Heeslingen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 19 '  N , 9 ° 20'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality :	Zeven
Height :	24 m above sea level NHN
Area :	82.31 km 2
Residents:	4832 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	59 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27404
Primaries :	04281, 04287
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 021
Community structure:	9 districts
Association administration address:	Am Markt 4 27404 Zeven
Website :	www.heeslingen.de
Mayor :	Gerhard Holsten ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Heeslingen in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district

Heeslingen ( Low German Heeßel ) is a municipality in the Samtgemeinde Zeven in Lower Saxony Rotenburg (Wümme) .

geography

location

Heeslingen is located about 5 km east of Zeven in the Zevener Geest . The river Oste , which is still rather narrow at the stele, flows through the village , and with the wide Ostetal it shapes the landscape of the community. Below the church is the Hollengrund in the Ostetal , which connects to several hiking trails that cut the Oste a few times. The river is also popular in the area for canoeing.

Community structure

1. Boitzen
2. Freyersen
3. Heeslingen (main town, including Osterheeslingen )
4. Meinstedt
5. Sassenholz
6. Steddorf
7. Weertzen
8. Wense
9. Wiersdorf

Neighboring communities

Selsingen , Anderlingen		Ahlerstedt
Seedorf		Vierden , Klein Meckelsen
Zeven		Elsdorf

history

The oldest traces of settlement are dated to the Middle Stone Age over 6000 years ago, from the younger Stone Age over 3700 years ago there are a number of megalithic graves.

Documents show that a monastery was founded in Heeslingen in 961. The early Romanesque stone church is the oldest of its kind between the Elbe and Weser rivers . Heeslingen probably also served as a place of refuge surrounded by many moors during the time of the Norman attacks on the cities on the Elbe and Weser. Thus, Hamburg 845 by Danish Vikings and 915 of Slavic Abodrites destroyed. A high point in Heeslingen's development was the granting of market rights by the Salian Emperor Konrad II in 1038 . This important phase ended in 1141 with the relocation of the monastery to nearby Zeven during the temporary rule of Albrecht the Bear as Duke of Saxony.

The Worpswede artist Heinrich Vogeler married Martha Vogeler on March 3, 1901 in Heeslingen.

Heinrich Himmler was captured by the British military in the Meinstedt district in May 1945.

Origin of the place name

Old names of the place are around 955 Heslinge, 988 Hasalinge and around 1059 Heslinga.

The place name Heeslingen comes most closely from the hazelnut bush (hazel, hassel). The ending "-ing" means "place" or "place". So Heeslingen means the "place on the hazelnut bush".

Administrative history and incorporations

Place-name sign

During the French period , Hesslingen belonged to Mairie Heeslingen in 1810/11, canton Zeven in the Kingdom of Westphalia and from 1811 to 1814 under Napoleon Bonaparte directly to the French Empire .

Before 1885, Heeslingen and the surrounding villages formed the Börde Heeslingen in the Zeven district . After 1885, Heeslingen belonged to the Zeven district , which was added to the Bremervörde district in 1932 . This merged in 1977 with the old district of Rotenburg (Wümme) to form today's district of Rotenburg (Wümme) .

In the course of the regional reform in Lower Saxony , which took place on March 1, 1974, the previously independent communities Boitzen, Meinstedt, Sassenholz, Steddorf, Weertzen, Wense and Wiersdorf were incorporated into the community of Heeslingen.

Population development

year Residents source 1824 00- 0¹ 1848 0369 square 1910 607 1925 696 1933 803 1939 834 1950 12670 1956 12510 1973 15980 1975 4038 ³

year Residents source 1980 4100³ 1985 4159 ³ 1990 4141 ³ 1995 4303 ³ 2000 4733 ³ 2005 4826 ³ 2010 4803 ³ 2015 4756 ³ 2019 4832 ³ 0 0 0

¹ 36 fire places (incl. Osterheeslingen)
² in 62 residential buildings (incl. Osterheeslingen)
³ on December 31st

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Heeslingen consists of 14 council members and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 3001 and 5000 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 honorary mayor is also entitled to vote and sit on the municipal council.

The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats
CDU	60.17%	9
SPD	31.36%	5
Green	06.92%	1
FDP	01.53%	0

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 68.58%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The council elected the council member Gerhard Holsten (CDU) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In blue, a silver church placedwith the tower to the left over a golden oak leaf with two acorns to the left ."

Explanation of the coat of arms: The coat of arms of the community shows a silver church on a blue background, non- heraldic to the right. Underneath is a golden oak leaf that is not heraldic to the right, from the petiole of which two golden acorns protrude upwards and downwards. The coat of arms church corresponds in appearance to the village church before the destruction of the bell tower in 1875.

