Sögel

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 51 '  N , 7 ° 31'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Emsland
Joint municipality :	Sögel
Height :	35 m above sea level NHN
Area :	55.26 km 2
Residents:	8029 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	145 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	49751
Area code :	05952
License plate :	Tbsp
Community key :	03 4 54 047
Address of the municipal administration:	Ludmillenhof 49751 Sögel
Website :	www.soegel.de
Mayor :	Irmgard Welling ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Sögel in the Emsland district

Sögel is a municipality and the administrative seat of the Sögel municipality in the Emsland district in western Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

The municipality, which extends over 55.2 km², had around 8,000 inhabitants at the end of 2018 .

geography

location

Sögel is located on the southern edge of the Hümmling , a Geestrücken in the Emsland . East of Sögel is the headwaters of the Nordradde , a tributary of the Ems .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities in the north are the communities Werpeloh and Spahnharrenstätte , in the east the communities Werlte and Lahn in the combined community Werlte , in the south the communities Hüven , Klein Berßen and Groß Berßen and in the west the community Stavern , and in the combined community Lathen the communities Lathen and Renkenberge .

history

Sögel (old: Sugila 1000, Soghelen 1150) is an ancient settlement. Sögel was first mentioned around 1000 in the Corvey monastery register . Corvey owned three tributary farms here in the 11th century. The final word sugi means pig, sow. The basic word la, lo, loh stands for wood. So here was a wood for the acorn fattening of the pigs.

Until 1932 Sögel was the seat of the former office and later district of Hümmling , which was then merged with the district of Aschendorf to form the district of Aschendorf-Hümmling . Since 1977 Sögel has belonged to the Emsland district with Meppen as the district town. A relatively large number of Jewish residents lived in Sögel, who made up 5.2 percent of the population in 1925. They formed a synagogue community with the Jewish residents of Lathen and Werlte. During the Nazi era, some tried to emigrate, but the masses stayed in the village and were deported to the East in 1941 and 1942 and died soon after in ghettos or concentration camps, as did the community members who had emigrated to the Netherlands. Only two of the few survivors of the community returned to Sögel in 1945.

The end of World War II

During the Second World War, there was an alternative camp for bombed-out Emden families in Sögel . Sögel was captured on April 9, 1945 by the Lake Superior Regiment (engine) of the Canadian Army . Eleven residents and two German soldiers died in a previous bomb attack. Another source writes: "Twelve fatalities (nine residents of Sögel - including four children - and three German soldiers) and several wounded, two of whom died from their injuries a few days later." The following day German paratroopers launched a counterattack the place through. It came to house fighting in downtown Sögel, where the Canadian army and tanks of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment began. The attack could be repulsed by the Canadians. Assuming support from local civilians, they were attacked by Canadian soldiers following the fighting. They later interned the civilian population in an emergency prison camp and blew up over 70 houses along the former battle line the following day. The Canadian Army described the battle for Sögel as one of the heaviest and most costly for them during the Allied advance in Germany. The concise Official Historical Summary of the Canadian Army mentions Sögel in only one sentence about the advance of the 4th Canadian Armored Division: "On April 8, it won a bridgehead over the River Ems at Meppen and then pressed forward through Sogel to Friesoythe ."

Special weapons store in the Lahner Heide

During the Cold War , a central nuclear weapons depot for the 1st Corps of the German Armed Forces and the Dutch 1st Corps was built between Sögel and the municipality of Werlte from 1963 and operated by the Army and the US Army . In February 1992 the last nuclear weapons were removed from the Lahn special ammunition dump.

Incorporations

With the law on the reorganization of the communities in the areas Leer and Aschendorf-Hümmling on January 1, 1973 Eisten was incorporated into the community of Sögel. The area of ​​today's municipality of Sögel also includes most of the former municipality of Wahn , which was leveled in 1941 for the enlargement of the Krupp shooting range .

Population development

Population development in Sögel

(including the incorporated district of Eisten)

year Residents 1821 1681 1848 1979 1871 2086 1885 1971 1905 2367 1925 2824 1933 3146 1939 3526

year Residents 1946 3238 1950 3422 1956 3163 1961 3111 1971 3948 2005 6729 2013 7556 2015 7464

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council has 21 elected members. Since the local elections on September 11, 2016, three parties have belonged to it.

• CDU - 12 seats
• SPD - 8 seats
• FDP - 1 seat

badges and flags

The coat of arms designed by the heraldist Ulf-Dietrich Korn and the flag of the municipality of Sögel were approved by the district of Emsland on June 9, 1983.

Blazon : “Split of blue and red by a curved golden tip, inside a black boar head ; in front a golden balance; in the back a representation of St. James the Elder in silver, half-length portrait with Gospel book . "

Reason: The scales indicate the importance of the place as the seat of the court, which is proven in the time before 1400. The representation of St. James refers to the patronage of the original parish of Sögel, which is dated around the year 800. The boar's head symbolizes the importance of the boar for hunting.

