Joint Parish of County Hoya

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Joint Parish of County Hoya
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Coordinates: 52 ° 48 '  N , 9 ° 8'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Nienburg / Weser
Area : 215.31 km 2
Residents: 16,872 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 78 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : NI
Association key : 03 2 56 5409
Association structure: 10 municipalities
Association administration address
: 		Schlossplatz 2
27318 Hoya
Website : www.grafschaft-hoya.de
Samtgemeinde mayor : Detlef Meyer (independent)
Location of the entire municipality of Grafschaft Hoya in the district of Nienburg / Weser
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The joint municipality Grafschaft Hoya is a joint municipality in the district of Nienburg / Weser in Lower Saxony . The name is derived from the historic county Hoya , after which the former county Hoya was named. In 2011 the joint municipality of Grafschaft Hoya merged with the joint municipality of Eystrup to form the now enlarged joint municipality of Grafschaft Hoya. The seat is in Hoya , in Eystrup there is a branch office of the administration.

geography

Geographical location

The entire municipality of Grafschaft Hoya is located in the Breslau-Magdeburg-Bremen glacial valley in the Central Weser region .

Joint community structure

The county Hoya joint municipality consists of ten member municipalities:

1 Until 2011, the joint municipality of Eystrup

history

Population development

year 1987 1992 1997 2002 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Residents 15,539 16,416 16.803 17,360 17.197 17,067 16,936 16,868 16,811

(as of December 31st)

Development before 2011
  • Hoya County Municipality (as of December 31)
year 1987 1992 1997 2002 2007 2008 2009
Residents 10.186 10,652 10,934 11,079 10,931 10,834 10,732
  • Eystrup municipality (as of December 31)
year 1987 1992 1997 2002 2007 2008 2009
Residents 5,353 5,764 5,869 6,281 6.266 6.233 6,204

politics

Joint council

The 38 seats of the joint municipal council are distributed as follows:

  • CDU 17 seats
  • SPD 13 seats
  • Green 3 seats
  • FDP 2 seats
  • UWGSH 2 seats
  • Citizens' forum 1 seat

(As of: local election on November 7, 2010)

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the entire municipality of Grafschaft Hoya shows two upright bear paws , connected at the bottom, connected at the bottom, and a blue wavy bar . The bear paws are reminiscent of the historic county of Hoya , the wave beam of the Weser .

fusion

On January 1, 2011, the joint municipality of Grafschaft Hoya merged with the former joint municipality of Eystrup . Since then, the joint municipality has included exactly that part of the former County of Hoya , which has been part of the Nienburg district since 1974. As early as 2009, the 10 municipalities and the two joint municipal councils decided to merge. On November 7, 2010, the new joint municipal council was elected. The new joint mayor Detlef Meyer was elected in a runoff on November 21, 2010.

Culture and sights

Natural monuments

Art in public space

  • Der Zwergenbrunnen (1989) in Langen Straße, Hoya, by R. Duwe and R. Kubina; consisting of copper, brass, sandstone and wood. The sculpture is the creative implementation of the legend about the dwarves in the castle of Hoya
  • Eel sculptures (2004) between the central square and the port facilities, near the Weser bridge, Hoya, by A. Bittner, U. Bittner and RD Nerenberg. The sculptures are intended to represent a link to the city center and reflect Hoya's connection to the Weser. The tunnel ceiling painted with the underside of a canoe can also be seen in the passage between the central square and the port facilities
  • A mural by the Schweringen artist Gottlieb Pot d'Or (1905–1978), possibly from the 1950s, in the cash desk of the Sparkasse Hoya as well as a city coat of arms on the outside of the building
  • The bronze sculpture by the artist Frijo Müller-Belecke Esel with monk on the market square in front of the Bücken Collegiate Church was erected in 1982 on the occasion of the 1100th anniversary of the Bücken district. It refers to the legend of the naming of the spot.
  • The sculpture Statio made of copper by the artist Pablo Hirndorf on the market square in front of the Bücker collegiate church from 2010, which is in connection with the copper sheet exhibition Stations of the Cross inside the church.

literature

  • Hoya - data, facts and developments from eight centuries. (Ed .: Heimatmuseum für die Grafschaft Hoya e.V.), Hoya 2003; 150 pp.
  • Joint Parish of County Hoya. Vacation country on the Weser. An illustrated book. Photos: Heinz Hornecker; Texts: Elfriede Hornecker; Ed .: Association of Local History Museum for County Hoya, 2011

Web links

Commons : Joint Municipality of County Hoya  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ Official notice of the county Hoya: The final result of the runoff election. PDF; 6 kB
  3. ↑ a b c LSKN-Online