Culture and sights

Buildings

St. Viti Church

Bördenheimathaus

• The St. Viti Church was built around 961 from field stones in the Romanesque style and is therefore the oldest preserved church building between the Elbe and Weser . Until it was moved to Zeven in 1141, it was the seat of a canon convent. The neo-Gothic tower was added in 1897.
• In the Bördenheimathaus there are over 800 exhibits of everyday rural life and handicrafts. Sometimes there are also special exhibitions.

societies

• Volunteer firefighter
• Home and promotional community Heeslinger Börde

Sports

The football club Heeslinger SC was founded in 2013 as the successor to TuS Heeslingen (including participation in the DFB Cup in the 2010/11 season ) and has been playing in the five-class Lower Saxony league since the 2015/16 season . The home games are played in the Waldstadion (4000 seats) in Heeslingen.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

According to the regional spatial planning program, the community is designated as the basic center for the surrounding areas.

The Fricke Group is based in Heeslingen.

traffic

rail

The Heeslingen stop is on the Wilstedt – Tostedt railway line , northeast of Zeven above the railway line running towards Hamburg . Passenger traffic has ceased here since 1971. The nearest train stations are Kutenholz , Bargstedt and Harsefeld on the Bremerhaven – Buxtehude railway line . There is a connection to the metropolises of Hamburg and Bremen at Scheeßel station, 24 km away on the Hamburg – Bremen railway line .

Street

State road  124, which connects to Zeven with federal road 71 , runs through the municipality . There is a motorway connection to the federal motorway 1 in Elsdorf, 11 km away .

The long-distance cycle route Hamburg – Bremen also runs through the municipality.

Public transport

There are bus connections, also to Hamburg and Bremen.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Wilhelm Duden (* 1947), motorcycle track racer

People connected to the community

• Hans-Jürgen Bargfrede (* 1959), football player
• Fynn Kliemann (* 1988), musician
• Philipp Bargfrede (* 1989), soccer player

literature

• Hans Lohmann: The Börde Heeslingen. Attempt to document village life . Ed .: Fördergemeinschaft Gemeinde Heeslingen. Self-published, Heeslingen 1984 (250 pages).

Web links

Commons : Heeslingen  - Collection of Images

• Website of the joint municipality

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. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: Website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on November 27, 2015 ; accessed on August 4, 2019 .  
3. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p.  241 .
4. ^ Friedrich Jansen: Statistical Manual of the Kingdom of Hanover (=  Statistical Manuals for the Kingdom of Hanover ). Helwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Celle 1824, p. 258 ( digitized version in Google book search [accessed June 28, 2020]).
5. ↑ Friedrich W. Harseim, C. Schlüter: Statistical Handbook for the Kingdom of Hanover (=  Statistical Handbooks for the Kingdom of Hanover ). Schlüter'sche Hofbuchdruckerei, Hanover 1848, p. 140 ( digitized version in Google Book Search [accessed July 2, 2020]).
6. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Register of local authorities in Germany 1900 - Zeven district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed July 2, 2020 .  
7. ^ ^{A b c} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Bremervörde district ( see under: No. 42 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  
8. ↑ ^{a b} Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p.  186 ( digitized version ).
9. ↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 43 , Bremervörde district ( digitized version ( memento from August 7, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on July 2, 2020]).
10. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} community directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on July 2, 2020 .  
11. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG); Section 46 - Number of Deputies. In: Lower Saxony Regulations Information System (NI-VORIS). December 17, 2010, accessed July 2, 2020 .  
12. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Heeslingen - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election. In: Website Zweckverband Kommunale Datenverarbeitung Oldenburg (KDO). September 11, 2016, accessed July 2, 2020 .  
13. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. In: Website Norddeutscher Rundfunk . September 12, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2017 .  
14. ^ Heeslingen municipal council. In: ris.zeven.de. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .  
15. ↑ Main statute of the community of Heeslingen, district of Rotenburg (Wümme). (PDF; 174 kB) § 2; Coat of arms, flag and official seal; Paragraph 1a. In: Website Samtgemeinde Zeven. June 26, 2017, p. 2 , accessed July 2, 2020 . 
16. ↑ St. Viti Church in Heeslingen. In: kirche-heeslingen.de. Archived from the original on February 16, 2015 ; accessed on July 2, 2020 .  
17. ↑ Heeslingen old station. In: shlink.de. Archived from the original on February 22, 2007 ; accessed on July 2, 2020 .