Arpke

Arpke City Taught
	Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 9 ″ N , 10 ° 6 ′ 2 ″ E
Height :	65 (64-67) m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.69 km²
Residents :	2879 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	269 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	31275
Area code :	05175
Location of Arpke in Lower Saxony
	Arpke in the urban area of Lehrte

Aerial view of Arpke in an easterly direction

Arpke ( Orpke in Low German ) is a district of the city of Lehrte in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony . Arpke has an old village center with a pond.

geography

The minerals aragonite , asphalt , barite , calcite , gypsum , marcasite , pyrite , sphalerite and siderite were found in a former clay pit south of Arpke, which was exploited by a brick factory .

Natural spaces

The Schrölingsstein , a boulder and natural monument north of Arpke

At the western edge, Arpke turns into a grove, the Hainhop . To the southwest there is another small forest called Scharel . It consists of a diversified mixed forest with native species of beech , oak , maple and various conifers. The Hämelerwald lies south of Arpke on the edge of the Lehrter district of the same name. In the woods lives among other wild . North of Arpke is a wooded area that stretches conservation area Burgdorfer wood . There is also the Schrölingsstein , a boulder and natural monument .

View over the Arpker village pond

The footpath at the Arpker village pond

In the middle of the old village is a village pond that was created during the Ice Age . In the course of the road construction from Sievershausen to Immensen at the beginning of the 20th century, around a third of the pond was filled with earth. Since the construction of the bypass road, this part of the old village road has been a footpath with seating (see picture). Kingfisher and gray heron can be seen at the pond, bats fly at night , and long-eared owls have a breeding site in the village.

In 1978 a nest for storks was built on the roof of the ev.-luth. Church of the Holy Cross built. A pair brooded there for the first time in 1993, and the eyrie has been occupied every year since 2000. In 2007 all three young died, in 2008 two out of four, in 2009 one out of four. This is due to climatic conditions and the food situation.

history

So far, Arpke was mentioned for the first time in the document from 1250, but was already on record in 1166 (according to the private archive of E. Strelow, Arpke). Within the series of Monumenta Germaniae Historica Scriptores T16 is a document in which it says that in 1166, among other things, “Unum mansum in Arebeke per judicium aquae frigidae recuperamus”. Translated: "Through the dish of cold water" we acquire a hoof back in Arebeke. Since the legal situation was not clear in this case, there was a court hearing over the taxes and hooves in Arpke. The beneficiary of this decision was the monastery in Steterburg (west of Wolfenbüttel ).

The battle of Sievershausen took place between Arpke and Sievershausen in 1553 . This was one of the bloodiest battles in what is now Lower Saxony, with around 30,000 participants. About 4,000 men died in the process and were buried in a depression, the Heldekuhle , near Arpke.

The Peiner Heerstrasse , which connected Hanover with Braunschweig and continued on to Berlin , passed Arpke . As early as 1616, the Arpker relay station was mentioned in the Meinersen's inheritance register and stock book . In addition to goods, rulers also passed this important transport link, for example Frederick the Great on June 18, 1763 on the way to Potsdam . Ten days later, his entourage followed. The latter required 65 riding and carriage horses, so that in addition to the 20 own relay horses, tension services were also requested from the village . After more than 300 years, the relay ceased operations in 1925. Today a memorial stone in Schmiedestrasse commemorates the relay.

The establishment of a school in Arpke cannot be dated more precisely. A donation and the construction of the first school building are documented for 1640. Church tasks were also associated with the school, such as the closing service for the chapel since 1666 and the bell service since 1682. Sometimes the teacher was entrusted with church services and funerals. In 1777 the schoolhouse with the teacher's apartment (living room, three chambers, cellar, cow and two pig stalls) was rebuilt at the same location near today's church. In 1895 the school board decided to build a new school building with two rooms in the north of the village, as the number of students had risen sharply and the school building had become too small. Schoolmaster and organist Franz Wrede, who had been teaching in Arpke since 1864, died on March 11, 1900 while playing the organ on Sundays. As early as 1921, the school had to be expanded to four classes, which were initially taught in the two classrooms. In 1962, the Im Hainhoop primary school, which is used today, was built. In 1958 the German best fights of the clubs without a winter bath in water polo took place in the Arpker Waldbad .

