Langenhagen

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Langenhagen
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Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '  N , 9 ° 44'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Hanover region
Height : 51 m above sea level NHN
Area : 71.86 km 2
Residents: 54,652 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 761 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes : 30851, 30853, 30855, 30669Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / zip code contains text
Area code : 0511
License plate : H
Community key : 03 2 41 010
LOCODE : DE LHN
City structure: 6 districts

City administration address : 		Marktplatz 1
30853 Langenhagen
Website : www.langenhagen.de
Mayor : Mirko Heuer ( CDU )
Location of the city of Langenhagen in the Hanover region
Region Hannover Niedersachsen Wedemark Burgwedel Neustadt am Rübenberge Burgdorf Uetze Lehrte Isernhagen Langenhagen Garbsen Wunstorf Seelze Barsinghausen Sehnde Hannover Gehrden Laatzen Wennigsen Ronnenberg Hemmingen Pattensen Springe Landkreis Hameln-Pyrmont Landkreis Schaumburg Landkreis Nienburg/Weser Landkreis Heidekreis Landkreis Celle Landkreis Peine Landkreis Gifhorn Landkreis Hildesheimmap
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Langenhagen-Kaltenweide seen shortly before landing

Langenhagen ( Low German Langenhogen ) is a town and an independent municipality in Lower Saxony . It belongs to the Hanover region and is located north of the state capital Hanover . Hannover-Langenhagen Airport is located in the city of Langenhagen ; The same goes for the Neue Bult racecourse in Hanover .

geography

location

The city of Langenhagen borders the municipalities of Wedemark , Isernhagen and the cities of Hanover and Garbsen (clockwise, starting in the north). To the north of the urban area there is a pronounced Geest ridge of the Quaternary with a loose moor and heathland landscape that merges into the Lüneburg Heath . With the Kananoher Forest , the Kaltenweider Moor nature reserve and the Bissendorfer Moor nature reserve, which is partly on the Langenhagen area, there are extensive protected forest and bog areas in the urban area. The Muswillensee is located within the Bissendorfer Moor on the northern city limits to Wedemark .

City structure

The city of Langenhagen has existed since the Lower Saxony regional and administrative reform in 1974 in addition to the core city of Langenhagen (Langenhagen-Mitte, Langenforth, Brink, Alt-Langenhagen) from the localities Engelbostel (including the splintered settlement of Kananohe), Godshorn , Kaltenweide (including the so-called "Seestädte") Altenhorst, Hainhaus, Maspe, Twenge and Twenge settlements and Kiebitzkrug), Krähenwinkel and Schulenburg . The district of Wiesenau , which extended south to the Mittelland Canal including Brinker Hafen until the regional reform , has been limited as part of Brink to the residential area south of the federal motorway 2 since 1974 and is completely enclosed by the Hanover city area with the exception of two streets. The Weiherfeld development area , one of the largest development areas in the Hanover region, is located at the Kaltenweide S-Bahn station.

history

Silver lake
Town hall and market, 1989
Chimney sweep school, fire station and swimming pool, 1989

Foundation and Middle Ages

Hainhaus was mentioned as early as 990, on July 10th 1033 Engelbostel, 1200 Godshorn, 1255 carriage cell and 1308 Schulenburg. On February 15, 1312 Langenhagen was first mentioned as Nienhagen . Old names of the place are around 1312 Novam Indaginem, around 1314 Nova Indagine, 1391 Nyenhaghene, around 1430 Nigenhagen, 1451 Langenhagen, 1480 Nigenhagen, 1501 Niegenhagen and in 1523 Langenhagen. The reliable tradition for Langenhagen begins with 1312 Novam indaginem. This is Latin for “nova”, meaning “new” and “indago”. Later, “new” changes to “long”, but tradition fluctuates between the two additions until the 17th century.

Under the leadership of Vogts Heinrich Clave , Langenhagen was granted market rights in 1618. In 1630 he and his wife donated a baptismal font by the artist Jeremias Sutel, which is still in use today in the Elisabeth Church .

The witch trial against Alheit Snur from the Langenhagen office ended with her sentencing to death. On January 8, 1648, she was strangled at the execution site of the Langenhagen Office between Langenhagen and Vahrenwald by the Hanoverian executioner Martin Vogt, after which her body was burned.

