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Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Ammerland
Height :	10 m above sea level NHN
Area :	123.05 km 2
Residents:	22,704 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	185 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	26180
Primaries :	04402, 0441, 04454, 04458, 04483
License plate :	WST
Community key :	03 4 51 005
LOCODE :	DE RAE
Community structure:	27 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Sophienstraße 27 ; 26180 Rastede
Website :	www.rastede.de
Mayor :	Lars Krause ( Social Democratic Party of Germany )
Location of the municipality of Rastede in the Ammerland district

Rastede [ raˈsteːdə ], also [ ʁaˈʃteːdə ] ( Low German Raastäe / Raas ) is a municipality in the district of Ammerland in northwestern Lower Saxony . It is located 12 kilometers north of Oldenburg and about 25 kilometers from the North Sea . Rastede is in the Weser-Ems region . Rastede has been officially recognized as an excursion destination since 2011.

Rastede is on the eastern edge of the Oldenburger Geest , which merges into the Wesermarsch in the municipality .

Rastede from the air; the castle park is at the bottom left, Rastede Castle on the left edge of the picture

The following 27 districts belong to the municipality of Rastede:

Table districts:
Rastede I.	Rastede II	Leuchtenburg	Hostemost
South end I	South end II	Kleibrok	Delfshausen
Kleinenfelde	New South I	New South II	Hankhausen I.
Hankhausen II	Loy	Mud dermoor	Barghorn
Wahnbek	Ipwege	Ipwegermoor	Hahn-Loamden
Nethen	Bekhausen	Wapeldorf	Hay wash
Rastederberg	Liethe	Lehe

Neighboring communities are Wiefelstede (district of Ammerland) in the west, Varel ( district of Friesland ) in the north, Jade ( district of Wesermarsch ) in the northeast, slightly to the east Ovelgönne (district of Wesermarsch), Elsfleth (district of Wesermarsch) in the southeast and the independent city of Oldenburg in the south.

The distance information is approximate and relates to the distance to the town / city center.

Land use 2019
use	Area in ha
Building and open space	1,308.44
Recreation area	168.00
traffic area	679.63
Forest area	1,421.50
Water surface	207.89
Agricultural area	8,464.78
Operating area	32.88
Areas of other use	23.31
total area	12,306.43

The land use table on the right shows the high proportion of agricultural land in the total area of Rastede. With almost 70 percent, Rastede clearly exceeds the national average of 52 percent. The main reason for this is the wide, very sparsely populated lowland areas in the north and east of the municipality, which are mainly used as grassland. The residential and commercial areas, on the other hand, are concentrated along the main traffic axes on the higher Geestrücken, which runs roughly in a north-south direction.

The history of Rastede begins in the High Middle Ages in 1059 with the foundation of the church by Count Huno von Rüstringen. The founding date of the St. Ulrichs Church is considered to be the founding date of Rastede, as it is the first documentary mention of the community and many of the settlements and individual farms belonging to it. In 1091 only a few hundred meters one was removed from the church Benedictine - monastery founded. Five years later this monastery received a monastery church. Rastede had an outstanding position in the region during this time. This position was based on the one hand on the religious or church political position, on the other hand on the traffic and geological conditions.

The Rastede Monastery received a wealth of property from its founder. It not only had land in and around Rastede, but also large areas throughout northern Germany and Westphalia . Thanks to the tithe to be paid and the resulting material independence, the Rastede Monastery quickly became a spiritual center in Northern Germany . A favorable traffic connection helped the place to further economic upswing. Rastede was on the Frisian Heerstraße , a strategically important military and trade route between Bremen and Friesland . The Rasteder-Wiefelsteder Geestrücken was particularly suitable for building a road, unlike the marshland .

The monastery became the house monastery of the Counts of Oldenburg , some of whom also lived in Rastede and accordingly interfered in monastic affairs. This had negative consequences for the monks and for the development of the place. The notorious robber count Gerd the Brave lived in the monastery and even had it converted into a fortress in 1476. The farmers suffered from the count's raids. Gerd's victims, driven by a thirst for revenge, came to Rastede to plunder and pillage the surrounding farms. As a result of constant involvement in acts of war and the steadily increasing tax burden , many farmers emigrated from the ruled area at this time.

