Schapen

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Schapen
Schapen
Map of Germany, position of the municipality of Schapen highlighted

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 '  N , 7 ° 34'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Emsland
Joint municipality : Spelle
Height : 37 m above sea level NHN
Area : 26.63 km 2
Residents: 2416 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 91 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 48480
Area code : 05458
License plate : Tbsp
Community key : 03 4 54 046
Address of the
municipal administration:
Kirchstrasse 16
48480 Schapen
Website : www.spelle.de
Mayor : Karlheinz Schöttmer ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Schapen in the district of Emsland
Niederlande Landkreis Cloppenburg Landkreis Grafschaft Bentheim Landkreis Leer Landkreis Osnabrück Andervenne Bawinkel Beesten Bockhorst Börger Breddenberg Dersum Dörpen Dohren (Emsland) Emsbüren Esterwegen Freren Fresenburg Geeste Gersten Groß Berßen Handrup Haren (Ems) Haselünne Heede (Emsland) Herzlake Hilkenbrook Hüven Klein Berßen Kluse (Emsland) Lähden Lahn (Hümmling) Langen (Emsland) Lathen Lehe (Emsland) Lengerich (Emsland) Lingen (Ems) Lorup Lünne Lünne Meppen Messingen Neubörger Neulehe Niederlangen Oberlangen Papenburg Rastdorf Renkenberge Rhede (Ems) Salzbergen Schapen Sögel Spahnharrenstätte Spelle Stavern Surwold Sustrum Thuine Twist (Emsland) Vrees Walchum Werlte Werpeloh Wettrup Wippingenmap
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Schapen is a municipality in the Emsland district in Lower Saxony . Since March 1, 1974, it has been a member of the Spelle community .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality of Schapen is located in the southern part of the Emsland district in Lower Saxony . The Moosbeeke and the fish-rich Giegel Aa flow through the community .

Community structure

In the community there are six Schapen Bauerschaften : Barwöste, Borken, Bramhof, cemetery, Crane Moor and Veerkamp .

Neighboring communities

Bell tower of the old Catholic Church

Neighboring communities in the north are the communities Beesten and Freren in the integrated community of Freren , in the east and southeast the community Hopsten and the city of Hörstel in the Steinfurt district in North Rhine-Westphalia and in the west the communities Spelle and Lünne .

history

The village Schapendoes was founded in 890 as Scapaham (1302 Scaphem ) in lifting registers of Werden Abbey called. The name is made up of the defining word scap , probably synonymous with sheep, compare Low German schaap, schoap , and the basic word ham, hem for home, dwelling place, camp, settlement. It is not clear whether the seal of the Reformed, old church, which depicts a sheep, refers to this derivation of the name or is only intended to represent a Christian symbol.

The courtyard of the Werden monastery already had a church, presumably with the patronage of St. Katharina . In the 12th century a new church was built in its place and under the protection of St. Ludgerus posed; the naming underscored the commitment to becoming. This church, renovated in Gothic times, was evangelically reformed in the course of the Reformation in the county of Lingen . A new Catholic church was built in the center of the village; today's St. Ludgerus Church from 1931 is the third building on this site.

In the Middle Ages, Schapen belonged to the County of Tecklenburg . After the defeat of the Tecklenburg Counts in the Schmalkaldic War , Schapen became part of the County of Lingen in 1548 . Under King Friedrich I , Schapen became part of Prussia in 1702 . After the French occupation under Napoleon, Schapen came to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1815 .

New Catholic Church

Some dead people came from Schapen, such as the merchant Berend Bruns (1747–1782). The Tödden were traveling merchants and peddlers who developed from Holland-goers after the Thirty Years' War, with the heyday in the 18th century, and who initially offered their goods in the Netherlands, then also in the Nordic and Baltic countries. The tödden trade brought some prosperity to the home communities, which the tödden houses with their often elaborately designed gables still attest today.

The old rectory from 1739 was expanded into an educational facility in 1993 and is the center of cultural community life. An exhibition about the dead is shown in the attic . The Heimatverein moved into the former brewery. The bell tower was added to the church at that time in 1903. After the construction of a new church, the old church was torn down between 1930 and 1931. The tower, which has been free since then, was handed over to the volunteer fire brigade in 1933 and used as a fire station until 1975. Today the renovated tower can be freely entered.

Peasant communities

Barwöste , derived from desert = deforested area. It is a late name in the Emsland and only occurs sporadically, as in Weuste, Engdener Desert or Wöste-Moor .

Borken (old: Burgiun 890, Burcnun 1000, Burk 1150, Borcken 1461). The defining word is a synonym for birch. The basic word -en stands for home, residence. Together: residence at the birch grove.

Bramhof , from bram = thorn, thorn; from indo-European bhrom / bhrem = to form a point, cf. old high German. bráma = thorn bush . Courtyard on an area overgrown with thorn bushes.

Churchyard , farmers around the old churchyard.

