Winkelett

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Oldenburg
Joint municipality :	Harpstedt
Height :	42 m above sea level NHN
Area :	39.18 km 2
Residents:	511 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	13 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27243
Primaries :	04244, 04431, 04434
License plate :	OIL
Community key :	03 4 58 015
Community structure:	13 districts
Website :	www.heimatbund.info
Mayor :	Willi Beneke ( UWGW )
Location of the municipality of Winkelsett in the district of Oldenburg

The municipality of Winkelsett belongs to the combined municipality of Harpstedt in the Oldenburg district in Lower Saxony ( Germany ) and is located around seven kilometers (as the crow flies) southeast of Wildeshausen .

Community structure

Winkelsett consists of the districts:

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the neighboring community Reckum was incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the community of Winkelsett consists of nine councilors and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 501 and 1000 inhabitants. The nine council members are elected by local elections for five years each. 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
Independent voter community Winkelsett (UWGW)	76.74%	7th
Alliance 90 / The Greens	23.25%	2

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 65.82%, well above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%. For comparison - in the previous municipal election on September 11, 2011, the turnout was 67.96%.

mayor

The council elected council member Willi Beneke (UWGW) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

traffic

The next motorway junction is the Wildeshausen-Nord junction of Autobahn 1 about seven kilometers (as the crow flies) north of Winkelsett. Coming from Colnrade in the southwest, Kreisstrasse 5 runs through the districts of Reckum, Höllingen, Winkelsett to Harpstedt in the northeast .

Attractions

Reckum stones , two Neolithic large stone graves in the Reckum district

Personalities

Hille Perl (* 1965), professor for viola da gamba at the Bremen University of the Arts , lives in Winkelsett

Individual evidence

↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
^ 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. 190 .
^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on January 21, 2017
↑ ^a ^b ^c Result of the Winkelsett municipal council election on September 11, 2016 , accessed on January 21, 2017
↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .

Web links

Commons : Winkelsett - collection of images, videos and audio files

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-NI-1] State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).

[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. 190 .

[3] Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on January 21, 2017

[wahl-4] Result of the Winkelsett municipal council election on September 11, 2016 , accessed on January 21, 2017

[5] The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .