Siedenburg
Siedenburg is a patch in Diepholz in Lower Saxony.
- 4.1 municipal
- 4.2 Mayor
- 4.3 Coat of Arms
- 5.1 traffic
Districts
- Siedenburg
- Päpsen
Geography
Siedenburg located near the natural park Geest and the Natural Park Steinhude approximately in the middle between Nienburg / Weser and Sulingen. The municipality is the administrative seat of the velvet municipality Siedenburg, with the places Borstel, Maassen, Mellinghausen, Siedenburg and Staffhorst.
By Siedenburg the boiling flows. It is eponymous for the place.
History
For the first time Siedenburg castle was mentioned in 1294 in the chronicle of country bailiff Marquard of testicular castle who used the lost " Bückener annals ". At that time the fortress was captured and recovered. At the same time apparently developed before the castle of the spots Siedenburg, but the further part of the parish Mellinghausen. As of 1372, the Counts of Hoya appear as rulers, the castle and the Bailiwick Siedenburg often pledged. 1582 changed lock, office and spots Siedenburg together with the county Hoya in the country's rule of the dukes of Brunswick- Lüneburg.
By 1932, the area of the circle Siedenburg Sulingen belonged, then to the district county Diepholz.
Since August 1, 1977 Siedenburg belongs to the district Diepholz.
Incorporations
On March 1, 1974, the neighboring community Päpsen was incorporated.
Policy
Parish council
The municipal council of Siedenburg is composed of eleven members of the electorate Community Siedenburg. (As at municipal election on September 11, 2011)
Mayor
The honorary mayor Arnold Runge was elected on November 8, 2006.
Coat of arms
Blazon: ". Connected in a golden shield langgestieltes three-leafed green shamrock, resting between two upright averted by pleura, rotbewehrten black bear paws " The coat of arms of the patch goes back to the neighboring lords of Staffhorst. Representatives of this hoyaschen low noble family sat in the 15th century as a pledge masters and bailiff at Castle Siedenburg. Maybe the stains owes a bailiff of Staffhorst (not received ) privilege, as the heraldry of all other hoyaschen towns and villages is characterized in that they bear paw ( single or double) - the coat of arms of the Counts of Hoya - has the coat of arms.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
The community is located near the national road 214 between Sulingen and Nienburg / Weser.