Elze

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Elze
Map of Germany, position of the city of Elze highlighted

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 '  N , 9 ° 44'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Hildesheim
Height : 79 m above sea level NHN
Area : 47.71 km 2
Residents: 8989 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 188 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 31008
Area code : 05068
License plate : HI, ALF
Community key : 03 2 54 014
LOCODE : DE ELZ
City structure: Core city + 6 districts

City administration address : 		Hauptstrasse 61
31008 Elze
Website : www.elze.de
Mayor : Rolf Pfeiffer ( SPD )
Location of the city of Elze in the Hildesheim district
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Elze is a town with almost 8,860 inhabitants in the west of the Hildesheim district , which is in the metropolitan region of Hanover-Braunschweig-Göttingen in southern Lower Saxony . Elze is a member of the Leinebergland region , a voluntary association of several cities and municipalities in southern Lower Saxony based on the Leader approach .

The city lies on the Saale , a tributary of the Leine . The old town is characterized by half-timbered houses from the 16th and 17th centuries.

geography

Geographical location

The city is located west of Hildesheim on the northern edge of the Lower Saxony mountainous region with a view of the North German Plain , Marienburg Castle , Poppenburg and the Wittenburg monastery church .

City structure

Districts km² Residents
(June 30, 2018)
Elze 14.68 5852
Esbeck 7.05 418
Flours 9.67 1083
Sehlde 4.95 456
Sorsum 2.46 254
Wittenburg 2.24 95
Wülfingen 6.65 777

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history

People settled in Elze before the year 800. At the time of Charlemagne , the place Aula Caesaris ("Kaiserhof") was called Aulica for short , from which the names Aulze and Elze developed. Elze has been the seat of a bishopric for Ostfalen founded by Charlemagne since around 800 under the patronage of the apostles Peter and Paul , who still appear today in the name of the Protestant church in Elze and in the local coat of arms . The Catholic Church of 1936/1953 also commemorates this tradition. To manage this episcopal seat, Charlemagne, who took camps there several times, called the clergyman Gunthar from Rheims. Ludwig the Pious moved the bishopric to Hildesheim in 815 and placed it under the protection of Mary, the Mother of God .

On the evening of November 18, 1824, three quarters of the city was destroyed in a fire and then rebuilt.

Place name

Old names of the place are 826–876 Aluchi, 1068 Alicga, around 1135 Aulica, 1151 Alitse, 1160 Eleze and 1204 Elze. Two lines of tradition stand side by side for the place name: “Aulica / Aulika” and “Alitse, Eleze, Eletse, Elze”. With “Aulica, Aulika” there is obviously a Latinization of “aula” for “Halle, Fürstenhalle”. The second line of tradition is probably based on the Germanic word "ulin" for "lazy, damp, musty".

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, as part of a municipal reform, the surrounding villages of Esbeck, Mehle, Sehlde, Sorsum, Wittenburg and Wülfingen were incorporated.

Denomination statistics

According to the 2011 census , 59.6% of the population were predominantly Protestant, 10.6% Roman Catholic and 30.2% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. At the end of 2019, 51.45% of the 103,988 inhabitants were predominantly Protestant, 9.4% Roman Catholic and 39.2% without a denomination or belonging to another religious community.

politics

The town hall in Elze

City council

The council of the city of Elze consists of 22 council women and councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 8001 and 9000 inhabitants. The 22 council members are elected for five years each by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The mayor is also entitled to vote in the city council.

The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

mayor

The full-time mayor of the city of Elze is Rolf Pfeiffer (SPD). In the last mayoral election on June 6, 2010, he was elected with 52.1% of the vote. His opponent Ulrich Bantelmann from the Independent Voting Association Elze (UWE) received 47.9%. The turnout was 50.2%. Pfeiffer took office on September 1, 2010 and replaced the previous incumbent Friedel Albes (SPD), who had no longer stood as a candidate.

coat of arms

New coat of arms from 1956

The current coat of arms was approved in 1956 by the Lower Saxony Minister of the Interior .

