Ahlten

Ahlten City Taught
	Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '54 " N , 9 ° 54' 43" E
Height :	62 (57-67) m above sea level NHN
Area :	19.68 km²
Residents :	5493 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	279 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	31275
Area code :	05132
Location of Ahlten in Lower Saxony
	Ahlten in the urban area of Lehrte

Ahlten is a district of the Mittelstadt Lehrte in the Hanover region of Lower Saxony .

geography

location

Ahlten is about 5 km west of the core city of Lehrte and 10 km east of the state capital Hanover . The district is centrally located at the intersection of the A 2 and A 7 motorways , the major motorway junction Hanover East is mainly in the Ahlten area. The Altwarmbüchener Moor lies to the northwest in parts also in the Ahlten area. The place is located in the historical settlement area of the Great Free .

Neighboring places

	Kolshorn
Hanover - Misburg district Hanover - Anderten district		Taught
	Höver

history

Old school Ahlten

Around 800 the area around Ahlten was settled, in 865 it went to the Counts of Roden as a fief . The first documentary mention of the noble family Alten with ancestral home Ahlten and property in Förste near Hildesheim was made in 1182, that of the place in 1226. Around 1300 the Ahlten chapel was first shown on a map. It is therefore assumed that they were formed during this period. In 1349 Ahlten and Höver, which previously belonged to the church in Kirchrode, moved to the parish of Ilten.

From 1527 the Reformation found its way into Ahlten. In 1635, after the general investiture ordered the establishment of schools in 1588, a first teacher was employed in Ahlten.

In 1641 and 1642 the Ahlteners did not leave their village unnecessarily in the wake of the Thirty Years' War for fear of looting. During this time, burials took place at the Ahlten chapel and not, as is usually the case, at the Ilten cemetery. Since no more services were held in the village until the end of the war, the decay of the chapel was obvious. At the end of the war, the view of the chapel reminded the Ilten pastor of a cattle shed.

Schlemm's good

Former fire station of the volunteer fire brigade

Ahlten 1896

Memorial stone for land consolidation that has lasted for 27 years

In 1648 the pastor from Ilten arranged for a new school to be built right behind the chapel. In 1732 Ahlten got a brewery. Shooting was first mentioned in a document in 1734. In 1750, fire insurance was introduced in the Kingdom of Hanover. This was particularly necessary for Ahlten, as there had been devastating fires in the village again and again. In 1781 Justus Ludwig Schlemm acquired the Ahlten estate, which has belonged to his family ever since. In 1795, the Ahlten students moved into a new school building, as the old one was in a poor structural condition.

From 1842 to 1843 construction work on the Hanover – Braunschweig railway line took place in the Ahlten area. The first land consolidation (coupling) took place from 1853 to 1864 , the costs of which were covered by the compensation from the Royal Railway Administration for the construction of the Hanover – Braunschweig line. In 1859, the centuries-old affiliation to the Ilten office ended, as it was absorbed by the Burgdorf office at that time. In 1884, as part of the Prussian administrative reform, Ahlten was added to the newly founded Burgdorf district.

In 1889 the volunteer fire brigade was founded, in 1896 the "Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft von 1896 e. V. "

From 1897 to 1945 Ahlten was connected to the Hanover-Sehnde tram line. After the overhead line was destroyed, operations ceased in the summer of 1945. Until 1960 there was a stop on tram line 15 at the so-called "lubricant factory" between Ahlten and Ilten south of the village.

In 1898 the electrical power supply found its way into the town, in 1904 the first telephone connections followed. The substation of Preussen Elektra went 1929 into operation from 1931 PreussenElektra built residential building for their employees. In 1933 a bathing establishment was inaugurated.

From 1934 to 1936 the Reichsautobahn Hannover – Berlin was built through the Ahlten Forest. This created the Blue Lake . From 1941 to 1945 Ahlten received several hits from Allied incendiary bombs, which led to severe damage. During the Second World War , at least 200 people from Ahlten, soldiers and civilians alike, lost their lives, including the losses among those displaced to Ahlten from the former German eastern regions.

