Badenhausen

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Badenhausen Municipality Bad Grund (Harz)
Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 8 ″  N , 10 ° 12 ′ 23 ″  E
Height :	184  (175-184)  m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.41 km²
Residents :	1882  (Jun 30, 2013)
Population density :	254 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st of March 2013
Postal code :	37539
Area code :	05522
Location of Badenhausen in Lower Saxony
St. Boniface Church

Badenhausen am Harz is a district of the municipality of Bad Grund (Harz) in the Göttingen district in Lower Saxony .

geography

location

Badenhausen lies both on the western edge of the Upper Harz and the Harz Nature Park . It is located on the Rhume tributary Söse , into which the Uferbach and Sülpkebach flow there. The nearest larger city is the former district town of Osterode , whose core town is about 5 km south-southeast. The nature around the place is still largely intact, in addition to the forests around the place, the Söse flows through and around Badenhausen.

Local division

• Badenhausen (main town)
• Neuhütte
• Oberhütte

history

Badenhausen was first mentioned by name in 968 in a deed of donation from Emperor Otto the Great . On October 2, 968, Emperor Otto I gave the archiepiscopal church of St. Moritz in Magdeburg his previous property, which he had previously owned in Badenhausen.

On the outskirts of the village, on the tip of a mountain spur on the Pagenberg, lies an old fortress, the Hindenburg, which was built by the Counts of Katlenburg around 1080. To the south it is separated from the spur by a ditch cut deep into the rock, while the other slopes drop steeply to the Söse . To the north of the neck ditch was the older core of the castle, of which only the foundation walls are preserved today. The Hindenburg was first mentioned in a Lüneburg chronicle when it was taken over by Heinrich the Lion in 1152 after a battle with Margrave Albrecht the Bear . The Hindenburg fell around 1440 and Badenhausen was destroyed by Goslar , and around 1500 it was rebuilt by the Duchess Elisabeth. Over the centuries the castle often changed hands, after Heinrich the Lion it belonged to the Principality of Grubenhagen , another part was in the hands of the Principality of Wolfenbüttel at the beginning of the 14th century , before it came into possession towards the end of this century of the Principality of Göttingen passed. Pledges were an integral part of the castle's history, so from 1400 the people of Grubenhagen handed over their share to the Lords of Hardenberg , around 1491 one-third of the shares in the Hague were transferred to the bourgeoisie, most recently in 1497 to an Osteroder mayor.

Since then, the population of Badenhausen has risen steadily, from 25 in 1550 to 315 in 1774. Since 1833, Badenhausen has belonged to the Gandersheim district formed in the Duchy of Braunschweig .

Place name

Old names: 968 (A. 15th century) Badenhusen, 1131 (Fä. 13th century) Badenhusen, around 1154 Badenhusen, 1157 Badenhusen, 1233 Badenhusen. The tradition of the place name shows that there was a sway between -a- and -o- in the first vowel of the defining word (based on dialect): Badenhusen - Bodenhusen. The basic word also changed: Older -husen was replaced by -hausen in the middle of the 16th century. The place name contains in the base word Low German -husen, which later gives way to High German -hausen. In the BW there is a weakly inflected personal name asä. Bado, to germ. * Badw, ags.beadu, beado, asä. badu- (only in PN) "fight" heard.

Incorporations

1 July 1972 made Badenhausen with Gittelde, Teichhütte, Windhausen and other member communities the Samtgemeinde Bad Grund (Harz) and was named after the resin Act the district Osterode am Harz assigned. On March 1, 2013, the member communities of the combined community Bad Grund (Harz) merged to form the new community Bad Grund (Harz).

