Roadstead (Ems)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′  N , 7 ° 16 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Emsland
Height :	5 m above sea level NHN
Area :	74.99 km 2
Residents:	4292 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	57 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	26899
Area code :	04964
License plate :	Tbsp
Community key :	03 4 54 044
Community structure:	4 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Gerhardyweg 1 26899 Rhede (Ems)
Website :	www.rhede-ems.de
Mayor :	Jens Willerding ( CDU )
Location of the municipality Rhede (Ems) in the district of Emsland

Rhede (Ems) is a municipality in the Emsland district in Lower Saxony . Rhede has 4292 inhabitants and covers an area of ​​74.98 km².

geography

Geographical location

The municipality Rhede is located in the extreme northwest of the district on the western bank of the Ems . It borders directly on the Netherlands .

Neighboring communities

In the north Rhede borders on the municipality of Bunde and the town of Weener in the district of Leer , in the east on the city of Papenburg , in the south on the Samtgemeinde Dörpen and in the west on the municipalities of Bellingwedde ("Rhederveld") and Vlagtwedde (fortress Bourtange ) in the Dutch province of Groningen.

Community structure

Location of the districts with population
	1. Borsum	145
	2. Brual	682
	3. Neurhede	476
	4. Roadstead	3179

Land use

Around 75% of the municipal area is used for agriculture . The areas with wasteland and uncultivated land account for around 14%. The total other land use can be seen in the following table:

Land use in Rhede (Ems)	Area in ha
Courtyard and building areas	175
Traffic areas	300
Wasteland, wasteland	1067
Agricultural land	5605
Forest areas	87
Bodies of water	236
Other areas	28
total area	7498

history

Rhede was first mentioned in documents in 829. In 853 Borsum was also mentioned. Brual is more recent (10th century), but was of great importance as the Ems could be closed as a waterway here.

During the time of National Socialism there was a penal camp in Rhede / Brual-Siedlung .

In 1940 a prisoner discovered an iron meteorite weighing 19 kilograms in the moor near Rhede . Today it bears the official name "Emsland".

Incorporations

The former joint municipality of Rhede was converted into a unified municipality on January 1, 1973. The former member communities Borsum, Brual and Neurhede became districts of today's community in addition to the eponymous place Rhede.

religion

The Rheder population is around 75% majority Roman Catholic denomination . The Evangelical Lutheran denomination is the next largest religious group with around 7%.

politics

Roadstead has the status of a unified municipality .

Municipal council

The council of the municipality Rhede (Ems) consists of 14 council women and councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 3001 and 5000 inhabitants. The 14 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 directly elected full-time mayor Jens Willerding (CDU) is also entitled to vote in the municipal council .

According to the results of the last local election on September 11, 2016, the following distribution of seats in the local council resulted:

Distribution of seats after the 2016 municipal council election

  

A total of 14 seats

• SPD : 2
• CDU : 12

mayor

On May 26, 2019, Jens Willerding was elected full-time mayor of Rhede as a single applicant with 83.4 percent .

Representatives in the Land and Bundestag

The municipality is part of the Papenburg state electoral district . In addition to the city of Papenburg, it also includes the municipality of Rhede (Ems) and the combined municipalities of Dörpen , Lathen , Nordhümmling , Sögel and Werlte . Five direct candidates ran for the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2013 . The directly elected MP is Bernd Busemann ( CDU ). The constituency has the constituency number 82.

Rhede belongs to the Bundestag constituency Unterems (constituency 25), which consists of the district of Leer and the northern part of the district of Emsland. The constituency was redesigned for the 1980 federal election and has remained unchanged since then. So far, only representatives of the CDU have prevailed as direct candidates in this constituency. The constituency is represented in the Bundestag by CDU MP Gitta Connemann from Leer. No candidate from the other parties from the constituency entered the Bundestag via list places.

coat of arms

Blazon : In gold, a slanting black wavy bar, accompanied by a black steering wheel at the top and a black ploughshare at the bottom. The wavy bar represents the relationship between the place and the location on the Ems , the steering wheel is a symbol of the centuries-old shipping on the Ems and the ploughshare represents the predominantly rural character of the community.

flag

The colors of the municipality of Rhede are gold-black-gold. The official flag of the municipality shows the municipal coat of arms in the middle black field, while this is missing on the civil flag.

Town twinning

Rhede (Ems) maintains city ​​partnerships with the following municipalities:

•  Bellingwedde ( Netherlands ), since July 25, 1979
•  Lidzbark Warminski rural municipality ( Poland ), since October 10, 2012

Culture and sights

Museums

The Agricultural Museum in Rhede is one of the five Emsland museums and provides an insight into muscle-powered agriculture . The museum has been located on a former farm on Emsstrasse since 1990 and was converted into a museum from 1991 to 1995. Devices and machines from around 1850 to 1950 are shown on an exhibition area of ​​around 1,100 square meters. Main topics of the exhibition are the field order , the grain harvest , the hay , the cattle and the dairy industry .

Buildings

Old Rheder Church

The Alte Rheder Church is a late Gothic brick building of three cross vaulted bays with a 5/8 choir and a rectangular west tower. Parts of the tower base date from the 13th century. The main part of the church building dates from around 1470. The parish of St. Nicholas used the church as a parish church until 1913 . Then the church became too small for the growing community and a new church was built in the town center. The profaned church now serves as a memorial church , a memorial for the dead of the world wars and a venue for cultural music events such as the music series “Church Music in Emsland”.

