Kneitlingen

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the canon and rector of the University of Leipzig see Joachim von Kneitlingen .

coat of arms	Germany map
Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′  N , 10 ° 46 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Wolfenbüttel
Joint municipality :	Elm aces
Height :	223 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.57 km 2
Residents:	806 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	46 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	38170
Area code :	05332
License plate :	WF
Community key :	03 1 58 022
Community structure:	4 districts
Association administration address:	Markt 3 38170 Schöppenstedt
Local representative:	Carola Trussner ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Kneitlingen in the Wolfenbüttel district

Kneitlingen is a municipality in the Wolfenbüttel district ( Lower Saxony ). It consists of the districts of Ampleben , Bansleben , Eilum and Kneitlingen, which lie between Elm and Asse . Kneitlingen is a member community of the Elm-Asse joint community and is known as the birthplace of the medieval prankster Till Eulenspiegel .

geography

Districts of the municipality of Kneitlingen and their population:

District	Residents
Traffic light life	279
Bansleben	203
Eilum	192
Kneitlingen	128
Kneitlingen community	802

(As of December 1, 2016)

Kneitlingen - view from the south

Town center

history

Old names of the place are 1135 Knetlinge, 1141 Cletligge, 1147 Clettinge, 1236 Rothgerus de Cletlinge, 1318 Cletling, 1318 Cletlinghe, 1356 Knetlinge, 1372 Cletlynge, 1395 Kleetlinge and in the 1st half of the 15th century Knetling.

In 1135 Emperor Lothar donated eight Hufen land in Kneitlingen to his cathedral in Königslutter ; 1141 Kneitlingen occurs as Cletlinge . A von Kneitlingen family owned land in the village until 1350. The last bearer of the name was a Prussian colonel and died in Nuremberg in 1739 . In addition to the old families of the Braunschweiger Land von Ampleben , von Warle , von Veltheim , von Linien and von Uetze , who temporarily owned land in Kneitlingen, the von Kalm family was able to keep a fiefdom of a farm with four hooves from 1454 until the separation in 1843 hold. After the second wife of Duke Heinrich Julius , Elisabeth, a sister of the Danish king Christian IV , owned it, the village of Kneitlingen came to the von Cramm - Sambleben family in 1627 , who had also been court lords of the village and the patronage of the Kneitlingen Church held.

In contrast to the neighboring Ampleben, there was never a manor in Kneitlingen . Instead, the three farmyards and five half- span farms have shaped the village image since ancient times . These old courtyards, some of which are under monumental protection , and the green areas, which the villagers care for with a lot of love and dedication, give Kneitlingen a very special atmosphere. Folklore and legends also dealt with Kneitlingen. In the pond in front of the Eulenspiegelhof there is the Hakemann who pulls reckless children into the depths. Opposite in the garden of the Behrenschen Hof 120 years ago spider maids would have seen "meerkats" dancing around a fireplace. There is also said to have been a shepherd in the village who could banish women with the evil eye on the fences. The children's St. Nicholas singing on December 6th has been preserved to this day - not least because St. Nicholas is the patron saint of the Kneitlingen Church. The volunteer fire brigade has been regularly ready to put out the fire since 1877 . A shooting society has existed since 1893.

On March 1, 1974, the communities of Ampleben, Bansleben and Eilum were incorporated. The municipality is now considering a merger with the neighboring municipality of Vahlberg .

politics

The council is composed as follows:

• CDU 4 seats
• SPD 3 seats
• Green 1 seat

(Status: 2019)

Culture and sights

The Romanesque Church

Church in Kneitlingen

The church in Kneitlingen was founded by the Knights Templar and is dedicated to St. Nicholas. It is mentioned for the first time in 1141. With an almost square hall and a recessed choir, it is the only village church in the Wolfenbüttel district with a semicircular apse and small Romanesque windows that still exist . The old, original entrance is clearly visible on the north outer wall of the ship . The cross vaults in the choir and nave are burr. There is a round-arched clover-leaf niche in the choir square. There are three old, small arched windows in the apse ; the larger windows in the nave and choir square are new. In the south wall of the tower is the lid of a child's coffin with a Latin cross on a semi-arch , which was walled in around 1860. The east wall of the tower was broken through in order to build in an organ . Various figures and Corinthian columns have moved from the pulpit , which a carpenter had created in Räbke , to the Vaterländisches Museum in Braunschweig . According to a description of the village from 1753, a picture by Till Eulenspiegel is said to have been on the north side of the tower, which "was finally put away because of the great damage and the attempt by the eager warriors to prevent danger and damage". The church again owns a baptismal font 78 cm high and round in shape, from the church in Frellstedt or Räbke, from the year 1584. The base is a bulge , the plate Karnies , richly profiled.

Eulenspiegel Monument Kneitlingen

Eulenspiegel's own village

In Kneitlingen you can often find Till Eulenspiegel, the rogue and famous son of the place. On the northern edge of the village there is an Eulenspiegel linden tree , which was placed under nature protection in 1975 . On the way to Eulenspiegelhof , a medieval castle, you meet at a barn wall on the information box of the parish . A portrait of Eulenspiegel points to the memorial at the church. The sculptor Theo Schmidt-Reindahl created it in the 1930s on behalf of Prime Minister Dietrich Klagges . Ernst August Roloff , the first chairman of the Eulenspiegel Circle of Friends, reinterpreted the Kneitlinger as a “racially pure” SA man in his book Ewiger Eulenspiegel .

Kneitlingen is connected to Ampleben by the Taufweg , an approximately 1.5 km long hiking trail, on which, according to tradition, Till Eulenspiegel carried a maid home after his baptism in Ampleben. However, the maid was drunk after the baptism ceremony. On the way to Kneitlingen she wanted to cross a muddy stream on a footbridge, but together with the little Till fell into the stream that still flows between Ampleben and Kneitlingen. This was Till's second baptism. Because it got so dirty in the stream, it had to be bathed at home. This bath is considered his third baptism. This event is explained on an information board by the stream on the western edge of Kneitlingen on Triftstrasse. From the Taufweg there is an impressive view of the Kneitlingen area.

Former train station

South of Kneitlingen, a station building of the former Braunschweig-Schöningen Railway , which was completed in 1902 and closed in 1971, has been converted into a residential building .

literature

• Ernst Andreas Friedrich : The Eulenspiegelhof in Kneitlingen , pp. 168-170, in: If stones could talk , Volume I, Landbuch-Verlag, Hanover 1989, ISBN 3-7842-03973 .

Web links

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

• Kneitlingen on the website of the Elm-Asse municipality

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. ↑ Samtgemeinde Elm-Asse: Population figures and area sizes ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 27, 2017 
3. ^ 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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 273 .
4. ↑ Community is thinking about a merger - Kneitlingen: Council wants to talk to Vahlberg about a merger. December 9, 2013