Balje

Balje [ baljə ] is a municipality in the district of Stade in Lower Saxony and since 1971 part of the velvet municipality Nordkehdingen.

2.1 Origin of the Place Names
2.2 religions
2.3 Population development

3.1 municipal
3.2 Mayor
3.3 Coat of Arms

4.1 Museums
4.2 associations
4.3 Structures
4.4 parks

5.1 traffic
5.2 Established businesses
5.3 Formation

6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical Location

Balje located in Kehdingen between Oste and Elbe - the city Brunsbuttel is located on the opposite bank of the Elbe. The landscape is dominated by the dike, the ( right on the Oste- mouth ) and Baljer outer dike is divided into sections horns outer dike, east to close the Wechtern outer dike and the Stellenfleth outer dike along.

Through the local area leads the country road 111, which connects Freiburg / Elbe with Neuhaus ( Oste).

The village lies on the German Fährstraße.

Geology

The Kehdinger land is moor and marsh area and is partly below sea level. The cultivated land was therefore formerly flooded regularly. Only extensive embankments were protected against storm floods the area on the south bank of the Elbe permanently.

Expansion of the municipal district

Since Balje is largely dominated by agriculture until today, take farmland, marshes and fruit farms a large part of the district. The districts draw accordingly to the roads that run through the area. Forest is hardly available in town.

Neighboring communities

Balje bordered to the west by Neuhaus ( Oste) and Belum, to the south and to the east by Geversdorf Oederquart and Krummendeich.

Community structure

Apart from the actual place Balje belong to the community following localities:

Elbdeich
Horne
Neuenhof
Old wiping
Kukenbüttel
Mill wiping
Wiping
Feldhof
Faulenhofe
Outer dike
Wehlken

Baljerdorf
Rittershausen
Süderdeich - West
Süderdeich East
Rosary
Hünkenbüttel
Egger Kamp
Width dike
Weather dike
Eggs village

History

The Kehdinger land originally represented is an island landscape of the Lower Elbe, the first around the time of gradually verschlickte, with three larger islands formed out: Baljer the island, the island cornices and Hamelwördener island. Pliny, who arrived with a Roman fleet to the Elbe, reported that Uferanier lived mainly from fishing, with nets made of reeds and bulrushes were filmed.

Under the Carolingians probably in Hamelwörden, somewhat east of the present Balje, a customs station exists. As a waterway, however, was not only the same, but also their numerous side creeks, especially as the country roads were often poorly passable and Bridges, and (later) locks made sure that even on the waterways of the marshland waterway was possible. During the Middle Ages formed on the originally consisting only of silt amphibious landscape a typical riparian vegetation, so the area as meadows was used while it was rather unsuitable for human use high moor at the moor.

Increased colonization of Moore took place after the end of the Thirty Years War, when especially destitute day laborers discovered the area as a settlement area, where they were usually assigned land from the peasants march. In addition to the agricultural use of the degradation of black peat was operated, which was required for the production of bricks; However, the labor-intensive recovery survived the industrialization not, because now cheaper competing products from other areas were available.

Ecclesiastical was under the church with its old church, which burned down later, the diocese of Bremen, whose territorial sovereignty, it also stood politically. Like other farming communities in the North Sea also, however, the Kehdinger farmers always enjoyed a degree of autonomy. Thus, the counts and the men who managed the land in the name of the bishop, were elected by the people, and as a court of appeal was the district court in Stade. In 1648, the area with the Peace of Westphalia in Sweden. In 1719 it fell to the Electorate of Hanover, with which it became Prussian in 1866. During World War II Balje hosted inter alia, the battery stick a Marineflak department for the protection of lying on the opposite side of the river at Brunsbuttel canal locks. Since 1947 Balje is part of Lower Saxony. Originally it was a municipality in the district Kehdingen, which in 1932 was integrated into the district of Stade.

Origin of place names

It is assumed Balga / bellows. That stands for Low German bellows "low, swampy place, stream ," Balje, bellows " trench or excavation, is still some water left, though the other expired", in Low German bellows " Flußrinne, arm of a large river, deep channel between sandbars on the coast ", middle Low German bellows, spherical " Watt depression in which fully retained even when the low tide water. "

The word is not only on the German North Sea coast in the name testifies ( bellows, Balje, Sielbalje, Baljer hole Ossenbalge ), but also in the Netherlands, Belgium and Northern France ( Bailly, a 1061 Allodium de Balgiis; Balgooi in Gelderland, a 1172 in pago qui Balgoie nuncupatur, and also in the German inland. .. bellows, OT von Baden -Baden; bellows, ON at Nienburg / Weser to a 1080 (K. 12-13 century, Adam von Bremen ) Balga, bellows, former harbor in Bremen, a 1384 iuxta Balgam ). .

Religions

The inhabitants of the municipality Balje are predominantly Protestant. The church is located in the district of Balje.

Population Development

( at December 31 )

Policy

Parish council

CDU: 8 seats
SPD: 3 seats

(As at municipal election on September 11, 2011)

Mayor

Hermann Boesch (CDU )

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Balje, which was awarded on 26 April 1948 shows in blue over silver with wave cut sign foot hovering a golden bell with clapper.

The coat of arms reminds us of a legend, according to which the Baljer should once have kidnapped the bells of the church Brunsbütteler during a flood. Then the bells should have called over at West Wind: "Well Brunsbuttel! " This should have lasted so long, until one day the Brunsbütteler by a flood of Kehdinger country came to help, but the bell leaving the Baljern.

Culture and sights

Museums

Natureum Niederelbe: Nature and Open-Air Museum

Clubs

At clubs are located in Balje:

Fishing club Balje "Hey Tütt "
Baljer Schützengesellschaft 1691
Mixed Choir Balje eV
Sozialverband Germany - Balje
Sports Club Balje
Rural Youth Balje
Fetenkomitäää Balje
FV Baljer lighthouse from 1904 e.V.

Structures

St. Mary's Church, brick building, built in 1938 on the site of the burned down medieval church.
Medieval village " Op de Horn ", in the district Horne: Gutsgelände with 8 buildings in the mediaeval style and a historic garden.
2 lighthouses on the shores of the Lower Elbe
The Ostesperrwerk

Parks

Garden of the village Op de Horn

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Connectivity across the street Freiburg- Geversdorf -Neuhaus, there following the B73 There is a bus service ( 2025) from Stade to Itzwörden - Geversdorf. Nearest train station is Cadenberge at the track Cuxhaven- Hamburg.

The northern section of the narrow- Kehdinger circular path which connected with Balje Freiburg / Elbe and Itzwörden, was already shut down in 1933 and until 1935 completely dismantled.

Established businesses

To companies in the city are: Two bank branches (Kreis Sparkasse, Volksbank ), the restaurant " French toast ," the hotel " Zwei Linden ", a guest house, farms for yacht equipment, dredging, window construction, wood construction, sewage, heating electric sanitary operation, steel construction, two joiner, a taxi company, the Super Brain Publisher & service, and a number of fruit growers and a service provider for agric. Businesses.

Education

Primary school ( Bahnhofstr. )

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

Prof. Dr. Hermann Schlichting ( born September 22, 1907 in Balje, † June 15, 1982 in Göttingen ) was a German fluid mechanics.

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