Schortens
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Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ' N , 7 ° 57' E |
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| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | Friesland | |
| Height : | 4 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 68.68 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 20,381 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 297 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 26419 | |
| Primaries : | 04421, 04422, 04423, 04461, 04468 | |
| License plate : | FRI | |
| Community key : | 03 4 55 015 | |
| LOCODE : | DE SCS | |
| City structure: | 12 districts | |
City administration address : |
Oldenburger Strasse 29 26419 Schortens |
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| Mayor : | Gerhard Böhling (independent) | |
| Location of the city of Schortens in the district of Friesland | ||
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Schortens is a town and an independent municipality in the Friesland district in Lower Saxony . The municipality was named a city in 2005 and has since then been the second largest city in the Friesland district after Varel . Since December 6, 2011, the city has been a state-approved resort .
Surname
Schortens was first mentioned in 1158 as Scortinh . The name Scortinghe has been handed down from 1190 . In 1354 the village is called Scortinze and in 1420 Schortensze . The name is a derivative of the nickname Scroet or Scoto with the affricative collective suffix -ingi , which later became the -ens .
geography
Schortens is located in Jeverland on the East Frisian peninsula, on the edge of the marsh . Numerous villages, about today's neighborhoods Accum and Schoost are to enter projects into the march Geest tongues , between which it formerly extensive moors - and heathlands was.
Neighboring communities
Schortens borders in the northwest on the city of Jever , in the north on the municipality Wangerland , in the east on the independent city Wilhelmshaven , in the south on the municipality Sande and in the southwest on the municipality Friedeburg , which belongs to the district of Wittmund .
City structure
The city comprises the twelve districts of Schortens, Heidmühle , Grafschaft , Accum , Sillenstede , Schoost , Roffhausen , Middelsfähr , Addernhausen , Oestringfelde , Ostiem and Upjever .
While Schortens, Heidmühle, Oestringfelde and Ostiem together form a closed town center with almost 14,000 inhabitants, the other districts are individually located smaller towns with a population of around 150 (Schoost) up to 2200 (Sillenstede).
climate
Schortens is located in a temperate climate zone that is subject to the direct influence of the North Sea . According to the Köppen climate classification , the city is in the Cfb division . C stands for a warm-temperate climate, fb for a humid-temperate climate with summers in which the daytime temperatures are lower and winters in which the daytime temperatures are often higher than in the further inland. Overall, the climate is shaped by the Central European west wind zone.
history
The first traces of settlement in today's urban area go back to the 5th century. At that time there was no Schortens as a unit, but in its place were various farmers and smaller villages. The administrative units were the parishes , the boundaries of which were essentially defined by geographical conditions (e.g. rivers and other obstacles). After the construction of St. Stephen's Church and the associated reallocation of the parishes, today's town center developed into the spiritual center of the surrounding area, to which the nearby Oestringfelde Monastery , which was known throughout the region in the Middle Ages , also contributed .
historical overview
In 1153 the Oestringer Frisians, who were wealthy through cattle fattening and trade, vowed before a battle against a Saxon army to build a church "in the honor of Sunte Steffan tho Schortense" in the event of a victory. This first, reliably datable stone church on the East Frisian peninsula had no previous wooden building. The St. Stephen's Church was built from granite ashlars - used here for the first time - and tuff , which the traders brought with them from the Eifel when they had sold their goods by ship in Cologne . The church is an apse with a single nave and a choir apse .
In 1361 the chief Keno tom Brook had the north wall undermined in the course of a feud, which then collapsed. The thatched roof was also set on fire. One chronicle says: “Anno 1361 was burned Schortenser Kerke van Juncker Keno uth Brockmerland and sinenn volcke.” Tom Brook only lit it, not burned it, because the south side has largely been preserved in its old form made of granite and tuff.
