Dörnten

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Dörnten
Municipality Liebenburg
Dörnten coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 34 ″  N , 10 ° 24 ′ 9 ″  E
Height : 185 m above sea level NN
Residents : 1209  (Jun. 30, 2016)
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 38704
Area code : 05346
Dörnten (Lower Saxony)
Dörnten

Location of Dörnten in Lower Saxony

Dörnten is part of the municipality of Liebenburg in the Goslar district in Lower Saxony and has 1,326 inhabitants.

geography

Local division

The Kunigunde district belongs to Dörnten .

location

On the northern edge of the Harz and the southern edge of the Salzgitter ridge , Dörnten and eleven other villages make up the municipality of Liebenburg . The closest neighboring towns are Groß Döhren and Klein Döhren , Hahndorf , Jerstedt , Bredelem , Ostharingen , Kunigunde and Heißum .

Neighboring places

Upen
Ostharingen
Kunigunde 		Othfresen
Heissum 		Liebenburg
Döhren
Bredelem Neighboring communities Weddingen
Langelsheim Jerstedt
Astfeld 		Hahndorf
Goslar

history

Dörnten village church
Epitaph of Bernardus de Dornten from 1334 in the imperial palace of Goslar .

Dörnten as one of the places in the Leragau appears for the first time in 1053 in a document of the Roman-German Emperor Heinrich III. (1016-1056) as Dornzuni (thorn fence). The Dörnten coat of arms refers to this "thorn fence". The coat of arms with three roses was already used by the von Dörnten family, who previously lived in Goslar. In 1133 the Lords of Thorntunen appear in a document. These probably had a courtyard fenced in by a wall of thorns.

Dörnten is probably older than the surrounding towns, as there are no typical suffixes from the High Middle Ages in the place name. In addition, there is the fact that Klein Dörnten is mentioned as early as the 14th century, which is probably due to an early and long-term population growth in Groß Dörnten. This made it necessary to found a new village. Today's Dörnten only consists of the former Groß Dörnten. The neighboring town must have fallen desolate in the meantime.

Until the 19th century, people still lived from agriculture, but in the years that followed, mining in the Salzgitter ridge was added as a source of income. From 1843 ore was mined at three locations, with which the ironworks in Othfresen was supplied from 1869/70 . A miners' settlement of the Georg-Friedrich mine was also built in the village .

Since the Middle Ages, Dörnten has belonged to the Liebenburg office in the Hildesheim monastery . Affiliation to the bishopric was interrupted by the Hildesheim monastery feud when, with the Quedlinburg recession of 1523, the Liebenburg office fell to Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . During this time the Lutheran Reformation was introduced. In 1643 the Liebenburg office came under the rule of the Prince Bishop Hildesheim again. After the secularization of the bishopric it fell to Prussia in 1802, belonged to the Kingdom of Westphalia from 1807 to 1812 , then to Hanover until 1866 and then again to Prussia. The place was administered by the Liebenburg district until 1884, then by the Goslar district until the 1940s . In 1942 Dörnten came to the state of Braunschweig as part of a territorial exchange and with this in 1946 to the state of Lower Saxony.

On July 1, 1972 Dörnten was incorporated into the community of Liebenburg.

Population development

development year Residents
2011 1,293
2012 1,260
2013 1,241
2014 1,222
2015 1,209
2016 1,209

2011–2015 on December 31 of each year,
2016 on June 30 of each year
Source:

Religions

Dörnten village church, south side, with portal vestibule, Lutherlinde and war memorial

There is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Dörnten; their parish belongs to the Goslar Provostry. The Catholic church house St. Christophorus , built in 1968, has since been closed again.

church

The current steeple of the Dörnten village church is said to have existed as early as 1000. At that time, however, he had a military function. Research suggests that the nave was added about 100 years later. From the end of the 17th century until 1724 the church was restored, enlarged and an altarpiece was added.

politics

Local council election 2016
Turnout: 58.53%
 %
70
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
64.14%
35.85%

Local council

The local council of Dörnten consists of seven council members (changes to 2011):

  • SPD : 4 seats (± 0)
  • CDU : 3 seats (± 0)

(Status: local election on September 11, 2016 )

Local mayor

Local mayor is Gunter Pramann (SPD).

Economy and Infrastructure

Transport links

In Dörnten there is the intersection of two district roads that connect Heissum with Jerstedt in a north-south direction and federal highway 6 with another district road between Groß Döhren and Hahndorf in a west-east direction.

literature

  • Chronicle of Dörnten, 950 years. Dörnten 2003.

Web links

swell

To the sections history and church :

  • Thomas Dahms and Jennifer Wimmer: Around the Salzgitter mountain range. Experience the cultural landscape & nature . Ostfalia-Verlag, Osterwieck 2013, ISBN 978-3-926 560-68-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The district of Goslar at a glance - figures, data, facts .
  2. ↑ a description of the inscription and the grave slab can be found at Deutsche Insschriften Online Inscriptions Catalog Goslar, grave slab of Bernhard von Dörnten , accessed June 1, 2020
  3. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 270 .
  4. ^ Website of the communal data processing in Oldenburg , accessed on October 1, 2016.
  5. ^ Composition of the local council of Dörnten (website of the community Liebenburg) , accessed on May 30, 2017.