Nortrup
Nortrup is a member municipality of the velvet municipality Artland in the north of the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony and is located in the Artland as part of the recreation area Hasetal.
- 2.1 Religion
- 2.2 Population development
- 3.1 municipal
- 4.1 Structures
- 4.2 Established businesses
- 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town
Geography
Climate
Temperate maritime climate influenced by moist northwesterly winds from the North Sea. In the long-term mean air temperature reaches in Nortrup 8.5 ° - 9.0 ° C and there are about 700 mm of precipitation. Between May and August, with an average of 20-25 can summer days ( climatological term for days on which the maximum temperature exceeds 25 ° C ) can be expected.
Traffic
There was a railway station in Nortrup at the railway Quakenbruck - Fuerstenau - Rheine.
Currently at the clock transport buses of the transport association Osnabrück to Quakenbruck and Fuerstenau.
History
Nortrup was first documented in 1169 as " Norttorpe ". Four families formed with their courtyards, the first row settlement, others followed. In the second half of the 15th century the noble family von Dinklage built a residence; the Good Loxten reached in 1682 by selling the property of the family von Hammerstein, who inhabited it today. The construction of the railway line Quakenbruck - Rheine in the seventies of the last century and the consequent industrialization Nortrup developed from a peasant to a modern, rural community.
Many typical Artländer half-timbered houses, but also the idyllic moated castle Loxten remember the past.
Religion
The population Nortrups converted during the Reformation and of the action of Quake jumper Hermann Bonnus primarily for Evangelical-Lutheran faith; it developed in the 16th century in the Artland a Protestant Diaspora, which was surrounded by areas with a Catholic population. After the Counter-Reformation, however, the proportion of the Catholic population in Nortrup grew significantly again; the work of Vitus Büschers zeitigte mainly in the city Quakenbruck and less in the rural environment with its small parishes success. 1855 known from the then 869 inhabitants Nortrups 496 back to the Catholic faith.
As Chapel church with her on June 21, 1855, the Memorial of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, St. Aloysius Chapel inaugurated Nortrup belonged until 1908 to Ankum. On March 25, 1908, Osnabrück Bishop Hubertus Voss signed the instrument creating for the Catholic parish of St. Aloysius in Nortrup and appointed the chapel community to its own parish. Today's church was consecrated in 1915.
The dominance of the Catholic population weakened in recent decades by the numerically large influx of German repatriates from the former Soviet Union from that are in the vast majority of Evangelical Lutheran denomination. There were still a large number of Baptist emigrants, which are not covered by the municipality, however, numerically.
In the district Loxten is the Lutheran Church Dorothee.
Population Development
The following overview shows the numbers of inhabitants of Nortrup in each area and state on December 31.
The figures are extrapolations of the State Office for Statistics and communication technology Niedersachsen based on the census of 25 May 1987.
The figures from 1961 (June 6 ) and 1970 (May 27 ) are in each case to the census results.
Policy
Parish council
The council currently has 13 members from four parties or groups.
The following table shows the local election results since 1996.
Culture and sights
The sights Nortrups be reached via the scenic route Artland route.
Structures
- Water Castle Good Loxten, mid-16th century, Dutch Classicism, privately owned by the family Hammerstein Loxten
- Roman Catholic parish church of St. Aloysius
- Dorothea 's Church in Nortrup - Loxten (1859 /69), according to plans by Conrad Wilhelm Hase
Established businesses
Nortrup is due to its convenient location and favorable conditions of establishment location of a number of companies with more than 1,000 jobs, including the packaging material factory Delkeskamp packing plants and the meat factory Kemper sausages.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Ernst von Hammerstein - Loxten ( born October 2, 1827 in Loxton, † June 5, 1914 in Loxton ) was a Prussian Minister of Agriculture
- Rudolf von Hammerstein ( born September 30, 1735 in Loxton, † October 4, 1811 in Schenkenhorst at Erxleben ) was hannoveranischer lieutenant general.
- Hermann Kemper ( born April 5, 1892 in Nortrup in the district of Osnabrück, † July 13, 1977 ) was a German engineer and inventor of maglev.