Schuettorf
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Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ N , 7 ° 13 ′ E |
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| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | County of Bentheim | |
| Joint municipality : | Schuettorf | |
| Height : | 33 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 19.44 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 12,876 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 662 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 48465 | |
| Area code : | 05923 | |
| License plate : | NOH | |
| Community key : | 03 4 56 027 | |
| LOCODE : | DE SRF | |
City administration address : |
Market 1 + 2 48465 Schüttorf |
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| Mayor : | Jörn Tüchter ( CDU ) | |
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Schüttorf ( [ ˈʃʏtɔʁf ] Low German : Schüttrup ) is a town in the Grafschaft Bentheim district in the extreme southwest of Lower Saxony near the Dutch and North Rhine-Westphalian borders. The city forms the joint municipality of Schüttorf with five surrounding municipalities . Schüttorf is the oldest town in the district. Since November 1st, 2011 Suddendorf has been part of Schüttorf.
geography
Location and description of the landscape
Schüttorf is located in the extreme southwest of Lower Saxony , around ten kilometers from the state border with the Netherlands . From a cultural and natural point of view, the city lies in the transition area between the Emsland and Westphalia . The environment is rural . Middle centers nearby include Nordhorn and Rheine .
The city is crossed and divided in the middle in a southeast-northwest direction by the river Vechte , which later flows into the Netherlands. The highest point of the city is about 48 meters above sea level . Schüttorf is located on the foothills of the wooded Bentheimer Berg , a sandstone formation from the Cretaceous period up to 80 meters high , the western foothills of the Teutoburg Forest . The city has only a small share of the Bentheim forest , a total of around 89 hectares of forest area belong to the city area, which is eight percent of the total area.
To the north of the city there is a former heathland , which today is mainly used for agriculture. Before the First World War, there were also large areas of heathland in the urban area. The last heather was converted into agricultural land in 1993. A special feature was a dune area made of blown drifting sand. However, this sand was mined and recycled in the middle of the 20th century. The district around these former dunes is still popularly called " Morocco " or in Low German Witten Over (the White Bank) because of the area's formerly "desert-like" character.
There is a relatively large amount of open space around the city, most of which is used for agriculture. The living areas are characterized by single-family houses . With the completion of the Schüttorfer Kreuz of the federal motorways 30 and 31 in 2004 and 2005, more commercial and industrial areas were designated near the motorway junction in the northeast of the city.
The Große Maate northwest of the city is a beautiful river meadow landscape ; In this low-lying area of the Vechte there are many ponds that are repeatedly filled by floods. There are many butterflies and other insect species here, including the rare kingfisher . The Holmer Maate is a Schüttorf floodplain, where lapwing and great crested grebe can be observed. The Vechteniederung local recreation area is located close to the center and serves as a local recreation area, as a floodplain and rainwater retention basin .
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| Living space | 294 |
| Commercial u. Industrial area | 133 |
| Recreation area | 73 |
| traffic area | 212 |
| Agricultural area | 704 |
| Forest area | 368 |
| Water surface | 58 |
Neighboring communities
As part of the Schüttorf joint municipality, the town of Schüttorf mainly borders on other member municipalities: Samern in the southeast, Quendorf in the northwest and Engden in the north. Within the Upper County of Bentheim , Schüttorf borders the city of Bad Bentheim in the west . In the east, the city limits also form the border with the district of Emsland , where it joins Ahlde , a district of the municipality of Emsbüren . There is also, two kilometers northeast of Schüttorf, with the Heideweiher Ahlder Pool, a small nature reserve .
 Quendorf 3 km |
Engden 8 km |
 Emsbüren 9 km |
 Bad Bentheim 5 km |
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 Salzbergen 9 km |
 Ochtrup 13 km |
 Wet race 14 km |
Samern 3 km |
Distances refer to the straight line from town center to town center.
Natural structure
In detail, the following natural spatial units are distinguished within the urban area according to predominantly geomorphological , geological and pedological criteria :
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D30 Dümmer Geest lowlands and Ems-Hunte-Geest
- Nordhorn-Bentheimer sand area - here with the sub-units:
- Nordhorn-Engden moor and sand landscape
- (Middle) Vechteniederung / Nordhorn valley
- Nordhorn-Bentheimer sand area - here with the sub-units:
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D34 Münsterland (Westphalian) lowland bay
- Westmünsterland - here only with the subunit:
- Bentheim Forest
- Westmünsterland - here only with the subunit:
The town of Schüttorf lies mainly on slabs of sand through which the Vechteniederung, which is hardly sunk in this section, runs through. This is located at about 30 meters above sea level and is 200 to 500 meters wide. At the edges it is limited by river terraces with a height of about 35 m above sea level. Due to the small height differences within the river valley, the middle Vechte had meandered in the past ; this led to the formation of numerous oxbow lakes . In the meantime, the course of the river near Schüttorf has been straightened .
Geology and geological site conditions
The Vechteniederung is part of the Nordhorn glacier tongue basin , which was filled by a glacier during the Saale Ice Age . This has also created the terminal moraine ridges of the Uelsener Mountains and the Lingener Höhe in today's Grafschaft Bentheim and in the Emsland. In the south, the glacier found its abutment in front of the Mesozoic Bentheim chalk sandstone mountain range. During the last Ice Age , whose glaciers did not reach this region, the tongue basin was then filled with fluvial valley sands; locally there were blown up drifting sand dunes. Within the Vecht Valley, the river deposited Holocene , i.e. post-glacial sands and floodplain loam .
The predominantly sandy, partly loamy or boggy soils of the valley sand plates and the narrow floodplain are relatively barren with soil values between 11 and 30. The foothills of the Bentheimer Berg consist of "Bentheimer Sandstone", a sandstone from the older Cretaceous period . This ridge is the most north-westerly outpost of the Central European low mountain range threshold . Near the surface, it is usually covered with clay soils and boulder clay. The clay is also used industrially, for example in a brick factory in Suddendorf.
climate
Schüttorf is located in the temperate climate zone of Central Europe. The average annual temperature is 8.5 degrees Celsius, the average air pressure 1015.2 hectopascals and the average annual rainfall 700 to 800 millimeters. The climate is subatlantic with rather mild winters and moderately warm summers. The German Weather Service does not have its own observatory in Schüttorf itself . The next weather station is Nordhorn , where the weather does not differ significantly from that in Schüttorf.
The State of Lower Saxony's hydrological service maintains a quality measuring point in Samern; there the water levels and the water quality of the Vechte are measured and documented.
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population
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Schüttorf has 12,627 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2015, including Suddendorf) on an area of 19.44 square kilometers, of which 50.4% are female. The population density of the city is 649 inhabitants per square kilometer.
40.7% of Schüttorf are Protestant Reformed Christians, 14.9% Lutherans , 22.1% Catholics and 22% percent are members of no or any other religious community. 942 foreigners (8%) live in Schüttorf, the largest group of these are Turkish citizens (448), the second largest Dutch (187). There are people who are German citizens but have a foreign background in Schüttorf 1894, 16.2%. (As of January 1, 2006).