1952 began the exploitation of the oil deposits . In 1995, oil production was stopped, which was a prerequisite for the underground natural gas storage facility to go into operation in 1999 .

Starting in 1960, the Blue Lake as a raw material source for sand and gravel was considerably expanded for the construction of the Kassel – Hamburg motorway . In 1962 the land consolidation and construction of a cemetery began (until then there was a common cemetery in Ilten ). In 1966 the data center of the cooperative banks (GRZ) was established. The new town hall at Zum Großen Freien 42 was moved into in 1968.

In 1979 Ahlten was given a bypass road to the east, state road 385 from Bundesstraße 65 to Lehrte, and in 1986 a new fire station was inaugurated. The land consolidation was completed in 1989.

In the course of expansion work on the railway tracks, the bridge over the Hanover – Lehrte railway line was rebuilt in 2000 along the district road 122 from Ahlten to Kolshorn.

For a long time, Ahlten was the seat of the cooperative computer center of the Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken in Northern Germany (GRZ). After the merger with GAD (Society for Automatic Data Processing) in Münster on July 1, 2001, the site was closed on March 31, 2005.

In 2005 the Protestant community celebrated the inauguration of a new community center.

In 2009 an expansion of the sewage treatment plant was carried out, as the population had grown by a fifth due to the redesignation of building plots since 1997.

Place name

Former place names of Ahlten were Alethen and Althen in 1182 , 1183 Alten , before 1202 Alethen , around 1226 Alten and 1264 Alten . In the second part of the name is the Germanic “-tūn” for “settlement, place”, which only meant “fence” in a single language (and thus later). In the first part of the name, as with the place names Ahlem (district of Hanover), Aalen ( Noord-Brabant ), Ohlum (Peine district), Ålem and other parallels, one suspects a connection with the Indo-European "* el- / * ol- ", which stands for" water, moist, flowing ".

Incorporations

As part of the regional reform in Lower Saxony , the territorial change agreement with the places of the "new town of Lehrte" was concluded in 1973. On March 1, 1974, due to external pressure, the merger with the other communities to form the city of Lehrte was completed. As a result of this regional reform, the independence as a joint municipality was lost. Before that, Ahlten was part of the Burgdorf district .

Population development

year	1885	1910	1925	1933	1939	1950	1956	1973	2010	2016
Residents	930	1556	1697	1719	1927	3885	3384	3503	5410	5493
source

politics

Local council

The local council consists of a councilwoman and eight councilors. Due to its membership in the Lehrte city council, the local council also has two advisory members (FDP + CDU).

CDU : 5 seats
SPD : 3 seats
GREEN : 1 seat

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

Local mayor is Heike Koehler (CDU). Your deputies are Timo Bönig (SPD) and Jens-Markus Jeitner (CDU).

coat of arms

The draft municipal coat of arms of Ahlten comes from the heraldic painter Carl Wenzel , of all arms in the Hanover region has designed. The coat of arms was awarded on August 22, 1939 by the President of the Province of Hanover .

Blazon : “ Divided by red and silver . Above the golden , blue - armored lion of the "Free", below a diagonal right-hand bar made of seven red diamonds coveredwith golden pearls (from old people). "

Founding of the coat of arms: The place belonging to the "Great Free" is the ancestral seat of the old-free gender of old . Because of its membership in the “Great Free”, the municipality of Ahlten - like the other municipalities in this area - has the golden lion on a red background in its coat of arms. The seven red diamonds with golden pearls are taken from the coat of arms of the “von Alten” family, which had their ancestral home in Ahlten. On September 14, 1937, the then senior of this family, Lieutenant Colonel a. D. Siegfried von Alten, granted permission to use the family coat of arms.

The coat of arms of the former municipality is also used today. For the legal successor of the municipality of Ahlten, the mayor of the city of Lehrte is responsible for approving the use of the coat of arms. The local council is to be heard about this.

