Wedehorn

Wedehorn City of Bassum Coordinates: 52 ° 47 ′ 20 " N , 8 ° 42 ′ 40" E
Residents :	181 (December 31, 2015)
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	27211
Area code :	04241
	Location of Wedehorn in Bassum

Wedehorn is a district of the city of Bassum in the Lower Saxony district of Diepholz . About 180 people live in the village.

geography

location

Wedehorn windmill from 1878

Wedehorn is located in the southwestern area of the city of Bassum, six kilometers south of the core town of Bassum. The village Wedehorn consists of Klövenhausen and Wedehorn.

The Bassumer Utkiek , an 87 meter high, artificially raised mountain, is located in the Wedehorn district on the site of the AbfallWirtschaftsGesellschaft (AWG) mbH - Bassum waste disposal center .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns are - clockwise from the north - Bassum (center) , Apelstedt , Nienstedt , Neuenkirchen , Cantrup , Stelle and Groß Ringmar .

history

Since the regional reform that came into force on March 1, 1974, the previously independent municipality of Wedehorn has been one of 16 localities in the city of Bassum.

politics

List of the mayor of Wedehorn
Wedehorn village (since 1974)
Term of office		Surname	Political party
August 26, 1974	December 31, 1983	Richard Gerke
January 1, 1984	November 24, 1996	Hermann Meyer	CDU
November 25, 1996	November 14, 2001	Detlev Block	SPD
November 15, 2001	November 15, 2006	Hermann Meyer	CDU
November 16, 2006	today	Horst Husmann	Citizen Block

Infrastructure

The waste management company (AWG) mbH - disposal center Bassum is located in Klövenhausen . It handles waste disposal for the entire district of Diepholz - for more than 217,000 people in the approximately 2000 km² district of Diepholz. The AWG employees empty over 70,000 residual waste bins (every four weeks) and 45,000 organic tonnes (fortnightly).

Streets

Wedehorn is far from the main traffic:

The Federal Motorway 1 runs north-west 24 km away.
The federal highway 51 leading from Bassum (Kernort) via Twistringen , Barnstorf and Diepholz to Osnabrück runs to the west, five kilometers away.

The federal highway 61 leading from Bassum (Kernort) via Sulingen and Uchte to Minden runs east, three kilometers away.

The federal highway 6 from Bremen via Nienburg to Hanover runs east 14 km away.

In Wedehorn there are no street names, only house numbers that residents, postmen, vendors and visitors have to use for orientation.

Architectural monuments

Wedehorn is home to a total of two architectural monuments .

Individual evidence

^ Website of the city of Bassum
^ 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. 191 .
↑ Waste management in numbers at awg-bassum.de

Web links

[1] Website of the city of Bassum

[2] 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. 191 .

[3] Waste management in numbers at awg-bassum.de