Integrated municipality Beverstedt

Basic data (as of 2011)
Existing period:	1971-2011
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Cuxhaven
Area :	197.62 km 2
Residents:	13,694 (Dec. 31, 2010)
Population density :	69 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	CUX
Association key :	03 3 52 403
Association structure:	9 municipalities
Association administration address ; :	Wesermünder Strasse 6 ; 27616 Beverstedt
Website :	www.beverstedt.de

Location of the joint municipality in the district of Cuxhaven

The joint municipality Beverstedt was a joint municipality in the Lower Saxony district of Cuxhaven .

geography

location

Topography and structure of the municipality Beverstedt

The northern and eastern part of the combined municipality is located with the municipalities Beverstedt, Frelsdorf, Appeln, Kirchwistedt and Stubben in the Wesermünder Geest , which in the eastern part of the municipality Kirchwistedt heights just over 30 m above sea level. Reached NHN . The communities of Bokel, Hollen, Lunestedt and Heerstedt to the south and west are located in the transition area of the Geest, which here only reach heights of up to 10 m above sea level. NHN reached, in the lowland region of the Weser and its tributary Lune . The Geest is crossed by numerous smaller moors (Beverstedter Moorgeest). The small meadow river Lune flows through the central community in an east-west direction and with its tributaries Wellener Bach , Billerbeck , Wandsbeck and Altwistedter Lune (left) as well as Beverstedter Bach and Dohrener Bach (right) divides the Geest through valleys into separate "Geest peninsulas".

Joint community structure

The former joint municipality was structured as follows (as of December 31, 2010):

Member municipalities	km²	Residents
1. Flecken Beverstedt 00 (including the districts Beverstedtermühlen, Deelbrügge, Heyerhöfen, 00Kramelheide, Easter village , Spintenkamp, Taben, Wachholz, Wehldorf , Wellen and Wollingst ) 00	51.40	41780
2. Appeln	14.52	428
3. Bokel	20.96	25110
4. Frelsdorf	25.30	708
5. Heerstedt	18.90	453
6. Hollen 00 (including the district of Heise )	15.60	846
7. Kirchwistedt 00 (including the districts of Ahe , Altwistedt , Horst and Stemmermühlen )	25.07	468
8. Lunestedt 00 (formerly Freschluneberg and Westerbeverstedt )	17.25	25650
9. Stumps	08.62	15370

Neighboring communities

Unified municipality of Loxstedt	Unified municipality of Schiffdorf	Köhlen ( Bederkesa municipality )
		Hipstedt ( joint community Geestequelle - district Rotenburg ) Basdahl (joint community Geestequelle - district Rotenburg)
Bramstedt ( joint municipality of Hagen )	Axstedt Holste ( Hambergen municipality - Osterholz district ) 00	Gnarrenburg (Rotenburg district)

history

Conversion to a unified church

The integrated community of Beverstedt was converted to the unified community of Beverstedt on November 1, 2011 .

Population development

year	1973	1975	1980	1985	1990	1995	2000	2005	2010
Residents	11,335	11,777 ¹	12,087 ¹	12,259 ¹	12,406 ¹	13,365 ¹	14,225 ¹	14,182 ¹	13,694 ¹
source

¹ as of December 31st

Population development after the conversion to the unified municipality Beverstedt in 2011

See: Beverstedt - population development

politics

Joint council

The council of the integrated municipality Beverstedt consisted of 30 council members. This is the specified number for a joint municipality with a population of between 12,001 and 15,000. The council members were elected by local elections for five years each. The current term of office began on November 1, 2006 and ended with the dissolution of the joint congregation on October 31, 2011.

The full-time joint mayor was also entitled to vote and to sit in the joint municipal council.

After the local elections on September 10, 2006, the Samtgemeinderat was composed as follows:

Political party	Number of seats
CDU	130
SPD	130
Green	2
Non-party	2
FDP	1

Joint mayor of the municipality

The last full-time joint mayor was Ulf Voigts (non-party). His term of office in the joint congregation was from November 17, 2003 until the joint congregation was dissolved on October 31, 2011.

coat of arms

For joint community foundation in 1971 was municipal coat of arms of the patch Beverstedt redesigned. The golden shield turned red, the silver wavy stripe was set a little higher on a green shield base, the black beaver turned silver and encircled by nine silver oak leaves.

	Blazon : "In red over a green shield base , elevated by a silver wave bar , a silver crouching beaver , surrounded by nine silver oak leaves arranged in a circle."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms is modeled on the seal of the Beverstedt Hereditary Court, which existed until 1851. The beaver refers to the name of the joint municipality, the nine oak leaves to the amalgamation of nine villages and the wavy strip on the Lune .

Web links

Commons : Samtgemeinde Beverstedt - Collection of images

Official website
Link catalog on the topic of the Beverstedt community at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b municipalities in Germany by area, population and postcode. (XLS; 1.8 MB) In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 2010, accessed on August 25, 2020 (see: Lower Saxony, No. 2026–2035).
^ Law on the reorganization of the Beverstedt community, Cuxhaven district . In: Niedersächsische Staatskanzlei (Ed.): Niedersächsisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt (Nds. GVBl.) . No. 5/2011 . Hanover February 17, 2011, p. 61 , p. 3 ( digitized version [PDF; 155 kB ; accessed on December 17, 2019]).
^ Law on the reorganization of the Beverstedt community. In: Lower Saxony Regulations Information System (NI-VORIS). District of Cuxhaven, February 17, 2011, accessed on December 17, 2019 .
↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 47 , Wesermünde district ( digitized [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on December 17, 2019]).
^ Community directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on December 17, 2019 .
^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG); Section 46 - Number of Deputies. In: Lower Saxony Regulations Information System (NI-VORIS). December 17, 2010, accessed August 25, 2020 .
↑ Mareike Kerouche: “There have been difficult situations” - Interview with Mayor Ulf Voigts. In: anzeiger-verlag.de. December 27, 2018, accessed August 25, 2020 .
↑ Andreas Palme: Praise for merits - a badge of honor to say goodbye. In: Website Weser Kurier . October 4, 2019, accessed August 25, 2020 .

[destatis2010-1] municipalities in Germany by area, population and postcode. (XLS; 1.8 MB) In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 2010, accessed on August 25, 2020 (see: Lower Saxony, No. 2026–2035).

[Neubildung-2] Law on the reorganization of the Beverstedt community, Cuxhaven district . In: Niedersächsische Staatskanzlei (Ed.): Niedersächsisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt (Nds. GVBl.) . No. 5/2011 . Hanover February 17, 2011, p. 61 , p. 3 ( digitized version [PDF; 155 kB ; accessed on December 17, 2019]).

[Voris-3] Law on the reorganization of the Beverstedt community. In: Lower Saxony Regulations Information System (NI-VORIS). District of Cuxhaven, February 17, 2011, accessed on December 17, 2019 .

[destatis1973-4] Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 47 , Wesermünde district ( digitized [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on December 17, 2019]).

[destatis-5] Community directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on December 17, 2019 .

[Abgeordnete-6] Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG); Section 46 - Number of Deputies. In: Lower Saxony Regulations Information System (NI-VORIS). December 17, 2010, accessed August 25, 2020 .

[Anzeiger-7] Mareike Kerouche: “There have been difficult situations” - Interview with Mayor Ulf Voigts. In: anzeiger-verlag.de. December 27, 2018, accessed August 25, 2020 .

[Abschied-8] Andreas Palme: Praise for merits - a badge of honor to say goodbye. In: Website Weser Kurier . October 4, 2019, accessed August 25, 2020 .