Clenze

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Clenze
Clenze
Map of Germany, position of the municipality of Clenze highlighted

Coordinates: 52 ° 56 '  N , 10 ° 57'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Lüchow-Dannenberg
Joint municipality : Lüchow (Wendland)
Height : 25 m above sea level NHN
Area : 71.77 km 2
Residents: 2276 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 32 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 29459
Area code : 05844
License plate : DAN
Community key : 03 3 54 002
LOCODE : DE CZE
Community structure: 28 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Lüchower Str. 13 a
29459 Clenze
Website : www.luechow-wendland.de
Mayor : Uwe Schulz
Location of the municipality of Clenze in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district
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About this picture
Height profile of the Drawehn and adjacent areas
Museum "the Blue House"
Old storage building on "Langen Straße" (see also: List of architectural monuments in Clenze )
Erratic boulder park west of Corvin
Evangelical St. Bartholomew Church
Former Catholic Church (2010)
town hall

The spots Clenze is a municipality in the south of the district Lüchow-Dannenberg in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

The community is located in Clenzer Schweiz at the transition from Hohen Drawehn to Niederen Drawehn, about 16 kilometers from the district town of Lüchow . In the west the community borders on the Lower Saxony district of Uelzen , in the southeast on the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt .

Community structure

The municipality of Clenze has the following districts:

Bausen , Beseland , Evil , Braudel , Bussau , Clenze, Corvin , Dalitz , Gistenbeck , Gohlefanz , Granstedt , Groß Sachau , Guhreitzen , Kassau , Klein Sachau , monastery , Kussebode , Lefitz , Meussießen , caps , Prießeck , Quartzau , Reddereitz , Satkau , Schlannau , Seelwig , Vaddensen

history

Old names of Clenze were 956 Klinizua, 1004 Claniki, 1017 Claniki, 1330/52, 1360 and 1394 Clentze. The place name is a Slavic name from a basic form of the Serbian "Klanec", Croatian "klánac" for "bottleneck, ravine, valley" and "kajkav, klánjec" for "valley, narrow path".

On the radio transmission station Clenze 1 (see structures ) were from 1974 to 1994 by over the horizon - radio relay telephone communications between West Berlin and the former federal territory established. Since the complex radio link to West Berlin was replaced by more economical technologies, the tower is now only used for mobile communications .

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the communities Bausen, Beseland, Braudel, Bussau, Dalitz, Gistenbeck, Granstedt, Kassau, Corvin, Meussiessen (until then in the district of Uelzen ), Prießeck, Quartzau, Reddereitz, Sachau and Schlannau were incorporated.

religion

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Bartholomew Church is located in Clenze. The St. Andreas Chapel in Gistenbeck also belongs to the parish. Bussau has its own parish, which is connected to Clenze through the parish. The St. Pauli Church of the SELK is also located in the Gistenbeck district .

In 1961/62 the Catholic Church of St. Johannes Maria Vianney was built. In 2012 she was profaned , most recently she belonged to the parish of St. Agnes in Lüchow. The building was bought by a parishioner.

In Clenze there is also a Free Christian Congregation , which is part of the Bund Freikirchlicher Pentecostal congregations .

politics

The municipality of Clenze belongs to the state electoral district 48 Elbe and to the federal electoral district 38 Lüchow-Dannenberg - Lüneburg .

Municipal council

Clenze is politically represented by a thirteen-member local council. Mayor is Uwe Schulz (CDU).

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality of Clenze shows a blue lion walking to the left on its hind legs on a gold background with a silver key held by the front paws.

Culture and sights

Theaters and museums

As one of thirteen museums in Elbtalaue and Wendland, the Blue House Museum Clenze is located in Clenze. It depicts life in earlier times in Clenze.

Buildings

The list of monuments in Clenze shows all the monuments in the municipality of Clenze.