Population development

year Residents source 1910 1346 1925 1271 1933 1400 1939 1379 1950 2232 1956 1975 1973 1969 1975 02037 ¹ 1980 02056 ¹

year Residents source 1985 2106 ¹ 1990 2097 ¹ 1995 2062 ¹ 2000 2033 ¹ 2005 2015 ¹ 2010 1896 ¹ 2012 1850 ¹ 2013 18820 0 0 0

¹ as of December 31st

religion

• The Evangelical Lutheran St. Martin Church is located on Thüringer Straße, it is the southernmost church of the Gandersheim-Seesen Provostry . The parish forms a parish association with Windhausen .
• The Catholic St. Bonifatius Church is located in Lindenweg. It was built because after 1945 Catholics who had fled or were expelled from the eastern German territories had settled in Badenhausen and the surrounding villages. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on April 1, 1961, the foundation stone was laid that same year, and the church was consecrated by Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen on April 8, 1962 . It belongs to the parish of St. Johannes Baptist in Osterode .

politics

Local council election 2016

Turnout: 56.59% (2013: 61.46%)

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Local council

The local council consists of seven councilors (changes from 2013). The local council also has an advisory member (CDU).

• SPD : 5 seats (+1)
• CDU : 2 seats (± 0)
• Greens : 0 seats (−1)

(Status: local election on September 11, 2016 )

Local mayor

The local mayor is Erich Sonnenburg (SPD). His deputy is Mario Passauer (SPD).

coat of arms

The design of the municipal coat of arms of Badenhausen comes from the Braunschweig head of studies , heraldry and graphic artist Wilhelm Krieg . The municipal council approved the coat of arms on August 15, 1961 and the Lower Saxony Minister of the Interior approved it on November 29, 1961.

Blazon : "In blue on a silver hill topped with a gold-tied blue post horn , a silver tower with an open blue gate ."

Justification of the coat of arms: On the website of the municipality of Bad Grund (Harz) is mentioned: “The history of the Hindenburg located on the Pagenberg is closely connected to the town of Badenhausen . The castle is mentioned in a document in 1152. It was repeatedly at the center of armed conflicts and has been abandoned since around 1492. The memory of the Hindenburg is kept alive and symbolized in the coat of arms by the tower, a keep. The Posthof , station of the Thurn and Taxische Reitpost from 1704 to around 1808, testifies to Badenhausen's location on important traffic routes, especially from the Thuringian-Saxon region to the north. The post office was a relay station, where horses were changed, among other things. A postal expedition was set up around 1844, and the number stamps have some collector's value today. The gold-laced post horn in the coat of arms is intended to commemorate this great postal tradition in Badenhausen. The gypsum works, which were founded in 1804, were an important industry for Badenhausen. The gypsum industry is included in the coat of arms through the silver mountain. "

Banner and flag

	00Banner: "The banner is blue and white striped lengthways with the coat of arms above the middle."
	00Hoisted flag: "The flag has blue and white stripes with the coat of arms in the middle."

Culture and sights

Memorial in the church park

Memorial stone

Buildings

• In Badenhausen there is a large sawmill which, according to the Guinness Book of Records, has the longest blade of wood ever sawn in the world. This piece of wood in the shape of a saw was attached to the outside wall of the factory with a Guinness plaque for the public until 2016.
• In the adjacent forest on the Pagenberg you can still see the remains of the Hindenburg wall.

Parks

In the church park there is a small memorial for the victims of the two world wars from Badenhausen . Another small park with seating is located in the town center at the kindergarten, the Bürgerpark .

Sports

In Badenhausen there is a soccer field as well as a large and a small sports hall . Soccer and handball are the two major sports in the area.

Regular events

Every three years, the traditional folk and rifle festival takes place in Badenhausen on the first weekend of the Lower Saxony school holidays .

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies, public institutions

There are shops and two restaurants in Badenhausen . A youth room was created for the youth. In addition, many residents are members of the Badenhausen volunteer fire brigade or the sports club . A popular place for tourists is the Naturfreundehaus in a forest near Badenhausen.

Among other things, there is a spar shop , a butcher and a bicycle shop in Badenhausen , as well as a few other small shops, such as a farm shop or a shop for fabrics and sewing work. In addition, the results Volksbank a branch in Badenhausen, very close to it, there is a gas station. The most important employers in the area are the local sawmill and a transport company . In addition to these companies, there are a few other smaller companies and operations in Badenhausen.

education

There is a high school and a kindergarten in Badenhausen .

traffic

North of Badenhausen the expressway running federal highway B 243 and the Herzberg-Seesen railway . From 1898 to 1967 the trains on the narrow-gauge railway line Osterode – Kreiensen stopped at a train station located in the Bürgerpark in the center of town.

