Sandbostel

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 25 '  N , 9 ° 8'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality :	Singing
Height :	8 m above sea level NHN
Area :	31.54 km 2
Residents:	778 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	25 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27446
Primaries :	04284, 04764
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 040
Community structure:	4 districts
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 8 27446 Selsingen
Website :	www.selsingen.de
Mayor :	Peter Radzio (independent)
Location of the community Sandbostel in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme)

Sandbostel is a municipality in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Sandbostel is located about nine kilometers south of Bremervörde , 17 km north of Zeven , 43 km northeast of Bremen and 60 km west of Hamburg . The Oste flows through the community .

Community structure

In addition to the main town of Sandbostel, the towns of Ober Ochtenhausen, Altenburg, Mintenburg, Gosehus, Heinrichsdorf, Hütten, Falje and Stoppelheide also belong to the municipality.

Districts: Sandbostel, Mintenburg , Ober Ochtenhausen and Heinrichsdorf

history

Sandbostel, which used to be simply called Bostel , was the seat of the nobility with the Bostel estate from 1545 to 1800. In Ober Ochtenhausen there was also a noble estate from around 1555 to 1765. In 1796 the Mintenburg bog colony was founded by Gut Sandbostel. In 1998 the village of Ober Ochtenhausen became the state and national winner of the competition Our village should be more beautiful .

Sandbostel camp

Photo of the former Soviet memorial

From 1939 to 1945 the prisoner of war camp Stalag XB existed near Sandbostel , which was also used as a concentration camp reception camp in April 1945. The dead, mostly Soviet prisoners of war, were buried in mass graves. “In 1945, on the initiative of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD), a seven-meter high memorial was erected there. A plaque attached to it read in Russian, English and German: “46,000 Russian soldiers and officers rest here. Tortured to death while imprisoned by the Nazis. «In 1956 the state government of Lower Saxony had the monument blown up. The reason: the number of victims is wrong. "

From 1952 to 1960 the former prisoner of war camp was used as a refugee camp (transitional camp) for young male GDR refugees. The refugee camp for young women was in Westertimke .

In December 2004, the "Sandbostel Camp Foundation" was founded with the task of "building a documentation, memorial and meeting place on the site of the former Stalag XB prisoner of war camp in Sandbostel."

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the neighboring community of Ober Ochtenhausen was incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Sandbostel consists of nine councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 501 and 1000 inhabitants. 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 last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats
Sandbostel voter community	53.09%	5
Community of voters in Ober Ochtenhausen	46.90%	4th

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 70.42%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The council elected council member Peter Radzio (constituency of voters Sandbostel) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Sandbostel shows three Lower Saxony houses with green doors on a golden background . At the bottom of the green shield base, which is bent upwards in the shape of a hill, a silver wave bar is shown, symbolizing the oste. The upturned shield base stands for the elevations that exist in the municipality.

Culture and sights

museum

Since 1999, the Hüßelhus in Sandbostel has been a small museum that deals with local history.

Buildings

Barracks of the former. Stalag XB

Some of the buildings of the prisoner-of-war and concentration camp reception camp Stammlager XB have been preserved and are now a listed building. The last remaining barracks are currently being restored and an exhibition is being created in them.

At the entrance to the village there is a historic windmill, which was last operated by the miller Hinrich Schröder until around 1955. Today the windmill is inhabited, and although the grinder inside the mill has been removed, it and the impeller are essentially preserved.

memorial

There is a war cemetery in Sandbostel, where around 10,000 prisoners of war from Russia, Poland and France are mostly buried in mass graves. The captured soldiers were used for forced labor. Today, delegations from the partner parish Danizy in France come at regular intervals to look after the tomb and to lay down grave decorations. The members of the delegation are accommodated with host families in Sandbostel.

Regular events

Every year, the Sandbostel riding club organizes a show jumping and horse dressage tournament on the riding arena, which is idyllically situated by the forest. Every year around 150 riders with horses come to the tournament, at which many riding professionals like Gerd Wiltfang have already started.

literature

• Michael Ehrhardt, Mintenburg village chronicle 1796–1996. Sandbostel 1996
• Michael Ehrhardt, Ober Ochtenhausen. Volume I History of the Village 2005 Volume II History of Farms, Houses and Families 2004
• Sarah Mayr, last memories. Portraits of former inmates of the Sandbostel prisoner of war camp in: Zeitgeschichte-online, December 2014

Web links

Commons : Sandbostel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sandbostel prisoner of war and concentration camp reception camp
• The STALAG XB / Sandbostel is documented here. / Link catalog on the subject of Sandbostel at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
• Sarah Mayr: Last memories. Portraits of former inmates of the Sandbostel prisoner of war camp on Zeitgeschichte-online December 2014.

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. ↑ The number 46,000 is less than 1.5% of the total Soviet soldiers who perished in German captivity.
3. ↑ Frank Schumann : No shield, no arrow. Looking for Soviet war graves in Germany. ; In: Neues Deutschland 9./10. May 2020, The Week p. 16
4. ^ Foundation website
5. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 242 .
6. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on March 18, 2017.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Sandbostel - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election ( memento of the original from March 19, 2017 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 March 18, 2017. 
8. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Municipality of Sandbostel - Council of the Municipality of Sandbostel 2016 - 2021 ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 March 18, 2017. 
10. ↑ hüßelhus on tourow.de
11. ↑ Sandbostel Camp Memorial