Hambergen
Hambergen is a municipality of the velvet municipality Hambergen and is located on the northern edge of the district Easter wood in Lower Saxony.
Geography
Hambergen lies in the north German plain 37 km north of Bremen. It is the most populous municipality in the. Covering an area of about 30 square kilometers and about 5400 inhabitants. The old village has thus the function of a center within the integrated municipality.
Hambergen consists of the districts Hambergen Heilendorf, Heißenbüttel, Lapwing blessing Oldenbüttel, Spreddig and Ströhe. Hambergen developed due to its excellent transport links to Bremen and Bremerhaven to a popular residential community in the district Easter wood.
History
Hambergen is documented as a small estate Ambergen in possession of the Archbishop of Bremen for the first time in 1056. The corridor designation Up the Eddelhofe is still a current reference to the estate. Here was the core of the old village. The Knights of Luneberg were often eunuchs in the archbishopric of Bremen.
Previously, there were the Germanic tribe of the Chauken then went up in the Saxons. The old Pippelnburg was located northwest of Hambergen; today a small, overgrown with trees hills.
The farmers from Hambergen with their isolated lying settlements and farms built its own chapel in 1335 as an extension of Scharmbecker main church to which they belonged ecclesiastically. 1546 Hambergen received its own Geistlichen.1581 the chapel was enlarged by an extension.
From 1536 came an old Hamberger courtyards register with 22 yards. In 1670 there were about 400 people in the town. It is known the Bull Winkel yard with 84 acres of land on which to 1846, a water mill was operated.
1752 baroque church was built that was in 1850 an organ.
Be tolerated and absorbed during the Napoleonic Wars had troops of many nationalities - - French, English, Scottish, Dutch and Russians; In 1806 there were as many as six hundred British soldiers that were supplied. From 1811 to 1813 Hambergen was in French Canton Easter wood.
From forest, heath and marshy lowlands of Giehler creek became increasingly an agricultural landscape. In the 19th century crafts and trades increased; Moreover, it created the Torfstreufabrik, two brickyards, a cigar factory, the brown beer brewery and a distillery.
The railway line from Bremen to Geestemünde with the stations in Lübberstedt and Oldenbüttel accelerated since 1862, the development of the town.
Incorporations
On March 1, 1974, a part of the dissolved municipality Freißenbüttel was incorporated.
Policy
A Management Committee is chaired by the mayor and committees for youth, seniors, sports and culture, environment, roads, construction and planning as well as for finance and tourism are a consultant.
In the coat of arms of the municipality of the chapel built in 1335 is shown. Through the silver Dreienberg the location of the village is shown on the Geest hills. In the sign of the blue creek reminiscent of the headwaters of the Hamme. The green color symbolizes the forest belt and agriculture.
Hambergen maintains a partnership with the town of Villers -Saint -Paul in the department of Oise in France.
Culture and sights
- Museumsanlage Ströhe - Spreddig, a Moorkate historical model in Hamberger district Spreddig
Economy and Transport
Economy
Importance for Hambergen has the service sector. Hambergen gained regional importance by the horseshoe prior to 1945. From the 1970s until the mid- 1980s Coffee Hag in the district Lapwing blessing was established. Several commercial areas provide space for manufacturing industry; the industrial area in the district Kiebitzegen is occupied by several companies. Since 2013, solar power is generated amplified.
Traffic
There is a connection to the railway Bremen- Bremerhaven ( - Cuxhaven ) (stations Oldenbüttel and Lübberstedt ) and the A 27 ( Walsrode Cuxhaven ). The major route is State Road 74 Bremen, Stade. The Green Coast road and the German Fairy Tale Road pass through the town.
Others
On 1 July 1942, the future Chancellor Helmut Schmidt married in St. Cosmae - and - Damian Church in Hambergen Hannelore Schmidt (born Glaser ). There, " Loki " had completed several weeks of country school internship at the outbreak of war.