Spahnharrenstätte

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 52 '  N , 7 ° 35'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Emsland
Joint municipality :	Sögel
Height :	36 m above sea level NHN
Area :	36.07 km 2
Residents:	1546 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	43 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	49751
Primaries :	05951, 05952
License plate :	Tbsp
Community key :	03 4 54 048
Website :	www.soegel.de
Mayor :	Reinhard Timpker ( CDU )
Location of the municipality Spahnharrenstätte in the district of Emsland

Spahnharrenstätte is a municipality in the Sögel municipality in the Emsland district in Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

The municipality, which extends over an area of ​​36.07 km², has around 1,600 inhabitants .

geography

location

The municipality of Spahnharrenstätte is located in the eastern part of the Hümmlings , a wooded Geestrücken in the Emsland .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are in the northwest the community Börger , in the north the community Lorup in the integrated community Werlte , in the east the community Rastdorf and the city Werlte (integrated community Werlte), in the south the community Sögel and in the west the community Werpeloh .

history

The community Spahnharrenstätte emerged from the places Spahn and Harrenstätte mentioned in the first millennium. Many prehistoric finds and remains of megalithic systems ( Poldenhünensteine ) or burial grounds ( Männige Berge ) are evidence of the prehistory and early history in the area of ​​the two Hümmling communities. The common church building in 1866 on today's "Neustadt" formed the starting point for the amalgamation of the two communities, sealed in 1966.

Shortly afterwards, a joint school was built in Spahnharrenstätte, in which the children in grades 1 to 4 are still taught today. A sports facility and a gym add to the leisure facilities.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council has 11 elected members. Since the local elections on September 11, 2016, two parties or voter communities have belonged to it:

• CDU - 6 seats
• UWG (Independent Voting Association) - 5 seats

The next local elections will take place in 2021.

badges and flags

The coat of arms designed by the heraldist Ulf-Dietrich Korn and the flag of the municipality were approved by the Emsland district in 1984.

Blazon : “Divided by blue over gold, covered with two ears of wheat in confused colors with outwardly curved stalks, each with an outer curved leaf, in the upper part of the shield in front a silver plague cross , behind a floating silver stone grave over a silver boulder, in the raised one The base of the shield is a left-slanting blue oak leaf with an acorn. "

Reason: The two ears of corn express the rural character of Spahnharrenstätte. At the same time, the two grain stalks converging on each other symbolize the growing together of the two former farming settlements of Spahn and Harrenstätte. The oak leaf indicates the brinke lined with oaks, which have always been formative elements of the localities of Spahn and Harrenstätte. The plague cross is a memorial to a difficult time in the 17th century, when the population was struck by the plague and suffered badly. The stone grave shows the presence of prehistoric burial fields on Spahnharrenstätter soil and indicates the early settlement of the area in prehistoric times.

The flag is divided horizontally in a ratio of 1: 3: 1 blue-yellow-blue and topped with the coat of arms in the middle.

Economy and Infrastructure

Although many citizens are employed in the commercial and industrial sector, the townscape is predominantly characterized by traditional agriculture. The community will also endeavor to maintain this village structure in the future. This takes place primarily in the form of the restriction of building rights. So you have to have lived in Spahnharrenstätte for seven years before a house can be built. There are large areas of forest and moorland in and around Spahnharrenstätte for guests to relax.

literature

• Hermann Abels - The place names of the Emsland, in their linguistic and cultural-historical significance , Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 1929.
• Irmgard Düing, Marianne Hörbelt and Hermann Schrand: Spahnharrenstätte , Vol. 1: The settlement and economic development of a Hümmling village . Spahnharrenstätte community, Spahnharrenstätte 1982.
• Widar Lehnemann, Hans Roosmann: Spahnharrenstätte , Vol. 2: A community in transition . Spahnharrenstätte municipality, Spahnharrenstätte 2003, ISBN 3-00-012381-4 .

Web links

Commons : Spahnharrenstätte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Spahnharrenstätte (on the website of the Sögel 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. ↑ Timpker new mayor in Spahnharrenstätte on noz.de
3. ^ Wilhelm Scheperjans : The strange founding history of the church at Spahn-Harrenstätte . In: Emsland-Jahrbuch , vol. 2 (1965), pp. 75–81.
4. ↑ Local politics in Spahnharrenstätte. Samtgemeinde Sögel, archived from the original on May 31, 2008 ; Retrieved July 30, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Coat of arms of the community Spahnharrenstätte. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 1, 2016 ; Retrieved December 3, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.