Elze coat of arms
 Blazon : “Standing next to each otherin blue, the gold nimbly and silver clad Saints Peter and Paul , each with a red book in their left hand; in his right hand Peter holds a golden key , Paul a silver sword with a golden hilt. In front of them a black sign with silver oblique beams , in a red stages oblique beams . "
Foundation of the coat of arms: The two saints Peter and Paul can already be seen on memorial stones and local seals from the 16th century. Since the middle of the 17th century, when Elze became a town, both have been depicted sitting opposite each other in the shield, while in the 19th century the saints were separated by the city colors of silver and blue in the shield. In 1956 the black shield with the stepped sloping beam, which was the old coat of arms of Elze, was combined with the two saints to form the new local coat of arms.

Old coat of arms from 1939

The city was given the coat of arms on January 12, 1939 by the President of the Province of Hanover . The district administrator from Alfeld presented it on May 23 of the same year.

Elze coat of arms
 Blazon : "A silver slanting bar in black, covered with a right-angled meander ribbon in red."
Reasons for the coat of arms: In the early Middle Ages, a noble family called themselves after their residence Elze "de Eleze" and had a sloping beam with a right-angled meander ribbon in their coat of arms, as evidenced by a number of seals still in existence on documents from the 14th century. Based on this model, the city of Elze had given the following coat of arms in a new color scheme.

Town twinning

Elze since 1971 twin city of the Normandy located French town of Écouché .

Culture and sights

The main street in Elze
Elze, market square
Peter and Paul Church
New Apostolic Church

In Elze there is a local history museum , a city park, a heated outdoor pool (renovated in 2016) and several sports facilities. Altogether there are 45 clubs and associations in Elze.

Buildings

  • The Evangelical Lutheran Peter and Paul Church on Hauptstrasse
  • The Catholic Church of St. Peter on the Chains on Schmiedetorstrasse. (see also history)
  • Worth seeing is u. a. the station Elze , who from 1853 to 1854 by architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase was built in brick and arched style.

Nature reserve "Leineaue under the Rammelsberg"

The nature reserve Leineaue under the Rammelsberg lies between Gronau (Leine) and Elze and places a section of the middle course of the Leine with its floodplain and parts of the slopes of the Uthberg and the Großer Rammelsberg in the east under protection. The periodically flooded lowland is characterized by the meandering river course with oxbow lakes and flood channels. The line is often accompanied by remains of alluvial forest . In addition, there are wet meadows and fallow land rich in shrubs . The slopes included in the nature reserve are characterized by forests and shrubbery as well as remnants of poor grassland and orchards .

Regular events

  • Every May 1st, the Elze local association of the Technical Relief Organization (THW) sets up the Elzer maypole.
  • Every December, the Elz football school championships take place in the Elze school center, with five schools taking part and the school championship in several competition classes.
  • The "Wittenburg Summer" takes place every year from April to September.
  • Every year on the last Saturday before Shrove Monday, the "Puschenball", the traditional carnival celebration of MTV Elze, takes place.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Waggonbau Graaff

A number of industrial companies have settled on the railway line in the east of the city, in particular Waggonbau Graaff GmbH (part of VTG AG since 2008 ) and Pleissner GmbH (gray and nodular cast iron) , which was abandoned in 2017 after 119 years .

Public facilities

There are five day-care centers and one crèche in Elze, including the surrounding villages. As a special service, the city of Elze set up a bus service a few years ago. This ensures that the guardians are relieved and that the nearest daycare center does not necessarily have to be chosen.

education

There are four schools in Elze including the surrounding districts.

The Christophorus School "Jugenddorf Elze" is located on the railway line, but northeast of the city. The state-recognized grammar school belongs to the Christian Youth Village Association of Germany (CJD), which is closely related to the Protestant Church, and houses a music school , a kindergarten and a riding stables in addition to the school with boarding school and sports facilities . Most recently, the Elzer sports and health center of the CJD Elze was built and completed, the new sports hall is the highlight of the facility. The CJD also operates a special needs school in Elze with special educational focus and, since 2019, a secondary school.

There is a primary school each in the core town of Elze and in the district of Mehle.

traffic

The city is a transportation hub on the railway lines Hannover-Göttingen ( " Hanoverian Southern Railway ") and Hameln-Hildesheim ( " Weser Railway "). The connection of the districts with each other and with neighboring towns is carried out by several overland and two city ​​bus routes operated by Regionalverkehr Hildesheim GmbH (RVHI) . The B 3 and the B 1 cross in Elze .