Population development
The first number of inhabitants for Schüttorf can be estimated from a certificate from Claus von Tecklenburg from 1399, in which a flat rate of 350 people were acquitted. From this it is known that Schüttorf had at least 52 citizens in 1399, who are mentioned there by name, but it is unlikely that there were significantly more. With an average family size, a total of between 200 and 250 inhabitants can be estimated for the city during this period. After that, apart from a slump during the Second World War , the city's population grew continuously.
There were three big spurts in population development. First, towards the end of the 19th century, especially in the nineties, during the industrial revolution , the boom in the textile industry lured many workers to Schüttorf. A second wave of immigration reached Schüttorf after the end of the Second World War, when around 2,600 displaced persons from the former eastern regions of the German Empire reached Schüttorf. Towards the end of the nineties, the population rose again sharply, which was mainly due to the favorable building land prices for the region.
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history
The Schüttorf town hall was hit by an aerial bomb in the last days of the Second World War in 1945 and burned down completely. The city archive and many valuable historical documents were also burned here. This makes research into the history of the town of Schüttorf difficult, but many things can now be reconstructed.
etymology
The etymology of the name Schüttorf is not exactly clarified and has been subjected to various popular attempts to explain it. The most widespread explanation is offered by the legend that the Vechte was only led by the construction of a dam around Schüttorf in 1295 , during the construction of which the citizens emptied their handcarts on the command Schütt't d'r up . However, this legend only explains an echo of the modern spelling of Schüttorf ( flat: Schüttrupp).
The earliest forms of the place name Schüttorf are Scuhtthorp , Scutorpe , Scuttorpe and Scotdorpe on documents from 1154; The spelling SCOTOR (p) E can be found on a coin from the first half of the 13th century .
Hermann Abels takes the view that the place name is derived from the Dutch schut (board wall, dam, sluice), which comes very close to the popular interpretation, but historically falls short, because it presupposes the already dammed Vechte in the origin of the place name and leaves unexplained all forms of Scot that would have to be derived from the Low German Schott (partition in the stable).
Another explanation derives the place name from Vechteschuten ; a barge is a shallow ship with very little draft that was used to ship the Bentheim sandstone. The Vechte is navigable with such barges from Schüttorf, and it is known that stone was loaded here. However, this explanation assumes intensive river navigation when the town is founded.
A completely different interpretation is that the name Schüttorf comes from Scutthorpe or Scuttrop , which means protective village and is borrowed from Altena Castle in the city. Historically, however, this explanation does not go far enough, as Altena Castle did not exist in the city from the start.
A modern explanation derives the place name from the Low German Scuit ( Irish ). The medieval name of Ireland was Scoti or Scotti. In Gaelic there are numerous dialects the vowel variants o and u include and explain. In addition, Irish ring crosses and fan crosses found during excavations around Schüttorf indicate the presence of Irish monks in the area.
Early history
During excavation work on a railway line in Schüttorf, the thighbone of a woman was found, the age of which was about 2000 BC. BC could be determined. Schüttorf must have already been settled at that time, and the megalithic graves in neighboring Emsbüren were also built around this time . A clay pot found in 1927 also points to the same time.
Very early on there was an important intersection of two trade routes at the site of today's Schüttorf, as the Vechte was passable here by a ford . At this junction there was an ancient courtyard around which the settlement developed and which existed as the "old courtyard" until 1792.
In the 6th or 7th century missionaries came to Schüttorf from the British Isles. For example, Irish ring crosses have been found during excavations. The naming of the district "Schottbrink" in Schüttorf, which is proven to have existed as early as the 15th century, also indicates the presence of Irish people in the area.
In the 8th and 9th centuries, farmers from the area around Calais and Boulogne were settled in Schüttorf in order to promote Christianization . Even today, many families in Schüttorf bear names that come from village names in the area, such as Hermeling von Hermelinghen , Hummert von Humbert or Wanning von Maninghen .
City rights
Schüttorf was first mentioned in a document in 1154 in the curtis Scutthorp as the property of the Counts of Bentheim . The town charter was granted to Schüttorf on November 6th, 1295, the Sunday after All Saints' Day , by Count Egbert zu Bentheim ; the certificate for this has been preserved and is in the Fürstlich Bentheim archive in Burgsteinfurt . Schüttorf is the oldest town in the county of Bentheim. It is known, however, that a count's main courtyard and an ecclesiastical center of the Upper County used to be here before it was founded. In 1295 there were only two other cities within a 30 km radius of Schüttorf: Horstmar and Oldenzaal ; this made the young city an important market and transshipment point and Schüttorf became a member of the Hanseatic League . The city rights contained six rights that were granted to the citizens of the city. In detail these were:
- Tax exemption
- Participation in the income of the court (2/3 of all taxes and penalties)
- Free inheritance law
- Assassination of freedom after a year and six weeks
- Tax-free for traders of wood and peat
- all rights of the citizens of the city of Münster .
In addition to the six rights, there is a large number of special provisions for so-called Wicbeldeslude (soft picture people), which make up the largest part of the document. These were residents of the city who had special rights but were not citizens of the city. In 1297, Count Bernd granted Schüttorf its own jurisdiction in the coram judico nostro Scottorpe .
The inner political organization of the city was left to the citizens. A leadership class of traders and craftsmen quickly formed. New citizens were always admitted to the city on St. Peter's Day, January 22nd, and single women also had the right to become citizens of the city. Until 1555, citizens were obliged to pay an annual citizen recruitment fee, this fee was five thalers , which was roughly equivalent to a fat beef and a calf. In comparison, a master mason earned around six shillings a day, so he had to work around 3.5 days for one thaler. Alternatively, it was also possible to pay a significantly lower resident allowance, from which, however, no civil rights were derived; many residents initially chose this more economical alternative. In order to be able to live within the walls, an oath of loyalty to the city of Schüttorf was a prerequisite for both citizens and residents. Until 1719, all adult men who were citizens had the right to vote in the city council, after which only married male adult citizens were allowed to vote.
In 1465, Count Everwyn zu Bentheim renewed and expanded the town charter; the original of this document has not been preserved, it was lost in the town hall fire in 1945. The new city charter was divided into 49 sections and dated forever. The town charter was subsequently confirmed and extended by every count. From 1589, however, relations between the Grafenhof in Bentheim under Count Arnold and the city deteriorated. This year the count even had the mayor of the city incarcerated for five weeks and only released again after paying 100 gold guilders and an Aem wine (1 ½ barrels). The situation then came to a head. In 1645 Count Ernst Wilhelm then refused to renew the town charter; Instead, he had the mayor of Schüttorf incarcerated for 38 weeks and then sent him into exile. Thereupon the citizens turned to the imperial court in Vienna; this complaint is still there today. Ernst Wilhelm, however, applied to the Reichshofrat for the cassation of city rights. The conflict came to a head when the Count's House converted to Catholicism in 1668 , but Schüttorf remained reformed . When Ernst Wilhelm abdicated in 1693, the city refused to pay homage to his son, Arnold Maruk, but was subsequently forced to do so.
