Swarms

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 54 '  N , 9 ° 1'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Diepholz
Joint municipality :	Bruchhausen-Vilsen
Height :	11 m above sea level NHN
Area :	24.31 km 2
Residents:	2553 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	105 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27327
Area code :	04258
License plate :	DH, SY
Community key :	03 2 51 033
Association administration address:	Lange Strasse 11 27305 Bruchhausen-Vilsen
Website :	www.schwarme.de
Mayor :	Johann-Dieter Oldenburg ( SPD )
Location of the community Schwarme in the district of Diepholz

Schwarme ( Low German Swarm ) is a member community of the combined community of Bruchhausen-Vilsen in the Lower Saxony district of Diepholz .

geography

Geographical location

The community Schwarme is located in the Mittelweser region approx. 30 km south of Bremen . Schwarme is part of the joint municipality of Bruchhausen-Vilsen, 16 km away from the small towns of Achim (Weser) , Hoya , Syke and Verden (Aller) .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Thedinghausen , Blender , Martfeld , Bruchhausen-Vilsen (Flecken) and Emtinghausen .

Districts

The rather sparsely populated districts of An der Heide ( northeast ), Groß Borstel ( southwest ), Heidmühle ( northeast ), Hörsten ( southwest ), In der Heide ( northeast ), In der Weide ( south ), Klein can be reached from the center (Schwarme) Mark the Schwarme ( north-east ), Spraken ( south ) and Vorwiese ( west ).

history

Schwarme was first mentioned in 1214 with the building of a chapel . The chapel from the 13th century was subordinate to the church of Lunsen . A noble estate (knight's seat or noble court) can be proven from 1250. The Eyterbruch , a primeval forest consisting of oaks and alders, was mentioned in a document in 1033 .

During the Thirty Years' War in 1632 swarms of imperial cavalry soldiers invaded. In 1675/79, when the Swedish troops were driven out by Munster soldiers, it was also pillaged and robbed. In 1681, Schwarme was part of the West-Thedinghausen Office in the Principality of Celle , and from 1692 the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd was completed in 1784, the tower in 1879. From 1832 to 1837, the break and heather commons, areas that were previously reserved for common use, were divided up. From 1882 to 1888, large-scale amelioration measures for drainage, fertilization of the fields and meadows and as a flood system were carried out in the wide rift areas .

In the 19th century, Schwarme belongs to the Landdrostei Hanover administrative district in the Kingdom of Hanover . From 1852 to 1859 Schwarme formed its own office with its own district court . In 1859 most of the dissolved office swarm was separated from the enlarged office Bruchhausen . From 1885 to 1932 Schwarme belonged to the district of Hoya , until 1977 to the district of Grafschaft Hoya and since then to the district of Diepholz .

In 1942 around 100 high-explosive bombs and 10,000 incendiary bombs fell on swarms, which luckily did not claim any human lives.

Schwarzenme developed after the Second World War from a purely agricultural community with crafts and retail to a housing estate.

Population development

Before the war the population was 1655 in 1925, which then fell to 1489 with the beginning of the Second World War in 1939. After the war, the population increased from 1700 to approx. 2400. It sank again in the mid-1950s to under 2000. The designation of new development areas increased the population to around 2500.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 13 council members.

• SPD : 6 seats
• Independent constituency UWG: 5 seats
• CDU : 2 seats

(Status: local election on September 11, 2016)

mayor

Johann-Dieter Oldenburg was elected honorary mayor of Schwarme in October 2011 as the successor of Hermann Schröder by the municipal council in the second ballot with a majority of 5 to 6 votes and one abstention . This was preceded by a scandal: the parliamentary groups UWG and SPD had agreed on a common voting behavior in the previous legislative period and jointly elected Schröder as a candidate for the UWG. Therefore, the announcement by the SPD that it would put up its own candidate in Oldenburg and that of the CDU to support it came as a surprise. This result was also unusual because Schröder received more than twice as many votes as Oldenburg (246 votes) with 505 votes and the UWG was the strongest parliamentary group with 5 members (SPD: 4) Hermann Schröder had also been mayor from 2001 to 2011 had earned great recognition. Since the CDU announced again in the local elections in 2016 that it would support Oldenburg, his re-election was considered certain. In his first term in office he managed to distinguish himself and he received by far the most individual votes (831). His SPD parliamentary group won two more seats and with 6 seats is the largest parliamentary group in the new municipal council.

coat of arms

Blazon : "on the right black flank with a golden shield base a golden church tower, behind in gold over a black shield base two upright, averted, red reinforced black bear paws, connected below with black breast fur, raised by crossed black gable boards, which end in outwardly turned horse heads".

