Aerzen

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Aerzen
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Coordinates: 52 ° 3 '  N , 9 ° 16'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Hameln-Pyrmont
Height : 108 m above sea level NHN
Area : 105.1 km 2
Residents: 10,524 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density : 100 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 31855
Primaries : 05154, 05158, 05262
License plate : HM
Community key : 03 2 52 001
Spot breakdown: 15 districts
Address of the
stain management: 		Kirchplatz 2
31855 Aerzen
Website : www.aerzen.de
Mayor : Andreas Wittrock ( SPD )
Location of the place Aerzen in the district of Hameln-Pyrmont
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Town hall of the town of Aerzen

The town of Aerzen ([ ˈɛʁˌt͡sn̩ ], pronounced "Ärzen") is located in the Hameln-Pyrmont district in southern Lower Saxony, directly on the border with North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

The market town is located in the Weserbergland about ten kilometers southwest of the district town of Hameln and about seven kilometers north of Bad Pyrmont , in the middle of the Hummetal. To the north of the town of Aerzen is the Lüningsberg, south of the Schierholzberg and the Pyrmonterberg. The Humme and the Grießebach, which flows into the Humme in town, flow through the village from west to east .

Subdivision of areas (districts)

  1. Aerzen (core town)
  2. Dehmke
  3. Dehmkerbrock
  4. harrow
  5. Gellersen
  6. Semolina
  7. Great Berkel
  8. Groupenhagen
  9. Herkendorf
  10. Königsförde
  11. Multhöpen
  12. Reher
  13. Pure
  14. Reinerbeck
  15. Selxen

Neighboring communities

Neighboring cities and municipalities are the city Hessisch Oldendorf , the town of Hamelin , the city Rinteln , the municipality Emmerthal , the town of Bad Pyrmont , and in North Rhine-Westphalia lying city Barntrup and the municipality of Extertal .

history

The original office of Aerzen arose from the rule of the same name, which also had jurisdiction in its area. In 1178 the family of the Lords of Aerzen died out. The Gografschaft Aerzen fell to the county Everstein . According to an Everstein grain register from the middle of the 14th century, Aerzen was the center of an administrative district with 13 villages.

When the Welfs successfully defended themselves against the Hohenstaufen after the fall of Heinrich the Lion and besieged the Eversteiners, Konrad von Everstein sought protection from Archbishop Siegfried von Cologne in 1283 and gave him the permanent place of Aerzen. But even the bishop could not prevent the Guelphs from taking Everstein Castle . Then joined Count Hermann VII. Of Everstein inheritance contracts with the diocese of Paderborn and the county of Lippe to his country from the Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg protect. Both inheritance contracts stipulated that Countess Irmgard von Everstein, the wife of Count Hermann, received Aerzen Castle as a body breed .

The protective alliances triggered the Everstein War of Succession, in the course of which the Welfs penetrated far into Lippe territory. In 1408 a peace agreement was reached: Count Hermann gave Otto von Braunschweig-Lüneburg a promise to marry his only four-year-old daughter Elisabeth, who Aerzen received as a dowry. The Guelphs had thus achieved the connection between the County of Everstein and Braunschweig-Lüneburg. The Guelph Dukes pledged Aerzen to the Hildesheim bishops in 1433 , who passed the office and castle on as pledge. In 1508 Stacius von Münchhausen and Heinrich von Hardenberg received pledges. When the Hildesheim bishop did not renew the Hardenberg pledge nine years later, a battle broke out between the two pledge holders in Aerzen at the beginning of 1518. Stats von Münchhausen had to flee and was killed by Heinrich von Hardenberg shortly before Hildesheim. His death led to the fateful Hildesheim collegiate feud . In 1533 Duke Erich the Elder, who had revoked the office of Aerzen from the Hildesheim monastery , had the three-storey office building built.

In 1557 Colonel Hilmar von Münchhausen (1512–1573), the youngest son of the slain Stats, acquired Aerzen for 24,000 thalers as a pledge for life (like at the same time his cousin and "Colonel colleague" Georg von Holle the since 1491 Münchhausen'sche Pfandschaft Grohnde ). Hilmar, who became one of the richest men of his time as a mercenary leader , had the 50 m long and 16 m high tithe barn built on the Amtshof in 1561 , which was rebuilt in 1980 in the museum village of Cloppenburg . He moved to Aerzen with his wife Lucia, née von Reden , (1525–1583) and four children (another three children were to follow.) Lucia was expressly included in the enfeoffment, which was otherwise not usual. She immediately began to found schools in the official villages and to look after the churches, with her husband's field preacher, Philipp Nagel, who was now a pastor in Aerzen, helping her.

