Elvese

Elvese Patches Nörten-Hardenberg
	Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 46 " N , 9 ° 56 ′ 43" E
Height :	128 m
Area :	3.78 km²
Residents :	370 (Aug 2019)
Population density :	98 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st February 1971
Postal code :	37176
Area code :	05503
Location of Elvese in Lower Saxony

Elvese is a district of the borough Norten-Hardenberg in the district of Northeim, in Lower Saxony ( Germany ) with 370 inhabitants. The first documentary mention took place in the period from 822 to 826 in the property register of the Corvey monastery .

Geographical location

The village of Elvese is located in the valley of the Leine in southern Lower Saxony between the Nörten-Hardenberg, whose district it has been since 1976, and the town of Northeim, 10 km away . Neighboring towns are Behrensen , Großenrode , Hillerse and Sudheim .

Due to the bypass road built in 1989, Elvese has no significant through traffic. The reason for the construction of the bypass road was the new construction of the Bundesbahn high-speed route from Hanover to Würzburg in the Leinetal, including the relocation of the Leine river.

View from northwest to Elvese with the Bovenden telecommunications tower on the Osterberg on the horizon

View from the southeast of Elvese with the Wahrberg

Demographics

Population development
year	Residents
1689	over 110
1779	about 180
1821	260
1845	260
1855	170
1858	205
1871	234
1905	186
1925	227
1939	190
1945	418
1961	254
1970	283
1998	340
2008	359

Of the 359 inhabitants, 185 are female and 174 are male. 12 fellow citizens are older than 80 years, 21 younger than 10 years. 200 residents are Evangelical Lutheran , 40 Catholic , 6 Evangelical Reformed - the rest belong to other or no denominations.

Elvese has changed from a mainly rural place to a dormitory in the nearby cities.

Shortly after the Second World War there were 14 active farmers , today there are none. The agricultural land is now leased to farmers from neighboring communities. The many small fields have been combined into large, economic units and are cultivated by a few farmers.

history

etymology

Eulfeshusen can be broken down into a basic word (-husen) and a defining word (Eulfes-). -husun means "at the houses", "Eulfes-" (Eulf) is possibly formed from "Eo" = law and "Vulf" = wolf. The original place name for today's Elvese, Eulfeshusun, could therefore mean something like: "In the houses of the one who fights like a wolf for law and order". In the case of Elvese, there is a typical Old Saxon name formation. Unfortunately we do not know how the name Elveses went on in the next decades and centuries.

Late antiquity

The small side valley to the left of the Leine, between Hillerse and Nörten, is an ancient settlement area. Protected to the east by the impassable Leine meadows , to the north and south by steep slopes and to the west by the high ridge of the Leineholz, this small valley was probably inhabited as early as the 3rd century. This is supported by the Wallburg and Fliehburg on the southern Leineholz and the row cemetery with human and horse graves that was excavated in the middle of the 19th century on the Goldberg west of Elvese .

Early middle ages

The first written mention of Elvese can be found in the Corveyer Traditions , under the name Eulfeshusen.

Many Saxon sons entered as monks and Saxon nobles donated parts of their property to the monastery. At the 41st position of the donations beginning in 822 is recorded:

Rioger transferred everything he owned in Hersithi and Hagershem to the monastery, four servants and all land in Winedahusun, three servants and all land in Eulfeshusen, one servant and one half slave in Swenabeke.

Historical research has succeeded in largely identifying the places to which the donation relates: "Hersithi is probably Harste , 9 km north-northwest of Göttingen, Hagereshem is Heyersum , 12 km east-southeast of Hildesheim; Winedahusun is a Frequent place name and therefore not localizable; Eulfeshusen is Elvese.

Elvese appears here in the first half of the 9th century as a place where the Saxon nobleman Rioger is wealthy and donates all his property here, including three servants, to the Corvey monastery .

Late Middle Ages

It was not until 1201 that a script mentioned Elvese again as Elveshem.

In 1318 Duke Otto enfeoffed Brüning von Woldershausen with eight hooves in Eluessen.

In 1336, 4½ Hufen were sold to the Giseler family from Northeim for 31½ Marks.

1338, 1341 and 1346 always appear in family writings Elvese as Eluessen.

In 1346, the place name "villa Elvesse" is reported in a transcript for Nörten.

1353 is reported in the "deed book of Bovenden" from the place "von Elvesse".

In the " Hardenbergsammlung I" the place is referred to in 1393 as "to Elvese".

In a contract from 1398 between Elvessen and the Petersstift in Nörten there is talk of a newly built chapel which is to be consecrated. This would have to have been the second chapel in Elvese, if one is to believe unconfirmed sources that report a chapel around 1150.

In 1405 Heinrich Mutzeval is enfeoffed with two hooves of land by Duke Otto in Eluessen.

1 409 the place name Elvesse is used in "Hardenberger II" for a land claim - in 1410, however, it is referred to as Elveße in a family collection.

In 1469 Dietrich von Hardenberg sold the Rottzins to Elvese for a red horse and in 1470 also the interest from his hereditary village Elvese to Heinrich Gewerdes, through whose widow these rights came to the Kalandsbrüder in Northeim in 1496.

How Elvese became the hereditary village of the Hardenbergers is not clear. What is certain is that although Elvese was subject to the mine court on the Lindenberg in Northeim until 1478 , the Counts of Hardenberg in Elvese held court under the Thielinde until 1500. The lords of the state of Göttingen once demanded sovereign rights in Elvese, based on the rights of the Counts of Northeim .

When Göttingen then fell to the Wolfenbüttel Duke Julius in 1584, Julius had his coat of arms affixed to Elvese as a sign of occupation, but those of Hardenberg removed it again. They forbade their subjects, including the Elves, to take part in the homage to Duke Julius in Northeim on June 29, 1585 . Since Jost von Hardenberg recognized the Reformation in 1584 and his subjects followed him in the new church doctrine, the church ties to Nörten ceased, but in 1609 the Elveser refused to introduce the Braunschweig church order .

The Elves master builder claimed that they were still dependent on Nörten Abbey and therefore subject to the Archbishops of Mainz - but this was not the case. Elvese was a Hardenberg hereditary village in which the Hardenbergers had no masters over themselves. The legal relationships between Mainz, Göttingen and the Hardenbergers were in an unclear state at that time.

Early modern age

The Hardenbergers considered the Mainz pledges, which were never redeemed, to have expired. They sought support for this from the duke , whom they paid homage to in 1607.

In 1609 the duke forcibly occupied Nörten.
In 1635 the sovereignty of Mainz was formally confirmed again, but as early as 1636, Duke Georg von Calenberg, as the new sovereign of Göttingen, demanded homage from the subjects.
In 1688 the Elveser were drawn into the bushel treasure by the successor and in 1689 they were listed in the head tax register as subjects of the duke.
1692 A settlement creates clarity in the legal relationships and the aristocratic court Hardenberg is incorporated into the Electorate of Hanover .
1650 is the first time a teacher is mentioned in Elvese.

Modern

In 1770 the difficulties between the parishes of Hillerse and Großenrode for the Elves churchgoers are resolved.
In 1779 the city physicist of Northeim describes Elvese with 33 houses, the residents of which live from the cultivation of fields, flax and tobacco .
In 1792 a new school was built.

Modern times

In 1830 the dependence of the farmers on the Hardenbergers was lifted with the replacement law. A Hardenberger farm of 200 acres remained in the village.
1850 Hardenberg court becomes Nörten court and cholera afflicts Elvese.
In 1859 the court / office of Nörten was incorporated into the office of Northeim . Since then, Elvese has participated in the fortunes of what would later become the district of Northeim.
From 1867 to 1871 the lands of the village are linked.
In 1873 the men's choir "Eintracht" Elvese was founded.
In 1911 the old school building is replaced by a new one.
From 1920 the citizens of Elves found work in potash mining and in the sugar factory .
In 1924, Lehrer Kraft reported on a post office with a public telephone.
In the First World War (1914 to 1918) 7 citizens of Elves are killed.
The Second World War (1939 to 1945) claims 17 victims from Elvese.
In 1952 the volunteer fire brigade was founded. It replaces the mandatory fire brigade previously required by the state .
In 1969 the school districts in Lower Saxony are reorganized and Elvese loses his school house furnishings. The children now have to take a minibus to school in Nörten. The fire brigade moves into the empty schoolhouse.

Elvese loses its independence with the municipal reform and is incorporated into the Nörten-Hardenberg area on February 1, 1971. The mayor's office and local council are dissolved.

In 1989 the construction of a new village community center and fire station is started , which the residents of Elves have done very well. In 1990 the house was completed.

1996 A local mayor and a local council can be elected on November 1, 1996 by changing the Lower Saxony municipal code .

Church history

Today's chapel was built from 1396 to 1398 and consecrated to the patron saint of St. Martin on October 16, 1398 by St. Peter's Monastery in Nörten .

Chapel of St. Martinus

It is built in the shape of a Roman assembly and court house: an elongated rectangular shape with a small entrance and small high window niches. The foundation, building corners and lintel consist of hewn sandstone blocks, the remaining part of the wall is lined with field and rubble stones and clay mortar and is not plastered under any circumstances. By making the window niches as loopholes , the chapel achieved the function of a fortified church . You have to climb to the attic of the church to see the former loopholes and the beam holes for a walk around or a flat ceiling on the inside of the remaining west wall and on the remains of the south wall.

During a modernization in 1606, parts of the upper floor were removed and replaced by half-timbered walls , the roof renewed and large windows installed on the ground floor. In addition to the installation of a barrel vault in 1689, damage to the interior and exterior was repaired. Between 1846 and 1851 the women's benches , the lintel and the floor were renewed. An organ and an altar wall were also installed in the apse for the first time . At the end of the 19th century the organ was repaired (1871 for 4 Taler ) and a new barrel vault was installed (1894).

In 1913, a stove with a chimney was installed for the chapel, which had not been heated up until then. In the course of the First World War , the 150 kilogram church bell was confiscated.

In 1929 the church was so badly damaged that the church office decided to completely renovate it . The current internal form of the church was created. The altar wall was removed and replaced by an altar table with a large cross behind it. The galleries were made lower, the apse was raised and incorporated into the main room, the pulpit and the baptismal font were built at the current location, and the barrel ceiling, floor, windows, walls and benches were renewed. A picture of Saint Michael was painted on the left wall of the apse. Electric lighting was installed and the organ replaced by a harmonium .

During the Second World War, the sacred tableware was donated to the war chest.

In 1966 a new heating system was installed. The floor and windows were renewed and the interior walls were whitewashed. As a result, the image of St. Michael was lost again.

In 1999 and 2000 the chapel underwent a thorough renovation.

literature

Havemann, Wilhelm: History of the Lands Braunschweig and Lüneburg . 1st volume. Herold and Wahlstab, Lüneburg 1837 ( PDF 43.4MB [accessed on January 14, 2010]).
Manfred Oftring, Elvese with the support of the North Rhine-Westphalian State Archives in Münster, University of Göttingen, Department of Language and Name Research and the Institute for Historical Research. Published in the commemorative publication of the men's choir "Eintracht" Elvese on its 125th anniversary from July 17th to 19th, 1998 and in the commemorative publication of the Elvese volunteer fire brigade on the occasion of its 50th anniversary on April 27th and 28th, 2002.
Church history: Manfred Oftring, Elvese

Web links

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

References and comments

↑ Estimated dating of this donation is the period from 822 to 826 - the time cannot be recorded more precisely. For Elvese this means that the place is considerably older.
↑ ^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. 213 .
↑ page 405 in which book ???
↑ Witness Count Wiricus… and 21 other personal names.
^ Havemann, Wilhelm: History of the Lands of Braunschweig and Lüneburg . 1st volume. Herold and electoral staff, Lüneburg 1837, p. 3 ( [1] (PDF 43.4 MB) [accessed on January 14, 2010]).

[1] Estimated dating of this donation is the period from 822 to 826 - the time cannot be recorded more precisely. For Elvese this means that the place is considerably older.

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982-2] 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 213 .

[3] 405 in which book ???

[4] Witness Count Wiricus… and 21 other personal names.

[5] Havemann, Wilhelm: History of the Lands of Braunschweig and Lüneburg . 1st volume. Herold and electoral staff, Lüneburg 1837, p. 3 ( [1] (PDF 43.4 MB) [accessed on January 14, 2010]).