Community partnerships

Schwarme has had a long-standing relationship with the French partner municipality of Ancinnes .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Church of the Good Shepherd

• The Church of the Good Shepherd is a baroque hall church that was built as a brick building with sandstone sections and a mansard roof according to plans by GH Brückmann from 1778 to 1784. The upper floor of the tower dates from 1879. Inside it is spanned by a wooden barrel vault . There are galleries on three sides of the room . The stately pulpit altar dates from 1788. The parish seats from 1783 were supplemented by Priechen (seats for higher classes).
• A Low German play takes place every year at the Robberts Huus cultural center in Schwarm , which is presented by the Uhlenspeelers theater group .
• The Sprakener windmill in the Spraken district was built in 1856. In the three-storey gallery Dutch windmill , grinding was carried out until 1948, after which there was a switch to motor power, which means that the mill was used commercially until 1960. The grinder (ndl. Bovenkruier, top turner) of the mill is the only one in the municipality. The external restoration lasted from 1991 to 1994.

Regular events

• On the weekend of Pentecost there is a rifle festival on the fairground in the forest in Krähenkamp .
• On the first Sunday of September, the grass track motorcycle race of the Motorsport Club (MSC) takes place on the Niedersachsenring .
• The harvest festival organized by the warrior and soldier comradeship is celebrated on the second weekend in September. The highlight is the pageant on Sunday, which leads many colorfully decorated floats through the village. Afterwards, the Krähenkamp serves as a fairground .

Infrastructure

traffic

There are connections to the federal highway Bundesautobahn 1 20 km away and to the federal highway 27 17 km away.

Schwarme belongs to the Bremen / Lower Saxony transport association . Local public transport is rather poorly developed with connections to Bruchhausen-Vilsen and Syke. Bremen can only be reached via the Syke train station.

Public facilities

• Administration in the town hall of the municipality of Bruchhausen-Vilsen
• Elementary school, Verdener Str. 7
• Kindergarten from 1992 with a forest group , Mühlenweg 15
• Army volunteer fire brigade from 1926, Mühlenweg
• Community library, Verdener Straße 7
• Swim pool

societies

• Association of the primary school Schwarme
• Friends of the outdoor swimming pool
• Poultry breeding association Schwarme and the surrounding area from 1952
• Trade association from Schwarme (GAS)
• Local, environmental and cultural association owl; Robberts Huus cultural center, Hoyaer Straße 2
• Warrior and Soldier Fellowship Swarms from 1871
• Riding club Martfeld - Schwarme
• Riding and racing club Schwarme 1897, riding arena In der Heide 9
• Schützenverein Schwarme, Verdener Straße 26
• Social Association Germany (SoVD) local association Schwarme
• Motorsportclub Schwarme in the ADAC
• Gymnastics and Sports Club (TSV) Schwarme from 1907, Kirchstrasse 51

Sons and daughters of the church

• Christoph Andreä Roselius , Pietist , author and pastor of the 17th century from Regensburg .
• Fritz Schmedes (1894–1952), was a German officer in World War II , most recently an SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Waffen SS and Police.
• Herbert Brückner (* 1938), former Bremen Senator

literature

• Erich Hillmann-Apmann: Schwarme. A village under National Socialism. Ed .: Heimat-, Umwelt- und Kulturverein "Eule" , Schwarme 2002.
• Erich Hillmann-Apmann: Schwarme. Chronicle of the old houses and farms. Ed .: Heimat-, Umwelt- und Kulturverein "Eule" , Schwarme 1997.
• Erich Hillmann-Apmann, Ulrich Dunker & Siegfried Haubner: Schwarmer Dorfchronik, Schwarme 2014.

Web links

Commons : swarms  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• www.schwarme.de
• www.robberts-huus.de
• Historical postcards from Schwarme

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. ↑ "Map of Schwarme"
3. ↑ About us - Evangelical Lutheran Church Congregation "To the Good Shepherd" - We are Evangelical. In: We are Protestant. Retrieved November 29, 2016 . 
4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. County of Grafschaft Hoya. (Item 91; online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
5. ↑ Minutes of the meeting of the Schwarme council on November 14, 2011, available in the council information system of the Bruchhausen-Vilsen community
6. ↑ Result of the local election Schwarme 2011 on the website of the joint municipality Bruchhausen-Vilsen
7. ↑ Result of municipal elections 2016 on the website of the joint municipality of Bruchhausen-Vilsen
8. ↑ Article Syker-Kurier Online: "Swarms in 23 Chapters"