Rehburg-Loccum

Rehburg -Loccum is a city in Lower Saxony in the southeast of the district Nienburg / Weser and with some 10,000 inhabitants, the second largest city of the county.

• 3.1 Population development
• 3.2 Age structure

• 5.1 Town twinning

• 6.1 Music
• 6.2 Attractions 6.2.1 Rehburg
• 6.2.2 Loccum
• 6.2.3 Münchehagen
• 6.2.4 Rehburg
• 6.2.5 Winzlar

• 7.1 unemployment
• 7.2 traffic
• 7.3 Education
• 7.4 Sports and Leisure

• 9.1 personalities that act locally

Geography

Geographical Location

Rehburg -Loccum borders the Steinhude. The city is traversed by the ridge of the Rehburger mountains and flows through for drainage of the Steinhuder sea in east-west direction from Steinhude Bach. The nature park Steinhude covers among other things the area Rehburg- Loccums.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are the towns Wunstorf and Neustadt am Ruebenberge, both located in the Hanover region, Peter Hagen / Weser Minden- Luebbecke, North Rhine -Westphalia, and the joint communities country hills in the district Nienburg / Weser, Niedernwöhren and Sachsenhagen, both located in the county in the district of Schaumburg.

Boroughs

The city Rehburg -Loccum is made since 1974 of the following five districts together:

• Rehburg
• Loccum
• Münchehagen
• Rehburg
• Winzlar

History

The city was founded on March 1, 1974 from the merger of the city Rehburg, the traditional Rehburg - once Staatsbad of the Kings of Hanover - Loccum, Münchehagen and Winzlar. In succession of the city Rehburg is Rehburg -Loccum member of Calenberg- Grubenhagen 's landscape.

The City Council Rehburg -Loccum has taken a decision to socio-ethical rehabilitation of victims of the witch trials on 25 September 2013.

Population

Population Development

The population Rehburg- Loccums is after ten years of steady increase over the last three years declined slightly:

Of these, in the districts of:

Age structure

The age groups of the population was made up as follows ( as of 2006):

City ​​council

The municipal election held on 11 September 2011 led to the following distribution of seats:

• SPD: 11 seats (-1)
• CDU: 9 seats (-1)
• GREEN: 4 seats ( 2)
• WG: 1 seat ( ± 0)
• FDP: 1 seat ( ± 0)

Coat of arms

Shown is a deer that is in the open gate of a dreitürmigen castle, which in turn is surrounded by three flowers at the bottom. The deer and the castle according to their names Rehburg, while the roses are the arms of the founder of the monastery Loccum, Count Hallermund borrowed.

In the city arms, individual elements of the two arms of Rehburg (or Rehburg ) and Loccum are summarized. From the crest Rehburger the castle and the deer come, the roses were taken from the coat of arms Loccums.

Twinning

The city Rehburg -Loccum maintains since 1990 a city partnership with the community Niederschöna ( between Freiberg and Dresden). Has its origin this twinning of close links of the parish Loccum and Niederschöna that existed many years before the reunification of Germany. At the request of the municipal council of the municipality Niederschöna then came the official partnership between the two communities.

Culture and sights

Music

In the districts Rehburg, Münchehagen and Loccum there is one marching band, the Rehburger has a national reputation. He finished third in the German Championship of the minstrels, 2007. Moreover, the Rehburger fire department has a chapel. The Concert of the volunteer fire department Loccum is known beyond the borders of Rehburg -Loccum.

Attractions

Rehburg

• Historic spa facilities and museum to the development of spas and space for cultural events
• The Friederike Chapel is a simple chapel from the 19th century.
• The Wilhelm storm in the mountains Rehburger is operated by Kultererhaltungsverein Rehburg, however, belongs to Wölpinghausen.

Loccum

Best-known institution in the city is the monastery Loccum, emanating from the cultural impulses. In the monastery forest there are other attractions such as the Luccaburg as a medieval castle hill of a moth.

Münchehagen

Of national importance, the dinosaur Open Air Museum is Münchehagen ( " dinosaur park ").

Rehburg

Since 1984, the city is a cultural center in the building of the Council cellar in Rehburg available which mainly houses the civic hall next to the public library and a youth center, which is used for cultural events. The local museum with exhibits on the history of the city Rehburg is operated by a club.

Winzlar

Worth seeing are the located on Steinhude "floating sea Bruchwiesen " at Winzlar where there is a considerable variety of birds and plants. There is the environmental protection station Steinhude ( ÖSSM ).

Economy and infrastructure

Unemployment

In 2006 423 people out of work were registered in the city Rehburg- Loccum which corresponded to a value of 8.3% of the working age population. On a national basis the value of which is below the Lower Saxony average.

Traffic

Rehburg -Loccum is just 40 km northwest of Hanover and is accessible by car via Highway 2 and to achieve the national road 6, running a few miles north of the urban area, as well as the federal highways 441 and 482. By districts Loccum, Münchehagen and Rehburg the federal highway 441 which leads directly to Hannover runs. Nearest motorway junctions on the A 2 are Wunstorf ( Luthe and Kolenfeld ) and Porta Westfalica. Both connection points are accessible from Rehburg out within about 30 minutes by car. In addition, Rehburg -Loccum is in the catchment area of the airport Hanover as well as in the approach path of the air base Wunstorf.

In the urban area, a citizen bus system is operated, which passes all the districts every hour. The bus operation is handled by the transport company Nienburg with links towards Nienburg and Regiobus Hannover direction Stolzenau and Wunstorf. Nestled are express buses, which contribute to a significant shorter journey times. Stations are located in Leese - Stolzenau, Nienburg / Weser and Wunstorf.

The formerly leading through the city railway city Hagen- Stolzenau and Steinhude train no longer exist.

Education

The city operates kindergartens in several districts. In Rehburg and Münchehagen each is a primary school. As a secondary school is a secondary school ( pre- primary and junior high school, in addition to the year 2004 with an orientation stage) was set up in Loccum. In Rehburg the Wilhelm Busch School was built as a special school for children with learning difficulties. The Evangelical Academy Loccum organized more than 60 conferences, workshops and seminars in the year to all policy areas: theology, law, international politics, environmental policy, education and youth policy, culture, and economic and social policy. The RPI ( Religious Pedagogic Institute Loccum ) provides comprehensive training and continuing education for teachers and church staff to.

Sport and Leisure

Rehburg -Loccum has two tennis courts and in Rehburg Loccum and a leisure pool and an indoor pool in Münchehagen in Rehburg. In the district Rehburg there are two sports fields, in a Winzlar and Münchehagen and Loccum two. An 18- hole golf course is operated in Loccum.

The landscape is surrounded by the Rehburg -Loccum also provides good conditions for hiking ( Rehburger mountains ), for surfing and sailing ( Steinhude ) and for long bike rides ( Steinhude, Weser Marsch). A public library is operated in Rehburg, a church in Loccum.

The local chapter of the German Life Saving Society in Rehburg -Loccum is the only non-profit association that provides a range in the area of the swimming sport or rescue sport in the city. Especially in the consolidation of schwimmerischen skills in children shortly after the acquisition of the seahorse badge or insignia of the German youth swimming in bronze afford the volunteers of the local chapter DLRG Rehburg -Loccum eV most of their basic work. In the indoor swimming pool in the district Rehburg and in the outdoor pool in the district Münchehagen DLRG offers seasonal on a weekly swim training. About the swimming training also makes the DLRG in Rehburg -Loccum active youth work and maintains a volunteer organization a Quick Operation Water Rescue group with an insert Diving Rupp and two motor lifeboats.

Religions

Evangelical Lutheran churches or chapels are located in all districts, a Roman Catholic church located in the district Rehburg.

Personalities

• Magdalene bey the coupling († 1628 Loccum ), the first victim of witch hunts
• Gerhard Hahn ( born 1946 ), German animated film director
• Günter Hermann ( born December 5, 1960), a former German football player and 1990 World Cup champion

Personalities that act locally

• Ernst Jünger (* 1895 in Heidelberg, † 1998 in Riedlingen ), German philosopher and writer, lived in his youth in Rehburg
• Horst Hirschler ( born September 4, 1933, Stuttgart), German theologian and abbot of the monastery Loccumer
• Lucius B. Reichling ( born March 8, 1947 in Berlin, † August 14, 2012 in Hamburg), singer and founder of the band Truck Stop, lived in his youth in Loccum
• Sebastian Edathy ( born September 5, 1969 in Hanover ), German politician and former Member of Parliament, residing in Rehburg