With the Reformation in the Oldenburger Land , the monastery also lost its spiritual foundation. The Oldenburg counts paid off the remaining monks and took possession of the monastery. The first count resident of the complex, Christoph von Oldenburg, had the region's first elementary school built in Rastede in 1565. In the first half of the 17th century, Count Anton Günther converted the secularized complex into his count's summer residence with a hunting lodge and horse stables.

After Anton Günther's death in 1667, the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst fell to the Danish royal family due to family ties . The neglectful treatment of the state of Oldenburg by Denmark ultimately also let the castle fall into disrepair and caused economic stagnation in Rastede.

After a four-day interlude in 1773, in which Rastede belonged to the Russian Empire , Oldenburg, which had meanwhile become a duchy, regained its independence (see: Treaty of Tsarskoye Selo ). In 1777, Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig bought the castle back and had it expanded after it had already been sold to bourgeois ownership under the Danish rule. With the November Revolution of 1918, the monarchy was also abolished in Oldenburg. Grand Duke Friedrich August withdrew from government affairs and made his summer residence in Rastede his permanent residence. Rastede remained part of the Free State of Oldenburg until it was abolished . The municipality of Rastede and its citizens are still closely associated with the Oldenburg family today.

In 1867 the Grand Ducal Oldenburg Railway built a railway line from Bremen via Oldenburg and Rastede to Wilhelmshaven in Prussia . This route had great advantages for the place. The economic upturn due to growing tourism was clearly noticeable. Coffee trips were made with special trains to Rastede, people walked in the park and the restaurants and coffee houses benefited from the attractiveness of the community. At the turn of the century, the Rastede train station handled over 100,000 travelers a year.

Also at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, many of the so-called Oldenburg dog houses were built , a popular house type of middle-class living, which still largely characterize the townscape today.

The place Rastede developed from three important settlements: Brink (area around today's market place), Rastede (church and monastery) and the farmers south end. This development contributed to the fact that there is no clearly recognizable center in Rastede. It was not until 1840 that all three settlements were brought together to form today's location and connected by a wide avenue on which numerous shops gradually settled.

In 1810 Napoléon Bonaparte annexed the Duchy of Oldenburg and thus Rastede belonged to the French Empire until 1814. The mairies Rastede Wiefelstede and formed the Canton Rastede, located in the district of Oldenburg and the department of Bouches du Weser (French for:. Weser - mouth ) was located.

In the course of the reorganization after the fall of Napoleon, the office of Rastede (comparable to today's district) was made up of the communities of Wiefelstede, Rastede, Jade and Schweiburg. In 1868 the two northern communities Jade and Schweiburg were assigned to the Varel district and the two Ammerland communities Rastede and Wiefelstede to the Oldenburg district . The Oldenburg administrative reform of 1933 by the National Socialist state government led to the expansion of the Rastede community to include the districts of Wahnbek and Ipwege, but at the same time to an affiliation to the Ammerland office , which later became the Ammerland district. With the loss of this independence, Rastede was clearly set back in its importance.

Rastede became a part of the newly founded state of Lower Saxony in 1946 .

Despite the militarily important railway line and the Brötje factory, which was expanded to become an armaments factory, Rastede was only 3% destroyed. The district of Nethen was hit hardest in the municipality. A total of 652 soldiers fell from the community, 282 soldiers were missing.

Due to the low degree of destruction, Rastede became interesting for refugees and displaced persons from the eastern regions. But bombed out people were also drawn to the town from their own district. So many people from the badly destroyed Edewecht hoped for a new beginning in Rastede. Within a short time, the population grew from 8,800 to 15,000. The sudden jump caused a major housing problem and new settlements with row houses and apartment blocks quickly emerged on the outskirts.

In 1949 Garlich von Essen and with the help of Hereditary Grand Duke Nikolaus Friedrich Wilhelm von Oldenburg , son of the last reigning monarch Friedrich August, set up a horse show in the castle grounds between the castle and Klostermühle . The 2nd Oldenburg State Tournament took place for the first time in 1950 on this riding facility, which was modeled on the tournament field of Klein Flottbek , at a time when the state of Oldenburg nominally no longer existed. In 1959 the new town hall was built on the occasion of the 900th anniversary.

