Harpstedt

The patch Harpstedt is a municipality in the district of Oldenburg in Lower Saxony in the Oldenburg region, south of Delmenhorst and east of Wildeshausen located. It belongs to Samtgemeinde Harpstedt whose headquarters he is.

In the north of the district of Little America lies with the ocean bridge over the Delme.

History

The first mention was in 1203 as " Harpenstede ". 1396 gave Count Otto III. Hoya Harpstedt the precincts of law and imputed the place while the Bremen law.

Harpstedt belonged until 1977 to the district county Hoya in the former Regierungsbezirk Hannover. Today the town is a municipality in the district of Oldenburg. This was until 1978 part of the prefecture of the same name, then the region of Weser -Ems, which was dissolved as all administrative districts in Lower Saxony on 31 December 2004.

The place name comes from Harpstedt Harpenstede, thus also the coat of arms of the municipality Harpstedt with the harp will refer to this old name. Long was believed, namely, that the term is derived from Harpe Harp. Presumably, the name refers Harpe but originally the word harpoon.

Policy

The patch Harpstedt is the political and geographical center of the velvet municipality Harpstedt, which includes the municipalities still Beckeln, Colnrade, Dünsen, United Ippener, Kirchseelte, Prinzhöfte and Winkelsett. Current mayor of the velvet municipality is Uwe Cordes and the patch Harpstedt Werner Richter.

The council is made up as follows:

  • 5 seats HBL
  • 4 seats SPD
  • 3 seats CDU
  • 2 seats Alliance 90/The Greens
  • 1 seat no party affiliation

Twin Cities

  • Partner community Loue (France)

Church

  • Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church Harpstedt
  • Catholic Church Harpstedt
  • New Apostolic Church congregation Harpstedt

Geography

Harpstedt is an official health resort in the center of the Natural Park Geest.

By Harpstedt flow the Delme, the Purrmühlenbach and Annenriede, also called Anne ditch.

Attractions

  • The Amtshof was built as a simple timber-framed building on the foundations of the canceled 1741-44 moated castle of the Counts of Delmenhorst. It is surrounded by the former moat and is now after extensive restoration as the seat of the velvet municipality administration.
  • Medieval ramparts ( Tower Hill)
  • The Baroque Christ Church at the market place was consecrated in 1753.
  • Historic narrow gauge railway " January Harpstedt " the association Delmenhorst - Railroad Harpstedter eV ( DHEF )
  • Sun stones in Harpstedt and Beckstedt, a prehistoric monument. These species show on the flat front by one point 12 ( Harpstedt ) or 11 ( Beckstedt ) concentric circles. They are kept for signs of sun worship. Just four millennia BC was inhabited what is now integrated municipality. Of this place the
  • Reckumer stones (large stone grave in Reckum )
  • Prehistoric burial mounds
  • Boulders and archaeological finds

Testimony.

  • Large contiguous forest area in the vicinity
  • The Harpstedter Rose pool

Mills

The Harpstedter windmill, a three-storey gallery Dutchman, was built in 1871 by the farming community and tanner Johann Conrad Menke. The mill was initially a Lohmühle combined with a sawmill and equipped with sail wings and codend. Later, the system was expanded to include a threshing machine. Numerous improvements have helped that the mill was in operation for a long time. So got the mill in 1928, a wind rose and blinds wings. The - wooden - wings were replaced in 1961 once again - this time with wings made ​​of iron. In 2009, the total renovation which was completed in 2011, so that the mill today is not only symbol of Harpstedt, but a manufacturing historical monument began. The mill can be visited by appointment.

The windmill is on the leading through the districts of Oldenburg, Cloppenburg and Vechta section of the Lower Saxon Mill Road since 2008, the station 2. Station 1 is located opposite the Amtshof watermill.

Historic barn area

The Koems is a historic Schneunenkomplex, which was created in 1850 outside the town. Of the 17 original barns are still nine.

Origin of the word " Koems "

Koems is an old Low German name for a stables for sheep, crop inventories or agricultural equipment. They were also called Schünens, scouring Koven or pen (plural: Koeben, Koebens, Koems ).

On the origin of the Harpstedter " Koems "

The great fire of 1739 had almost all buildings in Harpstedt destroyed. The planning of the authorities let the arable citizens only little space. Thus, the barns were built off the beaten track from the village around 1850 here on community-owned ground. With the decline in sheep farming barns then unfortunately fell again. In order to stop the complete collapse, 1983, the Promotion of Koems eV since been built until today in thousands of volunteer hours, the Koemsgelände again.

Jewish Cemetery

The Jewish cemetery in Harpstedt is a cultural monument in the district of Oldenburg. In the cemetery on the road " to a Jewish cemetery " there are seven grave stones from the years 1910-1937 of the deceased Jewish faith.

Economy and infrastructure

Following the leading of the Municipality A1 is via the interchanges Wild Hausen and Great Ippener in the directions Osnabrück -Dortmund and Bremen -Hamburg.

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