Raddestorf

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '  N , 8 ° 58'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Nienburg / Weser
Joint municipality :	Uchte
Height :	34 m above sea level NHN
Area :	41.81 km 2
Residents:	1816 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	43 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	31604
Area code :	05765
License plate :	NI
Community key :	03 2 56 024
Community structure:	7 districts
Association administration address:	Balkenkamp 1 31600 Uchte
Mayor :	Heinrich Stellhorn ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Raddestorf in the Nienburg / Weser district

Harrienstedt watermill

Raddestorf is a municipality in the Nienburg / Weser district in Lower Saxony . It belongs to the joint community of Uchte , which has its administrative seat in the area of Uchte .

geography

Raddestorf lies between the Dümmer Nature Park and the Steinhuder Meer Nature Park, roughly halfway between Sulingen and Minden on the state border with North Rhine-Westphalia . The municipality of Raddestorf consists of the districts Huddestorf , Dierstorf, Gräsebilde, Raddestorf, Jenhorst, Kleinenheerse, Glissen, Kreuzkrug and Harrienstedt.

history

On March 1, 1974, the communities of Harrienstedt, Huddestorf, Jenhorst and Kleinenheerse were incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Raddestorf consists of 13 councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 2001 and 3000 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
CDU	73.80%	9
SPD	26.19%	4th

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 62.30%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The municipal council elected councilor Heinrich Stellhorn (CDU) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

Culture and sights

A watermill in Harrienstedt is documented as early as 1583 . A functioning successor building from 1837 is still there today. The mill forms station 37 of the Lower Saxony mill road / region between Weser and Hunte.

A section of the Westphalian Mühlenstraße also runs through Raddestorf . The Großenheerse windmill is only about 100 meters behind the municipal and state borders.

Economy and Infrastructure

The community is located directly on federal highway 215 , which leads from Stolzenau to Petershagen , and on federal highway 61 , which leads from Minden to Bremen .

Web links

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

• uchte-online.de Municipality of Raddestorf

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. 199 .
3. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on March 22, 2017.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Raddestorf - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on March 22, 2017.
5. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved March 22, 2017 . 
6. ^ Raddestorf municipal council , accessed on March 22, 2017.
7. ↑ Working group Mühlenstrasse i. d. Mill Association Lower Saxony - Bremen e. V .: Harrienstedt watermill