Population development of Rastede from 1910 to 2017 according to the adjacent table

year	Residents
1910	6,463
1939	8,793
1950	14,435
1961	14,235
1970	16,559
1998	19,929
1999	20,029
2000	20.008

year	Residents
2001	19,876
2002	20,035
2003	20,039
2004	20,145
2005	20.161
2006	20,522
2007	20,613
2008	20,698

year	Residents
2009	20,667
2010	20,769
2011	20,953
2012	21,059
2013	21,121
2014	21,447
2015	21,796
2016	22.207

year	Residents
2017	22,401
2018	22,531
2019	22,708

According to legend, Count Huno swore to found a monastery in the event of a victorious battle. On his return he is said to have let a swan fly and the monastery was to be built on the spot where the swan landed. The swan circled over a place for a while, apparently he had doubts, Low German "Twiefel"; it was the "site of the Twiefels", from which the name " Wiefelstede " later came about. Eventually the swan landed a few kilometers further east to take a rest. This was the "place of rest", Rastede. However, there is no scientific evidence for this motivation, as this is of course a legend .

Old names: Rastede (1059), Radestad (1123), Radestad (1158), Radestad (1190), Rarstad (1202), Rastede (1237), Rastede (1290), Radstede (1407), Rastede (1420), Radstede ( 1424), Rastede (1458), Rastede (1630)

" Rode ", "rod (a)" or "roth" means clearing. " Stede " or "stedi" means place. Derivation / conclusion: Rastede could therefore mean “clearing site”.

The St. Ulrichs Church in Rastede

Ortisei with cemetery

The majority of the residents of Rastede, around 60%, belong to the Evangelical Lutheran denomination . There is also a Catholic Church and a New Apostolic Congregation.

The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Rastede is identical to the area of the political community of Rastede. It is represented at three locations in the community. The St. Ulrichs Church , founded on September 11, 1059, is located in the city center and is the oldest church in Rastede. It is a hall church with a crypt and has a length of 26.5 meters and a width of 9.5 meters. The church's free-standing bell tower is on the southwest side of the church. The service at the St. Ulrichs Church has been carried out in the Lutheran tradition since 1524. The first Protestant preacher in the community was Oltmann Kröger. The parish is divided into the four parish districts center, east, south and northwest. The parish office and parish hall are located on the memorial square right next to the St. Ulrichs church . Other churches are the St. Johannes Church from 1956 in the Hahn-Lehmden district and the Willehad Church from 1958 in the Wahnbek district .

The Catholic Church of St. Marien in the city center of Rastede was built in 1950 when the number of Catholics in the Rastede community increased after the Second World War due to the influx of displaced persons from Silesia . From 1946 a Catholic pastor was therefore active in Rastede. From 1948 the pastoral care district of Rastede belonged to the mother church of St. Peter in Oldenburg and from 1987 was an independent parish. Since February 21, 2008 the church of St. Marien has been part of the new parish of St. Vinzenz Pallotti , in which the previous independent parishes of Bad Zwischenahn (St. Marien), Edewecht (St. Vinzenz) and Rastede (St. Marien) have been combined .

The church of the New Apostolic parish of Rastede, consecrated on December 16, 1992, is located on Goethestrasse in the Rastede district of Kleinenfelde . The parish was founded on May 8, 1932 and today has around 120 members.

The council of the municipality of Rastede consists of 34 council women and councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 20,001 and 25,000. The 34 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 full-time mayor Lars Krause (SPD) is also entitled to vote in the municipal council.

The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

Political party	11th September 2016
Christian Democratic Union of Germany	39.59%	12,272	13 seats
Social Democratic Party of Germany	31.61%	9,800	11 seats
Alliance 90 / The Greens	13.54%	4,199	5 seats
UWG	5.84%	1,813	2 seats
Free Democratic Party	3.28%	983	1 seat
The left	3.16%	980	1 seat
Free parliamentary group Rastede	2.01%	626	1 seat
voter turnout	10,688 of 17,875
voter turnout	59.79%

In the mayoral election on June 16, 2019, Lars Krause (SPD) won with 59.43% of the vote against his opponent Alexander von Essen (CDU) with 40.57%. Lars Krause took over the office of mayor of the municipality of Rastede on November 1st, 2019. Before that, Dieter von Essen (CDU) was mayor between November 2011 and October 2019. At the constituent council meeting on November 7, 2016, Torsten Wilters (CDU) and Gerd Langhorst (Alliance 90 / Greens) were elected as deputy mayors. At the beginning of April 2019 Torsten Wilters resigned from all offices.