The Catholic parish church of St. Nikolaus was built in 1913 as a new building in the center of the village after the old parish church with its 565 seats turned out to be too small. The church, built by master builder Wilhelm Sunder-Plassmann from Münster in the neo-Romanesque style , received two large square west towers and a mighty octagonal crossing tower , which earned the church the nickname "Rheder Cathedral" among the locals. A first major interior renovation took place in the course of the changes in connection with the Second Vatican Council in 1966. Another interior renovation took place in 1999, in which the original character of the church was brought back to the fore. Many paintings and the sandstone pillars have been restored. In 2013, the 100-year history was celebrated with an anniversary weekend.

St. Nicholas Church in Rhede (Ems)

Sports

The sports club Spiel und Sport Rhede (SuS Rhede), founded in 1921, is one of the largest clubs in the municipality with around 600 members. It offers football , handball , volleyball , tennis , gymnastics and athletics . The sports facilities of the club include the Emspark Stadium , the Kold'n Hauk tennis facility as well as the A-Platz and the sports halls in Jahnstrasse. Another club is the sports club SV Eintracht Brual eV , founded in 1967 , which has around 300 members. The club offers both football and table tennis .

Regular events

Every year on the weekend of Pentecost, the Rheder Schützenfest begins , which attracts hundreds of people. In addition, the Rheder Market will be celebrated in September with one of the largest horse markets in Northern Germany. Part of the Rheder Markt is the Rheder Marktlauf , a public and street run that has been held in the city since 2008.

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

The Rhede wind farm is located on the east side of the A 31 . Also, here is Dino Cars Evers located. In the district Brual there is a family business founded in 2016 cheat publisher's own card marketed internationally.

traffic

The federal motorway 31 (also known as "Ostfriesenspieß" or "Emslandautobahn") runs in a north-south direction through the municipality. The state road L 52 runs through the district Rhede . It leads from the Dutch border via Aschendorf / Ems to state road L 30 in Burlage, a district of Rhauderfehn in the district of Leer .

Bike trails

Several long-distance cycle paths lead through the municipality of Rhede .

• The Dortmund-Ems Canal Route is an approximately 350 kilometers long and almost incline-free long-distance cycle path that connects the Ruhr area with the North Sea coast .
• The United Countries Tour is an approx. 600 km long circuit through the northern and central Emsland to the left of the Ems, through the border areas of the Dutch provinces of Drenthe and Groningen and the northern county of Bentheim .

Personalities

• Bernhard Heller (1878–1937), sculptor and poet
• Theodor Pennemann (1861–1932), farmer, politician (center), member of the Reichstag
• Gerhard Pennemann (1906–1985), politician ( center ), member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
• Hermann Bröring (* 1945), politician, former district administrator of the Emsland district
• Hermann Vinke (* 1940), journalist and author
• Helena Zumsande (1993-2015), singer

literature

• Werner Kaemling - Atlas on the history of Lower Saxony , Gerd J. Holtzmeyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1987, ISBN 3-923722-44-3
• Hermann Abels - The place names of the Emsland, in their linguistic and cultural-historical significance , Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 1929
• Ernst Förstemann, Hermann Jellinghaus (editor) - Old German name book , Volume II, 1 and 2: Place names , Bonn 1913/1916 (Reprint: Volume II, 2, Hildesheim 1967/1983, ISBN 3-487-01733-4 )

Web links

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

• Website of the municipality of Rhede (Ems)

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. ↑ ^{a b} Economic figures of the municipality of Rhede (Ems) ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 September 12, 2013 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Statistics of the unified community ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2016 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 September 13, 2013 
4. ↑ Emsland. Meteoritical Bulletin, accessed June 5, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Hermann-Josef Döbber: Meteorite Colloquium in Rhede reminds of an Emsland find. noz.de, accessed on June 5, 2020 . 
6. ^ 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 252 .
7. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on September 9, 2013.
8. ^ Rhede-Online: Municipal council electoral period 2016–2021 , accessed on February 3, 2017
9. ↑ General-Anzeiger: In 2014, many mayors will be elected in Emsland , accessed on September 9, 2013
10. ↑ 2013 list of candidates
11. ↑ Results of the 2017 Bundestag election in the constituency, broken down by cities and municipalities
12. ^ Nordwest-Zeitung: Bundestag election: These members represent our region . In: NWZonline . ( nwzonline.de [accessed September 29, 2017]).
13. ↑ Main statute of the city of Rhede (Ems) ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 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. (PDF; 112 kB), accessed on September 9, 2013 
14. ↑ Rhede-Online: Landwirtschaftsmuseum ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2016 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 September 10, 2013 
15. ^ Rhede-Online: Alte Rheder Church , accessed on February 17, 2018
16. ↑ Municipal Association Rhede: St. Nikolaus , accessed on September 11, 2013
17. ↑ 100 years of the Rheder Church: Book for the anniversary , accessed on September 11, 2013
18. ↑ Play and Sport Rhede e. V. from 1921 , accessed September 9, 2013
19. ^ Homepage of SV Eintracht Brual , accessed on September 10, 2013
20. ↑ 6th market run in Rhede , accessed on September 11, 2013
21. ↑ Interview series for young publishers: Mogel-Verlag , brettspielbox.de October 10, 2019, accessed November 24, 2019