With the end of the Frisian Freedom , the tribal area of the Oestringers , to which Schortens also belonged, became part of the Jever rule , which was ruled by the chief family Wiemken. In 1548 the rule of Jever was attached to the Burgundian Empire at the Reichstag in Augsburg as a fief of Brabants . After Maria's death in 1575, Schortens and Jever became Oldenburg . On August 12, 1588, the Brussels court confirmed the Oldenburg claim to power over the county of East Frisia . The village of Accum belonged to the Kniphausen rule from 1465 to 1858 .
Around 1600 the first school in today's urban area was built as an extension to the church and later the church and parish council met in the inn next to the church. When the last male heir of the Oldenburg family died in 1667 , Schortens fell under Danish occupation in 1675 . After an agreement with Denmark, Schortens belonged to the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst from 1689 , as had been decreed by the last Oldenburg regent Anton Günther before his death.
During the Christmas flood of 1717 , 1,294 people died in the Jever rulership , 17 of them in the Schortens parish, 24 in the Sillenstede parish and 25 in the Accum parish.
When the first bourgeois administrative bodies emerged from 1786, the parish boundaries were chosen for the structure. Thus the Schortenser parish also formed a political unit and developed into the municipality and today's city of Schortens.
In 1793 the Anhalt-Zerbst line died out and Schortens became Russian under Catherine II . In the Peace of Tilsit , the rule of Jever was ceded to the Kingdom of Holland , so that Schortens became Dutch in 1807 and French after the conquest by Napoleon I in 1810 . Until 1813 it belonged to the Jever arrondissement in the Ems-Oriental department , which also included large parts of the Principality of East Frisia . After the withdrawal of Napoleonic troops, Schortens fell back to Russia, but was given to the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg in 1818 . With the exception of Accum, Schortens belonged to the Oldenburg office of Jever. In 1854, the previously independent rule of Kniphausen , to which Accum belonged, became an Oldenburg office, which in 1858 finally merged with the Jever office .
From the middle of the 19th century, a lively settlement began in Schortens, the main trigger being the completion of the road connection Oldenburg – Jever in 1837 and from 1871 the creation of a railway connection from Sande via Heidmühle to Jever . In addition, Schortens profited greatly from the development of the newly established Prussian naval base in Wilhelmshaven . Many workers settled in today's urban area. Due to the railway connection, the center of the village was shifted from St. Stephen's Church to the train station in the Heidmühle district.
After the First World War , the production of warships in Wilhelmshaven fell sharply and Schortens had to contend with high unemployment.
As early as May 1924, the Völkisch-Soziale Block , a right-wing extremist electoral alliance that caught the electoral potential of the banned National Socialist German Workers' Party , achieved 27.6 percent of the valid votes cast in Schortens in the Reichstag elections , while the average for the Reich remained at 6.6 percent. The German National People's Party received a further 17.8 percent, so that the later " Hitler coalition " of 1933 was able to unite 45.4 percent of the votes in Schortens at this early stage. In Sillenstede , which was still independent at the time , the VSB and NSDAP together even achieved 69.6 percent.
During the Weimar Republic , the Jewish Solmitz family of seven lived in Heidmühle. While the parents were murdered in the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps , the children were able to evade persecution by the Nazis . Two daughters died during the Second World War, while the two sons went into hiding or escaped abroad. Another daughter returned to Schortens after the end of the war. A plaque on the home of the butcher and cattle dealer family at Jeverschen Strasse 16 has been commemorating Max and Paula Solmitz since May 2018.
In the Reichstag elections in March 1933 , the right-wing extremist NSDAP and DNVP together won 58.9 percent of the vote in Schortens, and 82.2 percent in Sillenstede . The majority of the parties in Schortens were seven percent clearer than at the national level. At the same time, the SPD in Schortens achieved its best result in Jeverland with 30.2 percent and almost twice as high a result as the 18.3 percent in the entire Reich.
In 1933 Schortens was merged with Cleverns , Sandel and Sande to form the municipality of Oestringen . However, this merger was canceled shortly after the Second World War in 1948. The offices of Jever and Varel were merged in 1933 to form the office of Friesland with headquarters in Jever , and from 1939 as the district of Friesland . In 1936 the Jever Air Base was opened, which still exists today and is used by the Air Force . Between 1945 and 1951, up to 1,500 displaced persons were accommodated on the site : mostly Jews from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , who were waiting for their emigration.