The coat of arms of the municipality of Rastede shows a striding red lion on a yellow (gold) background, underneath two red zigzag bars.

The coat of arms goes back to a legend from the time of the founding of Rastede. At the end of the 11th century, Henry IV , Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, invited to a Reichstag in Goslar . The Rasteder church donor, Count Huno, who was also invited, did not accept this invitation, so that his enemies could talk badly about him in the presence of the emperor. Heinrich asked Count Huno a second time to come to the court. However, this time he should bring a fighter who could compete with an imperial fighter.

Count Huno set off for Goslar with his son Friedrich. There the imperial fighter turned out to be a dangerous lion. Under regular circumstances Friedrich would have had no chance against the lion, so he resorted to a ruse. Before the fight he stuffed a straw doll with animal intestines and greased it on the outside. In the arena he threw the doll at the lion, who immediately attacked it. Friedrich sneaked up to the distracted predator and killed it with his sword.

The emperor was impressed by this ruse. He dipped his hand into the lion's bleeding wound and, with two fingers, drew two horizontal zigzag lines on Friedrich's golden shield. These red lines on a golden background can also be found in the coat of arms of the Ammerland region , on the little shield at nearby Westerstede and in the coats of arms of Oldenburg (Oldb) or Brake (Unterweser) . In the latter, however, the stripes are straight.

The colors of the flag are blue-red; it shows the coat of arms as a symbol.

Chestnut at Ellernteich (ND WST-094)

Rastede Castle

Ellernteich

Rastede Palace

The Hirschtor - entrance to the castle park

The district of Ammerland has designated 23 objects (mostly trees) as natural monuments in the municipality of Rastede . On a tour around the Ellernteich from Oldenburger Straße by the St. Ulrich Church, you can see a particularly large number of trees protected by nature conservation law.

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Erbprinzenpalais / Palais Rastede (cultural center)
Rastede Castle with "grand duke grounds"
Castle park with Ellernteich, other bodies of water and forest-like dense trees in the south and east, in which rhododendron and azalea bushes are embedded
Walkable arcade spiral "950 years of Rastede" (at Ellernteich)
“Polish Children's Graves” memorial at the Rastede cemetery
Manors in the districts of Loy, Wahnbek, Nethen and Hahn
Haus Osterberg ( Lower Saxony Academy for Fire and Disaster Protection - Loy location)
Historical farmer museum "Jan Pastor sin Hus"
Tournament grounds (numerous major events)
Ipweger Moor with nature reserves
Klostermühle (watermill)
Kögel-Wilms herb garden (at the Kögel-Willms-Haus)
Kögel-Wilms-Platz with fountain, boules play area, event area, playground and sunbathing lawn (center)
Memorials to those killed in war (in all districts)
"Displaced Persons" memorial at the former Hahn camp (Ammerland art trail)
"Oldenburger Hundehütten" and numerous other town villas (center)
"Rasteder draft horses" at the tournament site
St. John's Church
St. Mary's Church
St. Ulrichs Church
Drinking water educational trail at the Nethen waterworks
Tournament grounds
Wildlife sanctuary in Rastede
Willehad Church

