Menslage

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′  N , 7 ° 49 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Osnabrück
Joint municipality :	Artland
Height :	23 m above sea level NHN
Area :	65.18 km 2
Residents:	2439 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	37 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	49637
Primaries :	05437, 05431, 05436
License plate :	OS , BSB, MEL, WTL
Community key :	03 4 59 025
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 14 49637 Menslage
Website :	www.menslage.de
Mayor :	Doris Schmidt ( SPD )
Location of the community of Menslage in the district of Osnabrück

Districts of Menslage

Local map

Kirchwinkel

Menslage is a member municipality of the Samtgemeinde Artland in the northern district of Osnabrueck in Lower Saxony and is located in the Artland as part of the recreation area Hasetal .

The parish of Menslage includes the farming communities Andorf, Borg, Bottorf, Hahlen, Hahnenmoor , Herbergen, Klein Mimmelage, Renslage, Schandorf, Wasserhausen and Wierup.

geography

Geographical location

Menslage is located in the north of Artland at the transition to the Oldenburger Münsterland . The Kleine Hase flows through the municipality from east to west and is canalised to the west of the Menslage part of the municipality as a Hahnenmoorkanal .

Community structure

Menslage consists of the former municipalities incorporated in 1972:

• Menslage
• Hahnenmoor
• Hahlen
• Andorf
• Renslage
• Little Mimmelage
• Bottorf
• Borg

Neighboring communities

Menslage borders in the east on Quakenbrück and Badbergen , in the south on Nortrup , Kettenkamp , Eggermühlen and Berge , in the west on Herzlake ( district Emsland ) and in the north on Löningen and Essen / Oldenburg (both districts Cloppenburg ).

climate

Temperate maritime climate influenced by humid northwest winds from the North Sea. On a long-term average, the air temperature in Menslage reaches 8.5–9.0 ° C and about 700 mm of precipitation falls. Between May and August, an average of 20-25 summer days (climatological term for days on which the maximum temperature exceeds 25 ° C) can be expected.

history

Menslage was first mentioned in 1188 as mencelage . In the following year the spellings Menkelage or Mencelaghe and around 1350 Menslaghe ; The current spelling has been used since 1442. The origin of the name is subject to different interpretations. While it was initially assumed that Menslage meant a depression overgrown with mint , which would be quite conceivable in the humid and fertile glacial valley of the Hase, today it is assumed that the name has something to do with the Meyerhof zu Menslage, which still exists today and presumably expires a Franconian royal or military court built around 800.

Possibly the first inhabitants were "Menken" or "Mensken" - as monks were called earlier - and that their dwelling was called Menkelage , from which Menslage could have developed. In any case, it is proven that at the time of Charlemagne, monks were active in the construction of this Meyerhof and an army camp in what is now the district of Herbergen.

Another interpretation finally relates to the ministerial family of those from Menslage, who belonged to the service team of Counts Otto and Johann von Oldenburg, who in turn owned said Meyerhof around 1245 and who founded a Cistercian monastery on the extensive grounds of the Meyerhof , which was initially called "Rosenthal “And moved from Menslage to the Börsteler Wald in 1252 , from which the present-day, free-worldly ladies' monastery in Börstel emerged . The first information about an owner of the Meyerhof brings a Quakenbrücker document from 1486, in which a Meyer tho Menslage is mentioned - possibly a member of this ministerial family.

The Marienkirche in the center of the village was founded in 1247 by the Counts of Oldenburg with the permission of the Abbot of Corvey Monastery . With this the parish of the mother church in Löningen took place and the parish of Menslage was created. The church, built in early Gothic style from lawn iron stone, was initially built without a tower, which was only added later in 1579 and was used for the Ueffelner sandstone . Around the cemetery on the north side of the church, granaries were built from rock stones, which were used by the population to store grain. The result was a closed square that was only accessible through two entrances: The Andorfer and Herberger Pforte. When there was a risk of war, the residents escaped to this secure place. Over time, the granaries lost their importance because the farmers preferred to store the valuable grain in safe places on their own farms; one of the old storehouses was converted into a council storehouse, in which the church council met in the future and living and working rooms were created from the others, mainly the workshops of the churchyards and Wörden residents .