Taxes
While the town of Schüttorf was still fully tax-free in the town charter of 1295, the town charter of 1465 says: "Our town and Börger [...] do not hide with unusual shadows". So taxes were levied. Initially taxes were calculated per head of cattle, but from 1638 also per fireplace. There were special taxes in the 15th century for the Hussite Wars , in the 16th century for averting the Turkish threat and fighting the Anabaptists . Towards the end of the 17th century war contributions increased and foreign troops were even billeted in Schüttorf; this led to severe financial problems in the city. In 1682, the Count of Bentheim was even forced to collect taxes with the help of the troops.
City fortifications
Immediately after the town charter was granted, the fortification of the town began; this included the construction of a total of 1400 m long city wall, which encompassed an area of 15 hectares. For the construction of the wall made of Bentheim sandstone , around 30,000 m³ of sandstone were extracted and brought in ox carts. At the end of the 14th century, Schüttorf was surrounded by a strong defense system that had three city gates:
- the Voeporte (completed in 1424): the Föhntor
- the Steenporte (completed in 1392): the stone gate
- the Wyneporte (completed in 1379): the wind gate.
Parts of the city wall have been preserved in the southwest of the old town.
Altena Castle
Altena Castle was also built to fortify the town, the oldest part of which was completed in the first half of the 14th century. The persecuted could find asylum there for a year and a day . In the 15th century, the castle became the widow's seat of the Bentheim Count House. Around 1565 it was then extended by two wings, these were preserved until 1973. From the 17th century the castle was increasingly forgotten and slowly fell into ruin after the Thirty Years War . In the 18th and 19th centuries, the north wing served as a chapel for the Catholic community. In 1903 the manufacturer Herman ten Wolde acquired Altena Castle, had the ruins blown up and renovated the north and west wings. It was finally demolished in 1973 to make way for a thoroughfare. Today is at Burg-Altena-Platz, a sculpture called back if directed by Werner Ratering , in memory of the castle and their right to asylum.
Guilds
In 1341 the first Schüttorf guild was recognized by Count Simon zu Bentheim, namely de Schomackere Amte ( shoemaker ), which suggests that this profession was particularly widespread. In 1362 Count Otto recognized the guilds of wall makers and carpenters and finally in 1387 Count Bernhard recognized the guild of blacksmiths . In 1465, in the new city charter, only these guilds were mentioned and no others. In order to be able to exercise one of the corresponding professions, it was a prerequisite to be a citizen of the city of Schüttorf and to have won the corresponding guild ( guild compulsory ), this was associated with considerable material benefits.
Welfare was operated in Schüttorf early on . The Heilige Geist Foundation was first mentioned in a document in 1379, when Count Bernhard gave the foundation free land to build a poor house . The foundation provided poor and old citizens with clothes; from 1384 onwards, those in need received an annual pension of four shillings. The Holy Spirit Foundation still exists today and is owned by the city. It is directed by voluntary temporary workers, and has also expanded its area of responsibility to include promoting young people.
Municipality and municipality
During the coalition wars , the French Foreign Minister Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand had guaranteed the Count of Bentheim his neutrality , but Napoléon Bonaparte ignored it and on June 12, 1806, he added the county to the Duchy of Berg . This was immediately followed by significant interventions in the Schüttorf jurisdiction and in the upcoming election of the council. On March 7, 1809, the Minister of the Interior revoked Schüttorf's town charter and instead created the municipality of Schüttorf from the town itself and the surrounding communities of Quendorf , Wengsel , Suddendorf and Neerlage . At the same time, a census was scheduled, which resulted in 1,040 inhabitants for the city and 2,140 for the municipality. In 1810 the municipality was enlarged again and the municipalities of Salzbergen , Hummeldorf and Steide were added to it. In the time of Napoleon serfdom also ended in the region. In a decree on the "abolition of serfdom in the Grand Duchy of Berg" , given on December 12, 1808 in the imperial camp in Madrid, Napoleon ordered that the colonies and serfs should also receive all civil rights. In 1813 the French were expelled and Schüttorf was incorporated into the Kingdom of Hanover in 1815 . All French laws were declared invalid, but the return to the old structures turned out to be difficult.
On May 15, 1851, the city of Schüttorf received an invitation from the Landdrostei Osnabrück to submit to the new Hanoverian city regulations. However, this demanded a full-time mayor and a city police from a city, which Schüttorf could not afford. On September 18, 1852, Schüttorf was placed under the Hanoverian rural community order - and thus also a royal office. The later mayor Scheurmann called this a dark chapter in the history of the town of Schüttorf. The annexation of Hanover by Prussia and the founding of the Reich in 1871 did not change anything in Schüttorf's status as a community.
The emergence of industry
The textile industry played the decisive role in the industrialization of Schüttorf . This is due, on the one hand, to the fact that the production of linen textiles on handlooms has been practiced here for centuries and, on the other hand, to the fact that the small farms were dependent on this additional income. In the 17th century, many people from Schüttorf went to the richer Netherlands every year to improve their economic situation by cutting peat, mowing or selling goods. However, with the deterioration in economic conditions in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 19th century, this source of income dwindled. One way out was the intensification of home weaving. By 1850 the Schlikker family was already employing 400 hand weavers , and the first factory building was built a few years later. In 1865 a dye works followed by the Schümer family. The first mechanically operated cotton weaving mill by Schlikker and Sons went into operation in 1867, and a cotton spinning mill in 1881 .
First World War and return to the city
The First World War brought the textile industry to a standstill, which in the meantime had developed into the most important branch of the city's economy, as no more raw materials were supplied. Only one company was able to avoid closure by producing uniforms essential to the war effort. This led to extremely high unemployment . For this reason, the community decided at its own expense to reclaim the heath surrounding Schüttorf in order to give the people such a perspective. However, this led to a heavy burden on the city coffers. Due to the high inflation, Schüttorf was forced to issue emergency money and bread tokens.
After the war, the municipality decided in 1924 to appoint a full-time mayor in order to take the first step towards a return to city rights. On February 28, 1924, Franz Scheurmann from Berlin was appointed the first full-time mayor of Schüttorf. On June 15, 1924, the resolution was passed that Schüttorf would convert to the municipal constitution with effect from July 1; From that day on, Schüttorf also had its own police force . On October 1, 1924, the city founded a city savings bank to encourage citizens to save after the inflation .
time of the nationalsocialism
In October 1942, Mayor Scheurmann was removed from office because of differences with the local NSDAP leader Arnold Horstmeier and the NSDAP district leader Josef Ständer . Arnold Horstmeier, NS-Ortsgruppenleiter, was appointed as his successor and he imposed a ban on speaking and staying for Schüttorf through Scheurmann.
Before the Nazi regime there were three Jewish families in Schüttorf ; two fled and one was abducted. During the Allied bombing raids on Germany, Schüttorf was repeatedly hit by bombs that the Allied aviators had not used up when bombing their actual targets and dropped them on the return flight. On April 3, 1945, after the capture of Bad Bentheim , the Allies suspected that strong German forces had holed up in Schüttorf and shot the town massively with artillery, and bomb squadrons also dropped phosphorus incendiary bombs. As a result, 15 houses were completely destroyed, 25 residential buildings were seriously damaged and around 600 were slightly damaged. The German paratroopers stationed in Schüttorf had already withdrawn to Lingen , blowing up all the bridges over the Vecht and rendering the power and telephone lines unusable. On April 4, 1945, the town hall was hit by an aerial bomb and burned down along with the city archive. A day later Schüttorf was taken by British troops. In total, Schüttorf counted 222 dead in World War II , eight civilians died in bombs and artillery fire and 114 residents are missing.