19th century

In 1862 the sanatorium and nursing home for mentally weak and stupid children was founded in the area of ​​Langenhagen as an institution belonging to Hanover. Robert Koch, who later won the Nobel Prize for Medicine, worked there from 1866 to 1868 as an assistant doctor . This is remembered today by the street named after him and a plaque in the Robert Koch School. The institution was later renamed as Provincial Sanatorium and Nursing Facility for the Insane , then Langenhagen Mental Hospital . It was located on the main road from Langenhagen to Hanover and damaged the reputation of the community: "Even tourists on foot and by bike avoid the village, which instead of rural tranquility offers them the sight of [...] beings in a pitiful state," said the "Heidedichter" “ Hermann Löns firmly. The institution was modernized in several construction phases at the beginning of the 20th century in the then current pavilion style. From 1995 the hospital was called the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy , and since 2006 it has belonged to the Hannover Region Clinic with around 160 employees on site as KRH Psychiatry (125 beds) and KRK Geriatry (85 beds) . The institution, which was previously hermetically shielded from the outside, was opened and at the same time significantly reduced in size. In 2010 the city of Langenhagen acquired large parts of the property from the city of Hanover for the purpose of urban development.

20th century and present

At the beginning of the 20th century, Langenhagen gained economic importance as a traffic junction. The main reason for this was the railway line that had existed since 1890 and led from Hanover via Langenhagen with a stop at Langenhagen train station (today: Langenhagen horse market) to Visselhövede . The establishment of the Brinker Hafen on the Mittelland Canal in 1916 and the construction of the Autobahn (A 2) in 1934/35 from the Ruhr area to Berlin via the Brinker municipality were important for the municipality of Brink. In the course of the construction of the motorway, the Silbersee was created by removing sand and gravel , since then it has been an important place for local recreation. It supposedly got its name from airplane pilots who used the lake as a landmark on their flight to Berlin.

In order to counteract the wishes of the city of Hanover to be incorporated, the municipalities of Brink and Langenforth merged to form the new municipality of Brink on November 1, 1935. This was followed on April 1, 1938, when the municipalities of Brink and the northern municipality of Langenhagen merged to form the large rural municipality of Langenhagen; this created an economically strong community. For historical reasons, the name Langenhagen was chosen for the municipality , although Brink was the larger and more populous municipality. The new town hall of Brink became the town hall of the new municipality of Langenhagen.

Memorial in memory of the Langenhagen concentration camp

From October 2, 1944 to January 6, 1945, the Hanover-Langenhagen subcamp of Hamburg's Neuengamme concentration camp existed on what is now the Brinker Hafen industrial estate, which was then part of Langenhagen . A memorial with a plaque commemorates the subcamp on the site, which has been part of the Brink-Hafen district of Hanover since 1974 . At the end of the Second World War , Langenhagen was two-thirds destroyed by bombing.

On March 2, 1959, the rural community of Langenhagen was granted town charter with effect from March 1, 1959 by the Interior Minister of Lower Saxony, Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf .

On June 15, 1972, RAF member Ulrike Meinhof was arrested in Langenhagen when she tried to go into hiding in an apartment on Walsroder Strasse near Berliner Platz. The police became aware of this through the tenant Fritz Rodewald .

Until December 31, 2004 Langenhagen belonged to the then administrative district of Hanover , which like all other administrative districts of Lower Saxony was dissolved.

Urban development

In a two-year analysis and coordination process from 2009 to 2011, the city adopted an Integrated Urban Development Concept (ISEK). All of the relevant environmental factors of previous urban development, demographics, income situation, social situation as well as structural development and infrastructure are examined and updated to the year 2025. The airport's immediate area of ​​influence is of particular importance for future development. The northern area of ​​the core city is already set as a restricted area in the regional planning program of the state of Lower Saxony and the designation of new residential areas is no longer possible there. The cause is the air traffic on the two runways. In addition, 12 different flight corridors for continental and intercontinental air traffic run over the airport and the northern city area.

The railway and motorway traffic on the A 2 and A 352, which run through the city and along the localities, are also of considerable importance. They too have been examined in the urban development concept.

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform, Langenhagen gained the previously independent communities of Krähenwinkel and Kaltenweide in the north and Godshorn, Schulenburg and Engelbostel in the west of the city as districts on March 1, 1974. At the same time, almost the entire community area south of the federal motorway fell to the state capital Hanover, including the barracks on both sides of Vahrenwalder Straße , the Wiesenau industrial area with the Brinker Hafen and the Friedenau residential area between Friedenauer Straße and Erlenweg up to Schulenburger Landstraße. Only the residential area of ​​Wiesenau, south of the motorway, remained connected to Brink near Langenhagen by two tunnels.

