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Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Nienburg / Weser
Joint municipality :	Steimbke
Height :	45 m above sea level NHN
Area :	38.56 km 2
Residents:	1248 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	32 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	31638
Primaries :	05026, 05021
License plate :	NI
Community key :	03 2 56 031
Mayor :	Dieter Vehrenkamp ( CDU )
Location of the community of Stöckse in the district of Nienburg / Weser

Stöckse is a municipality in the east of the Nienburg / Weser district and is a member of the Steimbke municipality in Lower Saxony .

geography

Stöckse is located in the middle of the "Krähe" state forest between Langendamm and Steimbke .

Stöckse is divided into the villages of Stöckse and Wenden with the district of Lohe.

Eystrup	Haemelsee	Rethem (Aller)	Hurried	Hodenhagen
Hassbergen	Heemsen	Sun bristle	Steimbke	Schwarmstedt
Nienburg / Weser	Langendamm		Turning bristle	Lutter
Estorf	Linsburg	Borstel	Hagen	Helstorf
Landesbergen	Husum	steinhuder sea	Neustadt	Resse

history

A first documentary mention of Stöckse can be found in the list of goods in the Herford monastery from 1180. In old records the names Stockhausen, Stukenhausen, Stockheim, Stöcksen or Stöxe were also used for the place.

After the Wölpe office was dissolved, Stöckse was assigned to the Nienburg office in 1859 .

On March 1, 1974, the neighboring community of Wenden was incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Stöckse consists of eleven council women and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 1001 and 2000 inhabitants. 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 last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats
CDU	51.66%	6th
WG Stöckse	21.46%	2
SPD	18.45%	2
GREEN	8.40%	1

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 77.35%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The local council elected councilor Dieter Vehrenkamp (CDU) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

Culture and sights

theatre

Stöckse open-air stage

An open-air theater founded in 1951 is located in a wooded area in the center of Stöckse; it offers space for up to 700 visitors. The audience is offered comedies and pranks in the Low German language , a children's theater under the motto “Children play for children” and special events. In 1986 the registered association was founded, which today operates the stage; in the same year he joined the Association of German Open-Air Theaters (VDF).
Every year on the second weekend in December, the old school hosts the Dbodwiehnacht , which includes a children's Christmas play on the open-air stage and a Christmas market .

Attractions

In Stöckse there is a small forest lake, the Stöckser See, which has high recreational value for the Stöckser citizens.

In the adjacent forest, a few steps from the lake, you can visit the Giebichenstein , a huge boulder from the Ice Age .

Immediately next to the giant stone is the "Devil's Bed", a Neolithic large stone grave , which was stripped of its capstones.

In addition, there is the only preserved and restored potato steaming plant in Germany in Stöckse . It has been an official cultural monument since June 2009.

The windmill Ahrbecker came in 1870 after Stöckse-turning and was probably still built some 200 years earlier. It was shut down in 1930 and restarted in 2003. The three grinders of the mill are a special feature . Since 2007 the mill has been called "Martha".

Stöckser See in winter
Giebichenstein am Stöckser See
Great stone grave devil's bed near Giebichenstein
Post mill "Martha" in Wenden

Economy and Infrastructure

District roads 3 and 5 run through Stöckse, and federal road 214 north of the town . The nearest train station is Linsburg on the Bremen – Hanover railway line , five kilometers southwest of Stöckse. Line 40 from Regiobus Hannover connects the village of Stöckse with the district town of Nienburg (Weser) and the Nienburg (Weser) train station . Line 42 connects Lohe and Wenden with the Linsburg and Nienburg (Weser) stations.