Wippingen
Wippingen is a municipality in the Emsland district Dörpen the integrated municipality in Lower Saxony.
The municipality, which covers 16.54 km ², has 881 inhabitants. It is dominated by agriculture, many residents are employed as commuters both in industry and in services.
- 2.1 Neighbouring communities
- 4.1 parish
- 5.1 municipal
- 5.2 Mayor
- 5.3 Coat of Arms
- 6.1 Economics
- 6.2 traffic
Geography
Geographical Location
Wippingen located in the northwestern part of the Emsland region about 10 km north- west of the moraine hills of Hümmling. The community is located about 7 km east of the Ems, about 17 km south of Papenburg and approximately 25 km north of Meppen.
Due to the northern part of the township the Nordschleife of the Transrapid Test Facility Emsland runs.
Community structure
The community Wippingen is composed of the nucleus and Strotburg, her small northern district.
Geology and landscape
The terms of area level municipality consists partly of glacial sands, partly from cultivated peat, which is drained by the rivers Wippinger Dever and hair - Dever ( on the border with Neubörger in the northeast ).
Neighboring communities
Neighboring communities are the towns Dörpen and Neubörger, in the east the communities Börger and Werpeloh in Samtgemeinde Soegel, in the south the municipality Renkenberge in Samtgemeinde Lathen and to the west the town Kluse in the north.
Origin of the name
Ing, ingen means: Coming derived from ... but seems to be used for groups of houses. Wippingen probably of Wübbe, pet name for Willibald, which is also found in southern Germany and Switzerland.
History
Wippingen is the first time in 1534 named as burschop tor Wyppinge ( Wippingen West) in the plow Chat zung register; In the same year two courtyards tor wyppinge in the bond and Erbschatzungslisten the Emsland under " Hymelingen Werplo Burschop " (literally: " Hümmling, peasantry Werpeloh ", the nearest village) listed ( Wippingen East). The then existing, and probably far older division of the settlement area with belonging to different judicial and administrative districts or parishes, and - later - counties persisted for centuries. It was not until October 1, 1939, the church today Wippingen as an administrative unit of the then district ash Village Hümmling was founded ( 1932-1977 ).
Parish
Ecclesiastical belonged to the parish of West Wippingen stone image Wippingen East Parish Soegel. On April 1, 1911, the chapel church was raised to the curacy. Charlemagne as a saint of the 1843 -built church was founded in 1952 by St. Bartholomew replaced.
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Wippingen consists of nine council women and men. After the local elections on 11 September 2011 It is composed of two parties.
- CDU - 8 seats
- SPD - 1 seat
Mayor
The honorary mayor Hermann Gerdes (CDU ) was elected unanimously on November 16, 2006. He solved Hermann Hackmann (CDU ) from after ten years.
Coat of arms
In red a golden obliquely positioned Windmill wing cross, bewinkelt the top of a golden cross of equal length, down from a golden ear ( Design and execution: Dr. Ulf- Dietrich grain, Münster, 1998).
The parish church, here represented by a simple cross, and the windmill, represented only by their characteristic wing cross, are the most important elements of the coat of arms, supplemented by the ear as a symbol for the prevailing in the municipality of agriculture. The ear also refers to membership in the Samtgemeinde Dörpen which among other things a sheaf of corn in the arms; a single ear of corn is accordingly in the arms of the municipality Dörpen.
Red and gold are the colors of the coat of arms old Bishopric of Münster to its low pin the municipality until the end of the Old Kingdom in 1803 belonged.
Economy and infrastructure
Economy
The early cattle estimation lists ( for example, 1545 ) document a high livestock at low arable land. Pasture and cattle and sheep with Hutewirtschaft were and are the predominant forms of operation, but it was in the 19th century, the proportion of cereal crops at least so large that 1860-1887 two grain mills were operated.
Traffic
Three kilometers west of Wippingen leads the federal highway 70 ( Papenburg - Meppen) over.
Attractions
Two striking buildings dominate the center: in 1896 increased tower of the old, in 1977 replaced by a new church and in 1860 erected for a prospective community from both districts Dutch Transit mill. She was decommissioned in 1937, went 1979 on the property of the community and was passed on for further use and maintenance after the restoration in 1981 the home and Tourist ash Village Hümmling.
In addition, the Transrapid Test Facility Emsland is worth seeing, whose Nordschleife runs through the northern part of the township.
Personalities
- Schniers Heinrich ( born March 25, 1880 in Wippingen; † August 30, 1942 in Dachau concentration camp ), Catholic priest, pastor in Leer, victims of National Socialism