Population development

Population development of Langenhagen from 1998 to 2016
year Residents source
1905 1,695
1910 2,075
1925 1,820
1933 5,382
1939 9,723
1950 13,7520
1956 18,1420
1973 35,3330
1975 47.092 ¹
year Residents source
1980 46,764 ¹
1985 46,520 ¹
1990 47,432 ¹
1995 48,921 ¹
2000 49,432 ¹
2005 50,883 ¹
2010 52,583 ¹
2015 53,323 ¹
2018 54,244 ¹

¹ as of December 31st

religion

The Hanover region has been Protestant since the Reformation. On June 30, 2018, 31.7% of the population were Evangelical Lutheran and 12.1% Roman Catholic. 56.2% belonged to other denominations or religious communities or were non-denominational .

politics

City council

The City Council Langenhagen consists since the local elections on 11 September 2016. 14 Council women and 29 councilors following parties:

Political party Seats
SPD 14 seats
CDU 12 seats
AfD 05 seats
Alliance 90 / The Greens 04 seats
Alliance of Independent Citizens Langenhagen (BBL) 03 seats
FDP 01 seat0
The independents 01 seat0
The left 01 seat0
WG-AfL 01 seat0
mayor 01 seat0
total 43 seats

In 2006 a senior citizens' council was elected for the first time . At the beginning of 2010 a park advisory board was formed from representatives of nature conservation, culture, monument preservation, senior citizens, youth and families, which focuses on the, in parts historical, city park Eichenpark. These bodies have an advisory function for the council and citizens and are also dedicated to public relations work in the press and through their own brochures on their topics, such as a park tour or the senior fitness facility near the Elisabeth Church.

mayor

The full-time mayor has been Mirko Heuer (CDU) since November 1, 2014 . His deputies are Bernhard Döhner (CDU), Ulrike Jagau (Greens) and Willi Minne (SPD).

coat of arms

The design of the municipal coat of arms of Langenhagen comes from the heraldist and architect Heinrich Gieseke . From 1949 to 1956 he was the leader of the Lower Saxony coat of arms .

  • The coat of arms was awarded on June 16, 1949 by the Lower Saxony Minister of the Interior .
  • The city of Langenhagen, newly formed by law on March 1, 1974, adopted the coat of arms of the previous city of Langenhagen, which was approved by the district president in Hanover on March 28, 1974.
Coat of arms of Langenhagen
 Blazon : "In a red shield from a golden : red bead growing , a blue-tongued and blue-armed , golden lion (Guelph lion)."
Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms is based on a stamp of the royal Hanoverian office of Langenhagen from 1852. The lion is represented as the coat of arms of the Welfenhaus in numerous old official coats of arms of the Hanoverian state, also in that of the office of Langenhagen, which emerged from the old bailiwick of Calenberg. Since the area of ​​the later office of Langenhagen belonged to the county of Lauenrode until 1248, one could think of the lion in this case also of that of the counts of Lauenrode, but it can be assumed that a coat of arms was awarded to the office of Langenhagen ( earliest in the 16th century), no longer thought of these counts, but only of the dukes of Braunschweig-Calenberg . In contrast to other coats of arms, the lion in the Langenhagen official coat of arms is depicted growing out of a bead, which can probably be thought of as originally lying on a helmet; the reasons for this peculiarity are lost in the dark. The colors are based on those of the Guelph family coat of arms. The State Archives assessed the design of the coat of arms as "shapely and heraldically flawless".

Coats of arms of the districts

Town twinning

Culture and sights

Water tower from 1905

Buildings

Water tower

The listed water tower from 1905, which previously supplied the buildings of the Langenhagen retirement and nursing home with drinking water, is located in the Langenhagen city park. Today this structure is used by the local nature conservation associations.

Raw house

The rough building in the city park, a two-story half-timbered house with the city archive, is a listed building.

Churches

West tower of the Elizabeth Church
Elisabeth Church, south view

Langenhagen is the seat of the Evangelical-Lutheran church district Burgwedel-Langenhagen . It includes the Langenhagen region with the four parishes in Langenhagen and the parishes Engelbostel / Schulenburg, Godshorn and Kaltenweide-Krähenwinkel. Today's Elisabethkirche, which is named after the Duchess Elisabeth von Calenberg , is located on the church square in Langenhagen . The Langenhagen church was destroyed in bombing raids in World War II, but rebuilt after the war and later named Elisabeth Church . Its church tower is more than 400 years old and is the oldest building in Langenhagen. The lower part is built with lawn iron stones.

