Easter break
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Coordinates: 53 ° 47 ' N , 8 ° 57' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Lower Saxony | |
County : | Cuxhaven | |
Joint municipality : | Land Hadeln | |
Height : | 2 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 10.21 km 2 | |
Residents: | 489 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 48 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 21762 | |
Area code : | 04751 | |
License plate : | CUX | |
Community key : | 03 3 52 045 | |
Community structure: | 4 districts | |
Address of the municipal administration: |
Dorfstrasse 25, 21762 Osterbruch |
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Mayor : | Peter von Spreckelsen ( SPD ) | |
Location of the municipality of Osterbruch in the district of Cuxhaven | ||
Osterbruch (spoken: Easter with long o like Easter , break with long u like in book ; ( Low German Osterbrook )) is a municipality in Lower Saxony in the state of Hadeln in the district of Cuxhaven .
geography
Geographical location
Osterbruch is in the Niederelbe area .
The proximity to the Elbe estuary and the North Sea entail the risk that in the event of a dike breach during a storm surge , large parts of the municipality, which is a maximum of 2 m above sea level, could be flooded. One possible scenario is described in the article Glameyer Stack .
Community structure
Osterbruch consists of the districts of Norderende (Lower German Noorderenn ), Nubhusen (Lower German Ophusen ) and Süderende (Lower German Süderenn ) with pig's head (Lower German Swienskopp ).
history
Document mentions
Osterbruch was first mentioned in documents in 1207 under the name "Osterbrok" , when the church was donated to the Bremen Cathedral Chapter by Archbishop Hartwig II of Bremen . This church is dedicated to St. Peter.
Inclusions
On December 17, 1969, at a meeting of the council, the unanimous resolution was passed that the Osterbruch community would join the Hadeln community with its seat in Otterndorf with effect from January 1, 1970 . The draft public law agreements and the main statutes of the joint municipality were consequently approved. The integrated community initially consisted of the communities Neuenkirchen , Nordleda , Wanna and the city of Otterndorf. In 1972, however, Wanna left the association of the Hadeln Samtgemeinde and joined the Sietland Samtgemeinde .
Population development
- May 17, 1939: 497 inhabitants
- September 23, 1950: 893 inhabitants
- June 6, 1961: 619 inhabitants
- May 27, 1970: 537 inhabitants
year | 1987 | 1992 | 1995 | 1997 | 2000 | 2002 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2015 |
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Residents | 515 | 497 | 519 | 546 | 564 | 561 | 578 | 568 | 576 | 565 | 555 | 563 | 566 | 520 |
(as of December 31st)
politics
Municipal council
The council of the Osterbruch community consists of seven councilors and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population of up to 500 inhabitants. The council members are elected for a five-year term by local elections. 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 |
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SPD | 61.02% | 4th |
CDU | 38.97% | 3 |
The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 69.28%, well above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.
mayor
The council elected council member Peter von Spreckelsen (SPD) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term. His deputies are Andreas Meyer (CDU) and Anette Ahrens (SPD).
Chronicle of the mayor or community leader
- 1919–1933: Hermann Hinrich Mohr (1880–1952)
- 1933–1934: Hans Heinrich Friedrich Steffens (1904–1994)
- 1934–1945: Gustav Wilhelm Seegemann (* 1879)
- 1945–1948: Hermann Hinrich Mohr (1880–1952)
- 1948–1952: Rudolf Heinrich Gottlieb Winter (1913–1993)
- 1952–1972: Hans Christian Tönjes Albers (1909–1982)
- 1972–1991: Jürgen Friedrich Karl Steffens (* 1928)
- 1991–2001: Karl-Heinz Kraack (1950–2002)
- from 2001: Peter von Spreckelsen (* 1957)
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coat of arms
Blazon : “ Divided ; above:three blue spade leaves in silver (1: 2); below:a silver horse's head in red . " | |
Justification for the coat of arms: The spade leaves indicate the cultivation of the country, the horse's head indicates the Lower Saxony tradition of the community. |
Culture and sights
Architectural monuments
Monuments
- One of the most famous horses in Germany comes from Osterbruch, the show jumping horse Deister became a household name for good horse breeding in the country of Hadeln under Paul Schockemöhle and received a small memorial by the sculptor Frijo Müller-Belecke in the center of the village .
- Monument to the fallen of both world wars
museum
- Mill museum: In the "Schweinskopf" district there is an intact gallery Dutch windmill from 1871. It was repaired in the 1980s by two private individuals and since 1988 it has hosted a comprehensive mill exhibition. This mill, which has been restored down to the last detail, has two holiday apartments that are integrated into the mill (e.g. the grinder or the wooden gear are part of the common rooms).
Photo gallery
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the church
- Tobias Heinrich Schubart (1699–1747), theologian and spiritual poet
Persons connected to Osterbruch
- Horst de Marées (1896–1988), painter, lived in Osterbruch from 1960
Myths and legends
- The Spukhof in Osterbruch
literature
- Eberhard Michael Iba (Ed.): Hake Betken siene Duven. The saga of the Elbe and Weser estuaries (= special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund at the Elbe and Weser estuaries . Volume 16 ). 3. Edition. Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1999, ISBN 3-931771-16-4 .
- Heiko Völker: Osterbruch - Contributions to the history of a Hadler parish . Ed .: Osterbruch community. Printing partner Hemmoor, Osterbruch 2007, ISBN 3-9808377-2-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ^ Heiko Völker: Osterbruch - Contributions to the history of a Hadler parish . Ed .: Osterbruch community. Printing partner Hemmoor, Osterbruch 2007, ISBN 3-9808377-2-6 , p. 38 .
- ^ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony. Retrieved February 8, 2018 .
- ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG); Section 46 - Number of Deputies. In: Lower Saxony Regulations Information System (NI-VORIS). December 17, 2010, accessed February 8, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Osterbruch municipal council election 2016 (tabular representation). In: Website KDO.de. September 11, 2016, accessed February 8, 2018 .
- ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. In: NDR.de. September 12, 2016, accessed February 8, 2018 .
- ^ Osterbruch local council. In: Ratsinfosystem der Samtgemeinde Land Hadeln. Retrieved February 8, 2018 .
- ^ Heiko Völker: Osterbruch - Contributions to the history of a Hadler parish . Ed .: Osterbruch community. Printing partner Hemmoor, Osterbruch 2007, ISBN 3-9808377-2-6 , p. 96-97 .
- ^ Heiko Völker: Osterbruch - Contributions to the history of a Hadler parish . Ed .: Osterbruch community. Printing partner Hemmoor, Osterbruch 2007, ISBN 3-9808377-2-6 , p. 4 .
- ^ Rudolf Lembcke: Land Hadeln district. Past and present . Ed .: District of Hadeln. Buchdruckerei Günter Hottendorff, Otterndorf 1976, p. 57 (coat of arms).
- ↑ Osterbruch Memorial for Fallen, Cuxhaven district, Lower Saxony. In: Online project fallen memorials. September 2004, accessed February 8, 2018 .