Bothel municipality
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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ N , 9 ° 30 ′ E |
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| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | Rotenburg (Wümme) | |
| Area : | 148.69 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 8209 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 55 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| License plate : | ROW, BRV | |
| Association key : | 03 3 57 5401 | |
| Association structure: | 6 municipalities | |
| Association administration address : |
Horstweg 17 27386 Bothel |
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Samtgemeinde- mayor : |
Dirk Eberle ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Bothel in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district | ||
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The joint municipality Bothel is a joint municipality in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme) in Lower Saxony . Six municipalities have come together in it to carry out their administrative business. The administrative seat of the joint community is in Bothel .
geography
Geographical location
The combined community is located in the Wümmen lowlands and in the foothills of the Achim-Verdener Geest . Both form sub-areas of the Stader Geest natural area . The member communities are located in a natural geest , forest and heathland region between the Rodau and Wiedau streams , tributaries of the Wümme .
Neighboring communities
Neighboring communities are the city of Rotenburg (Wümme) , the community of Scheeßel , the city of Schneverdingen and the community of Neuenkirchen ( district of Heidekreis ), the city of Visselhövede , the community of Kirchlinteln ( district of Verden ) and the Sottrum community .
Joint community structure
Member communities are from west to east:
- Westerwalsede
- Kirchwalsede
- Hemsbünde
- Bothel (central place)
- Brockel
- Hemslingen
history
The region of today's joint municipality Bothel was originally very poor , mainly because of the unfavorable geest situation for agriculture . Many residents had to work abroad, for example in the Netherlands . In 1906 a railway was built from Bremerhaven to Hanover ( Bremervörde – Walsrode line ), which ran between Brockel and Bothel and was shut down in 1958. In 1963 the section between Brockel and Wittorf was dismantled; today there is a cycle path on this section. The remaining line from Brockel to Rotenburg was dismantled in 2009. In 1928 the Rotenburg (Wümme) - Verden (Aller) railway through Westerwalsede was added. After the Second World War , many refugees and displaced persons moved to the area of the Samtgemeinde, which also saw population growth in the following years due to immigration from various German regions. In 1971, the joint municipality of Bothel was initially founded without the municipalities west of Bundesstraße 440. Kirchwalsede and Westerwalsede were not added until 1974, so that the integrated community essentially united the two old parishes of Brockel and Kirchwalsede. The seat of the administration became the largest and centrally located town Bothel in terms of population.
Religions
Most of the denominational residents belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Evangelical Lutheran Christians belong to the parishes Brockel and Kirchwalsede within the church region Visselhövede in which the communities Brockel, Kirchwalsede and Visselhoevede united. The Roman Catholic residents belong to the Corpus Christi community in Rotenburg . There are also residents of the Islamic faith, Jehovah's Witnesses , members of free churches , Baptists , members of the New Apostolic Church and, as in all of Germany, a growing group of non-denominationalists.
politics
Joint council
The council of the joint municipality of Bothel consists of 22 councilors and councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 8,001 and 9,000. 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 full-time Mayor of the Joint Community, Dirk Eberle (non-party, candidate of the SPD), is also entitled to vote in the Council of the Joint Community.
The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:
| Political party | Proportional votes | Number of seats |
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| CDU | 48.02% | 11 |
| SPD | 29.29% | 6th |
| GREEN | 10.62% | 2 |
| Voting Community Samtgemeinde Bothel (WSB) | 9.71% | 2 |
| BLSGB | 2.33% | 1 |
The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 67.58%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.
Joint mayor of the municipality
The full-time mayor of the combined community Bothel is Dirk Eberle (candidate of the SPD, non-party). In the last mayoral election on May 25, 2014, he was elected with 60.0% of the vote. His opponent Michael Fehlig received 40.0%. The turnout was 61.2%. Eberle took office on November 1, 2014 and replaced the previous incumbent Rüdiger Woltmann (non-party), who had no longer stood as a candidate.
coat of arms
Blazon : In the shield, divided diagonally to the right by a silver wavy bar, in the upper red field a silver oak with six root ends and six leaves and in the lower green field a silver horse jumping to the right.
The oak tree with the six leaves stands for the six member communities of the integrated community. The horse symbolizes the importance of agriculture and horse breeding in the area of the Samtgemeinde. Finally, the wave bar represents the various streams that run through the area.
flag
The flag of the Samtgemeinde is green and white with the Samtgemeinde coat of arms on the wider white median.
Culture and sights
The Dutch windmills in the Brockel district are worth seeing, there and in Kirchwalsede there are also old village churches. The Bullenseen are located between Hemsbünde, Kirchwalsede and the central town of Bothel .
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
In the joint municipality of Bothel there are various wood processing industries, a large company for body construction and food processing industries. Wooden toys (Sievers) are made in Brockel . In addition, the area is a target area for short vacationers, cyclists and water sports enthusiasts, who have various lakes (bull lakes) and smaller rivers as paddling areas. Horse riding and hunting trips are also popular with holidaymakers .
Until 2011, gas was extracted from deeper layers in the community by fracking . In addition, conventional natural gas is produced at numerous drilling sites, especially in the districts of Bellen and Söhlingen . The contaminated reservoir water is injected at a depth of 700 to 1700 meters, with an environmental accident in Söhlingen in 2011.
Social facilities
Brockel is the location of a nursing home, in Bothel, Hemslingen and Kirchwalsede there are educational facilities for children and young people. There are general practitioners' practices in Kirchwalsede, Bothel and Brockel . There are also dental practices in Bothel and Kirchwalsede . Almost the entire community belongs to the KV medical emergency service district Rotenburg, only Hemslingen is looked after by the KV emergency service in Soltau. The closest hospitals are the Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum Rotenburg , the Aller-Weser-Klinik in Verden and the Heidekreis-Klinikum in Soltau.
traffic
Streets
Traffic mainly crosses the municipality in a north-south direction, which mainly extends from east to west. The B 440 , B 71 and various district roads run through the integrated community area , which open up the integrated community in an east-west direction.
Bus transport
Public transport is extremely poorly developed and consists of bus connections almost exclusively during school hours.
Rail transport
In the far west, the Verden – Rotenburg railway line , part of the Weser-Aller-Bahn , crosses the municipality where Westerwalsede had a train station. There is still an alternative point here today. The next train stations are now in Rotenburg (Wümme) , Visselhövede and Verden (Aller) .
In the past, the Bremervörde – Walsrode railway ran through what is now the joint municipality . According to plans, the Y-route will run through the districts of Bothel and Brockel .
Airports
In 70 km distance of the lie airfield Rotenburg and the Bremen airport .
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 ).
- ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of Members , accessed on February 27, 2017
- ↑ a b Samtgemeinde Bothel - Samtgemeinderatswahl 2016 , accessed on February 27, 2017
- ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved February 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Individual results of the direct elections on May 25, 2014 in Lower Saxony , accessed on November 27, 2014
- ↑ Dennis Betzholz , Carolin George: How a whole village lives in fear of cancer. World N24 , April 19, 2016.