For the development of the postal system in Badenhausen, see: Braunschweig-Göttingen postal route .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the district

• Fritz Beulshausen (1885–1957), politician (SPD)
• Ulla Beushausen (* 1961), professor of speech therapy at the HAWK Hochschule Hildesheim / Holzminden / Göttingen

People who are connected to the district

• Heiso Meyer (before 1650–1704), bell and gun caster, he made a bell for the local St. Martin Church in 1677 (height 87 cm, diameter 112 cm)
• Horst-Werner Nilges , known as Knöllchen-Horst (* 1953/1954), early retiree, who became known through his private reports of traffic violations, he lives in Badenhausen

Web links

Commons : Badenhausen  - Collection of Images

• Badenhausen on the website of Bad Grund (Harz)
• Website about Badenhausen
• Article Badenhausen In: GenWiki.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} municipalities in Germany by area, population and postcode. (XLS; 4.5 MB) See under: Lower Saxony, No. 1531 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 2012, accessed on February 8, 2020 .  
2. ↑ ^{a b} population figures. In: Website of the municipality of Bad Grund (Harz). June 30, 2013, accessed February 8, 2020 .  
3. ↑ Erhard Kühlhorn: Historical-regional excursion map. Leaf Osterode am Harz . August Lax Verlag, Hildesheim 1970, p. 76 .
4. ↑ Uwe Ohainski, Jürgen Udolph : place and desert names. The place names of the district of Osterode . In: Lower Saxony Place Name Book . tape 40 , part II. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-89534-370-6 , p. 14–15 , pp. 32–33 ( digital version [PDF; 2.5 MB ]).
5. ^ Law on the reorganization of the municipalities in the Harz region. (PDF; 22 kB) In: Website City of Braunlage. February 29, 1972, accessed February 8, 2020 .  
6. ↑ Lower Saxony State Chancellery (Ed.): Law on the reorganization of the Bad Grund (Harz) community, Osterode am Harz district . Lower Saxony Law and Ordinance Gazette (Nds. GVBl.). No.  16/2012 . Hanover July 18, 2012, p. 267 , p. 17 ( digitized version [PDF; 290 kB ; accessed on February 8, 2020]).
7. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900 - Gandersheim district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed February 8, 2020 .  
8. ^ ^{A b c} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Gandersheim ( see under: No. 6 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  
9. ↑ ^{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.  205 ( digitized version ).
10. ↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 33 , district of Osterode am Harz ( digitized [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on February 8, 2020]).
11. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Community directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on February 8, 2020 .  
12. ↑ Willi Stoffers: Patronage churches in memory of St. Boniface, the apostle of the Germans, in the Diocese of Hildesheim . Hildesheim 2004, p. 32-35 .
13. ^ Result of the local council election in Badenhausen 2016. In: Website Kommunaledienste Göttingen. September 11, 2016, accessed February 8, 2020 .  
14. ↑ ^{a b} Badenhausen local council. In: Website of the municipality of Bad Grund (Harz). Retrieved February 8, 2020 .  
15. ^ Drafts of coat of arms by Wilhelm Krieg. In: Wikimedia Commons . Retrieved February 5, 2020.
16. ↑ ^{a b c} History of the Badenhausen community - coat of arms. In: Website of the municipality of Bad Grund (Harz). Retrieved February 8, 2020 . 
17. ^ ^{A b} Arnold Rabbow: Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch . The coats of arms of the communities and districts in the urban and rural districts of Braunschweig, Gandersheim, Gifhorn, Goslar, Helmstedt, Peine, Salzgitter, Wolfenbüttel and Wolfsburg. Ed .: Braunschweiger Zeitung, Salzgitter Zeitung and Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Eckensberger & Co Verlag, Braunschweig 1977, DNB  780686667 , p. 113 .
18. ↑ Municipal flag - community Badenhausen. In: Kommunalflaggen.de. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .  
19. ↑ Badenhausen High School. In: obs-badenhausen.de. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .