Joint municipality of Land Wursten

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′  N , 8 ° 34 ′  E
Basic data (as of 2015)
Existing period:	1974-2015
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Cuxhaven
Area :	116.64 km 2
Residents:	9580 (Dec. 31, 2014)
Population density :	82 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	CUX
Association key :	03 3 52 5408
Association structure:	7 municipalities
Association administration address :	Westerbüttel 13 27632 Dorum
Website :	www.sglandwursten.de
Mayor of the municipality :	Wolfgang Neumann ( SPD )
Location of the joint municipality of Land Wursten in the district of Cuxhaven

The joint municipality of Land Wursten was a joint municipality in the district of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony . Seven communities had come together in it to carry out their administrative business. The administrative seat of the joint municipality was in Dorum . The area of ​​the joint municipality covered an area of ​​116.64 km² and had a population of 9,580 as of December 31, 2014.

geography

location

The combined municipality of Land Wursten is located in the Land Wursten landscape on the North Sea coast between Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven . It consists essentially of marshland . The municipality is between 0 and 21  m above sea level. NHN .

Joint community structure

The joint municipality of Land Wursten was formed for the regional reform in Lower Saxony on March 1, 1974 and consisted of the following seven member municipalities:

local community	km²	Residents
Cappel	08.25	703
Dorum	24.31	38370
Midlum	30.75	16840
Misselwarden	10.32	412
Mulsum	08.43	543
Padingbüttel	09.42	480
Wremen	25.16	19210

Neighboring communities

	Nordholz
		City of Langen

history

Sausage is historically a part of Friesland . Unlike the Frisian dialects in North Frisia or Saterland , the Wurst Frisian language has died out in Wursten, but was able to last longer than in most other areas of eastern Friesland because of the peripheral location of the region .

• For the history of the region before 1866 → See also: History of Hadeln and Sausages
• For the history of the region after 1866 → See also: History of the district of Cuxhaven

Incorporation / merger

The joint community merged on 1 January 2015 the municipality Nordholz and since then forms the unified community Wurster North Sea coast .

Population development

year	1975	1980	1985	1990	1995	2000	2005	2010	2014
Residents	7820	7822	7386	8013	8266	9224	9722	9573	9580
source

on December 31st

politics

Joint council

Town hall in Dorum

The council of the joint municipality of Land Wursten consisted of 24 council women and councilors. This is the specified number for a joint municipality with a population between 9001 and 10,000 inhabitants. The council members were elected by local elections for five years each. The current term of office began on November 1, 2011 and ended on October 31, 2014 when the congregation was dissolved.

The full-time mayor of the joint municipality was also entitled to vote and sit on the council of the joint municipality .

The last local election on September 11, 2011 had the following result:

• CDU : 10 seats
• SPD : 10 seats
• Wurster group list : 4 seats
• The left : 1 seat

Joint mayor of the municipality

The last full-time mayor of the municipality until it was dissolved was Wolfgang Neumann (SPD).

Previous incumbent

• 1974–1976, 1981–1985: Dr. Klaus Döhner (CDU), honorary mayor
• 1974–1981: Heinz Bohne, joint municipality director
• 1976–1981, 1985–2001: Wolf-Dieter Lutz (SPD), honorary mayor
• 1981–1989: Burkhardt Melster, joint municipality director
• 1990–2001: Wolfgang Neumann (SPD), joint municipality director
• 2001–2014: Wolfgang Neumann (SPD), full-time mayor

coat of arms

	Blazon : " Split of gold and green , on the right a half , red - armored , black eagle , on the left under a silver wave bar seven golden clovers , 2/2/2/1 arranged."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The half eagle, which can be found in many Frisian coats of arms, indicates the sovereignty of the Frisian land of Wursten, the wavy bar indicates the rivers and moats. The green area stands for the march. The shamrocks are symbols of agriculture. Their number indicates the merger of the seven municipalities to form the combined municipality of Land Wursten.

Community partnerships

Since May 5, 2005 a partnership existed with the city of Ploeren ( France ) in Brittany , near Vannes . The partnership has been continued by the municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast since the dissolution of the joint municipality of Land Wursten.

A sponsorship exists since May 1st, 2003 with the 3rd flying squadron of the Naval Aviation Squadron 3 "Graf Zeppelin" in Nordholz .