The British military government installed Bernhard Verwold as honorary mayor in April 1945 until the citizens were able to elect a mayor for themselves again. On January 25, 1946, they re-elected the later honorary citizen Franz Scheurmann as their mayor, who was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1960 .
One of the Nazis' opponents was Friedrich Middendorff , who was appointed pastor of the Protestant Reformed community in Schüttorf in 1926. Even before the seizure of power he had publicly discussed the Nazi ideology in the Sunday paper for evangelical reformed communities, which he had headed since 1919 , but he was also known for his work in the Christian Social People's Service and quickly became a target of the Nazis. This was followed by surveillance by the Gestapo and state reprisals. The climax of the dispute was reached on April 18, 1937, when several hundred Schüttorfers sang the pastor released after he was arrested by gathering in front of the town hall and singing chorals for hours until they were released. His article A Little on the Jewish Question, which was confiscated and banned, became known. Despite mass protests, he had to leave his community because he was banned from living in the region. He fled in 1937, his family in 1938 and only returned to Schüttorf after the war in 1946. He later held many offices and was Church President of the Evangelical Reformed Church from 1946 to 1953. Later he was the top candidate of the DFU in the Lower Saxony elections. He had a fatal accident in a traffic accident in 1973. Friedrich-Middendorff-Platz in Schüttorf is named after him.
Religions
History of religion
In the year 1209 a church consecrated to Saint Lawrence in Schüttorf was first mentioned. In 1544 Count Arnold converted to Lutheran teachings , and with him the entire county. In 1588 the county was evangelically reformed and thus Calvinist . Even today, the majority of Schüttorf is Protestant Reformed. From 1598 to 1599, however, Schüttorf was occupied by Spanish troops and holding the Reformed worship was forbidden under penalty of punishment. In 1629 a nunnery was founded in Schüttorf. This monastery was first under the care of the Beguines , but was later given to the Augustinians . In 1843 this monastery was demolished.
Sacred buildings
Schüttorf has a total of six churches. Furthermore, Schüttorf owns an old Jewish cemetery in addition to a Protestant and a Catholic .
Evangelical Reformed Church
Most noticeable is the Evangelical Reformed Church of St. Laurentius, which is also called the Great Church or Schüttorfer Riese . This church is a Gothic style three-aisled hall church with four bays with a transept and polygonal choir and used to be the burial place of the Counts of Bentheim. After its construction, the church was initially used as a Roman Catholic church. She received the patronage of St. Lawrence . With the change of the count's denominations in 1544 to the Evangelical-Lutheran and in 1588 to the Evangelical-Reformed faith, the use of the church also changed.
The nave was built in stages, the oldest part probably dates back to 1355 and consists of a single-nave, cross-shaped building with today's fourth yoke as a crossing and today's crossing as a choir, as well as the second and third yoke and the side aisles of the fourth yoke . The tower stood where the first yoke is today. In the north aisle of the fourth yoke there is a secco painting from the 14th century. Little by little, the yokes were extended with side aisles, the nave was probably only connected to the tower after it was completed.
The church is a total of 54 m long and 19 m wide. The tower is 81.17 m high and can be seen from all over Schüttorf. This church was first mentioned in 1355 when a letter of indulgence was sold to build the church, and expanded in 1390. The construction of the choir of the current building began on the Tuesday after Corpus Christi in 1477 and was completed on the evening of December 24, 1478. Construction of the nave began in 1500, the square west tower was built until 1535 and has an eight-sided structure Pyramid helmet. However, it burned down six times (1684, 1703, 1799, 1817 (twice within two days) and 1889) as a result of a lightning strike. Legend has it that the last fire in the tower was extinguished on February 8, 1889 with milk that encrusted in the heat of the fire and smothered the conflagration. The original bells for the tower date from 1502 and 1772, but in 1917 these bells had to be delivered to be melted down for war production. Today six bells hang in the tower, including an old fire bell from 1435, which was spared in 1917. The organ of the great church is a two-manual instrument with tin pipes. It was built in 1963 by the Swiss organ builder Th. Kuhn .
Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary
The Catholic Marienkirche is located right next to the historic town hall. The laying of the foundation stone on the east wall of the choir is dated: ANNO / MDCCLXVII (1867). The building was completed in 1868 and is 26.33 m long including the tower. The church contains a sandstone Madonna from the late 16th century. Since the beginning of the 18th century, the Schüttorf Catholics had to make do with the chapel of Altena Castle before completion .
Other churches
After the Second World War, a New Apostolic Church was added, followed by the Lutheran Church in 1955. The Lutheran church has been called Christophorus Church since 1992. Since 2004 there is also a church of the Free Christian Community .
mosque
In 1992 a small mosque was also opened in an old workshop on Hessenweg, the DITIB Turkish-Islamic Community of Schüttorf e. V. founded. The community has 123 members. (Status: 2008) It serves the cultural and religious purposes of the Turks and Muslims living in Schüttorf.
politics
Joint municipality
When Lower Saxony was founded in 1946 , Schüttorf also belonged to this state from then on. On December 14, 1970, the Schüttorf joint community was founded. This initially consisted of nine communities, the town of Schüttorf itself and the communities of Engden , Drievorden , Neerlage , Wengsel , Ohne , Quendorf , Samern and Suddendorf . On March 1, 1974, the communities of Engden and Drievorden were combined to form the community of Engden and the communities of Neerlage and Wengsel to form the community of Isterberg , so that the combined community still consisted of seven communities. On November 1, 2011, the Suddendorf community was incorporated into the town of Schüttorf, so that the number of member communities has now decreased to six.
The tasks of the entire community are to carry out joint planning tasks, to promote tourism and to take over the disposal of sewage and garbage . Furthermore, adult education , the promotion and creation of cultural institutions and civil status are part of their area of responsibility. The joint municipality is administered by the joint municipality council, the joint municipality committee and the joint municipality mayor and has its own seal.
The Schüttorf policy is subdivided into the administration of the joint municipality and that of the city itself, so there is both a joint municipality council and a city council of Schüttorf. In addition, there is a joint municipality mayor and a mayor of the city, and each of the other five municipalities in the joint municipality also has its own mayor. The mayor's office is still assisted by a city director who has not been elected by the people .
City council
The City Council of Schüttorf has 31 members. For a city with a population between 12,001 and 15,000 and as part of a joint municipality, this is the specified number. The 31 council members are elected by local elections for five years each. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.
