Lotte, Germany

Lotte ( Low German Luote ) is a municipality in the region Tecklenburger Land ( district of Steinfurt ) in the state of North Rhine -Westphalia. About the Regional Municipality is mainly known by the motorway junction Lotte / Osnabrück and the football division side Sportfreunde Lotte. It was formed on 1 January 1975 from the previously independent municipalities Lotte and Wersen. Lotte was first documented in the 13th century. Lotte heard as surrounding municipality of the city of Osnabrück to their metropolitan area.

  • 2.1 Local Elections 2009 2.1.1 Mayor
  • 2.1.2 council
  • 2.2.1 coat of arms until 1975
  • 3.1 Evangelical Church Lotte
  • 3.2 History / personalities
  • 4.1 traffic 4.1.1 Road Traffic
  • 4.1.2 Rail Transport

Geography

The place is right on the border with Lower Saxony and is a surrounding community of the city of Osnabrück.

Neighboring communities

The municipality is bordered to the north and east of the city and the district of Osnabrück, in the south on the town Tecklenburg and in the west on the community Westerkappeln.

Community structure

  • Alt -Lotte ( 4846 inhabitants)
  • Buren ( 4554 inhabitants)
  • Halen ( 1370 inhabitants)
  • Wersen ( 3202 inhabitants)

(As of 31 December 2011)

Population

  • Female 7060
  • Male 6912
  • Foreigners 909
  • Evangelical 6333
  • Catholic 3869
  • Other 3770

Surface

Of the total area of 3765 ha to account for

  • Residential area: 405 ha
  • Forest: 864 ha
  • Transport area: 335 ha
  • Recreation area: 40 ha
  • Water area: 67 ha
  • Industrial and commercial area: 97 ha
  • Agricultural area: 1946 ha

The size of the districts:

  • Halen: 693 ha
  • Wersen: 1171 ha
  • Lotte: 1570 ha
  • Buren: 331 ha

Policy

Local Elections 2009

The municipal election was held on August 30, 2009. Were elected to the district, the district council, the mayor and the municipal council. The turnout was 44.0 %.

Mayor

Mayor of Lotte since 2004 Rainer Lammers (SPD). He was re-elected mayor in the 2009 election directly by an absolute majority of 84.7 % on the first ballot. An opposing candidate did not exist.

Parish council

Current distribution of seats in the local council:

  • SPD: 11 seats (± 0)
  • CDU: 8 (9 ) *) seats (-1)
  • FDP: 3 seats ( 1)
  • GREEN: 3 seats (± 0)
  • Parteilos 1 (-) * ) seat

*) Due to the withdrawal of a party faction member, the CDU faction has one seat less than you would be entitled after the election results.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " In red a silver left oblique wave beams above a fallen golden anchor, below a silver lily pad. "

This Coat of arms of the former municipalities of Lotte and Wersen be reflected.

The diagonal wave bar indicates the Düte. The toppled anchor comes from the coat of arms of the sovereign Vogts (gender of Harde ), who lived in the 16th century in Lotte. The lily pad symbolizes the membership of the Tecklenburger country.

Coat of arms until 1975

Wersen

Community partnership

It was founded in 1991, a partnership with the French Lys -lez- Lannoy. This is a neighboring town of Roubaix in northern France. Currently mainly club representatives from both communities attend ( particularly the painters and motorcyclists active there ) as well as community representatives in alternate years. On 20-21. June 2009 addressed Lotte least from the (now 18 ) Partnership ceremony.

Culture, history / personalities and places of interest

Evangelical Church Lotte

The evangelical church is a typical monument of the Gothic village of Munster country. It was built in 1312-1315. Main features of the church building are

  • Domikalgewölbe with two side niches on the west side
  • Stikisierte crown of thorns as a round window
  • Early Gothic hall square with Art Nouveau windows in the south wall
  • Baroque organ case from 1684
  • Flemish candlesticks from 1777

A special feature is the oblique, inclined to the west tower, curious is an imprint of a hand with six fingers in a pillar of the north wall.

East side

History / personalities

The later bishop of the Evangelical Church of Hesse -Nassau, Pastor Martin Niemöller family comes from (the present Lotter district ) Wersen. Pastor Martin Niemoller lived in the period after the First World War in Wersen and was also buried there. After he initially had a very German - loyal to the emperor setting, he fell into the era of National Socialism in the resistance and was active there in the " Confessing Church ".

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

The community Lotte is conveniently located at the crossroads of motorways A 1 and A 30 The railway wages - Rheine (Hannover -Amsterdam ) crosses the area, however, there is at this range no station in the municipality. The only active breakpoint is located in the district Halen on the railway line Osnabrück- Oldenburg. Münster / Osnabrück airport is about 25 kilometers away and is easily reached via the motorway.

Road

The motorway junction Lotte / Osnabrück, where the motorways A 1 ( European route E 37 ) and A 30 ( E 30 ) intersect, located on municipal land. It was opened in 1968 and since then has an easy access to the West German and European motorway network.

The community Lotte is connected via the following highways and interchanges on the highway network:

  • A 1 Bremen - Osnabrueck - Muenster (junction 71 Osnabrück-Hafen )
  • A 30 Hengelo - Osnabrück - Bad Oeynhausen ( junction 13 and 15 Lotte Hasbergen - guests ).

