Wietzendorf

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 55 '  N , 9 ° 59'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Heidekreis
Height :	66 m above sea level NHN
Area :	106.9 km 2
Residents:	4151 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	39 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	29649
Area code :	05196
License plate :	HK
Community key :	03 3 58 023
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 12 29649 Wietzendorf
Website :	www.wietzendorf.de
Mayor :	Jörg Peters ( independent )
Location of the municipality of Wietzendorf in the Heidekreis district

The town hall

Wietzendorf is a municipality and a state-recognized resort in the Lüneburg Heath and belongs to the Heidekreis district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Wietzendorf is in the middle of the "city triangle" Hamburg , Hanover , Bremen on the federal highway 7 at the level of the Soltau-Süd and Soltau-Ost junctions. The community-owned industrial area Lührsbockel is located directly at the Soltau-Süd motorway junction . The municipality of Wietzendorf is located near the cities of Soltau , Munster and Bergen .

Community structure

In addition to the core town, Wietzendorf also consists of the following districts: Bockel with Dehnernbockel , Lührsbockel , Wroge and Lehmberg, Marbostel with Rodehorst, Meinholz , Suroide with a row of witches, Reddingen with Halmern and Reiningen and Klein Amerika .

Neighboring communities

Soltau 14 km	Bispingen 19 km	Munster (Örtze) 18 km
Verden 61 km		Fassberg 16 km
Osterheide 21 km	Bergen 14 km	Südheide 17 km

history

middle Ages

Wietzendorf was first mentioned in a document in 1053 in the founding document of the Gozeka Monastery. The Wietzendorf church was separated from the Bergener in 1231 and became independent. The place was recorded in 1255 with the name "Wicenthorpe" as a church village in the Amts-Vogtey mountains. Wietzendorf is the parent company and namesake of the von Witzendorff family , which first appeared in a document in 1290 with Johannes de Wizendorpe. The Witzendorff family coat of arms has been used as the local coat of arms of Wietzendorf since 1937.

Early modern age

Arnoldus was the first pastor to be mentioned by name in 1417. The Wietzendorfer bought the Wietzenbruch in 1435 from the dukes Otto and Friedrich von Lüneburg and Braunschweig for 50 Lübische Marks .

The "Wietzendorfer wooden dish"

In 1530 the Reformation took place in Wietzendorf. The feudal register of the farms established in 1563 that there were 29 farms (2 noble estates , 9 full farms, 1 half farm, 17 Kötner farms ). Today's oldest church bell from 1564 bears the inscription: "At the time when Carsten Sieverden, Heinrich zu Redingh, Michel zum Broke Kerksworen were, in 1564, Valtein Brom went to Witzendorp." At the suggestion of the abbot from St. Michaelis monastery , Lüneburg , a school was set up in the village in 1590, a school building was built in 1605. The Thirty Years War struck Wietzendorf three times with troops. First, 30 horsemen of the notorious marauder and church robber Leo Freidach broke into the village in 1626, broke the church door and robbed and looted the church and then the schoolhouse and the rectory . After that (1635) Swedish regiments took quarters. Emperor Ferdinand III. In 1639 "confirms" the nobility of those of Wietzendorf anew and confirmed their old coat of arms, which is also the coat of arms of the community today. Finally, in 1641, Swedes set fire to Wietzendorf and Reiningen under the command of Field Marshal Thorstenson.

The first post office was set up in 1675 in what is now the Hartmann Inn. In 1686 the keeping of church records began in the village. The Russian Tsar Peter the Great came with his retinue through Wietzendorf in 1713 and had horses changed here. The wooden church tower that still stands today was built in 1746. Almost 100 people died from a smallpox epidemic in 1758. The tabular description of the Amts-Vogtey Bergen provided for 13 manorial and 14 manorial farms for Wietzendorf in 1770. 268 people lived in the place. There were 27 houses and 69 outbuildings, as well as 54 oxen, 108 cows, 52 cattle, 55 stallions, 497 sheep, 32 pigs and 77 immigrant peoples.