After the local elections on September 11, 2016, the result and the distribution of seats in the city council was as follows:
| Parties and constituencies | percent | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 42.89 | 13 |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 30.41 | 9 |
| Green | Alliance 90 / The Greens | 12.54 | 4th |
| SL | Schüttorf list | 8.32 | 3 |
| FDP | Free Democratic Party | 2.68 | 1 |
| left | The left | 3.16 | 1 |
| total | 100 | 31 | |
| Turnout = 51.87% | |||
The SPD traditionally had the majority in the city council of Schüttorf; however, since the establishment of an Independent Voting Association in September 1968, the SPD has not been able to achieve an absolute majority. From 2006 to 2016 Schüttorf was ruled by a Jamaica coalition . Since the local elections in 2016, a coalition of the CDU and the Schüttorfer List voter community has held a majority in the city council.
mayor
On February 28, 1924, Franz Scheurmann from Berlin was appointed the first full-time mayor of the city of Schüttorf. In October 1942, however, he was removed from office due to serious differences with the local NSDAP leader Arnold Horstmeier and the NSDAP district leader Josef Ständer . Arnold Horstmeier, NS local group leader, was appointed his successor, and after the Second World War the British military government appointed Bernhard Verwold as honorary mayor in April 1945. Scheurmann was re-elected as the first full-time mayor after the Second World War on January 25, 1946, his successor was Johann Wenning (SPD) from 1949 to 1952 , who was in turn replaced by Scheurmann (CDU) from 1952 to October 1956. From 1956 to 1972 Johann Wenning was mayor again. On November 16, 1972, Hermann Brinkmann (SPD) was elected, who directed the fortunes of the city for 16 years until he was replaced by Karl-Heinrich Dreyer (SPD) on January 16, 1989, who was 17 until November 8, 2006 honorary mayor of the city. To replace him, he was declared honorary mayor of the city and shortly thereafter received the Federal Cross of Merit for his achievements. His successor was Thomas M. Hamerlik (CDU) until November 2016. Jörn Tüchter (CDU) became mayor in November 2016.
| mayor | Period |
|---|---|
| Franz Scheurmann (later CDU) | February 28, 1924 - October 1942 February 15, 1946 - September 14, 1946 1952 - October 1956 |
| Arnold Horstmeier (NSDAP) | October 1942 - April 1945 (appointed by the NSDAP district leadership) |
| Bernhard Verwold | April 1945 - January 25, 1946 (Installed by the British Military Government) |
| Erich Kortmann | 1946-1949 |
| Johann Wenning (SPD) | January 5, 1949 - October 1952 , 1956 - October 16, 1972 |
| Hermann Brinkmann (SPD) | November 16, 1972 - November 14, 1988 |
| Karl-Heinz Dreyer (SPD) | January 16, 1989 - November 8, 2006 |
| Thomas Michael Hamerlik (CDU) | November 8, 2006 - November 7, 2016 |
| Jörn Tüchter (CDU) | since November 7, 2016 |
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the town of Schüttorf was probably created immediately after the town was raised to the rank of town. The city privilege does not mention a seal or coat of arms, so the city lord has left the decision on a coat of arms to the citizens. The oldest surviving document, which has the coat of arms of the city of Schüttorf as a seal, dates from 1315.
The coat of arms shows a stylized city gate with two towers, between which the coat of arms of the Grafschaft Bentheim is located. The coat of arms currently in use is imitated from a seal imprint of a document from 1379. However, none of the city gates of the city of Schüttorf has been implemented (the coat of arms is also older than the city gates), but the coat of arms is only intended to symbolically implement the term city.
Schüttorf has its own flag , which is divided lengthways in red and yellow and bears the oval-shaped coat of arms in the middle.
Town twinning
Until 2005, Schüttorf maintained a town partnership with Vriezenveen ( Twenterand ) in the Netherlands , Twente region . This town twinning was part of the EUREGIO program, a local association to which around 140 German and Dutch towns, municipalities or districts belong. The EUREGIO association strives for a cross-border expansion of economic relations, for cultural exchange and for German-Dutch school contacts. In 2005 Vriezenveen canceled the town twinning, but Schüttorf remained part of the EUREGIO. Dutch is an elective subject at the Schüttorfer Oberschule.
Infrastructure and economy
traffic
air traffic
Schüttorf is about 50 minutes by car from the international airport Münster / Osnabrück in Greven . The regional airfield Nordhorn-Lingen is about 20 minutes away by car.
Rail transport
The station Schüttorf is located on the Almelo-Salzbergen railway . The RB 61 “ Wiehengebirgs-Bahn ” runs here in the local rail passenger transport network , Hengelo - Bad Bentheim - Rheine - Osnabrück - Herford - Bielefeld .
The nearest train station is Bad Bentheim station with the cross-border trains running intercity trains on the line 77 from Amsterdam via Bad Bentheim, Osnabrück , Hannover to Berlin .
Bus transport
In local road transport , regional bus lines of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Grafschaft Bentheim (VGB) connect Schüttorf in regular intervals with Suddendorf , Bad Bentheim , Gildehaus and Gronau (line 60) as well as with Quendorf and Isterberg (line 50). A connection to the railway line (RB 56) that runs from Bad Bentheim via Nordhorn to Neuenhaus is with line 50 in Quendorf. In addition, a citizen's bus on route 61 runs from Schüttorf via Samern and Ohne to Wettringen and vice versa.
Streets
The Schüttorf motorway junction is located in the northeast of Schüttorf . There the freeways 30 ( Bad Oeynhausen - Osnabrück - Bad Bentheim ) and 31 ( Emden - Bottrop ) intersect . Schüttorf has the two motorway junctions Schüttorf-Nord (A 30) and Schüttorf-Ost (A 31).
The Bundesstraße 65 (B 65) led directly through the Schüttorf city center and across the market square until the 1970s. A bypass road was created with the construction of Graf-Egbert-Straße . In the course of the so-called Kuhm breakthrough , Altena Castle and the imperial post office were demolished. The section of the B 65 from the Dutch border to Rheine was later downgraded as state road 39.
Hiking trails
The Töddenweg crosses the Suddendorf district from Osnabrück via Rheine to Bad Bentheim, which is looked after by the Wiehengebirgsverband Weser-Ems . This hiking trail is part of the European long-distance hiking trail E11 through the Netherlands, Germany and Poland.
economy
Towards the end of the 19th century, a strong textile industry developed in Schüttorf with several large local companies (Schlikker & Söhne, Gathmann & Gerdemann, G. Schümer & Co. and ten Wolde, later Carl Remy, today's RoFa is not an original textile company, but was founded by H. Lammering and later taken over by Gerhard Schlikker Jr., Levert Rost and Wilhelm Edel. The name RoFa results from the post-war shareholders Rost and Falley), and a margarine factory (Wilhelm Edel & Co.) was established. Schüttorf was able to benefit greatly from this industrialization , which was also reflected in the number of inhabitants (1871: 1692 inhabitants, 1900: 4110). In the crisis of the textile industry in the 1970s, the Schüttorf industry also fell into a crisis and only the Rofa company and Schümer Textil GmbH (formerly G. Schümer GmbH & Co. KG) still exist today. As a result, unemployment rose and the city's tax revenue fell.
Since the completion of the Schüttorfer Kreuz (A 30 / A 31) in December 2004, Schüttorf has benefited from its convenient location and its proximity to the Dutch border . At that time, Schüttorf had designated a large industrial area on the motorway and tried to locate companies there through economic development. The unemployment rate in the entire municipality was 6.7% in May 2007, which was below the unemployment rate in Lower Saxony , which was 8.5%, but exceeded the level of the district at 6.1%.
