Beckdorf

Beckendorf ( with long e spoken; Low German Beekdörp ) is a municipality in Lower Saxony in the south of the district of Stade, about 25 km south-west of Hamburg. Its regional center is Buxtehude. The municipality consists of the villages of Goldbeck and Nindorf.

2.1 Origin of the name
2.2 Amalgamations

3.1 Bundestag elections
3.2 council elections 3.2.1 The first local elections
3.2.2 Current council

4.1 Beck villages Moor
4.2 Goldbach

5.1 Historical Buildings 5.1.1 Beekhoff
5.1.2 Castle Dannsee
5.1.3 barrows

6.1 Handball

7.1 Economics
7.2 traffic

8.1 Other persons who are connected with the community

Geography

Location

Beckendorf is on the Geest on Goldbach ( a tributary of the Este ), about 8 kilometers south of the old country and the glacial valley of the Elbe River, west of the Harburg Hills and a little further north-west of the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park. In the West, Beck villages Moor is located. The village itself is situated on a hill in the Goldbachtal, about 2.5 kilometers north of the Litbergs, which at 65 meters is the highest peak in the district of Stade.

Structure

In addition to the main town of the municipality includes two other districts:

Goldbeck ( Lage53.4055555555569.6294444444444 ): Further downstream at the Goldbach lies the district of Goldbeck, which could preserve its appearance has remained virtually unchanged from the mid-20th century. Agriculture is ubiquitous, as it was in all places of the region once. From here one can really hike the nearby Litberg, which is located south towards Sauensiek. To the east of the town are some gravel pits. Between Goldbeck and Rahmstorf is the burial ground of Goldbeck.

Nindorf ( Lage53.4161111111119.6530555555556 ): The district is located near the Este in the northeast of the community. His access roads are almost all single-lane paved roads. Together with the slightly abseitigen location of the resort provides for the pleasant little through traffic. Also this district remained rural character received so far.

North of Nindorf Nindorf is small, a hamlet consisting of a few farms.

History

Origin of the name

The name comes from the word Bek (or Beek ), which means in the Low German "Bach". So Analogously translated village by the stream. The name comes from Goldbeck Goldbek (or Goldbeek ), the Goldbach is also referred to as Low German Goldbek. Thus is the name of the district Goldbeck as the brook. The prefix of the stream gold originally called gull (or Gu ). Gull is derived from Gole and can be translated with elongated bottom depression or humid lowlands.

Incorporations

On 1 July 1972, the formerly independent communities Goldbeck and Nindorf were incorporated.

Policy

Bundestag elections

From 1949 to 1957, the majority of villages Beck chose the DP. When that no longer existed, the voices in the early 1960s distributed evenly between the CDU, SPD and FDP. As of 1965, the CDU became the most voted party in Beckendorf.

Local elections

The first local elections

Following local government reform in 1972 followed by the first elections of the municipal council. While at the first election five farmers were selected from nine old citizens in the Council, the number of elected farmers declined significantly in the second election in 1976. Seen by party politics was the CDU, the most selected in the 1970 party.

Current council

CDU 5 seats
SPD 7 seats
FWG 1 seat

(As at municipal election held on September 10, 2006 )

Mayor

Current mayor is Siegfried Stresow of the SPD.

Coat of arms

Beckendorf leads not have their own coat of arms, as the place since 1972 belongs to Samtgemeinde Apensen. In this case, the same coat of arms stands for all locations within this Samtgemeinde.

Landscape

The area is characterized by moors, meadows and pastures. Today, numerous bogs, meadows and pastures dominate the landscape on which mainly grazing dairy cattle and horses. Closest to your location, the surfaces are largely used for agriculture.

Beck villages Moor

The Beck villages bog is a wetland west of the town, which was gradually made by widely cultivated. By 1927, Tewes Hoeft, former mayor and farmer cultivated bog leads a country road, the village and the neighboring village of Beck Wiegersen connects. This road is known as Isern - Hinnerk - way or Wiegerser Kirchweg ( Wiegerser Kargweg ) and has been leading in the cultivation of the moor pave the then mayor Johann Wübbe.

Width Torfabbaugebiete extended once generally southwest to the neighboring towns and Sauensiek Wiegersen. When former peat cutting some well-preserved objects were found from different eras, some of which are exhibited in the Sweden Store Museum in Stade.

Goldbach

The Goldbach is a stream that flows across the places Beckendorf and Goldbeck and finally joins up with Moisburg in the Este. Its sources are located west of Beckendorf in the pelvic villages Moor. On its shores are many meadows and pastures, as well as some small riparian forests. Behind Goldbeck of the creek is dammed at the Goldbecker mill to a mill pond.

