Varrel (Stuhr)

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Varrel
Stuhr parish
Coordinates: 53 ° 1 ′ 56 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 57 ″  E
Height : 5 m above sea level NN
Residents : 4561  (Aug 1, 2005)
Postal code : 28816
Area code : 04221
Varrel (Lower Saxony)
Varrel

Location of Varrel in Lower Saxony

Varrel is a district of the municipality of Stuhr ( Diepholz district , Lower Saxony ). Since the early 1970s, Varrel has become a popular place to live with good public transport connections to Bremen and Delmenhorst . To this day, small settlements, mainly with terraced, double and single-family houses, are being developed.

Location and neighboring places

The local area of ​​Varrel borders on the cities of Bremen and Delmenhorst. The border to Bremen is marked by the Varreler Bäke brook .

history

The oldest known document that refers to the district of Varrel dates back to 1289 . From this document of October 27, 1289 it emerges that Archbishop Giselbert von Bremen allows the Heiligenrode monastery to create new breaks in the "... wüsten Oertern Stelle and Verlebrinc (Varrel)".

Culture and sights

The Varrel estate

Gut Varrel, a complex of manor house with barn , bakery and water mill, is closely linked to the history of the place . This was left to decay and has been restored by hand since July 9, 1980 by a citizens' initiative , the Förderverein Gut Varrel eV, and converted into a cultural meeting place. In the center is the manor house, one of the oldest surviving buildings in Varrel. It was probably built around 1800, but the exact year of construction is unknown. Not all buildings were originally at this point, some were moved here: The half-timbered barn comes from Bookholzberg, the bakery from Stiftehöfte near Harpstedt.

  • Manor house, built around 1800

  • Manor barn from 1903

  • Bakery from 1832

  • Syringe house from 1924

  • Mill building from 1904

Rauchhaus Varrel from approx. 1830

The smoke house

One of the oldest houses in Varrel is on Green Street. The building known as the smoke house has no chimney. The smoke moved from the originally open fireplace through the beams and the attic outside. It is a Heuerlingshaus that was used regularly until 1950 and was inhabited until the 1960s. The house is also looked after by the Gut Varrel Association

Infrastructure

schools

There is a primary school in Varrel where children from grades 1 to 4 are taught.

societies

In the immediate vicinity of Gut Varrel is the site of TuS Varrel, which has a partnership with AS Teloché from Teloché near Le Mans . The table tennis team of TuS Varrel also trains in the barn of the Varrel estate. Also in the immediate vicinity is the grounds of the tennis club Blau Weiß Varrel from 1974 eV with six clay courts with around 260 members.

literature

  • Jürgen Timm u. Uwe Weitemeier: The former Varrel monastery. A historical overview. (Ed .: Municipality of Stuhr), Stuhr 1988, 36 p. M. 47 fig.
  • Joachim Oltmann: Getting going again. The Stuhr community in the post-war period 1945-1950. Brinkum, Fahrenhorst, Groß Mackenstedt, Heiligenrode, Moordeich, Seckenhausen, Stuhr, Varrel. (Ed .: Municipality of Stuhr), Fischerhude 1990, 232 p. M. Fig .; ISBN 3-88132-168-3

Web links

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