Lathen municipality

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Lathen municipality
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Coordinates: 52 ° 52 '  N , 7 ° 19'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Emsland
Area : 165.69 km 2
Residents: 11,916 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 72 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : Tbsp
Association key : 03 4 54 5404
Association structure: 6 municipalities
Association administration address
: 		Grosse Strasse 3
49762 Lathen
Website : www.sg-lathen.de
Mayor of the municipality : Helmut Wilkens ( CDU )
Location of the Lathen municipality in the Emsland district
Niederlande Landkreis Cloppenburg Landkreis Grafschaft Bentheim Landkreis Leer Landkreis Osnabrück Andervenne Bawinkel Beesten Bockhorst Börger Breddenberg Dersum Dörpen Dohren (Emsland) Emsbüren Esterwegen Freren Fresenburg Geeste Gersten Groß Berßen Handrup Haren (Ems) Haselünne Heede (Emsland) Herzlake Hilkenbrook Hüven Klein Berßen Kluse (Emsland) Lähden Lahn (Hümmling) Langen (Emsland) Lathen Lehe (Emsland) Lengerich (Emsland) Lingen (Ems) Lorup Lünne Lünne Meppen Messingen Neubörger Neulehe Niederlangen Oberlangen Papenburg Rastdorf Renkenberge Rhede (Ems) Salzbergen Schapen Sögel Spahnharrenstätte Spelle Stavern Surwold Sustrum Thuine Twist (Emsland) Vrees Walchum Werlte Werpeloh Wettrup Wippingenmap
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In the Lathen joint municipality in the Emsland district in Lower Saxony , six municipalities have come together to handle their administrative business.

geography

Geographical location

The Lathen community is located in the northwest of the district on the Ems .

Lathen station is served by the regional express trains on the Rheine - Leer route.

Neighboring communities

In the north, the joint municipality of Lathen borders on the joint municipality of Dörpen , in the east on the joint municipality of Sögel , in the south on the city of Haren and in the west on the Netherlands .

The municipalities

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

Location of the member communities in the Lathen joint community

  1. Fresenburg (904)
  2. Lathen (6711)
  3. Niederlangen (1261)
  4. Oberlangen (972)
  5. Renkenberg Mountains (695)
  6. Sustrum (1373)

politics

The administrative seat of the joint municipality is in the municipality of Lathen .

Joint council

The local election on September 11, 2011 led to the following result:

Parties and constituencies %
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
All municipal elections 2011
 %
80
70
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
76.67%
17.33%
4.83%
1.18%
Gains and losses
compared to 2006
 % p
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-6.46  % p
+ 4.02  % p
+ 4.83  % p.p.
-2.39  % p
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 76.67 22nd 83.13 22nd 80.13 23
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 17.33 5 13.31 3 15.78 4th
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 4.83 1 - - - -
FDP Free Democratic Party 1.18 - 3.57 1 2.50 -
total 100.0 28 100.0 26th 100.0 27
Voter turnout in% 58.84 59.07

Joint mayor of the municipality

The full-time mayor of the municipality is Helmut Wilkens (CDU), who will be in the election on May 26th. 2019 was elected with 61.5% of the vote.

Representatives in the Land and Bundestag

The integrated municipality is part of the Papenburg state electoral district . In addition to the city of Papenburg, it also includes the communities Rhede (Ems) and the combined communities Dörpen , Lathen, Nordhümmling , Sögel and Werlte . Five direct candidates ran for the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2013 . The directly elected MP is Bernd Busemann ( CDU ). The constituency had constituency number 82.

Lathen belongs to the Bundestag constituency Unterems (constituency 25), which consists of the district of Leer and the northern part of the district of Emsland. The constituency was redesigned for the 1980 federal election and has remained unchanged since then. So far, only representatives of the CDU have prevailed as direct candidates in this constituency. The constituency is represented in the Bundestag by the directly elected CDU MP Gitta Connemann from Leer. No party candidate from the constituency entered the Bundestag via the parties' list.

coat of arms

Description: The coat of arms, divided into silver and green by a wavy cut , has next to an applied silver-green sheaf on the right a small shield divided into red and gold and on the left a golden shield with red bars below the division.

Honorary citizen

Erna de Vries is an honorary citizen of Lathen . The survivor of the Holocaust , born in Kaiserslautern in 1923, was married to Josef de Vries, who was born in Lathen and who spent six years in German concentration camps as a Jew.

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. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
  3. ↑ http://www.lathen.de/wahlenx1/kw2011/454104_000032/
  4. ↑ http://www.lathen.de/wahlenx1/kw2006/1_MAIN_S.html
  5. ↑ 2013 list of candidates
  6. ↑ Results of the 2017 Bundestag election in the constituency, broken down by cities and municipalities
  7. ^ Nordwest-Zeitung: Bundestag election: These members represent our region . In: NWZonline . ( nwzonline.de [accessed September 29, 2017]).