Artland
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The Samtgemeinde Artland is a community association in the northern district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, based in the city Quakenbruck and an independent municipality. Your member communities are Badbergen, Menslage, Nortrup and the city Quakenbruck.
The integrated municipality is bordered to the south by the joint communities Fuerstenau and Bersenbrueck of the district of Osnabrück, in the west on the Emsland district, in the north of the district of Cloppenburg and on the east by the district of Vechta. It lies in a shallow moraine landscape with an average elevation of 25 meters above sea level. Your extension is in a north-south direction and 15 km in east-west direction 25 km and its total area 189 km ².
- 2.1 Population development
- 4.1 Samtgemeinderat
- 4.2 Coat of Arms, Flag and seal of
- 5.1 WWTP
Geography
Geographical location
The integrated municipality is located in a flood plain of the North German Plain, which is traversed by the hare and forms an inland delta in Quakenbruck.
Geology
Because of the low gradient, the hare formed several branches of the river and there was the hare - inland delta, which is mainly resulting from glaziofluviatilen, so leading during the Ice Age by the action of glacial meltwater river sediments.
Drilling has shown that the soil consists primarily of clayey and sandy deposits of the Pleistocene. The top soil layer has a thickness of five to seven meters and is underlain by one to ten meter thick clay and marligen sediment layer. Sandy layers at a depth of 25 to 30 meters form a productive aquifer for groundwater extraction. The uppermost aquifer is at a depth of two to six meters.
Samtgemeinde outline
Comprises the Municipality
- The city center as well as a means Quakenbruck
- The member communities Badbergen, Menslage and Nortrup.
It is only partially identical to the landscape termed Artland.
History
The Samtgemeinde Artland was formed in the course of municipal reform in accordance with § 73 paragraph 2 of the Lower Saxony Municipal Code with effect from July 29, 1972. Until then it was occupied since 1309 Artland no political unity, but described a over the centuries changing in terms of their historical and cultural expansion region (see: The Artland as a landscape ).
The project Artland cultural treasure of the working group "Future Home Country " is especially devoted to the farm Cultural and historical architectural substance in this region.
Population Development
The following overview shows the numbers of inhabitants of the velvet municipality Artland in the respective territorial status and December 31 respectively.
The figures are extrapolations of the State Office for Statistics and communication technology Niedersachsen based on the census of 25 May 1987.
1Ab 2008 contain the migration data underlying messages of the message authorities numerous registers cleanup operations which have been carried out following the introduction of the personal tax identification number. Therefore, the data are only indicative value.
Location
The Samtgemeinde Artland is spatially almost exactly between the regional centers of Oldenburg and Osnabrück. The established companies make the Samtgemeinde the largest industrial site in the northern area of Osnabrück.
2005 the Municipality won by the Lower Saxony Cities and Municipalities ( NSGB ) a competition called " SME -friendly municipalities in Lower Saxony ".
Policy
Samtgemeinderat
The Samtgemeinderat currently has 34 members from 5 parties or groups. In addition, the integrated municipality mayor Reinhard Scholz comes (CDU ) as a voting member of the Council. Council President Dietmar Berger (SPD).
The following table shows the local election results since 1996.
Coat of arms, flag and official seal
The Samtgemeinde Artland leads a coat of arms, a flag and an official seal, which are defined in § 2 of the main statute.
" Split of red and silver in the shaft section, in mistook colors in two mutually turned dragon without wings and claws. "
The dragon without wings and claws is the so -called " Artland Dragon" lead the arms of the member communities Badbergen, Menslage and Nortrup each also split in sign in the front field. This Artländer Dragon, also known as " Drudemänneken ", found often on products manufactured Artland furniture.
" The colors of the flag of the velvet municipality are red and white; it shows the symbol is the coat of arms. "
The official seal includes the coat of arms and the name " Samtgemeinde Artland ".
Economy and infrastructure
At large companies, the companies reputation food, Lear Corporation, PPS Pipeline Systems and the research and development facility have settled the German Institute of Food Technologies ( DIL) in Quakenbruck. The meat factory Kemper and Delkeskamp packaging Werke GmbH located in Nortrup, Artland meat products in Badbergen.
In post-war Germany, the most important for the region was the company Company Kynast, is largely meaningless, based in the Quakenbrücker Neustadt, which employed more than 2,500 people, but now, after two bankruptcies than 2005 newly founded Kynast -Steel GmbH. Also, once established in the local industrial area factories for mattress production ( " Schlaraffia " ) and chemical paint industry as well as engineering companies did not survive the structural crisis of the 1980s.
Sewage plant
In September 2007, a new wastewater treatment plant at the Plück man road 27 was taken into operation Quakenbruck. The old sewage treatment plant located in the same place from 1957 could not be continued despite ongoing remediation measures from Water Association Bersenbrueck. After commitment of state funds for the estimated total of 6.7 million euro construction project in 2005, the groundbreaking ceremony was done. The result are on the site of the old sewage treatment plant a central sewage treatment plant, consisting of a power house with Schlammeindick and sludge dewatering plant. In the new cogeneration plant be erected the resulting biogas is already being used to generate electricity, to also help drive down the cost of electricity. Outdated operating rooms such as workshop, warehouse, laboratory and sanitary facilities are also given way to a new building. But the complete mechanical and electrical engineering was redeveloped.