Loxstedt

Loxstedt ( Low German Lox ) is a unit municipality in the district of Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany. The community is located south of Bremerhaven. The administrative headquarters is located in the village of Loxstedt.

2.1 Town
2.2 Amalgamations
2.3 Population development

3.1 municipal
3.2 Coat of Arms
3.3 community partnerships

4.1 traffic
4.2 Media
4.3 Education

6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical Location

The community Loxstedt is located in the North German Plain and is characterized by Geest, marsh and moorland. Within the municipal territory are the nature reserves Bülter lake edge and Moore, Königsmoor, Neuenlander outer dike, Stoteler Moor and Moor Placke. In the west, the municipality is limited to 15 kilometers in length through the Weser. South of the core village flows the Lune, a small tributary of the Weser, by the community. Is the Drepte On the southern boundary of the municipality.

Community structure

The community consists of 21 villages which include partially other living spaces. The following table shows the villages with their population numbers (first and second home November 30, 2011) are listed. In addition, the respective land areas of the former municipalities of the same name ( districts ) of 1965 are given.

Since the towns constable, Holte and Schwegen were formed from areas that were formerly different communities, can not be inferred, the actual current size of the available data or calculate the population density: For Schwegen example, parts of New Lands ( Neuenlander Moor ) would be deducted and also as the area of Langendamm Moor ( 1.079 km ²) are added. In addition, changes in 2010, the sizes of the bordering districts Bexhövede Bremerhaven, Lanhausen and Loxstedt because of field exchange with the neighboring town. For the locations of the district land Would there are no reliable surface information.

In a particular column, the respective districts are given in which the village lies. Today, different or missing surface data are marked in the table by an asterisk (*).

Neighboring communities

Loxstedt bordered to the north by the city of Bremerhaven, in the north- east on the community boat village, in the southeast on the community Beverstedt and on the south by the municipality of Hagen in Bremen. The Weser river separates the town from the west nearby municipalities Nordenham and Urban land.

History

Village

The village Loxstedt was first mentioned in 1059 in records under the name Lacstidi. Lacstidi means " settlement on the pool " and refers to a bog, which existed between the towns Loxstedt and Düring. However exhibit archaeological finds suggest that the area is used by people since the Middle Stone Age. With extensive archaeological excavations, the Lower Saxony Institute ( NIhK ), Wilhelmshaven, predecessor of today's settlements Loxstedt examined for Historical Coastal Research. It traces of settlement have been uncovered from the time of the 1st century BC to 9th century AD. Probably you can expect a continuity of over 2000 years for Loxstedt. The salvaged finds to be exhibited in the archaeological museum in the castle Bederkesa.

Located in the historic parish Loxstedt Düring and Nesse and were later eingepfarrt also Hosermühlen. The village belonged in 1500 for crimping Beverstedt and around 1768 for court nobles Beverstedt. Meanwhile Loxstedt was after the annexation by France to victory over Napoleon Bonaparte part of the municipality in the canton Bexhövede Bremerlehe. With the introduction of the offices in Hanover Loxstedt belonged from 1851 to 1859 to the Official Beverstedt and 1859-1885 to the Official Lehe. Later Loxstedt was part of the counties Geestemünde Wesermünde or Cuxhaven. The place was a rural community in 1840 and was from 1971 to 1974 a member municipality of the velvet municipality of the same name.

Incorporations

The municipality is Loxstedt ( backdated to 1 March 1974) emerged in its present form with the law on the restructuring of municipalities in the Easter Wood / Wesermünde of 13 June 1974. The at that Samtgemeinde Loxstedt belonging municipalities Bexhövede, thunder, During, Loxstedt, Nesse and Stinstedt and the municipalities constable, Fleeste, Holte, country dignities, Lanhausen, Neuenlande and Stotel were merged into one unified community. An enlarged Samtgemeinde with independent member communities was not allowed in the area around the city of Bremerhaven. Therefore, the local government reform made primarily in the area Stotel for protests. As an alternative, two communities have been proposed, namely a western and an eastern of the (former ) Federal Highway 6 located. This request was rejected by the Home Office.

Historically possessed the places to Loxstedt one belonging to Beverstedt, places to Stotel contrast, were more of a connection with Stotel and Hagen. A special feature is the country dignities, because the villages belonged to another country since the Middle Ages to Oldenburg and thus (up to temporal exceptions). The corresponding locations were at an early stage a unit and are still in the district land Would summarized.

Population Development

(1961 on June 6, 1970 on May 27, in each census results, including the subsequent eingemeindeten places, from 1987 on 31 December)

Policy

Parish council

In the election period 2011-2016 the Council of the Municipality Council Loxstedt has 32 women and men. Of these 15 council members of the SPD, the CDU 11, 4 of the Greens and one council member of the citizens group and the left. The deputies of SPD and Alliance 90/The Greens have come together to form a group and set with 19 votes the majority. The mayor is Detlef Wellbrock (independent).

Coat of arms

The silver shield pins symbolize the merger of 21 villages of the municipality Loxstedt. The silver wave band symbolizes the rivers Weser and Lune, which run through the area. The silver horse symbolizes the operated in the municipality of horse breeding. The coat of arms above refers to the church today Loxstedt. However, like all previous communities and recently Wiemsdorf has also the place Loxstedt own coat of arms, which was simply continued in the early years of the new unified community. Blazon: Argent, three black, with the tips facing each other nails in tiller position, above and at the sides of a goldbesamten Rose accompanied. Reason: The nails are the arms of the noble family nail borrowed, that was in 1371 involved in the foundation of the Church. The roses are symbols of the patron saint of this church, the Virgin Mary.

