Langen (Emsland)

Langen is a municipality in the Emsland district, in Lower Saxony in Lengerich.

5.1 municipal

Geography

Location

Langen is located on the northern edge of the Lingen height about 10.1 km east of the Ems and the town of Lingen.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are the towns Bawinkel and barley, in the east the municipality Lengerich, in the south of the communities Thuine and brasses in the Samtgemeinde Freren and to the west the town of Lingen in the north.

Community structure

Districts ( starting in the north clockwise):

Nordholte
Sopenhook
Rods
Espel
Rentrup
Grumsmühlen
Klein- Tirol
Long - center

History

The surrounding area is characterized by numerous megalithic relics of the Funnel Beaker Culture, the passage graves ( as Sprockhoff No. 873 ). The 17-meter facility has a 30 m oval bezel, which is strongly bulged on the input side and, therefore, for the breadth 14 m.

Namensherleitung individual districts

Langen (old: Longon, also Langon 890, 1000 and later Langun Langene 1150 ) is first mentioned in 890 BECOMING land register. Folckeri and Egilburg had to perform the usual duties of becoming. At Corvey had by 1000 the tithe people Herideac, Stellmar, Herimar, Bruoder, Hajo, Razo, Aigo, Wennigo and Dejo deliver. The determination word derives from althdtsch. lang = elongated. The endings - ina, -ini, - ine, - inun, enan, enun ,-um, -un, - ene, - s are used in many place names instead of a abgeschlissenen basic word before, but it can be decided whether to einunddasselbe or go back to more original, old words. Inside is a universal root word meaning " settlement ". On the whole, therefore, it was an elongated corridor surface or settlement. The Schultenhof in Langen was one of five noble goods of the parish Lengerich headquarters of the v. Langen.

The Good Grumsmühlen was in 1300 as a treasure -free and with a mill shelf legitimate heir in possession of the Counts of Tecklenburg. It was in 1562 sold to the bailiff Adolf van Lingen Limborch, who extended the estate with stately tower and moat. After the murder of van Limborchs Grumsmühlen was sold in 1572 to the Lingener bailiff Ernst Mulert. This was also ambushed and killed. The tomb of Mulert family is in the Thuiner parish church. There followed a checkered history; Finally, the property had been sold in 1673 to Joachim of evil camp. Since 1923, the estate owned by the Prince von Croy.

Espel (old: Espelo 1150 ). Determination word of althdtsch. aspa = aspen; Root word lo, loh, lohe = light forest. Together means Espelo so aspen grove.

Rentrup. The qualifying expression may be referred to a source; sources, run; from rin, see altsächs. rennian, altfries. and Old Norse. renna; designate location with respect to a value system in accordance valuable waters. The basic word - trup, torpedo, thorpe stands for village settlement.

Nordholte has the meaning: In the north of the village lying woods.

Klein- Tirol owes its name to a former restaurant, the small Tyrolean -gon.

Rods, Sopenhook: Unknown derivation of the name

Population Development

Policy

Parish council

The council has 10 elected members. Its members are as a result of the local elections on 11 September 2011, two parties.

CDU - 9 seats
SPD - 1 seat

The next local elections in 2016.

Clubs

Sports club, founded in 1964 is the S.V. Concordia Langen Langen eV Additionally, it has, along with the neighboring village of Barley, the Musikverein Long - barley eV

Attractions

St.Matthias church in the center
4000 years old stone grave in Rentrup
" Olle North Holter Schole " in Nordholte
Community center with multi-purpose hall in the center
Good in Grumsmühlen (old knight's seat )
Museum of the Homeland Association
Knopfmuseum
Highest elevation in the Emsland region Windmühlenberg. 94 m above sea level

Economy

Langen has a water plant in Grumsmühlen.

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