Dettum

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Dettum
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Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′  N , 10 ° 40 ′  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Wolfenbüttel
Joint municipality : Sank
Height : 104 m above sea level NHN
Area : 17.17 km 2
Residents: 1151 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 67 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 38173
Area code : 05333
License plate : WF
Community key : 03 1 58 009
Community structure: 3 districts
Association administration address: Am Kamp 12
38173 Sickte
Website : www.dettum.de
Mayor : Konrad Gramatte ( CDU )
Location of the community of Dettum in the Wolfenbüttel district
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St. Johannes Baptista in Dettum

Dettum is a municipality in the Wolfenbüttel district in Lower Saxony , ( Germany ). Dettum is a member community of the Samtgemeinde Sickte .

geography

The community of Dettum consists of the districts

  • Dettum, with 957 inhabitants (as of March 2016) the largest town in the municipality
  • Mönchevahlberg with Mönchevahlberg sugar factory, 192 inhabitants
  • Weferlingen , 99 inhabitants.

history

Dettum was settled very early, which is proven by excavation finds, large triangular bronze daggers from the early Bronze Age. Dettum was first mentioned in 1226 as Thitene and in 1280 as Dettene . The Church of St. Johannis-Baptista was first mentioned in 1300. Dettum was already important in the late Middle Ages, as it was on a military road.

The early place owned a noble estate that belonged to the Aegidienkloster in Braunschweig and was released in 1542. Between Hachum and Dettum there was a place Honroth from which a noble family of the same name came.

From 1773 to 1797 Hermann Bräß lived as a Protestant pastor in Dettum; Here he founded the newspaper for cities, towns and villages in 1786 , which for the first time also contained letters to the editor . In 1800 Dettum hosted a Schriftsassenhof , a church with parish and Pfarrwitwenhaus that Opferei, three arable farms , eight Halbspännerhöfe , 32 Kothöfe and three Brink seat creating 385 inhabitants.

Founding share of the Actien-Zucker-Fabrik Dettum from March 1, 1872

In 1843 Dettum received its own train station on the Wolfenbüttel – Oschersleben railway line, and with the construction of the sugar factory in 1871, the prosperity of the peasantry increased significantly. The sugar factory was shut down in 1953 and its activities were transferred to the share sugar factory in Schöppenstedt.

On March 1, 1974, the communities Mönchevahlberg and Weferlingen were incorporated.

politics

Distribution of seats after the September 2016 election:

  • CDU: 4 seats
  • SPD: 3 seats
  • Individual applicants: 2 seats
  • Greens: 1 seat

Konrad Gramatte (CDU) has been mayor since November 2016.

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • The St. John Baptista Church with the mighty medieval tower contains a cross with a 127 cm high corpus, which is dated to about 1225 to 1230 and was possibly created as a triumphal cross .
  • The post mill in Dettum is a monument that the citizens of Dettum saved. The grain of the farmers from Dettum, Mönchevahlberg and Weferlingen has been ground in the windmill since 1862. In 1976 the village community restored this mill and maintained it.

Sports

One of the clubs, the MTV Dettum von 1899 eV with the fields of football, table tennis, gymnastics and shooting, has around 600 members and was founded on January 12, 1899.

Economy and Infrastructure

Today there is a kindergarten, a primary school, an outdoor pool and a village community center in Dettum.

Traffic:

The Dettum stop is on the Wolfenbüttel – Oschersleben railway line . This route is only used to Schöppenstedt ; from there the route is closed .

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. ^ The community of Dettum , accessed on October 8, 2016
  3. ^ Fritz Barnstorf: Pastor Hermann Braess, the Dettumer Bote and friend of the Braunschweig family with his "Rothen newspaper for dear country people". In: Braunschweigische Heimat. 52nd year 1966, pp. 128-134.
  4. ↑ Eckart Roloff : Hermann Bräß - A country pastor creates the letter to the editor. In: Eckart Roloff: Divine flashes of inspiration. Pastors and priests as inventors and discoverers. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2010, pp. 183-196, ISBN 978-3-527-32578-8 . 2nd, updated edition 2012, pp. 183–196, ISBN 978-3-527-32864-2 .
  5. ↑ a b sicke.de Dettum. On the history of Dettum . Retrieved March 10, 2012.
  6. ↑ Aktiensammler 04/10, p. 24, ISSN  1611-8006
  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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 273 .
  8. ↑ http://www.sicke.de/dettum/gemeinderat/
  9. ^ Dettum municipal council
  10. ↑ St. Johannis Baptista on Romanik.de
  11. ^ MTV Dettum from 1899 eV

Web links

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