In addition, the following highways run through the municipality and get connected to the neighboring communities ago:

  • L 501 Rheine - Ibbenbüren - Lotte - Osnabrück
  • L 589 Lengerich - Tecklenburg - Ledeen - Lotte
  • L 597 Ladbergen - Tecklenburg - Lotte
  • L 595 Hopsten - Recke - Westerkappeln - Lotte - Osnabrück

The following buses serve the community Lotte:

  • S10 Recke - Mettingen - Westerkappeln - Wersen - Osnabrück ( every 60 minutes)
  • R11 Westerkappeln - Wersen - Buren - Osnabrück ( every 20 minutes)
  • R30 Lotte - Westerkappeln - Velpe - Ibbenbüren ( every 60 minutes)
  • R31 Lotte - Hasbergen - guests - Osnabrück ( every 20 minutes)
  • R41 Lotte - Tecklenburg - Ledeen - Lengerich ( Mon-Sat every 60 minutes)
  • 111 Osnabrück - Buren - Wersen - Westerkappeln - Mettingen
  • 114 Osterberg - Lotte - Westerkappeln
  • 136 Westerkappeln - Halen - Wersen - Lotte - Tecklenburg - Ledeen ( -Tecklenburg )

Currently run on the weekends two night bus routes in the community:

  • N3 Osnabrück - Osnabrück -Atter - Lotte - Hasbergen - guests - Osnabrück
  • N19 Ibbenbüren - Mettingen - Westerkappeln - Wersen - Buren - Osnabrück

The bus routes 222-224 connect the districts among themselves, but only run to school hours and be used primarily by students.

  • 222 Lotte - Osterberg - Lotte
  • 223 Lotte - Osterberg - Lotte - Wersen - Halen
  • 224 Wersen - Halen - Buren - Wersen

From 1949 to 1968, there was a connection to the electric trolley buses Stadtwerke Osnabrück, who drove from Osnabrück, Rißmüllerplatz the terminus " Eversburg - Buren ." After the abandonment of the catenary operation in Osnabruck, run again normal city buses (R11 ).

Railway

The municipality is traversed by three railway lines:

  • KBS 375 wages -Osnabrück - Ibbenbüren- Rheine (part of the Hanover- Amsterdam)
  • KBS 392, 394 Osnabruck Bramsche ( Bremen and Oldenburg, Cloppenburg )
  • Tecklenburger Northern Railway Rheine - Recke- Westerkappeln -Lotte - Wersen -Osnabrück

The only active station of the municipality is located in the district Halen on the railway line Osnabrück- Oldenburg. This is served hourly in relation Osnabrück Bramsche -Bremen of the North Western Railway. Nearest railway station is the main station Osnabrück

At the intersection of KBS 375 with the road L597 is the former station Lotte. However, since the early 1990s stop here no more moves. Since the train station is in the middle between the two districts Lotte and Wersen and the distance to Lotte about two kilometers Wersen is about three kilometers, the offer of the train could not prevail against the frequent buses leave themselves. In the report " rail for the region of Osnabrück " is proposed, a new railway station on the main line Osnabrück - Rheine set up closer to the Lotter center at the junction with the road Cappelner, as this allows the development effect is better.

In the district Wersen there was also a station on the Northern Railway Tecklenburger Osnabrück- Recke- Rheine. This was served but since 1967 no longer passenger trains and eventually completely abandoned in 1970, but driving there freight trains and museum trains, which also stop at the station Wersen. Today, the station building a country store. A modern regional train for railway Osnabrück- L. - Wersen - Westerkappeln - Mettingen - Recke is under discussion. In local transport plan SPNV Westphalia -Lippe re- commissioning is planned as a modern regional train from Osnabrueck to distance traveled in 30 -minute intervals because of a good economy. It can be provided as a web breakpoint the pre-existing station Wersen and a new train station Buren - Kromschroeder. On the outskirts of Osnabrück / Lotte another station Eversburg - Buren is provided. Could be considered yet, set up one or two other railway stations in the residential area Buren to their development.

Established businesses

Major companies include Elster Kromschroeder, toys Hoffmann and Lekkerland with their profit centers. Next are located in Old Lotte, the central warehouse of auto parts wholesaler Wessels Müller and the headquarters of the tool and equipment manufacturer FRIMO. Furthermore, the family Wulff GmbH and Co. KG, wholesaler of automotive coatings, marine coatings and architectural coatings as well as manufacturers of adhesives and leveling compounds, for over 120 years is headquartered at Lotte Station.

Education

In the community Lotte a comprehensive primary care with doctors, dentists, shopping places, supply and disposal companies, schools, kindergartens, libraries, sports facilities, etc. is ensured. There are seven children in the villages of the municipality of Lotte. The three elementary schools in the districts Buren, Wersen and old -Lotte offer open day care. In the district Wersen the Gemeinschaftshauptschule Lotte is bound with all-day service as well as the private school Kruger ( boarding ) with Vocational College of Economics and Management. Other secondary schools are available in neighboring communities Westerkappeln, Mettingen, Tecklenburg and Osnabrück.

For the older generation are numerous meeting places, a service residential assisted living facility and nursing home in " Two oaks " are available.

Youth centers in Old Lotte and Wersen offer extensive options in the youth work.

The local library is distributed in three localities in Wersen, Lotte and Buren.

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