Nordholz

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Nordholz (disambiguation) .

Nordholz Noordholt ( Low German ) Community Wurster North Sea Coast
Coordinates: 53 ° 47 ′ 9 ″  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 55 ″  E
Height :	6 m above sea level NHN
Area :	65.11 km²
Residents :	7248  (2017)
Population density :	111 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2015
Postal code :	27639
Area code :	04741
Location of Nordholz in Lower Saxony
Nordholz in the municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast

St. George's Church in the Spieka district

North Wood ( Low German Noord Holt ) is the largest town in the unified community Wurster North Sea coast in Lower Saxony Cuxhaven .

geography

location

Nordholz is located on the North Sea coast and borders the middle town of Cuxhaven to the north .

Local division

Cappel-Neufeld End of the dike Hartings bacon Nordholz (main town) Scharnstedt

Spieka Spieka-Neufeld Wanhöden Wursterheide

Neighboring places

Berensch-Arensch (City of Cuxhaven)	Oxstedt (City of Cuxhaven )	Franzenburg (City of Cuxhaven) Gudendorf (City of Cuxhaven) Lüdingworth (City of Cuxhaven)
		Wanna (combined municipality of Land Hadeln )
Dorum	Cappel Midlum000	Krempel (City of Geestland )

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history

The runways of the Nordholz Air Base (right) and the Nordholz-Spieka Airfield (left)

Wursterheide (2019)

Nordholz is the location of the Cuxhaven-Nordholz Airport (Nordholz Air Base ) , which was an important airship location during the First World War . A special feature of the airport was the hangar that could be rotated through 360 °, which enabled the zeppelins to take off and land in any direction of the wind. At the time when the Air Force was banned by the Peace of Versailles , the installations were used as a basic part of a popular sports school. Today there is the Naval Air Command with the Naval Air Squadron 3 "Graf Zeppelin" and the Naval Air Wing 5 of the German navy with maritime patrol aircraft and helicopters home. There is also the Aeronauticum , which is an airship and naval aviation museum . The special airfield at Nordholz-Spieka is in the immediate vicinity .

Incorporations

On July 1, 1967, the three former communities of Deichsende, Nordholz and Wursterheide merged to form the new community of Nordholz. On January 1, 1970, the municipality of Wanhöden was also incorporated into the municipality of Nordholz. In the course of the regional reform in Lower Saxony , which took place on March 1, 1974, the municipality of Spieka, which was created on July 1, 1968 through the merger of the municipalities of Cappel-Neufeld, Spieka and Spieka-Neufeld, as well as parts of the municipality of Midlum were also included at that time incorporated about 50 residents.

On January 1, 2015, the Nordholz community merged with the Land Wursten community to form the Wurster Nordseeküste community .

Population development

year Residents source 1910 249 1925 344 1933 462 1939 527 1950 10010 1956 895 1961 4889 ¹ 1970 5825² 1973 45400 1975 6733 ³

year Residents source 1980 7317 ³ 1985 7375³ 1990 7149 ³ 1995 7304 ³ 2000 7539 ³ 2005 7644 ³ 2010 7460 ³ 2014 7259 ³ 2017 72480 0 0 0

¹ on June 6, census results including the municipality of Spieka, which was incorporated in 1974
² on May 27, census results including the municipality of Spieka, which was incorporated in 1974
³ as of December 31

politics

Local council

The local council of the municipality of Nordholz consists of six councilors and nine councilors from the following parties:

CDU :	7 seats
SPD :	5 seats
BF Wurster North Sea Coast :	2 seats
Greens :	1 seat0

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor is Jochen Wrede (CDU). His deputies are Isolde Hallemeier (SPD) and Wolfgang Wilhelm (CDU).

coat of arms

The original designs of the municipal coats of arms of Nordholz and Wursterheide come from the heraldist and coat of arms painter Albert de Badrihaye , who designed around 80 community coats of arms for the district of Cuxhaven. During the merger, the coats of arms of Nordholz , Wursterheide and the draft of the Deichsender coat of arms merged into the new Nordholz coat of arms. The old Deichsender coat of arms was designed by the heraldist and coat of arms painter Gustav Völker , who designed around 25 community coats of arms for the district of Cuxhaven.

