Rötgesbüttel

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 25 '  N , 10 ° 32'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Gifhorn
Joint municipality :	Papenteich
Height :	67 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.83 km 2
Residents:	2372 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	219 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	38531
Area code :	05304
License plate :	GF
Community key :	03 1 51 023
Address of the municipal administration:	Schulstrasse 9 a 38531 Rötgesbüttel
Website :	www.roetgesbuettel.de
Mayor :	Hermann Schölkmann (WiR)
Location of the municipality of Rötgesbüttel in the Gifhorn district

Rötgesbüttel is a municipality in the Gifhorn district in Lower Saxony (Germany). It belongs to the joint municipality Papenteich .

geography

The municipality of Rötgesbüttel is located around 15 km north of Braunschweig , 10 km south of Gifhorn and 20 km west of Wolfsburg directly on federal highway 4 , the main connection between Braunschweig and Lüneburg. Bundesstraße 4 is part of the Harz-und-Heide connection and the German Asparagus Road. Rötgesbüttel is located on the Rötgesbütteler Riede stream .

population

Population development of Rötgesbüttel from 1821 to 2017 according to the adjacent table

year	Residents		year	Residents
1821	355		1950	1059
1871	508		1961	882
1912	618		1970	977
1925	627		1980	1247
1933	384		1990	1406
1939	580		2000	1926
			2017	2323

history

Church in Rötgesbüttel

Rötgesbüttel has existed for more than 770 years. "Rotlekesbutle" was first mentioned in 1226. If you follow the place-name research on the origin of the "Büttel" places (compare Samtgemeinde Papenteich), the village is probably even a few centuries older. Already in the Middle Ages, the place was important for through traffic on the old trade route from Hamburg to Braunschweig.

A chapel was built in 1250 and an annex was added in 1928.

The old Gografenhaus , built in 1591, is the oldest house in town. This used to be the seat of the highest administration for the whole area.

politics

Municipal council

In the local elections on September 11, 2011, there was a turnout of 55.89%. Since then, the local council has been composed as follows:

• CDU : 31.71% and 4 seats
• SPD : 38.83% and 5 seats
• Community of voters in Rötgesbüttel (WiR): 29.45% and 4 seats

Local elections 2016:

• SPD: 6 seats
• Community of voters in Rötgesbüttel (WiR): 9 seats

mayor

Hermann Schölkmann (WiR) has been mayor since 2016.

previous incumbent

• until 2016: Stefan Konrad (SPD)
• since 2016: Hermann Schölkmann (WiR)

coat of arms

	Blazon : "On a silver background a large, green oak with golden acorns, a golden bench at the roots in front of the oak, a rising sun to the left of the bench."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms is intended to remind of the former court of the Papenteich district and the rural structures.

Culture and sights

Association

• Kyffhauser comradeship Rötgesbüttel
• Men's choir
• Shooting club
• VfL Rötgesbüttel
• VfL sports center
• DEP (Village Development Planning)
• Volunteer firefighter
• Rötgesbüttel savings association

Events

• Every year in May there is a shooting festival.
• The Kyffhäuser Comradeship has been organizing the annual pig prize shooting for more than 35 years .
• VfL Rötgesbüttel organizes a sports weekend every year.
• The volunteer fire brigade organizes a fire brigade ball every January in the community hall.
• The bed race , which has been held every two years since 1988 and is held in front of a large audience in a different district of Rötgesbüttel, is a supraregional event . To this end, all the clubs and associations from Rötgesbüttel work together in the “bed race committee” to plan and carry out this major event.
• Since 2012, the Rötgesbüttel clubs and associations have been organizing the "Wiesn Gaudi" together with a festival host and a regional brewery.

Economy and Infrastructure

Railway station in Rötgesbüttel

traffic

Rötgesbüttel has a stop on the Braunschweig – Wieren railway line , which is served by the erixx (RB 47) every two hours. The stop is to be replaced by a newly built train station 300 m further south by December 2020, which will enable an hourly service between Braunschweig and Gifhorn. Construction began in March 2020.

The federal road 4 leads through the village, which joins the A 391 for about 10 km , which has a direct connection to the A 2 .

Public facilities

There is a kindergarten and a primary school in the village.

The Bürgerhalle, opened in 2005, is used for events.

The volunteer fire brigade is one of the two base brigades in the municipality.

literature

• Heinz Klose: History from the Papenteich. Mine 1983, ISBN 3-87040-029-3 .
• Wolfgang Meibeyer: Settlement facts about the Papenteich (=  series of publications from the district of Gifhorn . No. 22 ). 2nd, expanded and newly written edition. Gifhorn 2004, ISBN 3-929632-70-5 .

Web links

Commons : Rötgesbüttel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the Samtgemeinde Papenteich

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. ^ ^{A b} Renate Brand: Papenteich in old views . Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1995, ISBN 3-89570-057-6 .
3. ^ Administrative history of Gifhorn up to 1939
4. ↑ Papenteicher Nachrichten, issue 395 - May 2007, p. 5.
5. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
6. ↑ http://www.roetgesbuettel.de/gemeinde/gemeinderat/
7. ↑ Main statutes of the municipality of Rötgesbüttel § 2 (PDF)
8. ↑ Press information from the regional association for the greater Braunschweig area from 03.03.2020. March 3, 2020, accessed May 4, 2020 .