Oldenburger Land
The Oldenburger Land is a region in Lower Saxony in the area of the former territories or federal states Grafschaft Oldenburg (until 1774) / Niederstift Münster (until 1803), Duchy of Oldenburg (until 1815), Grand Duchy of Oldenburg (until 1918), Free State of Oldenburg (until 1946) and the administrative district of Oldenburg (until 1978) without its enclaves, along the rivers Hunte and Hase . As a landscape association , it is represented by the Oldenburg landscape . In the region between Waterkant , Dümmer and Damme Hills speaking partly still low German , in Saterland also Sater Frisian . Old Lower Saxon customs are particularly cultivated in this region, such as B. Schützenfeste or Kohlfahrten . Typical sports are, as in East Friesland , Klootschießen and Boßeln .
The Catholic southern part of the Oldenburger Land is called Oldenburger Münsterland , the Protestant northern part is called Oldenburger Land (Altoldenburg) in the narrower sense .
In addition to the cities of Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven and Delmenhorst, the districts of Friesland , Ammerland , Oldenburg , Cloppenburg , Wesermarsch and Vechta correspond to the Oldenburger Land . As part of the district area reforms of the 1970s, however, the former Oldenburg community of Stuhr was incorporated into the district of Diepholz , while from there the joint community of Harpstedt was attached to the district of Oldenburg.
Within the framework of some institutions such as the Landessparkasse zu Oldenburg , the Oldenburger Schützenbund , the Oldenburg State Church or the Oldenburg Official District of the Roman Catholic Church, the borders of the Oldenburg region are largely clear to this day. Furthermore, the CDU has its own regional association in Oldenburg , the FDP a corresponding district association.
Structural conference of the State of Oldenburg
The districts and independent cities founded the community Das Oldenburger Land on March 13, 1993 with the aim of cooperating in municipal development. This objective was renewed on June 8, 2005 under the new name Das Oldenburger Land - Community of Districts and Cities .
Members of the cooperation network:
- Ammerland district
- District of Cloppenburg
- District of Friesland
- District of Oldenburg
- Wesermarsch district
- District of Vechta
- Delmenhorst
- Oldenburg
- Wilhelmshaven
cities and communes
The largest cities in the Oldenburger Land are the former regional or district capital Oldenburg with 169,077 inhabitants as well as the independent cities Wilhelmshaven with 76,089 inhabitants and Delmenhorst with 77,559 inhabitants.
The following table contains all cities and municipalities in the Oldenburger Land.
See also
- Oldenburg (Land) for territorial history.
literature
- Gerhard Wietek : Oldenburger Land ( German Land - German Art ). 2nd edition, Munich / Berlin 1974
- Horst Neidhardt (arrangement): Architectural monuments in the Oldenburger Land. Guide to soil, architectural and settlement monuments , 2nd edition, Ed .: Oldenburgische Landschaft , Oldenburg: Holzberg, 1984, ISBN 978-3-87358-119-7 and ISBN 3-87358-119-1 ; contents
Individual evidence
- ↑ About us. (No longer available online.) In: das-oldenburger-land.de. Archived from the original on May 25, 2016 ; Retrieved May 25, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.