Culture and sights

Historical Buildings

Beekhoff

The transported in the 1990s after Beckendorf Beekhoff is one of the most beautiful altbäuerlichen facilities throughout Germany. It forms with the main house and its many outbuildings and stables a historically interesting courtyard. On it are held throughout the year various events. On the edge of the farm featured an authentic and working properly replica of a trebuchet was built in 2008, as it was used during the siege of the castle Dannsee, 1311. Coordinates: 53 ° 24 ' 40 "N, 9 ° 37 ' 4" O53.4111111111119.6177777777778

Castle Dannsee

Located in the pelvic villages Moor Castle Dannsee ( Tannen ) was a refuge of the resident here in the 14th century robber baron Isern Hinnerk ( Heinrich von Borch ). Due to his to his advantage thoughtful action, various raids in the region and due to vehement opposition against a bishop election, he was several times with the Archdiocese in feud. As a result, the castle was besieged and taken ultimately at the Battle of Beckendorf 1311 and completely destroyed by stone floors. Today only exists the floor plans of the different parts of the building as a replica. On the battlefield around the castle can still be found worked stones that were once fired by catapults on the fortress. From the Dannsee in the middle of the castle once stood, according to the 1850 onset of gradual silting only the remaining depression is practically invisible. Coordinates: 53 ° 24 ' 26 " N, 9 ° 34 ' 7 " O53.4072222222229.5686111111111

Barrow

In the west and south of the village are two tumuli. The north-western grave was named after the former mayor Tewes Hoeft ( teas sien Barg ), the south location is called Immsberg ( Immsbarg ). A whole barrow cemetery is located east of Goldbeck near the village Rahmstorf. As tumuli park it was in the 1920s and 1930s, like tourists and spa guests on walks visited (see burial ground of Goldbeck ).

Sports

Handball

In Beckendorf Handball plays a not insignificant role. The regionally highly successful SV Beckendorf was founded in 1924. From the local youth players managed inter alia to the first Handball - Bundesliga.

The sports center is located at the eastern entrance. There is since 1977 the sports hall "On the Delm ", the largest gym in the region. In the 1980s and 1990s, she was often the venue for the Beck villages harvest festival. The hall holds about 500 people. In almost every handball home game of the first gentlemen of the SCC it is sold out. Since the 2007/2008 season, the team plays in the third highest League of Handball.

Economy and infrastructure

Economy

In 's northern industrial area and Others Since 1999 you will find various service providers, a VW and Audi dealers, one of the largest employers in the town. Previously, the dealership was founded in 1927, continues in the town center.

Traffic

Beckendorf is connected via the paved since 1879 state road 130 to the neighboring towns and Apensen Sauensiek. It was renovated in the 1970s. The county road 52 connects the town continues with the community belonging to place Goldbeck, from which one enters the place Nindorf.

Since the expansion of the Hamburg Transport Association ( HVV) to surrounding counties in December 2004 Beckendorf is now in the direct catchment area. The place is of the two bus lines

2035 Buxtehude - Nindorf - Beckendorf - Sauensiek - Revenahe - Ahlerstedt and
2036 Buxtehude - Apensen - Beckendorf - Sauensiek - Wohnste

Served, but both do not operate on Sundays and public holidays.

Built in 1901 the railway line to Bremervörde or beech in the North Heide Harsefeld and Coquille ( EVB, planned earlier as part of the connection Bremerhaven - Berlin) was dismantled in 2006. Until May 25, 1968 drove here passenger trains. Then in 1902, inaugurated station was used only as a loading station for potatoes and turnips, to which was also no longer lucrative.

Personalities

Other personalities who are associated with the community

Isern Hinnerk ( Heinrich von Borch ), a robber baron who built a refuge in the pelvic villages Moor in the 14th century.
Tewes Hoeft (1863-1931), a farmer from swingarm, the einheiratete Vökers in Beck Strand restaurant family and finally the beginning of the 20th century became mayor. It also claimed the village, as he built 1913/14, an inn with 12 guest rooms, central heating and a telephone exchange (telephone), in the 1920s, drive tourism and Beckendorf in the meantime turned into a spa resort by a playground, and in 1931 a swimming pool was built in Beckendorf. In 1927 he was cultivating the Beck villages Moor, so that new cropland and grazing land was available. Hoeft family was the most prosperous in the village and could not afford by these achievements as first an automobile; Hoefts son could continue the tavern through the 1950s, but with steady losses. After the pelvic villages Heinrich Prigge took over the operation, a late 1970s -built residential street and one of the burial mounds was named after Tewes Hoeft.

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