Amelith

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Amelith is a locality in the Bodenfeld locality of Nienover in the Northeim district (Lower Saxony). 242 residents live in it.

Northern part of Amelith

geography

The settlement is in the south of Solling in the valley of the Reiherbach . It is surrounded by wooded heights.

history

Mirror glass factory Amelith in the center of the picture, on the left the manor with the manor house "Eckhardts Hoff", on the right Nienover Castle

As early as 1575, the name Amelytt appeared in Sollinger forest accounts .

Under the British King George III. , at the same time Elector of Hanover, the mirror glass works Amelith was established in 1776 as a Hanoverian counter-foundation to the works in the Brunswick green plan . It was supposed to replace the hiking huts that had been documented in the administrative area of Nienover since the 15th century and to bind the glassmakers and their families to their jobs. The glassworks developed into the most important in the area, glasses and mirrors were exported to Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands and Great Britain. In a phase of economic difficulties around 1850, some people from Polier and Amelith emigrated and founded a new Amelith settlement on Lake Michigan , whose parish church was St. John's Church. The glassworks were closed in 1926 and demolished in 1931.

With the incorporation of Nienover, Amelith came to Bodenfelde on March 1, 1974.

In a converted former farm building of the former Amelith glass factory and outbuildings, the Hanover- based Christian drug work New Land has been running a therapy and aftercare center since 1991 and a courtyard café since 2002 . Before that, the buildings were used as guest houses and for agricultural purposes.

Until the end of 2010, Amelith was a state-approved resort .

societies

Amelith's associations include the volunteer fire brigade and the Amelith Table Tennis Club (TTC Amelith).

literature

  • Walter Junge: Chronicle of the area Bodenfelde: from the beginning to the present; with contributions to the history of the districts of Wahmbeck, Nienover, Amelith and Polier. - Göttingen: Göttinger Tageblatt, 1983
  • Wolfgang Schäfer (Ed.): The huts and the castle. Pictures, reports and documents from the Solling villages of Amelith, Nienover and Polier . Mitzkat Verlag, Holzminden 2000. ISBN 3-931656-26-8
  • Daniel Althaus: The factory in the forest: Glass and mirrors made of Amelith and Polier . Mitzkat Verlag, Holzminden 2015. ISBN 978-3-940751-46-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Main statutes of the area Bodenfelde from December 18, 2012 (PDF; 48 kB) . Retrieved May 10, 2013.
  2. ↑ Flecken Bodenfelde: Numbers, data, facts . Retrieved July 29, 2016.
  3. ^ Friedrich Carl Ludwig Koch: The German Colonies near the Saginaw River, 1851, p. 17
  4. ↑ Waldemar H. Lohrmann: Historical overview of the Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Congregation UAC in Amelith, Michigan, 1927, p. 4
  5. ↑ Flecken Bodenfelde: localities . Retrieved March 23, 2011.
  6. ↑ New Land - History. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 4, 2013 ; accessed on March 1, 2013 .
  7. ↑ http://www.heimatpflege-uslarer-land.de/fotosteuer/galeriebild.php?galid=ak2_solling_ortschaft&galpathidx=22&galimgidx=31 (link not available)

Coordinates: 51 ° 42 '  N , 9 ° 31'  E