Rhade

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Rhade (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 20 '  N , 9 ° 7'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality :	Singing
Height :	13 m above sea level NHN
Area :	24.44 km 2
Residents:	1088 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	45 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27404
Area code :	04285
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 038
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 30 27446 Selsingen
Mayor :	Dr. Marco Mohrmann ( Voting Association Rhadereistedt )
Location of the municipality of Rhade in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district

Rhade is a municipality in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme) in Lower Saxony . It consists of the districts of Rhade and Rhadereistedt and belongs to the Selsingen municipality .

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the neighboring municipality of Rhadereistedt was incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Rhade consists of eleven council women and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 1001 and 2000 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
Voting community Rhade	64.97%	7th
Voting community Rhadereistedt	35.02%	4th

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 69.28%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The council elected council member Dr. Marco Mohrmann (Rhadereistedt voter association) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality shows three silver spheres on a blue background, two above one.

The three silver balls are included in the family coat of arms of the Barons von Rahden, who owned a moated castle as ancestral castle in Rhade in the 12th to 14th centuries. The adoption of the herald's mark from the family coat of arms in the coat of arms of the community is intended to indicate the origin and development of the village from the time of the barons of Rahden to the independence of the village of Rhade.

Culture and sights

Museums

• Local history museum "Heimatstube" in the kindergarten building on the street "Alter Schulweg"

Sports

The local TSV Rhade e. V. engages in recreational and competitive sports. There are also the Rhadereistedt shooting club and the Rhade riding club. In addition, the Rhadereistedt e. V. the possibility of throwing pigeon shooting.

Regular events

• Christmas market on the school grounds on the second Advent
• on the second weekend in August, large rifle festival in Rhadereistedt
• Children's Carnival in February

Economy and Infrastructure

As a school (elementary school Rhade) and church (ev.-Lutheran St. Gallus parish of Rhade) as well as the existing infrastructure (general practitioners, village shop, shops), the place Rhade is important as a central place for the surrounding villages Hanstedt, Glinstedt , Rhadereistedt, Ostereistedt and some smaller settlements. Rhade has a day-care center with a total of 50 childcare places including a crèche.

traffic

The Rhadereistedt stop was on the Wilstedt – Tostedt railway line . This is shut down.

Web links

Commons : Rhade  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the municipality of Rhade
• Rhade on the website of the Selsingen community

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. 242 .
3. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on March 18, 2017.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Rhade - overall results of municipal council elections 2016 ( memento of the original from March 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 18, 2017. 
5. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Municipality of Rhade - Council of the Municipality of Rhade 2016-2021 , accessed on March 18, 2017.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Rhade - Description of the coat of arms of the municipality of Rhade , accessed on March 18, 2017