In 1570 Hilmar commissioned the Hamelin master builder Cord Tönnies to plan a three-wing castle in Schwöbber , which was built by his widow Lucia after his death in 1573 and the side wing was extended by the son Hilmar the Younger from 1588. In 1593 Duke Heinrich Julius gave the official palace in Aerzen as a pledge to Hilmar the Younger, who died in Schwöbber in 1617 and was the first to find his resting place in the hereditary burial of Aerzen's Marienkirche. After his father's death, his son Börries took over the pledge from which the Hildesheim Monastery expelled him by force of arms in 1630. Only when the restitution edict was lifted after the landing of the Swedish King Gustav Adolf in Germany , Börries received Aerzen back as a pledge. The second blow of fate struck him in 1642 when weimar cavalry ravaged the town and Börries was only able to save his father's golden chain of grace , which Hilmar the Younger had received in Heidelberg in 1578. According to an old house inscription , 66 houses, the castle, the church, the school and many barns and granaries burned down that night. In 1660 the lords of Münchhausen had to leave Aerzen forever after 160 years of lien.

The Amtshof became a state property . Officials and clerks determined the administrative and judicial processes in Aerzen until the middle of the 19th century. In 1823 the office of Aerzen was abolished, but in 1854 it was re-established next to the district court. The final dissolution took place in 1858.

In 1864 Adolph Meyer founded Aerzener Maschinenfabrik, which from 1907 traded as a GmbH and produced rotary piston machines and later also supercharger for diesel engines .

During the Second World War there was no fighting in Aerzen, but Reichsstraße 1 led from Aachen to Königsberg - and on to Eydtkuhnen on the then German- Lithuanian border - through the core town and served the troop movements of the Wehrmacht . When the Americans advanced into the Hummetal on April 4, 1945, the SS-Sturmbannführer Sempf, who was responsible for Aerzen, fled and passed the command to Erich Mestmäcker and Erich Kropp. At their command, the Allies did not encounter any resistance, whereupon they moved on to Hameln.

Place name

Earlier place names of Aerzen were around 1200 Artelessen, from the 12th to the 13th century Artlissen, around 1237-47 Arteldessen, in the middle of the 13th century Ardlesen, Arteldessen, 1283 Arthesloin, 1293 Artelsen, 1310 Artldissen and 1317 Aartlessen.

The basic word can be "-husen" or "-hem". In front of it is a personal name, the basic form of which, however, cannot be determined with certainty. It is likely that “arth, ard”, like “Ardulf, Artold”, is a diminutive “Arthili”, that is from “Arthilis-husun”. The personal name trunk "Arth-, Ard-" belongs to Old English "earth" and means "Stammgut", Old Saxon "arth", ie "place of residence".

Incorporations

Today's area Aerzen was created as part of the regional reform in Lower Saxony on January 1, 1973 by merging the former area of ​​Aerzen with the communities of Dehmke, Dehmkerbrock, Egge, Gellersen, Grießem, Groß Berkel, Grupenhagen, Herkendorf, Königsförde, Multhöpen, Reher, Reinerbeck and Selxen.

Population development

year Residents source
1885 1,424
1910 1,715
1925 1,773
1933 1,844
1939 1,906
1950 3,185
1956 2,919
1961 10,899 ¹
1970 11,214 square meters
1973 11,2630
year Residents source
1975 11,279 ³
1980 11,035³
1985 10,578 ³
1990 11,050³
1995 12,057 ³
2000 12,198 ³
2005 11,794 ³
2010 11,239 ³
2015 10,693 ³
2019 10,524 ³

¹ census results from June 6th (in today's parish section)
² census results from May 27th (in today's parish section)
³ as of December 31st

politics

Municipal election 2016
Turnout: 56.06%
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
40.01%
37.07%
9.42%
4.76%
4.71%
4.00%
Independent e
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Remarks:
e The Independents (DU)
Distribution of seats in the Council of Aerzen since 2016
      
A total of 26 seats

Municipal council

The town council of the town Aerzen consists of 26 council women and councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 10,001 and 11,000 inhabitants. The council members are elected for a five-year term by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The full-time mayor is also entitled to vote and sit in the municipal council.

After the municipal elections in 2016, the following groups or factions were formed:

Parties Group / faction Number of seats Remarks
SPD / Greens / Left group 14 +1 Mayor Wittrock (SPD) also belongs to the group.
CDU fraction 10
DU / FDP group 2

The SPD / Greens / Left group has a majority in the Aerzen municipal council.

mayor

The full-time mayor of Aerzen is Andreas Wittrock (SPD). In the last mayoral election on May 26, 2019, he was elected to succeed Bernhard Wagner, who prematurely ended his term of office for reasons of age. Andreas Breitkopf (non-party) ran as the opposing candidate. Andreas Wittrock was re-elected with 54.7% of the vote. The turnout was 64%. Wittrock began his term of office on November 1, 2019.

