Prinzhöfte

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 57 '  N , 8 ° 34'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Oldenburg
Joint municipality :	Harpstedt
Height :	32 m above sea level NHN
Area :	41.98 km 2
Residents:	651 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	16 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27243
Area code :	04244
License plate :	OIL
Community key :	03 4 58 012
Association administration address:	Freedom of office 1 27243 Harpstedt
Website :	www.prinzhoefte.de
Mayor :	Hans-Hermann Lehmkuhl (Prinzhöfte voter community)
Location of the community of Prinzhöfte in the district of Oldenburg

Prinzhöfte is a municipality in the Harpstedt municipality in the Oldenburg district in Lower Saxony . The community had 693 inhabitants in 2012 and covers an area of ​​41.98 square kilometers.

geography

location

The municipality is located south of the federal motorway 1 , which runs through the municipality and is between the junctions Wildeshausen / Nord and Groß Ippener . This motorway can be easily reached from Simmerhausen after a short drive on federal road 213 .

Community structure

In addition to the locality, belong to the community

• Prinzhöfte

the districts

• Hölscher wood
• Horstedt
• Klein Henstedt
• Schuleberg
• Simmerhausen
• Stifthöfte
• Wonder castle

and a middle Hengsterholz (municipality Ganderkesee ) lying 12 hectares large exclave belonging to Horstedt.

Delme near Klein Henstedt

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the communities Horstedt and Klein Henstedt were incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the community of Prinzhöfte consists of nine councilors and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 501 and 1,000 inhabitants. The nine council members are elected by local elections for five years each. 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
Prinzhöfte voter community	89.03%	7th
Alliance 90 / The Greens	10.96%	2

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 61.79%, well above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%. For comparison - in the previous municipal election on September 11, 2011, the turnout was 62.29%.

mayor

The council elected council member Hans-Hermann Lehmkuhl (Prinzhöfte voter community) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

coat of arms

The blue coat of arms of the municipality shows a golden crown in the upper third. Underneath there are two wide silver horizontal stripes with wickerwork.

Worth seeing

The Wunderburger Moor in the south of the municipality is particularly worth seeing . Another, but smaller, moor is the Simmerhauser Moor, which is located on the edge of Simmerhausen near the B 213. However, it is not easy to get there as there is no path to use. Special sights are the farmhouses, some of which are over 200 years old and can be found all over the community.

Web links

Commons : Prinzhöfte  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the community
• Integrated community of Harpstedt

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. ^ 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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 190 .
3. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on January 21, 2017
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Result of the Prinzhöfte municipal council election on September 11, 2016 , accessed on January 21, 2017
5. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .