Nienburg (district)

The Nienburg / Weser is a district in central Lower Saxony in the Middle Weser region in the district of Hanover. It is bordered to the west by the Diepholz, on the north by the district of Verden, on the east by the county Heidekreis and at the Hannover region and the south by the district of Schaumburg and the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Minden -Lübbecke.

• 2.1 Kreistag
• 2.2 District Administrators
• 2.3 Oberkreisdirektor Directors
• 2.4 Coat of Arms

• 3.1 farms
• 3.2 Social Services
• 3.3 traffic

• 4.1 Regional Association
• 4.2 Jewish Cemeteries
• 4.3 Tourism

History

The old Prussian district Nienburg in 1885 formed by the union of the previous Office Nienburg in the sub- county Hoya with the official free city Nienburg.

In today's expansion of the county was created in 1977, when in the course of an administrative territorial reform fell, the eastern part of the county and the county of Hoya for dissolved district of Neustadt am Ruebenberge belonging to the municipality Rodewald Nienburg / Weser. The previously belonging to Nienburg community Wiedensahl was assigned to the district of Schaumburg. The joint communities county Hoya and Eystrup have merged on 1 January 2011 to Samtgemeinde county Hoya.

Population Development

( at December 31 )

Policy

Council

The County Council Election on 11 September 2011 led to the following result:

• CDU: 19 seats
• SPD: 16 seats
• GREEN: 5 seats
• WG: 4 seats
• FDP: 1 seat
• LEFT: 1 seat

District administrators

Full-time District Administrator of Nienburg / Weser is since November 1, 2011 Detlev carbon Meier (independent).

Existing district administrators:

• Siegfried von Campe (1938-1945)
• Hans vom Hoff (1945-1946)
• Röbbing Friedrich (1946-1948)
• August Witte - Dunk (1948-1964)
• Friedrich Benecke (1964 )
• Harry Metterhausen (1964-1972)
• Heinrich Schmidt (1972-1981)
• Helmut Rode (1981-1991)
• Werner Siemann (1991-2002)
• Heinrich Eggers (2002-2011)
• Detlev carbon Meier ( since 2011 )

Senior district directors

• Kauke Heinrich (1946-1952)
• Oskar Harms (1952-1976)
• Dr. Werner Grundmann (1976-1979)
• Dr. Wilfried Meadow Brock (1979-1983)

Coat of arms

Blazon: The split and split bottom plate shows up on a red background two silver crossed horse heads, as they are found on the gables of farmhouses in the county. The black, rotbewehrte bear paw on a gold background in the lower right part indicates the counts of Hoya. On the Count of Wölpe the silver buffalo horn reminds on a blue background in the lower left part.

Economy and infrastructure

Farms

The Nienburg / Weser is based on a broadly diversified regional economic structure with about 4900 based small and medium-sized companies. In addition to traditional family crafts are paper and glass manufacturing, chemical industry, food production, logistics, automotive, special purpose machinery and the renewable energy sector, the industry focuses. To the economic performance in the region also supports agriculture in relevant; primarily the cultivation of asparagus is known far beyond the region. To ensure the sustainable development of the economic region of the Economic Development WIN GmbH care.

In the city Nienburg is animal feed and glass industries. An important economic factor is the resident here at some sites Bundeswehr; especially in Nienburger district Langendamm there is a larger location. Furthermore, in Nienburg there are some companies in the chemical industry.

Social facilities

In Nienburg and in Stolzenau operates locations of the Middle Weser clinics, which belong to the Rhön composite. The sooner beyond existing Hoya hospital was closed.

Traffic

Shipping

The county is traversed by the suitable for inland navigation Weser from south to north.

Road

The following highways pass through the district Nienburg:

• B 6 Cuxhaven- Görlitz ( via Bremerhaven, Bremen and Hanover )
• B 61 (Bremen - Ruhr )
• B 214 ( Lingen - Brunswick)
• B 215 ( Rotenburg - Glissen )
• B 441 ( light -Hannover )
• B 482 ( Leese - Vlotho )
• B 209 ( Rohrsen - Schwarzenbek )

Furthermore traverse some country roads ( eg, L 349 and L 351 ) and a number of county roads the county.

Railway

The county town of Nienburg received in 1847 with the opening of the railway line Wunstorf -Bremen a rail connection, the line was built by the Hanoverian State Railways. From their once branched off three branch lines, namely opened in 1910 by the Prussian State Railway railway line to Rahden, as well as by the German State Railroad ( 1920-1945 ) 1921/22, completed railway line to Diepholz and railway line to Minden ( 1921 to present) with their former branch line to the city of Hagen.

Here 1898/99 Before lamp had been achieved by the state railway, met already two narrow gauge railways. The range of Minden circular orbits about Peter Hagen led to Minden, the Steinhude train on Rehburg -Loccum to Wunstorf.

From the main line Wunstorf - Bremerhaven branches in Eystrup from a distance, which was built in 1881 by the Hoyaer Railway Company, and led on the right bank of the Weser to the Old Train Station Hoya; in 1912 they crossed the river to the left bank located small station. There was the connection to the narrow-gauge lines of light railway Hoya - Syke- Asendorf GmbH, which led to Syke and 1905 after stooping since 1900. In 1962 /63 narrow-gauge railway was umgespurt after the merger of the two companies with transport companies county Hoya GmbH, so that a continuous transport Hoya - Syke was possible.

The rail network was in a circle once a total length of 227 km, of which 73 km are still in full operation, a further 32 km can be traveled by museum railways. Setting data:

The main route Bremen -Hannover is operated by the RE North dike -Emden and Bremen Hbf -Hannover Hbf. In Nienburg keep all two hours intercity trains on the 56 Oldenburg ( Oldenburg), Hanover and Magdeburg -Leipzig / Berlin. The station Nienburg (Weser) is also the end point of the S-Bahn line 2 to Hannover Hbf - Haste

The railway line Nienburg - Minden with intermediate stops Leese - Stolzenau and Peter -Lahde is served on weekdays every two hours from RE 78 Porta- Express to Bielefeld. On Sundays and bank holidays, every two hours, the Weser -Aller -Bahn Rotenburg ( Wümme) - Verden - Minden with connections from Hamburg.

Culture

Regional Association

To cultural concerns, the Regional Association Weser- Hunte, the music school Nienburg, the local cultural officials within the cities and towns, parishes and private cultural initiatives taken care of.

Jewish Cemeteries

In Nienburg there are eight Jewish cemeteries in Lavelsloh, Hoyerhagen, Leese, Liebenau, Nienburg / Weser, Rehburg, Stolzenau and lamp. There are worth protecting cultural monuments - stone witnesses for previously existing Jewish communities and a lively Jewish community life until the 1930s. The cemeteries are usually locate bad, especially since they mainly located on the outskirts of towns.

Tourism

About tourist activities such as cycling, art, culture or events informed the Mittelweser Touristik GmbH. The regional tourist office is on behalf of 18 members for the entire Middle Weser region, extending from Minden to Bremen, in charge.

Nature Reserves

In Nienburg / Weser there are 34 nature reserves. The largest ( Uchter Moor ) has an area of ​​3,263 ha ( area fraction of the district Nienburg / Weser: 3,165 ha), the smallest ( riparian forest at Hingste ) an area of ​​2.5 ha

Cities and Towns

In brackets the number of inhabitants on 31 December 2012.

See also: List of municipalities in the district Nienburg / Weser

Unit communities

Joint communities with their member communities

Seat of the velvet municipality administration *

• 2 Samtgemeinde Heemsen ( 6046 )

• 3 Samtgemeinde Liebenau ( 5805 )

• 4 Samtgemeinde Marklohe ( 8434 )

• 5 Samtgemeinde Mittelweser ( 15,829 )

• 6 Samtgemeinde Steimbke ( 7418 )

• 7 Samtgemeinde lamp ( 13,944 )