Wardenburg
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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ N , 8 ° 12 ′ E |
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | Oldenburg | |
| Height : | 8 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 118.67 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 16,138 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 136 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 26203 | |
| Area code : | 04407 | |
| License plate : | OIL | |
| Community key : | 03 4 58 013 | |
| LOCODE : | DE WBX | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Wardenburg community Friedrichstr. 16 26203 Wardenburg |
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| Mayor : | Christoph Reents | |
| Location of the municipality of Wardenburg in the district of Oldenburg | ||
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Wardenburg is a municipality in the Oldenburg district in northwestern Lower Saxony .
geography
Geographical location
Wardenburg is located in the northwest of the Wildeshauser Geest nature park south of the city of Oldenburg . The Hunte , Lethe and Streeker Fleth flow through the municipality . To the north, the municipality of Wardenburg borders on the coastal canal , to the east and beyond the Hunte on the Osenberge .
In addition to the city of Oldenburg in the north, the closest larger towns to the Wardenburg community are the towns of Sandkrug in the east and Huntlosen in the southeast.
Community structure
The following localities belong to the municipality of Wardenburg:
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history
The community of Wardenburg can look back on more than 700 years of existence.
In the past, the old trade route "Die Bronzestraße" ran along the banks of the Hunte, coming up from the south to the North Sea . The village of Wardenberge was built on this road in the "corner" of the Lerigau south of Tunglo (Tungeln). From Charlemagne 782 this was Lerigau been subordinated to the archbishopric of Münster.
In 1270 the Westerholtsche Ritterbund built a castle and the Marienkirche near Wardenberge. Wardenberge, named after the castle was built, became the recognized center of the "angle". The Wardenburg Church, which had become famous as a pilgrimage church far beyond the borders of the country, was burned down in 1538. A new church was only built from the ruins in 1578 by Count Johann VII (1540–1603). The Wardenburg was destroyed in 1342 by the mercenaries of the Bishop of Münster.
The following can be read on a notice board at the foot of the Tilly hill : The army of the imperial general Johann t'Serclaes Graf von Tilly (1559 - 1632) camped on the hill from 2 to 23 September 1623 . With 25,000 soldiers, Tilly was in pursuit of the opposing General Ernst von Mansfeld, who had taken a position in East Friesland . Through skilful negotiations and rich gifts, Count Anton Günther von Oldenburg managed to get Tilly's troops to withdraw without a fight. The Wardenburg population suffered from looting and confiscations for three weeks.
In the village of Glum in 1880 a farmer found a wagon wheel that dates back to the older Bronze Age around 1500 BC. BC could be dated. In 1949 the meteorite Benthullen was found in the town of Benthullen . In 2013 a lessor in Charlottendorf-West discovered the remains of a 5118 year old oak at a depth of 4.50 m. The tree trunk can be viewed in the Benthullen Moor and Farmers Museum.
Population development
The number of residents has increased steadily over the past few decades. The villages of Hundsmühlen, Wardenburg, Tungeln and Littel have particularly benefited from this.
| year | Residents |
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| 1650 | 874¹ |
| 1702 | 1,157¹ |
| 1806 | 2,097¹ |
| 1850 | 3,165¹ |
| 1900 | 3,260¹ |
| 1950 | 9.130¹ |
| May 25, 1987 | 13,508² |
| December 31, 1995 | 14,612² |
| December 31, 2003 | 15,929² |
| December 31, 2008 | 16,834² |
| December 31, 2016 | 15,975² |
| December 31, 2017 | 16.005² |
Sources:
¹: Stelljes, see literature, compilation from various sources as well as community
mirror ²: Lower Saxony State Office for Statistics
Denomination statistics
According to the 2011 census , 59.8% of the population were Protestant, 10.0% Roman Catholic and 30.2% were non-denominational or belonged to another religious community. In April 2019, of the 17,208 inhabitants, 8,633 (50.2%) were Protestant, 1,850 (10.7%) were Roman Catholic and 39.1% were non-denominational or belonged to another religious community.
politics
Municipal council
The council of the municipality of Wardenburg consists of 32 council members and councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 15,001 and 20,000. 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 full-time mayor Martina Noske (non-party) is also entitled to vote in the municipal council.
