in officialdom in Veldhausen no more than 100 years ago). The first church is believed to have been built mainly of wood. Around this church over time settled craftsmen and gentleman farmers (Ackerbürger). Today’s stone Evangelical-Reformed church, along with the windmill and neighbouring mill park, counts itself among Veldhausen’s landmarks. On the mill park grounds, the Brauchtum- und Mühlenverein – Tradition and Mill Club – have built an old miller’s house and a bakehouse. In the bakehouse, hobby bakers bake bread made out of the flour ground at the mill. Politics The current town council’s seats are apportioned thus: CDU: 13 seats SPD: 11 seats Bündnis 90/Die Grünen: 1 seat The town’s mayor is Paul Mokry. Coats of arms Neuenhaus’s arms might heraldically be described thus, although the wavy bend parting is considered to be unheraldic: Party per bend wavy sinister, in gules a war tent argent surmounted by a crown argent, in the chief sinister four orbs Or, in Or a house gules with stepped gables and tower on the peak of the roof. The greater charge in the red part of the shield is a Dutch baron’s war tent, and the four orbs next to it stand for the Counts of Bentheim. The house with stepped gables is a charge taken from the town’s seal, borne since 1400. Veldhausen Veldhausen’s arms likewise show a war tent with a baronial crown over it, referring to Dutch Commander Carl von Rabenhaupt, Baron at Sucha, whose headquarters in 1673-1674, in his campaign against Christoph Bernhard von Galen, Prince-Bishop of Münster, were in Veldhausen. Transport Neuenhaus lies on Bundesstraße 403 running from Nordhorn into the Netherlands. There is further a railway link following roughly the same route; however, there had been no passenger service on the line since the mid-1970s, although the line still handled goods. The passenger service resumed on 7 July 2019 with the following train stations on the line RB56: Neuenhaus - Neuenhaus Süd - Nordhorn - Nordhorn Blanke - Quendorf - Bad Bentheim Clubs Astronomischer Verein der Grafschaft Bentheim e.V. (district astronomical club) SV Borussia 08 Neuenhaus e.V. (soccer club) CVJM Veldhausen (YMCA) Ev.-ref. Posaunenchor Veldhausen (choir) Kulturpass Neuenhaus e.V. Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim e.V. (art club) Mühlen- und Brauchtumsverein e.V. (Tradition and Mill Club) Freiwillige Feuerwehr Neuenhaus (volunteer fire department) Ortsfeuerwehr Veldhausen (volunteer fire department) Rassegeflügelzuchtverein Veldhausen e.V. (thoroughbred fowl raising) SG Neuenhaus/Uelsen (sport club) Sozialverband Deutschland Ortsverband