Pekela

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Pekela parish
Flag of the Pekela Municipality
flag 		Coat of arms of the municipality of Pekela
coat of arms
province Groningen Groningen
mayor Jaap Kuin ( PvdA )
Seat of the municipality Oude Pekela
Area
 - land
 - water 		50.2  km 2
49.07 km 2
1.13 km 2
CBS code 0765
Residents 12,205 (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density 243 inhabitants / km 2
Coordinates 53 ° 5 '  N , 6 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 5 '  N , 6 ° 59'  E
Important traffic route N366 N367
prefix 0597, 0599
Postcodes 9663, 9665
Website Homepage of Pekela
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Pekela ( listen ? / I ) is a municipality in the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands . The municipality has 12,205 inhabitants (as of January 31, 2019) on 50.2  km² . Audio file / audio sample

history

The story of Pekela begins at the end of the 15th century when the city of Groningen had a castle built in the Ommelanden on the banks of the river Pekel ( Pekel A , also written Pekel-Aa ) in order to secure its power , the Pekelborg (around 1480, 1478 at the earliest ). In 1599 five Frisian and Dutch families bought fen land along the river Pekel, not far from the castle, and began to create a fen colony they called Pekela . The new settlers and day laborers employed by them deepened the pekel and dug trenches to drain the moor. They cut peat , which was sold as fuel to Emden and as far as Bremen and Hamburg. Up to 500 workers were employed in the summer. By cutting peat they also gained pastureland for cattle breeding; Some arable farming, initially only on small fields with little yield, was added. Pekela was the first fen colony in the northeast of the Netherlands. After the settlement had consolidated, it was expanded to the southwest along the Pekel, especially in the second half of the 17th century.

At the beginning of the 18th century, the number of settlers had grown so that two churches were built in 1704 and 1706: one reformed and one Lutheran . The two ends of the elongated fen colony were Beneden Pekela (= Lower Pekela, today Oude Pekela = Old Pekela) in the northeast and Boven Pekela (= Upper Pekela, today Nieuwe Pekela = New Pekela) in the southwest.

During the short-lived reign of Louis Bonaparte as King of Holland , the parish was also administratively divided into Oude Pekela and Nieuwe Pekela. In 1990 the two parts were reunited to form the community of Pekela.

Up until the 20th century, Pekela was known for making straw cardboard. Because the working conditions were bad, there was a lot of sympathy for communism . In addition, the Communist Party of the Netherlands ( CPN ) in the east of the province of Groningen had a large following.

politics

Distribution of seats in the municipal council

Local elections 2018
 %
30th
20th
10
0
27.7
16.7
14.9
12.6
10.3
6.7
6.4
4.7
n. k.
SVP
VCP
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
 14th
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
+1.2
-2.7
+1.1
+12.6
-0.6
-1.8
-0.7
-0.8
-8.2
SVP
VCP

The municipal council has been formed as follows since 2006:

Political party Seats
2006 2010 2014 2018
SP 3 3 4th 4th
Seed Voor Pekela - 4th 3 3
PvdA 7th 3 2 2
PVV - - - 2
CDA 2 1 2 2
GroenLinks 1 2 1 1
VVD 1 2 1 1
ChristenUnie 1 0 1 0
Verenigde Communist Partij - - 1 -
total 15th 15th 15th 15th

mayor

Jaap Kuin ( PvdA ) has been the provisional mayor of the municipality since November 1st, 2015 . His colleagues include the alderman Hennie Hemmes ( SP ), Jaap van Mannekes (Samen Voor Pekela), Henk Busemann (PvdA) and the municipal secretary Jan van der Woude.

Partner communities

In 2004, Pekela entered into a partnership with the Lower Saxony community of Großefehn .

literature

  • Tjakko Borgesius: Geschiedenis van de gemeenten Oude en Nieuwe Pekela . JB Wolters, Groningen 1877.
  • LW Kanning: Historical births of the zich afspeelden in Nieuwe Pekela en wetenswaardigheden over de bewoners seed gesteld uit crane reports in a period of 100 years, 1850–1950 , two volumes. Etten-Leur 2017.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
  2. ↑ Tjakko Borgesius: Geschiedenis van de gemeenten Oude en Nieuwe Pekela . Groningen 1877, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Tjakko Borgesius: Geschiedenis van de gemeenten Oude en Nieuwe Pekela . Groningen 1877, p. 10.
  4. ↑ Tjakko Borgesius: Geschiedenis van de gemeenten Oude en Nieuwe Pekela . Groningen 1877, p. 12.
  5. ↑ Tjakko Borgesius: Geschiedenis van de gemeenten Oude en Nieuwe Pekela . Groningen 1877, p. 17.
  6. ↑ Tjakko Borgesius: Geschiedenis van de gemeenten Oude en Nieuwe Pekela . Groningen 1877, p. 22.
  7. ↑ Result of the local elections: 2014 2018 , accessed on June 29, 2018 (Dutch)
  8. ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council: 2006 2010 2014 2018 , accessed on June 29, 2018 (Dutch)
  9. ↑ Jaap Kuin tijdelijk burgemeester Pekela. In: Dagblad van het Noorden . Hazewinkel Pers BV, September 23, 2015, accessed on June 29, 2018 (Dutch).
  10. ↑ Samenstelling College van B&W Gemeente Pekela, accessed on June 29, 2018 (Dutch)
  11. ↑ https://www.grossefehn.de/cms/partnergemeinde.html Entry about the partner community Pekela on the homepage of the community Großefehn Retrieved on April 10, 2019, 3:40 pm