In 1805, 1,469 Russian soldiers had to be billeted. Wietzendorf fell to the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1810 , which was ruled from Kassel by Jérôme Bonaparte , a brother of Emperor Napoleon . In 1824 the rectory was built. Wietzendorf moved from the Bergen office to the Soltau office in 1859 and in 1885 to the newly founded Soltau district . At that time, a new Wietzendorfer school building, the Preceptor School, was built on Kampstrasse and the area of ​​the district came into the private property of the farmers through special division (coupling). According to the population register there were already 766 inhabitants in 1867. The Peace Oak, which still stands in front of the church today, was planted in 1871 after the Treaty of Versailles . The sawmill was built in 1873. After the demolition of the old church in 1874, the new church building was built. A Dutch windmill, the hull building of which is still standing, was erected in 1879. In 1890 the new school building in Beekgarten was inaugurated. The Prussian military administration bought in 1891 for application of Munster South Military Training Area 423 hectares of heath. Wietzendorf got a train station in 1910 with the construction of the Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen (OHE) and was connected to the Celle – Soltau railway line and thus to the larger transport network. The operation of the stagecoach ceased.

time of the nationalsocialism

Plaque of the history of the Stalag XD (310)

In July 1941 the Wehrmacht set up the Stalag XD (310) prisoner of war camp on the edge of the Munster Süd military training area in Wietzendorf as a so-called "Russian camp" for exclusively Soviet prisoners of war in the former military district X , but initially without providing accommodation or other camp infrastructure. Tens of thousands of Soviet prisoners of war from the Second World War “lived” here in holes in the ground and other, most primitive, makeshift shelters. In total, more than 16,000 Red Army soldiers died in this camp from hunger, cold, mistreatment and illness.

Soviet prisoner of war cemetery with a memorial to the more than 16,000 Red Army soldiers who died in Stalag XD (310)

The erection of a memorial in 1945 on the Soviet prisoner-of-war cemetery near Meinholz pays tribute to the approximately 16,000 prisoners of war resting there in mass graves .

post war period

Cultivation of the Wietzendorfer Moor between Wietzendorf and Bergen began in 1955 in order to create meadows that could be used for agriculture. The area has been under nature protection since July 16, 1998 (NSG LÜ 245). The inauguration of the completely redesigned town hall with a new forecourt and a converted outbuilding as well as the redesign of the main road as part of the village renewal took place in 1991. The first phase of the renaturation of Aue and Wietze began in 1994 and was completed in 1996. The Wietzendorf water protection area was designated in 1995. All Wietzendorf localities were thus centrally supplied with drinking water. In 2006, Wietzendorf won a bronze medal in the national competition “ Our city is in bloom ”.

The approx. The 15 hectare industrial area Lührsbockel at the Soltau-Süd motorway exit was designated in 1996. The pre-financing of the costs put a strain on wealth budgets for the next few years.

Friendly contacts were established in 1998 with the city of Lipiany in Poland , the former Lippehne in East Brandenburg.

2006 celebrated the rifle guild for the parish Wietzendorf from 1606 e. V. celebrated its 400th anniversary with great sympathy from the population.

The Wietzendorf branch of the Oberschule Soltau started in 2013 in class 5 with 27 students.

All street lighting was converted to LED in 2014.

In 2015 the all-day school started and the new cafeteria was inaugurated.

politics

Incorporations

As part of the administrative and territorial reform in Lower Saxony, on March 1, 1974 the new unified community Wietzendorf was formed from the previously independent communities Wietzendorf, Bockel, Marbostel near Wietzendorf, Meinholz, Reddingen and Suroide.

Municipal council

The municipal council has 14 members. The municipal council election on September 11, 2016 led to the following result:

list	Share of votes	Seats
CDU	56.75%	8th
SPD	18.69%	3
FDP	3.67%	0
Independent	20.90%	3

mayor

Jörg Peters has been the mayor of Wietzendorf since November 1, 2019. In 2019 he was elected in a runoff election with 63.28% of the valid votes and a turnout of 58.63%.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In silver (white) over a green three-mountain two crossed black rakes."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms awarded in 1937 by the President of the Prussian Province of Hanover is derived from the coat of arms of the Lords of Wietzendorf, who were based near Lüneburg.

flag

00Hoisted flag: "The flag has green and white stripes with the coat of arms in the middle."