On May 6, 1945 , Polish armored troops of the 2nd Canadian Corps liberated Jeverland and Schortens from then on belonged to the British occupation zone . In 1946 Schortens was incorporated into the newly founded state of Lower Saxony . In the same year, in the course of the expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe, more than 4,000 displaced persons came to Schortens, so that the population rose sharply. The settlement of the Olympic plants in Roffhausen also promoted the Schortensian development after the Second World War. In 1961 the population exceeded 10,000. As a result of the regional reform in Lower Saxony and the associated incorporation of the previously independent municipality of Sillenstede in 1972, Schortens first reached the 20,000 mark in 1974. In addition, on August 1, 1977 the dissolution of the district of Friesland came into effect and until the reorganization was withdrawn on January 1, 1980, Schortens belonged to a district of Friesland , which was expanded to include the former district of Wittmund , with its headquarters in Wittmund in East Frisia .
In 1987 the community center Schortens was built on Rheinstrasse, in whose premises the library, which had existed elsewhere since the 1950s, was now located. The community center developed into the cultural center of the community in the decades that followed. The town charter Schortens received on 21 January 2005. Since 1 June 2005, the city Schortens independent municipality .
On December 6, 2011, the city was officially awarded the title “State Recognized Resort” for the districts of Schortens, Heidmühle, Ostiem, Oestringfelde and Grafschaft.
Incorporations
On July 1, 1972, the neighboring community of Sillenstede was incorporated. This belonged to the municipality of Kniphausen from 1933 to 1948 .
Population statistics
The data in the table on the left apply to the municipality of Schortens without the districts of Accum, Grafschaft and Sillenstede, which have only belonged to Schortens since the local reform in 1972. In the population update of the Lower Saxony State Office for Statistics, the population of the former municipality of Sillenstede was taken into account for the years from 1968 to 1971.
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¹ Together with the municipality of Sillenstede
Denomination statistics
According to the 2011 census , 55.4% of the population were Protestant , 8.7% Roman Catholic and 35.9% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. The number of Catholics, and especially Protestants, has fallen since then. Currently (as of December 31, 2019) Schortens has 20,752 inhabitants, 48.1% (9,985) Protestants 8.1% (1,681) Catholics and the remainder 8,467 (43.8%) either have another religion or no religion at all.
Christianity
- Evangelical Lutheran parishes in Schortens, Heidmühle, Roffhausen, Middelsfähr, Sillenstede
- Evangelical Reformed Church Congregation in Accum
- Roman Catholic parish in Heidmühle
- Adventist church in Heidmühle
- New Apostolic Church in Heidmühle
- The Evangelical Free Church Christians ( Baptists ) are looked after by the Evangelical Free Church communities in Wilhelmshaven and Jever.
- Schortens belongs to the catchment area of the Jewish community in Oldenburg .
politics
City council
The council of the city of Schortens consists of 32 council women and councilors. This is the specified number for a city with a population between 15,001 and 20,000. The 32 councilors 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.
The full-time mayor is also entitled to vote in the city council. Since November 2004 this is the directly elected mayor Gerhard Böhling.
At the constituent council meeting on November 3, 2016, SPD councilor Manfred Buß was elected as the new council chairman. Susanne Riemer from the SPD became his deputy. Anne Bödecker (SPD) was elected to represent the mayor Böhling.