Elze train station:

The Elze train station (Elze / Han No. 1577) was classified as Category 4 by Deutsche Bahn in 2014 . Individual ICE trains on line 26 stop here for long-distance traffic . There are in rail transport transfer-free connections direction Hannover, Göttingen, Hildesheim / castle and bottom on the Weser web according Hameln - wages (Westf) . With the exception of nightly hours, Elze station is served every hour by trains of the metronom railway company and the NordWestBahn .

Train type Line course Clock frequency
RE 2 Metronome
( Uelzen - Celle -) Hanover - Nordstemmen - Elze - Kreiensen - Northeim - Göttingen 		Hourly
RB 77 Weser Railway
Bünde (Westf) - Löhne (Westf) - Hameln - Elze - Nordstemmen - Hildesheim - Bodenburg 		Hourly

Personalities

Sons of the city of Elze

Personalities connected to the city of Elze

literature

Bibliography for the unified community Elze

Literature for all parts of the city

  • Franz Anton Blum: History of the Principality of Hildesheim. Wolfenbüttel 1805, p. 21 f.
  • Gerd Lüttig: New results of quaternary geological research in the Alfeld-Hameln-Elze area. In: Geologisches Jahrbuch Volume 77, pp. 337-390. Hanover June 1960
  • Werner Müller: Selected dates on the history of the city of Elze with its districts Esbeck, Mehle, Sehlde, Sorsum, Wittenburg, Wülfingen. Series of publications by the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Elze, issue 4. Elze, 2nd edition, 2004. ( 1st edition online )
  • Werner Müller: Monuments in the unified municipality of Elze with its districts Esbeck, Mehle, Sehlde, Sorsum, Wittenburg and Wülfingen. Series of publications of the local history museum Elze No. 5. Elze 2000
  • Hildesheim and Kalenberger Börde. Nature and landscape in the Hildesheim district. Communications of the Paul Feindt Foundation Volume 5. Hildesheim 2005, ISBN 3-8067-8547-3

Literature for Elze

  • Jürgen Huck: Elze in old ways. European Library, Zaltbommel (Netherlands) 1978
  • Jürgen Sempf: Elzer everyday impressions. A tour of history. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-089-2
  • Nadine Pflüger, Werner Beermann: The architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase and his buildings from earlier times. Elze and Nordstemmen train stations . Issue 7 of the series of publications of the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Elze and its districts e. V. , Elze 2007
  • Ferdinand Heinrich Müller: The German tribes and their princes: or, Historical development of the territorial relations of Germany in the Middle Ages, second part, history of the German tribes in connection with the Frankish empire of the Merovingians and Carolingians. by CG Lüderitz, Berlin 1841, p. 509 (The Diocese of Hildesheim)

Literature for Sorsum

  • Sascha Aust u. a .: Churches, monasteries and chapels in the Hanover region. Hanover 2005, ISBN 3-7859-0924-1

Web links

Commons : Elze  - Collection of Images

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. ↑ Numbers and dates. In: Website of the city of Elze. June 30, 2018, accessed April 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Hildesheim . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 8, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 530.
  4. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 3, 2016 ; accessed on April 10, 2019 .
  5. ^ 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. 205 .
  6. ↑ City of Elze Religion , 2011 census
  7. ↑ City of Elze facts and figures as of December 31, 2019 , accessed on April 22, 2020
  8. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG); Section 46 - Number of Deputies. December 17, 2010, accessed December 23, 2014.
  9. ↑ Announcement of the official final results of the Elze 2016 municipal elections. (PDF; 3.7 MB) (No longer available online.) In: Website of the city of Elze. September 11, 2016, archived from the original on September 9, 2017 ; accessed on April 10, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Mayoral election in Elze. ( Memento from December 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: www.hildesheimer-allgemeine.de. Retrieved December 23, 2014, April 10, 2019.
  11. ↑ a b Klemens Stadler: German coat of arms of the Federal Republic of Germany . The municipal coats of arms of the federal states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. tape 5 . Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1970, p. 37 .
  12. ^ A b Wilhelm Barner : Coat of arms and seal of the Alfeld district . Rebinding. Lax GmbH & Co. KG, Hildesheim 1998 ( digitized version of the text part of the first edition from 1940 [PDF; 10.0 MB ; accessed on June 9, 2019]).
  13. ↑ Deutsche Bahn station categories . ( Memento from January 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: www.deutschebahn.com. December 4, 2015, accessed April 10, 2019.