For the regional reform in Lower Saxony , Arpke was incorporated into the city of Lehrte on March 1, 1974.

religion

Arpker Church "To the Holy Cross"

There are three Protestant parishes in Arpke: the Evangelical Lutheran parish "Zum Heiligen Kreuz" (part of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover ), the Evangelical Lutheran Apostle Congregation (part of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church ) and the Evangelical Free Church Parish Arpke (at Association of Evangelical Free Churches belonging to Kdö.R).

politics

Local council

The local council of Arpke consists of a councilwoman and six councilors. The local council also has an advisory member (CDU).

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

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor is Klaus Schulz (SPD). His deputy is Carsten Milde (Greens).

coat of arms

The Arpke municipal coat of arms was designed by the heraldist and graphic artist Alfred Brecht , who designed all the coats of arms in the Hanover region. The approval of the coat of arms was granted on November 17, 1955 by the Lower Saxony Minister of the Interior .

Blazon : "On a silver shield a blue wavy bar and above it a red - armed , black eagle ."

Justification of the coat of arms: Looking back on the history of the village of Arpke, whose name is derived from "aar - beeke" = Adlerbach, which has not been researched up to the last phases, the obligation to the past was decisive for the choice of the coat of arms. The speaking symbols: "Eagle" and "Bach" are supposed to be the happy connection between the past and the present for the community and especially for the future.

Culture and sights

Memorial stone

Open-air museum with a stable house from the Iron Age

The church "Zum Heiligen Kreuz", located near the village pond, was built from 1857 to 1859 according to a design by the Hanoverian master builder Conrad Wilhelm Hase in neo-Gothic style as the successor to a centuries-old chapel. In 1964 it had to be extensively renovated due to woodworm infestation and other damage. In this context, the entire building was cleared of neo-Gothic style elements under the direction of the Hildesheim architect August Albert Steinborn in accordance with the contemporary taste. On January 1, 1969, the parish - until then part of the St. Martins parish Sievershausen - became independent. The old cemetery , located a little south of the church building, belongs to the community and has not been re-occupied for several decades.

The Apostle Church was built by the congregation in 1883 on the property at Hauptstrasse 34. Starting in 1876, it had split off from the regional church in a slow process.

In the Alte Dorfstraße, directly on the village pond, there is a memorial that commemorates the war dead. It was built in 1921 to commemorate the 31 fallen in the First World War , and around 1960 two wings were added to accommodate around 150 other names of those killed in the Second World War .

In Schmiedestrasse on the northern edge of the road there is a boulder that is reminiscent of the former Krug (inn) .

As part of the village beautification, a new memorial stone was inaugurated on May 20, 2006 for the 30th Altdorf Festival between the village pond and the newly created pond boulevard. The reddish granite stone is provided with the Arpker coat of arms and the two dates 1166–2006. For the 850th birthday of the village of Arpke in May 2016, the new year numbers were added to the memorial stone.

To the north of the village, a reconstruction of a stable house from the Iron Age was built at the Grafhorn Naturefriends House . Erected in 2015, it was inaugurated in August 2016 and serves as an open-air museum .

Architectural monuments

Regular events

Every year at the end of May the non-commercial Altdorffest takes place around the village pond. Many initiatives, clubs and associations participate with offers.
The shooting festival takes place on the second weekend in August. The partially nostalgic rides, including a chain carousel and a wooden ship swing, which visitors still have to set in motion themselves, are placed in the forest area Hainhop. This combination is very much appreciated by visitors. In addition to the fairground, the rifle parade and target nailing are also part of the program.
The wind festival, which has been taking place east of the municipal cemetery in the wind farm between Arpke, Sievershausen, Schwüblingsen and Oelerse since 1998 .

societies

As early as 1898, the Arpke men's choir was founded in 1898. V. registered in the Hildesheim register of associations.

In 1965 a local group of the Heimatbund Lower Saxony was founded, which compiled a comprehensive local history collection. She campaigned for the preservation of the Bärenhof (built in 1777 near the village pond), renovated it with great dedication and maintained a home parlor there. At the end of 2018, the group disbanded after more than 50 years.

Furthermore, there has been a local group of the settler community in the Association of Housing Property Lower Saxony e. V. with around 120 member families (2003).

Since 2002 the Arpker Waldzwerge e. V. a forest kindergarten in the Hainhop.

Five sports clubs in Arpke offer the opportunity to practice numerous sports:

The Arpke shooting club from 1884 e. V. offers shooting sports as well as a marching band.
TSV Germania Arpke from 1911 e. V. is the third largest club in the city of Lehrte and offers numerous sports activities in the fields of gymnastics, football, swimming, tennis and triathlon. The soccer division has been supported by the Arpke von 2000 e. V. supports. Youth football has been organized in the JSG ISA since 2006 together with the neighboring clubs MTV Immensen and TSV 03 Sievershausen.
In 1960 the TTC Arpke e. V. founded as a pure table tennis club. In 2008 it had 152 members; 105 of them played in 17 teams up to the association league. A separate association has been supporting youth work since 1988.
The Arpker Dartverein from 1988 e. V. is dedicated to darts as well as jazz dance.
The Arpker Vaulting and Riding Club e. V. offers the opportunity to pursue equestrian sports.

In addition, an indoor riding arena and, in summer, the heated outdoor forest pool offer further sports opportunities.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

Arpke has a long tradition as a farming village. There are currently nine full-time farms, most of which have specialized in potato cultivation. Only two of the farms also breed cattle with pigs.

In Arpke there are numerous craft businesses of different trades. Some of them are bakery, bookbinder, well construction, roofing, gardening, horticulture, machine fitter for agricultural equipment, plumbing and heating construction and a butcher. A few years ago there was a brick factory a little south and outside the village, which will be converted into a small industrial park after it has been closed. A feed manufacturer operates a dispatch warehouse near the train station.

In addition to a larger supermarket with a post office, there is a small supermarket. There is also a flower shop, a law firm and hairdressing shops. A cooperative bank operates an office with an ATM in town. In addition to a horse breeding business, there is also an alpaca breed that offers animal-assisted activities and therapies.

There is currently a general practitioner in private practice, a practice for physiotherapy, alternative practitioners, a nursing home and a pharmacy.

Public facilities

In Arpke there are four day-care centers and a public youth club sponsored by the city of Lehrte . The place also has a primary school and a heated outdoor forest pool. The public administration is represented by an administrative subsidiary. The communal cemetery has been located to the east outside the village since the 1960s.

The volunteer fire brigade has a fire station with two emergency vehicles and training facilities right on the village pond . The association of the volunteer fire brigade Arpke e. V. supports their work.

traffic

Arpke is located on today's state road 412 between Lehrte-Sievershausen and Lehrte-Immensen. In 1996, the road that had led through the village center up to this point (around a third of the village pond had been filled in for its construction at the time) was used as a bypass to the north and east of the village. The entire village was traffic calmed in this course; Tempo 30 applies.

Regular buses run to Lehrte and Burgdorf .

The station Immensen-Arpke on the railway line Berlin-Lehrte located in the northern part of the village on the old thoroughfare. At the instigation of the two villages, it was initially built as a freight station for agricultural products and inaugurated on August 15, 1893; only later was a passenger station added. The high-speed line Hanover – Berlin now runs through the station. The station is connected to Hanover and Wolfsburg by regional trains every hour . The station is in the tariff area of the Greater Hanover Transport (GVH). The old station building is now a private residence; ticket sales are guaranteed by machines.

The motorway junctions Lehrte-Ost and Lehrte-Hämelerwald of the A 2 are nearby. The Hanover-Langenhagen airport is around 25 kilometers away. The Peine-Eddesse airfield, ten kilometers away , was closed in 2010, so that it is no longer possible to reach the region by private plane.

Personalities

Werner Lampe (* 1952), winner of national and international swimming competitions and Olympic participant, lives in Arpke

literature

Frank Henschel: Arpke. Chronicle of a village (Stadtgeschichtliche Hefte der Stadt Lehrte, Volume 17), Stadt Lehrte (Ed.), 7/2000, 208 pages with illustrations, paperback
Heimatbund Arpke (Ed.): Arpke. Not just historical views of a Lower Saxony village. Festschrift for the 40th anniversary of the Arpke Heimatbund, 2005, paperback, 62 pages with images in black and white

