Westendorf (Rinteln)

Westendorf City of Rinteln Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 13 ″  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 49 ″  E
Residents :	258  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	31737
Area code :	05751
Location of Westendorf in Lower Saxony

Westendorf is a district of the town of Rinteln in the Schaumburg district of Lower Saxony .

Geography and transport links

The district lies east of the core area of ​​Rinteln. Together with Deckbergen and Schaumburg , the town of Deckbergen-Schaumburg-Westendorf is formed within the town of Rinteln. The Weser flows south. West, north and east lies the 452 ha large nature reserve crest of the Weser mountain range .

The B 83 runs on the southern outskirts and the A 2 to the north .

politics

Under local law, the districts of Deckbergen , Schaumburg and Westendorf form a locality for which a joint local council is elected.

In the local elections on September 11, 2011, the SPD had 5, the WGS 2 and the CDU 2 seats. As in the previous legislative period, the local mayor was Eckhard Hülm. In the local elections on September 11, 2016, the SPD had 4, the WGS 2 and the CDU 3 seats. Gisela Stasitzek was elected as the local mayor. She is the first woman in this position in a district of the city of Rinteln.

Discussion about two wind turbines

Since 2005, an investor has been planning to build three wind turbines up to 150 m high in Westendorf, below Schaumburg Castle, which are in the visual axis of the castle. There was resistance from the population for years and a citizens' initiative. The mayor and the Rinteln city council as well as the district of Schaumburg have also spoken out against it. The Hanover Administrative Court gave the right to the realization of the project in January 2006, the windmill entrepreneurs. The building rights still exist, but in 2018 it was sold by Greenpeace Energy to the Kiel wind power company getproject . In 2019, a strictly protected pair of red kites was breeding about 500 meters from the wind turbine , which is why the Schaumburg district severely restricted operations from March 15 to August 31. The project developer stuck to construction, but stated that it would record "serious" losses in profit. In April 2019, the breeding female red kite was poisoned and found dead in a tree. Although the local Nabu considered a connection with wind turbine construction possible, there was never any evidence of this. The surviving male had not found a new partner in summer 2020. According to Getproject, the two 150-meter-high wind turbines will be built in September 2020, regardless of whether they are breeding again in the immediate vicinity or not.

Web links

• Deckbergen and Westendorf. Historical local walk
• Westendorf hill climb. Tourism versus nature conservation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population statistics as of December 31, 2016. (pdf) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 17, 2017 ; accessed on October 27, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ https://www.szlz.de/region/rinteln_artikel,-gisela-stasitzek-die-erste-frau-im-dorf-_arid,2334085.html
3. ↑ https://www.szlz.de/region/rinteln_artikel,-windraeder-kein-widersracht-von-ingenieursgesellschaft-getproject-_arid,2618375.html
4. ↑ https://www.szlz.de/region/rinteln_artikel,-bruetendes-rotmilanweibchen-in-deckbergen-wurde-vergiftet-_arid,2549606.html
5. ↑ https://www.szlz.de/region/rinteln_artikel,-westendorfer-windkraftanlage-wird-trotz-rotmilan-gebaut-_arid,2617229.html