Kranenmoor , from crane = shout, call; from germ. -krana , cf. old high German. / old saxon. krano , names the place where people spoke or oracles. Examples: Krandorf, Kranenburg, Kranichborn, Kranichfeld. There may also be a direct connection to cranes, which appeared in abundance at this location.

Veerkamp , derivation of the name unknown.

Population development

population 1880 1900 1925 1933 1939 1950 1988 2009 2017
Schapen 1,354 1,307 1,459 1,413 1,451 1,877 1,885 2,500 2,482

politics

Municipal council

The council has 13 elected members. As a result of the local elections on September 11, 2011, all members belong to the CDU. The local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in no change in the distribution of seats.

mayor

  • Since 2011 Karlheinz Schöttmer (CDU)
  • 2001–2011 Franz Austermann (CDU)
  • 1986-2001 Heinrich Wilmer (CDU)
  • 1972–1986 Josef Menke
  • 1968–1972 Hermann Greve
  • 1952–1968 Hermann Wallmann
  • 1949–1952 Hermann Greve
  • 1948–1949 Hermann Wallmann
  • 1946–1948 Hermann Brune
  • 1924–1946 Gerhard Huil
  • 1913–1924 Hermann Holtel
  • 1901–1913 Josef Loose
  • 1889–1901 Wilhelm Düring

coat of arms

Street in Schapen

The coat of arms of the municipality of Schapen shows a sloping, silver-bordered, green wavy bar in red; above a silver sheep, below a silver urn. The two flooded silver wave beams stand for the two streams flowing through the community, the Giegel-Aa and the Moosbeeke, the six waves of which refer to the six farmers Kirchhof, Bramhof, Borken, Veerkamp, ​​Barwöste and Kranenmoor. The sheep in the upper right corner alludes to the sound of the place name. The ceramic vessel indicates the pre-Christian settlement of this area more than 2000 years ago.

Culture and sights

The market square of Schapen is surrounded by Tödden houses . There is a shepherd's monument and the craftsman's tree on the square. The shepherd's monument is still an indication of the above-average number of sheep (Low German: Schaap) and shepherds that existed in the village. In 1990 a symbolic “gate to the Emsland” was built, which represents the local location of Schapens on the border with the Steinfurt district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The former Hüberts'sche commercial school is the oldest private commercial school in Europe. In addition to the sights, the place offers a beautiful landscape, which is particularly popular among cyclists.

Sports

The FC 27 Schapen sports club is there for sports activities in the village. After a few ascents and descents in the 2000s, some top performers were brought back in the winter of 2008/2009 in view of the impending relegation to the 1st district class. After a long period of abstinence at the district level, the first team made it back to the district league in the 2012/13 season.

Other sports are women's soccer, tennis and volleyball.

economy

The Schapen economy is strongly characterized by medium-sized companies. The largest employers include the fashion house Schulte, Eichholz Silo- und Anlagenbau, the shipping company Kleinbuntemeyer and Jasper Kesselbau. Most of the businesses in the village are organized in the association "Handel-, Handwerk und Gewerbe" (HHG for short). This association organizes several times a year, together with the fashion house Schulte, events such as the spring, autumn and Advent market. As in the entire region, unemployment is comparatively low. The rate of job seekers in the course of 2011 was between 2 and 3%.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

literature

  • Teachers' association of the Diocese of Osnabrück: The Lingen district. Contributions to local studies in the Osnabrück administrative district, volume I , R. van Acken publishing house, Lingen / Ems 1905
  • Werner Kaemling: Atlas on the history of Lower Saxony , Gerd J. Holtzmeyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1987, ISBN 3-923722-44-3
  • Hermann Abels: The place names of the Emsland, in their linguistic and cultural-historical significance , Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 1929
  • Christoph Oberthür, Franz Busche, Franz Barth, Heinrich Dünheuft: Home map of the Lingen district with statistical information , Verlag R. van Acken, Lingen / Ems 1953
  • Ernst Förstemann, Hermann Jellinghaus (editor): Old German name book , Volume II, 1 and 2: Place names , Bonn 1913/1916 (Reprint: Volume II, 2, Hildesheim 1967/1983, ISBN 3-487-01733-4 )
  • Sebastian Kreyenschulte: The basic word -ham in place names. Problems of assignment using the example of the settlement name “Scapa-ham” - “Scapa-hem” - Schapen im Emsland , in: Emsländische Geschichte 19 (2012), pp. 535–553.

Web links

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

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. pfarrankengemeinschaft-spelle.de
  3. https://spelle.more-rubin1.de/gremien.php
  4. https://www.noz.de/lokales/spelle/artikel/186187/karlheinz-schottmer-neuer-burgermeister-in-schapen NOZ on March 23, 2011: "Karlheinz Schöttmer new mayor in Schapen"; accessed on March 25, 2018
  5. https://www.noz.de/artikel/41351/mit-ganzem-herzen- Einsatz-fur-schapen NOZ on January 8th, 2008: "With all my heart, commitment for Schapen"; accessed on March 25, 2018
  6. Ewald Risau: "Schapen the story of our village", p. 202
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