Ufingen

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Ufingen
City of Salzgitter
Coat of arms of Salzgitter-Üfingen
Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 51 ″  N , 10 ° 24 ′ 42 ″  E
Height : 83 m
Area : 6.77 km²
Residents : 835  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 123 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 38239
Area code : 05300
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Location of Üfingen in Salzgitter

Üfingen is one of the 31 districts of the independent city of Salzgitter in Lower Saxony , located in the north-east . Üfingen was part of the Wolfenbüttel district until February 28, 1974 .

geography

Üfingen is the northernmost district of Salzgitter and forms a city boundary to the Peine district in the northwest . The federal highway 39 runs south of the village .

Üfingen is located on the Salzgitter branch canal and is one of the so-called "Canal Villages" of Salzgitter. One of the two locks on this canal for inland waterway vessels is near Üfingen. There are large agricultural areas around the place. These are administered and looked after by a local estate. A large nursery has been located in the immediate vicinity of this estate for many years.

history

The first mention of Üfingen can be found in a document from Bishop Bernhard von Hildesheim . In this list of the possessions of the Diocese of Hildesheim , issued on September 23, 1151 , Üfingen is named under the name of Wingen . The name then changed from Uvingen (1299), Uvinghe (1382), Uvingen (1586) to Ufingen and Üfingen (both 1630), since then the current spelling has been established.

The first settlement probably took place 150 years earlier, the surrounding villages of Beddingen and Thiede - today districts of Salzgitter - also date from this time . The final syllable "-ingen" is often found in the 10th and 11th century when the town was founded in the 10th and 11th centuries. The first syllable of the name "uf" indicates the location on a stream or river - Üfingen is located on the Aue, a tributary of the Fuhse .

In 1849 the first sugar factory in the Duchy of Braunschweig was founded in Üfingen. The initiator was the owner of the manor at the time - Carl-Franz von Hoyer-Rotenheim. This factory was closed in 1926 and production relocated to Broitzem (near Braunschweig).

In connection with the establishment of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring , camp 44 was set up near Üfingen in autumn 1943. It initially housed Italian and English prisoners of war who were used for construction work in the vicinity. The camp was closed on April 8, 1945 and the prisoners of war were moved to other locations.

As part of the Lower Saxony regional and administrative reform, the villages of Sauingen and Üfingen, which until then belonged to the Wolfenbüttel district, were incorporated into the city of Salzgitter as the 30th and 31st districts on March 1, 1974, as these - so the reasoning at the time - was incorporated into Catchment area of ​​Salzgitter.

Gut Nortenhof

Salzgitter-Üfingen manor house

Today Nortenhof is a (local) part of Üfingen. Nortenhof was first mentioned in a document on January 24, 1007 in the Steterburg document . In this, King Heinrich II confirms to Frederunda - daughter of Count Altmann von Ölsberg - the possession of lands for the construction and maintenance of a convent in Steterburg and takes them under his protection. Among the properties listed is land in Nortenhof - then called Northem .

The place name later changed from Northem via Northeim , Northum , Nortem and Noerten to the current name. Nortenhof initially belonged to the St. Blasien cathedral monastery in Braunschweig. In 1187 it fell to the Steterburg monastery , which operated the hamlet as a semi-independent Vorwerk. In 1641, the monastery was completely destroyed in the conflicts over Braunschweig and Wolfenbüttel and only slowly rebuilt after 1650.

In 1923 the Vorwerk , which previously belonged to Steterburg (today part of Salzgitter-Thiede ), was merged with Üfingen. In 1938 the goods from Nortenhof were taken over by the Reichswerke Hermann Göring and from then on were under the management of the Reichswerke. This later became the property management of the state-owned Salzgitter AG . After moving to Preussag AG (from 2002 TUI ), Gut Nortenhof was bought in 2005 by the Lower Saxony Landgesellschaft (NLG).

Population development

A head tax certificate from 1678 lists 108 taxable persons for Üfingen, 104 persons in the neighboring Nortenhof Abbey. Due to the influx of displaced people, the population had reached its maximum of around 1200 in 1947; today (2009) it has fallen back to below 900.

Sources: The information from 1821–1950 is taken from the publications of the Academy for Spatial Planning and State Research. The 1961 and 1970 numbers reflect the June 6, 1961 and May 27, 1970 census results. The population figures from 1974 to 2000 are based on the statistical yearbook of the Department for Economics and Statistics of the city of Salzgitter. The population statistics from 2001 are based on the monthly statistical reports of the city of Salzgitter (residents with main residence) according to the population register at the end of December.

politics

Local council

coat of arms

The two halves of the tree symbolize that the two districts of Üfingen and Nortenhof used to be independent communities that have now grown together to form a unit. The representation emphasizes the equality of both districts, but also the desire for a common future. The colors yellow (gold) and red stand for the Duchy of Braunschweig and the Duchy of Hildesheim, where Üfingen was the area of ​​tension until the 18th century.

The coat of arms was unanimously adopted on November 13, 2002 in a citizens' meeting.

religion

church

Church of Salzgitter-Üfingen

There are no reliable records of the first church in Üfingen. It is assumed, however, that the old church was built around 1250, because in 1260 a pastor Hermann is named for Üfingen. The first Protestant pastor is Georg Pithan, followed in 1560 by Zacharias Biethan. Since the Reformation the seat of the parish has mostly been in neighboring Sauingen.

The old church building in Üfingen was expanded in 1729 - the east wall was torn down and the church there doubled. It is a rectangular hall church made of stone masonry and half-timbering. An octagonal ridge turret with an onion dome carries the church bells, which was placed on the roof around 1840. On the outer wall there are historical grave slabs from the old cemetery in Nortenhof, which were moved here after the Second World War .

On January 30, 1964, the then 105 year old steel church bells were replaced by 2 new bronze bells, the old bells are now standing next to the entrance to the church.

It is assumed that Nortenhof also had its own church before 1700, because up to this time official acts of Nortenhof are not recorded in the church registers of the surrounding communities. Gradually, the parishes of Üfingen and Sauingen took over the church duties from Nortenhof.

Association

  • Schweinkasse - pig insurance company in Uefingen and Sauingen from 1884 to 2005

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b Kirstin Casemir: The place names of the district Wolfenbüttel and the city of Salzgitter . Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2003, ISBN 3-89534-483-4 , p. 328 ff .
  2. Wolfgang Benz (ed.): Salzgitter - History and Presence of a German City - 1942–1992 . CH Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-35573-0 , p. 495 ff .
  3. Gustav Uelschen: The population in Lower Saxony from 1821 to 1961 . In: Publications of the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning . tape 45 . Gebrüder Jänicke Verlag, Hanover 1966, p. 222-223 .
  4. Department for Economics and Statistics: Statistisches Jahrbuch 2017. Stadt Salzgitter, September 10, 2019, pp. 31–108 , accessed on February 24, 2020 (total number of residents (main and secondary residence) © Stadt Salzgitter).
  5. ^ Department for Economics and Statistics: Monthly Statistical Reports of the City of Salzgitter. City of Salzgitter, accessed on February 24, 2020 (Population at the location of the main residence © City of Salzgitter).
  6. ^ Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch . Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , p. 40 .

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