Esbeck (Schöningen)
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Esbeck
City of Schöningen
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| Incorporation : | March 1, 1974 | |
| Postal code : | 38364 | |
| Area code : | 05352 | |
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Esbeck is a district of Schöningen in the Helmstedt district in Lower Saxony with around 1,400 inhabitants. The place is about 1 km north of Schöningen on the federal highway 244 and directly on the south-eastern edge of the forest of the Elm at about 125 m above sea level. NN .
history
Esbeck was first mentioned in 1137 under the name Aesebiki . The name Esbeck is based on the old German word Asbike and describes a stream that rises in a spring in the adjacent Elm and flows from there into the village. The first settlements existed long before the town was first mentioned in a document.
On March 1, 1974 Esbeck was incorporated into the city of Schöningen.
On January 1st, 2017 the parish of St. Andreas in Esbeck merged with the parish of Clus in Schöningen to form the parish "Clus and St. Andreas Esbeck in Schöningen".
Townscape
The place is characterized by Esbeck Castle, built in the 12th century, and the adjacent park. The castle is probably eponymous for the ancestral home of the Lords of Esebeck , a Brunswick nobility family. In 1322, Duke Otto von Braunschweig received half of Asseburg Castle and the Altfeld court as a fief from Bishop Albrecht Esbeck Castle, Schöningen .
The Schöningen open-cast lignite mine is located directly on the eastern edge of the district and a little further north is the Buschhaus coal-fired power plant with the Helmstedt waste processing plant . Esbeck gained national fame through the excursion restaurant "Zum Waldfrieden", which is located high up on the edge of the forest, with a wide view and through the "Esbeck cherry wine ".
archeology
It is worth mentioning the early discoveries from excavations on the site of the nearby open-cast mine. More than 50 archaeological monuments were discovered and examined over a total area of over 400,000 m² on the entire mining area of 6 km in length and 1 km in width, in which no sites were known before the start of the project. After the archaeological investigations along the NEL pipeline with an area of 7 km², these are the second largest excavations carried out in Lower Saxony in terms of area . Remains of settlements, fortifications and graves of various cultures from the past 7,000 years were found in the area. These include the Schöninger spears , which changed the image of early European prehistoric man and evolutionary science.
Before the Buschhaus coal-fired power station was built, the remains of the Esbeck earthworks were uncovered during rescue excavations in 1981 and 1982 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 272 .
- ^ Matthias Blazek: From the Landdrostey to the district government - The district government of Hanover as reflected in the administrative reforms . Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-89821-357-9 .
- ^ Official gazette of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig, edition of November 15, 2016, accessed on March 25, 2018.
- ^ Sudendorf, Hans: Document book for the history of the dukes of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and their lands, Carl Rümpler: Hannover 1859, p. XXXVI.
- ↑ Lower Saxony archaeological portal ( Memento from December 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
