Georgsdorf is a community in the district of

Grafschaft Bentheim County of Bentheim (german: Grafschaft Bentheim) is a district (''Landkreis'') in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the Dutch provinces of Overijssel and Drenthe, the district of Emsland, and the districts o ...

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

Geography

Location

Georgsdorf lies north of

Nordhorn Nordhorn ( Northern Low Saxon: ''Nothoorn'' (or ''Notthoarn'', ''Netthoarn'' and ''Noordhoorn'')) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the district seat of Grafschaft Bentheim in Lower Saxony's southwesternmost corner near the border with the ...

on the ''Süd-Nord-Kanal'' (South-North Canal) and the ''Coevorden-Piccardie-Kanal''. It belongs to the Joint Community (''Samtgemeinde'') of

Neuenhaus Neuenhaus is a town in the district of Grafschaft Bentheim in Lower Saxony, and is the seat of a like-named collective municipality Neuenhaus. Neuenhaus lies on the rivers Dinkel and Vechte near the border with the Netherlands and is roughly 1 ...

, whose administrative seat is in the like-named town.

Politics

Mayor

The honorary mayor was Willi Beckert, but he died in May 2007, and since then Johann Scholten has been the new mayor.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

Georgsdorf's best-known landmark is a

windmill A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but the term is also extended to windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications, in some ...

built in the traditional Dutch style in 1875 out of brick and with a

thatched roof Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (''Cladium mariscus''), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. Since the bulk of ...

. File:Georgsdorf, die evangelisch- reformierte Kirche foto4 2016-09-25 13.00.jpg, Reformed church File:Georgsdorf, die Georgsdorfer Mühle foto9 2016-09-25 13.13.jpg, Windmill: die Georgsdorfer Mühle

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

The

Autobahn The (; German plural ) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official German term is (abbreviated ''BAB''), which translates as 'federal motorway'. The literal meaning of the word is 'Federal Auto(mobile) Track' ...

A 31 runs by the community roughly 10 km to the west.

Solar power

Nationwide, Georgsdorf has the highest number of solar power systems in proportion to population.

References

External links

Georgsdorf’s webpage

Joint community’s webpage
{{Authority control County of Bentheim (district)