Culture and sights

Ev. Martinsgemeinde chapel (location)

Catholic St. Theresa Church (location)

Churches

With the establishment of the Diocese of Hildesheim in 815, Christianity found its way into the region. With the construction of the Romanesque church tower in Ilten in 1030, the Christians in the area created their first sacred structure. In Ahlten, the chapel has been the church center since around 1300. It was built from rocks and rubble stones in the early Gothic style. In 1873 the people of Ahlten renovated their chapel. The bell of the chapel from 1653 fell out of its fortification when it was rung in 1907 and was destroyed on impact; a new bronze bell was purchased in 1911.

In 1961 a fresco from around 1300 was uncovered. It shows the way to the Last Judgment.

Since after 1945 many Catholics, mainly from the former German eastern regions, lived in Ahlten, the chapel was also used by the Catholic community for their services from 1945 until the inauguration of a separate church in 1971. The chapel now serves as a church for the Evangelical Martinsgemeinde Ahlten and is part of the new community center created in 2005 through the purchase and renovation of the former Edelerhof.

In 2008 the existing organ was replaced by a used Hillebrand organ from 1969 from Hanover . The Martinsgemeinde today belongs to the Burgdorf parish .

The Catholic St. Theresa Church is a branch church of the parish of St. Bernward in Lehrte. The church named after Therese von Lisieux is located on the street "Breite Riede". It was built according to plans by Josef Fehlig as a prefabricated church with a free-standing bell tower; its interior was designed by Claus Kilian . On July 31, 1971, the foundation stone was laid by Vicar General Adalbert Sendker, and on December 19, 1971, it was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich Pachowiak .

Architectural monuments

Natural monuments

The blue lake at the Ahlten forest

Ahlten forest (location)52.395761 9.927018

To the north between Ahlten and Kolshorn lies the Ahlten forest in the Ahlten area. Parts thereof included in the conservation area "Altwarmbüchener Moor - Ahltener forest". To the north of the A 2 and adjacent to it, there is the nature reserve " In the seven mountain parts ". Sand lizards have their habitat here in former sand mining pits.

The Ahltener Wald is one of the remains of the large medieval northern forest . The wooded area has a size of about 5.4 km². The forest is cut up by the A 2 and A 7 motorways.

When the A 7 was built in the 1970s , the remains of a castle in the Ahlten Forest, the Olde Burg , were destroyed. The meaning and purpose of this castle as well as the date of its creation are unclear. However, it was located in the immediate vicinity of other archaeological finds that date back to 500 BC. To be dated.

Blauer See (location)52.388431 9.947911

When the A 2 was built in the 1930s , a gravel pond was dug in the forest area, the Blue Lake . Today this has a size of about 9 hectares . It is mostly owned by a fishing club that uses it for its own purposes. In summer, many people looking for relaxation take a bath here. Immediately next to the Blue Lake is another privately owned lake, about 1.5 hectares in size. After the owner, this lake is commonly referred to as the "Müllersee".

Sports

In Ahlten there is the sports club TSG Ahlten (Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft Ahlten).

Sporting shooting can be done in the disciplines of archery, rifle and pistol (light point rifle or light point pistol for children) in the Schützengesellschaft Ahlten von 1734 e. V. can be exercised under expert guidance.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

A large number of medium-sized companies form the solid basis of the economy. The central location and especially the proximity to the Hanover exhibition center favors the hotel and catering industry.

Energy supply location

Ahlten is an important center of the north German energy supply:

After E.ON Netz was split up into an extra high voltage area, which was sold to the Dutch company Tennet , and the 110 kV grid that remained with E.ON Netz, two major power supply companies have now settled in Ahlten.