St. Jakobi Church

Religions

The St. Jakobi Church in Hauptstraße (see Culture and Sights ) belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish in the Soltau parish.

The New Apostolic Church on the street corner Über der Brücke / Am Sägenberg, a simple nave building with a roof turret, was closed on May 1, 2011. Today the parishioners belong to the church in Munster .

The Catholic residents belong to the parish of St. Maria of the Holy Rosary in Soltau.

Culture and sights

Beekeeper monument with beehives

• The most important building in the area is the neo-Gothic St. Jakobi Church , which was built in 1876 by the well-known architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase in place of a previous Gothic building. Only the wooden bell tower remained from the old building ; it has bells from 1564, 1970 and 1972 as well as a bell from the beginning of the 14th century. Today's church has a z. T. very high quality equipment. A Gothic bronze baptismal font (around 1370) and the late Nazarene design of the chancel by the church painter Rudolf Schäfer (1956/57) are remarkable . Schäfer's monumental redesign of the church is in tension with the moderate neo-Gothic conception of the church, but it is interesting as a testimony to the times and faith: In Wietzendorf, the influence of the Lutheran revival movement, which began in the neighboring Hermannsburg from 1849 , was until the 1960s noticeable unbroken.
• One of the local trademarks is Wietzendorfer honey . This goes hand in hand with the tradition of the Wietzendorf honey festival . At the festival, which was first held in 1974, up to 12,000 visitors pilgrimage through the town on the two days of the festival. It takes place every year on the last weekend in September.

Local history museum Peetshof

• Tourism is of great importance. In 1987 the municipality of Wietzendorf acquired the Peetshof, an old farm that is typical of the Lüneburg Heath . The main house in half-timbered construction dates from 1874. From 1989 to 1992 the buildings, with the pig house, granary and baking house, as well as the farm garden were renovated. Today there is a museum on the local and regional history. The leaseholder and owner of the farm is the Heimatverein Peetshof e. V. The yard area is also used for various village festivals.
• There is also a large campsite , the Südsee-Camp , in the north of Wietzendorf . This has grown strongly since 2000 and partly shapes the place.

Architectural monuments

• List of architectural monuments in Wietzendorf

traffic

Wietzendorf station is on the Celle – Soltau railway line . Regular passenger traffic does not take place.

Personalities

Anton Paul Ludwig Carstens was born on June 23, 1713 in Wietzendorf. He was a pastor and a writer. He died in Clausthal in 1768.

literature

• Ulrike Begemann: Wietzendorf then and now. History of a heath village. Wietzendorf 1992.
• Gustav Isernhagen: Behind the first pillar, Wietzendorfer life pictures. Wietzendorf 2009
• Gustav Isernhagen, Hinrich Eggers: History of the Wietzendorfer Höfe. Wietzendorf 2011.
• Rolf Keller : Soviet prisoners of war in the German Reich 1941/42. Treatment and labor input between the politics of extermination and the requirements of the war economy, Göttingen 2011. ISBN 978-3-8353-0989-0 . Reviews: H-Soz-u-Kult February 9, 2012, www.kulturthemen.de February 9, 2012.
• Gunther Schendel: House full of heaven. The St. Jakobi Church in Wietzendorf / Lüneburg Heath. Wietzendorf 2000.

Web links

Commons : Wietzendorf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Web presence of the Wietzendorf community
• Virtual tour in multimedia Flash format

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ↑ http://www.obs-soltau.de/institutionen/ Website of the school in Wietzendorf, sub-item About us , accessed on August 29, 2016
3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 235 .
4. ^ Local council on the Wietzendorf website
5. ↑ Main statutes of the Wietzendorf community
6. ↑ Heimatverein Peetshof e. V.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.