Hoyerhagen

Hoyerhagen is a municipality of the velvet municipality county Hoya in Nienburg / Weser in Lower Saxony.

2.1 geographic center of Lower Saxony
2.2 Jewish Cemetery
2.3 domain Memsen

3.1 Traffic

Policy

Parish council

The 11 seats of the council are distributed as follows:

Group of voters Hoyerhagen 8 seats
SPD 2 seats
GREEN 1 seat

(As at municipal election on September 11, 2011)

Coat of arms

Oblique shared by gold and green; above a growing Dutch windmill, down a jumping white horse.

A Dutch windmill with multi-storey substructure determines the image of wider rural community. The gold and black colors establish the relationship with the Count of Hoya.

The horse breeding, the predominant agricultural structure of the community as well as the attachment to the Land of Lower Saxony is expressed by the white horse. The green in the coat of arms refers to the fields, meadows, pastures and forests.

Attractions

Geographic center of Lower Saxony

Hoyerhagen is the geographic center of Lower Saxony. The measurement was carried out in 2001. Identification to a stone was on 23 May 2003 about 1.5 m high.

Jewish Cemetery

In a forest is the Jewish cemetery, which is not only the Jewish community Hoya served in 1714 as a burial site. The last burial took place in January 1941. In March 1945, the cemetery was devastated and stolen and / or destroyed many of the old grave stones. The 180 surviving stones with their artfully executed ornaments and individually designed Hebrew inscriptions point to the cultural and historical significance of the Hoyer Haeger Jewish cemetery.

Domain Memsen

The domain Memsen, located in the southwestern part of the township Hoyerhagen, was first mentioned in 987 and was owned by Collegiate stooping. Later it was a Vorwerk of the Counts of Hoya, who used it until 1582 as stud work horse. After extinction of the Hoyaer Count the dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg took over the estate. One of the obtained stables today dates from this period (1653). Heydays experienced the domain Memsen in the 18th and 19th centuries with the breeding of white infants - white horses that are born white and not go through a color change. These horses are used only as a train and riding horses for the kings of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover. With the end of the personal union, the stud was closed. Today the state of Lower Saxony belonging domain Memsen is since 1949 the German economy cooperative veterinarians eG ( WDT) leased. The WDT uses the domain as a work of serum (90 horses) and farm ( 185.4 hectares). In Memsen is also a Revierförsterei the Lower Saxony Forestry.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Hoyerhagen lies on the railway line Eystrup - Syke, which is traversed in the museum traffic.

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