Benniehausen

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Benniehausen
Unified community equals
Benniehausen coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 16 ″  N , 10 ° 3 ′ 5 ″  E
Residents : 349  (May 4, 2015)
Incorporation : 1st January 1973
Postal code : 37130
Area code : 05508
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The Benniehausen district is located in the center of the municipality of Gleichen

Benniehausen is a district of the municipality of Gleichen in the district of Göttingen with 349 inhabitants (as of May 4, 2015). The Wittmarshof district belongs to Benniehausen.

Entrance with sign

history

The first written mention of Benniehausen that has survived is in a document from the Bursfelde Monastery from 1201. The place name is given there as "Bennighusen". A document printed in the Mainz document book, which is issued for the year 1123 and mentions the place as “Benningehusen”, is a forgery from the 13th century. The former existence of an original document from the 12th century with a mention of the place is not proven by the forgery, but also not excluded, because original documents were sometimes used as the basis for modified forgeries.

In the course of the municipal reform, Benniehausen became a district of the newly formed municipality Gleichen on January 1, 1973.

politics

Local council

The local council consists of five councilors and councilors.

  • Community of voters Benniehausen: 5 seats

(As of: local election on September 11, 2011 )

Local mayor

The local mayor of Benniehausen is Dirk Otter.

coat of arms

Benniehausen coat of arms
 Blazon : "In green a silver (white) wave bar, accompanied by three 2: 1 set golden (yellow) mill irons."
Reasons for the coat of arms: The coat of arms designed by Heinz Reise was approved by the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior on January 24, 1950. The mill irons stand for the three former water mills (Lockemannsche, Hessische Mühle in Wittmarshof and Hessenmühle, whose building is still preserved today.) In the place known as Mühlendorf, the wavy bar symbolizes the garden where the mills were located. At the same time the coat of arms reminds of the coat of arms of the Lockemann family, who operated all three mills; It showed three golden mill irons in front of three silver wavy bars in the red shield.

Attractions

Wittmarshof Chapel

Evangelical Reformed Chapel Wittmarshof near Benniehausen

The evangelical reformed chapel in Wittmarshof was built at the beginning of the 17th century, which is also borne out by the fact that in 1575 the noble family of those at Bodenhausen moved their residence from Neuengleichen to Wittmarshof. The half-timbered gable front and the roof turret date from the early 19th century, the year 1819 is given on the weather vane of the turret. The bell dates from 1696. For centuries, the chapel was the church of the Hessian office of Wittmarshof and was also looked after by the parish of Sattenhausen until the First World War . Since the congregation declined due to the war, from 1922 pastor Bunnenberg from Gelliehausen only carried out services every 4 weeks. In the immediate vicinity of the chapel stood until 1870, the old home of the Hessian bailiff, later the steward of the Vorwerk Wittmarshof. It contained several prison cells with iron-studded doors on the first floor.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b residents of the municipality of Gleichen (as of May 4, 2015), accessed on March 3, 2016
  2. ↑ Kirstin Casemir, Uwe Ohainski, Jürgen Udolph: The place names of the district of Göttingen (= Jürgen Udolph [Hrsg.]: Lower Saxon Place Name Book (NOB) . Part IV). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89534-494-X , p. 39 f .
  3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the municipalities in the Göttingen district, November 20, 1972 (PDF; 16 kB)
  4. ↑ http://wahlen.kds.de/2011kw/Daten/152011_000051/index.html
  5. ↑ Local councils of the municipality of Gleichen, accessed on December 24, 2016 (PDF)
  6. ↑ Round trip through the community of Gleichen
  7. ↑ The three mills
  8. ↑ Heinrich Lücke: On the banks of the garden. History and literature from the southeast corner of the Göttingen region . Mecke, Duderstadt 1927, p. 53 .