Otersen

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Otersen
municipality Kirchlinteln
Coordinates: 52 ° 50 ′ 41 ″  N , 9 ° 20 ′ 48 ″  E
Height : 19  (18-22)  m
Area : 15 km²
Residents : 518  (2011)
Population density : 35 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 27308
Area code : 04238
Otersen (Lower Saxony)
Otersen

Location of Otersen in Lower Saxony

Otersen is a Lower Saxon village in the Verden district and is located on the Aller . It belongs to the so-called Kleinbahnwinkel of the municipality Kirchlinteln and its district has an area of ​​almost 15 square kilometers.

geography

The village is characterized by the Allermarsch, seven lakes, dunes and geest landscapes, moors, heather and extensive forests.

Otersen im Sande is also called “Vor Wittlohe” and is located in the middle of a forest area. Around 50 people live in 18 houses.

The special thing about the street Ludwigslust is that it belongs to two districts: Verden and Heidekreis . Coming from Otersen, the left side of the main road and the Lühning farm belong to the Verden district. There are several farms and a farm shop in Ludwigslust.

history

On July 1, 1972 Otersen was incorporated into the municipality of Kirchlinteln.

politics

The mayor in Otersen has been Dieter Bergstedt ( CDU ) since 2016 , who has succeeded the suddenly deceased Hanshermann Honemann. Bergstedt has been chairman of the village and club community Otersen eV for several years, which is made up of representatives of the clubs and organizations and represents Otersen's interests. In the local elections on September 11, 2016, Richard Eckermann ( SPD , 416 votes) and Steffen Lühning (CDU, 449 votes) each entered the local council directly, Günter Lühning (CDU, 1159 votes) made it back to the district council.

Culture and sights

A village shop is run by citizens, which was the basis for the Lower Saxony village shop network. In 2007 the village won the gold medal in the national competition Our village has a future .

View of the Aller ferries in front of Otersen

The Aller ferry Otersen – Westen has been connecting the two villages of Westen and Otersen since the 16th century . Until 1954 the transport took place with a pram ferry , then with a board boat. After the ferry service was shut down in 1967, the Otersen Heimatverein initiated the rebuilding and since 1997 the ferry service has been running again. The Marie Hoffmann II boat ferry was added to the Marie Hoffmann I hallway in 2000 . Both ferries are environmentally friendly powered by solar-powered batteries and electric motors.

The village image is determined by numerous listed courtyards with well-preserved half-timbered buildings and the large population of old trees.

The former schoolhouse was built in 1884. The building is now called the "Old School Village House" and offers space for a kindergarten, a sports room and two apartments on the top floor.

A war victims memorial is located at the end of the village in the direction of Aller next to Fährstraße.

  • View of the town on Fährstraße

  • Allerschiff on the ferry road in front of Otersen

  • War sacrifice

  • Otersen ferry

societies

The clubs in Otersen work together in the village and club community Otersen eV under the motto "GEMEINSAM in Otersen". The youth participation project has existed since 2005, in which the young people can contribute suggestions and ideas to improve their place. In 2006 z. B. a paved basketball court is mostly built in-house.

In 2008, the clubs founded a new umbrella organization: "Village and Club Association Otersen eV". The MusikFRÜHLING in April 2008 was organized in this community. This was a festival and information event that was held together with the villages of Benstrup and Groß Lengden as the Lower Saxony kick-off event for the 23rd competition “Our village has a future”. The patron was the then Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, Christian Wulff . The guest of honor was the then Agriculture Minister Hans-Heinrich Ehlen .

The Otersen shooting club was founded in 1880 and has almost 110 members (as of the end of 2012). The club owns seven air rifle ranges (10 m) and a small-caliber sports facility (50 m). The shooting club organizes the shooting festival and until 2007 the nationally known spring festival.

The Otersen Heimat- und Fährverein was founded in 1992 as the Otersen village group and has 160 members (as of the end of 2012). The tasks include the documentation of the village's history and the maintenance of the ferry operations of the two Aller ferries, which run between Otersen and the west and transport an average of 6000 cyclists per year. Around 70 volunteer ferrymen have come together to make it possible to cross the Aller with the solar ferries Marie Hoffmann I and Marie Hoffmann II on weekends and public holidays between May 1st and October 3rd . In 1999 the association received the German Solar Prize for solar transport systems. In 2007 the Environment Building Bridges project took place at the ferry station . Students from the Domgymnasium Verden and students from Wroclaw researched on site and wrote their own newspaper pages on the subject of "Solar Mobility".

With 363 members (as of December 31, 2015), TSV Grün-Weiß Otersen is the largest club in Otersen. Various sports are offered, such as running and walking, yoga, dancing, sports stacking for children, gymnastics 60 plus, body workout, step aerobics and leisure football. The sports club organizes many events, such as the traditional folk hike on Good Friday, the Kirchenbruch cross-country run or a Christmas theater. In addition to various flea markets and a clothing exchange, there is a carnival afternoon for children.

After the last of the three shops in the village closed in 2001 for reasons of age, the village community opened a community shop in the old shop with DM 103,000 in equity and renamed it Dorfladen Otersen w. V. ( economic association ). An old half-timbered building was later acquired, extensively renovated and the AllerCafé was added to the offer , which is used as a multi-generation village café and is especially popular with cyclists. In 2014, the village shop organized a booth at the International Green Week in Berlin , where the local supply in rural areas was discussed with several village shops.

literature

  • Village group Otersen (today Heimat- und Fährverein): village chronicle Otersen (372 pages, 200 picture documents)
  • Günter Lühning, Hermann Meisloh: Kirchlinteln and its 17 districts 1983

Web links

Commons : Otersen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 248 .
  2. ↑ http://www.kirchlinteln.de/tourismus-kultur/allerfaehre-otersen-westen/ Allerfähre Otersen
  3. ↑ http://www.kirchlinteln.de/leben-in-der-gemeinde/ortschaften/otersen/ Baudenkmale
  4. ↑ Solar ferries Marie Hoffmann I and Marie Hoffmann II ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on otersen.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.otersen.de
  5. ↑ A village shop against rural exodus using the example of Otersen on ndr.de on January 2, 2014, accessed on July 13, 2015