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New Year's reception of the CDU, first or second Sunday in the new year
New Year's concert by the KKR in the auditorium, beginning of January
Band Festival Rastede, February
Rasteder Cabaret Days (cabaret group "Ante Portas" and jazz band from KGS Rastede), March
"Lions & Friends | MUSIC.SHOW.FESTIVAL. “, On the weekend before Easter
Rasteder spring market, in April
Aloha Mai Party Leuchtenburg, last Friday in April
Leuchtenburger Schützenfest, last weekend in April
Medieval Fantasy Spectaculum , historical market and jousting tournaments, in May
School band festival of the Cooperative Comprehensive School Rastede, end of May
Nethener Schützenfest, in June
Rasteder Schützenfest, on June 2nd weekend
International Rasteder Music Days , first weekend in July
Hankhauser Schützenfest, July 2nd weekend
Arts & Crafts on the Janßen-Hof, 3rd weekend in July
Oldenburg State Tournament , in July
Hahner Schützenfest, on the 1st weekend in August
International grass track race, on the 2nd weekend in August
New South Shooting Festival, on August 4th weekend
DRK “Open Day” on September 1st Sunday
Ellernfest, on the 2nd weekend in September
Delfshauser Schützenfest, on the 3rd weekend of September
Rasteder autumn market, on the 3rd weekend in October
Plattdeutsches Theater, Späälkoppel Heimatverein Rastede in November
Rast der Lichternacht, in November
Sled dog races, in November or December
Rasteder Adventszauber (Christmas market), in December
Christmas markets in Hahn, Wahnbek, Nethen and Delfshausen in December

Rastede train station

The station Rastede is located on the route Wilhelmshaven-Oldenburg . The RE 18 line runs on the course book route 392 from Wilhelmshaven via Sande , Oldenburg and Cloppenburg to Osnabrück . The RE 19 line via Delmenhorst to Bremen is in the timetable every four hours . Otherwise a change in Oldenburg is necessary in the direction of Bremen / Hanover. RE 18 and RE 19 are operated by NordWestBahn .

The federal motorway A 29 runs through the municipality in a north-south direction. Rastede and the places Hahn-Lehmden and Wapeldorf in the north have their own motorway slip road. The places Loy and Wahnbek also have a connection to the motorway network through an access to the Oldenburg-Nord motorway junction (which is located in the Rasteder area). The A 293 branches off from the above-mentioned motorway junction , which runs a little further on Rasteder Boden and then on Oldenburg territory to the Oldenburg-West triangle.

The southernmost route variant of the planned A 20 is to run north of the town center.

The federal road B 211 runs through Rastede .

line	Lines
323	Wahnbek - Etzhorn - Ohmstede - Oldenburg Hbf / ZOB / Lappan - Easter castle - Kreyenbrück - Krusenbusch
340	Jaderberg - Rastede - Wahnbek - Oldenburg
341	Bekhausen - Hahn-Lehmden - Rastede
342	Barghorn - Loy - Wahnbek - Neusüdende - Leuchtenburg - Rastede
343	Nethen - Hahn-Lehmden - Rastede
344	Delfshausen - Hahn-Lehmden - Rastede
348	Oldenburg - Rastede - Zetel
370	Rastede - Leuchtenburg - Wiefelstede - Bad Zwischenahn
440	Oldenburg - Loy - Großenmeer - Brake - Nordenham or Bremerhaven ( Weser Sprinter )
Night Owl (N31)	Oldenburg - Wahnbek - Rastede - Hahn-Lehmden - Wiefelstede - Tange

The Rasteder Rundschau is published monthly by the local Huno Verlag and distributed free of charge to households. The Rasteder municipal archive publishes the Rasteder archive messenger in the Oldenburger Isensee-Verlag at regular intervals .

The regional and local daily newspaper is the Nordwest-Zeitung (NWZ for short) of the Nordwest-Zeitung Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG from Oldenburg. The NWZ also operates a regional TV broadcaster called NWZ-TV on the Internet and reports with its own news program and other reports.

On Wednesdays and Sundays, two free advertising papers ( Hunte Report and Ammerländer Sonntagszeitung ) are distributed to all households. On Fridays, all households receive the free newspaper Neue Zeitung Ammerland .

In addition, the regional broadcaster Oldenburg Eins ( oeins ) reports on the latest news from Rastede and the surrounding area via radio and cable TV.

Another station is heimatLIVE . This can be received via the Internet and is operated by EWE AG.

There are various facilities for inpatient care for the elderly in Rastede . Most also offer short-term care and preventive care:

The AWO Wohnen & Pflege Altenwohnanlage is one of the first facilities of its kind in Rastede (since 1974). There are double and single rooms. In a newer extension, special aspects for caring for dementia sufferers have been taken into account. In order to cope with the urge to move around the dementia sufferers, the hallway was designed as a circular route and highlighted in color.

