Barßel

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Cloppenburg
Height :	2 m above sea level NHN
Area :	84.34 km 2
Residents:	13,039 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	155 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	26676
Primaries :	04499, 04497
License plate :	CLP
Community key :	03 4 53 001
Community structure:	13 towns
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Theodor-Klinker-Platz 1 ; 26676 Barßel
Website :	barssel.de
Mayor :	Nils Anhuth (independent)
Location of the municipality of Barßel in the district of Cloppenburg

Barßel is a unified municipality in the Lower Saxony district of Cloppenburg in northwest Germany .

geography

Geographical location

The community is located 45 kilometers north of the district town of Cloppenburg in a former swamp area in the northernmost tip of the district of Cloppenburg. The districts of Ammerland and Leer (East Friesland) are directly adjacent . It is 40 kilometers from the Dollart bay near the mouth of the Ems. Nevertheless, it is only one meter above sea level and was therefore often endangered by floods in the past . The greatest height of seven meters has a small elevation in the south of Barßel. The Aue (north), there called Barßeler Tief , and the Soeste (south) flow around the center of Barßel .

Flood protection for Barßel: Polder south of the Barßeler Tief
Barßeler low

The distances to neighboring cities are:

Oldenburg 40 km to the east
Papenburg (Emsland) 38 km in the southwest
Leer (Ostfriesland) 30 km to the west
Westerstede 20 km in the northeast
Friesoythe 20 km (south, half way to Cloppenburg)
Rhauderfehn (west) and Detern and Apen (north) are also within ten kilometers , while in the south lies the marshland between the rivers Aue , Soeste and Sagter Ems . This wetland merges into the Vehnemoor at Friesoythe .

Local division

history

Barßel was first mentioned in a document in 1330 . The landlord-free farmers in the villages of Barßel, Lohe and Harkebrugge mainly ran sheep and fisheries . In the years 1522 and 1538 there were raids by Oldenburgers , in which the sheep and thus their livelihood were stolen from the Barßlers and others. Therefore, from now on, the population began to make a living by trading in peat . The peat was mainly transported on canals by ships and barges . During the Thirty Years War Barßel was sacked by Hessian troops in 1638. In 1760 and 1857 Barßel continued to grow by settling the districts of Barßeler moor and Elisabethfehn.

1900 the settlements Loher Ostmark, Lohe and Carolinenhof were added to the community. After the Second World War , many refugees and displaced persons arrived in Barßel. In 1957, drainage projects on the Soeste and flood protection were carried out in order to provide them with a settlement area . Over the centuries Barßel - although far from the coast - was home to many captains who traveled the world's oceans. Became known z. B. Captain Johann Dänekamp, who was lost in a tragic accident in 1978 with a crew of 28 in the North Atlantic with the 261m LASH carrier "Munich". Another tragic shipwreck occurred in June 1994, in which the Barßel captain Hans Lampen was killed.

In August 2016, two pleasure craft collided on the Barßeler Tief; two people died.

religion

Church of St. Cosmas and Damian in the center of Barßel

The Catholic Barßel parish of Sankt Ansgar, merged in 2006, consists of the former parishes of Ss. Cosmas and Damian (Barßel), St. Elisabeth (Elisabethfehn) and St. Marien (Harkebrugge). There are also three Protestant communities:

Ev.-luth. Elisabethfehn Church
Ev.-luth. Reekenfeld rectory
Evangelical Free Church Congregation Elisabethfehn. She also has a cemetery on Harkebrügger Weg .

Of the 12,946 inhabitants, 5,505 (42.5%) are Catholic (as of December 31, 2018)

politics

Municipal council

The Barßel town hall

Long street in the town center

The council of the municipality of Barßel consists of 28 council women and councilors. The stipulated number for a parish with a population between 12,001 and 15,000 is usually 30 councilors. By resolution of the municipal council, this number was reduced by two council members. The 28 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 Nils Anhuth 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			September 11, 2011			September 10, 2006
CDU	50.32%	8,088	15 seats	45.91%	7.134	13 seats	46.6%	7,333	14 seats
SPD	28.57%	4,593	8 seats	23.75%	3,691	7 seats	23.9%	3,752	7 seats
Citizens' Group Barßel (BFB)	14.24%	2,289	4 seats	24.47%	3,802	7 seats	27.1%	4,261	8 seats
Green	3.86%	621	1 seat	4.40%	685	1 seat	-	-	-
FDP	2.98%	480	0 seats	1.44%	225	0 seats	2.4%	381	1 seat
voter turnout	53.69%			53.30%			56.62%

mayor

The full-time mayor of the municipality of Barßel is Nils Anhuth (independent). In the last mayoral election on May 25, 2014, he was elected as a candidate for the SPD with 55.61% of the vote. His rival candidate Ludger Elsen (CDU) received 44.38%, although he had resigned shortly before the election and the CDU could no longer provide a successor. The turnout was 46.01%. Anhuth took office on November 1, 2014, replacing the previous incumbent Bernhard Schulte (non-party), who had no longer stood as a candidate. Nils Anhuth left the SPD on May 31, 2019.

coat of arms

Blazon : In red, a single-masted sailing boat moving to the left with a golden, symmetrical hull with black board line, golden fore and spritsail , blue pennant waving to the right at the top of the mast, on two superimposed blue waves with three crests each, filling the base of the shield.