Modern Protestant church buildings that were built after 1945 are the Emmaus Church on Sonnenweg (Wiesenau), built between 1959 and 1961, the church tower of which is visible from the A 2 motorway . As well as the St. Paulus Church from 1964/65 on Hindenburgstrasse (Langenforth) and the Elia Church on Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse (city center). In the other parts of the city there is the historic Martinskirche (Engelbostel) , the chapel “Zum Guten Hirten” (Godshorn) from 1746 and the modern Matthias Claudius Church (Krähenwinkel).

The Church of Our Lady was built in 1951 and the Church of the Twelve Apostles in 1973 for the Catholic population that grew after the Second World War . Today both churches belong to the parish of Liebfrauen in the dean's office in Hanover.

The Evangelical Free Church in Langenhagen ( Baptists ) has a parish hall on Godshorner Straße, and a New Apostolic Church is located on Veilchenstraße. The listed chapel Eichenpark, located on Stadtparkallee, has been used for art exhibitions since 2001.

Architectural monuments

music

The Langenhagen Music School and the Langenhagen City Wind Orchestra are important to Langenhagen. The city of Langenhagen's wind orchestra was founded in 1958; in 1974 it merged with the municipal music corps of the Hanover fire brigade to form the Lower Saxony wind orchestra. Under the direction of music director Ernst Müller (* 1939) the Langenhagener Blasorchester has performed worldwide and made Langenhagen famous. In Australia there was a performance on the steps of the Sydney Opera House . In 2004 Kai Philipps took over the musical direction of the wind orchestra. Harald Sandmann has been conducting since the beginning of 2015.

theatre

With the daunstärs , Langenhagen has a nationally known cabaret and comedy stage . It is located in the multi-generation house at Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 15, where, among other things, projects to reconcile family and work are carried out. Most of the events of the Mimuse cabaret festival, where comedians and artists perform, take place in the theater (around 540 seats, in the Robert Koch Secondary School Rathenaustraße) .

art

The public art in Langenhagen developed in five sculpture symposiums in the 1980s and the competition 99 sites in the context of the Expo 2000 in Hanover. As a result of these artistic events, numerous works of art can be found in the cityscape of Langenhagen, some of which are internationally or nationally recognized artists. Between 1986 and 1990 the sculpture park Langenhagen was created with 20 large sculptures in the city center and in particular in the city park Langenhagen. It was initiated and implemented by the then art commissioner of the city of Langenhagen, Christoph Rust. Most noticeable was the bound stone field by the artist Ulla Nentwig on the market square . The boulders, symbolizing the city and districts, were connected by steel cables for twenty years until 2008. For the expansion of the CCL, the boulders were moved on May 8, 2009 in front of the square at the Utopia cinema under the new name Verortung . Reinhard Buxel's cuboid as a result of the 2nd Sculpture Symposium in 1987 is still on the market square .

From 1992 to 1997, the five sculptor symposia under the direction of the curator Kai Bauer were followed by several performance art events each year under the title on-site ; this series was trend-setting for the artistic development of the 1990s and sometimes placed Langenhagen in the center of attention. A concept art campaign that Yoko Ono developed exclusively for Langenhagen in 1994 attracted attention nationwide . Under the title A celebration of human being , hundreds of billboards in the city were decorated with the black and white motif of a naked man's buttocks.

In 2000 there was a sculpture exhibition 99 viewpoints at EXPO 2000 , carried out by the Kulturstiftung Langenhagen e. V. The “multicultural women group” by Christel Lechner, which stands in the forecourt of the cinema on Walsroder Straße, the obelisk by Michael Deiml in front of the Langenhagen school center, the pedestrian sculpture by Till Hausmann on the side of Utopia, the steel sculpture Plinth have remained in the city III by James Reineking and the eye hand by Ren Rong on Kaltenweider Platz.

The best-known Langenhagen artists are the sculptor Wolf Glossner (1946-2016), who also erected a stainless steel sculpture in the Slovenian twin town of Novo Mesto in 1995 and whose works can be found in sculpture parks and at sculpture symposia throughout Germany, and the artist Dagmar Schmidt , who works for her floor sculpture “Excavation Cities” was the first woman to receive the renowned mfi award for art in architecture in 2006 .

