Morals

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 17 '  N , 9 ° 30'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality :	Morals
Height :	31 m above sea level NHN
Area :	18.55 km 2
Residents:	5968 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	322 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27419
Area code :	04282
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 044
Address of the municipal administration:	Am Markt 11 27419 Sittensen
Website :	www.sittensen.de
Mayor :	Diedrich Höyns ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Sittensen in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district

Sittensen is a municipality and the administrative seat in the Sittensen joint municipality of the same name in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Sittensen is located in the Zevener Geest in the south of the integrated municipality surrounded by the municipalities of Klein and Groß Meckelsen , Lengenbostel , Tiste and Vierden . To the south borders the municipality of Hamersen and the joint municipality of Fintel with the municipalities of Helvesiek and Stemmen . The river Oste runs through the community, which had driven a water mill in the former town center . At this point the river accumulates and forms the mill pond , which is surrounded by a small park.

Neighboring communities

Bremervörde 40 km	Stade 40 km	Buxtehude 28 km
Zeven 17 km		Tostedt 16 km
Rotenburg (Wümme) 23 km	Scheeßel 13 km	Schneverdingen 32 km

history

The first mention of Sittensen dates back to 1020. It is a document from the Verden diocese, which names the place as Chessinhusen . However, the land must have been settled much earlier. It is believed that the first settlements arose between Sittensen and Klein Meckelsen in the early Middle Ages , but exact dates are not known.

The historic village center of Sittensen is in what is now the southern part of the village, where the market square, St. Dionysius Church and the old water mill, which was built in the 16th century , are located. Since that time, the center of the town has developed away from the original core, but is still there in its historical image.

The municipality of Sittensen was established by law in 1960 as a merger of the municipalities of Groß Sittensen and Klein Sittensen.

In recent history, Sittensen has gained notoriety, particularly due to its rather negative media presence. In the 1990s, for example, there was headlines about an increased rate of leukemia in children in Sittensen. A similar case in the municipality of Tespe in the Harburg district was attributed to increased radiation exposure from the Krümmel nuclear power plant and the GKSS research center in Geesthacht, which, however, could not apply to Sittensen. Reports prepared by the University of Bremen justified the cases with a defective X-ray machine , but were ultimately inconclusive.

Another high-profile incident occurred on the night of February 5, 2007, when seven people were found shot dead in the Lin Yue Chinese restaurant.

In addition, in 2008 there was an arson attack on a Muslim prayer room. The perpetrators, who spoke on the same evening about the establishment of a local NPD association in Sittensen, belonged to the right-wing extremist scene.

In 2010 there was an attack on a pensioner in Sittensen. One of the perpetrators was shot dead by the pensioner. The relatives of the murdered perpetrator then sued the pensioner. For a long time, the attack and the indictment in court made headlines in numerous national media. At the instigation of the robber's family, the pensioner was charged with manslaughter. The trial before the Stade Regional Court began on April 23, 2014, and on October 27, 2014 the pensioner was sentenced to a nine-month suspended prison sentence for manslaughter. Both the public prosecutor and the defense appealed against it. The Federal Court of Justice sentenced the pensioner to nine months' probation for manslaughter in a judgment dated October 25, 2015.

religion

In Sittensen there is an Evangelical Lutheran congregation (St. Dionysius Church), to which most of the denominationally bound citizens belong, as well as a congregation of the independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (Christ Church) and a free evangelical congregation; in addition, a small number of Jehovah's Witnesses and believers in Islam . The Roman Catholic Christians of the place belong to the Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde in Tostedt .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 17 elected members. The municipal election of September 11, 2016 led to the following result:

Party / list	Share of votes	Seats
CDU	31.6%	5
SPD	48.1%	8th
Green	8.4%	2
FDP	4.1%	1
WFB *	7.8%	1

^* Voting Community Free Citizens Sittensen

mayor

Mayor is Diedrich Höyns (SPD). He was elected at the council meeting on November 3, 2016.

coat of arms

The municipality's coat of arms is divided into two parts. On the non-heraldic left side there is a saint (St. Dionysius ) on a red background, on the non-heraldic right side the St. Dionysius church of the place on a green area and a silver river course (the here flowing river ).

