Steinau (Lower Saxony)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′  N , 8 ° 52 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Cuxhaven
Joint municipality :	Land Hadeln
Height :	1 m above sea level NHN
Area :	36.07 km 2
Residents:	825 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	23 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	21775
Area code :	04756
License plate :	CUX
Community key :	03 3 52 051
Address of the municipal administration:	Marktstrasse 21, 21762 Otterndorf
Website :	Joint municipality of Land Hadeln - municipality of Steinau
Mayor :	Hans-Jürgen Mangels ( CDU )
Location of the community Steinau in the district of Cuxhaven

Steinau ( Low German Steenau ) is a municipality in Lower Saxony in the district of Cuxhaven in the combined municipality of Land Hadeln and has around 900 inhabitants.

geography

Affected area in the event of a "small" storm surge of only 4.50 m when a dike breached at Glameyer-Stack, Otterndorf

Geographical location

The municipality extends to 36.07 km² and consists of typical row villages , in which the farms were laid out along the most important drainage channels (known locally as Wetter ).

Steinau is in the Niederelbe region . The proximity to the Elbe estuary and the North Sea entail the risk that, in the event of a dike breach during a storm surge , large parts of the municipality area, which is a maximum of 1 m above sea level, but sometimes also below sea level, would be flooded. A scenario for this is described in the article Glameyer Stack .

Community structure

Steinau has nine villages:

Altbrachenbruch , Glind , Höring , Lauentheil (after the noble Laue family who owned land here in the Middle Ages), Mühedeich , Norderende , Norderwesterseite , Süderende and Südwesterseite

history

The church, the museum of the clog makers and the big clog by night

Steinau was first mentioned in a document in 1370. In 1533, Duke Magnus von Sachsen-Lauenburg issued an ordinance on the installation of a weather system from the south of Steinau to Ihlienworth . This was intended to somewhat alleviate the constant risk of flooding in Sietland. In 1570 Duke Franz I deepened and widened the weather . In the period after 1650, in addition to agriculture, the economic importance of peat cutting on the eastern edge of the Ahlenmoors increased. The dried peat was mostly shipped via the floodplain and Medem to Otterndorf , via smaller canals to Bederkesa .

Population development

year	1987	1992	1997	2002	2007	2008	2009	2010	2015
Residents	997	997	975	958	942	935	892	892	845

(as of December 31st)

politics

Municipal council

The council of the Steinau community consists of nine councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 501 and 1,000 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	68.39%	6th
SPD	31.60%	3

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 70.55%, well above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The municipal council elected councilor Hans-Jürgen Mangels (CDU) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “ Divided by silver and red by four descending points diagonally to the right ; Top left covered with a green lily pad . "
	Justification of the coat of arms: The red field with the silver tips corresponds to the coat of arms of the noble family of the Laue , who were still wealthy in Steinau in the 14th century, and whose name lives on in the Lausteil district . The lily pad indicates the abundance of water in the community.

Culture and festivals

The list of monuments in Steinau includes the monuments entered in the monuments list of the district of Cuxhaven.

The village is known nationwide for its annual Whitsun festival , the Steinauer early dance . Also worth seeing are boulders that were deposited there during the last ice age . A hiking trail leads the visitor to the most bizarre stone formations.

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  The church in Steinau

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  The wooden shoe in front of the wooden shoemaker's house

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  The "Vorfluter Steinau" pumping station

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Georg Rieper (1909–1982), German entrepreneur and inventor
• Gustav Stille (1845–1920), German physician and writer

Myths and legends

• The Steinau church building
• Möllersch Karstens
• The witch mill in Steinau
• The legends from Land Hadeln are presented on a cycle path at 32 stations .

Web links

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

• Internet presence of the Steinau community

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. ↑ steinau-niedersachsen.de : Description of the place and location , accessed on June 7, 2014.
3. ↑ LSKN-Online
4. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of Members , accessed on February 12, 2017.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Steinau - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on February 12, 2017.
6. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved February 12, 2017 . 
7. ^ Steinau parish: parish council , accessed on February 12, 2017.
8. ^ Rudolf Lembcke: Land Hadeln district. Past and present . Ed .: District of Hadeln. Buchdruckerei Günter Hottendorff, Otterndorf 1976, p. 61 (coat of arms).
9. ↑ Eberhard Michael Iba (Ed.): Hake Betken siene Duven. The saga of the Elbe and Weser estuaries (=  special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund at the Elbe and Weser estuaries . Volume 16 ). 3. Edition. Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1999, ISBN 3-931771-16-4 .