Voltage

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Voltlage
Voltage
Map of Germany, position of the municipality of Voltlage highlighted

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '  N , 7 ° 45'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Osnabrück
Joint municipality : Neuenkirchen
Height : 48 m above sea level NHN
Area : 42.35 km 2
Residents: 1750 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 41 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 49599
Area code : 05467
License plate : OS , BSB, MEL, WTL
Community key : 03 4 59 032
LOCODE : DE VTA
Community structure: 3 parts of the community
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Overbergstrasse 4
49599 Voltlage
Website : www.voltlage.de
Mayor : Norbert Trame (CDU)
Location of the municipality of Voltlage in the district of Osnabrück
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Voltlage is a municipality within the combined community of Neuenkirchen in the west of the Osnabrück district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Voltlage lies in the western Bramgau at the transition to the Tecklenburger Land .

Neighboring communities

Voltlage borders in the north on Fürstenau , in the northeast on Merzen , in the east on Neuenkirchen and in the south on Recke and in the west on Hopsten (both district of Steinfurt , North Rhine-Westphalia ).

Community structure

Districts of Voltlage

The parish parts are

  • Hump
  • Voltlage - seat of the municipal administration
  • Weese

history

religion

The Catholic parish church of St. Katharina shapes the image of the town center.

Voltlage is mostly Roman Catholic . The high altar and the side altars of the Catholic parish church of St. Katharina , consecrated in 1766, were made by the sculptor Johann Heinrich König (1705–1784) from Münster (Westphalia).

End of the war in volt situation

April 9, 1945: British tanks cross Voltlage

After the British armed forces crossed the Rhine with Operation Plunder on March 23, 1945 and advanced through the Münster and Tecklenburger Land within a few days, Voltlage also got into the combat zone of the front. When the 156th Brigade of the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division captured the neighboring village of Halverde on April 7 without a fight, the war turned to Voltlage and Weese the following day. The fighting on Sunday, April 8th for Voltlage went down in the history of the village as the "bloody White Sunday ".

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the communities Höckel and Weese were incorporated.

Population development

Population development in Voltlage since 1987

The following overview shows the population of Voltlage in the respective territories and on December 31st.

The figures are updates by the State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony based on the census of May 25, 1987 .

The data from 1961 (June 6) and 1970 (May 27) are the census results including the places that were incorporated on July 1, 1972.

year Residents
1961 1704
1970 1648
1987 1587
1990 1645
1995 1739
2000 1769
2005 1825
2010 1782
2011 1754
2015 1743
2017 1717
2018 1732

politics

Municipal council

The council has since the local elections in 2016 ten members of two parties or groups. The mayor is also the chairman of the council with voting rights.

The following table shows the local election results since 1996.

Voltlage community council: election results and community councils
CDU GREEN total electoral
participation
Electoral term % Mandates % Mandates % Total number of seats on the Council %
1996-2001 94.7 11 5.3 0 100 11 77.1
2001-2006 88.5 10 11.5 1 100 11 71.4
2006-2011 90.6 10 9.4 1 100 11 63.7
2011-2016 87.1 10 12.9 1 100 11 65.52
2016-2021 92.2 10 7.8 1 100 11 67.27
Percentages rounded.
Sources: State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony, District Osnabrück, neuenkirchen-os.de .
In the case of different information in the sources mentioned, the data from the State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology were used,
as they are generally more plausible.

mayor

The farmer Norbert Trame has been the mayor since November 2016. His predecessor was Bernhard Egbert (CDU), who held the office for 15 years.

  • since 2016 Norbert Trame (CDU)
  • 2001–2016 Bernhard Egbert (CDU)
  • 1981–2001 August Mönter (CDU)

coat of arms

The coat of arms consists of three ears of wheat, which symbolize the districts of Voltlage, Weese and Höckel and a broken wagon wheel, which stands for the namesake Katharina von Alexandrien of the Voltlager Church.

Culture and sights

Museums

The local museum in Höckel

There is a local museum in Höckel.

Buildings

The foundation stone for the Catholic Church of St. Katharina in the center of Voltlage was laid in 1752. A good three years passed before it was inaugurated. Externally, the church makes a very simple impression, but inside there is one of the most splendid Baroque altars in the area. There is also a very rare Klausing organ in the Katharinenkirche, which, however, urgently needs renovation.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

There are some bus connections from the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Osnabrück from Voltlage to Neuenkirchen, Merzen, Fürstenau, Recke and an hourly connection to Osnabrück.

education

  • Katharina day care center, headed by Paula Neumann
  • Kindergarten St.Katharina, head: Paula Neumann
  • Overberg elementary school, headmistress: Annette Krone

Personalities

Detail of the Overberg statue in the town center

Honorary citizen

  • August Mönter (former mayor of Voltlage; † August 15, 2017).
  • Pastor Hermann Rotermann († January 15, 2013).

Sons and daughters of the Voltlage community

literature

  • Günter Wegmann: The end of the war between Ems and Weser 1945. 2nd expanded edition, H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück 2000, ISBN 3-87898-367-0 .

Web links

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

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. ↑ Christian Geers: April 8, 1945: The "bloody White Sunday" in Voltlage. In: NOZ.de (Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung). April 5, 2015, accessed April 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 254 .
  4. ↑ State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony, population update
  5. ↑ State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony, Table 5000311
  6. ↑ Landkreis Osnabrück, official final results of the district election on September 9, 2001 ( Memento from May 25, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 528 kB)
  7. ^ The local elections for the district of Osnabrück on September 11, 2011 (also includes 2006 results). (PDF 8.0MB p. 39 column "Municipal elections") Osnabrück district, accessed on March 6, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Peter Selter: Norbert Trame new Voltage Mayor . noz.de, November 3, 2016.
  9. ↑ Peter Selter: Bernhard Egbert showed a good knack for Voltlage . noz.de, November 3, 2016.
  10. ↑ https://trauerverbindungen.noz.de/trauerbeispiel/august-moenter August Mönter; Obituary of the community