Westerholt
Westerholt is a municipality and as the administrative seat of the velvet municipality in the district of Holtriem Witt mouth in Lower Saxony.
Westerholt is first mentioned in documents in 1420. The late mention, the loss of land due to sea level rise as a cause. The area was also settled, too early periods.
The community is largely agrarian and dominated by tourism. In the village there is the Holtriemer shopping center, short HEZ. In addition to the primary school, the school has a kindergarten and a special primary school, but there is one major and junior high school in the school center.
Policy
Parish council
The Council of the Municipality Council Westerholt consists of 13 women and councilors. This is the set number for the member community of integrated municipality with a population of 2001-3000 people. The 13 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 alderman Eilert J. Eilers (SPD ) for 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 was 47.90 %, well below the Lower Saxony average of 52.5 %. For comparison - in the previous local elections on 10 September 2006, the turnout was 55.07 %.