Moorweg

Moorweg is a municipality in the district Esen Witt mouth in Lower Saxony.

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

The municipal area is heavily wooded. In the sparsely populated area there are several nature reserves. Outstanding is the Burkhard oak, which must be with their range of more than 5 meters older than 400 years.

Community structure

The municipality was created in 1972, when the present-day towns Altgaude, Convent Schoo, Neugaude, Wagnersfehn and Wester Schoo were summarized.

History

In the area of ​​community Moorweg two monasteries were built in the Middle Ages. West of the heron lows was the monastery Oldekloster, probably founded as a Benedictine monastery in the 12th century and east of Heron lows the monastery Sconamora ( a Premonstratensian monastery from the 13th century with the name Sconamora ). Oldekloster had a Marian shrine and place of pilgrimage was. Both monasteries were after 1421 by Marie Kamp Monastery administered at Esen and continued as an agricultural field offices. With the secularization in 1530 both monasteries passed into the possession of the East Frisian counts and were continued as domains. Both monasteries in Harlingerland be designated on the map of East Frisia of David Fabricius in 1589 yet. Approximately 1770 Fehnkolonie Wagnersfehn of the wife Adelheid Wagener from Esen in the swampy valley south of Esen is founded. Here Palatinate be settled first, but move it to the failure of colonization by Pfalzdorf and Plaggenburg in Aurich. Colonization fails by burning off the water pumping mill that is to drain the peat bog area. The reconstruction of the mill overwhelmed the founder financially. From 1850, most of the sovereign holdings is south of the swampy valley reforested as Schooer forest. The former forestry house was in the woods just south of the domain Schoo. The domain sheep house, a former agricultural field office of the monastery Marie Kamp at Esen is reforested as sheep Hauser forest. The former domain is for building forest house today being privatized. The remaining heathland in the country's possession were sold in the first third of the 20th century and converted into farms. During the Second World War, a munitions factory is set up in sheep Hauser forest at the Buchenallee. This includes a bunker south of the former gamekeeper's house still exists, the municipality Moorweg used to extend much further north to about the Esenser Schützenplatz. It was pushed by the expansion of the city in the 20th century more and more to the south.

Policy

Parish council

The Council of the Municipality Moorweg Council consists of 9 women and councilors. This is the set number for the member community of integrated municipality with a population of 501-1000 people. The 9 Women Council and councilors are elected by a municipal election for five years. The current term of office began on 1 November 2011.

The council chose the council member Jürgen Schröder as honorary mayor for the current parliamentary term.

The last local elections on September 11, 2011 gave the following result:

The turnout in the local elections of 2011 were at 51.58 % just below the Lower Saxony average of 52.5 %. For comparison - in the previous local elections on 10 September 2006, the turnout was 53.66 %.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality is divided transversely. The nichtheraldisch from the upper right corner to nichtheraldisch lower left corner of the shield extending golden surface shows green oak leaves. The other blue area shows five golden ears of corn, which are surmounted by a golden cross.

Culture and sights

• The Ochsenweide covers 67 hectares and is since 1990 a nature reserve. The area lies partly in the town of Holt guest.