Ehmen

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German sculptor see Kurt Schmid-Ehmen .

Ehmen City of Wolfsburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 54 ″  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 49 ″  E
Height :	69 m
Residents :	5655  (December 31, 2015)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	38442
Area code :	05362
Location of Ehmen in Lower Saxony
Location in Wolfsburg

Ehmen is a district in the west of the city of Wolfsburg , which is located on the Mühlenriede stream in the Riedetal .

history

The clustered village of Ehmen was first mentioned in a document in 942 in a Magdeburg document as Gimin . In 1269, Count Hermann von Woldenberg was named as the landlord of the village when he transferred part of his property to the Aegidienkloster in Braunschweig in Ehmen. In the 14th century the village belonged to the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and in 1489 had 27 farms. According to a settlement register from around 1850, there were 43 farms at that time. In the 17th century Ehmen became the seat of a count , a minor administrative official. At that time it belonged to the Fallersleben office , which was subordinate to the Electorate of Hanover .

At the beginning of the 20th century the union "Unity I" in Ehmen mined potash salt . From 1915 rock salt was also extracted . The mining industry in Teufen was between 300 and 750 meters and at times employed up to a thousand workers. The mine building was unlocked via two shafts. On February 13, 1917, an explosion occurred in the mine , in which 31 miners were killed. In connection with the mine, a chemical factory, a water tower and a brick factory were also built in Ehmen . In 1925, the mine and the associated operations were stopped again due to the low potash content.

In 1937, a large Luftwaffe tank farm ("air tank farm") was set up near Ehmen and was completed in early 1939. Underground pipes transported the fuel to Waggum Airport in Braunschweig . In early 1945, the site was attacked by British bombers and badly damaged. After the end of the Second World War , the military facilities were dismantled by the British occupying forces.

On July 1, 1972, Ehmen, which comes from the Gifhorn district , was incorporated into the city of Wolfsburg.

politics

Local councilor and local mayor

Ehmen, together with the neighboring district of Mörse, form the town of Ehmen-Mörse , which is represented by a local council. Local mayor is Peter Kassel ( CDU ).

coat of arms

The draft emblem of Ehmen comes from the in Isernhagen born and later in Hannover living heraldry and crest painter peoples Gustav , who has the coat of arms of Großburgwedel , Melle village , Wunstorf and many other towns in the region Hannover has designed. The municipal council approved the coat of arms on March 26, 1960, and the President of the Lüneburg government approved it on May 3 of the same year.

Blazon : "In green, a three-leafed silver linden branch floats above a golden mill wheel protruding from silver waves , pierced by a gold-hilted silver sword thatis crossed diagonallywith a golden rod ."

Justification of the coat of arms: In the coat of arms of the former municipality of Ehmen, a district of Wolfsburg since July 1, 1972, three symbols of justice have found a place of honor. The ancestors gladly sat in striking trees court so under Linden ( gerichtslinde ). Ehmen used to be the seat of a geography . The judge's sword as not only a decorative but also an active tool of the criminal justice system, and the judge's staff, which was literally broken over a poor sinner condemned to death, are further evidence of the strict legal system of the past. The mill wheel and water represent the mill land .

Culture and sights

St. Ludgeri Church

• The Mühlenriede brook was renatured in two sections: south of Mörse and Ehmen over a length of 1300 m ("Mühlenriede I", 2005) and south of Ehmen over 400 m length ("Mühlenriede II", 2008)
• The Evangelical Methodist Church of the Redeemer was built by Hans-Joachim Valentin and was inaugurated on the 1st of Advent in 1963. On December 1, 2019, also on the 1st of Advent, the last service took place and the church was closed.

Cultural monuments:

• The Evangelical Lutheran St. Ludgeri Church was built in 1897 as a neo-Gothic, red brick building. On November 29, 2015, Dieter Rathing inaugurated a newly built chapel, which serves as a baptistery and columbarium .
• The St. Ludgeri parish hall is located diagonally behind the church at Küsterberg 9 , also as a red-brick Gothic building. The local school was located in the school building, which was built in 1904, until 1958.
• On the outskirts of Ehmen at Dammstrasse 10, the cemetery chapel was also built as a red brick building almost at the same time as the church.
• The Ehmen water tower was built on the foundations of an abandoned potash mine shaft on Mörser Strasse . There is written on an inscription: "THIS POINT WAS PROMOTED KALI AND OTHER SALTS FROM 1889 TO 1925".
• The Amtshof , also called Rübenburg , is located at Fallerslebener Straße 18 , after the farmers who became rich in the region through sugar cultivation .
• As a very rare preserved reminder of one of the most important earlier handicrafts, the forge from 1860 can be found at Sandberg 1 as a small brick half-timbered building.

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  Amtshof

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  Old water tower

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  Old school house

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  Fountain in front of the schoolhouse

education

• Elementary school Ehmen-Mörse (all-day school, three classes, grades 1–4)
• DRK day care center in Ehmen
• Kerkenkita St. Ludgeri

Web links

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

• Ehmen near the city of Wolfsburg
• History of the air tank farm in Ehmen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alex Koschel: Explosion in the potash mine. In: Seniors Journal Wolfsburg. Issue 4/2019, p. 17.
2. ^ 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. 221 .
3. ↑ District of Hanover: Wappenbuch district of Hanover. Published by the author himself, Hanover 1985
4. ^ Arnold Rabbow : Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch - With Gandersheim, Gifhorn, Goslar, Helmstedt, Peine, Salzgitter, Wolfenbüttel and Wolfsburg . Published by Eckensberger & Co, Braunschweig 1977
5. ^ Ernst Pauer: Church history and church art. In: Historical-regional excursion map of Lower Saxony, sheet Wolfsburg. Erhard Kühlhorn, Hildesheim 1977, ISBN 3-7848-3626-7 , explanatory booklet p. 118.
6. ↑ municipalities. Methodist Church in Wolfsburg, accessed December 1, 2019.
7. ↑ After 56 years the congregation closes its Church of the Redeemer. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of December 5, 2019.
8. ^ Braunschweigische Landschaft e. V. (Ed.): Kulturdenkmale Stadt Wolfsburg. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-937664-05-X , pages 74-80
9. ^ Inauguration of the chapel landeskirche-hannovers.de on December 1, 2015, accessed on December 4
10. ^ Kerstin Loehr: Fountains - so attractive. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition July 9, 2020.