Oberlangen

coat of arms	Germany map
	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 :	22.17 km 2
Residents:	972 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	44 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	49779
Area code :	05933
License plate :	Tbsp
Community key :	03 4 54 040
Address of the municipal administration:	Marienstraße 14 49779 Oberlangen
Website :	www.oberlangen.de
Mayor :	Georg Raming-Freesen ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Oberlangen in the Emsland district

Oberlangen is a municipality in the Emsland district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Oberlangen 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 Niederlangen and behind it Lathen , in the south the city of Haren .

history

The community is first mentioned in a document around the year 1000 under the name Langun . It became the ancestral seat of the knight family von Langen , which was first mentioned in 1276 with Jakob von Langen.

In autumn 1933, a training camp for SA guards was established in what is now the Oberlangen-Moor district, later the prisoner-of-war camp Stalag VI B / Z / Oflag 6 WK VI (Emslandlager VI), which was part of the Emsland camps , a branch camp of the Versen camp . From 1939 to 1945 prisoners of war from the Soviet Union, Poland and Italy were transferred to this camp.

Population development

year Residents 1659 155 1749 315 1833 348

Oberlangen won a gold medal in the national competition "Our village has a future" in 2013.

politics

Municipal council

The local council from Oberlangen consists of 9 councilors.

• CDU 9 seats

(Status: local election on September 11, 2016)

mayor

Georg Raming-Freesen

coat of arms

Blazon : "Divided by gold and red in a wavy cut, inside a pair of lying sheep shears in mixed colors above, four ears of corn growing out of the base of the shield below."

The wave division represents the location of the municipality on the Ems. The sheep shears are taken from the coat of arms of the knight family von Langen , who lived here in the Middle Ages and wielded angled red sheep shears in the golden shield. The four ears of corn symbolize the four districts: Oberlangen, Sand, Wilholte and Oberlangen-Moor / Siedlung. In addition, they refer to the predominant agriculture in the community. The colors red and gold are the coat of arms colors of the Lords of Langen and at the same time those of the Niederstift Münster, to whose territory Oberlangen belonged from 1252 to 1803.

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

Regular events

Schützenfest , always Ascension Day , is celebrated Thursday and Friday. The Schützenfest is the highlight of every year and is known far beyond Oberlangen. On the first day all riflemen march from Heimathaus Oberlangen to Schützenplatz. The second day of the shooting festival always begins with the traditional shooting fair.

traffic

Oberlangen can be reached by traffic via the B 70 . There is still a motorway connection to the nearby A 31 motorway .

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 )
• Bernd Faulenbach , Andrea Kaltofen (ed.): Hell in the moor. The Emsland camps 1933–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3137-2 .

Web links

Commons : Oberlangen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the joint community
• History of the Stalag VI-C Oberlangen camp
• Website of the municipality of Oberlangen
• Website of the Wilholte district

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. ↑ History of the Oberlangen camp at Relict.com
3. ↑ Irena Skrzynska, Outline of the story of the female prisoner-of-war soldiers of the Home Army (AK) after the Warsaw Uprising in the Oberlangen camp (Stalag VI C)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on stockpost.info  
4. ^ Emsland / Bentheim Contributions to History Volume 10
5. ↑ Winning village in the competition "Our village has a future" ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.