Sottrum

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality :	Sottrum
Height :	20 m above sea level NHN
Area :	28.58 km 2
Residents:	6522 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	228 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27367
Area code :	04264
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 045
LOCODE :	DE SGF
Community structure:	3 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Am Eichkamp 12 ; 27367 Sottrum
Website :	www.sottrum.de
Mayor :	Hans-Jürgen Krahn ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Sottrum in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district

Sottrum is a municipality of the Sottrum municipality in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in Lower Saxony .

geography

location

The municipality of Sottrum is about 20 meters above sea level and is the core of the Sottrum municipality . The place has an extension of two kilometers in north-south and 1.5 kilometers in west-east direction. The place is about 32 kilometers from the city of Bremen and 13 kilometers from the district town of Rotenburg (Wümme) . The area around the village is characterized by moorland, forest and the river plains of Wümme and Wieste .

Local division

Stuckenborstel watermill

The community is divided into three districts: The main town Sottrum, the district Stuckenborstel 2.5 kilometers to the west and the Everinghausen district 4.5 kilometers southwest . Stuckenborstel and Everinghausen were incorporated into Sottrum on March 1, 1974 as part of the municipal reallocation.

Neighboring places

The following communities are neighboring towns of Sottrum. The distance from the center of the main town is given.

Reeßum (2.5 km)	Clüversborstel (1.5 km)
Ottersberg (5.5 km)		Hassendorf (3 km)
	Hellwege (5 km)

history

The first known documentary mention of Sottrum took place in 1205 . In a convention Sottrum is mentioned there as Suthrem as archdeacon of the Verden cathedral chapter. According to estimates, the place was already inhabited around the year 800. During Napoleon's Russian campaign, Sottrum was the quarters of his highest officers, such as B. Marechal Davout.

The communities Groß Sottrum and Klein Sottrum were merged on January 1, 1929 to form the community Sottrum.

Formation of the integrated community

Due to the constantly increasing demands on administrative tasks, pressure to reform arose in the small, voluntarily administered communities as early as the 1950s. As well as the public school system to be reconsidered taking into account the regional school planning had finally joined in 1969 the communities Bötersen , Clüversborstel , Everinghausen , Hassendorf , Hellwege , Höperhöfen , Reeßum , Schleeßel , Sottrum, stack , Stuckenborstel , Taaken and Winkelsdorf on a voluntary basis for joint community Sottrum together. The first main statute of the Sottrum community came into force on June 30, 1969.

On December 29, 1970, the Horstedt community declared its accession to the joint community. When the law on the reorganization of the communities in the Rotenburg (Wümme) area came into force on March 1, 1974, the communities Ahausen and Eversen were added. The already existing joint municipality of Sottrum was placed under the new law at this time.

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the communities Everinghausen and Stuckenborstel were incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Sottrum consists of 19 council women and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 6001 and 7000 inhabitants. The council members are elected for a five-year term by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats
CDU	46.59%	9
SPD	22.34%	4th
GREEN	17.52%	3
FDP	13.53%	3

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 53.38%, below the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The council elected council member Hans-Jürgen Krahn (CDU) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

coat of arms

Blazon : In red with silver with black nail cross busy right canton of St. George in golden armor on left riding goldgezäumtem and goldhufigem silver horse with a golden lance a green dragon stabbing. The cross of nails reminds of the diocese of Verden , St. Georg to the patronage of the parish church in Sottrum.

In 1970, the Sottrum community received approval to adopt the coat of arms of the Sottrum community.

Community partnerships

France Sauveterre-de-Guyenne , France
Poland Lubasz , Poland

Culture and sights

St. George

Buildings

Evangelical St. George Church

The Stuckenborstel watermill is located in the Stuckenborstel district on the banks of the Wieste River .

theatre

The amateur theater group of TV Sottrum has existed since 1946. Five performances take place every year at the beginning of November.

Leisure and sports facilities

heated outdoor pool, Am Bullenworth
Multipurpose Gym, At Bullenworth
Soccer field, old village street

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Sottrum is the seat of Volksbank eG Wümme-Wieste and is located in the catchment area of Sparkasse Rotenburg Osterholz .

Educational institutions

Elementary school at Eichkamp
School center south: Morgenstern elementary school and middle and upper school high school
School on the west; High school
Wiestekindergarten Sottrum
Kindergarten Pusteblume Sottrum (equipped with two crèche groups since 2009)

Social facilities

The closest hospitals are the Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum Rotenburg , the Aller-Weser-Klinik in Achim and the hospitals in Bremen . Sottrum is the location of a retirement home.

traffic

The federal highway 75 leads through the village of Sottrum, the junction Stuckenborstel on the A1 is about two kilometers from the village. Its course corresponds to the Heerstraße between Osnabrück and Hamburg, which was laid out as straight as possible after 1809 in the Napoleonic era.

The place has a train station on the Wanne-Eickel – Hamburg line , where trains operated by the metronom railway company stop on the Hamburg – Bremen connection as part of the Hanse network .

Since April 1, 2010, the Sottrum community has had a volunteer-run citizens' bus that connects the districts with one another.