The Petershof Rastede is located in the center of Rastede and has double and single rooms. A little outside of Rastede, in Rastederberg is the Höpken nursing home . There are three providers for outpatient care in Rastede: The Rastede social station , Cura home care service and Vita outpatient care service .

There is an inpatient care facility for the disabled. The AWO Trialog residential complex at Mühlenhof mostly houses mentally ill people. 59 residents are cared for in single rooms. The aim is rehabilitation up to a possible move-out. The AWO Trialog offers outpatient assisted living for residents who have moved into their own apartment or those who are mentally ill at home . The facility was formerly called the Green House and was located in the former poor house in Rastede, which was demolished in 2011 and the facility moved to the former Kleeblatt Klinik Rastede under the new name Wohnanlage am Mühlenhof . In the new building there is also the competence center at Mühlenhof with seminar rooms, here the public lecture series "Mental Health" takes place.

The social psychiatric service of the Ammerland Health Department offers counseling and a supervised leisure group for mentally ill people. This meets in the former construction school at Anton-Günter-Straße 8. The German Red Cross Rastede operates a pantry and a clothes closet at its Rote Buche location .

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Companies that are known nationwide and are based in Rastede:

August Brötje GmbH (heating construction)
Bohmann Disposal GmbH
BÜFA Composite Systems GmbH & Co. KG
Daun & Cie AG ( textile industry )
Run Tuche GmbH
ESD fire protection (technical and structural fire protection)
NOWEDA Arzneimittel AG
Ulla Popken young fashion from size 42 GmbH ( fashion )
Witte Tube & Pipe Systems GmbH
Robert Kraemer GmbH & Co. KG - special binder for the paint and varnish industry
Vierol AG, logistics center ( automotive supplier )
abalio GmbH & Co. KG, group of companies with several investments (project development)
CleverReach GmbH & Co. KG

In addition, over 1,600 other businesses are registered in Rastede. The Rastede Economic Development Agency is trying to attract more businesses to the area.

A few hundred meters north of the Oldenburg-Nord motorway junction, directly on the northern lane of the A 29 in the Neusüdende II district, there is a state police station . Both a police station of the motorway police and a sub-location of the Lower Saxony police helicopter squadron are stationed here.

Landscape window "Geestrand" in Hankhausen

Lake Nethen from the air

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Landscape window Geestrand (erected as part of the State Garden Show 2002)
7 sports and multi-purpose halls (including the largest sports / multi-purpose hall in Lower Saxony)
Indoor swimming pool in the Palaisgarten
Outdoor pool at the "Stadion Mühlenstraße"
Beach Club (BC) Nethen (beach complex with bathing beach, water ski facility, volleyball, beach soccer, and much more)
Hahn natural pool (with campsite, bar, barbecue area, and much more)
Tennis courts (indoor and outdoor)
Golf and swing golf course
3 music trains / show bands
7 shooting clubs with the strongholds of Leuchtenburg and Hahn
5 Klootschießer and Boßelervereine with the stronghold of Leuchtenburg
Kart center (indoor and outdoor)
Grand ducal facilities (with palace gardens, tournament grounds, Ellernteich, palace gardens, and much more)
Youth center "Villa Hartmann"
Community library "Villa Wächter"
Mühlenstrasse stadium
Several sports fields in the entire municipality
Good network of cycling, riding and hiking trails (various routes in and around Rastede)
Various sports clubs and groups

State fire school in Loy

Rescue exercise at the Loy State Fire Brigade School

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Evangelical Academy
Evangelical Heimvolkshochschule (HVHS) Rastede
Community library "Villa Wächter"
Community archive in the palace garden
Lower Saxony Academy for Fire and Disaster Protection - Loy site (formerly State Fire Brigade School)
Cooperative Academy Weser-Ems (formerly Raiffeisenschule)
Ammerland Adult Education Center, Rastede branch
Cooperative comprehensive school Rastede (KGS Rastede) with the branches of secondary school , secondary school , grammar school and upper level
Special school on Vossbarg
6 primary schools in Rastede, Hahn-Lehmden, Kleibrok, Leuchtenburg, Loy and Wahnbek
Kindergartens and crèches in the various districts