Established businesses
Here are listed in Schüttorf larger companies, a complete business directory can be found at the website of the city. One of the largest business tax payers in Schüttorf has been the Swiss Georg Utz GmbH with around 500 employees since 1971 , this company maintains a plastics factory in which plastic pallets and plastic containers are manufactured. A corrugated cardboard format plant of the Prowell Group , which was completed in 2005 directly at the Schüttorfer Kreuz , is similar in size . The Stemmann-Technik GmbH produces with about 500 employees (as of 2013) pantographs for the ICE and other trains, trams or subways as well as additional products for energy and data transmission in the industrial sector. Medium- sized companies are Arnold Lammering GmbH , a wholesaler for steel, plumbing, heating and tiles with around 500 employees, PigTek Europe GmbH , which produces stable equipment, and Kortmann Beton GmbH & Co. KG , which produces concrete parts and concrete blocks. Until 2004, the city was also home to a sand-lime brick factory , which was closed and demolished. The convenient location of Schüttorf favors the settlement of freight forwarders and logistics companies. There have been various companies located in this sector, of which the currently Rigterink GmbH & Co. KG, the Imperial Chemical Logistics GmbH , the Euregio Logistics GmbH, the Wanning Spedition GmbH & Co. KG and the ECH Euroregion Cargo Hub GmbH are located .
The most well-known company beyond Schüttorf is the Danish Tulip Food Company GmbH , which processes meat and sausage products that can be found under this name in German supermarkets . Other nationally known companies since 1821 are the family company H. Klümper GmbH & Co. KG and Klüsta-Schinken Klümper & Stamme GmbH , which sell ham specialties . The largest service provider in Schüttorf is the Index , a discotheque with more than 10,000 guests per weekend. It is the largest discotheque in Germany.
Public utilities
As early as 1896, the first direct current power station was set up on Fabrikstrasse. From 1897, Schüttorf was one of the first cities in the German Empire to have electric street lighting. On April 1, 1909, the city bought the power station for 110,000 gold marks , and it has been in municipal hands ever since. By 1955, the network was converted from direct current to three-phase current and self-generated electricity was discontinued. 1928/1929 Schüttorf received a municipal water supply. Since December 28, 1970, the municipal utilities have also been supplying natural gas . On January 1, 2016, Stadtwerke Schüttorf GmbH merged with Energieversorgung Emsbüren (EVE) to form Stadtwerke Schüttorf Emsbüren GmbH (SWSE) . The city of Schüttorf holds 83.00% of the company shares. Today, in addition to the Vechtebad indoor swimming pool and the outdoor swimming pool in Schüttorf, the Ems Bad indoor swimming pool in Emsbüren is also in the hands of the municipal utilities. The company also builds and operates a broadband fiber optic network in the town of Schüttorf and the surrounding area. In addition, the municipal utilities own and maintain the street lighting in Schüttorf and Emsbüren .
Medical institutions
On October 17, 1904, the manufacturer Hermann Schlikker donated 250,000 gold marks to the city for the construction of a hospital . The Annaheim hospital with 40 beds was opened in 1907. It was named after Schlikker's late wife. In the 1980s, a nursing home of the Evangelical Reformed Church was attached to the hospital. However, the hospital was never able to operate economically and was closed in 1996. A care center was built in the building, which also includes medical and physiotherapy practices. Today eleven doctors , three veterinarians and five dentists practice in Schüttorf .
Culture and sights
Schüttrupper Platt
A Low German dialect, the Schüttrupper Platt , is traditionally spoken in Schüttorf . Every effort is made to preserve this dialect . The homeland association of the joint community, for example, regularly organizes events under the title “ Wij kürt ock Platt ”. There is a Low German theater group, and literature or newspaper articles appear in this dialect.
Buildings
In addition to the large church (Evangelical Reformed Church of St. Laurentius), the town hall is particularly worth seeing, a two-storey square building made of Bentheim sandstone with a stepped gable from the 15th century, in which the Schüttorf cubit is embedded, a 68 cm long metal rod that leads to the Calibration served. On the market square in front of the town hall is a bronze statue of a woman leading two goats. The Catholic Church is right next to the town hall. Behind the church school is the old Princely Watermill from 1914, it is the only surviving mill, of what were once many mills, in Schüttorf and is located on the Mühlenkolk surrounded by old weeping willows .
A number of older residential buildings have been preserved in the city center . Originally storey timbered were plank houses with over lugs projecting pediments prevalent as more times today, for example in Quakenbrück are found. In Schüttorf, however, the facades were often massively renewed in the course of the 18th and 19th centuries. After demolitions and renovation measures, only a few older examples remain. Mention should be made of the city pharmacy , which originally consisted of two gable- independent detached houses and was combined around 1750 with a new street facade. The right part was built around 1645. Some older houses are on Steinstrasse . House no. 7 deserves a special mention here, the core of which is from the 17th century. The street facade was re-enacted in the forms of Dutch classicism in 1827 . In Singel (No. 1) there is a half-timbered hall house from around 1600, which is now used as a restaurant. It is one of the oldest residential buildings in the city.
Three of the villas deserve special mention. The Villa Remy on Bentheimer Straße was built in 1906 based on buildings by the master builder Clemens August von Vagedes . The model was, among other things, the representative house built in 1780 for the Pfennig Chamber Secretary Engelen at Verspoel 11 in Münster . The Villa Rost in der Lehmkuhle, also known as the Blue Villa , dates back to 1902. The Villa Schlikker in Steinstrasse was a gift from the factory owner Herman ten Wolde to his daughter Ida and his son-in-law in 1903. This house stands out because of his rich interior design in Art Nouveau style under monument protection .
theatre
The Obergrafschaft Theater is located in Schüttorf and has been in existence since 1975. Demonstrations take place here about twice a month. Both well-known artists are invited and pieces by Schüttorfern are practiced and played. By 2006 there had been a total of 350 performances in the theater with over 150,000 visitors.
sport and freetime
In Schüttorf there are two public bathrooms , the Vechtebad, an indoor pool , and a 1935 founded and 1997 renovated pool ; but also the Quendorfer See as a bathing lake makes it possible to bathe or swim .
The largest sports club in the city, with around 3,000 members, is FC Schüttorf 09 . The soccer, handball and volleyball departments are particularly successful. The first men's soccer team currently plays in the Weser-Ems regional league . In volleyball, the first men's team plays in the 2nd German Volleyball Bundesliga, Season North . The future professional footballers Simon Cziommer and Cihan Bolat come from the youth of FC Schüttorf 09.
Other football or sports clubs are u. a. the SC Borussia 26 Schüttorf , the sports club Mayis , Motorsportclub Schüttorf and the SV Suddendorf-Samern .
The tennis club TC Schüttorf 85 has its own 6-court facility with red ash and a clubhouse; In the immediate vicinity there is a commercially operated 3-field tennis hall with an integrated restaurant. The Reitsportgemeinschaft Schüttorf e. V. does dressage and show jumping . Another big sports club is the Sportfischerverein Schüttorf e. V. with about 760 sport fishermen as members.
