Essenrode

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Essenrode
Church teaching
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 12 ″  N , 10 ° 38 ′ 9 ″  E
Height : 92 m above sea level NHN
Area : 10.07 km²
Residents : 1178  (Feb. 1, 2018)
Population density : 117 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 38165
Area code : 05301
Essenrode mansion
Essenrode mansion

Essenrode is a village and a district in the municipality of Lehrer in the Helmstedt district in Lower Saxony .

geography

The community had an area of ​​10.06 km².

Geographical location

Essenrode is about 14 km southwest of Wolfsburg , 12 km north of Braunschweig and 16 km south-east of Gifhorn . The distance to the district town of Helmstedt is around 34 km. Essenrode is located north of the federal highway 2 and west of the federal highway 39 . To the north the landscape is defined by arable farming, south of Essenrode there are extensive forest areas. Immediately neighboring villages are - starting in the north, clockwise - Allenbüttel , Wettmershagen , Jelpke , Klein Brunsrode , Groß Brunsrode , Wendhausen and Grassel .

Village structure

Essenrode is a place with a rural village center and modern residential areas. In the center of the village is the Essenrode manor house , further west, surrounded by an old cemetery, the St. Johannes Church. In 1996 Essenrode had around 1100 inhabitants.

history

Essenrode was built around 900 as a clearing village . The St. John's Church was probably built in the 12th century and expanded around 1400. Essenrode was first mentioned in a document as Ezzenrod in 1196 . In 1248 the Essenroder community was spun off from the Wettmershagen Parochial Association . 1326 Widukind was of Garssenbüttel with the Good Essenrode invested ; at the same time she had patronage over the church. The first Essenroder school was established in 1611 by Hartwig von Garssenbüttel, who died childless in 1625 and was thus the last liege lord of his line. In the same year, Danish soldiers set fire to the village as part of the Thirty Years War , so that half of the houses were destroyed. The von Bülow family became feudal successors for around 200 years . In 1738, construction began on Essenrode Castle, a baroque building that is surrounded by a small English landscape garden and which still forms the center of the town today. In 1750 the later Prussian reformer Karl August von Hardenberg , whose mother was born von Bülow, was born at the castle. From 1772 the Essenröder farmers were released from their dependence on property, around 50 years before their dependence on property was lifted in most parts of Germany.

St. John's Church

On January 3, 1832, in Gifhorn, the housebreaker Johann Heinrich Achilles from Essenrode, 45 years old, was beheaded for robbery committed in Eyßel on the 20-year-old cooperage boy Julius Heinrich Ernst Friedrich Bormann from Essenrode.

In 1837 the estate was sold to the von Lüneburg family , who still own the estate today. From 1885 Essenrode belonged to the newly formed Gifhorn district .

Until 1950 agriculture was the main line of business; there were also numerous craftsmen. Today most of the residents work in the surrounding cities of Braunschweig and Wolfsburg. In 1963 an adult education center was founded.

As part of the administrative and community reform in Lower Saxony , Essenrode, which until then had belonged to the district of Gifhorn as an independent community, was incorporated into the district on July 1, 1972 after apprenticeship. On March 1, 1974, the community of teaching was added to the district of Helmstedt. The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Essenrodes, unlike the parishes of the other seven towns of Lehres, belongs to the regional church of Hanover .

In 2014, a new street called “Sister-Ella-Weg” was laid out in the Essenrode-West development area. This is the first street within the Doctrine Church to be named after a woman. The street was named after Ella Sonntag, who worked as a deaconess in Essenrode for 36 years . During the times of National Socialism, she provided medical care to forced laborers who had been mistreated and thus drew the anger of the local Nazis.

Population development

The population remained a little below 550 until 1945, while other places in the area such as Gifhorn and Fallersleben grew rapidly thanks to a railway connection and industrial settlement . After the end of the Second World War , numerous people settled in Essenrode, so that the population rose to 1,100 by 1996.

Lehr-Essenrode - population development since 1820
development year Residents year Residents Remarks
1820 507 1964 920
1852 549 1990 1,100
1925 543 2011 1,172 as of December 31
1937 518 2012 1,204 as of December 31
1946 973 2018 1,178 on February 1st
1950 970

politics

Local mayor

Birgit Brendes ( SPD ) has been the local mayor since 2011 , after Hartmut Discher, the previous incumbent, no longer ran for election. He held the office for 15 years. Brendes' deputy is Gernot Bosse ( CDU ).

traffic

Essenrode is located on the main road Wendhausen-Wettmershagen and the main road of Essenrode by Brunswick-Querum and a county road that leads from Essenrode to Klein Brunsrode. Bus connections (on weekends as a call taxi ) lead to Braunschweig-Rühme (line 424) and on school days to Lehr and Flechtorf as well as to Wolfsburg or Groß Brunsrode.

education

There is a primary school and a day-care center in Essenrode.

Sons and daughters of the place

literature

  • Hartmut Bosse: Essenrode - 800 years documentary mention 1196–1996. Self-published, Essenrode 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Population of the community on braunschweig.online , February 4, 2018, accessed on August 17, 2018.
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Official municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Final results after the census of September 13, 1950 (=  Statistics of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 33 ). W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Cologne 1952, p. 43 ( digital version [PDF; 27.1 MB ]).
  3. ↑ a b c d history of Essenrodes ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ History of St. John's Church , accessed January 28, 2017.
  5. ↑ kau: Elementary school celebrates its 400th birthday. waz-online.de from April 15, 2011, accessed on July 2, 2018
  6. ↑ Cf. Blazek, Matthias: The execution site of the Meinersen Office - A collection of sources, Stuttgart: ibidem 2008, p. 6, ISBN 978-3-89821-957-0 .
  7. ↑ Survey of the location 1996 ( memento of January 8, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 5, 2012.
  8. ^ 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. 267 .
  9. ↑ Female street name for the first time - the street in the Essenroder development area is now called Sister-Ella-Weg
  10. ↑ Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung : The community is growing: now 11,733 inhabitants , April 22, 2013.