges in the Ems lowland and the three bridges that connect the Altdorf with the Niederlangen settlement with the construction of the separating Emsland motorway. The colors red and gold are the colors of the coat of arms of the former Imperial Abbey of Corvey, which Niederlangen had with the "curia Lathen" since at least the 11th century. At the same time, it is the colors of the coat of arms of the former duchy of Münster, to whose Niederstift the place belonged from 1252 to the end of the old empire in 1803.

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Ulf-Dietrich Korn from Münster.

Culture and sights

Regular events

Shooting festival in the Niederlangen-Siedlung sub-community, on the 1st weekend before May 1st or May 1st, is celebrated on Saturday and Sunday. The shooting festival in the municipality of Niederlangen is celebrated on Saturday and Sunday on the last weekend in June.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Niederlangen can be reached by public transport via Bundesstraße 70 . There is still a motorway connection to the nearby A31 motorway .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

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 : Niederlangen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ Volume 31, born in 1899, Numismatic Society in Vienna