In 2000, the Langenhagen writer Klaus-Dieter Brunotte initiated the artist group KiL (Artists in Langenhagen). In this group, artists from the city publish bibliophile editions from the fields of literature and visual arts in various casts . The Galerie Depelmann located in Krähenwinkel is of supraregional importance and takes part in national and international art fairs.

The Kunstverein Langenhagen , which promotes contemporary art and helps shape its mediation, is also known nationwide.

→ See also: Art in public space in Langenhagen

  • Obelisk by Michael Deiml, 2000

  • Cuboid by Reinhard Buxel, 1987

  • Departure, breakout, breakthrough by Christel Lechner

  • Werner Ratering, Studies of Human Being 1987

  • View of sculpture by Wolf Glossner in the city park

Sports

Racecourse Neue Bult

The Hannoversche Rennverein with the Neue Bult racecourse has its headquarters in Langenhagen . Race days take place regularly from spring to autumn. The city is a center of polo . The Lower Saxony Polo Club, which organizes international tournaments every year, is located in the district of Maspe. The Eventing Association in Twenge regularly invites you to international eventing tournaments .

Langenhagen is one of three located in German-speaking official tether car -Rennbahnen. Races take place here regularly, for example to host the German championship.

The German national sledge ice hockey team trains in the Langenhagen ice stadium and holds international tournaments here. The Ice Lions Langenhagen play in the German Sledge Ice Hockey League . From 2013 to 2017 the Hannover Scorpions played their home games in the Langenhagen ice rink.

Regular events

  • The annual cultural highlight is the Mimuse cabaret and theater festival .
  • The three-day city ​​festival takes place on the market square every year in July .
  • There is also a biennial economic show on the market square.
  • Every year in August, Langenhagen celebrates one of the largest shooting festivals in the region.
  • The interest group Walsroder Strasse and Horse Market (IWP) holds three public festivals a year in spring, summer and autumn on Langenhagen's long main artery.
  • Every summer, the large district festival of the Weiherfeld-Kaltenweide Interest Group (IWK) takes place in Kaltenweide.
  • The culinary-cultural bike tour "FahrKulTour", initiated by the EU project PFERDEstarkken Langenhagen, takes place annually in May and September
  • "Cultour & Co. e. V. "organizes every year on Sundays from 11 am to 2 pm in the months of July and August, in the inner courtyard of the town hall under the motto" for free & outside ", the Jazz Matinees, which have been taking place for decades.
  • Since 2013, the EU project PFERDEstarkken Langenhagen has been organizing the KriminaLa every year - Northern Germany's largest crime festival, where guests can solve a case for a week.

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

Today's city center extends from the east with the town hall, city library, City Center Langenhagen (CCL), weekly market (Tuesdays and Saturdays, in the mornings), the cabaret “daunstärs” and police to the north, along Walsroder Straße, with the music school and the art association , the Protestant Elisabeth Church, the adult education center, banks, service providers and retailers. It only came into being at the end of the 1970s and 1982 with the opening of the City Center Langenhagen shopping center , which was supplemented in 1990 by the Europa-Markthalle , Langenhagen's gastronomic belly. With the expansion of the CCL in March 2012, the shopping center now has a retail area of ​​almost 30,000 m².

In the vicinity of Hannover-Langenhagen Airport there are four large business parks with commercial and industrial companies, including Geodis Germany , Schenker Deutschland AG , Bahlsen , Reemtsma-Zigarettenfabrik , Dachser Logistik, Konica Minolta and MTU Maintenance Hannover . The company claims to be the world's leading company in the maintenance of commercial aircraft engines. Hermes Europe has built a new distribution center in Langenhagen . The foundation stone was laid in January 2010. The new HUB will act as a transshipment point for all goods transported by Hermes in northern Germany. The NürnbergMesse took over in 2010, 50% of the shares in the resident in Langenhagen since 1950 Messebau -Unternehmen Holtmann fairs and events. In addition, the “Brandboxx” (formerly “Mode-Centrum”) with over 400 international brand agencies and dealers is located south of the airport site. The density of commercial agencies and German branches of international companies is pronounced.

On August 17, 1982, PolyGram (later Universal , now EDC ) began in Langenhagen with the world's first industrial CD production . DVD production also started there in 1996 . However, the plant has been closed since February 2017.

From 1996 to 2010 the quarry professional association had its headquarters in Langenhagen. On January 1, 2010, it merged with other trade associations to form the trade association for raw materials and the chemical industry .

