Joint municipality of Lengerich

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Emsland
Area :	142.86 km 2
Residents:	9229 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	65 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	Tbsp
Association key :	03 4 54 5405
Association structure:	6 municipalities
Association administration address ; :	Mittelstrasse 15 ; 49838 Lengerich
Website :	www.lengerich-emsland.de
Mayor of the municipality :	Matthias Lühn ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Lengerich in the Emsland district

The Samtgemeinde Lengerich is a joint municipality in the Emsland district in Lower Saxony . The administrative seat of the joint municipality is in the municipality of Lengerich .

geography

Geographical location

The joint municipality of Lengerich is located in the east of the district about 16 km east of the Ems .

Neighboring communities

In the north, the joint municipality of Lengerich borders on the municipality of Geeste , the city of Haselünne and the joint municipality of Herzlake , in the east on the joint municipality of Fürstenau in the district of Osnabrück , in the south on the joint municipality of Freren and in the west on the city of Lingen .

The municipalities

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

Bawinkel (2481)
Barley (1225)
Handrup (818)
Long (1459)
Lengerich (2713)
Race (533)

politics

Joint council

The joint municipality council has 24 elected members as well as the directly elected joint municipality mayor. Since the local elections on September 11, 2016, three parties have belonged to it.

CDU - 20 seats
SPD - 3 seats
FDP - 1 seat

mayor

In the election as full-time mayor of the municipality on September 10, 2006, Matthias Lühn (CDU) was elected with 68.3% of the vote. In the last mayoral election on May 25, 2014, he was re-elected unopposed with 93.3% of the vote. The turnout was 57.0%. Lühn began his further term in office on November 1, 2014.

1998-2006 Josef Liesen (CDU)
1981–1996 Karl Böker (CDU)
1974–1980 Jakob Jansen

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on July 14, 1978.

Blazon : In the blue escutcheon are two golden bishop's staffs with an open scroll to the outside as a St. Andrew's cross . Corner figures are two golden Greek crosses ( paw cross ) on the sides, above a golden grain sheaf and below a golden anchor .

The abbot's rods are taken from the coat of arms of the Werden Abbey. The two crosses stand for the two old parishes of the Samtgemeinde area in Lengerich and Bawinkel. The sheaf symbolizes the predominant agriculture in the entire municipality, especially the cultivation of grain. The anchor refers to the affiliation of the joint community to the former Lingen district and the former Lingen Lower Counties, both of which have coats of arms. The colors blue and gold are the coat of arms colors of the district of Lingen and the Counts of Tecklenburg-Lingen. The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Ulf-Dietrich Korn from Münster.