The TenneT TSO operates the high-voltage grid (220 kV and 380 kV circuits) and all offshore grid connections in the North Sea. Tennet maintains one of two switching lines in Germany and an operations center here. A substation is attached . The Tennet Offshore division, which takes care of the implementation of the offshore grid connection, is also located here.
E.ON Netz maintains one of two switching lines in its network. The 110 kV network is monitored and controlled here. In 1944, a test facility for high-voltage direct current transmission to Misburg was built from this substation .
E.ON Ruhrgas operated an underground storage facility for natural gas until 2011 . According to the findings of the time, exploited oil deposits served as storage space . In November 2019, the company 5P Energy began preparations for a further exploitation of the oil field, which appears economical again.

The DB Energie operates in the district Ahlten a location that is equipped with technology for modernster of 2006. From here, the 16.7 Hz traction current required for rail operations for the approximately 6000 km long overhead line network in northwest Germany is monitored and controlled. Three switch operators operate around 7500 remote-controlled switches. They are responsible for 29 substations (transformation from 110,000 volts to 15,000 volts traction current) as well as 26 switching points and coupling points and 338 train stations and operating points .

traffic

rail

Ahlten used to have a stop in town on the Hanover – Braunschweig railway line . In the meantime it has been converted into an S-Bahn station for lines S 3 and S 7. Hanover , Lehrte, Celle and Hildesheim can be reached directly from this stop.

To the east, the Lehrte freight yard is mainly located in the Ahlten area. A loading facility in connection with the freight traffic center, which is also in the east, has been in operation since 2020.

Street

Ahlten is conveniently located near the federal autobahn 2 and federal autobahn 7 . Bundesstrasse 65 runs to the south .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

Friedrich Harder (1891–1944), SS-Hauptscharführer and camp leader in Auschwitz
Christine Bessenrodt (* 1958), mathematician
Ingo Kantorek (1974–2019), actor

People connected to the place

Alfred Schlemm (1894–1986), an officer during the First and Second World Wars, lived on the Schlemmschen Gut in Ahlten until his death
Reinhard Mey (* 1942), musician, is one of the former residents of Ahlten

literature

Ilse Prüße, Albert Diedrich, Hans-Dieter Lucas: Lebendiges Ahlten . HADIS edition Limited, Birmingham, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-939593-04-1 .
Hans-Dieter Lucas: As far as heaven is. 50 years of Martinskirchengemeinde Ahlten in stories, pictures and documents . Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Martinskirchengemeinde Ahlten. Ahlten 2008.

Web links

Commons : Ahlten - Collection of images

Homepage of the place

Individual evidence

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^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". (No longer available online.) In: Website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 7, 2015 ; accessed on August 2, 2019 .
↑ Area change agreement on the occasion of the reorganization of the city of Lehrte. (PDF; 17 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Website Stadt Lehrte. December 14, 1973, archived from the original on October 5, 2017 ; accessed on July 14, 2020 .
^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 222 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Burgdorf district ( see under: No. 2 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). Accessed September 2018
↑ Ulrich Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900 - Burgdorf district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed July 14, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p. 172 ( digitized version ).
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↑ ^a ^b The local council of Ahlten. In: Website City of Lehrte. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
^ Coats of arms designs by Carl Wenzel. In: Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
^ ^A ^b Landkreis Hannover (ed.): Wappenbuch Landkreis Hannover . Self-published, Hanover 1985, p. 242-243 .
↑ Guidelines on the use of the coat of arms of the city of Lehrte. (PDF; 14 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Website Stadt Lehrte. September 25, 2002, archived from the original on October 5, 2017 ; accessed on July 14, 2020 .
↑ Katerina Jarolim-Vormeier: New organ sounds in the Martinskirche. In: ahlten.de. February 25, 2008, accessed on July 14, 2020 (from the Anzeiger für Lehrte und Sehnde).
↑ Landscape protection area ordinances of the Hanover region on the area LSG-H 19 - Altwarmbüchener Moor - Ahltener Wald. (PDF; 41 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Website Stadt Lehrte. Association of Greater Hanover as the lower nature conservation authority, June 20, 1969, archived from the original on October 5, 2017 ; accessed on July 14, 2020 .
↑ Nature reserve "In the seven mountain parts"; Registration: NSG HA 102. In: Website Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
↑ Albert Dietrich: The "Olde Castle" in the Ahlten forest. Attempt to determine your position . In: Lehrter Land & People: Magazine on history, culture and local history . Issue No. 30 . Marktspiegel Verlag, 2008, ISSN 0946-0365 , p. 16 ff .
↑ Blue Lake. In: Website Sport Anglers Association Hanover. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
↑ Dietrich Oeding, Bernd R. Oswald: Electrical power plants and networks . Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-540-00863-2 , pp. 838 (968 pages, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed July 14, 2020]).
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[Zahlen2016-1] Population and territorial areas. (No longer available online.) In: Website Stadt Lehrte. December 31, 2016, archived from the original on June 19, 2018 ; accessed on July 14, 2020 .