ThyssenKrupp EGM (Development Company for Assembly Technology), a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Krause GmbH , has also had its headquarters here since 1980 . The company is mainly active in special machine construction, especially in measurement and testing technology.

The Paracelsus-Klinik am Silbersee , an acute hospital with 111 beds, is located on the eastern edge of the urban area . Around 9,000 people are treated here every year. A special medical focus is on endoprosthetics. The maternity ward was closed on June 30, 2013.

"The business club" was founded in Langenhagen in 1996 as the business club Langenhagen. Founding chairman was Claus Holtmann (1996–2005, and 2009–2013), followed by Olaf Krause (2005–2009). The current chairman is Uwe Haster. The club from the economy out initiated We help! Foundation has been supporting social and cultural projects as an economic and community foundation since 2006 and continues the work of We help! e. V. (founded in 1997). In 2015, it was renamed the Langenhagen Community Foundation. Claus Holtmann has acted as president since it was founded. In the following years 3 sub-foundations and a special fund were established (Sonja-Vorwerk-Gerth-Stiftung, Stiftung Sternenkinder, Löwenstiftung, Sonderfonds Jugend inTakt ).

The animal shelter with the seat of the animal welfare association Hanover and the surrounding area is located in the district of Krähenwinkel .

traffic

Langenhagen-Pferdemarkt S-Bahn station

The Hannover-Langenhagen Airport , which opened in 1952 and is a dominant economic factor in the city, is located in Langenhagen . It was connected to the Hanover S-Bahn with an underground station . Among other things, the S-Bahn serves as a feeder for guests of the Hanover Fair and other leading international trade fairs ( e.g. Domotex , Biotechnica , EuroBLECH ) to the Hanover exhibition center . The “World of Aviation” adventure area at the airport shows, among other things, a replica of the “Jatho Flyer”, which was supposed to prove that the local aviation pioneer Karl Jatho was able to fly before the Wright brothers . Due to scheduling difficulties, the proof could not yet be provided.

The A 2 federal motorway runs immediately south of Langenhagen. It can be reached via the Langenhagen-Mitte and Langenhagen-Ost junctions. The A 352 runs from the Hanover-West motorway triangle to the northern point of the municipality in Kaltenweide across Langenhagen and can be reached via the Hanover Airport, Langenhagen-Engelbostel and Langenhagen-Kaltenweide junctions. The B 522 goes from the A 2 at Berliner Platz through Langenhagen to Hanover-Langenhagen Airport.

Langenhagen is located in the catchment area of ​​the Hanover S-Bahn and Stadtbahn . As early as 1900 to 1937 , the tram lines 19 and 29 ran from Hanover to Langenhagen, which was replaced by the Hanover trolleybus north of the motorway in 1937 . From 1958 diesel buses were used for local public transport in Langenhagen. The tram coming from Hanover ended at the terminus Berliner Platz for around 50 years. At the end of the 1980s, the tram line , which was now in service as a light rail , was again led to Langenforther Platz and from there extended eastwards to the new city center of Langenhagen.

Langenhagen has the Langenhagen Mitte stop on the Hanover – Celle railway line and the Hanover – Bremervörde railway line in the west of the city center , served by Deutsche Bahn trains ( individual ICE and IC trains between Hamburg and Hanover), the S-Bahn, the metronom Railway company and (since December 2011) regular trips on the Heidebahn . The S-Bahn lines also stop at the horse market (S 4, S 5), airport (S 5) and Kaltenweide (S 4) stations. The inner-city development also takes place via bus connections, some of which go to neighboring communities.

Educational institutions

Hermann Löns School

In the city center there are four public primary schools, in the districts there is one primary school each except in Schulenburg . In the secondary level II there is an IGS in the rooms of the former Hauptschule and Realschule as an all-day school (ex Brinker Schule, now IGS-Süd), the Robert Koch Realschule and, as special schools, the Pestalozzi School with the special focus on learning and the Gutzmann School with the special offer Language. The school center opposite the town hall includes the Langenhagen High School (founded in 1966 and open all-day school since summer 2013) and the Integrated Comprehensive School (IGS) (started in 1971 as a school trial, now with upper secondary school). The Integrated Comprehensive School Langenhagen took 4th place in the competition for the German School Prize in 2010. The Montessori School Langenhagen is a privately owned all-day primary school.

