Dörverden

Dörverden is a unified community in the south of the district of Verden.

• 2.1 Place name
• 2.2 Amalgamations

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms

• 4.1 Church
• 4.2 mill

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Media
• 5.3 Former Bundeswehr property
• 5.4 Public bodies

Geography

Geographical Location

Dörverden is north of the Middle Weser region. The rivers Aller and Weser form an east-west boundary of the municipality.

Structure of the community

Since the 1972 local government reorganization include the previously independent municipalities ancestor mountains, Barme, Barnstedt Diensthop, sleeves, Stedebergen, Wahnebergen and west to Dörverden and Stedorf and Geestemünde field.

History

Numerous burial mounds from the Bronze Age suggest a settlement between 2000 BC and 1200 BC. Excavations on the southern outskirts occupy a tomb from the Iron Age (from 800 BC). In the district sleeves remains of a longhouse from the time of Christ's birth were found during excavations. The earliest recorded mention is demonstrated for Barme and Drübber 1076-1084 AD. The church today is in the Aller- Weser triangle, which was fought between the bishops of Verden, the Duchy of Brunswick -Lüneburg and the County of Hoya. Only in 1575 there was a settlement between the parties. After the extinction of Hoyaer counts and the end of the bishopric of Verden after the Thirty Years War, the region fell to the Dukes of Brunswick- Lüneburg.

Of economic importance of the connection to the railway network (1847 ), the reduction of rock salt deposits in sleeves and ancestor Bergen ( 1911), the Weser barrage with lock and power plant (1912 ) and the construction were in modern times of a gunpowder factory of Eibia in the forest between Dörverden and Barme (from 1934).

The Lower Barracks was completed in 1958 and was until the site closed in 2003 purchased from the Bundeswehr. Since April 2010, is located on the former barracks a Wolf Center.

Place name

The Claudius Ptolemy († 175 ) mentioned " Tulifurdon " has long been accepted as Dörverden, but other places claim the same for themselves (eg Daverden, Verden and Hannover). The name suffix - verde means ford.

There is an anecdotal explanations for the place name: A hiker came from the north and wanted to Verden, but was so exhausted that he exclaimed: "Oh I have to die in the sand ". At this point, the town of Achim was born. But he could go further. At last he saw from afar Verden. Redeemed he cried, "There Verden "; at this point was the place Daverden. He came to Verden and recovered. But it did not please him there. He wandered further south and called liberated: "Finally, dör Verden "; at this point was the place Dörverden.

Incorporations

With effect from 1 October 1962 Dörverden and Stedorf joined together voluntarily. On January 1, 1971, added Diensthop. On July 1, 1972 through the merger of the former municipalities Barme, Dörverden, sleeves, Wahnebergen ( with the incorporated on February 1, 1971 places ancestor mountains and Stedebergen ) and west ( with the recorded on February 1, 1971 neighboring community Barnstedt ) today's united community Dörverden formed.

Policy

Parish council

The Council of the Municipality Dörverden Council consists of 24 women and aldermen and the mayor full- Karin Meyer ( SPD).

• CDU 9 seats ( 39.14 %)
• SPD 9 seats ( 35.83 %)
• Green List 3 seats ( 11.24% )
• UWDuD 2 seats ( 9.57 %)
• The LEFT 1 seat ( 2.22% )

(As at municipal election on September 11, 2011)

Coat of arms

Blazon: " On a blue signs reason, a silver wave oblique beams in the upper box to the right gable cross with out-turned horse heads. Below left is a windmill. "

The coat of arms of Dörverden and surrounding (now of inserted ) Localities ( Barme, Diensthop, Stedorf ) were obtained from the heraldist Heinz Bannier ( born December 12, 1912 † August 26, 1999, he led the Lower Saxony Wappenrolle 1983-1991 ) designed. The silver shaft oblique bar that divides the coat of arms symbolizes the Weser. Beneath is a windmill, the predecessor of today's existing at the old cemetery Gallery Holla Santander mill. The gable cross with the crossed horse heads are intended to identify the membership of Lower Saxony.

A coat of arms " AMBT West 1679 " was drawn by Heinz Bannier of a seal of the former " Ambtes West", which existed from 1679 to 1859, in the 1980s. However, the former municipality of West had no coat of arms.

Coat drawings of localities ancestor mountains, Barnstedt Geestemünde field Stedebergen, Wahnebergen are shown "The book on the town Dörverden " (2005) in. They are privately designed and were not official coat of arms.

The coat of arms of the former municipality has sleeves Prof. Karl Fighting, Fallingbostel designed.

Culture and sights

Church

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Cosmae et Damiani is a rectangular hall church, Romanesque in the core. The three western yokes are built in the Romanesque style from Porta sandstone. The western yoke still leaves to its enormous wall thickness realize that it originally bore the tower. In the 15th century the church was extended eastwards by a brick cultivation in the width of the old ship. The Ostabschluss forms a gable with slender pointed arch blind arches. The church windows were enlarged later in some rough way. After the old tower was go missing, Conrad Wilhelm Hase 1877/78 added to a neo-Gothic church steeple on the west side of the church. The interior of the church is vaulted. The walls of the Romanesque part have the remains of a Roman wall structure, which are covered by the service pillar and shield ribs of the vault in part; obviously the vault was added only later. The late Gothic cultivation in the East was originally covered by a six- star vault. After this vault was removed in 1843, the eastern part is spanned since 1962 by two yokes, each with four-part band ribbed vault of stucco. Located on the walls of the eastern part at eye level, a circumferential arch frieze. The Baroque altarpiece was designed in 1750 by the Verden artist Arnold Meyer. In the middle he wears a panel showing Mary and the disciple John, beneath the cross of Christ. The pulpit dates from the Rococo and has typical rocaille ornamentation on. She was put in place of the panel painting later in the altarpiece; today it stands freely on the north side of the choir. The baptismal font dates from the 13th century and has the shape of an inverted Faltkuppel; because the original foot is missing, it is now set to an old millstone. The Church in Dörverden was formerly closely associated with the Verden Cathedral. Supposedly it was built at the same time with him. She was one loud recording of church visitation of 1585 to the board of the benefice bishop of Verden and the Domdekan awarded the pastorate. Today it belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Verden.

Mill

Already in 1148 a windmill is mentioned. A post mill is assigned to the 15th century, which was destroyed in 1856 by fire. In 1857, the current gallery - Dutch mill was built, which was renovated in 1994 fully functional.

Dörverden had a second Built in 1855 Holländermühle ( Meyer or Geil mill; corner Diensthoper Street / Dröge Kamp ), but which could not be rehabilitated. It was demolished in 2003.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

The distance via the federal highway 215 to the city of Verden is about 8 km. On the rail network of the Deutsche Bahn Dörverden is connected to the routes Hannover- Bremen - Verden - Nienburg and the Weser -Aller -Bahn from Rotenburg ( Wümme) about Verden and Nienburg to Minden on the Station reopened in 2000.

Media

Lower Saxony's TV station FAN Television has its headquarters in Dörverden.

Former Bundeswehr property

In the district of Lower Saxony Barme the barracks in 1958 newly built. At times there were up to 4,000 soldiers of the Bundeswehr and the U.S. armed forces as well as site management in the district Drübber. After troop reductions in 2003 the site was finally abandoned altogether.

In the district of Diensthop was a special ammunition storage.

Today Dörverden is struggling with serious economic and financial problems, which can be seen as a result of the withdrawal of the Bundeswehr. So much of the former army have fallen fallow ground, the barracks until today.

A part of the site which Heisenhof was used by the army a long time as an officer 's home. In 2004 he was sent to the right-wing Wilhelm Tietjen Foundation for fertilization Ltd.. sold. That brought the place Dörverden in the context of neo-Nazi intrigues frequently Germany headlines by one. To the Heisenhof there after the liquidation of the Wilhelm Tietjen Foundation by British authorities to date a dispute (as of June 2010).

A small part of the site was sold in early 2010 to a Spezialzoo for wolves, the privately operated Wolf Center. The community Dörverden hoped so to attract tourists.

For another part of the former army site subsequent use by the specialized in the construction of railways Wiebe is under discussion.

Public institutions

In Dörverden a large nursing home is sponsored by the district ( house Hesterberg ) and a privately operated nursing home (House Rose). Nearest hospitals are the Aller -Weser Clinic in Verden (Aller ) and the Middle Weser Hospital (part of the Rhön-Klinikum ) in Nienburg / Weser.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Basil of Ramdohr (1757-1822), lawyer, journalist, writer and diplomat
• Kuno Kruse (* 1953), journalist and author
• Giegold (born 1969 ), economist and politician