Culture and sights

• Burgsittensen Moor Railway
• Open-air theater "Königshof" - the setting for Low German amateur theater

Museums

Watermill

• Heimathaus Sittensen with bakery, attic and sheepfold
• Watermill with a craft museum, forge and wheelwright

Natural monuments

The high moor and nature reserve Ekelmoor with the NSG Tister Bauernmoor and a lookout tower

Sports

• Königshofer Heide Sittensen riding club
• Golf Club Königshof Sittensen e. V.
• VfL Sittensen
• Sittensen riding club

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  St. Dionysius Church in March 2006

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  The open-air theater "Königshof"

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  Sittenser mill pond

traffic

rail

The Sittensen stop is on the Wilstedt – Tostedt railway line , which, however, is not used by local rail transport. The next train station is in Tostedt .

Street

The federal motorway 1 runs through the municipality with junction 47 Sittensen , which connects Sittensen to the national transport network.

Personalities

• Ludwig Otto Ehlers (1805–1877), Evangelical Lutheran pastor, church councilor and superintendent
• Johann Jakob Hoops (1840–1916), Bremen pedagogue
• Hans Helmers (1894–1982), politician (DVP, NSDAP, DP)
• Wilhelm Brunkhorst (1936–2007), master tailor and politician (CDU)
• Wolfgang Schilling (1955–2018), football player

Web links

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

• Official homepage of the Sittensen municipality

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. ^ Community Wohnste (ed.): Wohnste district Rotenburg (Wümme) ISBN 3-922913-08-3
3. ^ Website of the Stade Regional Association
4. ↑ Energy chronicle on Udo Leuschner's website
5. ^ Sittensen - arson attack on Islamic prayer room. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 11, 2010, accessed November 29, 2014 . 
6. ↑ http://www.mopo.de/news/sittensen-nach-brandanschlag--taeter-will-rieger-als-anwalt,5066732,5385048.html
7. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/deutschland/brandanschlag-in-sittensen-hauptverdaechtiger-neonazi-lernte-bei-der-npd/1197142.html
8. ↑ Pensioner shot juvenile robber in the back. In: Spiegel Online. December 15, 2010, accessed November 29, 2014 . 
9. ↑ http://www.bild.de/regional/hamburg/hamburg-regional/haben-die-huren-den-millionaer-erpresst-15133138.bild.html
10. ↑ Bruno Schrep: Hey rabbit, are you still alive? In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 2011 ( online ).
11. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/region/article2136701/War-Todesschuss-auf-Einbrecher-doch-keine-Notwehr.html
12. ↑ http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/panorama/Sittensen-Polizei-findet-Masken-und-Waffe-der-Taeter-id9069686.html
13. ↑ http://www.rhein-zeitung.de/nachrichten/deutschland-und-welt_artikel,-Rentner-toetet-Raeuber-mit-Schuss-in-den-Ruecken-_arid,178014.html
14. ↑ Emilia Smechowski : When the lines blur. In: taz.de. August 5, 2011, accessed November 29, 2014 . 
15. ↑ Fatal shots at young robbers. 80-year-old in court. In: Focus Online. April 23, 2014, accessed April 23, 2014 . 
16. ↑ Thorsten Penz: Revision against judgment in the Sittensen process. In: Kreiszeitung-wochenblatt.de. November 6, 2014, accessed November 29, 2014 . 
17. ↑ Wolfgang Janisch Karlsruhe: Shot in the back . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2015, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on May 30, 2018]).
18. ↑ Local election results 2016, Sittensen municipality , accessed on September 17, 2019