Apen

The community Apen ( Low German Aap ) is the westernmost municipality in the district Ammer district of Lower Saxony.

  • 3.1 Religion
  • 3.2 Population development
  • 3.3 Place name
  • 4.1 municipal
  • 4.2 Mayor
  • 4.3 Coat of Arms
  • 4.4 community partnership
  • 5.1 theater
  • 5.2 Museums
  • 5.3 Music
  • 5.4 Structures
  • 5.5 Regular events
  • 5.6 Specialty
  • 6.1 traffic
  • 6.2 Education
  • 6.3 Public bodies
  • 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

The municipality is located in the Apen belonging to Oldenburg Geest natural unit of the Aper Geest edge. It is located in the catchment area of the river Ems and thus even in the tidal area. The difference in height between high and low tide is about six feet. In recent decades, extensive dike protection and compensation measures took place. They prevent a large-scale flooding of the municipal area in the winter months. The nearest major town is Oldenburg ( Oldenburg), about 32 km east of Apen.

Neighboring communities

Apen is bordered ( clockwise starting in the east) from the city Westerstede, the neighboring communities Edewecht ( county Ammerland ) Barßel ​​( Cloppenburg ) Detern and Uplengen / Remels (both in idle ).

Community structure

The municipality consists of the following 9 peasantry:

  • Apen with Roggenmoor and parts of Klauhörn and Lengenermoor
  • I Augustfehn
  • Augustfehn Augustfehn II with III and the Apen not pertinent parts of Klauhörn and Legenermoor
  • Espern with Aperfeld, Apermarsch, Godensholterweg, cleats and angle
  • Godensholt with Godensholterfeld
  • Hengstforde with Aperberg, Hengstforderfeld and parts of Nordloh channel
  • Nordloh with parts of Nordloh channel
  • Tange with parts of Nordloh channel
  • Vreschen - Bokel with Bokelermoor and Holt guest

Climatic conditions

Due to its proximity to the North Sea prevails in the community Apen a year-round temperate maritime climate.

History

First historical mentions of the place Apen can already be found in 1230, when the Knights of Apen contributed to the Count of Oldenburg military service. Around this time, the St Nicholas Church was built. In 1340 the first windmill was built in Apen Ammer country. Apen was for centuries the most important fortress town of Ammerland against the East Frisian " abroad ". 1457 Apen went up in flames in a feud between the East Frisian and Oldenburgers. In subsequent years it came in Apen repeatedly fires, such as 1465, 1468, 1473rd In 1538, the fortress was conquered by Apen Prince-Bishop of Münster.

In 1582 Count Johann of Oldenburg taught in Apen a two markets. 1778 the fortress was razed. Only the former moat is still there today.

Religion

  • Evangelical Lutheran Church The Lutheran. Apen municipality belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Oldenburg and here the church circle bunting country has about 8,500 church members, which are supplied by three pastors.
  • Catholic Church The Catholic Chapel of St. John in Apen - Augustfehn and the Heart of Jesus Parish in Westerstede were merged into a common parish. The former parish of St. John has about 750 parishioners.
  • Evangelical Free Church congregation ( Baptists ) Augustfehn The Evangelical Free Church congregation had in the year 2005 192 baptized members (excluding children and friends ). In 2006, she founded a branch church in Ostrhauderfehn, the 2013 gained independence.

Apen, church

Population Development

The town itself has about 2,300 inhabitants Apen. The largest town in the municipality has about 2,900 inhabitants Augustfehn.

Place name

Former place names of Apen were in the years 1233 Apen, 1242 Apen, 1260/70 Apen, 1379 and 1420 Apen Apen. Previously it was an important border town on the water and land to East Friesland. The fortress was built around 1515 (supposedly on the site of a castle built around 1000 by the Junkers Apen, however, discovered by the excavations in 1969 no trace ) was expanded 1710-1730 to a fort that 1773 - 1780 was razed.

Policy

Parish council

Mayor

Mayor Matthias Huber ( SPD).

Coat of arms

The heraldic description of the emblem is:

In gold over blue sign foot a red fortress gate flanked by two towers with black roofs and windows.

The Council of the Municipality Apen deliberately chose the picture of the former fortress Apen as a coat of arms. The mapping of the fortress is guided in the official seal since 1934 and has become an icon for the community. The majority of the population in the official seal already the typical crest for Apen. The fortress is linked by the former Office of Apen and the later church Apen closely with the landscape. In particular, because the foundations of the fortress were exposed and the former moat still exists today. The Council had initially chosen the stamp image. On the advice of the Lower Saxony State Archives Oldenburg, however, a simplification was adopted by the Council, because too many towers and turrets had unheraldisch. The towers are supposed to represent the fort and flanking the gate with the typical for the Apener fortress prongs gable. As colors are: blue, red, gold (yellow) and black selected. The blue is supposed to represent the moat and crisscrossed by innumerable rivers and canals landscape. The red represents the vast construction in red brick represents the fortress was made ​​of bricks and the churches in the community are built of these stones. The black is a symbol of the former industrial settlement in the western part of the municipality. The gold was chosen to have a background that accompanies the aforementioned colors. Also, these colors are consistent with those of the county Ammer country.

Community partnership

The community performs a partnership with the Polish community Gizalki. Gizalki is part of the district Plescew, which in turn partner county of the district Ammer country.

Culture and sights

Theater

  • Männeken Theatre, the Puppet Theatre Annes stage. Anne's puppet and marionette theater has become nationally known and enjoys a good reputation. On the program are not only their own performances and other theaters in the theater, its repertoire for the best.

Museums

  • Ammerlander ham museum; oldest Schinkenräucherei of Ammerland founded in 1748 as an "active" witness the traditional Ammerlander ham production is dedicated to the ham museum in particular the preservation of Colorful Bentheim pigs

Music

  • Fehntjer shanty choir Augustfehn
  • Ten Sing Apen / Augustfehn
  • Da Capo
  • The children's choir " Aper tower sparrows "

Structures

  • Historic iron works in the town square in Augustfehn, exhibits from the iron processing, monument in the form of a bronze bust of its namesake of Augustfehn - Grand Duke Paul Friedrich August of Oldenburg
  • St. Nicolai Church in Apen
  • Chapel in Vreschen - Bokel
  • Windmill in Hengstforde
  • Road bridge at the Aper Tief

Regular events

  • Grain mowing in Aperberg, the historic harvest festival in the North
  • Spring meeting in Augustfehn (first weekend in April )
  • Marksmen Augustfehn II ( Pentecost weekend )
  • Marksmen in Augustfehn - Bokel ( mid-June )
  • Feast of Lanterns 1000 in Augustfehn (last weekend in July )
  • Farmer's market in Tangerang
  • Spring and autumn market in Apen
  • Marksmen in Godensholt
  • Young herring festival in Apen
  • Oktoberfest in Apen
  • Reitertage the pony and horse lovers Augustfehn
  • Football ( indoors ) Tournaments steel mill or HRS Augustfehn
  • Early dance on Pentecost Sunday at the disco Tange

Specialty

As a special culinary specialties (not just in the community Apen ) in long -ripened, mild smoked ham Ammerlander as well as the kale meal with this traditionally carried out carbon ride apply.

Economy and infrastructure

Apen is the seat installation at AMF Bruns.

Traffic

The train station of Augustfehn is a train station and is located on the railway line Oldenburg- Leer. Nearest train station to the east is the station Westerstede - Ocholt, in a westerly direction to reach the empty station. Augustfehn is the last stop of the transport association Bremen -Niedersachsen ( VBN ), the station is no longer empty concurred.

About 4 km to the north runs the Federal Highway 28 in east-west direction. The motorway exit is Apen / Remels.

Education

  • Primary school Augustfehn I
  • At the primary school steelworks
  • Primary school Apen
  • Primary school Nordloh
  • Apen branch of the high school Westerstede European School
  • Elementary and secondary school Augustfehn
  • Apen branch of elementary and secondary school Augustfehn

Public institutions

  • Outdoor pool Hengstforde In Hengstforde the outdoor pool is a 50 - meter pool and 70 -meter mega-slide at a water temperature of 24-25 degrees. There is a parent- child area and a modern Kioskbetrieb

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Wilfried Huisman, journalist ( b. 1951 )
  • Rainer Scheithauer, rector of the Hochschule Furtwangen University (1953-2005)
  • Ursula Hinrichs, actress (including New from Süderhof, The Ohnsorgs ) ( b. 1935 )
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