Joint municipality of Uelsen

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '  N , 6 ° 53'  E
Basic data
Existing period:	1974–
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	County of Bentheim
Area :	193.02 km 2
Residents:	11,312 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	59 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	NOH
Association key :	03 4 56 5404
Association structure:	7 municipalities
Association administration address :	Itterbecker Strasse 11 49843 Uelsen
Website :	www.uelsen.de
Mayor of the municipality :	Hajo Bosch ( CDU )
Location of the Uelsen municipality in the Grafschaft Bentheim district

The joint community Uelsen is a joint community in the Grafschaft Bentheim district in Lower Saxony . Seven municipalities have come together in it to carry out their administrative business. The administrative seat of the joint municipality is in Uelsen .

Joint community structure

The combined municipality includes the following member municipalities:

1. Getelo : 531 inhabitants, 20.2 km²
2. Gölenkamp : 579 inhabitants, 21 km²
3. Halle : 666 inhabitants, 21.2 km²
4. Itterbeck : 1756 inhabitants, 41 km²
5. Uelsen : 5687 inhabitants, 19.5 km²
6. Wielen : 516 inhabitants, 23.1 km²
7. Wilsum : 1577 inhabitants, 47.1 km²

(As of December 31, 2019)

history

The beginnings of the Uelsen community go back to 1950 . At that time, the mayors of what was then the parish of Uelsen decided to work together more politically and economically. The Uelsen district mayor's office was created . In 1970 , the Uelsen community developed from this. When it was founded, it had ten parishes. This number was later reduced through incorporation. As a result of the administrative and territorial reform in Lower Saxony , the new joint municipality Uelsen was formed on March 1, 1974 from now seven member municipalities.

Religions

The inhabitants of the combined community belonged to the following denominations :

• 61.3% Protestant Reformed
• 9.4% Protestant Old Reformed
• 7.3% Roman Catholic
• 7.4% Evangelical Lutheran
• 14.6% other / no denomination

(Status: 2010)

politics

Joint council

The council of the Uelsen municipality consists of 28 councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 11,001 and 12,000. The 28 council members are elected by local elections for five years each. The current term of office began on November 1, 2011 and ends on October 31, 2016.

The full-time Mayor of the Joint Community, Herbert Koers (CDU), 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	Seats	Gains / losses on 2011
CDU	17 seats	+1 seat
SPD	8 seats	−1 seat
UWG	3 seats	+1 seat
FDP	0 seats	−1 seat

Joint mayor of the municipality

The full-time joint mayor belongs to the council with a seat and voting rights . In 2003, a full-time joint mayor was elected for the first time, and Herbert Koers (CDU) won with 53.1% of the votes. In the local elections in 2011 the mayor of the municipality was re-elected. Incumbent Koers was able to defend his position clearly against the challenger Jürgen Balderhaar (SPD) with 63.13%.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In silver three (1: 2) green holly leaves, accompanied by seven green balls: two at the top each placed on a pole, arranged 1: 2 in the base of the shield."

The area of ​​today's Uelsen parish belongs to Twente and was the mission area of ​​the hll in the early 8th century. Werenfried and Willibrord, who probably also founded the original parish church and baptistery in Uelsen. The parish therefore belonged to the diocese of Utrecht and was transferred in 1131 to the Stft St. Peter in Utrecht. A branch church was founded in Wilsum. In the High Middle Ages, the Twente area around Uelsen belonged to the Duchy of Lorraine, came into the hands of the Counts of Bentheim in the course of the formation of territories and remained part of the Lower County of Bentheim until the end of the old empire.

The seven municipalities of Getelo, Gölenkamp, ​​Halle, Itterbeck, Uelsen, Wielen and Wilsum merged in 1974 to form the Uelsen municipality, with all the others except Wilsum belonging to the Uelsen parish. The seven member communities are symbolized by the seven spheres, which in turn allude to the coat of arms of the Counts and Princes of Bentheim or today's county of Bentheim: the golden Bentheim pennies in the red field.

Three green holly leaves in a silver shield have been used in different positions (2: 1, 1: 2) by both the political and the ecclesiastical community of Uelsen since the 17th century (coat of arms relief on the town hall, around 1880; weather vanes on the church tower and choir roof , after 1683). They are said to be the coat of arms of the von Niehoff family from Uelsen, whose most important member, Johann Niehoff, died in the service of the Dutch East India Company in Madagascar. When the municipality took over the coat of arms, the consonance of Uelsen and pods or pod crabs (= holly, ilex) should have been stimulating, although the place name, which was handed down as “Uelsten” in 1177, has nothing to do with “pods”, but rather after Abels is to be interpreted as "settlement near the sources".

Green and silver are the traditional colors of the old Uelsen municipal coat of arms.

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Ulf-Dietrich Korn .

Partner communities

The partner municipality of the Uelsen municipality has been Tubbergen in the Netherlands since 2007 . Tubbergen has also been a partner municipality of the municipality of Uelsen since 1981.

economy

Agriculture is still of great importance in the joint municipality of Uelsen . In addition to the farms, there are numerous service companies for agriculture, especially in the areas of animal feed, cattle trade and agricultural engineering . Mineral resources are extracted at various points in the joint community, especially gravel , sand and natural gas . In addition, there are larger industrial and commercial areas in Uelsen, Itterbeck and Wilsum, where mainly medium-sized companies and craft businesses have settled. The most important industries here are metal construction , wood construction , construction companies and heating and air conditioning technology. There is also a wide range of retail and services. WKS Textilveredlungs GmbH in Wilsum and Peters Stahlbau GmbH in Itterbeck are among the largest employers in the municipality .

Another important mainstay of the local economy is tourism , especially in the Uelsen resort (including the Grafschaft Bentheim holiday park ), in Wilsum (including the Wilsumer Berge holiday resort ) and in Itterbeck (the planned Itterbeck holiday and leisure park ). In the course of extensive investment activities, the indoor and outdoor swimming pool in Uelsen was converted into a combined swimming pool in Waldbald Uelsen.

The unemployment rate in the Uelsen municipality was 3.9% in August 2011.

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. ↑ www.grafschaft125.de: My Uelsen - Character as a parish preserved ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 1, 2011. 
3. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on December 4, 2014.
4. ^ Grafschafter Nachrichten of August 25, 2011: "Never regretted stepping into the town hall" .
5. ↑ Grafschafter Nachrichten of September 12, 2011: Surprise: Koers scores in Uelsen .
6. ^ Abels: The place names of the Emsland, 1927; P. 71
7. ↑ Entry about the partner community Tubbergen on the homepage of the Samtgemeinde Uelsen.Retrieved on April 22, 2019, 10:26 pm
8. ↑ Grafschafter Nachrichten of August 24, 2011, p. 22: Small steps instead of big leaps. Samtgemeinde Uelsen relies on its strengths .