Joint municipality of Artland
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Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′ N , 7 ° 57 ′ E |
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| Basic data | ||
| Existing period: | 1972– | |
| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | Osnabrück | |
| Area : | 189.32 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 23,444 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 124 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| License plate : | OS , BSB, MEL, WTL | |
| Association key : | 03 4 59 5401 | |
| Association structure: | 4 municipalities | |
| Association administration address : |
Markt 1 49610 Quakenbrück |
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Samtgemeinde- mayor : |
Claus Peter Poppe ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the Artland community in the Osnabrück district | ||
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The Samtgemeinde Artland is a community association in the northern district of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony with its seat in the city of Quakenbrück and an independent municipality . Its member communities are Badbergen , Menslage , Nortrup and the city of Quakenbrück.
The joint community borders in the south on the joint communities Fürstenau and Bersenbrück of the district of Osnabrück , in the west on the district of Emsland , in the north on the district of Cloppenburg and in the east on the district of Vechta . It is located in a flat geest landscape with an average height of 25 meters above sea level . Its extension is 15 kilometers in a north-south direction and 25 kilometers in an east-west direction and its total area is 189 km².
geography
Geographical location
The municipality is located in an alluvial plain of the North German Plain , through which the Hase flows and forms an inland delta at Quakenbrück .
geology
Because of the low gradient, the Hase formed several arms of the river and the Hase Inland Delta was formed, which consists mainly of glaciofluviatile sediments that were created during the Ice Age by the action of the river carrying the glacier melt .
Drilling has shown that the soil consists primarily of loamy and sandy deposits from the Pleistocene . The top soil layer is five to seven meters thick and is underlain by a loamy and marbled layer of sediment that is up to ten meters thick . Sandy layers at a depth of 25 to 30 meters form a high-yield aquifer for pumping the groundwater . The top aquifer is at a depth of two to six meters.
Joint community structure
The integrated community includes
- the city of Quakenbrück as a middle center as well
- the member communities Badbergen, Menslage and Nortrup.
It is only partially identical to the landscape known as Artland .
history
The Artland joint community was formed as part of the regional reform in accordance with Section 73 (2) of the Lower Saxony Municipal Code with effect from July 29, 1972. Until then, Artland, which has been occupied since 1309, was not a political unit, but rather described a cultural and historical region that changed over the centuries, also in terms of its expansion (see: The Artland as a landscape ).
The Kulturschatz Artland project of the “Zukunft StArtland” working group is primarily dedicated to the farm culture and the historical building substance of this region.
Population development
The following overview shows the population of the Artland community in the respective territories and as of December 31st.
The figures are updates by the State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony based on the census of May 25, 1987 .
| year | Residents |
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| 1987 | 18,844 |
| 1990 | 19,481 |
| 1995 | 22,034 |
| 2000 | 22,539 |
| 2005 | 23,014 |
| 2010 | 22,908 |
| 2015 | 22,839 |
1 From 2008, the reports from the registration authorities on which the migration data is based contain numerous adjustments to the register that were carried out as a result of the introduction of the personal tax identification number. The data are therefore only of limited significance.
Location
The joint municipality of Artland is spatially almost exactly between the regional centers of Oldenburg and Osnabrück . The settled companies make the joint municipality the largest industrial location in the northern Osnabrück area.
In 2005, the integrated municipality won the competition "SME- friendly municipalities in Lower Saxony" organized by the Lower Saxony Association of Towns and Municipalities (NSGB) .
politics
Joint council
The Samtgemeinderat currently has 34 members from 5 parties or groups. In addition, the mayor of the municipality is a member of the council with voting rights. The council chairman is Dietmar Berger (SPD).
The following table shows the local election results since 1996.
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| 1996-2001 | 41.8 | 15th | 41.8 | 15th | 7.5 | 2 | 8.9 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 100 | 35 | 62.3 | ||||
| 2001-2006 | 43.9 | 15th | 39.8 | 14th | 4.4 | 1 | 11.7 | 4th | - | - | - | - | 100 | 34 | 60.6 | ||||
| 2006-2011 | 45.0 | 15th | 38.1 | 13 | 3.6 | 1 | 9.2 | 3 | - | - | 4.1 | 2 | 100 | 34 | 57.2 | ||||
| 2011-2016 | 34.8 | 12 | 41.4 | 14th | 9.0 | 3 | 7.4 | 3 | 6.9 | 2 | - | - | 99.4 | 34 | 52.4 | ||||
| 2016-2021 | 37.0 | 13 | 34.0 | 11 | 8.5 | 3 | 5.7 | 2 | 10.0 | 3 | 4.9 | 2 | 100 | 34 | 53.0 | ||||
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Percentages rounded. Sources: State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony, District Osnabrück. In the case of different information in the sources mentioned, the data from the State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology were used, as they are generally more plausible. |
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Coat of arms, flag and official seal
The Artland community has a coat of arms, a flag and an official seal, which are set out in § 2 of the main statutes.