At the beginning of the 1970s, the Deutsche Bundespost set up the Clenze 1 radio transmission center ( location of the former FuÜSt) near Starrel , around four kilometers to the southwest . In addition to the stations on the Höhbeck ( radio transmission point Gartow 1/2 ) and Torfhaus , it served to connect the West Berlin telephone network to what was then federal territory via radio relay . Two parabolic mirrors ( Cassegrain antennas ) with a diameter of 18 meters were installed on top of each other at both locations for the 164 kilometer long radio link to the Berlin-Frohnau radio relay system , where a structurally identical steel lattice tower was located. From the turn of the year 1974/75 to 1993, up to 720 telephone channels were provided between FuÜSt Clenze and Berlin-Frohnau by means of scatter over- horizon radio. From 1994 the 95 meter high steel lattice tower was still used as a directional radio station to establish connections to Hamburg, Hanover, Uelzen, Sprakensehl, Zernien and Gartow, but this function soon ceased to exist. The 18-meter parabolic mirrors that were no longer needed were dismantled on June 22, 1999.

Green spaces and recreation

A few kilometers northwest of Clenze there is a geological rock garden. The so-called boulder park leads visitors in a snail shape through the geological ages to beyond the Precambrian .

Sports

Clenze has several sports clubs, including SV Eintracht Clenze and TC Clenze. At SV Eintracht football and handball, classic apparatus gymnastics, fistball, table tennis and badminton are offered. The TC is a pure tennis club with its own three-court facility north of the Clenz outdoor pool.

There is also the Clenze Riding and Driving Club, which organizes annual show jumping tournaments on its own site, the Güneitz Ski Club and the 1848 Schützengilde.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

The Grocholl group of companies is the largest employer. It produces industrially finished foods and so-called semi-finished products for restaurants, large kitchens and delicatessen factories. These are pasta, meat, vegetables, mushrooms, potatoes and onions. Grocholl also maintains its own mushroom cultures.

education

The Astrid-Lindgren-Südkreisschule and the Drawehn-Schule Clenze, a cooperative comprehensive school, are located in the municipality of Clenze .

The Drawehn School is the only cooperative comprehensive school (KGS) in the district with currently more than 900 students, most of whom come from the area of ​​the municipality and the district.

Since the 2011/12 school year, the Drawehn School in Clenze has been able to attend the grammar school branch from grade 11 up to the completion of the Abitur. Up until 2019, the upper secondary level was organized as a branch of the Fritz-Reuter-Gymnasium Dannenberg. The Drawehn School Clenze has had its own upper level since the 2019/2020 school year and is now available for grades 5 to 13.

traffic

In the north of the municipality the federal highway 493 , in the south the federal highway 71 touches the area of ​​Clenze. Both roads lead from east to west in the direction of Uelzen .

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Clenze  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
  2. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis : Collection of documents, chronicles and other source documents . Main part 1st volume 25 . Berlin 1863, p. 166 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; accessed on August 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Directional radio links from West Germany to West Berlin at manfred-bischoff.de, accessed on July 17, 2019
  5. ^ A b Günter Nitsche: The directional radio between West Berlin and West Germany - A bridge to the free world from 1948 to the fall of the Wall , August 2002. PDF; 340 kB, plus attachment with images , PDF; 4.9 MB, accessed July 17, 2019
  6. ↑ a b Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung : Funkspiegel zum alten Eisen on manfred-bischoff.de, accessed on July 15, 2019
  7. ^ 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. 230 .
  8. ↑ Landtag constituencies from the 16th electoral term. Constituency division for the election to the Lower Saxony state parliament. Annex to Section 10 (1) NLWG, p. 4. ( PDF ( Memento from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); 87 kB)
  9. ↑ Description of the constituencies. Annex to Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the Federal Election Act. In: Eighteenth law amending the federal electoral law. Annex to Article 1. Bonn March 18, 2008, p. 325 ( PDF ( Memento of July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); 200 kB)
  10. ^ Mandate holder of the Council of the Patch Clenze ( Memento of April 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Description of the coat of arms in the main statute of Flecken Clenze ( Memento from 23 May 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ The Blue House Museum Clenze
  13. ↑ Chronicle of the Drawehn School Clenze , accessed on April 15, 2013