State Forests
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State Forests
City of Cloppenburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 53 ′ 39 ″ N , 8 ° 2 ′ 16 ″ E
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Location of state forests in Lower Saxony |
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Staatsforsten is a district of the city of Cloppenburg in the district of the same name in Lower Saxony .
geography
The district of Staatsforsten is the northern tip of the city of Cloppenburg and protrudes into the municipality of Garrel as a rectangle 1.75 km wide and 3.5 km long . The name Staatsforsten derives from the nearby forest, a state forest , the name of which was transferred to the entire district.
history
The whole area was heather and moorland. With the construction of the Cloppenburg – Ocholt railway line in 1905/06, which was inaugurated on October 1, 1906, a fundamental change in the heathland took place. The station was located in the state forest area, but was given the name Varrelbusch station because it was located in a completely unpopulated area and connected the village of Varrelbusch (now part of the municipality of Garrel ) to the railway network, two kilometers to the west . The station was closed in 1958, passenger traffic ceased in 1967, and the railway building demolished at the end of 1967. Today the Friesoythe-Cloppenburg eV museum railway operates on the route
Settlement of state forests began in 1909, when the farmer H. Wilken cultivated an area of 28 hectares. In 1939, Staatsforsten counted 23 households that lived from agriculture or had a secondary farm job. In 1988 there were about 130 households in state forests.
In 1939 the Varrelbusch airfield , which despite its name is located in the state forest area, was built as a field airfield. It was set up as a deployment port in 1942 , demilitarized after the Second World War and then used by the Bundeswehr as a training area. Today the air sports club Cloppenburg operates the Varrelbusch airfield. The street leading to the airfield is named Werner-Baumbach-Straße after the successful fighter pilot Werner Baumbach (1916–1953), who was born in Cloppenburg .
In 1950, as a result of the influx of expellees and refugees, Staatsforsten got its own school, called the Katholische Volksschule Cloppenburg-Staatsforsten . Initially, the former casino barracks at the train station were used, and in 1957 a new building was opened. After the 5th to 8th grade classes were moved in 1968, only the lower grades in state forests remained. In 1970 the schools of Staatsforsten and the neighboring district of Kellerhöhe were merged, in 1978 the school building in Staatsforsten was given up. Today it is used as a village community center by the state forest community center.
In 1986 the first Staatsforsten Open Air "UMSONST & DRAUSSEN" took place in Staatsforsten with 150 visitors . The organizers of this open-air festival were young people from the Cloppenburg area who wanted to offer inexpensive rock music events. In September 1995, the organizers founded the associated Open-Air Initiative eV association because the festival has now attracted several thousand visitors. However, the Staatsforsten Open-Air only took place in Staatsforsten for the first three years, then changed location several times within the Oldenburger Münsterland and has been taking place in Büschel (municipality of Bakum in the district of Vechta ) since 2002 .
literature
- Karl Kemper: The development of the district state forests. A railway line changes a centuries-old landscape . In: City of Cloppenburg (ed.): Contributions to the history of the city of Cloppenburg. Vol. 2: Cloppenburg after 1900 - a city in transition . Cloppenburg 1988, pp. 382-389.