Blazon : "The arms of the town of Nordholz shows a shield divided by red against blue over a slight left split sign foot of silver before Green . Up in red one rooted silver fir a silver and blue propeller , left and right with a silver wing sullied. Below in the base of the shield, on the right a silver shamrock in green, on the left a green shamrock in silver. "

Justification for the coat of arms: The fir tree as a symbol for wood indicates the place name and the wood in the municipality. The incorporated Wursterheide was created in 1926 on the area of ​​a former naval airship site. This is reminiscent of the propeller with wings as a symbol of aviation. The dike stations diagonally left divided lower half of the shield points to the dike. The shamrocks are symbols of the cultivation of the land.

Coat of arms of the localities incorporated in 1967

These three local coats of arms merged on July 1, 1967 to form the current coat of arms of Nordholz. The half , jumping, red horse that had been removed from the old Nordholz coat of arms was borrowed from the seal of the former Nordholz office .

Nordholz	Wursterheide	End of the dike
Design: Albert de Badrihaye	Design: Albert de Badrihaye	Design: Gustav Völker

Culture and sights

Buildings

See also : List of architectural monuments in Wurster North Sea Coast - North Wood

• Church of the Good Shepherd
• Nordholz windmill

Natural monuments

View of the harbor from Spieka-Neufeld

With the port facility in Spieka-Neufeld, the village has maritime access to the German Bight and the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park to the west . Accordingly, the focus of the still existing shipping is shifting from purely commercial fishing to a tourist attraction and tries to use the upgrade as a UNESCO World Heritage Site .

Museums

Aeronauticum

• the Aeronauticum , a German airship and naval aviation museum in Nordholz

music

Since 2009 the rock festival “ Deichbrand ” has been taking place at the Cuxhaven-Nordholz sea airport .

Associations and associations

• Angelsportverein Nordholz e. V.
• Boxing club group Nordholz
• Computer Club Nordholz e. V.
• German Federal Armed Forces Association V. Comradeship from former soldiers, reservists and survivors in Nordholz and the surrounding area
• DRK local association Nordholz
• TSG Nordholz support group
• Friends of the "Aeronauticum"
• Support association for the pupils of the Nordholz primary school V.
• Nordholz Hunting Association
• Nordholzer Tennisclub e. V.
• Reit- und Fahrverein Nordholz und Umgebung e. V.
• Schützenverein Nordholz und Umgebung e. V.
• Social Association Germany V. Local group Nordholz
• Sportfluggruppe Nordholz / Cuxhaven e. V.
• TSG Nordholz and surroundings v. 1907 e. V.

traffic

• Nordholz has a stop on the Bremerhaven – Cuxhaven railway line
• There is an exit "Nordholz" south of the village on the federal highway 27
• The airport Cuxhaven-Nordholz or SEA-AIRPORT not only serves as a naval aviation base, but also as an airport for flights to the islands in the North Sea.
  • To the south of the airport, the parabolic antenna of an SRE-M system rotates on the MSSR Nordholz radar tower . Each of these six systems nationwide has a detection radius of around 145 NM ( nautical miles corresponds to 270 km). The facility, which is remote-controlled from Bremen, monitors the north and northwest of the Federal Republic of Germany as well as the south-eastern North Sea.
• The special landing area Nordholz-Spieka ( EDXN ) is located directly north of the large military railway . Here is the Sportfluggruppe Nordholz / Cuxhaven e. V. is at home.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Carl Erxleben (1815–1882), administrative officer and politician
• Heinrich Meldau (1866–1937), nautical instructor
• Holger Fischer (* 1946), Finnougrist and university professor
• Norbert König (* 1958), sports presenter, born in the incorporated Deichsende

People connected to the place

• Wilhelm Wehner († 1863), administrative lawyer, he was a clerk in Nordholz from 1840 to 1845
• Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838–1917), Count of Württemberg, General of the Cavalry and the developer and founder of rigid airship construction, a bronze statue of the Count stands in commemoration in front of the Aeronauticum in Nordholz
• Hugo Eckener (1868–1954), national economist, correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung , successor to Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, many well-known airships were built under his leadership, he trained many naval airships in Nordholz
• Leopold Ziegenbein (1874–1950), navigator and commodore at Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) in Bremen, he was one of the most prominent German captains of merchant shipping, he died in Nordholz
• Maximilian Macher (1882–1930), Austrian-Hungarian, later Austrian power balloon pilot (balloon driver), who, among other things, belonged to the kuk airship department at the Nordholz site
• Johann Culemeyer (1883–1951), engineer who became known for the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG) through the development of the road scooter, colloquially known as "Culemeyer", died in Nordholz
• Hans Flemming (1886–1935), aeronaut, he was commanded for training at the flight school in Nordholz
• Bruno Siegel (1890–1948), worker functionary, politician (SPD, USPD and KPD), resistance fighter in World War II, he spent the remainder of World War I in the airship department in Nordholz
• Arnold Schmidt-Niechciol (1893–1960), painter, he died in Nordholz
• Rudolf Janke (* 1930), organ builder, he created the Ev.-luth organ in 1986. Church of the Good Shepherd
• Karsten Ocker (1945–2015), medical officer of the German Navy, he was an aviator of the Naval Aviation Squadron 3 "Graf Zeppelin" in Nordholz
• Frank Martin Lenski , Rear Admiral of the German Navy and Head of Operations Support in the Naval Command in Rostock, he was deployed from 1989 to 1994 in the Naval Aviation Wing 3 in Nordholz as an aircraft engineering officer, officer for on-board service and safety and skin inspection officer

Myths and legends

• How Spieka got its name
• The Haunted Path at Spieka
• Witte, true di - de Swarte hold di

literature

• Fritz Hörmann, Ude Meyer, Christian Morisse, Eberhard Nehring, Irmgard Seghorn, Egon Stuve, Else Syassen: Wesermünde field names collection - the field names of the property tax cadastre from 1876 . Ed .: Kulturstiftung der Kreissparkasse Wesermünde (=  new series of special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elb- und Wesermuende eV Volume 27 ). Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1995, ISBN 3-931771-27-X , p. 16 ([ digital copy ( memento from October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )] [PDF; 431 kB ; accessed on October 23, 2019]).

Web links

Commons : Nordholz  - Collection of images

Wikivoyage: Nordholz  - travel guide

• Nordholz locality

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Friedhelm Bartels, Birgit Deppe, Renate Grützner, Wolfgang Köthe, Wilfried Kuhl: Land Wursten and Nordholz - yesterday & today - Wurster North Sea coast . Kellner Verlag, Bremen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95651-128-8 , pp. 224 .
2. ↑ Overview map of the Cuxhaven district. In: cuxland-gis.landkreis-cuxhaven.de. November 2016, accessed March 28, 2020 .  
3. ↑ Arnd Krüger , Frank v. Lojewski: Selected aspects of military sports in Lower Saxony during the Weimar period . In: Hans Langenfeld, Stefan Nielsen (Hrsg.): Contributions to the sports history of Lower Saxony . Weimar Republic (=  series of publications by the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History Hoya eV Volume  12 ). Part 2. Self-published, Hoya 1998, ISBN 3-932423-02-X , p. 124-148 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c} 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.  248-249 .
5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the community Wurster North Sea Coast, district Cuxhaven . In: Niedersächsische Staatskanzlei (Ed.): Niedersächsisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt (Nds. GVBl.) . No.  26/2012 . Hanover November 8, 2012, p. 428 , p. 2 ( digital copy [PDF; 454 kB ; accessed on May 12, 2019]).
6. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Register of local authorities Germany 1900 - Lehe district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed March 28, 2020 .  
7. ^ ^{A b c} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wesermünde district ( see under: No. 67 ). (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.  192 ( 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. 48 , Wesermünde district ( digitized version ( memento from August 7, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on June 3, 2020]).
10. ^ Municipalities in Germany by area and population. (XLSX; 895 kB) See under: Lower Saxony, No. 1928 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 1975, accessed on June 12, 2019 .  
11. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Community directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on March 28, 2020 .  
12. ↑ ^{a b} Local councilor and local mayor of Nordholz. In: Website of the municipality of Wurster North Sea Coast. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .  
13. ↑ ^{a b c d} Wesermünde district (ed.): Coat of arms of the Wesermünde district . Grassé Offset Verlag, Bremerhaven / Wesermünde 1973, ISBN 3-9800318-0-2 .
14. ↑ Windmill Nordholz. In: Website Niedersächsische Mühlenstraße. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .  
15. ↑ Eberhard Michael Iba (Ed.): Hake Betken siene Duven. The saga of the Elbe and Weser estuaries (=  special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund at the Elbe and Weser estuaries . Volume 16 ). 3. Edition. Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1999, ISBN 3-931771-16-4 .