Population development

Population development in Menslage since 1987

The following overview shows the population of Menslage 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 6th) and 1970 (May 27th) are the respective census results.

year	Residents
1961	2965
1970	2905
1987	2434
1990	2433
1995	2693
2000	2649
2005	2546
2010	2509
2011	2534
2015	2462
2017	2441
2018	2418

religion

Most of the community's population is traditionally evangelical. In the center of the community is the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mary .

politics

Municipal council

Parts of this article seem out of date as of 2016 .
Please help to research and insert the missing information .

The parish council currently has 13 members from four parties or groups. Mayor is Jürgen Kruse (SPD).

The following table shows the local election results since 1996.

Council of the municipality of Menslage: election results and municipal councils
	CDU		SPD		GREEN		FDP		total		electoral participation
Electoral term	%		%		%		%		%		%
1996-2001	33.7	5	53.1	8th	6.6	0	6.6	0	100	13	69.5
2001-2006	44.0	7th	47.5	6th	3.6	0	4.9	0	100	13	68.0
2006-2011	47.5	6th	43.0	5	5.0	1	4.6	1	100	13	69.3
2011-2016	32.90	4th	53.92	7th	7.64	1	5.55	1	100	13	65.05
Percentages rounded. Sources: State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony, District Osnabrück. 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

• since 2020 Doris Schmidt (SPD)
• 2011–2020 Jürgen Kruse (SPD)
• 2010–2011 Max Eckelt (CDU)
• 2001–2010 Dirk Kopmeyer (CDU)
• 1992-2001 Werner Osing (SPD)
• 19 ?? - 1992 Dieter See (SPD)

Town twinning

• Gietrzwałd , Powiat Olsztyński , Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , Poland

traffic

Menslage was connected to the Lingen – Berge – Quakenbrück small railway from 1904 to 1952 .

The buses of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Osnabrück provide an hourly connection from Menslage to Quakenbrück to the train station (with train connections to Osnabrück and Oldenburg) and to Fürstenau.

The place is on the Artland Route holiday route .

sons and daughters of the town

• Bernhard Möllmann (born September 10, 1832 - † December 30, 1897), politician, Lord Mayor of Osnabrück, member of the Prussian mansion
• Friedrich Wachhorst de Wente (born February 23, 1863 in Bottorf; † February 16, 1939 in Groß Mimmelage), politician DDP or German State Party.
• Margarete zur Bentlage (born March 24, 1891, † February 16, 1954 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen), writer

literature

• Erich Wobbe: 800 years of Menslage in Artland. In: Osnabrücker Land. Homeland yearbook. 1988, ISSN  0171-2136 , pp. 38-44.

Web links

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

• Internet presence of the joint municipality of Artland with an area of ​​the municipality of Menslage
• The Meyerhof in Menslage

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. ^ Hermann Rothert : Heimatbuch des Kreis Bersenbrück . Vol. 1: History . Kleinert, Quakenbrück 1933, p. 14.
3. ↑ State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony, population update  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ 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. 259 .
5. ↑ Ev.-luth. Parish of St. Marien ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony, Table 5000311
7. ↑ 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)
8. ^ The local elections for the district of Osnabrück on September 11, 2011 (also includes 2006 results). (PDF 8.0MB p. 18 column "Municipal elections") Osnabrück district, accessed on March 6, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Nina Strakeljahn: Doris Schmidt is the new mayor of Menslage. In: noz.de. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , July 7, 2020, accessed on July 21, 2020 . 
10. ↑ I would not do Menslage justice. In: noz.de. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , September 9, 2010, accessed on September 25, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Elizabeth Gadeberg: Mens Lages former mayor Werner Osing on Friday 80 years. In: noz.de. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , September 20, 2013, accessed on September 25, 2018 .