Himmelpforten

Gates of Heaven ( Low German: Sky Porten ) is a municipality in the Lower Saxony Oldendorf - gates of heaven in the district of Stade. In addition to the main town gates of heaven are also the places Kuhla and Breitenwisch to the community.

Himmelspforten is especially at Christmas time in everyone's mind. The place is then the Christkind village. For many children all over the world the place is the mailing address of Santa Claus. This tradition is maintained since the 1960s, see also: Christmas Post Office

  • 2.1 municipal
  • 2.2 Mayor
  • 2.3 Coat of Arms
  • 3.1 Museums
  • 4.1 traffic
  • 4.2 Education

History

1255 pulled the Cistercian monastery of Rhaden at Lamstedt after the place was then called the Eulsete, and called himself henceforth Porta Coeli, which as a Low German or High German sky Porten Himmelspforten passed Germanized as a name to the place. The train of Cistercian nuns was reproduced on the occasion of the 750th anniversary in 2005.

Incorporations

On 1 July 1972, the municipalities Breitenwisch and Kuhla were incorporated.

Policy

Parish council

Since the local elections of 2011, the municipal council is composed as follows:

  • SPD: 7 Council Members
  • CDU: 6 Council members
  • Wählergemeinschaft: 1 councilor
  • Alliance 90/The Greens: 1 councilor

Mayor

Bernd Reimers (SPD )

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality Himmelspforten shows on a blue background a golden, Gothic gate, where a silver -clad abbess stands with golden crosier.

This coat of arms stands for the Porta- Coeli Monastery, around which made ​​today's pearly gates.

The colors of the community are blue - yellow ( striated ).

Culture and sights

Museums

In Himmelspforten there is a local history museum, where you can learn a lot from the environment as well as on the development of the school in the last centuries.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Through gates of heaven leads the federal highway 73, which connects the town with Stade and Hamburg. Himmelspforten also has a railway station on the route of the Lower Elbe Railway between Cuxhaven and Hamburg.

Since October 2007, the regional planning process for the proposed Federal Highway 22/20 is carried out, which will run through the district Breitenwisch and will affect the location directly on the western outskirts. Against the motorway battling a citizens' initiative with nearly 400 members.

Education

Himmelspforten has next to Porta Coeli School, a school center with classes from 5th to 10th grade, a private elementary school.

Personalities

  • August Elfers (1897-1959), Mission Director of the Hermannsburg Mission
  • Udo Pollmer (* 1954), food chemists, nutrition expert and author
  • Patrick Doering (born 1973 ), Secretary General of the FDP
Himmelpforten Abbey Stade (district) Samtgemeinde Primary school Agathenburg Ahlerstedt Apensen Balje Bargstedt Beckdorf Bliedersdorf Brest, Germany Deinste Dollern Engelschoff Freiburg, Lower Saxony Guderhandviertel Harsefeld Hollern-Twielenfleth Horneburg Jork Kranenburg, Lower Saxony Krummendeich Mittelnkirchen Neuenkirchen, Stade Nottensdorf Oldendorf, Stade Sauensiek Steinkirchen, Lower Saxony
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