August I (1783–1853), Grand Duke of Oldenburg
Hermann Schüssler (1842–1919), civil engineer who built several dams in the USA
Heinrich Albrecht (1856–1931), social politician and housing reformer
Erich Ahlers (1909–2004), horticultural director in Bremen
Dieter Decker (* 1946), local politician (CDU) and former mayor of the municipality of Rastede, from 1994 to 2003 also a member of the state parliament
Arend Agthe (* 1949), film director
Christian Herzog von Oldenburg (* 1955), head of the Oldenburg family

Wilhelm Morisse (* 1870 in Brake / Utw., † 1936 in Oldenburg), painter and graphic artist, spent a large part of his life in Rastede
Rudolf Bultmann (* 1884 in Wiefelstede, † 1976 in Marburg), theologian, spent childhood and youth in Rastede
Otto Hersing (* 1885 in Mulhouse, † 1960 in Rastede), German naval officer and submarine commander in World War I.
Georg Harms-Rüstringen (* 1890 in Rüstringen, † 1955 in Rastede), painter and graphic artist
Wilhelm Tegtmeier (* 1895 in Barmen, † 1968 in Nethen), painter and graphic artist
Woldemar v. Collins (* 1910 in Riga, † 1999 in Rastede), painter
Heinz Frieler (* 1927 in Epe, † 1990 in Bocholt), German politician
Heinz Baumann (* 1928 in Oldenburg), German actor and voice actor, grew up in Rastede-Loy
Dieter Zoller (* 1921 in Breslau, † 1993 in Rastede), archaeologist, prehistorian, research center for settlement archeology in the palace in Rastede
Ursula Regina Popken (* 1937, † 2009), co-founder of the Ulla Popken fashion company , was awarded the Lower Saxony Order of Merit for her social commitment
Insa Bauer (* 1948 in Oldenburg), children's book author
Thomas Reiter (* 1958 in Frankfurt / Main), German astronaut (ESA) and Air Force General, has lived with his family in Rastede-Wahnbek since 1996
Uta Andrée (* 1971 in Jever), director of studies at the Missionsakademie Hamburg, former senior church councilor of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), had her first parish in Rastede

In 1907 the fishing steamer Rastede of the J. Wieting shipping company in Bremerhaven was named after Rastede. During the First World War , the ship served as an outpost boat in the Imperial Navy .

A dispute about the takeover of the municipal garbage disposal in Rastede led to the "Rastede judgment" on November 23, 1988, in which the Federal Constitutional Court made fundamental statements on the scope and limits of the municipal self-government guaranteed in Article 28, Paragraph 2 of the Basic Law .

In 2008, the community found itself in the German and international media, when the unemployed and drug addict Nikolai H. threw a block of wood weighing almost 6 kg from a motorway bridge in Rastede onto the A 29 on Easter Sunday , while the co-driver of one of them threw the bridge underpassed cars.

Varel (20 km)

Jade (15 km)

Ovelgönne (26 km)

Wiefelstede (8 km)

Elsfleth (25 km)

Oldenburg (Oldb) (16 km)

Marit Strobel, Margarethe Pauly, Manfred Migge: Rastede. A summer residence . Isensee, Oldenburg 2000, ISBN 3-89598-259-8 .
Hans Wichmann: 900 years of Rastede . Rastede municipality, Rastede 1959, DNB 453917852 .
Hermann Lübbing: The Rasteder Chronicle. 1059-1477 . Holzberg, Oldenburg 1976, ISBN 3-87358-087-X .
Local Citizens' Association: History & Stories of the North of Rastede . 1999, DNB 971726914 .
Gerold Meiners: The chronicle of Gut Hahn, a foray into Oldenburg history . 1996, OCLC 256870418 .
Günter Tabken: Rasteder photo impressions . Isensee, Oldenburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89995-571-2 .
Günter Tabken: Rasteder Photo Impressions Volume 2 . Isensee, Oldenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89995-668-9 .
Rastede in the past - Rastede today. Wilhelm Schnitz KG, Bremen 1981. 2nd edition.