Horstedt (Lower Saxony)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 11 '  N , 9 ° 14'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality :	Sottrum
Height :	31 m above sea level NHN
Area :	22.52 km 2
Residents:	1274 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	57 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27367
Area code :	04288
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 028
Community structure:	4 parts of the community
Association administration address:	Am Eichkamp 12 27367 Sottrum
Website :	www.sottrum.de
Mayor :	Michael Schröck ( SPD )
Location of the community Horstedt in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme)

Horstedt is a municipality in Lower Saxony in the Sottrum municipality in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district with 1,319 inhabitants.

Community structure

The districts of Clünder, Horstedt, Stapel and Winkeldorf belong to the community. The former communities of Stapel and Winkeldorf were incorporated on March 1, 1974.

Stapel was first mentioned in a document in 1230. To mark the 777th anniversary of the town in 2007, the book “Stapel - Streifzüge through the present and past of a Geestdorf” was published, which is also available on the Internet.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the Horstedt community consists of eleven council members and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 1001 and 2000 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
SPD	39.46%	4th
CDU	33.55%	4th
WFB	18.24%	2
Green	8.72%	1

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 71.42%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The municipal council elected the council member Michael Schröck (SPD) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

coat of arms

Blazon : In green a golden tip, inside a modern brick church in side view. On the right at the top of the ridge is a silver bell tower standing on four supports with a weathercock on top. To the left of the church is a red arched extension with a sloping roof on the right. A modern, multi-colored glass mosaic in the arch. In the front a golden pile of wood placed around a corner, held by two golden support posts. At the back a right-turning golden angle.

traffic

By the municipality which leads A1 .

Web links

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

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. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 245 .
3. ↑ Claudia Koppert: Stapel - Forays through the present and past of a Geestdorf (2007; PDF)
4. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on March 4, 2017.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Horstedt - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on March 4, 2017.
6. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016, accessed March 4, 2017 . 
7. ^ Municipality of Horstedt - mayor and council , accessed on March 4, 2017.