Lathen

Lathen is a municipality in the Emsland district, Lower Saxony. It is the administrative headquarters of the velvet municipality Lathen.

  • 2.1 Origin of the name
  • 2.2 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 municipal

Geography

Geographical Location

Lathen is between Dörpen and Haren Ems and on the Dortmund- Ems Canal, the B 70, the railway Münster -Emden (Emsland line ) and close to the A 31, eight miles east of the village begins the Hümmling, a forest-rich ridge of.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are the towns Fresenburg and Renkenberge, in the east the municipality Soegel in the same integrated municipality in the south of the city of Haren and the west by the municipalities Oberlangen, Sustrum and Niederlangen in the north.

Community structure

In addition to the main town of Lathen include Kathen - Frackel, Hilter, Kathen settlement, Dünefehn, and Lathen craze to the municipality.

History

Lathen first appears in 854 as " Lodon ". It is among the very old towns and was already before the transition of the country to the north Corvey 834 and at the time of Christianization under Charlemagne important. It is likely that in Lodon of certification under the leadership of the Mission Bishop of Osnabrück conversion of Agredingo by the Mission in Meppen cell represents the main town and center of the district. This is supported by

  • That near Lathen on the Flütenberg at Düthe probably was the ancient people's court of the district,
  • That the Church Lathen before. Corvey on the St. Vitus was umgeweiht, St. John the Baptist, the patron had ( now the co-patron ) and probably was present but nowhere else detected major and mother - church of the district,
  • That Corvey itself, although it push back Lathen with regard to its headquarters Meppen tried there, including a northern part of the north country, the Hümmling, built comprehensive Curia (administrative and delivery point ).

Origin of the name

The oldest naming Lodon, is passed to the 1000 Lodun can Lode, shoot, mean so on would be or construed as a basic un word and iodine as a modifier. But you can also disconnect good: lo -don, so wood or clearing in the woods or on a dune. Don and dun come in Altniederdeutschen coexist. The spelling solders can be found in later Corveyer records, details of which can not be dated exactly, and can range up to 1400 of about 1100. The name goes with it to the same Germanic origins go back as London. The river divides in the same way their names origin with the Thames.

Incorporations

On 1 January 1973, Hilter communities were incorporated (Ems ) and Kathen - Frackel.

Policy

Parish council

The municipal election held on 11 September 2011 led to the following result:

Freeman

Honorary citizen Lathens is Erna de Vries. Born in Kaiserslautern in 1923 survivors of the Holocaust was the born in Lathen Joseph de Vries, who spent six years as a Jew in German concentration camps, married.

On May 17, 1991, the freeman of the town of Lathen was awarded for the first time. At that time, gave Mayor Heinrich Wilhelm Middendorf and administrative head of the Eiken certificate and ring of honor Dr. Hermann Frerker (1912 - 1993) in " recognition of his contributions to the study of local history ." In the Ems -Zeitung of 21 May 1991 was to read further that "the life of the well-known beyond the borders of Emsorts addition physician in Ankum started ... 1950 left the Frerkers in Lathen down, Dr. Hermann Frerker opened here a practice ... in the dedicated effort to the exploration of local history and family history Dr. began to make Frerker records and collect documents. in state archives and in the archives of the monastery of Corvey was a regular guest. way, folder filled to folders, and quickly became that Frerkersche Archive ' an essential reference work of local culture and history ... Hardly anyone who dealt with local, churches, family or club history, came without the expert advice of Dr. Frerker from ... ".

Infrastructure

Lathen has a train station for regional express trains on the railway line Rheine -Norddeich Mole ( Emsland route). Formerly chain in Lathen the railway line Lathen - Werlte from ..

Through the municipal area of ​​Lathen perform several cycle routes and local bike-tours.

  • The Dortmund -Ems canal route is approximately 350 km long and quasi- gradient -free cycle path connecting the Ruhr with the North Sea coast.
  • The EmsRadweg starts at the Ems - source in the town of Schloss Holte- Stukenbrock on the edge of the Teutoburg Forest and follows the river Ems over a distance of 375 km.
  • The United Countries Tour is a 600 km long circular route through the northern and central Emsland left the Ems, by the border areas of the Dutch provinces of Drenthe and Groningen as well as the northern county of Bentheim.
  • Local round routes are the left and right of the Ems ( 74 km) and the United Countries Tour - Smokkelroute (157 km).

Culture and sights

  • Premises of the " Transrapid Test Facility Emsland " (TVE ).
  • Windmill of 1818 in the district of Hilter
  • St. Vitus Church in Lathen
  • Osterbrunnen

Windmill Hilter

Osterbrunnen

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