Klein Meckelsen

Small Meckelson is a municipality in the Lower Saxon Sittingbourne in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme ).

• 4.1 traffic
• 4.2 Education

Community structure

The municipality also includes the villages of Langenfelde and Marschhorst.

History

In 1388 Klein Meckelson first mentioned as Lütken Meckelstede documented. In 1500 it was reported by 14 residential buildings with about 70 inhabitants. From 1806-1814, the area was occupied by the French. When Napoleon built a road from Bremen to Hamburg, also small were used Meckelser citizens to hand and clamping services. During World War II the city was occupied about three weeks before the war by the British with about 100 tanks.

The place is national winner of the competition Our village is beautiful in 1971 and 2001.

Policy

Parish council

The council has nine members, including the mayor, and is calculated as follows for the municipal election in 2011 together:

• Civil List Together for small Meckelson: 7 Council Members
• SPD: 2 councilors

Coat of arms

Right split in the split plate by a silver wave beams in red and green, the red field a golden, plunging, in the wave beam mill wheel. Links in a silver field a green steeple with golden weathercock on a red tower head.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

The community is located about four kilometers next to the A 1, the nearest connection point Sittingbourne (47).

The 1 km south of the town center railway station lying at the Kuhmühlen Wilstedt - Zeven - Tostedt railway is operated no more passenger trains for decades. Nevertheless, may continue to be issued by any station in Germany from tickets to this station; they are considered in the weekdays buses run line 3606 Zeven - Tostedt of railways and transport companies Elbe- Weser. The stations Tostedt, Lauenbrück and Scheessel on the railway line Hamburg -Bremen, approximately 20 km from Klein Meckelson removed today, the nearest passenger stations.

Education

Small Meckelson is the site of a primary school, which was opened in 1966 as a center of school after the previous school locations in small and large Meckelson and Ippensen and Vierden were closed. Four years later, the school location Wohnste was abandoned, was the two timely primary school here. 1992 renovation and extension works were carried out.

The school organizes several festivals throughout the year and provides students with a number of working groups and projects, such as a theater group or two annually discharged Low German reading competition.