Bippen
Bippen is a member municipality of the velvet municipality Fuerstenau on the northwestern boundary of the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony.
- 2.1 Religion 2.1.1 Evangelical Church
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Town twinning
- 4.1 traffic
Geography
Geographical Location
Bippen is north of the Ankumer height and is bordered to the northeast by the Artland and to the west by the district of Emsland
Climate
Temperate maritime climate influenced by moist northwesterly winds from the North Sea. In the long-term mean air temperature reaches in Bippen 8.5-9.0 ° C and there are about 700 mm of precipitation. Between May and August, with an average of 20-25 can summer days ( climatological term for days when the maximum temperature exceeds 25 ° C ) can be expected.
Neighboring communities
Bippen bordered to the north by mountains, on the east by Eggermühlen, to the south by Fuerstenau and to the west by the district of Emsland with communities Andervenne, Handrup and Wettrup.
Community structure
Parts of communes:
- Bippen
- Dalum
- Hartlage - Lull
- Small Bokern
- Lonnerbecke
- Ohrte
- Ohrtermersch
- Vechtel
- Restrup
- Haneberg - Brockhausen
History
In the district of Dalum a hoard of the Corded Ware culture or individual grave culture was made in the 19th century. It was a Ösenhalsring and a very rare copper ax. Here lies the megalithic grave Dalum. In 1993, the 900 - year celebration was begangent ( mention in a document from the monastery of Corvey as " bipehem "). Bippen is a stage in the street of the megalithic culture.
Religion
Evangelical Church
The story Bippens is closely associated with their St. George's Church. This Evangelical Lutheran Church Bippen has the oldest church of the Osnabrück north country. Already 855, the church under the patronage of the monastery of Corvey. Even before the first millennium, here was a place of baptism for the residents of an area that corresponds to today's relatively accurate Samtgemeinde Fuerstenau. The reference to water may also be reflected in the place names. A theory is derived from the place name in any case " bipehem " of = " located on moving sources ".
The Romanesque predecessor is clearly visible from the outside today ( bricked arched windows, Schwagstorfer gate). The church tower was built in 1245.
The church was extended in 1490 to the east and received her Gothic style in three nave and polygonal Jochen 5/8-Chor. The cultivation of a sacristy was around 1700.
The interior comes from the Rococo and is unchanged ( 1695/1696 ). Altar with organ essay by Georg Gerhard Wessel from Osnabrück ( Crucifixion, figures of the apostles Peter and Paul, Tetragrammaton, King David).
Oldest piece of the interior is the baptismal font, a Bentheim Fuente ( 1200 ). Right next to the side entrance there are Wetzrillen.
To the evangelical parish consists of the villages Bippen Hekese, Döthen and Bockraden.
Incorporations
Today's unified community Bippen was formed at the local government reform 1 July 1972 from the formerly independent communities Bippen, Dalum, Hartlage, Small Bokern, Lonnerbecke, Ohrte, Ohrtermersch and Vechtel.
Population Development
The following overview shows the numbers of inhabitants of Bippen in each area and state on December 31.
The figures are extrapolations of the State Office for Statistics and communication technology Niedersachsen based on the census of 25 May 1987.
The figures from 1961 (June 6 ) and 1970 (May 27 ) is the census results, including places that were incorporated on 1 July 1972.
Place name
Old names of the place are: Bipeheim, Biphem, Bippehem, Bippehen, Byppehem, Bippen, Byphem, Bipham, Bypham, Byppen, Bipphe. Bippen is still not declared name. The second part is Low German " hem " for " Home, settlement, village." Perhaps the first part belongs to " shake ( earthquake ), shiver ". The naming could refer to yielding, swinging upon entering, trembling ground; this subject is by no means rare to observe, there are several places that have been designated pursuant to this soil properties so.
Policy
Parish council
The council currently has 13 members from three parties or groups. Mayor Helmut Tolsdorf (SPD).
The following table shows the local election results since 1996.
Twinning
- Community Paistu (Estonia)
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Federal highway 402 crosses the south-western parts of municipalities Lonnerbecke and Vechtel.
Bippen located on the road of the megalithic culture, the coming of Eggermühlen, performs, after Fuerstenau. About 100 meters along the road is in Restrup on a private plot of " Näpfchenstein ", also called " Deuvels stone ". In addition Bippen is involved in the Artland route.
The 1996 north of Spellenberg disused railway line Rheine - Quakenbruck runs from southwest to northeast by the municipality. Part of this route and the railway station in the municipality part Bippen be used for tourist trips with pedal-driven bicycle track cars.
The little train Lingen -mountain Quakenbruck perverted 1904-1952 by today's municipal area with stations in Ohrte, Ohrtermersch and Vechtel. The station was in Vechtel work site and lodging station for the trains in train.
The clock Transportation buses of the transport association Osnabrück to Quakenbruck and after Fuerstenau.