Scharrel (Saterland)

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Scharrel
Saterland parish
Scharrel coat of arms
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 18 ″  N , 7 ° 42 ′ 26 ″  E
Residents : 2478  (2006)
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 26683
Area code : 04492
Scharrel (Lower Saxony)
Scharrel

Location of Scharrel in Lower Saxony

Image by Scharrel
Church of St. Peter and Paul in Scharrel
Historic farmhouse

Scharrel ( Sater Frisian Skäddel or Schäddel ) is a district of the municipality of Saterland in the district of Cloppenburg in Lower Saxony .

geography

The village is enclosed east of the B 72 and west of the Cloppenburg – Ocholt railway line . The northern neighbor is Ramsloh .

To the north of the village is the Scharrel nature reserve of the same name and the Hollener Moor nature reserve to the northeast .

history

After 29 houses burned down in Scharrel in 1821, a new settlement was founded six kilometers south under the name Neu-Scharrel . Scharrel had 1,359 inhabitants in the 1850s, who were divided between the farmers Neu-Scharrel (453) and Scharrel (755) with Fermesand (72) and Sedelsberg (79). In 1910 Scharrel had 1,049 inhabitants and Neu-Scharrel had 489.

In Scharrel there were two schools in the 1850s, one in Scharrel with 157 students and one in Neu-Scharrel with 92 students.

Incorporations

Due to the regional reform, Scharrel was combined with Ramsloh and Strücklingen on March 1, 1974 to form the municipality of Saterland.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Karl Georg Böse (Ed.): The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . topographical-statistical description of the same. Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1862, p. 554 f . ( Digitized in Google Book Search [accessed November 10, 2017]).
  2. Municipal directory Germany 1900. Grand Duchy of Oldenburg - Duchy of Oldenburg - Friesoythe office. Retrieved November 10, 2017 .
  3. Numbers, data, facts. Retrieved November 10, 2017 .