Goehrde

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Lüchow-Dannenberg
Joint municipality :	Elbe Valley
Height :	77 m above sea level NHN
Area :	40.55 km 2
Residents:	582 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	14 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	29473
Area code :	05862
License plate :	DAN
Community key :	03 3 54 006
Community structure:	12 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	At Bundesstrasse 9 ; -Metzingen ; 29473 Göhrde
Mayor :	Thomas Stegemann ( independent )
Location of the community of Göhrde in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district

Göhrde is a municipality in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in Lower Saxony (Germany). It has about 600 inhabitants and is part of the Elbtalaue community . The federal highway 216 Lüneburg - Dannenberg runs through the community .

geography

Natural park

The community is part of the Elbhöhen-Wendland Nature Park .

The state forest of Göhrde bordering the municipality is the largest contiguous mixed forest area in Northern Germany.

Community structure

The municipality of Göhrde has consisted of twelve districts since the municipal reform of 1972. In addition, there is the Cameroon farm and four forest houses. The seat of the municipal administration is in Metzingen.

Forester's house Mailage
Forsthaus Nadlitz
Forsthaus Schnadlitz
Forsthaus Zienitz
Hof Cameroon

Like Kollase, the forest houses belonged to the municipality of Göhrde before 1972, and Hof Kamerun belonged to the municipality of Sarenseck. Dübbekold was incorporated into the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in 1972 from the Lüneburg district.

history

Large stone grave (Leitstade II) in the Göhrde, in the background the railway line from 1874

Re-enactment of the Battle of the Göhrde (2013)

View of the building of the hunting lodge in Goehrde

Archaeological finds suggest that the Göhrde was already settled in prehistoric times. The ground monuments in the Göhrde include, above all, two Neolithic large stone graves near Grünhagen (Leitstade I and II), which were built before 2500 BC. And the sacrificial stone from Plumbohm .

The Göhrde has been a popular hunting ground for the nobles since the early 16th century. In the years 1706-1709 the Hanoverian Elector Georg Ludwig in today's district Göhrde, designed by Louis Remy de la Fosse , the hunting lodge Göhrde as a three-storey castle building with about 100 rooms and several outbuildings built.

On September 16, 1813, the Allied Northern Army (mainly Russian and Prussian troops) defeated the French troops of Napoleon I in the Battle of Göhrde about 20 kilometers west of Dannenberg (Elbe) near Lüben (in the Lüneburg district) .

After 1819, individual buildings of the hunting lodge and in 1827 the castle itself were demolished. Only after the establishment of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1837 were some buildings renovated, and the Göhrde became a princely hunting ground again . From 1869 to 1913, the German emperors regularly hunted in the hunting lodge. After that, the hunting lodge was a recreation center for civil servants, a seminary and a military hospital . In 1957 the so-called Europahaus was built for conferences and seminars. In 1977 a guest house was built on the site of the demolished hunting lodge .

Construction of the Wendland Railway through the Göhrde with the Göhrde station in Breese (opening of the Buchholz – Lüneburg – Dannenberg – Wittenberge line in 1874), which still runs to Dannenberg, began as early as the middle of the 19th century . Since 1995, this connection has become known nationwide through the annual Castor transports to the Gorleben nuclear waste interim storage facility , which take this route to the Dannenberg loading station. The protests against these transports and the massive presence of the police have shaped the Wendland since then. Every year, residents offer their barns and houses to hundreds of people who oppose nuclear power . The nationwide anti-nuclear magazine anti atom aktuell has its editorial office in the Tollendorf district.

During the Cold War , Sarenseck was the location of a permanent deployment of the low-flying reporting and control service of the Air Force ( DEST TMLD ), IV. FmRgt / 33.

The railway line from Uelzen to Dannenberg further south was closed for passenger traffic in 1981 and completely shut down in the 1990s .

Until January 29, 1976, the name of the newly formed municipality in 1972 was Metzingen .

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the municipalities of Bredenbock, Dübbekold, Göhrde, Govelin, Plumbohm, Sarenseck, Schmardau, Schmessau, Tollendorf and Wedderien were incorporated into the new municipality of Metzingen.

Outsourcing

On July 1, 1972, small parts of the old community of Göhrde were ceded to the neighboring community of Himbergen ( Uelzen district ).

politics

The community of Göhrde belongs to the state electoral district 48 Elbe and to the federal electoral district 38 Lüchow-Dannenberg - Lüneburg .

Municipal council

The municipal council of Göhrde has nine members who have been divided into the following parties and electoral associations since the local elections in Lower Saxony in 2006 .

FDP - 4 seats
CDU - 2 seats
Green List Wendland - 2 seats
SPD - 1 seat

mayor

The mayor is currently the non-party Thomas Stegemann (re-elected in 2016).

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality shows St. Hubertus on horseback (gray) in the red field on a green background.

Culture and sights

The list of monuments in Göhrde includes all the monuments of the municipality of Göhrde.

Education has shaped the Göhrde for decades. The hunting lodge Göhrde served after the First World War only when officials convalescent home, then in the 1920s years as a seminary and later during the time of National Socialism as a training college for teachers. After 1946 a folk high school was also operated there. A new owner took over the castle in 2008 from the state of Lower Saxony with a new concept for a European seminar center, which is located in the region u. a. has remained controversial due to undetectable realization.

The Bildungsstätte Bahnhof Göhrde e.V. has been working in the former main building of the Kaiserbahnhof Göhrde in Breese since 1979 . V.

On the road between the districts of Göhrde and Dübbekold is the building, which was built in 1672 as the "Celler Stall" and belongs to the hunting lodge and has been used as a forest museum since 1985 . In 2010 the museum was completely revised, expanded and renamed Naturum Göhrde .

The Bredenbock district has a kindergarten.

Personalities

Holger Biege (1952–2018), composer, singer, pianist, arranger and lyricist; last lived in the district of Metzingen

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).

↑ ^a ^b ^c 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. 232 and 233 .

↑ Landtag constituencies from the 16th electoral term. Constituency division for the election to the Lower Saxony state parliament. Annex to § 10 para. 1 NLWG, p. 4. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note .; 87 kB).

↑ Description of the constituencies. Annex to Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the Federal Election Act. In: Eighteenth law amending the federal electoral law. Annex to Article 1. Bonn, March 18, 2008, p. 325. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; 200 kB).

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↑ Jagdschloss Göhrde ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2014 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. @1@ 2
↑ National newspaper
↑ Lower Saxony State Parliament Documentation System (NILAS) as of October 16, 2014
^ Educational facility at Göhrde station /
↑ Naturum Göhrde ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-NI-1] State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982-2] 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. 232 and 233 .