Stöckse

Stöckse
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Stöckse within Nienburg/Weser district
Stöckse Show map of Germany Stöckse Show map of Lower Saxony
Coordinates: 52°38′09″N 09°20′19″E / 52.63583°N 9.33861°E / 52.63583; 9.33861
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Nienburg/Weser
Municipal assoc.	Steimbke
Government
• Mayor	Dieter Vehrenkamp (CDU)
Area
• Total	38.57 km2 (14.89 sq mi)
Elevation	46 m (151 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[1]
• Total	1,271
• Density	33/km2 (85/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	31638
Dialling codes	05026, 05021 (Führser Mühle)
Vehicle registration	NI

Stöckse is a municipality in the district of Nienburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the forest "Krähe" between Langendamm and Steimbke.

The villages Stöckse and Wenden with district Lohe form the municipality (Gemeinde) Stöckse, part of collective municipality (Samtgemeinde) Steimbke.

The municipal council (Gemeinderat) Stöckse has 11 members elected and a mayor elected directly. Since the local elections on September 10, 2006, two parties and one selector's community (Wählergemeinschaft) represent it.

• CDU - 6 seats
• SPD - 2 seats
• WG Stöckse - 3 seats

In Stöckse there is an open-air theatre. The stage is situated in a short part of forest in the city of Stöckse and accommodates 700 visitors. The audience is amused with comedies and stories in Low German, and a children's theatre themed "children play for children". Furthermore, the open-air theatre is a favoured arena for many special events different typed. Supra-regional known the in 1951 formatted open-air theatre is since 1986, since the foundation of the registered association and the der accession to the Verband Deutscher Freilichtbühnen (VDF).

There is the Stöckser See, a small lake. Worth seeing is the Giebichenstein, a large erratic dating from the Ice Age and the cairns from Bronze Age.

• Open-air theatre Stöckse
• Homepage of the Samtgemeinde Steimbke
• Stöckser sport's club