The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:
| Political party | Proportional votes | Number of seats | Change voices | Change seats |
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| CDU | 36.58% | 12 | −2.59% | 0 |
| SPD | 30.15% | 9 | −0.97% | −1 |
| Alliance 90 / The Greens | 15.56% | 5 | −1.86% | +1 |
| FDP | 8.70% | 3 | +1.47% | +1 |
| FWG | 5.43% | 2 | + 0.39% | 0 |
| The left | 3.54% | 1 | + 3.54% | +1 |
The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 58.14%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%. For comparison - in the previous local election on September 11, 2011, the turnout was 56.57%.
mayor
The full-time mayor is Martina Noske (independent). She was elected in the last mayoral election on September 11, 2011 with 77.7% of the vote. The turnout was 56.5%. Deputy mayors are Stefan Depta (Greens), Eckhard Heinje (CDU) and Detlef Sonnenberg (SPD).
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the municipality of Wardenburg shows the bell tower of the Wardenburg Church and above it the split shield of the former von Westerholte family with a blue bar on the left on a white field and a white bar on a blue field on the right.
flag
The flag of the municipality of Wardenburg shows the color blue in the upper field and the color white in the lower field. The center of the flag is covered with the coat of arms of the municipality.
Town twinning
Wardenburg has signed a community partnership with two communities :
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Eelde , now the municipality of Tynaarlo in the Netherlands , since 1986 -
Röbel / Müritz in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , since 1990
Culture and sights
Buildings
- Bell tower (landmark of Wardenburg)
- Marienkirche
- Catholic Church
- town hall
- Watermill on the Lethe
- Blacksmith Museum
In addition to these historic and new buildings within the village of Wardenburg, there are other buildings worth seeing in the municipality:
- Brickwork Museum (Westerholt)
- Moor and Farm Museum (Benthullen)
- Church in Benthullen
Parks and landscape lines
- Tillyhügel and Tillysee : Half of the Wardenburg Tillysee belongs to the fishing association and the other half to the nature conservation association.
- Wardenburg March
natural reserve
In the municipality, protected areas are shown in all levels. Responsibility lies with the Lower Nature Conservation Authority of the district of Oldenburg .
Parts of the community belong to the Wildeshauser Geest Nature Park .
There are two nature reserves ( Benthullener Moor , Harberner Heide ) as well as several landscape conservation areas (Mittlere Hunte, Griesenmoor, Lethetal and the state forests of Tüdick, Oberlether Fuhrenkamp, Hoop, Litteler Fuhrenkamp).
In addition, the “Middle and Lower Hunte” fauna and flora habitat is recognized as part of the European Natura 2000 conservation project .
Numerous natural monuments and protected landscape elements are under protection, as are the wall hedges .
In addition to statutory nature conservation, the Wardenburg Biotope Association is committed to a comprehensive, integrated system of protected areas.
The Hunte Weser-Ems Biological Protection Association is based in Wardenburg . BSH maintains a nature trail on the site of the former shooting range.
Art in public space
In the townscape of Wardenburg you can find - scattered and sometimes a little hidden - some very different art objects by artists from the community and the region.
- in front of the BSH house - on Friedrichstrasse - the (bronze and stone) sculpture Der Keimling (2000) by Udo Reimann,
- on the extension of the municipal administration (One World Shop) - Eelder Straße - the bronze sculpture One World (Earth, Peace and Gingko) (2001) by Karin Engel,
- within sight of the bell tower - on the corner of Patenberg and Oldenburger Strasse - the sculpture The Community Tree (2006) by Daniel Hübner on the initiative of the Wardenburg Marketing Forum community,
- on the "Gloysteinschen Hof" - on Oldenburger Straße - the sculpture Wardenburger Storks (2007) by Daniel Hübner,
- along Oldenburger Strasse, Friedrichstrasse and Patenbergsweg, the Wardenburg Marketing Forum 2011 installed the "Wardenburg story (s)" based on an idea by Oliver Bremer - these are 28 stainless steel plates with historical data from the Wardenburg community, which are in the Are embedded in the ground,
- on the old B 69 (today public insurance) there was a stone fountain in the 1960s,
- in the council chamber of the community of Wardenburg - Friedrichstraße - the triptych Wardenburg, Eelde and Röbel (2004) by Daniel Hübner
Regular events
- Every year on the third weekend in July there is a shooting festival on Schützenplatz. The largest shooting festival in the Hunte district attracts several thousand visitors every year. A big fireworks display will conclude on Monday evening.
