Drangstedt

Drangstedt ( Low German Drang ) is a municipality in Lower Saxony with 1,500 inhabitants in the district of Cuxhaven, and part of the velvet municipality Bederkesa in the Elbe -Weser triangle between the cities of Bremerhaven, Cuxhaven and Bremervörde.

  • 3.1 Regular events
  • 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town

History

The location and name of Drang Stede originated around 500 BC to 300 BC and be due to a previously existing there livestock watering; because only at this time were given places on the Geest a name ending in- stedt. Drangstedt is first documented in the year 1312. Proven in the district live humans for more than 6000 years. The megaliths of Drangstedt are in the " stick of wood " between the L120 (Port Road ) and the railway line. In the surrounding area there are approximately 100 tumuli exist that are at least 4000 years old. Over time, however, all were opened and ransacked. In his way is the largest contiguous burial ground in Europe.

Policy

Parish council

The Council of the Municipality Drangstedt is made up of 11 council women and councilors and elected from within the Council mayor.

Conditions: Local election September 10, 2011

Culture and sights

In the list of monuments in Drangstedt are registered in the list of monuments of the country district Cuxhaven monuments.

Regular events

  • Holy Saturday: Easter fire
  • Pentecost: maypole
  • July: Sports Week

Economy and infrastructure

The originally pure Farming place lost its rural character with the construction of the railway in 1896 from Bremerhaven to Bad Bederkesa. Businessmen and captains of Bremerhaven and surroundings here built spacious houses, some of which are under monument protection. The road access to the lying nearby port city enabled many rural residents job opportunities in port handling. The railway line was closed for passenger traffic in 1968, but meanwhile traveled by the Railway Museum Bremerhaven Bederkesa as a railway line in the style of the 1950s regularly again. The municipality belongs to a forest area of 6.34 km ², one of the largest forest areas in the district of Cuxhaven and thus attraction for recreation seekers.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Brigitte Adler (1944-2004), politician (SPD ), member of parliament in Baden- Württemberg, Member of Parliament
  • Werner Hoyer ( b. 1946 ), politician from Bremerhaven ( SPD) and member of the Bremen City Parliament ( 1983-2003 ).
Cuxhaven (district) Bederkesa (Samtgemeinde) Elbe–Weser triangle Municipal council Armstorf Belum Beverstedt Cadenberge Cappel, Lower Saxony Dorum Elmlohe Geversdorf Hagen im Bremischen Hechthausen Hollnseth Langen, Cuxhaven Loxstedt Midlum, Lower Saxony Misselwarden Mittelstenahe Mulsum Oberndorf, Lower Saxony Osten Ringstedt Schiffdorf Wingst Wremen
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