Meesdorf

View on active farmstead at Meesdorfer Strasse

Meesdorf (Germany) is an urbandistrict of Buer at the city of Melle in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. It is located landwards at the Wiehen hills in Hunte valley and was historically mentioned as "Metdisdorphe".

Places of Interest

Evenfall, watched from Huntetalstraße

In the northern parts of Hunte Valley, dinosaurs' tracks were discovered. The erected building is rainsave, and additionally from Barkhausen are signs to free and neverclosed museums-exhibition. At Hunte Valley, explorers also find many ways that lead into the Wiehenhills. The "Rote Pfahl" is a marker at the side of the Kalbsiekstrasse-road, where the trader's route through Meesdorf in the 19th century is recorded. To get with loaded wagons over the Bad Essen hill, the traders from Bremen and elsewhere, had to use additional horses for their wagons. The marker was used to signal the traders that rested their roadtrain a safe parking space. It represented, for other purposes a rallypoint, in case something uncommon ever happens (crimes, accidents, robberies, meetings, etc.).

The 13 ton boulderflint at the Glockenstraße-crossroads shall remind visitors of the long history of Meesdorf.

Associations

• Oldtimermachines Melle-Buer
• Soccersports GreenWhite Meesdorf
• Rabbitclub Melle-Buer

Festivities

Biota

• Yearly sportsfestival on soccersplace
• Yearly Easter Fire at tentsplace
• Hunters Meeting with venisonmeal
• Yearly Saint Nicholas meeting

Economic activity

The raw land is mostly used for conventional and in small portions ecological farming. Roads are also often used for sports like Nordic walking in groups. The local camping ground can host about 200 and more people. Other economically uses include:

• timber and woodworking industry
• metal manufacturing
• farm machine dealing and repairing
• cargo company
• junkyarding
• information technologies

Famous people

• Ernst Buermeyer (1883–1945) Educator, mayor of Gildehaus (Bad Bentheim), political party member of (DVP) and (NSDAP)