Local council

The local council from the core town of Aerzen consists of a councilwoman and six councilors from the following parties:

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor of the core town of Aerzen is Thomas Forche (SPD). His deputies are Karl-Heinz Frevert (CDU) and Michael Schlie (SPD).

coat of arms

On October 14, 1930, the Aerzen municipal council decided to introduce municipal coats of arms and seals, which were confirmed and awarded by the Prussian State Ministry three years later.

Aerzen coat of arms
 Blazon : "In blue over a silver wave bar, a red crowned , red armored golden lion ."
Justification for the coat of arms: Klemens Stadler says in his book:

“The municipal coat of arms awarded by the Prussian State Ministry in 1933 is largely based on the coat of arms seal of the former Welf Office Aerzen , which also has a lion. This is reminiscent of the family coat of arms of the Counts of Everstein , which went out in 1425 and were inherited by the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . The Eversteiner dynasty had owned the place since 1033 and made it into the administrative center of a large district and the seat of a Gogergericht as early as the 13th century. In 1653, Aerzen was given the designation of the stains with market justice. The wave bar symbolizes the rivers Humme and Grieße. The colors of the lion in the municipal coat of arms differ from those of the golden crowned silver one of the Eversteiner. "

flag

The flag is blue and white, topped with the municipal coat of arms.

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • The domain castle Aerzen , surrounded by moats , was built earlier, but was first mentioned in a document in 1293. Today there is a cultural center in the buildings.
  • The Manor Posteholz in the Posteholz district was built in the 17th century by the secret councilor Arnold Ludwig von Post.
  • The Schwöbber castle built the Lower Saxon noble family of Munchausen in the 16th century. Today it is used as a hotel.
  • The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mary was built in 1643. The large and bright room is enlivened by the baroque furnishings. The church is located on Osterstrasse and its parish belongs to the Hameln-Pyrmont parish. The Catholic St. Bonifatius Church is located on Hainebuchenweg. It was built in 1962/1963 and has belonged to the parish of St. Elisabeth in Hameln since 2006.

Sports

The community is home to the popular sports club MTSV Aerzen 04 , which, in addition to football , volleyball and judo , also has a fistball division . In addition, the handball club Handballfreunde Aerzen e. V. , the tennis club Aerzen (TCA) founded in 1976 and the riding and driving club “St. Georg “1949 e. V. further offers for sporting activities.

For the 2006 World Cup , the French national team stayed from June 8th to July 8th in the Aerzener Schloßhotel Münchhausen in Schwöbber Castle . During this time, public training sessions took place in the Weserbergland Stadium in Hameln and in the Veilchenberg Stadium in Aerzen, the press center was located in Hameln in the Pied Piper Hall . The team returned to France as runner-up world champions after the final on July 9th .

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

  • The Aerzener Maschinenfabrik GmbH , claims to be the world leader in the production of screw compressors, positive displacement blowers and gas meters.
  • The Lenze SE , an international manufacturer of drive and automation technology with headquarters in the district of Gross Berkel.
  • Intorq GmbH & Co. KG (spelling "INTORQ") is a manufacturer of brakes and clutches for electrical drives and, according to its own information, is the market leader for spring-applied brakes in Europe.
  • The Kendrion (Aerzen) GmbH, formerly magneta GmbH & Co. KG, manufactures for electrical drive technology in Aerzen electromagnetic clutches and electromagnetic brakes.
  • Aerzener Brot und Kuchen GmbH is still based. This is a company of the Mestemacher Group.
  • The company Gebrüder Garvens GmbH & Co KG has been manufacturing and selling fireplaces and electric fireplaces since the 1960s.
  • Since June 2002, after the acquisition of Wesertal the Westfalen Weser AG network responsible for the power supply of the town. On October 13, 2011, the municipal council decided to work with the Hameln public utility company. The gas supply lies with Westfalen Weser Netz AG .
  • A water supply network has existed in Aerzen since 1956, with its waterworks , well and elevated reservoir above Aerzen on Wülmser Weg. The water catchment area is marked as a water protection area with signs. The water supply is operated by the water company of the Flecken Aerzen.

traffic

Class 515 railcars at Aerzen station, around 1979

Aerzen is located directly on Bundesstrasse 1 . The 4.3 km long bypass was opened to traffic on November 21, 2013. Until 1980 Aerzen was on the raceway to the local rail towards Hameln and Bielefeld tied. Rail freight traffic was abandoned in 1994 and the route was dismantled.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