The flag is divided horizontally in a ratio of 1: 3: 1 red-yellow-red and topped with the coat of arms in the middle.

Attractions

Clemenswerth Castle

Ludmillenhof

Today Sögel is a state-recognized resort and is valued by locals for its idyllic location on the Hümmling. Sögel is surrounded by forest and offers a wide range of activities to those looking for relaxation and sports.

The baroque castle complex of Clemenswerth is of supraregional importance , in which eight smaller pavilion houses arranged in a star shape are grouped around a larger central building. The individual buildings are inserted into eight, e.g. T. double-row linden alleys and thus form a hunting star . The complex was built between 1737 and 1749 by the electoral architect Johann Conrad Schlaun for the Archbishop and Elector of Cologne , Prince-Bishop of Münster and holder of other titles, Clemens August I of Bavaria . The Hunting Lodge Clemenswerth is the best preserved baroque hunting and pleasure palace of its kind in Europe. The star-shaped system is characterized by individual axes, each of which protrudes into an avenue and can only be seen from the window from the central pavilion from an angled position. The immediate vicinity of the forest made hunting possible. Part of the complex are also the three castle ponds connected by canals, which are also on axes, as well as the historic stables , which today houses a youth education center. A Capuchin monastery , in which a few priests still live, also belongs to the castle chapel. Attached to this is a large monastery garden . Today Clemenswerth is a museum with a separate pottery and the seat of the Emsland landscape .

Further sights are the former ducal Ludmillenhof , which now houses the town hall, as well as the old official fountain, the so-called "Sögeler Meer" and the home courtyard.

In Sögel there is also a Bartning emergency church (type D, community center).

There are also stone and tumulus graves around 5000 years old, other witnesses from prehistoric times and interesting nature reserves in the municipality .

An old freight yard can be found on the Lathen – Werlte railway line ( Emsland Railway ), and the community is connected to the road network by state roads. The Hümmlingort Sögel does not have its own passenger train station; the train stations in the area in Meppen or Lathen can be used here.

Wall poem at Mühlenstrasse 15

Since 2012, the “Wall Poems Working Group”, with the support of the Sögel municipality, has had eleven “Wall poems” posted at prominent points in the municipality of Sögel.

Personalities

Born in Sögel

• Johann Bernhard Hensen (1828–1870), architect
• Emil Russell (1835–1907), lawyer and banker
• Albert Trautmann (1867–1920), pharmacist and writer
• Johannes Kossen (1869–1934), politician, MdL
• Wilhelm Röpke (1873–1945), surgeon in Wuppertal, President of the German Society for Surgery
• Bernhard Rakers (1905–1980), Nazi war criminal
• Konrad Schneller (1937–2007), politician, MdL
• Reiner Priggen (* 1953), politician, MdL
• Gerhild Romberger , singer

Died in Sögel

• Katharina Sibylla Schücking (1791–1831), poet
• Friedrich Ernst Husemann (1873–1935), politician
• Johann Heermann (1897–1976), politician, MdL
• Peter Coryllis (1909-1997), writer

particularities

A crater on Mars in the Lunae-Palus region with the coordinates 21.6 ° N, 55.2 ° W is named after the municipality of Sögel. Sögel has a diameter of 30 km.

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 )
• Hans Bahlow: Germany's geographical world of names . Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt 1985, ISBN 3-518-37721-3
• Heiner Wellenbrock / Marina Heller: They were our neighbors - Searching for traces of Jewish life in Sögel, in: Emsländische Geschichte 25, Haselünne 2018, pp. 422–456.

Web links

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

• Website of the Sögel municipality

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. ^ Charles Perry Stacey: The Victory Campaign: The Operations in North-west Europe 1944-45. Published in Volume III of the Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War. Queen's Printer. Ottawa, 1960. p. 558. ( online )
3. ↑ Offline: Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 17, 2011 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. 
4. ↑ Canadian Heroes - Private Loren Nelson - To Sogel and Beyond. In: canadianheroes.org. Retrieved June 24, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Ways out of chaos , Das Emsland and Lower Saxony 1945–1949, Meppen 1987.
6. ^ The Maple Leaf , May 3, 1945 issue.
7. ^ Chapter XVI - The Campaign in North-West Europe: The Advance to Victory, March-May 1945. In: ibiblio.org. Retrieved February 10, 2017 .  P. 279.
8. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes for 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. 252 .
9. ↑ http://www.soegel.de
10. ↑ Hans Fettweis: The coats of arms of the cities, communities and old districts of the Emsland. Lingen (Ems) 1989.
11. ↑ Youth Education Center .
12. ↑ www.kapuziner.org ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2012 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. 
13. ^ Wall poems by Sögel . Emsland Tourism GmbH. Retrieved May 17, 2020
14. ^ Community of Sögel: Sögel: 11th wall poem is revealed . September 19, 2019, accessed May 17, 2020
15. ↑ Sögel in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS