Eimbeckhausen

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Eimbeckhausen
Coat of arms of Eimbeckhausen
Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 57 ″  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 28 ″  E
Height : 134 m
Area : 2.8 km²
Residents : 2235  (2012)
Population density : 798 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1973
Postal code : 31848
Area code : 05042
Eimbeckhausen (Lower Saxony)
Eimbeckhausen

Location of Eimbeckhausen in Lower Saxony

Eimbeckhausen is a district of the town of Bad Münder am Deister in the Hameln-Pyrmont district in Lower Saxony . It is on the B 442 between Deister and Süntel .

Due to the location between Deister and Süntel, you will find many hiking and cycling trails here. Heinrich-Buddensiek-Platz with one of the rare Süntel beeches is located in the renewed village center .

geography

Evangelical Church of St. Martin in Eimbeckhausen

The federal road 442 runs through Eimbeckhausen . The place is surrounded by the wooded Deister and Süntel mountain ranges in the Weser Uplands , north of Hameln . The Eimbeckhäuser Bach , a tributary of the Rodenberger Aue, flows through the village .

geology

A geological layer of earth in the Upper Jurassic is called "Eimbeckhäuser Plattenkalk".

history

In 1624 witch hunts were carried out in Eimbeckhausen : five people were accused in witch trials , all trials ended with an execution.

The community Eimbeckhausen was incorporated into the city of Bad Münder am Deister on January 1, 1973. In the last census before the incorporation, Eimbeckhausen had 2385 (June 6, 1961) and 2458 inhabitants (May 27, 1970).

religion

The Protestant St. Martin Church (see also culture and sights) belongs to the Hameln-Pyrmont parish in the Hildesheim-Göttingen district of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover .

The Catholic St. Godehard Church was built in 1960 and closed again in 1993. The building is now privately owned.

politics

Bernd Schöbel (SPD) has been the local mayor since November 2016.

Eimbeckhausen has a chair symbol in its coat of arms .

Culture and sights

  • The German Chair Museum Eimbeckhausen is located in the village . It refers to the Deister chair industry which started here in 1820. The place is also known as Stuhldorf.
  • The church of St. Martin, the oldest parts of which date back to the 12th century, is located directly on the town through road (old B442) and characterizes the townscape.
  • From the water mill of the manor Eimbeckhausen parts date of truss - facade of the house Knochenhauerstraße 34 in the historic center of the state capital Hanover .

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

Historical companies in the chair industry

Due to the abundance of wood in the surrounding forests of Deister and Süntel, there were many artisanal chair makers in Eimbeckhausen, who in the 19th century were also organized in so-called chair-making cooperatives. At the time of industrialization, several chair factories set up shop here, of which only one office furniture manufacturer (Wilkhahn) remained.

Headquarters of the Benze company approx. 1870
Benze steam sawmill around 1895
Benze chair factory around 1932
Benze seating factory Eimbeckhausen 1977 (from the south-west)
  • Wilhelm Benze Sitzmöbel GmbH & Co KG (approx. 1820-1997) most recently benze collection, Sitzmöbelwerk Hüls & Co (Hülsta), Mündersche Strasse 27

The beginnings of the Benze company lie in Nienstedter Straße, where Johann Wilhelm Benze (approx. 1790 to 1840), like so many others in the village, has been making chairs on a handcraft basis since around 1820 in addition to small-scale farming. His very enterprising son Fritz Benze (1820–1896) built a larger farm on Münderschen Strasse from around 1880, which was increasingly being converted into a steam sawmill. Fritz Benze's son Wilhelm I (1857–1917) and his son Wilhelm II Benze (1890–1951) finally began gradually building complete chairs themselves after 1900. This vertical integration made it possible to collect the entire margin of the process chain of chair construction (sawing, drying, grinding, gluing, painting and upholstering). This and the trade in chairs especially to Holland, which turned out to be extraordinarily profitable and profitable, especially in the inflationary period of 1923, formed the basis for the extraordinary upswing in the 1930s to 1960s. During this time, Benze had more than 300 employees and was the largest chair factory in town, with a daily production of over 1000 chairs. Wilhelm II in particular had the combination of entrepreneurial and inventive talent and industrialized chair production as early as hardly anyone else in the region. He also maintained an extremely cordial and social relationship with his employees. He made it possible for you to build your own houses by buying cheaper building plots (settlement Im Sonnenwinkel) and by providing low-interest loans. The increasing competition from Eastern Europe and China put pressure on the margins in the early 1970s and the entry into table production in 1974 and a modern marketing concept could not stop the decline in margins. In 1977 Benze, like so many others later, had to file for bankruptcy and was taken over by Hülsta / Stadtlohn and henceforth operated as benze collection Sitzmöbelwerk GmbH & Co KG. Hülsta also reduced its vertical range of manufacture over time and finally stopped building Benze chairs on December 31, 1997 after almost 180 years.

  • Friedrich Bormann ohG Sitzmöbelfabrik (until 1972), Unter dem Thie
  • Wilhelm Wellner chair factory (until 1991), Am Bach
  • Wente & Söhne style furniture factory (until approx. 1999), Fritz Hahne Strasse

education

There is a primary school and a DRK kindergarten in Eimbeckhausen .

traffic

The federal highway 442 has been running around the town since summer 2011 and offers a connection to the federal highway 2 . The Bad Münder (Deister) station on the Hanover - Hameln - Altenbeken railway line, about 7 kilometers away , is served by the S-Bahn line 5 Paderborn - Hameln - Hanover Hbf - Hanover Airport .

Personalities

Wilhelm II Benze (1890-1951)
  • Adelheid Tileken (–1624), with her execution the witch trials began in Eimbeckhausen .
  • Cordt von Brandis (1888–1972), free corps leader and author of several books
  • Hans Piepho (1909–1996), zoologist, entomologist and university professor
  • Fritz Hahne (1920-2008), entrepreneur, long-standing managing partner of Wilkhahn GmbH & Co KG
  • Wilhelm (II.) Benze (1890-1951), entrepreneur

literature

Web links

Commons : Eimbeckhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Schormann : Witches' persecution in Schaumburg , in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte, Volume 45, Hildesheim 1973, pp. 149–151.
  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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 202 .
  3. ↑ www.ndz.de Ortsrat Eimbeckhausen: Flying change with a lot of joy , accessed December 11, 2016
  4. ↑ Chair Museum: About Us ( Memento from August 30, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Bone Hauerstraße 34 , in ders .: Hanover in your pocket. Buildings and monuments from A to Z . 2nd edition, Feesche, Hannover 1988, ISBN 3-87223-046-8 , pp. 62f.
  6. ^ Heads and forces, From the economy of Lower Saxony, Volume I, Berlin and Holzminden, Buhrbank & Co 1952, p. 95 f
  7. ^ Gerhard Schormann: Witches' persecution in Schaumburg , in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte, Volume 45, Hildesheim 1973, pp. 149–151.