Uchte

This article describes the community of Uchte in Lower Saxony; for other meanings see Uchte (disambiguation)

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '  N , 8 ° 55'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Nienburg / Weser
Joint municipality :	Uchte
Height :	37 m above sea level NHN
Area :	90.68 km 2
Residents:	4999 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	55 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	31600
Area code :	05763
License plate :	NI
Community key :	03 2 56 033
Association administration address:	Balkenkamp 1 31600 Uchte
Website :	www.uchte-online.de
Mayor :	Jürgen Sievers ( SPD )
Location of the community Uchte in the district of Nienburg / Weser

Uchte is a patch in the joint community of Uchte in the Nienburg / Weser district in Lower Saxony and the administrative seat of the joint community of Uchte.

geography

Geographical location

The place is located between the Dümmer Nature Park and the Steinhuder Meer Nature Park on the Great Moor, roughly in the middle between Sulingen and Minden on the border with North Rhine-Westphalia . The municipality is the administrative seat of the joint municipality Uchte with the spots Diepenau and Uchte and the municipalities Raddestorf and Warmsen .

Community structure

The districts of Hoysinghausen , Darlaten, Höfen, Lohhof and Woltringhausen belong to Flecken Uchte .

history

Uchte was first mentioned in a document in 1196 in the Hoya document book. In 1295 the Counts of Hoya built a castle in the village as a border castle against the diocese of Minden . In 1382 the Minden bishop conquered Uchte together with Count Otten von Schaumburg and destroyed the castle. Outside the village they built a new castle. Around 1400 Uchte fell back to the Counts of Hoya by conquest, who built another castle. The disputes lasted until the end of the 16th century. In 1521 the Uchte, which at that time comprised around 50 households, fell to the Landgraviate of Hesse .

In a major fire in 1726, 119 houses and the church were destroyed. 1806 Uchte was French and assigned as Canton Uchte to the department of Oberems with its seat in Osnabrück. After the French occupation, the Congress of Vienna decided in 1814 to annex the Amt Uchte to the Kingdom of Hanover . In another major fire in 1817, 58 houses burned down.

In 1898 the Steinhuder Meer Railway and the Minden - Uchte railway line went into operation. From 1932 Uchte belongs to the district of Nienburg.

For centuries, peat was cut by hand in the large moor west of the village , which the population used as fuel. Industrial peat mining began in the 1920s, leading to the establishment of three peat mining companies. Today (2011) only one company is active in the moor, which has been a nature reserve since 2007.

From 2005 the place became known nationwide through the girl from the Uchter Moor , who was called Moora in retrospect . It is a well-preserved, about 2,650 years old bog body , whose remains were found in 2000 and 2005 when peat in Großenmoor.

In Uchte, ExxonMobil produces natural gas (so-called sour gas). A slight earthquake with a magnitude of 3.0 on August 16, 2018 with the center in neighboring Stolzenau is possibly related to the production .

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the communities Darlaten, Höfen, Hoysinghausen, Lohhof and Woltringhausen were incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

The Council of Fleckens Uchte consists of 15 people. This is the specified number for the member municipality of a joint municipality with a population between 3001 and 5000. The council members are elected by local elections for five years each. 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	47.66%	7th
CDU	41.51%	6th
Green	6.24%	1
FDP	4.57%	1

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 56.09%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

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

Town twinning

Uchte has twinned cities with the French Sourdeval / Normandy (since 1992) and the Polish Ząbkowice Śląskie / Silesia (formerly Frankenstein, since 2005).

traffic

Uchte station is only served by the museum railway.

The municipality is located on the federal highway 61 (leads from the Bremen area into the Ruhr area ) and the B 441 , which begins in Uchte and ends in Hanover .

In the summer months, a museum train runs as scheduled on the section to Rahden of the former Rahden – Nienburg railway line .

literature

• Peat stories from the Uchter Moor. Verses for reading and reading aloud by Hedi Knoop 1990, ISBN 3-9800798-1-3

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. ↑ Light earthquake in Lower Saxony registered on t-online.de, August 18, 2018
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. 199 .
4. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on March 22, 2017
5. ↑ ^{a b} Flecken Uchte - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on March 22, 2017
6. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved March 22, 2017 . 
7. ^ Rat Flecken Uchte , accessed on March 22, 2017

Web links

Commons : Uchte  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the joint community