The Langenhagen Music School was founded in 1978 and offers children and young people a musical education program with individual and group offers. In the Lower Saxony chimney sweep school, prospective chimney sweeps are trained and further education and master craftsman exams are carried out.

The Langenhagen Adult Education Center works as a municipal further education institution in adult and youth education. It publishes its regular program, which ranges from the acquisition of basic knowledge and additional qualifications (foreign languages ​​and professional skills) to literature, art and special offers for educational partnerships with public schools.

The German Event Academy as an educational institution of the VPLT (Association for Media and Event Technology) is also based in Langenhagen. In addition to IHK and VBG-certified courses such as the " certified master for event technology " seminars of media, trade fair and event technology.

The Langenhagen City Library is located in the town hall at Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 6. The range of 71,000 media includes books, DVDs, CDs, CD-ROMs, audio books, comics, city maps, magazines, console games (Wii + PS4 + XBOX One) , Board games and 10,000 children's media (books, non-fiction, CDs, DVDs, CD-ROMs, magazines). Since May 2009, digital media such as e-books, e-audios and e-papers can be downloaded from the NBib24 website . The city library supports the Antolin reading promotion project . From the Antolin offer there are approx. 5400 books and there is an internet place for research. There is free WiFi in the entire library.

Social

House of Youth in the old town hall

Numerous sports associations, the Independent Youth Center (UJZ) Langenhagen and the municipal youth welfare organization have their headquarters in the House of Youth on Langenforther Platz (the old Langenhagen town hall).

The Langenhagener Tafel , founded in 1998, is currently the largest charitable organization in the city. Every week more than 700 households in need are provided with a dinner bag filled with donated food. Over 50 volunteers are regularly active at the food bank, churches and social associations support the distribution of bags. The long-standing founding chairwoman Veronika Sauer received the Federal Merit Medal in 2006 for her commitment. Since 2014, the board has been led by Jutta Holtmann, who has been 2nd chairwoman of the board since it was founded.

The Langenhagen women's emergency service supports women who have been affected by violence. The multi-generation house Mütterzentrum e. V. offers many events for women and families and also does integration work through events for and with migrants. The Langenhagen Mothers Center is one of the 500 multigenerational houses funded by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs .

Numerous youth clubs in the districts offer young people a regular range of leisure activities.

The Langenhagener Verein für Sozialarbeit e. V. runs an independent youth center with the support of the city of Langenhagen, also performs community work and supports other institutions by using rooms.

The city's senior citizens office takes care of the needs of older citizens and gives them support in numerous activities.

The Jobcafé Langenhagen supports the unemployed in the House of Youth in finding a job and with applications.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities related to Langenhagen

  • Robert Koch (1843–1910), bacteriologist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, worked from 1866 to 1868 as a country doctor in Langenhagen
  • Karl Biester (1878–1949), politician and farmer in Langenhagen
  • Rudolf Diels (1900–1957), lawyer, was the first head of the Gestapo in 1933 and later president of the district in Cologne and Hanover. He had an estate in Twenge from 1949 to 1957
  • Johannes Schulze (1901–1980) Evangelical Lutheran theologian
  • Walter Bettges (1927–1991), Langenhagen Mayor from 1968 to 1981, Vice President of the Lower Saxony Finance Court , judge at the Lower Saxony State Court
  • Wolfgang Thadewald (1936–2014), collector, bibliographer, publisher, editor, author and important Jules Verne expert
  • Karin Eickelbaum (1937–2004), actress, went to school in Langenhagen
  • Hans-Dieter Bader (* 1938), opera singer, lives in Langenhagen
  • Achim Kirschning (* 1952), musician and teacher, head of the Robert Koch School until 2013, lives in Langenhagen
  • Klaus Meine (* 1948), singer of the Scorpions , went to school in Langenhagen and started his career here
  • Uli Jon Roth (* 1954), former guitarist and songwriter for the Scorpions, lived in Langenhagen in the late 1960s and early 1970s and started his career here
  • Avni Kertmen (* 1961), athlete in the wheelchair sports community Langenhagen 82
  • Dagmar Schmidt (* 1963), artist, lives in Langenhagen
  • Oliver Kalkofe (* 1965), satirist and employee of Frühstyxradio , lived in Engelbostel as a child
  • Kai Dittmann (* 1966), sports journalist and TV commentator, grew up in Langenhagen
  • Leonard Soccio (* 1967), former ice hockey player for the Hannover Scorpions , lives in Langenhagen
  • Martin Groth (* 1969), soccer player, first soccer club SC Langenhagen
  • Arno Lücker (* 1979), composer and musicologist, grew up in Krähenwinkel
  • Tim Hornke (* 1990), handball player, went to school in Langenhagen, plays in the 1st handball league near Magdeburg
  • Daniel Axt (* 1991), actor, lives in Langenhagen and went to school there

Honorary citizen

The years refer to the year in which honorary citizenship was granted.

