Sottrum municipality
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Coordinates: 53 ° 7 ' N , 9 ° 14' E |
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| Basic data | ||
| Existing period: | 1969– | |
| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | Rotenburg (Wümme) | |
| Area : | 173.06 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 14,800 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 86 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| License plate : | ROW, BRV | |
| Association key : | 03 3 57 5406 | |
| Association structure: | 7 municipalities | |
| Association administration address : |
Am Eichkamp 12 27367 Sottrum |
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| Mayor of the municipality : | Peter Freytag (independent) | |
| Location of the Sottrum municipality in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district | ||
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In the Sottrum joint municipality in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in Lower Saxony , seven municipalities have come together to handle their administrative business.
geography
Joint community structure
history
In 1969 the municipalities of Bötersen, Clüversborstel, Everinghausen, Hassendorf, Hellwege, Höperhöfen, Reeßum, Schleeßel, Sottrum, Stapel, Stuckenborstel, Taaken and Winkeldorf merged on a voluntary basis to form the Sottrum municipality.
In 1970, the Horstedt community joined the joint community.
In the course of the municipal territorial reform on March 1, 1974, the communities of Ahausen and Eversen were added.
politics
Joint council
The council of the Sottrum municipality consists of 30 councilors and councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 12,001 and 15,000. 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, Peter Freytag, 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 | 39.24% | 12 |
| SPD | 32.61% | 10 |
| GREEN | 13.30% | 4th |
| FDP | 7.52% | 2 |
| WFB | 3.71% | 1 |
| Pop | 3.59% | 1 |
The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 61.53%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.
Joint mayor of the municipality
Peter Freytag has been the full-time elected mayor of the joint municipality of Sottrum since June 1, 2015 and in his position combines the representative tasks of the joint municipality mayor and the administrative tasks of the joint municipality director .
coat of arms
Blazon : In red under a silver cross with black nails, the right upper corner depicts Saint George in gold armor on a gold-bridled and gold-hoofed, silver horse with a gold lance, stabbing a green lindworm. In 1970, the Sottrum community received approval to adopt the coat of arms of the Sottrum community.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Through the joint community, the highway is A1 Hamburg - Bremen . The B 75 , which also connects Hamburg with Bremen, runs through Hassendorf and Sottrum .
In Sottrum there is a train station on the Hamburg – Bremen railway line.
Since April 1, 2010, the Sottrum community has had a volunteer-run citizens' bus that connects the districts with one another.
Social facilities
The closest hospitals are the Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum Rotenburg , the Aller-Weser-Klinik in Achim and the hospitals in Bremen . In the emergency medical services system , most of the community belongs to the Achim emergency service district, which means that the contact person for relevant emergencies is located in the Achim hospital.
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 MPs , accessed on March 1, 2017
- ↑ a b Sottrum Samtgemeinde - Samtgemeinderatswahl 2016 , accessed on March 1, 2017
- ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016, accessed March 1, 2017 .