Web links

Commons : Arpke - Collection of Images

Arpke website

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Population and area areas. In: Website City of Lehrte. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
↑ Clay pit company Diekmann. In: Website Mineralienatlas - Fossilatlas. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
^ Peter Löhr: Stork life on the Arpker church roof In: Heimatland. Journal of the Heimatbund Niedersachsen e. V. No. 2, 2009, p. 86.
↑ ^a ^b Erhard Strelow: Frederick the Great had his horses changed in Arpke. From the history of the former relay station. In: Lehrter Land & People. Magazine on history, culture and local history. Issue no. 10, Fall 1998, pp. 26-28.
↑ Heimatbund Arpke (ed.): Arpke. Not just historical views of a Lower Saxony village. Festschrift for the 40th anniversary of the Arpke Heimatbund, 2005, pp. 23, 27–29.
^ 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 The local council of Arpke. In: Website of the city of Lehrte. Retrieved October 5, 2017.
^ ^A ^b Landkreis Hannover (ed.): Wappenbuch Landkreis Hannover . Self-published, Hanover 1985, p. 248-249 .
↑ List of names Lehrte-Arpke. In: Online project fallen memorials. Retrieved October 5, 2017.
↑ The Iron Age house near Lehrte is to have a thatched roof this year. In: Marktspiegel weekly newspaper. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
↑ Open-Air Museum - The Iron Age Homestead. ( Memento from August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: NAKUBI Grafhorn. Retrieved October 5, 2017.
↑ Grafhorn open-air museum invites you to travel back in time. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . August 26, 2016, accessed April 13, 2020.
↑ Heimatbund Arpke (ed.): Arpke. Not just historical views of a Lower Saxony village. Festschrift for the 40th anniversary of the Arpke Heimatbund, 2005, p. 52 ff.
↑ Katja Eggers: Heimatbund Arpke has disbanded. In: Website Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. February 1, 2019, accessed April 13, 2020 .
↑ Stephan Hartung: Young talent is very popular. Table tennis: TTC Arpke wants to get involved with its boys' team at the district level In: Website Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung - Anzeiger für Lehrte, April 20, 2006, p. 14.

[zahlen-1] Population and area areas. In: Website City of Lehrte. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .

[Mineralien-2] Clay pit company Diekmann. In: Website Mineralienatlas - Fossilatlas. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .

[3] Peter Löhr: Stork life on the Arpker church roof In: Heimatland. Journal of the Heimatbund Niedersachsen e. V. No. 2, 2009, p. 86.

[strel26-4] Erhard Strelow: Frederick the Great had his horses changed in Arpke. From the history of the former relay station. In: Lehrter Land & People. Magazine on history, culture and local history. Issue no. 10, Fall 1998, pp. 26-28.

[5] Heimatbund Arpke (ed.): Arpke. Not just historical views of a Lower Saxony village. Festschrift for the 40th anniversary of the Arpke Heimatbund, 2005, pp. 23, 27–29.

[6] 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 .

[rat-7] The local council of Arpke. In: Website of the city of Lehrte. Retrieved October 5, 2017.

[Wappen-8] A ^b Landkreis Hannover (ed.): Wappenbuch Landkreis Hannover . Self-published, Hanover 1985, p. 248-249 .

[9] List of names Lehrte-Arpke. In: Online project fallen memorials. Retrieved October 5, 2017.

[10] The Iron Age house near Lehrte is to have a thatched roof this year. In: Marktspiegel weekly newspaper. Retrieved April 13, 2020.

[11] Open-Air Museum - The Iron Age Homestead. ( Memento from August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: NAKUBI Grafhorn. Retrieved October 5, 2017.

[12] Grafhorn open-air museum invites you to travel back in time. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . August 26, 2016, accessed April 13, 2020.

[13] Heimatbund Arpke (ed.): Arpke. Not just historical views of a Lower Saxony village. Festschrift for the 40th anniversary of the Arpke Heimatbund, 2005, p. 52 ff.

[Auflösung-14] Katja Eggers: Heimatbund Arpke has disbanded. In: Website Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. February 1, 2019, accessed April 13, 2020 .

[15] Stephan Hartung: Young talent is very popular. Table tennis: TTC Arpke wants to get involved with its boys' team at the district level In: Website Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung - Anzeiger für Lehrte, April 20, 2006, p. 14.