Goldenstedt

Goldenstedt is a municipality in the district of Vechta, in Lower Saxony.

• 2.1 Amalgamations

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms

• 4.1 Concert Ellenstedt
• 4.2 Structures
• 4.3 Nature
• 4.4 Sport

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Enterprise and Industry Structure
• 5.3 energy

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 6.2 personalities to bring to the community in conjunction

Geography

Geographical Location

The community Goldenstedt that around 12 km south of Wildeshausen south of the nature park is located Geest, is framed in the east of the river Hunte, the West by the State Forest " Mr. Wood " and in the south by the Great Moor.

Climate

Temperate maritime climate influenced by moist northwesterly winds from the North Sea. In the long-term mean air temperature reaches in Goldenstedt 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.

History

The church is first mentioned in records in 1080. One told of Carl Heinrich Nieberding legend says that the name of the place is just like the "Golden bridge" over the Hunte at Goldenstedt be due to an incident in 1011. The 1974 part of the Lower Saxon municipal reform resist will of the people is my finished town Lutten is already called 872.

Goldenstedt became known mixtum by the Simultaneum. It originated in the period from 1650 to 1850 During this time the place was on the border of two regions with different confessions rule. Catholic Niederstift Münster and the Protestant areas of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Hannover. 1817 ended the joint rule, and in 1850, mixtum after the construction of a Protestant church in Goldenstedt, also the Simultaneum. On this subject the writer Bernd Kessens wrote the sensational novel " and at the feet of a golden clock ".

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the neighboring community Lutten was incorporated.

Policy

Parish council

The 24 seats of the council are distributed as follows:

(As at municipal election on September 11, 2011)

Coat of arms

Description: In gold a blue ax with the blade pointing to the right accompanied by 6 red balls.

Symbolism: The coat of arms of the municipality Goldenstedt shows an ax with 6 coins. The ax points to an existing anciently wood dish. The right and left of the ax out coins point to a legend which is used for explanation of the name " Goldenstedt ". Thereafter, the subjects of the Count from neighboring Diepholz received this with his young wife, the daughter of a Swedish king, on the border of the parish, where today leads the bridge over the river Hunte. The newlyweds threw here a lot of gold coins among the people. Since that time, the bridge bears the name " Golden Bridge " and the golden place of the name " Goldenstedt ".

Culture and sights

Concert Ellenstedt

The band was founded in 1928 in Ellenstedt, in the municipality of Goldenstedt. The orchestra has an annual 35-40 inserts for different occasions. The repertoire ranges from classical music to folk music march to medleys of well-known musicals. Board and director of the association expected by the members of an education at a local music school. The more training and the subsequent integration of young people in the orchestra is a major concern of the association.

Structures

Since 2008 Goldenstedt is located at the Lower Saxony Mill Road. A station is the steam mill in a. As a cultural monument worth seeing applies the castle wall " Arkeburg ". In A and Lahr prehistoric barrows are found. The East German homeland and traditional taverns are Ambergen. Since 2013, the steel sculpture " golden rain " of the forged artist Alfred Buller man from Friesoythe spans the Hunte south of the "Golden Bridge ".

Nature

On the edge of the nature reserve Goldenstedter Moor is the nationally known nature conservation information center with the house in the bog, named NIZ. The NIZ is connected, are grown in the danger of extinction, regionally important varieties of fruit garden. Large parts of the community Goldenstedt belong to the Natural Park Geest.

Between the NIZ in Goldenstedt and the " Barnstorfer environmental experience center ( BÜZ ) " runs in the warm season regularly Bimmelbahn January Spieker.

• Mr. wood
• Recreation park Hartensbergsee

Orchard by the house in the bog

Woods Herrenholz

Hartensbergsee

Barrow cemetery in the woods near a

Sports

Since 2003, takes place annually the Moor Marathon.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Goldenstedt is located directly on the railway line Delmenhorst Hesepe. There are railway stations in Goldenstedt and air tubes that are served by the trains of the North Western Railway each hourly.

Since August 2006, the town link is blocked by Goldenstedt for heavy traffic. The cross-town air tubes ( county road 254), however, is heavily burdened by a truck traffic, which is why the population is now seeking a public petition the no entry. The delivery vehicles are exempt.

The running in the east-west direction the country road 881 connects from Twist rings ( Circle Diepholz ) leave Goldenstedt with air tubes and leads before her the northern bypass Vechta branches, on up in the Vechta downtown.

Companies and industry structure

The economic structure in Goldenstedt is dominated by Small and Medium Enterprises in the sectors of wood (including window, saw mills, catering facilities ), mechanical engineering and metal processing industry (including delivery and installation engineering, steel processing, agricultural machinery and transport equipment), as well as numerous craft shops. The formerly dominant agricultural economy has differentiated itself by an increasing concentration process in some highly specialized segments. You still represents a significant portion of the economic power Goldenstedts, but is due to the declining number of farms and declining employment figures no future industry in the municipality Goldenstedt.

Energy

In Ellenstedt a wind farm exists. There fell in 2002 to a wind turbine with a hub height of 70 meters.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Renate Geuter, born on December 27, 1952 in Goldenstedt, Member of Parliament of Lower Saxony (SPD ) since 2003

Personalities who are to bring to the community in conjunction

• Klaus von Klitzing, who was born on June 28, 1943 in Schroda / Poznan, grew up in air tubes, a now eingemeindeten district Goldenstedt, and food ( Oldb ), 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics on " quantum Hall effect"