Schüttorf has a total of four sports halls, three sports fields , a riding hall , a tennis facility and a commercially operated 3-field tennis hall, a boules facility with 32 lanes and a heated 12-lane boules hall, a football field , a skate field and a total of nine children's playgrounds . Another popular sport, especially in the cold season, is pounding , there are a large number of smaller private clubs that can be found playing on the streets, especially in January.
Schüttorf has the independent youth center KOMPLEX Schüttorf e. V .; Not only do young people meet there, there are also concerts and there are various projects and working groups for young people. The YMCA maintains a youth café in Schüttorf. There is a local fire brigade and a youth fire brigade . In addition, there are three pigeon breeding clubs and other small animal breeding clubs in Schüttorf , there are four singing clubs , five music clubs and several other clubs and communities.
Regular events
The Schüttorf Open Air was an important, nationally well-known regular event . From 1980 to 1994 this open air took place regularly every year on the Vechtewiesen in Schüttorf. Well-known bands were for example The Cure , Depeche Mode , Midnight Oil and Whitesnake . Even Frank Zappa , Rod Stewart , BAP , Simple Minds , David Bowie , BBM or Die Toten Hosen occurred in Schüttorf. The appearance of the Münster-based Törner Stier crew , who in 1982 demoted Frank Zappa to a better support act in front of 36,000 spectators, was legendary . Increasingly stricter requirements of the city administration and the building authority made it difficult to organize the festival. When this became almost impossible, the Schüttort Open Air was relocated to the neighboring Gildehaus in 1993 . In 1995 there was another Schüttorf Open Air at Gildehaus, where the Rolling Stones appeared as the main act as part of the Voodoo Lounge tour . Also performed: Kid Creole & the Coconuts , Neil Young , The Black Crowes and Willy DeVille . This festival has not existed since then, and the attempt to revive it in 2004 also failed. At the same time, the Open Air complex in Schüttorf has developed over the past few years , organized by the Zikadumda concert initiative of the youth center complex . Well-known bands like Blackmail or 4Lyn have played there so far , but local groups have also performed there.
Furthermore, there are three annual rifle festivals held by various rifle clubs in Schüttorf - the Citizens' Schützenfest, the Gilde Schützenfest and the Adler Schützenfest. There is a summer fair on Kuhmplatz and a family fair in the city center in autumn. Every Saturday there has been a weekly market in Schüttorf since 1984 .
Culinary specialties
In Schüttorf, like in most rural areas of northern Germany, people eat hearty things. It is common, self-prepared home-cooked food to eat. The typical dishes of the north are also eaten here, the most popular side dish is the potato .
A regional specialty of Schüttorf are the " Kaneelkökskes ", flat, round cakes that are crispy baked in a croissant iron ( New Year's cake iron) with a light cinnamon flavor , which comes from the small amount of Kaneel oil.
Although it is distilled in the neighboring town of Salzbergen, “Schümers Korn” can also be considered a Schüttorf specialty. The Schümer distillery was initially located in the city center and, at the behest of the Count Bentheim, was not allowed to build its own mill, as the wind over the land was owned by the sovereign. Schümer moved directly to the municipal boundaries and still ran his newly built mill there with "Count's wind".
A custom that is cultivated in Schüttorf and in the county is taking away . If a child is born in a family, the neighbors and friends bring a Weggen , an often up to two meters long raisin bread that is carried on a ladder . Traditionally, the Weggen was baked by the neighbors themselves and given with ham and cheese at the baptism. After the baptism they were consumed. The Weggen clothing is the " Holtbeus ", the blue work jacket, with black trousers, gray socks, Holschen , top hat and a red scarf that is tied with a matchbox. Today the Weggen is rarely brought on the Friday before the baptism. In many cases, it is no longer Weggen, ham and cheese, but bobby cars, car seats and other utensils that are brought in.
Songs and poetry
In the 1920s, the Schüttorf shoemaker Fritz Lübke wrote a song about the city that quickly enjoyed great popularity and was sung in Schüttorf. Today only the older residents know the song that Lübke named Mein Schüttorf .
Through the county's green corridors:
Flows the Vechte silver 'ribbon.
Whispers softly in old legends,
From what happened in earlier days
From home and fatherland.
Whether the old days are over
Schüttorf remains true to himself forever.
Work creates hardworking hands:
All classes agree
Appreciating both: old and new.
May there be more beautiful cities
Schüttorf is my hometown
We only want to live for Schüttorf,
Our striving is for his good,
Schüttorf, last forever! -
The old poem is also known: The glass carriage . It tells of a glass carriage that is pulled through Schüttorf by four black, fire-snorting stallions every year on St. John's Night:
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De Wiewe, de fröger do not solder the Labben, |
(The women who couldn't |
education
In Schüttorf there is a school kindergarten as well as a municipal kindergarten and two kindergartens run by the Evangelical Reformed Church and one run by the German Red Cross . There are three primary schools . Up to July 2015 there was also a secondary school and a secondary school and by 2004 an orientation level was abolished by the state of Lower Saxony . The secondary and secondary schools joined the all-day school program in 2006 and were merged into the secondary school in August 2015 .
The oldest school in Schüttorf is the Kirchschule or Evangelische Volksschule Schüttorf from 1608. The school, which was founded as a Latin school at that time, offered space for 200 primary school students. In July 2007 the primary school moved into the building of the former secondary school. The church school building is now a community center with, among other things, a city marketing association, library, school museum and music school. The Catholic elementary school in Schüttorf dates back to the foundation of a school in 1712. Today it is the smallest elementary school in Schüttorf with space for around 200 students.
The largest primary school is the municipal primary school on Süsteresch, founded in 1970 , with around 260 students. On June 8, 2016, the primary school on the Süsteresch was awarded the German School Prize 2016 by the Robert Bosch Foundation as “Best School in Germany” . The prize is endowed with € 100,000.
In 1955 the Erich Kästner School , a school for people with learning disabilities, was opened in Schüttorf ; This school was closed at the end of the 2017/18 school year. The secondary school was founded in 1967 and renamed the Wilhelm Busch School in 2010 . The Realschule developed from the old elementary school . Young Schüttorf students who want to attend grammar school have the opportunity to switch to one of the surrounding grammar schools, especially the Burg-Gymnasium Bad Bentheim , the municipal grammar school in Ochtrup , the grammar school Rheine or the private mission school St. Antonius in Bardel .
Schüttorf has had its own school museum since September 2007, which has been housed in the Old Church School community center since October 2012 .
Personalities
Honorary citizen
The first and so far only honorary citizen of the city of Schüttorf is the city's first professional mayor and later district administrator of the Grafschaft Bentheim, Franz Scheurmann (born May 8, 1892 in Berlin , † October 3, 1964 in Nordhorn ), who was granted honorary citizenship on May 8, 1962 has been. In May 1957 he also received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon and since 1966 the Dr.-Scheurmann-Platz in Schüttorf has been named after him. During his tenure, Scheurmann was particularly committed to the city archives and compiled numerous old documents and historical evidence, which he published in numerous essays on Schüttorf.
sons and daughters of the town
The following overview contains important personalities born in Schüttorf, listed chronologically according to the year of birth. It is irrelevant whether or not the people later had their sphere of activity in Schüttorf. The list does not claim to be complete.