The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:
| Political party | Proportional votes | Number of seats | Change voices | Change seats |
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| SPD | 36.56% | 12 | - 2.52% | - 1 |
| CDU | 28.18% | 10 | + 2.04% | + 1 |
| Alliance 90 / The Greens | 11.02% | 4th | - 1.14% | 0 |
| FDP | 6.15% | 2 | + 2.35% | + 1 |
| UWG | 5.15% | 2 | + 3.86% | + 1 |
| WFF | 12.91% | 2 | + 12.91% | + 2 |
The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 56.05%, slightly above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%. For comparison - in the previous municipal election on September 11, 2011, the turnout was 51.8%.
mayor
The current mayor of Schortens is the non-party Gerhard Böhling. In November 2004, he became the first full-time mayor to replace the previous mayor, Herbert Lahl (CDU), and community director Wolfgang Schmitz.
| Mayoral election on May 26, 2019 |
Mayoral election on Sept. 11, 2011 |
Mayoral election on June 26, 2004 |
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| Gerhard Böhling | 6,857 | 62.1% | Gerhard Böhling Yes | 7,381 | 84.7% | Gerhard Böhling | 4,938 | 61.0% |
| Andreas Bruns | 3,100 | 28.1% | Gerhard Böhling No. | 1,334 | 15.3% | Carsten Feist | 2,688 | 33.2% |
| Wolfgang Ottens | 1,078 | 9.8% | Ewald Eden | 467 | 5.8% | |||
| voter turnout | 11,035 of 17,252 | voter turnout | 8,870 of 17,138 | voter turnout | 8,253 of 17,097 | |||
| 64.0% | 51.8% | 48.3% | ||||||
Representatives in the Land and Bundestag
In the elections to the Lower Saxony state parliament , Schortens belongs to the state electoral district 070 Friesland , which includes the entire district of Friesland. The direct mandate was won on October 15, 2017 by Olaf Lies from the SPD. On November 22, 2017, Lies was elected Minister for the Environment, Energy, Building and Climate Protection of Lower Saxony. The electoral term ends in 2022.
Schortens belongs to the parliamentary constituency Friesland - Wilhelmshaven - Wittmund . It includes the city of Wilhelmshaven and the districts of Friesland and Wittmund . The directly elected MP is Siemtje Möller (SPD). No party candidate from the constituency entered the Bundestag via the parties' list. The 2017 federal election in Schortens resulted in the following:
| Political party | First votes | (2013) | Second votes | (2013) |
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| Siemtje Möller / SPD | 40.3% | (44.8%) | 31.4% | (36.7%) |
| Hans-Werner Chamber / CDU | 32.8% | (39.9%) | 33.4% | (38.8%) |
| Victor Alexander von Fintel / Alliance 90 / The Greens | 5.4% | (5.6%) | 7.3% | (7.4%) |
| Hendrik Theemann / FDP | 6.4% | (2.2%) | 9.7% | (4.1%) |
| Holger Onken / Die Linke | 5.2% | (4.3%) | 6.1% | (4.1%) |
| Achim Postert / AfD | 7.5% | (-) | 8.4% | (4.4%) |
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the city of Schortens contains a red, jumping horse with an erect tail on a white background, similar to the coat of arms of Lower Saxony (white horse on a red background and hanging tail, see Sachsenross ), only with interchanging colors. The coat of arms probably goes back to the horse breeding of the Oestringer in the Middle Ages , which was internationally known even then. Another reason is based on the assumption that a single "wonder horse", with which a Schortenser citizen traveled across Europe in the Middle Ages, is the basis for the coat of arms. This is also the official justification of the community committee, which proposed the jumping horse as the community seal on April 21, 1948.
The jumping horse appeared in the community seal of the community of Oestringen from 1933 to 1945.
Town twinning
Schortens maintains city partnerships with the following cities:
Culture and sights
Attractions
The Evangelical Lutheran St. Stephen's Church in the Schortens district was built from 1153 to 1168 on an artificial terp . The church building is the oldest reliably datable stone church on the East Frisian peninsula . The three-arched rood screen , built in the course of the 15th century , whose two outer arches were used to set up side altars, dates from the time before the Reformation . The late Gothic winged altar 564 centimeters wide and 210 centimeters high is the most valuable piece of furniture in the church. The organ from 1686 comes from the well-known organ builder Joachim Kayser .