- Every year on the weekend with the second Sunday in August, the City Festival takes place in Wardenburg. This is one of the largest festivals in the Oldenburg district. The event has existed since 1999. On Friday, the festival begins with the nationally known light procession and both Friday and Saturday evenings are all about live music on several stages. Sunday is the classic family day with a flea and handicraft market and children's entertainment.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Wardenburg can be reached via the Autobahn 29 with the Wardenburg junction, two country roads and several district roads.
Public transport
Wardenburg is served by the overland bus route 280 during the day on weekdays, for which the Vechta-based bus company Wilmering has received the line license since August 2017. Since then, Wardenburg has been served every 30 minutes by bus routes 314 and 320 operated by Oldenburger Verkehr und Wasser GmbH. On Sundays, this half-hour connection to Wardenburg is even available all day with line 314. Within the municipality, Weser-Ems-Bus GmbH is active in the Bremen-Lower Saxony transport association for passenger transport. The places Tungeln and Hundsmühlen can also be reached from Oldenburg by buses from Verkehr und Wasser GmbH (VWG).
Business
There are many farms in the localities in the Wardenburg community. Wardenburg, on the other hand, is more of a residential, service and commercial center. According to the spatial planning program, the central location Wardenburg is the basic center with the special development tasks for residential and commercial economy . There are a total of six commercial areas in the municipality.
Established businesses
Dynapac , a company of the French Fayat Group, operates a factory for the production of asphalt pavers in Wardenburg .
education
There is a primary school in Wardenburg. The IGS am Everkamp is a school in the Oldenburg district. Children who cannot attend the IGS (lottery procedure!) Can switch to the surrounding secondary schools. There is no grammar school in the municipality of Wardenburg, the pupils have to attend the Graf-Anton-Günther-Schule in the city of Oldenburg. Elementary schools have been preserved in some localities, such as Achternmeer, Hohenfelde and Hundsmühlen.
An adult education center is also represented in Wardenburg.
literature
- Wolfgang Stelljes: Wardenburg: A reading book on the history of a community in the Oldenburger Land .. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 1995, ISBN 3-89598-304-7
- 700 years of Wardenburg - in the mirror of time . Festival book for the 700th anniversary, ed. Wardenburg Citizens' Association, 1970
- People, pictures & stories - Oldenburg district. Yearbook for the district of Oldenburg 2009, pp. 64–67
- "Gemeindespiegel Wardenburg - has been reporting quarterly since 1971 on what is happening in the community, a growing chronicle is created
Personalities
- Diedrich Dannemann (1874–1933), born in Tungeln, politician (DVP), member of the Reichstag
- Robert Dannemann (1902–1965), born in Tungeln, politician (FDP), member of the Bundestag, President of the Oldenburg administrative district
- Horst Bösing (* 1954), German composer and music producer, lived in Achternmeer from 1992 to 1998
- Dennie Christian (* 1956), German pop singer and presenter
- Sabrina Paradies (* 1977), born in Wardenburg, Miss Germany 1997 and photo model
- Markus Böckermann (* 1986), grew up in Hundsmühlen , volleyball and beach volleyball player
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ^ Albrecht Eckhardt: Oldenburgisches Ortslexikon, Volume 2 , Isensee Oldenburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89995-757-0 , page 1074 f
- ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: Oak even older than the pyramids. April 6, 2013, accessed May 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: The old oak is a new attraction. May 10, 2013, accessed May 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Wardenburg Religion -in%, 2011 census
- ↑ Wardenburg data facts accessed on February 21, 2020
- ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on January 7, 2017
- ↑ a b c Municipality of Wardenburg - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on January 7, 2017
- ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016, accessed January 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Overall result of the mayoral election on September 11 , 2011 , accessed on May 10, 2014.
- ↑ a b Main statutes of the municipality of Wardenburg ( memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 14, 2014
- ↑ Protected areas on the district's website ( Memento from September 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ List of natural monuments ( Memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 20 kB).
- ↑ Map of natural monuments ( Memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 1.29 MB).
- ↑ Biotope Network Wardenburg Working Group, Basics of a Biotope Network System for Wardenburg, compiled by Ruth Drügemöller, July 2006.
Web links
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