Rechtsupweg

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Coat of arms of the community of Rechtsupweg
Rechtsupweg
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Rechtsupweg highlighted

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '  N , 7 ° 20'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Aurich
Joint municipality : Brookmerland
Height : 1 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.13 km 2
Residents: 2101 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 410 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 26529
Area code : 04934
License plate : AUR, NOR
Community key : 03 4 52 022
Association administration address: Am Markt 10
26529 Marienhafe
Mayor : Carl Wilts ( SPD )
Location of the community Rechtsupweg in the district of Aurich
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The church in Rechtsupweg

Rechtsupweg is a municipality in the Brookmerland municipality in the Aurich district in East Friesland . The community has 2101 inhabitants and covers an area of ​​5.13 square kilometers. The municipality is one of the smallest municipalities in Lower Saxony in terms of area .

history

The community was founded in 1769 as a bog colony . The name is based on a branch path of the municipality Upgant-Schott into the moor.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the community of Rechtsupweg consists of 13 councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population of 2001 up to 3000 inhabitants. The 13 council members are elected for five years each 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 Change voices Change seats
SPD 58.9% 8th −6.8% 0
CDU 19.5% 2 −0.3% −1
Brookmer Voting Association (BWG) 14.2% 2 −0.3% 0
Alliance 90 / The Greens 7.3% 1 + 7.3% +1

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 56.4%, slightly above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%. For comparison - in the previous local election on September 11, 2011, the turnout was 51.46%.

Mayor is Carl Wilts (SPD).

coat of arms

Coat of arms from Rechtsupweg
Blazon : "The coat of arms of the municipality shows a golden beehive on a blue background, underneath a golden hoe crossed with a golden moor spade."

traffic

Federal highway 72 runs west of the community between the north and Aurich .

societies

Spiel und Sport Rechtsupweg : The founding meeting of the Spiel und Sport Rechtsupweg took place on May 6, 1965 in the Allotria restaurant. The then village school teacher Erwin Brandes had invited. Table tennis , toilet shooting and soccer formed the first branch. The traditional colors blue - yellow - red of the toilet shooting department were adopted as club colors. Blue and yellow are also the basic colors of the Rechtsupweg coat of arms (blue background, yellow beehive and yellow peat digger set). By the end of the first year, the association had 157 members, including 65 young people; In 1989 there were 380, today there are around 500.

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. Peter Seidel (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape): Rechtsupweg, community Brookmerland, district Aurich (PDF; 871 kB), accessed on October 5, 2012
  3. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on December 31, 2016
  4. a b Samtgemeinde Brookmerland - Local Council Election Rechtsupweg 2016 , accessed on December 31, 2016.
  5. hna.de: Local elections: All information, all results , accessed on December 31, 2016.

Web links

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