Alversdorf

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Memorial to the fallen and missing of World War II

Alversdorf was a village about 4 km northeast of Schöningen and 2 km northwest of Offleben , and a place in the Helmstedt district in Lower Saxony . From 1967 to 1974 it had to give way to the Alversdorf open- cast lignite mine in the Helmstedt lignite district .

Plans to build a new town called Neu Alversdorf south of Neu Büddenstedt were not carried out.

history

In 983 the village was first mentioned in a document as Adalgerasthorpa .

A memorial was erected in 1924 for those who died in World War I between 1914 and 1918 .

In the early 1920s, plans began to tear down Alversdorf; from 1943/44 onwards no new massive buildings were allowed to be erected. In 1962 the Alversdorf opencast mine was opened, and in 1967 the demolition of the village began. On June 6, 1961, the day of the census, the community had 1,033 inhabitants. On May 27, 1970, the day of the subsequent census, there were only 419 inhabitants.

The existence of the political community Alversdorf ended on April 1, 1971, and the remaining 324 inhabitants were incorporated into Schöningen. The area of ​​the municipality of Alversdorf was divided; the main part was awarded to the city of Schöningen . Smaller areas fell to Neu Büddenstedt, Reinsdorf and Offleben . On February 6, 1974, the last residential building was demolished. In 1991, the Alversdorf opencast mine was charred.

In Offleben there is the Alversdorfer Straße (formerly Bahnhofstraße ) in memory of Alversdorf .

Population numbers

year 1951 1961 1963 1965 1970 1971 1972 1973
population 2180 Structural Change in Germany 1033 898 837 419 324 186 0

Infrastructure

railway station

Alversdorf had a railway connection to the former Jerxheim – Helmstedt railway line , which also served to connect the lignite mining area.

education

The school was closed on July 31, 1968; afterwards the school building served as a kindergarten and library.

church

The majority of the residents and the church in the center of the village with its Romanesque tower have been Evangelical Lutheran since the introduction of the Reformation . The last service in the church was on June 11, 1972, and it was demolished that year. The bells, cast in 1950, came to the Clus Church in Schöningen; the organ was handed over to Offleben.

The Catholic residents were most recently part of the Holy Family parish in Offleben. Before a church was built in Offleben, the nearest Catholic churches were in Schöningen (since 1908), Hötensleben (since 1891) and Helmstedt.

Sports facilities

  • sports ground
  • Indoor swimming pool (closed in 1974)

Alversdorf enjoyed national attention through one of the first indoor swimming pools in Lower Saxony after the Second World War, which was often used by the residents of the regions and foreign associations and was repeatedly the venue for swimming events . In April 1956, found there as part of Olympic qualification three water polo -Länderspiele the West German selection against the representation of DDR instead. The pool, built in 1941 and reopened on November 27, 1949, was located on the site of the briquette factories and the “Treue” power station and was operated by Braunschweigischen Kohlen-Bergwerke AG (BKB) . The use was free of charge for the population as it was heated with the waste heat from the power plant.

societies

  • Voluntary fire brigade: active service until March 31, 1971, then fire protection in Alversdorf was taken over by the Schöningen fire brigade
  • Choral society harmony
  • Choral Association Liedertafel

graveyard

War memorial from 1924

At the end of January 1964 the cemetery was closed; the 470 or so graves were reburied in other cemeteries, mostly in Esbeck . The Alversdorf war memorials for those who fell and went missing in the two world wars were also moved there.

Attractions

  • One memorial each for those who fell and those missing in the First and Second World War from the community of Alversdorf (today in the Esbeck cemetery)

See also

literature

  • Karl Rose: Home book of the village Alversdorf. Alversdorf 1951.
  • Karl Rose: Heimatbuch des Dorfes Alversdorf 1951–1963. 1st addendum. Alversdorf 1964.
  • Hans Günther KG (ed.): Festschrift for the meeting of former Alversdorf residents on 16./17. August 1975. Helmstedt 1975.

Web links

Commons : Alversdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Pohlendt: The district Helmstedt. Bremen-Horn 1957, page 301
  2. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes for 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. 271 .
  3. ^ History 1970 to 1979 on the website of the district of Helmstedt , accessed on February 25, 2018
  4. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate: Catholic divine service in the Diocese of Hildesheim. Hildesheim 1966, page 70
  5. ↑ And all because of the coal! (PDF at www.klett.de) ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ History 1900 to 1949 on the website of the Helmstedt district , accessed on February 25, 2018

Coordinates: 52 ° 9 '  N , 11 ° 1'  E