Community partnerships

Since 1990, there is located a partnership with the City Schwaan, south of Rostock.

Economy and infrastructure

Loxstedt is in the context of spatial planning a Schwerpunktort for the settlement of trade and industry in the district of Cuxhaven. Industrial and commercial areas are in the industrial park "Am Wedenberg " ( village Loxstedt ) and " Loxpark " ( village Stotel ) are available. In the past also large industrial settlements on Luneplate were provided. This area was largely sold for the creation of compensation areas in the state of Bremen. Loxstedt is economically particularly influenced by agriculture, horse breeding, chemical industry and meat processing. In the late 1970s, however, every 20 employed persons was only engaged in agriculture. Instead, Loxstedt developed primarily into a residential area of the city of Bremerhaven with a high number of commuters. In the future, especially tourism is to be developed, with the first steps have already been initiated by the establishment of hiking and cycling trails.

Traffic

The community is accessed by road and rail. Passes through the area, the Federal Highway 27 ( Walsrode triangle -Bremen- Bremerhaven - Cuxhaven ) with the driveways Stotel, Nesse / Bremerhaven -South and Bremerhaven-Wulsdorf/Loxstedt. From the exit Stotel the highway runs 437 through the Weser tunnel to the municipality Urban land in the district of Weser march towards Oldenburg and Wilhelmshaven. The Federal Highway 71 connects parts of the community with Bremerhaven and with Bremervörde. Another thoroughfare is State Road 135 ( Cuxhaven- Bremerhaven Bremen).

The planned coastal motorway A20 to be performed between Loxstedt and Bexhövede and between Stinstedt and Düring. The selected preferred variant was confirmed in the regional planning process and replaced three previous schedules within the community. The majority in the City Council has called for a route south of the Stoteler lake, in which the village Holte would be largely built over the crossing A22 and A27. This variant was excluded from the government representatives from Lüneburg also for conservation reasons.

Loxstedt had its own railway station on the route Bremen - Bremerhaven, which was downgraded to 1966 breakpoint since 1847. Public transport by bus is mainly aimed at the upper center of Bremerhaven and is supplemented within the municipality by school transport and the Anrufsammeltaxi. The municipality is the transport network Bremen -Niedersachsen ( VBN ) connected.

Media

About the Municipality Loxstedt reported the Nordsee-Zeitung.

Education

Primary schools are located in the villages Bexhövede, Loxstedt and Stotel. In Loxstedt there is also a secondary and secondary school and a secondary school ( up to class 10).

Culture and sights

Due to the immediate vicinity of the regional center of Bremerhaven the cultural offer is rather low. However, highlights are especially Dede Strand market and theater performances, concerts and art exhibitions of some clubs.

As Attractions Churches namely the St John the Baptist church in Bexhövede, St. Mary's Church in Wolfenbüttel, St. Margaret Church in Stotel well as the St. Mary's Church in Loxstedt with ceiling paintings ( Loxstedter Dance of Death, Holy Family ) and apply a monument organ of 1768, built by Johann Matthias Schreiber / Gluckstadt. These churches belong to the church district Wesermünde -south in the Lutheran State church in Hannover.

In the Catholic St. John's Church (1966 ), the picture " Holy Family with John boy " of the Italian Baroque painter Andrea Sacchi ( 1641) and a modern mosaic on the altar screen (2001), with designs from the Book of Revelation is.

The St. Lawrence Church in Dedesdorf has an Arp Schnitger organ. This church belongs to the parish of Weser march in the Evangelical Lutheran Church Oldenburgische.

Other notable buildings are the many thatched houses in the villages and the villages Dede mill in which you can also have dare.

Of cultural interest are painted on the initiative of the march poet Hermann Allmers Stoteler frescoes by Hugo storm.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

Johann Evil (1739-1804), Stotel; sugar producer
Albrecht von Buxthoeven (around 1165-1229 ), Bexhövede; Canon in Bremen as well as Bishop and founder of Riga
Hermann I of Buxthoeven (1163-1248), Bexhövede; First bishop in Estonia and founder of the family of the Barons of Buxhöwde
Wilhelm Dieckmann (1893-1944), Stotel; Resistance fighter in the Third Reich
Johann Ganten (1855-1936), Stinstedt; Educator and co-founder of Bremerhaven citizens Parks
Ottomar Haxsen (1898-1972), Fleeste; Politician and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
Hanne Kulessa (* 1951), Loxstedt; Author, journalist and radio presenter
Heinrich Luden (1778-1847), Loxstedt; Historian and theologian
Heinrich Christian Meyer (1797-1848), nephew; First major industrialist of the city of Hamburg
Mushard Luneburg (1672-1708), Loxstedt; Author of a reference book about the nobility of Lower Saxony North
Martin Mushard (1699-1770), Loxstedt; Evangelical Lutheran pastor and prehistorians, son Luneburgs
Hermann Schmidt (1851-1921), Dedesdorf; Mayor of Erfurt
Friedrich Vogel (1929-2005), Hahnenknoop; Minister of Justice of North Rhine -Westphalia and Minister of State at the Federal

Myths and legends

There are many myths and legends that relate to the field of community Loxstedt: Hunter and Voss, The dragon stone in thunder, The Treasure in the Cellar, The robber barons of Bexhövede, The Bells of Bexhövede, The Feldstein at Bexhövede, The Dwarves at Dünenfähr, the dwarf child, Arp von During, the Lieutenant bridge in during, the Black Sea in the bog at Hahnenknoop, from the swinging castle, How Would country came to Oldenburg, Hake Betken siene Duven and the grain dealer.

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