Westertimke

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality :	Tarmstedt
Height :	30 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.05 km 2
Residents:	431 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	36 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27412
Area code :	04289
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 053
Association administration address:	Hepstedter Strasse 9 ; 27412 Tarmstedt
Website :	www.tarmstedt.de
Mayor :	Karin Gieschen (WG Westertimke)
Location of the municipality Westertimke in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme)

Westertimke is a municipality of the Tarmstedt municipality in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district of Lower Saxony .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document as Westertimbeke in the 14th century .

During the Second World War, a sub-camp of the prisoner- of- war camp of military district command X existed here , in which merchant ship crews from 42 nations were interned. The camp was used from 1952 to 1961 as an emergency reception camp for young women and was then expanded into the barracks of an air force unit (FlaRakBtl 31). Today the town's industrial park is located here.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Westertimke consists of nine councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 501 and 1000 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
Voting community Westertimke	100%	9

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 71.91%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The council elected council member Karin Gieschen (WG Westertimke) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The place is on the Landstrasse 133, which connects it with Bremen and Zeven .

Two kilometers north-west of Westertimke is the Tarmstedt-Westertimke glider airfield , which is operated by the Bremen glider group. There, glider and motor glider operations are mostly carried out on weekends.