Culture and sights

Shrimp cutter in Dorum-Neufeld

Lighthouse Obereversand

• the national park with the national park house in Dorum-Neufeld
• the cutter harbors Dorum and Wremen with nine to ten berths
• the Wadden Fishing Museum in Wremen, Wurster Landstrasse 118
• the Lower Saxony dike museum in Dorum, Poststrasse 16
• the curious shell museum in Wremen, Rosenstrasse 4
• The Obereversand lighthouse has only been at the Dorum cutter port since 2003
• The lighthouse Kleiner Preuße from 2005 was already from 1906 to 1930 at the fishing port Wremer Tief
• the Galerie Holländer windmill in Midlum from 1857
• All seven congregations have churches standing on one roof . The Romanesque and Gothic , earlier fortified churches date from the 12th and 13th centuries
  • The St. Peter and Paul Church in Cappel dates back to the 13th century and was replaced by a classicist hall building after a fire in 1815/16 , incorporating old components and the west tower
  • The St. Urbanus Church in Dorum dates from the 13th century
  • The St. Pankratii Church in Midlum, made of field stones, dates from the 12th century
  • The St. Catherine's Church in Misselwarden is a single-nave brick building from the 13th century with a square west tower (around 1500)
  • The Marien Church in Mulsum - a massive rock stone building - was built around 1250
  • The St. Matthew Church in Padingbüttel was built at the end of the 13th century as a hall with a retracted choir . The Gothic winged altar (around 1480) is remarkable
  • The Willehadi Church in Wremen is a fortified church from around 1200 and thus the oldest church in Wursten

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Economically, the municipality of Land Wursten was strongly geared towards tourism. It was one of the centers of tourism in the so-called Cuxland .

Public facilities

General

• Town hall joint municipality Land Wursten in Dorum, Westerbüttel 13
• Volunteer fire brigade Land Wursten with local fire brigades in Cappel, Dorum, Midlum, Misselwarden, Mulsum, Padingbütte and Wremen
• Police station Dorum, Speckenstrasse 25

schools

• Deichgraf Johans Elementary School Dorum, Poststrasse 16
• Midlum primary school, Hinter der Lieth 1
• Tjede Peckes Primary School Wremen, Wurster Landstrasse 99
• Oberschule Dorum, Alsumerstraße 15
• Gymnasium Wesermünde in Bremerhaven
• Adult Education Center in Langen

Social

• Kindergartens in Dorum, Cappel, Midlum, Padingbüttel and Wremen
• Leisure center in Dorum, Midlum and Wremen
• DRK nursing home Dorum, Käthe-Ring-Straße 1
• Retirement home Haus Eden , Wremen, Wurster Landstrasse 103

Churches, parishes

• Ev.-Luth. Parishes
  • St. Peter and Paul Church, Cappel, Arp-Schnittger-Straße
  • St. Urbanus Church, Dorum, Pfarramt 1, Speckenstrasse 5
  • St. Pankratii Church, Midlum, rectory, Kirchpfad 5
  • St. Catherine's Church, Misselwarden, parish in Wremen
  • St. Marien Church, Mulsum, rectory in Wremen
  • St. Matthew Church, Padingbüttel, Speckenstrasse 5
  • St. Willehadi Church, Wremen, rectory, Lange Straße 23
• New Apostolic Church

traffic

Wremen and Dorum are train stops on the Bremerhaven – Cuxhaven railway line . The joint tariff of the Bremen / Lower Saxony transport association is used for tickets .

The combined community could be reached in a north-south direction via the federal motorway 27 , junctions Nordholz and Neuenwalde and via the state road  135 from Cuxhaven or Bremerhaven. From Holßel the state road 119 leads west to Dorum.

Myths and legends

• From the eagle coat of arms of the Wurster

For more sagas and legends, see the member communities of the former joint community:

Cappel Dorum Midlum Misselwarden

Mulsum Padingbüttel Wremen

Web links

Commons : Samtgemeinde Land Wursten  - Collection of images

Wikivoyage: Land Wursten  - Travel Guide

• Official website of the spa administration - successor community Wurster North Sea Coast

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} municipalities in Germany by area, population and postcode. (XLS; 4.8 MB) In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 2014, accessed on August 14, 2020 (see: Lower Saxony, No. 2015–2021).  
2. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the community Wurster North Sea Coast, district Cuxhaven . In: Niedersächsische Staatskanzlei (Ed.): Niedersächsisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt (Nds. GVBl.) . No.  26/2012 . Hanover November 8, 2012, p. 428 , p. 2 ( digitized version ( memento of July 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 454 kB ; accessed on September 26, 2018]).
3. ^ Community directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on August 14, 2020 .  
4. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG); Section 46 - Number of Deputies. In: Lower Saxony Regulations Information System (NI-VORIS). December 17, 2010, accessed September 19, 2019 .  
5. ↑ Entry about the partner municipality. In: Website of the municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast. Retrieved April 12, 2019 .  
6. ↑ The sagas of the country of Wursten - From the Wurster's eagle coat of arms on YouTube , accessed on August 14, 2020.