Cappeln

Cappeln (Oldenburg ) is a municipality in the district of Cloppenburg, in Lower Saxony.

• 3.1 Mayor
• 3.2 municipal
• 3.3 Town twinning

• 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town

• 6.1 Structures
• 6.2 Education

Geography

Community structure

The municipality Cappeln following farming communities include:

• Cappeln with Dingel
• Tenstedt with Siehenfelde, Osterhausen, Darrenkamp and Good Swede
• Schwichteler with Nordenbrok and Schwichteler Station
• Bokel with Wißmühlen
• Mintewede
• Mittelsten and Elster Moor
• Sevelten
• Warnstedt
• Nutteln / Tegel vineyards

Neighboring communities

• Vechta ( district of Vechta )
• Cloppenburg
• Emstek
• Essen (Oldenburg )
• Lastrup
• Vechta ( district of Vechta )

History

First mentioned in 1159, when Cappeln of Emstek dissolved and established an independent parish. The name means something like Cappeln chapel. Already before 1150 were built in Cappeln the first church that had to be canceled only in 1900. The villages Mittelsten, Bokel, Tenstedt and Osterhausen were first mentioned in 1217 in a document. After lengthy negotiations, the first chapel between the towns Warnstedt Mittelsten and was built in 1889. The place Sevelten is mentioned in a document of the monastery of Corvey inaccurate dated from the period 1000-1090 as " Swiveldon ", later " Svivulten " (1110 ). The first chapel in Sevelten is from this period. The place Schwichteler received in 1929 a Dominican monastery.

Political affiliation

• Until 1252 the county Ravens mountain Vechta

• To 1803 to the Official Vechta and Bishopric of Münster

• Since 1946, Cloppenburg and Land Niedersachsen

Religions

History: Cappeln and Emstek belonged to the diocese of Osnabrück to 1668, since the diocese of Münster.

Catholic churches: http://www.kath-kirche-cappeln.de

• St. Peter and Paul in Cappeln

• St. Francis of Assisi in Mittelsten

• St. Marien in Sevelten

• Dominican monastery in Schwichteler

Evangelical Lutheran

• St. Martin in Cappeln

Policy

Mayor

In the mayoral election of 10 September In 2006, Reinhold Grote of the CDU as the only candidate with 2,211 votes in favor by. He finished his term of office prematurely for reasons of age.

In the direct election on September 22, 2013 Marcus Brinkmann received as individuals against two -partisan candidate 1886 votes ( 50.03 %). A voice was enough for an absolute majority. The turnout was 71.40 percent. His term began on 1 November 2013.

Parish council

Twinning

On 5 July 1991, a partnership agreement was concluded with the municipality Long stone district Halberstadt ( Saxony -Anhalt).

Road

Cappeln is connected to the motorway network via the federal highway B 72 ( European route E 233 ) and the federal motorway A 1 (E 37). From 1914 to 1965 opened up the narrow-gauge railway Vechta - Cloppenburg with stops first in Schwichteler, later in Tenstedt and Cappeln the community.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Maria Brand ( born August 19, 1877 in Cappeln † 7 May 1956 Essen (Oldenburg ) ), was the first female Member of Parliament in the Oldenburg State Parliament
• Leo Reinke ( born March 11, 1909 in Osterloh, † August 31 1978 in Cloppenburg ), Lower Saxon state politician (CDU ), 1951-1974 Member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
• Hermann Kokenge ( born May 12, 1949 in Cappeln ) is a German landscape architect and former rector of the Technical University of Dresden.

Culture and sights

• Cappelner break, the conservation area

Structures

• Church of St. Peter and Paul
• Rectory, built in 1711
• Stud Vorwerk
• St. Mary's Church ( Sevelten )
• Francis of Assisi Church ( Mittelsten )

In St. Peter and Paul

In St. Peter and Paul

Sevelter Church

Sevelter Church

Sevelter Church

Sevelter Church

Francis of Assisi Church ( Mittelsten )

Education

Various institutions in the field of education and culture are to be found in Cappeln:

• 3 kindergartens
• 2 primary schools
• 1 main and junior high school
• 5 libraries