Billingshausen (Bovenden)

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Billingshausen
Spots Bovenden
Coat of arms of Billingshausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 48 ″  N , 10 ° 1 ′ 44 ″  E
Height : 237 m above sea level NN
Residents : 702  (December 31, 2018) Email from the Citizens' Office
Postal code : 37120
Area code : 05594
View from the Pleßforst to Oberbillingshausen
View from the Pleßforst to Oberbillingshausen

Billingshausen is a district of the borough Bovenden in Lower Saxony . It consists of Oberbillingshausen in the southeast and Unterbillingshausen in the northwest of the place.

Geographical location

Billingshausen is located in the upper Rodetal on both sides of the Rodebach, the sources of which are to the south and east of the village. The steep slope of the Plessforst rises to the south and west of the village and the Lippberge to the south-east.

View from the west of (Unter-) Billingshausen

history

Since when Billingshausen has been continuously settled or when the place was founded is, as with most places, unknown. A first written mention can be found in the traditions of the Corvey Monastery from around 970 as Billugeshusen . However, individual historians also refer to other places with the same or similar names as mentioned in this document. There are other written mentions around 1200 and 1262 as Billingeshusen . The name is made up of the personal name “Billing” or “Billung” and the frequent place name broadcast “ -hausen ”. A connection with the Billunger sex is obvious, but has not been proven, especially since the Saxon Count Billing owned larger estates in Göttingen. The first written reference to the existence of Oberbillingshausen can be found in a document from the middle of the 13th century, in 1306 Niedern Billingeshusen is clearly mentioned in a document. So by the beginning of the 14th century at the latest, both districts existed as separate settlements. While Unterbillingshausen was under the rule of the Counts of Hardenberg , Oberbillingshausen belonged to the Plesse rule . In the later course of the local history, Oberbillingshausen fell to the district of Göttingen , while Unterbillingshausen belonged to the Hardenberg court and then to the district of Northeim . The parish church for both places as well as for the neighboring places Spanbeck and Holzerode was in Unterbillingshausen until 1540. However, with the introduction of the Reformation in the rule of Plesse, the confessional conditions changed, since then both villages and the surrounding villages of Spanbeck, Eddigehausen and Holzerode have practiced the respective denominations of the sovereigns. To this day, many residents of Oberbillingshausen are Protestant Reformed and the Unterbillingshausen are Protestant-Lutheran .

During the period of Napoleonic rule from 1806 to 1813, Unter- and Oberbillingshausen belonged to the Kingdom of Westphalia , but the French administrative principles and reforms could not be implemented in the short period of time, and the situation changed again after the Congress of Vienna . The Bovenden office was ceded to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1866, with the annexation by Prussia, the Hanoverian times for the Billingshäuser were again over. The old offices were transformed into rural districts in 1884. From then on, Oberbillingshausen belonged to the district of Göttingen, while Unterbillingshausen was incorporated into the district of Northeim .

The opening of the "Königshall-Hindenburg" potash mine in 1918 meant an important turning point for the residents of Ober- and Unterbillingshausen . For the next 20 years, the company was to be the most important employer on site, as well as in the Rode and Bevertal and neighboring communities . In 1938 the potash shaft was struck by an ingress of lye, but the mine was continued after the war, between 1946 and 1967. In the course of the territorial reform that came into force on January 1, 1973, Unterbilligshausen was reclassified to the Göttingen district and incorporated into the Bovenden district together with the municipality of Oberbillingshausen.

religion

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Martini parish in Unterbillingshausen was merged with the Reformed parish in Oberbillingshausen on January 1, 2010 to form the evangelical parish of Billingshausen.

Economic focus

From an economic point of view, the place Billingshausen is strongly characterized by agriculture. In addition to animal husbandry and husbandry , the horse industry is becoming increasingly important.

Culture and sights

The Hünstollen , a prehistoric rampart with a lookout tower about 2.5 km southeast of the village, and the ruins of Plesse Castle about 4 km west of the village are popular hiking destinations in the Plessforst.

Ev. Reformed Church Oberbillingshausen

Ev. ref. Oberbillingshausen Church

The four-axis rectangular hall building was built in 1739, as can be read above the portal on the south wall. It is closed by a simple gable roof. At the west gable is a slate, octagonal roof turret with a simple tip. The roof turret is penetrated by sound openings arranged in pairs on all sides except the one to which the clock was attached. The walls are structured unplastered and are interrupted in the south by four, in the east by a segmented arched window with a stone frame. On the south side, the portal also forms a unit with the window above and the stone framing. The north wall is closed.

literature

  • Claudia Bombosch-Nette: As it used to be. Billingshausen - A village in Lower Saxony . In: Plesse Archive . tape 31 , 1996, ISSN  0341-3837 , p. 7-250 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Trad. Corb. A § 302 / B § 41.
  2. a b Kirstin Casemir, Uwe Ohainski, Jürgen Udolph: The place names of the district of Göttingen . In: Jürgen Udolph (Hrsg.): Lower Saxony Place Name Book (NOB) . Part IV. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89534-494-X , p. 50 ff .
  3. Reinhard Wenskus : The early ownership and rule in the Göttingen area. In: Dietrich Denecke (Ed.): Göttingen: From the beginnings to the end of the Thirty Years' War. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1987, ISBN 3-525-36196-3 , pp. 12–30, here p. 17.
  4. Claudia Bombosch-Nette: As it used to be. Billingshausen - A village in Lower Saxony . In: Plesse Archive . tape 31 , 1996, pp. 12 f .
  5. ^ 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. 207 .
  6. Ecclesiastical gazette for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover 1/2011, p. 57.
  7. Jens-Uwe Brinkmann: The church buildings in the rule of Plesse . In: Plesse Archive . tape 22 , 1986, pp. 52 .