Ganderkesee

Infobox German Location
Art = Gemeinde
Name = Ganderkesee
Wappen = Wappen Ganderkesee.pnglat_deg = 53 |lat_min = 02 |lat_sec = 09
lon_deg = 08 |lon_min = 32 |lon_sec = 54
Lageplan =
Bundesland = Niedersachsen
Landkreis = Oldenburg
Höhe = 27
Fläche = 138.26
Einwohner = 30825
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 27777
PLZ-alt = 2875
Vorwahl = 04222, 04221, 04223
Kfz = OL
Gemeindeschlüssel = 03 4 58 005
Gliederung = 25 districts
Straße = Mühlenstraße 2 - 4
Website = [http://www.ganderkesee.de/ ganderkesee.de]
Bürgermeister = Alice Gerken-Klaas
Bürgermeistertitel = Bürgermeisterin

Ganderkesee is a municipality in Oldenburg district, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Geography

Geographical Location

Ganderkesee is located on the northern edge of a nature park called "Wildeshauser Geest". The northernmost part of the community is in the "Urstromtal" of the Weser. The sandy, higher and hilly terrain of Geest joins south.

The municipality Ganderkesee bordered to the east by the city of Delmenhorst, in the north of the communities Lemwerder and Berne in the district Wesermarsch and to the municipality Hude, to the west of the town Hatten and on the south by the municipalities Dötlingen and Harpstedt.

Geographical Classification

Ganderkesee includes 25 hamlets with about 31,200 residents: Ganderkesee, Almsloh, Bergedorf, Bookholzberg, Bookhorn, Bürstel, Elmeloh, Falkenburg, Grüppenbühren, Habbrügge, Havekost, Heide, Hengsterholz, Hohenböken, Holzkamp, Hoyerswege, Hoykenkamp, Immer, Neuenlande, Rethorn, Schierbrok, Schlutter, Schönemoor, Steinkimmen and Stenum.

History

Ganderkesee was mentioned in 860 AD for the first time under the name of "Gandrikesarde".

Trivia

*Château-du-Loir is Ganderkesee's partner city in the Sarthe department in France.
*With "Atlas Airport", Ganderkesee possesses a regional airport.
*Near Steinkimmen is a 298 metre high guyed steel tube mast for FM- and TV-broadcasting, the Transmitter Steinkimmen.

Council

Chairman: Hans-H. Hubmann, CDU

The Council of Ganderkesee:
* SPD: 13 seats
* CDU: 13 seats
* FDP: 5 seats
* UWG (Independent voters Community Ganderkesee) / Free votes: 3 seats
* Bündnis 90/Die Grünen: 2 seats

External links

* [http://www.ganderkesee.de/ Official website (German)]
* [http://www.bookholzberg.de/ Unofficial Bookholzberg website (German)]
* [http://www.atlas-airfield.de/index_aag_e.html Atlas Airfield website]
* [http://de.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0011547 Transmitter Steinkimmen (German)]

Public schools

* [http://www.gymnasium-ganderkesee.de/ Gymnasium Ganderkesee website (German)]
* [http://88.84.144.43/ Realschule Ganderkesee website (German)]
* [http://www.hsganderkesee.de/ Hauptschule Ganderkesee website (German)]
* [http://nibis.ni.schule.de/~duerergs/ Grundschule Dürerstraße website (German)]
* [http://www.grundschule-lange-strasse.de/ Grundschule Lange Straße website (German)]