Lamstedt

Lamstedt ( Low German Loomst ) is a municipality in the district of Cuxhaven ( Lower Saxony). It belongs to the Samtgemeinde flare Lamstedt.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 3.3 community partnerships
  • 4.1 St. Bartholomew Church Lamstedt
  • 4.2 Museums
  • 4.3 Structures
  • 4.4 parks
  • 5.1 Public bodies
  • 5.2 Education
  • 5.3 Sport
  • Born 6.1 Lamstedt
  • 6.2 Connected to Lamstedt

Geography

Geographical location

The community is surrounded by some terminal moraines of the last ice age, as the Westerberg. Eastbound Lamstedt borders the Ostetal where partly small bog areas are available. To the north lies the Westerberg, a mixed forest with mainly coniferous trees.

History

Lamstedt was first mentioned in 1115 as parochia lamstede in church documents. Archaeological finds have made ​​but that the flare must have been already settled much earlier. It is written in the register Vörder in 1500, and especially so for the first time mentioned. Here, however, it was not yet to the municipal entity, but to the church office district. About Lamstedt raged in past at much Feuerbrünste.

Incorporations

On 1 July 1972, the municipalities hoe mills, Ihlbeck, Nindorf and well- Beck were incorporated.

Policy

Parish council

  • CDU - 10 seats
  • SPD - 4 seats
  • FDP - 1 seat

(As at municipal election on September 11, 2011)

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Lamstedt shows in blue a silver megalithic grave over a brown - yellow sign foot elevated. One has been preserved to the present day, the " brick oven " in Westerberg.

Community partnerships

  • Community Władysławowo (Poland), since 1992

Culture and sights

Lamstedt located on the German Fährstraße.

In the woods north of the village lies the megalithic Steenaben.

St. Bartholomew Church Lamstedt

The Protestant St. Bartholomew Church is a parish church. First mention of it found in 1300 in a letter of indulgence from Pope Boniface III .. From this period dates the nave from field stone masonry, with a polygonal closed east side. The ship is the small wooden segmental arch tons of 1768 and a north gallery from this period. The west gallery was around 1700.

The somewhat unconventional west tower in 1768 according to plans by chief master builder Christian Wundram created in brick masonry, after many years before the old wooden steeple had to be canceled. The dome helmet is from 1820. This tower burned in 1812 during a great fire from. It was restored in 1820.

The altarpiece came in 1730 with a large column frame and the Crucifixion paintings. The pulpit is erected in the late 17th century. In the tower hall is a wooden crucifix. Worth mentioning is also the chalice, both from the second half of the 15th century.

Museums

  • The North German Radio Museum with over 200 old radios, the genesis of the first radio transmission, the radio station in Germany and many more.
  • The flare Museum. with rural cultural heritage and the traditional costumes of the Geest residents.

Structures

  • St. Bartholomew Church Lamstedt
  • Bördehuus in the landscape park
  • Telecommunications tower Lamstedt

Parks

  • Landscape park behind the Town Hall
  • Rock Garden in Westerberg with the Prehistory and forest trail
  • Park of Good Haneworth ( under monument protection)

Economy and infrastructure

Public institutions

  • Pool Lambada

Education

  • Primary School Borde Lamstedt with the field offices Armstorf, Mittelstenahe and Basbecker mountain
  • High school Am Hohen Rade

Sports

Lamstedt offers a large sports center, where there are several sports fields, two gyms and a swimming pool. In addition Lamstedt has several beautiful and extensive walking and biking paths. There are in the town of tablets on which are the routes and sights.

Personalities

Born in Lamstedt

  • Wolfgang Rolff ( born 1959 ), former German national football team, was from 2004 to 2013 the coaching staff of Werder Bremen.
  • Heinrich Evers, aviator and racing driver
  • Claus Spreckels (1828-1908) sugar producer in the U.S. ( Sugar King) of Hawaii and California). Financially second most successful German Emigrant of the 19th century: # 40 on the list of richest Americans of all time.

Connected to Lamstedt

  • Ursula Kirchberg, German children's book illustrator, lives and works since 1981 in Lamstedt.

Myths and legends

  • The Holy Goat
  • A Mother's Love
  • Pastor block
  • The Wester Wald
  • The Penn Kuhle
  • The shoe mountain
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