Wardenburg
Wardenburg is a municipality in the district of Oldenburg in northwestern Lower Saxony.
- 2.1 Population development
- 3.1 City Council and Mayor
- 3.2 Town twinning
- 4.1 Structures
- 4.2 Parks and landscape strokes
- 4.3 Conservation
- 4.4 Public Art
- 4.5 Regular events
- 5.1 traffic
- 5.2 Public Transport
- 5.3 Commercial
- 5.4 Education
Geography
Geographical Location
Wardenburg is in the northwest of the Natural Park Geest south of the city of Oldenburg. Through the municipal area, the flow Hunte, the Lethe and Streeker Fleth. To the north borders the municipality of Wardenburg to the Coastal Canal, east, and thus beyond the Hunte at the Osenberge.
Besides the city of Oldenburg in the north are the next villages of the municipality Wardenburg the villages Sandkrugbrücke the east and Huntlosen in the southeast.
Places
The municipality Wardenburg following towns include:
- Achternholt
- Achternmeer
- Astrup
- Benthullen
- Charlottendorf East
- West Charlotte village, founded in 1910
- Harbern I, est. 1935
- Harbern II, est. 1948
- Höven
- Dog mills
- Small Bümmerstede
- Littel
- Oberlethe
- Südmoslesfehn
- Tungeln
- Wardenburg
- Westerburg
- Westerholt
History
The community Wardenburg can look back on a more than 700 - year anniversary.
Earlier, along the banks of the old trade Hunte " The bronze street " from the south coming up to the North Sea. On this road was built in the " angle " of the Lerigaus south of Tunglo ( Tungeln ) the village Ward mountains. From Charlemagne had been placed under the Archbishopric of Munster 782 this Lerigau.
In 1270 the Ward mountains built a castle Westerholtsche Knight Alliance and St. Mary's Church. Ward Mountain, named after the establishment of the Wardenburg, was recognized center of the " angle ". The Wardenburger church, she had become widely as a pilgrimage church on the borders of the country famous, was burned down in 1538. From the ruins until 1578 by Count John VII ( 1540-1603 ) establishes a new church. The Ward castle was destroyed in 1342 by the mercenaries of the Bishop of Münster.
On a plaque at the foot of the hill Tilly, the following can be read: On the hill outsourced from 2 to September 23, 1623, the army of Imperial general Johann t Serdaes Count of Tilly ( 1559-1632 ). With 25,000 soldiers Tilly was on the pursuit of the enemy General Ernst von Mansfeld, who had taken a position in Ostfriesland. Through skillful negotiations and rich gifts Graf Anton Günther von Oldenburg reached the noncombat deduction of Tilly's troops. The Wardenburger population but suffered three weeks under looting and seizures.
In the village of Glum a farmer found a cartwheel in 1880, which could be dated to the late Bronze Age around 1500 BC. 1949 Benthullen meteorite was found in the place Benthullen. In 2013, a lessor in Charlotte Village West discovered at a depth of 4.50 m, the remains of a 5118 years old oak tree. The tree trunk can be seen in the marsh and farm museum Benthullen.
Population Development
The number of inhabitants has increased steadily in recent decades. Particularly benefited from it have places Hundsmühlen, Wardenburg, Tungeln and Littel.
Sources: ¹: Stelljes, see literature, collation from different sources as well as community levels ²: Lower Saxony State Office for Statistics
Policy
City Council and Mayor
The municipal elections on 11 September 2011 led to the following result:
- Full-time Mayor is Martina Noske (SPD).
- Deputy Mayor Stefan are Depta ( Green ), Eckhard Heinje (CDU) and Detlef Sonnenberg (SPD).
Twinning
- Eelde, today Tynaarlo municipality in the Netherlands, since 1986
- Robel / Müritz in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, since 1990
Culture and sights
Structures
- Bell tower ( symbol of Wardenburg)
- St. Mary's Church
- Catholic Church
- Town hall
- Water mill on the Lethe
- Forge Museum
In addition to these historical and new buildings within the village of Castle Ward are in the municipal area more buildings worth seeing:
- Brickworks Museum ( Westerholt )
- Moor and farm museum ( Benthullen )
- Church in Benthullen
Parks and countryside strokes
- Tilly hills and Tillysee: The Wardenburger Tillysee is half owned by the angling club and the other half Naturschutzbund.
- Wardenburger march
Conservation
In the community protection areas are designated in all shades. The responsibility lies with the Lower Nature Conservation Authority of the County of Oldenburg.
Sections of the community belong to the Natural Park Geest.
There are two nature reserves ( Benthullener moor, heath Harberner ) and a number of landscape protection areas (Mean Hunte, Griese Moor, Lethetal and the State Forestry Tuedick, Oberlether Fuhrenkamp, Hoop, Litteler Fuhrenkamp ).
In addition, the Fauna-Flora -Habitat "Middle and Lower Hunte " recognized as part of the European Natura 2000 conservation project.
Under protection are numerous natural monuments and protected landscape components, and also the hedgerows.
About the statutory nature conservation beyond the working group biotope network Wardenburg committed to a comprehensive, integrated system of protected areas
Based in Wardenburg has the Biological Protective Association Hunte Weser -Ems. On the grounds of the former shooting range BSH serves a nature trail.
Art in Public Space
In the local picture of Wardenburg found - scattered and sometimes a bit hidden - some very different art objects of artists from the community and from the region.
- Front of the house of BSH - on Friedrichstrasse - the ( bronze and stone ) sculpture Seedling (2000) by Udo Reimann,
- The cultivation of the municipal administration ( One World Shop ) - Eelder road - the bronze sculpture A world (earth, peace and Gingko ) (2001) by Karin Engel,
- Within sight of the bell tower - on the corner Pate Mountain / Oldenburger Straße - the sculpture The municipality Tree (2006) by Daniel Hübner at the initiative of the municipality Wardenburg Marketing Forum
- On the " Gloysteinschen yard" - at the Oldenburger Straße - the sculpture Wardenburger Storks ( 2007) by Daniel Hübner,
- Along the Oldenburger Strasse, Friedrichstrasse and the Patenbergsweg the community Wardenburg has Marketing Forum 2011 from an idea of Oliver Bremer, the " Wardenburger story (s) " installed - this is 28 stainless steel plates with historic data of the community Wardenburg, which in the ground are inserted,
- At the old B 69 (now Public Insurance ) was in the 1960s, a stone fountain,
- In the Council Chamber of the community Wardenburg - Friedrichstrasse - the triptych Wardenburg, Eelde and Robel (2004) by Daniel Hübner
Regular events
At the weekend, on the second Sunday in August is held annually in Wardenburg the City Festival takes. This is one of the biggest celebrations in the district of Oldenburg. The event has been around since 1999. Fridays the festival begins with the lights move nationally known and both the Friday and Saturday night are all about live music on several stages. Sunday is family day with the classic flea and craft market, as well as children amusement.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Wardenburg is accessible via the Federal Highway 29 to the junction Wardenburg, two roads and several county roads.
Public transport
The community Wardenburg is only connected to the national bus network. Within the municipal territory of the Weser -Ems - Bus GmbH in Bremen- Lower Saxony Transport Association has worked for the transport of persons. The places Tungeln and Hundsmühlen can be reached from Oldenburg in addition to buses, the traffic and Wasser GmbH ( VWG ).
Trade
In the villages in the municipality of Wardenburg many farms are to be found. The place Wardenburg, however, is more of a residential, service and commercial center. After the spatial program of the central place Wardenburg is a basic center with the specific development tasks for residential and commercial sector. A total of six commercial areas are designated in the municipal area.
Education
In place Wardenburg there is a primary school. The IGS on Ever Kamp is a school of the district of Oldenburg. Children who can not attend the IGS ( Losverfahren! ) may resort to the surrounding elementary and secondary schools. A high school there in the community Wardenburg not, students need this, visit the Graf- Anton- Günther School in the city of Oldenburg. In some villages primary schools are still preserved, as in Achternmeer, Hohenfelde Hundsmühlen.
A community college is also represented in Wardenburg.