" Split by red and silver in a wavy cut, in mixed colors two dragons facing each other without wings and claws."
- meaning
The dragon without wings and claws is the so-called " Artländer Dragon ", which the coats of arms of the member communities Badbergen, Menslage and Nortrup each carry in a split shield in the front field. This Artland dragon, also called "Drudemänneken", can often be found on furniture made in Artland.
- flag
“The colors of the flag of the Samtgemeinde are red and white; it shows the coat of arms as a symbol. "
- Official seal
The official seal contains the coat of arms and the inscription "Samtgemeinde Artland".
Economy and Infrastructure
The companies Ruf Lebensmittel , Lear Corporation , PPS Pipeline Systems and the research and development facility the German Institute for Food Technology (DIL) have settled in Quakenbrück . The meat product factory Kemper and Delkeskamp Verpackungswerke GmbH are located in Nortrup, Artland Convenience in Badbergen.
In post-war Germany, the most important company for the region was the Kynast company, based in Quakenbrücker Neustadt, which employed more than 2500 people, but is now largely irrelevant after two bankruptcies when Kynast-Steel GmbH was founded in 2005. The factories for mattress production ("Schlaraffia") and chemical dye industry, as well as mechanical engineering companies, which were once located in the industrial area there, did not survive the structural crisis of the 1980s.
Sewage treatment plant
In September 2007 a new sewage treatment plant was put into operation at Plückmannstrasse 27 in Quakenbrück. The old sewage treatment plant from 1957 at the same location could no longer be operated despite ongoing renovation measures by the Bersenbrück Water Association. After the state funding had been approved for the construction project, which was estimated at a total of 6.7 million euros, the groundbreaking ceremony took place in 2005 . A central sewage sludge treatment plant was created on the site of the old sewage treatment plant , consisting of a machine house with a sludge thickening and sludge dewatering system. In the newly built block-type thermal power station, the digester gas is already being used to generate electricity in order to also reduce electricity costs. Outdated operating rooms such as the workshop, warehouse, laboratory and sanitary rooms have also given way to a new building. But the entire mechanical and electrical engineering was also renovated.
literature
- Gudrun Kuhlmann: The Artland and the city of Quakenbrück in their historical development. Isensee, 2004. ISBN 3-89995-009-7
- Christian Wüst, Heinrich Böning, Claudia Wüst, Heiko Bockstiegel, Josef Hauertmann: The Artland: a cultural treasure in the northwest. Artland-Atelier Quakenbrück, 2006. ISBN 3-00-018542-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ↑ Wolfgang Schlüter: The prehistory and early history of the Artland and its surroundings. In: H.-R. Jarck (ed.): Quakenbrück. From the border fortress to the commercial center. P. 34f.
- ↑ Lower Saxony municipal code (PDF; 193 kB)
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↑ a b c d main statute for the joint community Artland (PDF; 89 kB)
The coat of arms of the joint community is incompletely described in § 2 paragraph 1 with the sentence:
"The coat of arms of the joint community shows two dragons facing each other without wings and claws." - ↑ Joint municipality Artland about Artland cultural treasure
- ↑ State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony, population update
- ↑ Chamber of Commerce and Industry Osnabrück-Emsland ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://wahlen.artland.de/Wahlen/Komwahl2016/459101_000055/index.html
- ↑ State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony, Table 5000311
- ↑ Landkreis Osnabrück, official final results of the district election on September 9, 2001 ( Memento from May 25, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 528 kB)
- ^ The local elections for the district of Osnabrück on September 11, 2011 (also includes 2006 results). (PDF 8.0MB p. 16 column "Municipal elections") District Osnabrück, accessed on March 6, 2016 .
- ^ Samtgemeinde Artland: History
- ↑ Bersenbrück Water Association