[Ortsnamenforscher-2] Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". (No longer available online.) In: Website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 7, 2015 ; accessed on August 2, 2019 .

[Neubildung-3] Area change agreement on the occasion of the reorganization of the city of Lehrte. (PDF; 17 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Website Stadt Lehrte. December 14, 1973, archived from the original on October 5, 2017 ; accessed on July 14, 2020 .

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982-4] 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 222 .

[Rademacher-5] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Burgdorf district ( see under: No. 2 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). Accessed September 2018

[Gemeindeverzeichnis-6] Ulrich Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900 - Burgdorf district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed July 14, 2020 .

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1956-7] Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p. 172 ( digitized version ).

[destatis1973-8] Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 35 , Burgdorf district ( digitized [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on July 14, 2020]).

[Zahlen2010-9] Population and area areas. (No longer available online.) In: Website Stadt Lehrte. December 31, 2010, archived from the original on March 15, 2011 ; accessed on July 14, 2020 .

[Rat-10] The local council of Ahlten. In: Website City of Lehrte. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .

[Wenzel-11] Coats of arms designs by Carl Wenzel. In: Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved August 9, 2017.

[Wappen-12] A ^b Landkreis Hannover (ed.): Wappenbuch Landkreis Hannover . Self-published, Hanover 1985, p. 242-243 .

[Satzungen-13] Guidelines on the use of the coat of arms of the city of Lehrte. (PDF; 14 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Website Stadt Lehrte. September 25, 2002, archived from the original on October 5, 2017 ; accessed on July 14, 2020 .

[Orgel-14] Katerina Jarolim-Vormeier: New organ sounds in the Martinskirche. In: ahlten.de. February 25, 2008, accessed on July 14, 2020 (from the Anzeiger für Lehrte und Sehnde).

[Wald-15] Landscape protection area ordinances of the Hanover region on the area LSG-H 19 - Altwarmbüchener Moor - Ahltener Wald. (PDF; 41 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Website Stadt Lehrte. Association of Greater Hanover as the lower nature conservation authority, June 20, 1969, archived from the original on October 5, 2017 ; accessed on July 14, 2020 .

[nlwkn-16] Nature reserve "In the seven mountain parts"; Registration: NSG HA 102. In: Website Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .

[Burg-17] Albert Dietrich: The "Olde Castle" in the Ahlten forest. Attempt to determine your position . In: Lehrter Land & People: Magazine on history, culture and local history . Issue No. 30 . Marktspiegel Verlag, 2008, ISSN 0946-0365 , p. 16 ff .

[See-18] Blue Lake. In: Website Sport Anglers Association Hanover. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .

[Elektrik-19] Dietrich Oeding, Bernd R. Oswald: Electrical power plants and networks . Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-540-00863-2 , pp. 838 (968 pages, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed July 14, 2020]).

[Gas-20] Underground gas storage in Germany. (PDF; 313 kB) In: Website State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology. Retrieved on July 14, 2020 (from the specialist newspaper: Erdöl Erdgas Kohlen, 129th year, 2013, issue No. 11).

[DB-21] MegaHub Lehrte. In: Deutsche Bahn website. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .

[MegaHub-22] The 170 million euro project: megahub system goes into operation. In: Website Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . June 16, 2020, accessed July 14, 2020 .