- 1425, Johan van den Mynnesten , German-Dutch painter and engraver († 1504)
- 1675, Jodocus Hermann Nünning , historian and antiquarian († 1753)
- 1826, December 13, Johann Hermann Julius Maekel , portrait and landscape painter († 1919)
- 1873, December 11th, Georg Schümer , educator, writer, politician, member of the state parliament, peace activist († 1945)
- 1860, March 29, Arnold Wilhelm Nordbeck , Reformed preacher († 1948)
- 1886, January 25, Ludwig Sager , teacher, poet and local researcher († 1970)
- 1912, February 2, Hans Leussink , Federal Minister for Education and Science (1969–1972) († 2008)
- 1920, October 9, Gerhard Nordholt , Reformed theologian and state superintendent of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Northwest Germany († 1994)
- 1948, Herbert Wagner , German educational researcher, geographer and historian
- 1944, March 14th, Friedrich Johannsen , theologian, professor in Hanover
- 1952, January 12th, Manfred Belok , Roman Catholic theologian, university professor in Chur
- 1960, December 9th, Niko Paech , economist
- 1964, May 31st, Jochen Vogel , harpist
- 1967, November 22nd, Guido Kerkhoff , industrial manager
Personalities who lived and worked on site
- 1926, Friedrich Justus Heinrich Middendorff, ev.-ref. Pastor, leading member of the Confessing Church, imprisoned several times, expelled, later church president of the ev.-ref. Regional church
- 1973, Spax (rapper) , grew up in Schüttorf
- 1980, November 6th, Simon Cziommer , former soccer player, grew up in Schüttorf
- 1991, April 21, Cihan Bolat , football player, grew up in Schüttorf
- 1993, April 13th, Gerrit Wegkamp , soccer player, grew up in Schüttorf
- 1962, November 27, 1962, Daniela De Ridder , member of the Bundestag (SPD), lives in Schüttorf
literature
- Wilhelm Berge / Helmut Lensing (editor): The First World War and the years of inflation in Schüttorf according to reports by the teacher Wilhelm Berge, in: Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (ed.): Emsländische Geschichte 12, Haselünne 2005, pp. 25–64.
- Hermann Harmsen: 1111 Plattdütsche Spröckskes up Schüttrupper Platt. Schüttorf 2000
- Rainer Lahmann-Lammert, Michael Munch: Behind every stone a story - looking for traces in Schüttorf. Lechte Druck, Emsdetten
- Rudolf Laing: Schüttorf in old views . 2nd edition, Zaltbommel 1977.
- Helmut Lensing: "The reformed confessional pastor Friedrich Middendorff and the" church struggle "in Schüttorf", in: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen Vol. 114 (2009) pp. 147–192.
- Samtgemeinde Schüttorf / Volkshochschule des Grafschaft Bentheim district (publisher): Schüttorf. City in transition. A. Hellendoorn, Bad Bentheim 1997, ISBN 3-922428-48-7
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schlikker: field names of the city and field mark Schüttorf. In: Bentheimer Heimatbote No. 3 (1937) pp. 104-134
- Heinrich Specht (Hrsg.): The glass carriage, Bentheim legends, stories and Schwänke . County Homeland Association, 1967.
- City of Schüttorf (Ed.): 700 years of the city of Schüttorf - Contributions to history - 1295–1995. Hellendoorn printing company, Schüttorf 1995, ISBN 3-922428-39-8
- Herbert Wagner : The Gestapo wasn't alone ... Political social control and state terror in the German-Dutch border area 1929–1945. LIT-Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 978-3-8258-7448-3
Web links
Files: Schüttorf - local collection of images and media files- schuettorf.de Website of the city
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ↑ Figures from cadastral area according to types of use (17) of actual use (municipality; time series) from LSN-Online , accessed on November 25, 2017.
- ^ Sofie Meysel: The natural space units on sheet 83/84 Osnabrück-Bentheim. Federal Institute for Regional Studies and Spatial Research, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1961
- ↑ Climate diagram for Schüttorf on Climate-Data.org
- ^ A b c Heinrich Voort: 700 years of the city constitution in Schüttorf . In: Stadt Schüttorf (Ed.): Das Bentheimer Land . tape 134 . A. Hellendorn KG, Bad Bentheim 1995, ISBN 3-922428-39-8 , p. 15 .
- ^ Heinrich Voort: 700 years of the city constitution in Schüttorf . In: Stadt Schüttorf (Hrsg.): 700 years town of Schüttorf - Contributions to history - 1295–1995 (= Das Bentheimer Land . Volume 134 ). A. Hellendorn KG, Bad Bentheim 1995, ISBN 3-922428-39-8 , p. 38 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Heinrich Voort: 700 years of the city constitution in Schüttorf . In: Stadt Schüttorf (Hrsg.): 700 years town of Schüttorf - Contributions to history - 1295–1995 (= Das Bentheimer Land . Volume 134 ). A. Hellendorn KG, Bad Bentheim 1995, ISBN 3-922428-39-8 , p. 276 .
- ↑ a b c d e Figures from an update of the population at LSN-Online , accessed on September 7, 2017.
- ↑ Hermann Abels: The place names of the Emsland in their linguistic and cultural-historical meaning. Schöningh, Paderborn 1927
- ^ Heinrich Funke: On the early history of the city of Schüttorf. In: Bentheimer Jahrbuch 1985. Verlag Heimatverein der Grafschaft Bentheim, Bad Bentheim 1984. ISBN 3-922428-11-8
- ↑ a b Pluspunkt Schüttorf: Sights ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Johann Wenning's biography
- ^ Karl Koch: Middendorff, Friedrich Justus Heinrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 976-981.
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- ↑ DITIB - Turkish - Islamic Community of Schüttorf eV ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on September 17, 2017
- ↑ itebo.de: Result of the city council election 2016 on 09/11/2016. (No longer available online.) September 14, 2016, formerly in the original ; accessed on September 15, 2017 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ gn-online: Who is mayor and where?
- ↑ a b City of Schüttorf: Main statutes of the city of Schüttorf. 2013, accessed November 25, 2017 .
- ^ Oberschule Schüttorf: Ballot for elective courses 7. Accessed on November 25, 2017 .
- ↑ https://www.be-mobil.de
- ↑ Information on the citizens 'bus on the citizens' bus association's homepage
- ↑ Line network of the VGB (PDF)
- ↑ Gerhard Schlikker's biography and history of the Schüttorf textile industry
- ↑ Schüttorfer business directory
- ^ Night shift in Germany's largest disco Spiegel Online
- ↑ Grafschafter Nachrichten: Stadtwerke merger: Together on the energy market (23.07.2015)
- ^ Stadtwerke Schüttorf Emsbüren: Company> Company structure
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- ^ Homepage of the theater of the Upper County of Schüttorf
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- ↑ Contribution to Törner Stier Crew in the "German Rock Lexicon"
- ↑ German School Prize goes to Schüttorfer Schule on ndr.de on June 8, 2016
- ↑ City wants to buy Erich Kästner School Grafschafter Nachrichten of November 18, 2018
- ↑ Secondary school gets a name ( Memento from July 31, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (from March 23, 2010)
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