Denstorf

Denstorf Vechelde municipality
Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 20 ″  N , 10 ° 24 ′ 36 ″  E
Height :	78 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.17 km²
Residents :	923  (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	179 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	38159
Area code :	05302
Location of Denstorf in Lower Saxony
Location of Denstorf in the municipality of Vechelde

Denstorf is a district of the municipality Vechelde in the district of Peine in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Denstorf is on federal highway 1 between Braunschweig and Vechelde .

Neighboring places

Vechelade	Wedtlenstedt	Lamme (Braunschweig)
Vechelde		Klein Gleidingen
Wierthe	Sonnenberg	Great Gleidingen

history

Originally the community was a street village , which was first mentioned in a document in 1022 as "Dennesdorf", later also as "Dennestorp", "Dennisthorp" and "Denstorp". In the course of its development history, the place grew into today's cluster village .

Around 1440 Denstorf was combined with another ten villages in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel to form the administrative and judicial district " Amt Eich " or "Zur Eiche". The office covered the area west of the city of Braunschweig, from the Braunschweiger Landwehr to about the river Aue . In 1501, Duke Heinrich I , called the Elder , pledged the villages of the office to the city of Braunschweig, under whose administration they remained until 1671, when the era of the independent city of Braunschweig was ended by the reconquest of the princes of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel.

In the Middle Ages, the place belonged to the diocese of Hildesheim and was the official seat of an archdeacon . After the Reformation , a superintendent was set up in Denstorf , which in 1787 included the communities of Denstorf, Groß Gleidingen , Klein Gleidingen , Lehndorf , Ölper , Watenbüttel , Timmerlah , Broitzem , Sonnenberg , Völkenrode , Wedtlenstedt , Vechelde and Bortfeld , with a total of 24 pastors.

The first cartographic representation of Denstorf in the official atlas of the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel by Gottfried Mascop , 1574

In 1802 Denstorf had 371 residents in 52 fireplaces. With the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Denstorf was incorporated into the Kingdom of Westphalia created by Napoleon in 1807 . After its dissolution in 1813, the place belonged to the Duchy of Braunschweig until 1918 .

Denstorf's assignment to the district of Braunschweig and its status as an independent municipality ended on March 1, 1974 in the course of the regional reform of Lower Saxony .

Denstorf was an agricultural village until the second half of the 20th century. In terms of the structure of employment, agriculture is only of minor importance today. Many of the residents of the village do their jobs mainly in the regional center of Braunschweig or in the nearby industrial area in the Salzgitter area .

In the past few decades, the place has expanded to the south-west and east with owner-occupied homes and housing estates and thus connects to the neighboring village of Klein Gleidingen , without any recognizable local borders.

politics

Local council

The Denstorf / Klein Gleidingen local council consists of four councilors and five councilors from the following parties:

year	SPD	CDU	Green	total	was standing
2016	3	4th	2	9 seats	Local election on September 11, 2016
2011	5	4th	-	9 seats	Local election on September 11, 2011
2006	4th	5	-	9 seats	Local election on September 10, 2006

Local mayor

Local mayor is Enrico Jahn (CDU).

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Denstorf shows a blue eight-pointed cross on a golden shield in the middle of which there is a golden oak leaf . The oak leaf symbolizes the importance of Denstorf as the capital of the ducal administrative area and legal district of the calibration court . The eight-pointed cross is similar to the Johanniterkreuz and stands for the function as the ecclesiastical center of an archdeaconate , which was formed around the local parish. It also reminds of the Commandery of the Order of St. John .

The coat of arms was confirmed on September 9, 1981 by the local council. The design comes from Arnold Rabbow.

Culture and sights

• In the center of Denstorf is the "St. Johannes Church", which was probably built in the 12th century as an archdeacon church. It offers space for around 320 people, making it the largest church in the Vechelde Provostry . In the church there is a figure of Christ about 1.20 m high from 1525; a lifelike depiction of the suffering Jesus on the cross. The organ is one of the oldest organs in the Braunschweig region and was built between 1766 and 1769 by the organ builder Johann Christoph Hüsemann , Wolfenbüttel . It has a late baroque front and a romantic, idiosyncratic disposition . After various renovations and new constructions of the organ in the course of its history, the parish had a new organ with 20 stops (nine of which from 1912) built in 1983–1988. Church music events take place regularly in the church.
• The village is bordered to the west by the Salzgitter canal .
• The "Denstorfer Holz", an alluvial forest of around 80 hectares , has been a landscape protection area since 1969 .

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  St. John's Church

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  Town view

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  bag

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  War memorial

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  graveyard

literature

• Anton Friedrich Büsching : Magazine for New History and Geography. Hall 1787.
• Georg Hassel : Geographical-statistical description of the principalities of Wolfenbüttel and Blankenburg . Friedrich Bernhard Culemann, Braunschweig 1802 ( digitized ).
• Hermann Adolf Lüntzel : The older diocese of Hildesheim . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1837 ( digitized ).

Web links

Commons : Denstorf  - Collection of Images

• Website of the Denstorf parish with Klein Gleidingen and Groß Gleidingen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures . In: Website of the municipality of Vechelde. December 31, 2018, accessed March 11, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Büsching.
3. ↑ Hassel.
4. ^ Matthias Blazek : From the Landdrostey to the district government - The history of the district government of Hanover in the mirror of the administrative reforms , Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-89821-357-9 .
5. ↑ ^{a b} The local council of Denstorf / Klein Gleidingen. In: Council information system of the municipality of Vechelde. Retrieved May 22, 2018 . 
6. ^ Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch. Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , pp. 149-150.
7. ↑ Denstorf coat of arms. In: ngw.nl.
8. ↑ Uwe Pape : The organs of the Braunschweig district. Wolfenbüttel 1968, p. 20.