Gebhardshagen

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Gebhardshagen
City of Salzgitter
Coat of arms of Salzgitter-Gebhardshagen
Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 23 ″  N , 10 ° 21 ′ 29 ″  E
Height : 118 m
Area : 21.24 km²
Residents : 6906  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 325 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1942
Incorporated into: Watenstedt-Salzgitter
Postal code : 38229
Area code : 05341
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Location of Gebhardshagen in Salzgitter

Gebhardshagen is one of the total of 31 districts of the independent city of Salzgitter in Lower Saxony , located in the village of West . It is the fourth largest district of Salzgitter and is located in the city center. Gebhardshagen belonged to the Wolfenbüttel district until March 31, 1942 and became part of the city of Watenstedt-Salzgitter through an administrative act on April 1, 1942. On January 23, 1951, it was officially renamed Salzgitter .

geography

Gebhardshagen is located between Salzgitter-Salder (in the north) and Salzgitter-Engerode and Calbecht (in the south) on the north-south road , an expressway that connects Salzgitter's largest districts of Lebenstedt and Bad . The municipality of Haverlah is located west of Gebhardshagen .

history

Ringwall Gebhardshagen
Gebhardshagen around 1654/1658, engraving by Matthäus Merian

Ringwall Gebhardshagen

Finds that were discovered in the summer of 2017 while digging a pit for a storage building indicate an early historical settlement in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD within Gebhardshagen. During an excavation , ceramic shards, stones and animal bones were found in earlier garbage or storage pits .

The place was probably built at the beginning of the 11th century under the protection of a previous building of today's Gebhardshagen Castle . The fortifications served to protect a trade route that led over a nearby pass of the Salzgitter ridge . The castle was the ancestral seat of the noble family von Hagen , the first mention of which is in a document from June 17, 1129, in which King Lothar III. confirmed a land swap between the Goslar Cathedral Monastery and the Riechenberg Monastery . In this document, a Cuonradus de Indagine (Latin, in German: Konrad von Hagen) is mentioned for the first time .

The Gebhardshagen ring wall, documented by Carl Schuchhardt in 1915, is located in the forest near the pass . As in other places, it was probably an early medieval refuge .

The place name is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1235, in which a pastor Heinrich from Hagen ( Heinricus plebanus de Indagine ) is mentioned. Later the nickname Gebhard was added, which was based on the first name that was widely used in the von Bortfeld family as a lieutenant. In the 16th century, Duke Heinrich the Younger of Braunschweig set up the Gebhardshagen office, to which he transferred parts of the Salder office. After Engerode, Calbecht , Leinde and Lobmachtersen were added in 1542 , and Heerte followed in 1647 . The official seat was Gebhardshagen Castle. According to the description of the Merian engraving, around 1650 there were three water mills in the village and one outside of the village.

Between the Peace of Tilsit in 1807 and the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in 1813, the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg belonged to the Kingdom of Westphalia . Gebhardshagen was assigned to the Oker department in the Braunschweig district and formed the canton of the same name .

The population Gebhard Hagens existed until the 19th century farmers, artisans and peasants, which in winter due to the production of panniers and broom-making procured extra income. In the 20th century, the newly emerging industry led to the settlement of mining families, some from Silesia . The last mine ( Haverlahwiese mine ) was closed in 1982.

Gebhardshagen Castle

Gebhardshagen Castle

Gebhardshagen Castle , built in the 12th century, was the ancestral seat of the von Hagen family. They sat in the castle until their family died out in 1280. Then the complex came into the possession of the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . At the beginning of the 14th century during the reign of the Lords of Bortfeld , the name of the castle Hagen was expanded. The first name Gebhard, which is common in the family, was added, so that the castle was called Gebhardshagen. The place settled in the vicinity of the castle was called Hagen until the 16th century. Only then was it renamed Gebhardshagen to distinguish it from the Brunswick village of Hagen and Nienhagen and Steinhagen as other possessions of von Bortfeld.

On May 22nd, 1406, troops of Hildesheim Bishop Johann III. von Hoya , Heinrich von Bortfeld and Burghard von Cramm , the walls of Gebhardshagen Castle and took them. Then it was rebuilt. In the Thirty Years War Gebhardshagen was overrun and destroyed first by the imperial , then by the troops of Duke Georg, then again by the imperial and finally by the Swedes. When the castle was last captured in 1637, it was destroyed and burned down. The reconstruction took place in the second half of the 17th century. Since that time the castle has been run as a domain . Today the buildings are owned by the city of Salzgitter.

Population development

Sources: The population figures from 1821 to 2000 are based on the statistical yearbook of the Department for Economics and Statistics of the city of Salzgitter. The population statistics from 2001 are based on the monthly statistical reports of the city of Salzgitter (residents with main residence) according to the population register at the end of December.

religion

In Gebhardshagen there are the two Protestant churches St. Nicolai and Heilig-Kreuz . The Catholic Church of St. Gabriel was built in 1953; This includes the neighboring Maria im Tann nursing home, which opened in 1959 .

The New Apostolic Church was closed, and the regional church community in Hardeweg no longer exists. The buildings of these religious communities are used privately today.

Evangelical St. Nicolai Church

St. Nicolai Church
Holy Cross Church
St. Gabriel Church

According to the description of the Merian engraving, the church that still exists today was built in 1621 on the site of a wooden chapel from 1410 that had become too small; more recent sources date the construction to the time between 1614 and 1619. This new church was called St. Nicolaus - "a completely new church was built with a beautiful high tower." After the Corpus Bonorum , the church was renewed in 1667. The originally octagonal pointed tower, which was struck by lightning and destroyed in 1791, was not rebuilt until 1809-1811, for reasons of cost at a lower height and with a flatter roof. In 1862–64 (other sources mention 1860–1862) the church received a new transept and choir, which was built in the Romanesque style. From the old church only part of the tower and the nave are preserved.

