Seeste
Seeste is the largest of nine farmers in the municipality of Westerkappeln and thus part of the Tecklenburger Land .
location
Seeste belonged to the former Prussian- Westphalian district of Tecklenburg , since 1975 to the district of Steinfurt , North Rhine-Westphalia . The area of the Seeste farming community begins approx. 2 km north of the village of Westerkappeln in the Düsterdieker Niederung and ends 8 km further north - at the same time on the state border with Lower Saxony and the municipality border with the neighboring towns of Bramsche and Neuenkirchen ( district of Osnabrück ) in Lower Saxony .
In the southeast, Seeste borders the village of Halen , which belongs to the Westphalian neighboring municipality of Lotte . In the west and south, Seeste merges with the farmers Westerbeck and Osterbeck, which also belong to the municipality of Westerkappeln.
Seeste is economically shaped by agriculture , handicrafts and services. Many residents drive to work or training in the nearby city of Osnabrück, in whose catchment area it is located.
The place
Today around 800 people live in Seeste. The type of settlement is an old Westphalian peasantry in the original sense. Seeste is not characterized by a closed village center , nor does it have a new building area that is typical of many villages today, which changes the appearance of the villages. The farms and often means belonging Heuerhaus in framework construction (also Kotten however called) settle some scattered individual layers, mostly in composite of several farms on. They are mainly distributed around the Seester Esch (Plaggenesch), an elevated, grown arable area in the middle of the peasantry.
Seeste is divided into Oberseeste and Niederseeste, each with further subdivisions, characterized by field names such as Telgte, Buchholz, Wallenbrock, Roter Berg, Oberdorf, Niederdorf, Schachsel and others.
history
Seeste was first mentioned in writing as early as 1249 as "Villa Segeste". In the period from approx. 1757 to 1953, the districts of Oberseeste in the south and Niederseeste in the north each had their own school. In 1952, a new joint 2–3 class elementary school Seeste was built roughly in the geographical center of the farmers ; it existed from 1952 to 1974 and housed a private kindergarten until 2015. As a rule, the Seester children now attend kindergartens and elementary, comprehensive and secondary schools in Westerkappeln, high schools in the nearby towns of Mettingen or Tecklenburg. All three former Seester school buildings still exist, they have been converted into residential buildings.
Incidentally, there were no street names in Seeste until the time of German reunification. The house numbers had been assigned chronologically since ancient times, corresponding to the time of the earlier historical settlement (Seeste No. 1 to approx. No. 100). Even for locals it was sometimes difficult to find addresses or to give clear directions; Orientation would have been almost impossible for courier services or navigation systems . For this reason, street names based on traditional hallway names and new house numbers were introduced in Seeste for the first time in the early 1990s.
traffic
The center of the village is crossed by Bramscher Straße, the state road L 584, which is the main artery of Seestes and connects Westerkappeln and Bramsche. It is often used as an alternative route in the event of traffic jams on the nearby Autobahn 1 (A 1).
In neighboring Halen there is a passenger train station from which the Nordwestbahn runs to Osnabrück, Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven or Bremen.
The northern border of the farmers - at the same time the state border - roughly marks the Mittelland Canal .
Attractions and tourism
The varied Seester nature offers opportunities for relaxation, leisure, swimming, riding, cycling, hiking and gliding or model flying. A Christian leisure home (Seeste60) and various holiday apartments on the farm offer idyllic holiday accommodation.
The Seeste campsite is located near the banks of the Mittelland Canal and allows overnight stays close to nature. A river balcony - a kind of viewing terrace - was to be built on the canal bank in 2004 as part of the “Regionale” project, but so far the financial means have not been available.
Achmer Airfield
The Achmer airfield to the north-east of Seeste and the adjacent military training area are still partly on Seester territory. This airfield and military premises are located on the territory of a former air base of the German Luftwaffe in the Second World War . The military training area has been used by units of the British Army from Osnabrück and Gütersloh for a long time . Despite the withdrawal of the British from Osnabrück in 2009, the training area is still used militarily by British soldiers. To the south of the glider runway, exclusively in the Seester area, there is a model airfield.
Düsterdieker Niederung nature reserve
The south of the peasantry comprises the bulk of the bird sanctuary "Dark ThePremiumEnvironmentisasettingrelatedtothecoremessagesof lowlands ", the largest wetland reported -Schutzgebietes in North Rhine-Westphalia. Rare bird species such as the gray heron , curlew , lapwing and storks can be observed here.
Seester sloop stones
The oldest finds in Seeste include the remains of a megalithic barrow from around 4000 BC. Chr. (Seester Sloopsteine), the so-called "Seester Vase", a clay vessel from that era, was also found there. To the west of the Schachsel forest area, historical sites were discovered in 1966 that point to an 18-hectare settlement area from the Middle Stone Age , consisting of around eleven residential huts.
societies
In addition to the traditional rifle club and the singing club, there has been a recreational soccer club since 1968, SV Seeste 68, which plays in the Ibbenbüren city league.
In 1988 a women's choir was formed.
In November 2006, the Seester Radwegverein was founded from a citizens' initiative with the aim of building a bicycle path along the L 584 state road. This should connect Westerkappeln with the existing cycle path at the Achmer airfield on the state border. In November 2009 this goal was achieved after exactly three years and the new cycle path has been completed over its entire length.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ' N , 7 ° 53' E