People connected to the city

  • Stacius von Münchhausen (around 1460–1518), nobleman from Lower Saxony from the Münchhausen dynasty and pledgee of Aerzen
  • Erich I, "the elder" (1470–1540), he had been Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Calenberg-Göttingen since 1495, in 1530 he took possession of Aerzen again for the Guelphs (his coat of arms is above the door in the north wing attached to Aerzen Castle)
  • Hilmar the Younger von Münchhausen (1558–1617), nobleman from the Münchhausen family, he owned the domain castle Aerzen as a pledge that could be canceled
  • Börries von Münchhausen (1587–1646), Privy Chamber Councilor, pledge holder of the Aerzen office, died in Aerzen
  • Johann Gottlieb Brauns (1713–1785), father of the royal Danish bailiff Gottlieb Johann August Brauns , died in Aerzen
  • Johann Carl Leonhart (1720–1777), administrative lawyer, he was from 1749 to 1756 clerk in Aerzen
  • Adolph Meyer (1807–1866), banker in Hanover, entrepreneur, in 1860 he relocated his expanding agricultural machinery factory to Aerzen, where in 1864 he founded the Aerzen machine factory
  • August Seidensticker (1820–1899), forest scientist and non-fiction author, he was from 1841 a. a. Forester in Aerzen
  • Oscar Wichtendahl (1860–1933), church painter of historicism, he created the wall paintings in the knight's hall of Schwöbber Castle (Aerzen) in 1922/23
  • Adelheid Cramer (1874–1962), wife of the coffee dealer Ludwig Cramer , died in Aerzen
  • Otto Heider (1896–1960), politician (NSDAP), died in the Groß Berkel district
  • Heinrich Schwieger-Uelzen (1902–1976), graphic artist and painter, died in Flakenholz (Aerzen)
  • Anneliese Hager (1904–1997), poet of surrealism, translator and photo artist, she lived from 1945 to 1950 in the Königsförde district
  • Karl Naumann (1905–1976), SS-Standartenführer, Lower Saxony politician (GB / BHE) and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, died in Aerzen
  • Karl Otto Götz (1914–2017), painter and poet, main representative of abstract art and Informel in Germany, he lived from 1945 to 1950 in the district of Königsförde
  • Bernhard Gelderblom (* 1943), historian and author, a. a. he wrote a manual article about Aerzen for the historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen
  • Ulrich Getsch (* 1949), educator, politician (independent) and former mayor of the Lower Saxony district town of Cuxhaven, he was trained as an industrial clerk at the Weser Lenze steel office in the Groß Berkel district
  • Achim Schwekendiek (* 1965), cook, since 2004 he has been kitchen director at the "Schlosshotel Münchhausen" in Aerzen
  • Lars Keiling (* 1975), cook, has been working at the "Schlosshotel Münchhausen" in Aerzen since 2004
  • Kristina Schnüll (* 1977), soccer player and trainer, she grew up in Aerzen

literature

  • Heinz Georg Armgardt: Aerzen through the ages - Volume 1–4 . Geiger publishing house Horb a. N. 1985.
  • Heinrich Schwitzer: Artelem - Heimatchronik Aerzen . 1994.
  • Horst-Rüdiger Marten: The development of the cultural landscape in the old Aerzen office of the Hameln-Pyrmont district . Publisher Erich Goltze KG, Göttingen 1969.
  • Jens Hallemann: Aerzen Chronicle Book 2 - The good old days until today . Picture chronicle 2019.

Web links

Commons : Aerzen  - collection of images
Wikisource: Ertzen in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian)

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. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: Website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 7, 2015 ; accessed on August 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c 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.  194 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Hameln-Pyrmont district ( see under: No. 1 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  5. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900 - district Hameln. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed January 8, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Statistisches Bundesamt 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.  158 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 23 , Hameln-Pyrmont district ( digitized version ( memento from August 7, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on June 25, 2020]).
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j community directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on January 8, 2020 .
  9. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG); Section 46 - Number of Deputies. In: Lower Saxony Regulations Information System (NI-VORIS). December 17, 2010, accessed January 8, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Individual results of the direct elections in Lower Saxony. (PDF; 235 kB) In: landeswahlleiter.niedersachsen.de. May 26, 2019, archived from the original on January 8, 2020 ; accessed on January 8, 2020 .
  11. ↑ a b Local councilor Aerzen. In: Website City of Aerzen. Retrieved January 8, 2020 .
  12. ↑ a b c Klemens Stadler : German coat of arms of the Federal Republic of Germany . The municipal coats of arms of the federal states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. tape 5 . Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1970, p. 15 .
  13. ↑ a b main statute of the town of Aerzen. (PDF; 248 kB) § 2; Coat of arms, flag, official seal; Paragraphs 1 and 2. In: Website City of Aerzen. December 15, 2011, accessed January 8, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Willi Stoffers: Patronage churches in memory of St. Boniface, the apostle of the Germans, in the Diocese of Hildesheim . Hildesheim 2004, p. 40-41 .