Eversburg


Eversburg is a district located in the north-west of the city of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Location

On the north side, Eversburg borders on the district of Büren in the municipality of Lotte, in North Rhine-Westphalia. It also borders on the Osnabrück districts of Pye, Hafen, Westerberg and Atter.

Name origin

This formerly infertile area – through which a stream today known as the Landwehrbach flows – was once the site of the Hof Eversfeld 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 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.

District

The evangelical St. Michaeliskirche, Catholic Liebfrauenkirche Eversburg, an Orthodox 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.

Transport links

Eversburg is positioned on several rail lines; earlier it had its own train station. Lines which passed/pass through here include the Hannover-Amsterdam, Delmenhorst/Oldenburg-Osnabrück and Tecklenburger Nordbahn 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 is envisioned on the city boundary. Eversburg was also attached to Osnabrück's first O-Buslinie ; line number 5 ran 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.

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