  • Richard Platz (1925), (1864–1933), General Director of Hackethal-Draht- und Kabelwerke, co-founder of Brinker Hafengesellschaft mbH, awarded by the formerly independent municipality of Brink
  • August Hölscher (1931), (1873–1949), co-founder of the North German wallpaper factory
  • Wilhelm Hirte (1955), (1875–1957), author of the Engelbostel village chronicle, honored in Engelbostel
  • Ernst Karthäuser (1958), (1889–1960), community fire chief
  • Otto Schwarz (1961), (1895–1967), municipal director 1949–1959 and 1st city director (1959–1960)
  • Karl Schönemann (1964), (1895–1977), District Administrator
  • August Wagener (1969), (1899–1978), Mayor of Langenhagen 1953–1969
  • Alfred Oellerich (1973), (1902–1977), mayor of Krähenwinkel 1948–1953 and 1955–1964, honored in Krähenwinkel
  • Albert Fichte (1973), (1894–1986), Mayor of Godshorn 1948–1968, honored in Godshorn
  • Bertha Schneider (1981), (1915–1999), DRK chairwoman
  • Martha Korell (1988), (1898–1993), founder of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt Langenhagen
  • Walter Bettges (1991), (1927–1991), Mayor of Langenhagen 1969–1981
  • Josef Billerbeck (1991), (1918–2008), mayor 1981–1986
  • Waltraud Krückeberg (2002), (* 1931), Mayor 1986–2001
  • Lothar Schuldt (2011), (1925–2014), local politician and board member of the Social Association of Germany

literature

  • Walther Bode and Marianne Humpe: From Langenhagen's story. Local history study group, Langenhagen 1974
  • Walther Bode: Population registers from the 16th century . Issue 1. Langenhagen 1978
  • Walther Bode: List of subjects from 1594 . Issue 2. Langenhagen
  • Walther Bode: The register of inheritance of the Langenhagen District Bailiwick from 1612 and 1634 . Issue 3. Langenhagen 1981
  • Walther Bode: Description of the office of Carl Gust. Friedr. Wyneken from the 18th century . Issue 4. Langenhagen 1982
  • Walther Bode: Langenhägen reading book . Issue 5. Langenhagen 1982
  • Walther Bode, Marianne Humpe, Malte Van Hazebrouck: Langenhägener sketches , volume 6, volume 1 and 2. Langenhagen 1991
  • Karl Johaentges , Manfred Hertel: Pictures from Langenhagen. KaJo Verlag. 1st edition, Hannover 1991, ISBN 3-925544-08-9
  • Ernst-August Nebig: Langenhagen makes history (s) . Harenberg Verlag Hannover 1984. ISBN 3-89042-006-0
  • Ernst-August Nebig: Langenhagen makes history (s). Heimatarchiv. Sutton Verlag GmbH. Erfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-104-2
  • Ernst-August Nebig: Langenhagen - from village to city. Wartberg publishing house. 1st edition, Langenhagen 2001, ISBN 3-86134-908-6
  • Ernst-August Nebig / Holger Böttger: Langenhagen EH Böttger Verlag. 1st edition, Langenhagen 1979
  • Günter Sachs, Manfred Hertel, Horst Klösel: Langenhagen 1933–1946 , special edition of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung - Landkreis-Zeitung Nord , Hanover: Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack, 1985
  • Martin Stöber : Langenhagen . For the anniversary - 50 years of urban development in texts and pictures, Langenhagen 2009, ISBN 978-3-938769-09-6
  • Joachim Vogler: It is Langenhagen's turn . A journey through time by train. Langenhagen 2009, Wedemark, ISBN 978-3-940441-03-4
  • Joachim Vogler: It is Langenhagen's turn . A journey through time by train. Langenhagen 2013, paperback, ISBN 978-3-8442-7618-3
  • Hasjo Wernicke: Langenhagen: views - insights - prospects ; Photo book, Wernicke Verlag 2011

Web links

Commons : Langenhagen  - collection of images

Individual evidence

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