The Evangelical Lutheran St. Florian Church in the Sillenstede district was probably completed in 1233. Standing on a warf , the church is 44 meters long and 13 meters wide and is the largest and most important granite square church in Friesland. The outside of the choir of the church was designed without any special architectural form and is separated from the elongated apse of the church by an elaborately designed triumphal arch . The baptismal font from 1250, the carved oak passion altar from 1515/1520 and the Johann Adam Berner organ from 1757 are worth seeing .
The Accumer Mill, built in the Accum district in 1746, is a fully functional Dutch gallery windmill . The windmill measures around 18 meters to the top of the cap and the diameter of the wing cross is around 22 meters. The mill is managed by the Accumer Mühle e. V. maintained and operated.
Also in Accum is the Evangelical - Reformed St. Willehad Church . The listed church is a simple, unadorned rectangular building from 1719 and the only Reformed church in the otherwise Lutheran Oldenburg regional church. Inside the church is the tomb for the chief Tido von In- und Kniphausen and his wife Eva von Renneberg. The double grave is made of black marble and was made by a Flemish artist from the Renaissance period .
On May 8, 2018, a memorial plaque was unveiled on the last house of the Jewish Solmitz family at Jeverschen Strasse 16, commemorating the victims of the Shoah in Schortens. The memorial plaque is part of the Friesland memorial sites. Today there is an Indian restaurant in the house.
Other attractions are:
- Oestringfelde monastery park with monastery ruins and monastery garden
- Forest Upjever
- Regional environmental center (RUZ) in the monastery park
- Wolf gallows in Oestringfelde
- Replica of the old Heidemühle in Heidmühle
- Jewish cemetery on Menkestrasse
- Olympia exhibition of the Heimatverein Schortens on the grounds of the Technologie Centrum Nordwest (TCN)
- 100 year old Horizontalgattersäge the club gang Upjever e. V. in the Upjever Forest
Regular events
In the Schortens calendar of events, the following regular events with great regional or national awareness are worth mentioning:
- Whitsun: Nordfrost Cup , football youth tournament organized by Heidmühler Fußballclub e. V.
- June: Schortenser Klinkerzauber , street art and music festival
- August: International Schortenser Jever Fun Run , international people and street run (since 1987)
- September: Schortens town festival with flea market, the annual election of the mill queen and "bus pulling"
Sports
The Heidmühler Fußballclub e.V., originally founded in 1950 as a pure soccer club. With around 2,500 members, V. is not only the largest association in the city, but also in the district of Friesland. The sports club offers badminton, bowling, soccer, handball, judo, karate, bowling, athletics, men's leisure, swimming, sports & health, table tennis, gymnastics and volleyball. The first men's team played in the Landesliga Weser-Ems (sixth highest division in Germany) in the 2017/18 season , but rose again after one season as bottom of the table.
The gymnastics and sports club Oestringen was founded in 1913 as the "Men's Gymnastics Club Ostiem" and with over 1,000 members is the second largest sports club in the city of Schortens. Since February 2004 the club has had a newly built sports facility with a sports hall and outdoor area on the street Zum Huntsteert. Traditionally, the gymnastics disciplines are particularly cultivated in the club. Parent-child gymnastics, children's gymnastics, apparatus gymnastics for girls, boys and men, trampoline gymnastics, women's gymnastics, senior sports, dance and aerobics and health sports are offered here. With the divisions ball games (basketball, table tennis, badminton), martial arts (effective self-defense), athletics and equipment fitness, the association offers other sports.
The district in Roffhausen based sports club Green-Yellow Roffhausen of 1919 s. V. has around 500 members. The SV GG Roffhausen committed to the grassroots and offers the divisions badminton , handball, recreational sports, volleyball, table tennis, gymnastics, basketball and Health Sport.
The football club FC Middelsfähr , founded on February 2, 1977, merged in the same year with Tus Mariensiel, which had existed since 1966 . The merger of the two clubs to form the new club Schwarz-Weiß Middelsfähr / Mariensiel took place on May 31, 1977. About a year later, the community of Schortens made today's sports facility on Pappelweg in Middelsfähr available. The club essentially operates the football division .
The TuS Sillenstede v. 1865 eV is based in the Sillenstede district and has around 700 members with a population of around 2,100 in the district. In addition to various ball sports, modern and classic group concepts are implemented in the local sports hall and on the Sillensteder sports field. In addition to regular sports activities, the growing club also runs its own events, such as the Fun Cup in football or the TuS ball.
TuS Glarum , founded in 1976, mainly offers its around 800 members gymnastics, table tennis, badminton and handball for the districts of Grafschaft and Accum .
The Tennis Club Schortens eV was founded in 1977 and has a club area with 7 tennis courts and a tennis hall in the district of Heidmühle .
The Golfclub Wilhelmshaven-Friesland eV , founded in 1979, maintains an 18-hole golf course with a clubhouse between the Schortens district of Accum and the Wilhelmshaven district of Fedderwarden .
In Schortens, in addition to the municipal sports grounds and gyms, there is also the Aqua Fit leisure pool , the Friesland Bowling Center with 16 bowling lanes and the Fitness World fitness studio . The former Schortens natural open-air swimming pool was converted into a bathing area in 2018
Economy and Infrastructure
Established businesses
After the Second World War, Olympia-Werke AG settled in the former halls of the Wilhelmshaven naval shipyard in Roffhausen. The company temporarily employed over 12,000 people here. However, the site had to be closed permanently in 1992 due to economic problems. Today the Technologie Centrum Nordwest is located on the former Olympic site , where 63 different companies with around 2,600 employees have now settled.
The headquarters of the Nordfrost Group, a company founded in 1975 that employs a total of 1,200 people at 29 locations in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, is also located in the Schortenser industrial park .
The nut and dried fruit manufacturer Meienburg, which was founded in 1987 and sells its products throughout Germany, is also based in Schortens.
Until 2008, the BahnCard service of DB Fernverkehr AG was in Schortens .
tourism
Tourism has been increasing slowly but steadily in Schortens for several years. The number of overnight stays in accommodation traffic rose from 24,818 overnight stays in 2004 to 41,266 overnight stays in 2009. The average length of stay was 8.2 overnight stays. Almost half of all overnight stays took place in July (= 23.1%) and August (= 22.4%).
Since 2008 some measures have been taken to strengthen the industry, such as B. the opening of a tourist information office with accommodation and the creation of a tourist development concept in 2010. In 2011, the city was officially awarded the title of "state-approved resort" for the districts of Schortens, Heidmühle, Ostiem, Oestringerfelde and Grafschaft.
The four-star campsite Friesland Camping was opened back in 2005 . The campsite, operated jointly by the city of Schortens and the city of Jever, is located west of the city directly on the swimming lake, the former Schortens natural open-air swimming pool. The site has 80 tourist and 15 seasonal parking spaces. The usage figures have risen from 3,051 to 10,935 overnight stays in 2009.
media
Schortens belongs to the catchment area of three newspapers: the Jeversche Wochenblatt , which has the most subscribers in the city, the Nordwest-Zeitung with its local section Der Jeverlandbote and the Wilhelmshavener Zeitung , which is mainly subscribed to in the districts of Roffhausen and Middelsfähr.
Schortens belongs to the broadcasting area of the local radio station Radio Jade , the regional television station Friesischer Rundfunk and the state public broadcaster NDR .
Public facilities
Jever Air Base has existed since May 1, 1936 . It was used by the various units of the Air Force and the Army during the Second World War . After the end of the war, former forced laborers were quartered there, then the air base was used by Danish units and the British Royal Air Force . In 1961, the air base was handed over to the German Armed Forces , which carried out regular flight operations here again from 1964.
On August 31, 2005 the Fighter Bomber Squadron 38 "Friesland" stationed there since 1983 was disbanded. On June 30, 2006, the Air Force's object protection battalion was disbanded and instead the “Friesland” object protection regiment was put into service at the air base . In addition, Air Force Maintenance Group 21 will remain on site.
On September 26, 2013, flight operations at Jever Air Base were suspended. The declassification of the air base has already been applied for.
education
In Schortens there are seven primary schools spread across the city districts, a special school with a focus on social and emotional development and IGS Friesland , which was founded in summer 2009 and now has 1,100 students. The main location of the Integrated Comprehensive School , where grades 5 - 10 are taught, is on Beethovenstrasse. The upper school level is housed in the former branch of the Mariengymnasium Jever in Mühlenweg.
The Hauptschule and Realschule, which had existed until then, were dissolved in 2014.
traffic
Schortens is connected to the federal motorway 29 from Emden to Wilhelmshaven via the federal highway 210 . The Wilhelmshaven motorway junction, where the B 210 and A 29 cross, is located in the urban area of Schortens.
In the second half of 2012, a new traffic roundabout was built west of the Schortens district of Ostiem as a feeder to the new federal highway 210. It is the only Schortenser connection to the new bypass, which was completed in December 2012. The old federal road 210, which previously ran directly through the district, has been tied off and now runs as a district road to Sande .
Schortens station is served by line RB59 on the route of the East Frisian Coast Railway, which runs from Wilhelmshaven Hbf via Sande, Schortens, Jever, Wittmund and Burhafe to Esens. This line is operated by the NordWestBahn every hour. The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Ems-Jade (VEJ) applies . The bus routes 215 and 219 of the Weser-Ems Busverkehr GmbH also connect Schortens with Jever, Sande and Wilhelmshaven.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Janßen (1895–1983), politician
- Rolf Janshen (* 1949), Manager (Managing Director of the Humana Milchunion Group )
- Bruno Kasdorf (* 1952), German general
- Steffen Puttkammer (* 1988), soccer player, started his soccer career at Heidmühler FC
- Sebastian Polter (* 1991), soccer player, started his soccer career at Heidmühler FC
- Kai Pröger (* 1992), soccer player, started his soccer career at Heidmühler FC
- Tobias Ahrens (* 1993), soccer player, played for Heidmühler FC in his youth
Personalities associated with the city
- Piet Pieterszoon Heyn (1577–1629), Dutch privateer, was a miller's assistant in Heidmühle
- Martin Bücking (1868–1954), pastor and writer, worked in 1895 in the rectory in Schortens
- Jürgen Nicolai (1925–2006), German ornithologist , author and behavioral scientist
- Heinz Sauermann (1945–2009), teacher and landscape painter
- Gerhard Henschel (* 1962), German writer, lived in the Heidmühle district in the late 1980s. His worker's novel (2017) and hit novel (2018) are partly set there.
- Kurt Dossin (1913–2004), handball player and Olympic champion as well as three-time German champion. He lived in the Heidmühle district for almost 30 years.
literature
- Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon . 3 volumes. Brune Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Wilhelmshaven 1986.
- Civic Association Accum (Ed.): 100 years of the Civic Association Accum. The truth will stand. Lies and deceit will perish. 1st edition. Heiber Druck & Verlag, Schortens 2004, ISBN 3-936691-25-8 .
- Heimatverein Schortens (Ed.): 75 years Heimatverein Schortens - Heimatbuch and Festschrift. 1st edition. Heiber Druck & Verlag, Schortens 2004, ISBN 3-936691-22-3
- Ingeborg Nöldeke: 1153-2003. 850 years of St. Stephen's Church in Schortens. "And vowed to build a church in honor of St. Stephan zu Schortens" . Verlag Hermann Lüers, Jever 2002, ISBN 3-9806885-6-9 .
- Ingeborg Nöldeke, Almut Salomon, Antje Sander: Schortens. Local history from the Middle Ages to modern times. NORA Verlagsgemeinschaft Dyck & Westerheide OHG, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86557-097-6 .
- Ingeborg Nöldeke: See, everything has become new. The Schortenser Altar has been restored. Verlag Hermann Lüers, Jever 2003, ISBN 3-9809226-0-X .
Web links
- City of Schortens - Welcome to Schortens (PDF; 5.6 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ^ City of Schortens state-approved resort ( memento of December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 7, 2011.
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