Wittlage

Wittlage Bad Essen municipality Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 5 ″ N , 8 ° 22 ′ 26 ″ E
Residents :	1564 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	49152
Area code :	05472
Location of Wittlage in Lower Saxony

Wittlage is a district of the Lower Saxon community Bad Essen in the district of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony .

geography

The place is two kilometers east of the core area of Bad Essen on the federal highway 65 .

Waters

The 325.3 km long Mittelland Canal runs north on the local border. The 189 km long Hunte flows through the local area of Wittlage . It is passed under the Mittelland Canal at Wittlage Castle .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1075. For a long time the place was the seat of an office in the Osnabrück Monastery. At the beginning of the 17th century, the parishes of Essen, Lintorf, Ostercappeln, Barkhausen, Hunteburg and Venne belonged to the Wittlage office in Osnabrück.

The Wittlage watermill was first mentioned in a document in 1309. It is powered by the water of the Hunte and has been driving a shaft turbine since 1929. The electricity generated is used in the mill or fed into the local grid. Today there is an organic market in the Wittlager Mühle.

Wittlage was a municipality and the district capital of the then district Wittlage . On December 1, 1910, the place had 296 inhabitants. On July 1, 1972, Wittlage was incorporated into the Bad Essen community. On the same day, the Wittlage district was dissolved and incorporated into the Osnabrück district.

Population development

Resident population of the municipality of Wittlage with territorial status as of May 27, 1970:

date	Residents
May 17, 1939	316
September 13, 1950	548
June 6, 1961	621
May 27, 1970	745
January 1, 2017	1564

religion

The Protestants of Wittlage belong to the parish of St. Nikolai Bad Essen.

Culture and sights

Wittlage Castle

Economy and Transport

The station Wittlage located on the Wittlager orbit . Every Sunday only museum trains run , on the remaining days there is a freight train per day . They are operated by the Minden Museum Railway .

Sons and daughters of the place

Louis Victor Stegemann (1830–1884) was a lawyer, landowner and member of the German Reichstag.

Individual evidence

^ Nord-West-Verlag in cooperation with the Bad Essen community (ed.): Bad Essen . Information for our citizens. Nord-West-Verlag, Bissendorf 2017, p. 7 ( badessen.de [PDF; 9.8 MB ; accessed on May 13, 2017]).
^ Nord-West-Verlag in cooperation with the Bad Essen community (ed.): Bad Essen . Information for our citizens. Nord-West-Verlag, Bissendorf 2017, p. 16 ( badessen.de [PDF; 9.8 MB ; accessed on May 13, 2017]).
^ Johann Friedrich Schannat , Hermann Joseph Hartzheim , Hermann Scholl, Aegidius Neisse (arr.): Concilia Germaniae , Vol. IX. Wilhelm Krakamp, Cologne 1771, p. 513; see. P. 491 ( Google Books ).
^ Uli Schubert: Gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 2, 2014, accessed May 3, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 260 .
↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (Ed.): Municipal Statistics Lower Saxony 1970. Part 2: Population and Employment, Volume 5: Osnabrück District. Hanover 1973, p. 152.

[badessen7-1] Nord-West-Verlag in cooperation with the Bad Essen community (ed.): Bad Essen . Information for our citizens. Nord-West-Verlag, Bissendorf 2017, p. 7 ( badessen.de [PDF; 9.8 MB ; accessed on May 13, 2017]).

[badessen16-2] Nord-West-Verlag in cooperation with the Bad Essen community (ed.): Bad Essen . Information for our citizens. Nord-West-Verlag, Bissendorf 2017, p. 16 ( badessen.de [PDF; 9.8 MB ; accessed on May 13, 2017]).

[3] Johann Friedrich Schannat , Hermann Joseph Hartzheim , Hermann Scholl, Aegidius Neisse (arr.): Concilia Germaniae , Vol. IX. Wilhelm Krakamp, Cologne 1771, p. 513; see. P. 491 ( Google Books ).

[gemverz-4] Uli Schubert: Gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 2, 2014, accessed May 3, 2017 .

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982-5] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 260 .

[6] Lower Saxony State Administration Office (Ed.): Municipal Statistics Lower Saxony 1970. Part 2: Population and Employment, Volume 5: Osnabrück District. Hanover 1973, p. 152.