Eversburg is a district located in the north-west of the city of
Osnabrück
Osnabrück (; wep, Ossenbrügge; archaic ''Osnaburg'') is a city in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is situated on the river Hase in a valley penned between the Wiehen Hills and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest. With a population ...
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Lower Saxony
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Germany
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Location
On the north side, Eversburg borders on the district of Büren in the municipality of
Lotte, in
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inha ...
. It also borders on the Osnabrück districts of
Pye,
Hafen,
Westerberg and Atter (in a clockwise direction).
Name origin
This formerly infertile area – through which a stream today known as the ''Landwehrbach'' flows – was once the site of the ''Hof Eversfeld'' (Eversfeld estate) which belonged to the nobleman Hermann von Blankena; in 1223 he sold it to the cathedral chapter of Osnabrück. Continuous disputes with the counts of
Tecklenburg
Tecklenburg () is a town in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Its name comes from the ruined castle around which it was built. The town is situated on the Hermannsweg hiking trail.
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necessitated the establishment of a territorial army in Osnabrück and the fortification of the estate around 1300. The cathedral chapter converted the Hof Eversfeld into a moated castle, whose trenches were supplied from the river. From this point onwards the estate became known as Eversburg; this name was first mentioned in civic records in 1383.
[Rudolf vom Bruch: ''Die Rittersitze des Fürstenstums Osnabrück.'' S.70]
District
The Evangelical church St. Michaeliskirche (St. Michael's Church), the Catholic church Liebfrauenkirche Eversburg (Church of Our Lady), a
Serbian Orthodox
The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination, Christian churches.
The majori ...
church, and a mosque are located in Eversburg. As a result of the city's troubled economic situation, the district library is under threat of closure.
There is a local recreation area in the south-west of the district (along with the Rubbenbruchsee).
Transport links
Eversburg is positioned on several rail lines; earlier it had its own train station (Osnabrück-Eversburg). Lines which passed/pass through here include the Hannover-Amsterdam, Delmenhorst/Oldenburg-Osnabrück and Tecklenburger Nordbahn (Tecklenburg Northern Rail, from
Rheine via
Mettingen) routes. In the SPNV Westfalen-Lippe local transport plan, the restoration of a half-hourly regional rail service from Osnabrück to Recke is suggested on account of its potential profitability. This could possibly entail the reopening of the Osnabrück-Eversburg station. Furthermore, a new railway station (Osnabrück/Lotte) is envisioned on the city boundary. Eversburg was also attached to Osnabrück's first O-Buslinie (O bus line); line number 5 ran (with tram link) from Rißmüllerplatz through Natruper Straße, dividing into two sub-lines heading towards Eversburg-Büren and Eversburg-Atter. Today, city buses travel through Eversburg heading from the terminus stations with these same names.
Links
* http://www.osnabahn.de/bahnhof-eversburg/
References
Geography of Osnabrück
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