Town twinning

Since March 16, 2001 there has been a partnership between the municipality of Barßel and the rural municipality of Elbląg (municipality of Elbing) in Poland . Elblag is a Polish rural municipality. It is located in the north-eastern part of Poland about 70 kilometers from Gdansk and 50 kilometers from the Polish-Russian border. It is around 30 kilometers to the Baltic Sea (Frisches Haff). The distance between Barßel and Elblag is 1000 kilometers.

Culture and sights

Ebkenssche Windmill

Attractions

Christ Church Elisabethfehn, unique Elisabeth chapel in the entrance area
"Angela von Barßel" ( Tjalk built in 1896 )
Ebkenssche windmill , rare gallery Dutch of 1854 with concrete octagonal , mostly cast iron . Drive, three cereal aisles including Peldegang , pug mill ( oil mill ); Elevator and outside stairs
Elisabethfehn Moor and Fehn Museum (Station 9 on the Route of Industrial Culture in the northwest )
former Elisabethfehn peat coke factory
Elisabethfehnkanal
Boat harbor on the Soeste / Zandersee with lighthouse (a replica of the “Roter Sand” lighthouse , which is six nautical miles north-east of the island of Wangerooge in the Outer Weser), restaurants, motorhome parking spaces and hiking trails on the dike

A 12 m high iron observation tower has stood on the edge of the Barßel harbor since 2005 and offers a good all-round view of the area.

Gut Carolinenhof

Passenger ship MS Spitzhörn

Paddle and pedal station

Culture barn

Barefoot Park Harkebrugge (length 1.6 km)

societies

In the municipality of Barßel there are six sports clubs, the SV Harkebrügge, the SV Viktoria Elisabethfehn (merger of SV Elisabethfehn and Viktoria Reekenfeld), the STV Barßel, the SV Hellas Apen + Barßel, the tennis club Barßel e. V. from 1973 and the Barßeler Ruderverein e. V.

Economy and Infrastructure

The Barßeler boat harbor on the Soeste , on the left in the background the town center

The "lighthouse" as the landmark of the Barßel boat harbor

Barßel was a member of the “Zweckverband Intercommunal Industrial Park Coastal Canal” in the c-Port industrial and commercial area . Membership was terminated on December 2, 2010 by a tight majority resolution (16 to 15 votes). This will only take effect on January 1, 2014.

traffic

Barßel is across the highway exit Apen / Barßel the A28 to reach from Oldenburg in about 15 minutes. The Emden – Oldenburg (Oldenburg) railway also runs between Apen and Barßel . The closest train station to Barßel on this route is Augustfehn .

Another road connection is from the Oldenburg / Eversten exit of the A 28 via the B 401 . From the south, the A 1 (exit Cloppenburg) also leads to the B 72 to Barßel.

The Barßeler boat harbor can be reached via the Ems , Jümme , Barßeler Tief and Soeste . In it still make tidal differences of the North Sea noticeable.

Barßel owns a small airfield .

The observation tower at the boat harbor, financed with Leader + funds
Museum ship in the Barßeler Hafen
Passenger ship MS Spitzhörn in Barßel harbor

education

The following schools are located in the municipality:

Barßel primary school, Marienschule
Elementary school sundew
Elementary school Elisabethfehn West
Harkebrugge primary school
Barßel secondary school
Realschule Barßel (European school)
Integrated comprehensive school Barßel (since the 2015/2016 school year)
Soesteschule Barßel

Sons and daughters of the church

Theodor Niehaus (1820–1887), Catholic priest and episcopal official of the Oldenburg part of the diocese of Münster with his official seat in Vechta

Laurentius Siemer (1888–1956) clergyman and resistance fighter

Bettina Schünemann (* 1961), painter and object artist

Christian Claaßen (* 1969), former soccer player

Alexandra Sostmann (* 1970), pianist

literature

Hans Eveslage: On the history of the Barßeler shipping . In: Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland 1984 . Vechta 1983, pp. 5-14.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
↑ Barßel mourns after the fatal boat accident
↑ churches statistics in Barssel
^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of Members , accessed on January 23, 2017.
↑ KDO election portal: Municipal elections 2016 in the municipality of Barßel
↑ haz.de: CDU candidate gives up , accessed on November 7, 2014
^ Municipality of Barßel - overall results of the mayoral election May 25, 2014 , accessed on November 7, 2014
^ Nordwest-Zeitung: Leaving the party in Barßel: Anhuth. June 1, 2019, accessed September 29, 2019 .
↑ Lower Saxony Mühlenstrasse: Ebkensche Mühle
↑ Beautiful prospects in the port on nwzonline from May 4, 2005, accessed on April 3, 2015
↑ http://www.barfusspark-harkebruegge.de/
↑ nwzonline.de - Barßel gets out of C-Port

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-NI-1] State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).

[2] Barßel mourns after the fatal boat accident

[3] urches statistics in Barssel

[4] Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of Members , accessed on January 23, 2017.

[5] KDO election portal: Municipal elections 2016 in the municipality of Barßel

[6] z.de: CDU candidate gives up , accessed on November 7, 2014

[7] Municipality of Barßel - overall results of the mayoral election May 25, 2014 , accessed on November 7, 2014

[8] Nordwest-Zeitung: Leaving the party in Barßel: Anhuth. June 1, 2019, accessed September 29, 2019 .

[9] Lower Saxony Mühlenstrasse: Ebkensche Mühle

[10] Beautiful prospects in the port on nwzonline from May 4, 2005, accessed on April 3, 2015

[11] ttp://www.barfusspark-harkebruegge.de/

[12] wzonline.de - Barßel gets out of C-Port