Benthe

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Benthe
City of Ronnenberg
Benthe Coat of Arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 16 ″  N , 9 ° 37 ′ 33 ″  E
Height : 65 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.72 km²
Residents : 1970  (2018)
Population density : 417 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 30952
Area code : 05108
Benthe (Lower Saxony)
Benthe

Location of Benthe in Lower Saxony

Benther Church
Benther Church

Benthe is a district of the city of Ronnenberg in the Hanover region of Lower Saxony .

geography

The village is located on Benther Berg , a wooded hill about 2 by 5 km in size on the western outskirts of Hanover .

In the immediate bacon belt of the state capital of Lower Saxony are up to 173.3  m above sea level. NHN high mountain and its surroundings designated as a local recreation area.

history

The burial mounds on the Benther Berg prove that people lived in the fertile Calenberger Lössbörde near Benthe as early as the Bronze Age . There is a salt dome in the underground, which was extracted by a mine. In 1290/1304 Benthe appeared as Benenthe .

Incorporations

On July 1, 1969, the previously independent communities Benthe, Empelde, Linderte, Ronnenberg, Vörie and Weetzen were dissolved and the new community Ronnenberg was formed. On March 1, 1974, her Ihme-Roloven was incorporated. On December 12, 1975, the new municipality of Ronnenberg received city rights.

Population development

year Residents source
1910 482
1925 562
1933 624
1939 927
1950 18410
1956 17670
2018 19700

politics

Local council

The local council of Benthe consists of a councilwoman and six councilors from the following parties:

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor of Benthe is Detlef Hüper (SPD). His deputy is Michael Kühn (Greens).

coat of arms

The Benthe 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 16, 1961 by the district president in Hanover.

Benthe Coat of Arms
Blazon : "In a divided shield , above in red a growing , gold - armored silver unicorn , below in silver a three-tiered , red tip , covered with a golden scale ."
Reasons for the coat of arms: The unicorn depicted on the coat of arms is taken from the family coat of arms of the von Benthe family, who were based in Hanover. The seven-step shield base with the scales symbolizes the village court in Benthe, which met with the judge Heneke Grymeselle from 1380 to after 1420 in Benthe. The legend of the Seven Bustards was included in this depiction by Alfred Brecht in 1961.

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • Seven bustards stones
The Benther cross stones "Seven Bustards"
The seven bustard stones are eight cross stones that were erected in seven hollows south of Benthe in the Middle Ages . There is said to have been a place where the gograf held court with lay judges. The court was first mentioned around 1300 by the diocese of Minden as "curia benite". The stones were intended to exhort the accused to be honest. The stones were first mentioned in writing in 1474 as "bey den syven crucen". An eighth stone was added later, which is said to come from the Benther salt dome. On each stone there is a cross on the front and the back. The stones are among the most famous cross stones in Lower Saxony.
  • Dutch windmill
The Benther Dutch windmill was built in 1855 and operated until 1950. Since then it has been used as a residential building.
  • Benthe Manor

Benther Berg art space

At the suggestion of the development association for village development Benthe e. V. ten artists moved into free rooms in the Villa Kunterbunt that were made available to them by the city of Ronnenberg. The Kunstraum Benther Berg e. V. , which opened on October 12, 1997 with a joint exhibition by Uwe Ahrens, Bärbel Erbstößer, Dieter Götze, Alireza Omumi, Carmen Repinski, Parvin Rezvanpour, Karin Sandberg-Kobling and Gérard Sery. Since 1998 there have been six exhibitions a year that are curated by the members. The association, which is not commercially oriented, regards its work as an enrichment of the cultural life in the Ronnenberg area and as a promotion of regional and national artists.

Photo gallery

education

In Benthe there is one of the last single-track primary schools in the region, which has been fought for several times since the 1990s.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

People connected to the place

  • Carl Noack , Sorbian Karlo Nowak (1873–1959), German-Sorbian painter, died in Benthe
  • Hannes Meinhard (1937–2016), sculptor and draftsman, lived in Benthe
  • Jörg Bente (* 1958), master organ builder, he created the new organ for the Benther Church in 1995

literature

  • Karl Henninger, Johann von Harten: Lower Saxony's Sagenborn . August Lahr Verlag, Hildesheim 1927, p. 27-28 .
  • Otto Bertram, Hermann Deiters, Hans-Erich Wilhelm: Contributions to the chronicle of the village of Benthe . Self-published, Ronnenberg 1990 (416 pages).
  • Irmtraut Kosin, Helmut Radelfahr: Benthe . In: Peter Hertel u. a. (Ed.): Ronnenberg. Seven Traditions - One City . Ronnenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030253-4 , pp. 295-306 (376 pp.).

Web links

Commons : Benthe  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Federal Statistical Office 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.  159 ( digitized version ).
  2. a b Claus Reibenstein: Historisches - history and stories. In: Website location Benthe. 2018, accessed November 10, 2018 .
  3. Martin Stöber: The age of the eight villages . In: Peter Hertel u. a. (Ed.): Ronnenberg. Seven Traditions - One City . Ronnenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030253-4 , pp. 53 (376 pp.).
  4. About the city of Ronnenberg. In: Website City of Ronnenberg. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  5. Peter Hertel et al. a .: Ronnenberg. Seven Traditions - One City. Ronnenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030253-4 , pp. 209-215.
  6. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900 - Linden district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed February 29, 2020 .
  7. a b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Hanover ( see under: No. 10 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. a b Benthe local councilor. In: Website City of Ronnenberg. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
  9. ^ A b Landkreis Hannover (ed.): Wappenbuch Landkreis Hannover . Self-published, Hanover 1985, p. 332-335 .
  10. Information on Benthe. (PDF; 9.5 MB) In: Website City of Ronnenberg. P. 7 , accessed on November 10, 2018 (p. 1).
  11. Irmtraut Kosin and Helmut Radelfahr: Benthe - art space Benther Berg and artists . In: Peter Hertel u. a. (Ed.): Ronnenberg. Seven Traditions - One City . Ronnenberg 2010, p. 303 (376 pp.).