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	Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′  N , 10 ° 47 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Uelzen
Joint municipality :	Roshe
Height :	74 m above sea level NHN
Area :	37.99 km 2
Residents:	579 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	15 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	29597
Area code :	05872
License plate :	UE
Community key :	03 3 60 022
Community structure:	9 districts
Association administration address:	Luechower Str. 15 29571 Rosche
Mayor :	Jürgen Klinge ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Stoetze in the district of Uelzen

Stoetze is a municipality in the middle of the Lüneburg Heath in the district of Uelzen , Lower Saxony . The community of Stoetze belongs to the joint community of Rosche .

geography

location

The village of Stoetze is located on the eastern edge of the Lüneburg Heath, about 25 km northeast of Uelzen on the edge of the Göhrde and the Drawehn terminal moraine ridge .

Districts

The municipality of Stoetze consists of the localities Hof Rohrstorf , Bankewitz , Boecke (until September 10, 1936 Boicke ), Groß Malchau , Stoetze (until September 10, 1936 Stoitze ), Nievelitz and Hohenzethen as well as the small towns Schlankau (near Boecke), Zieritz and Törwe .

history

Stoetze was first mentioned in a document under the name Stotensen in 1335. The place name comes from Polabian and means something like "place at the dam", ie forest .

middle Ages

In the Middle Ages , the following families of the Lüneburg landed gentry had estates in the area: The von Bodendike, the Grote-Schwerin who sold the village to Heinrich von Hodenberg in 1359 . In the interest register of the Bodenteich Castle in Bodenteich from 1482/83, the names Schulte, Busse and Titke are mentioned as lease payers to Vogt Heinrich von Estorff . The office register of the house Bodenteich from 1569 lists the following four inhabitants: Schultze, Onsorge, Hans Retke and Hans Stern.

17th century

The place was not spared even in the Thirty Years' War . As a result of the Danish intervention in the conflict, Lower Saxony became the scene of the war from 1625 to 1629. Although the Principality of Lüneburg had declared itself neutral, the territory was not spared. After the defeat of the Danish King Christian IV at Lutter am Barenberge on August 27, 1626 , his troops withdrew to the north. In the process, retreating Danish troops stole 6 oxen and 3 horses from the residents of Stoetze.

In autumn 1628 the ducal chamber in Celle requested a list of full, half and emergency farms from all localities in order to determine who was still able to pay taxes. In Stoetze, the three full farms Schultze, Dietrich Niebauer and Lütke were able to do this, while one farm was so affected that it was impoverished (Hans Sternbergk), while the cowherd's accommodation was devastated.

In March 1637 Stoetze was attacked by imperial troops, looted and the cattle stolen. A particularly affected resident, Heinrich Dittmer, turned to Duke Friedrich in February of the next year with the request to collect alms in Celle to rebuild his house.

18th century

In the 18th century, the cattle were driven from Stoetze to fattening in the nearby Göhrde. The cable (section) "Voss-Berg" was the grazing area chosen for the Stoetzer cattle.

The village school in the village is mentioned for the first time in a report by the pastor in Himbergen for the superintendent in Ebstorf on the schools of the parish of Himbergen on February 5, 1713. In 1754 a Johann Gottfried Heuer, who previously held the school post in Emmendorf, was a schoolmaster in Stoetze. He was followed in 1774 by Hinrich Peter Dreyer, in 1784 by Carsten Christoph Wenter and in 1786 by Jürgen Friderich Liermann.

19th century

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Electorate of Hanover , to which Stoetze belonged, was occupied by French troops. After the creation of the Napoleonic satellite state Kingdom of Westphalia, the place belonged to the department of Aller. During the ensuing Wars of Liberation against Napoléon Bonaparte , Stoetze was not spared by the wandering troops either. Almost 200 years after the atrocities of the Thirty Years' War, looting took place again in 1813, this time by Russian troops, who apparently could use almost anything in Stoetze: such a hay ripe , a goose, a hand saw and a tablecloth.

Due to the proximity to the formerly royal, and after 1871 also imperial hunting ground in Göhrde, the Stoetz youth also sang patriotic songs to German Emperor Wilhelm I for breakfast during an imperial hunt in 1871 .

In 1888 a post office was set up in Stoetze.

20th century

Stoetze station 2007

The planning for the connection of the place to the railway network began in 1910. Their alignment , which ran parallel to what was then Reichsstrasse 191 , was preceded by a long battle that was basically wrongly decided.

The railway not only crosses the poorly populated area of ​​Göhrde, but at the same time taps into the Bevens hinterland in the area of Himbergen and Stoetze for Uelzen's benefit : it is not used in the Dannenberg district and disrupts the internal structure of the Uelzen district.

The course of the railway line shows how the local centers Rosche and Suhlendorf, which are so important for the eastern half of the district, went completely unnoticed and how with the stations Molzen , Oetzen , Weste and Stoetze the zone between the local centers Rosche and Suhlendorf on the one hand and Himbergen and Altenmedingen on the other hand was favored.

The construction of the Uelzen – Dannenberg railway line, which took place despite these concerns, began in 1913 and was interrupted by the First World War. Construction was only continued in the better economic times of the Weimar Republic and, after its inauguration on October 15, 1924, led to the creation of a separate district around the train station and thus to a considerable increase in the number of residents.

The supply situation for the residents was also significantly improved with the establishment of a dairy cooperative in 1925 and the Saatbau buying and selling cooperative Stoetze in 1929.

Within the framework of the National Socialist blood-and-soil ideology , on the one hand peasant agriculture should be made more responsible as a food producer for the “ national community ” and, on the other hand, agriculture should be monitored more closely , both in ideological and productive terms.

This was realized by the Reichserbhofgesetz of September 29, 1933. It included that farms with an area of ​​at least 7.5 hectares were registered in the hereditary role of the district court district responsible for them regardless of the consent of the farm owner. Without the consent of the Inheritance Court, a kind of peasant professional court with a professional judge and two court owners as lay judges at the seat of the competent local court, the registered court, or even parts of it, could not be sold or leased, nor encumbered with loans.

All four existing farms in the village, the number of areas of which exceeded the limit mentioned in the above-mentioned law, were registered on July 26, 1934 in the hereditary farm role for the district court district of Medingen. And so three cases are documented in the files on the hereditary role in which the handover of the farm to the respective farm heir or heiress was approved by the competent court of inheritance in Medingen without objection.

During the Second World War , Polish prisoners of war from the prisoner-of-war camp (Stalag) Fallingbostel were used in agriculture .

The end of the war came by the British troops in the second half of April 1945. On April 20, on the then Reichsstrasse 191 in front of the village of Hohenzethen , 3 km east of Stoetze , resistance was met against the 17th Brigade of the 5th British Infantry Division advancing towards the Elbe done. In Stoetze itself, a few German soldiers fought against British troops that day on the Putbarg, which nine Germans buried in the cemetery near Stoetze had to pay with their lives.

Even if the village was spared immediate war damage, the effects of the war made itself felt. Refugees and evacuees from East and West Prussia, Pomerania and Posen were already admitted in the last months of 1944. But only after the end of the fighting, especially in the summer of 1945, the number of refugees increased and as a result the population of the place doubled . The district of Uelzen, and thus also the municipality of Stoetze, was one of the areas in Lower Saxony that received the most refugees and displaced persons. This can be clearly seen in the comparison of the population figures before and after the war. In 1939 there were 122 inhabitants in the village, while in 1946 there were 260, of which only 98 were long-term residents. The refugees were distributed over the course of the next few years, as, for example, more workers were needed again in the Ruhr area. In 1949, 180 of the 284 inhabitants of Stoetzes were so-called new citizens, i.e. refugees or displaced persons .

At the end of the 20th century, Stoetze was excited by the Castor transports to Gorleben . In 1985, 1996 and 1997 there were demonstrations by opponents of nuclear power in the Stoetze area, as the railway line was being considered as a potential transport route for the nuclear waste containers from Uelzen to Dannenberg until it was finally closed. There were no violent incidents during these demonstrations in Stoetze.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the communities Bankewitz, Boecke, Groß Malchau and Hohenzethen were incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the community of Stoetze consists of nine councilors.

	CDU	SPD	Green	total
2011	5 (51.7%)	2 (19.6%)	2 (28.7%)	9 seats

Local election on September 11, 2011

• The 2016 local elections resulted in this distribution of seats:
• CDU / SPD group: 7 seats
• Alliance 90 / The Greens: 2 seats

Mayor / Administration

Jürgen Klinge (CDU) was elected honorary mayor of the community in November 2016. His predecessor Heinz Schulze (CDU) held the office for 13 years. The council has appointed the general representative of the mayor of the municipality, Rolf Musik, as the municipality director.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a red, curved tip in gold with five golden ears growing out of the base of the shield, on the left a black mill iron, on the right a black deer antler pole pointing to the right with six ends.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Stoetze

traffic

Oetzen is located on the now closed Uelzen – Dannenberg railway .

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann : The farmer sticks to the traditional. Rural behavior under National Socialism in what is now Lower Saxony . In: Publication of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , XXXXIX Lower Saxony 1933–1945. Volume 4 . Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hannover 1993, ISBN 3-7752-5877-9 .
• History of Lower Saxony: politics, economy and society from the Reformation to the beginning of the 19th century . In: Christine van den Heuvel, Manfred von Boetticher (ed.): Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen XXXVI History of Lower Saxony. Volume 3.1 . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1998, ISBN 3-7752-5901-5 .
• District teachers' association Uelzen e. V. (Ed.): City and district of Uelzen. A home book . Self-published by the Uelzen district teachers' association, Uelzen 1950.
• Gustav Mathias: Linguistic-factual field name interpretation based on folklore, exemplified by the field names of the Uelzen district . August Lax, Hildesheim and Leipzig 1936.
• Karl Meyer-Jelmstorf: Home book of the city and the district of Uelzen. Second volume: Local history of the Uelzen district . C. Beckers Buchdruckerei, Uelzen 1931.
• Ulrich Saft: War at home. The bitter end between Weser and Elbe . 4th edition. Verlag-Saft, Langenhagen 1992, ISBN 3-9801789-3-5 .
• Thomas Vogtherr: Economic and social change in the Lüneburg nobility during the late Middle Ages . August Lax, Hildesheim 1983, ISBN 3-7848-2525-7 .

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. ↑ ^{a b} Statistics of the German Reich, Volume 450: Official municipality directory for the German Reich, Part I, Berlin 1939; Page 265
3. ^ 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. 237 .
4. ^ Result of local elections 2011
5. ↑ http://www.samtgemeinde-rosche.de/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-4529/10007_read-42988/
6. ↑ https://www.az-online.de/uelzen/rosche/juergen-klinge-buergermeister-6975088.html

Web links

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