Eystrup (Samtgemeinde)

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The Samtgemeinde Eystrup was an integrated municipality of the district Nienburg / Weser in Lower Saxony with administrative headquarters in Eystrup. 2011 merged the Municipality Eystrup with the integrated municipality county Hoya.

  • 2.1 Population development
  • 3.1 community partnership
  • 3.2 Fusion of communities within the Samtgemeinde
  • 4.1 Natural Monuments
  • 5.1 traffic

Geography

The Samtgemeinde lay on the river Weser in a marsh and Geest.

Samtgemeinde outline

History

Population Development

( at December 31 )

Policy

Community partnership

Hassel maintains a partnership with the community Kirchehrenbach.

Merger of municipalities within the Samtgemeinde

The financial reasons, planned for 2006 merger of the municipalities Eystrup and Gandesbergen was rejected by the council Gandesbergener.

Culture and sights

  • In Eystrup is a church, whose foundations date from the 12th century.
  • In Hassel, there is a more than 1,000 -year-old fortified church, which was restored and for a village contains remarkable ceiling paintings.
  • In addition, Hassel is an important locality of the Paleolithic, as a drum from this period was found during excavations at the so-called Gallows Hill. This place served from the Stone Age to the 19th century as a place of execution.
  • Also significant are many preserved farms in Lower Saxony classic style, as well
  • The preserved and renovated gallery Dutch windmill.
  • Museum Railway

Natural Monuments

  • In the nature reserve Alhuser Ahe, a lowland forest area (22 ha) between Hassel and Hoya, blooms in late March / early April of Corydalis (white and purple).

Economy and infrastructure

The region is heavily influenced by agriculture. In the Samtgemeinde Eystrup is of great importance in the cultivation of asparagus.

The secondary sector is represented with a jam factory, a mustard factory and a toy manufacturer in Eystrup.

Furthermore Eystrup is the center for all surrounding communities. The public infrastructure of the velvet municipality is centrally located here. The town hall, primary school, kindergarten and an old age home are here. The public utility infrastructure is represented, among others supermarkets, doctors, a pharmacy, post office and a railway station. A branch of the VHS offers courses.

Also a sports club and various shooting clubs, which originate from the former self-sufficient villages, from which Eystrup is in the core, are represented.

Traffic

By Samtgemeinde Eystrup the federal highway 215 runs Eystrup has a station on the main railway route Bremen - Hannover and at the Weser -Aller -Bahn from Rotenburg ( Wümme) to Minden in Westphalia.

Administrative centre Grafschaft Hoya (Samtgemeinde) Hassel (Weser) Riparian forest Hoya, Germany Adult high school Hanover Weser-Aller Railway
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