Evessen

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 11 '  N , 10 ° 43'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Wolfenbüttel
Joint municipality :	Sank
Height :	140 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.55 km 2
Residents:	1236 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	70 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	38173
Area code :	05333
License plate :	WF
Community key :	03 1 58 013
Association administration address:	Am Kamp 12 38173 Sickte
Website :	www.sickt.de
Mayoress :	Dunja Kreiser ( SPD )
Location of the community Evessen in the district of Wolfenbüttel

Through town

Evessen is a municipality in the district of Wolfenbüttel ( Lower Saxony ). The districts Gilzum and Hachum as well as an area in the Reitlingstal around the excursion restaurant "Am Reitling" belong to the community as an exclave. Evessen is a member community of the Sickte community .

history

Old names of the place are 992 Hebesheim, 1194 Euisheim, 1219 Evessen, 1314 Evessum, 1344 Euessen, 1378 Evetzem and 1383 Evese. The place name Evessen contains the (changed, that is today shortened) ending " -heim ". The short name "Evi-" belongs to the tribe "Ebur" for "boar" or is a shortened form of "Eb-" or "Ev-".

Located on the old military road from Braunschweig to Magdeburg , Evessen was settled around 5000 years ago - judging by the finds in the soil ( Evessen gallery grave ). It was first mentioned in documents as Curtis Hebesheim ("Home of Hebo") in 952. Otto I gave the old Franconian royal castle to the Moritzkloster in Magdeburg in 965, and from 1351 the cloister courtyard belonged to the Kreuzkloster in Braunschweig . Because of the difficult soil, the settlement was popularly called Hungersdorf . In 1952 the village celebrated its millennium.

On March 1, 1974, the communities Gilzum and Hachum were incorporated.

politics

With Dunja Kreiser (SPD), on November 14th, 2011, a woman was elected for the first time in the history of the municipality as mayor of a member municipality of the joint municipality of Sickte. She succeeded Klaus Bertram, who did not stand as a candidate in the last local election after 37 years in local councils.

After the local elections in September 2011, the municipal council was composed as follows:

• CDU : 4 seats
• SPD : 4 seats
• Greens : 3 seats

After the local elections in September 2016 , the distribution of seats was as follows:

• SPD: 5 seats
• CDU: 4 seats
• Greens: 2 seats

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Culture and sights

Romanesque fortified church

The village church in Evessen

The church, which is made of Elm limestone and Erker or Trochitenkalk , was built in the 11th century as a fortified church, probably on a fortified fortification (curtis). The tower was raised around 1200 and the choir was vaulted around 100 years later. The choir extension dates from around 1500 and probably coincides with the removal of the Romanesque apse. The triumphal cross hanging in the triumphal arch with its corpus measuring approx. 160 cm on renewed cross beams probably originally came from another church and was possibly brought to Evessen in this context. In the 16th century, wall paintings were made about the ten commandments with low German banners. One of the two surviving representations warns people against excessive card games, improper speeches and frivolous oaths. But the cross above the altar is even more impressive than the two murals. With their inscriptions, old tombstones on the outer church wall also look like an open history book of this place and are at the same time evidence of tragic life. The church of St. Johannes Baptista zu Evessen had three bells until the Thirty Years War . But these were stolen by the Pappenheim horsemen . At the end of the war, the Evess peasantry donated a new bell in 1653. Since 2011, donations have been collected for the purchase of a second bell and the conversion from a steel to a wooden bell cage.

tumulus

The tumulus (lat.) With linden tree or burial mound in Evessen

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In Evessen is the Evessen Tumulus , which is a burial mound . On the hill there is a linden tree , which was declared a natural monument in 1944 and whose age is estimated to be more than 800 years. Under the linden tree on the burial mound, the Vogteigericht pronounced justice. The Evess court hearings are mentioned in the invoices of the Braunschweig Cathedral Foundation as early as 1347. The court was not lifted until 1808. In the course of the unraveling of the hill, pastor Johann Friedrich Faicke recognized as early as 1745 that this high must also be a prehistoric grave. In this context, an article in the Braunschweigische advertisements from January 16, 1745 is instructive, according to which the Evesser Tumulus is believed to be a princely grave that dates from the Early Bronze Age (1800 to 1600 BC) or even from the Neolithic Age (4000 to 2000 BC). Originally there were two other, equally large burial mounds ( Kleines Hoch and Thies-Hoch ) in the vicinity , which were removed in the 18th century . When digging in the Kleiner Hoch in 1745, an urn , probably a subsequent burial, was found. In the 1980s, the tumulus was a location in the children's series Neues aus Uhlenbusch . In the episode Uhlenbusch is upside down , a scene on the hill was filmed.

More Attractions

Buildings on the main street

In addition to the grave mound and the church, the old building fabric of the houses characterizes the place. A wooden arcade at Papenberg 2, for example, is a listed building that was built at the end of the 18th century. The Mumme courtyard, a typical stone block building, was built between 1825 and 1850. Another monument from the 18th century is the rectory, the seat of the Lutheran Lutherans. Markus parish with the villages of Evessen, Eilum, Gilzum , Kneitlingen and Ampleben .

For geologic interested in Evessen is experience quarry Mark morning of the open-air and experience museum Ostfalen (FEMO) furnished.

The location on the edge of the Elm offers hiking opportunities. Two parking spaces in the settlement area, right on the edge of the forest, are located on the designated network of hiking trails in the nature park. The Reitlingstal can be reached quickly from here. The Evessen settlement is the fruit-growing area on the southern slope of the Elm. From here you can see the Asse , the Harz with the towering Brocken , the Salzgitter Mountains and the cities of Wolfenbüttel and Braunschweig .

Economy and Infrastructure

Around 1800, in addition to numerous agricultural farms, Evessen also had a paper mill , two water mills , an oil mill and a fulling mill .

In the 21st century, in addition to agriculture and tourism , the electrical trade and agricultural machinery sales also provide for a living. The company Air Therm Solartechnik produces monocrystalline solar cells and solar modules as well as the necessary system components here.

The place also offers an organic bakery, a pottery, several fruit farms, a slaughterhouse, a goat farm, a garden center and a kiosk with items for daily needs.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Andreas Kinderling (1593–1664), logician and physicist
• Axel Graf Bülow (* 1952), politician (FDP)

literature

• Eckehard Hillmar, Gerhard Apelt: Chronicle Evessen Gilzum Hachum , Evessen 2010 (presentation on August 21, 2010 in the Evessen village house)

Web links

Commons : Evessen  - collection of images

• Evessen on sickt.de
• The place on Braunschweig tours
• Private homepage www.evessen.de with information about the places Evessen, Gilzum and Hachum

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. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: Website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 3, 2016 ; accessed on August 4, 2019 . 
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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 273 .
4. ^ Evessen municipal council. In: sickt.de. Retrieved November 8, 2019.