Tarmstedt

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality :	Tarmstedt
Height :	22 m above sea level NHN
Area :	26.54 km 2
Residents:	3835 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	144 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27412
Area code :	04283
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 047
LOCODE :	DE TSD
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Hepstedter Strasse 9 ; 27412 Tarmstedt
Website :	www.tarmstedt.de
Mayor :	Wolf Vogel ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Tarmstedt in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme)

Tarmstedt ( Low German Tarms ) is a municipality and the administrative seat of the Tarmstedt municipality of the same name in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in Lower Saxony . The community is on the edge of the Teufelsmoors and the Zevener Geest north of the A1 .

history

The first settlements are believed to have started around 200 AD. 796 to Charlemagne be pulled through here and the battle against the Wigmodier on the Wüllenheide in Wilstedt took place. At the beginning of the 1970s, the Tarmstedt joint community was established with 13 communities at the time. The cooperative comprehensive school was inaugurated in 1975.

politics

advice

The council of the municipality of Tarmstedt consists of 14 council women and councilors. The stipulated number of council members for a member congregation of a joint congregation with a population between 3001 and 5000 inhabitants is normally 15 council members, but the Greens could not occupy a seat because they only had one candidate. 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	42.01%	6th
CDU	39.84%	6th
Green	9.44%	2 ¹
FDP	8.70%	1

¹ Only one seat could be occupied.

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 71.66%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The council elected council member Wolf Vogel (SPD) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality shows a silver ax pointing non-heraldically to the left on a green background. Below the ax are two gold rings, one on top of the other. The rings were found in the area around the town in the opencast mine and in the original they have a diameter of about 10 cm.

Buildings and sights

Tarmstedter Spieker from 1754 with a bakery; formerly a local history museum, today with a prehistoric stone collection
Tervensteder stone
Mayor stone of Tarmstedt from 2007
Barrow field in the Deependahl
Evangelical Lutheran Martin Luther Church
Evangelical Lutheran Salem Church

Culture

music

Chordia Tarmstedt (formerly Tarmstedt Youth Choir) Christian youth choir since 1993; gospel and other Christian literature are sung.

Sports

Sports facilities

3-field large sports hall of the integrated community
TuS Tarmstedt sports facility with four grass pitches, three of which are floodlit, and a clubhouse.
Riding arena
Tennis center

societies

Tarmstedt gymnastics and sports club from 1908 ( TuS Tarmstedt ) is the largest popular sports club with around 1200 members. It has thirteen departments (divisions).
- Annual football Whitsun tournament for E to C youth teams; every two years there is an Italian visiting team from Minervino di Lecce .
Riding club Tarmstedt
Shotokan Karate Dojo Tarmstedt
Association for the promotion of handball

Regular events

The four-day Tarmstedt exhibition has been held annually since 1949, an agricultural machinery and equipment exhibition with a large family and entertainment program, which regularly has around 100,000 visitors. The open-air concert Rock den Lukas has also been taking place since 2004, where bands such as Sub7even , Torfrock and Jennifer Rostock have performed.

traffic

The place is on the Landstrasse 133, which connects the place with Bremen and with Zeven .

Between 1900 and 1956, the Bremen – Tarmstedt small train operated between Tarmstedt and Bremen . The 27-kilometer route led from Tarmstedt through the Teufelsmoor via Worphausen and Lilienthal to Bremen. In addition, Tarmstedt was on the Wilstedt – Tostedt railway line .

Near Tarmstedt is the Tarmstedt-Westertimke glider airfield , where the SFG-Bremen glider pilots are based. There, glider and motor glider operations are mostly carried out on weekends.

education

Primary school Tarmstedt with around 270 pupils and a school kindergarten, Hauptstraße 6
Cooperative comprehensive school Tarmstedt from 1975 ( KGS Tarmstedt Europaschule ), Kleine Trift 13, with over 1100 students