Since 1660, the Protestant communities in the neighboring villages of Gebhardshagen, Calbecht and Engerode have been united in the Gebhardshagen parish association, which belongs to the Salzgitter-Bad Provostry. In the summer of 2017, the three parishes of the parish association merged to form the Gebhardshagen-Calbecht-Engerode parish.

Evangelical Church Center Heilig Kreuz

In the years after the Second World War , Gebhardhagen's population had increased significantly. The regional church office therefore called another pastor to Gebhardshagen in 1947 to support the parish service. In June 1958 this position was converted into the regular pastor's office "Gebhardshagen II". The first services took place in a barrack on Sonnenbergweg. On October 30, 1960, the foundation stone was laid for a separate church, which was consecrated on December 17, 1961 and was given the name "Holy Cross Church". Since the property was not big enough for several buildings, the parish rooms were placed on the ground floor, the actual church on the tent-like upper floor. The steel bell tower next to the church building was not put into operation until 1966.

Catholic Church of St. Gabriel

Due to the influx of numerous employees as part of the development of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring , the number of Catholics in the area of ​​today's Salzgitter rose sharply. In the spring of 1941, parts of the Wolfenbüttel parish were separated as independent vicarages , together with the surrounding villages Gebhardshagen formed the vicariate "Wolfenbüttel Land IV", which in 1941 already had 1214 Catholics. Johannes Wosnitza , who later became the Chapter of Honorary Cathedral, was called to Gebhardshagen as the first pastor . Initially the services took place in the pastor's apartment, from March 1943 an empty room in a restaurant could be used. When this was destroyed in an air raid in November 1944, the congregation was allowed to use the premises of the Protestant St. Nicolai Church. From summer 1945 the services took place in different rooms of the school on the Sonnenberg.

It was not until 1953 that the construction of its own church began and on December 13, 1953, the St. Gabriel Church was consecrated by the Hildesheim bishop Joseph Godehard Machens . The construction of a bell tower had been postponed for cost reasons; this was only completed in May 1982. The church is now a branch church of the Catholic parish of St. Marien in Salzgitter-Bad.

New Apostolic Church

The first New Apostolic family moved to Gebhardshagen in 1939. From 1948, church services were held in Gebhardshagen, initially in a private house and later in the assembly hall of the Sonnenberg School. On May 18, 1972, the church at Zwölfackerweg 1 was consecrated and belonged to the Braunschweig church district. The last service took place there on December 19, 2007. The church was closed, the nearest New Apostolic churches are now in Salzgitter-Bad and Lebenstedt.

politics

Local council

coat of arms

The battlements and the two crossed lily bars stand for Gebhardshagen Castle, which has been documented since the 13th century, and its owner. The noblemen of Hagen, who derived their name from the original place name, initially sat at this castle. The castle served as the ducal-Braunschweig official seat from 1539 to 1807. The reason for the coat of arms of the white bordered window - it can still be found on the castle wall today - is intended to give everyone a view of the public events taking place behind the old walls today .

The coat of arms was adopted on December 5, 2002 by the local council west of the city of Salzgitter as the coat of arms of Salzgitter-Gebhardshagen.

Economy and Infrastructure

Gebhardshagen has a small-town infrastructure with a few small supermarkets and specialist shops, kindergartens, three churches, a post office, banks, car repair shops, restaurants, ice cream parlors, pubs and kiosks, a police station and a fire station , a student dormitory, with a connection to the bus network, with doctors and pharmacies, with clubs, sports fields and a heated forest swimming pool operated by SV-Glück-Auf, renovated in 2005. With the artificial turf pitch completed in autumn 2009, SV-Glück-Auf Gebhardshagen expanded its sports facilities. There are two schools in Gebhardshagen. The Gebhardshagen Realschule was only converted from a secondary school into a Realschule in 2004. The medieval market hustle and bustle Spectaculum gebhardi hagensis , which has been taking place in the castle on the last weekend since 2014, is intended to convey a special historical meaning to citizens of the area and the place.

Personalities

Lattemannsches Haus, built in 1663, birthplace of Hermann Lattemann

literature

  • Alfred Meinecke: The history of the castle and domain Gebhardshagen (=  contributions to the city history. 2, ZDB -ID 1429095-9 ). Archive of the City of Salzgitter, Salzgitter 1988.
  • Reinhard Försterling, Sigrid Lux, Gudrun Pischke: Calbecht, Engerode, Gebhardshagen, Heerte. West town in old views . Archive of the City of Salzgitter, Salzgitter 2003, ISBN 3-930292-15-7 , p. 127-375 (Gebhardshagen) .
  • Gudrun Pischke (Red.): Local home maintenance in the city of Salzgitter . Archive of the City of Salzgitter, Salzgitter 1992, p. 54–60 (History of Gebhardshagen) .
  • Church buildings in Salzgitter . In: Department for Public Relations of the City of Salzgitter (Ed.): Salzgitter Forum . tape 12 , 1986, pp. 21-24 and 73-74 .
  • Literature on Gebhardshagen catalog of the DNB .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Accidental discovery: Shards indicate an ancient settlement ( memento from August 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) at ndr.de from July 21, 2017
  2. ^ Early historical fragments discovered ( memento from August 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) at the city of Salzgitter from July 21, 2017
  3. ^ Department for economics and statistics: Statistical yearbook of the city of Salzgitter. City of Salzgitter, accessed on February 22, 2020 (total number of eligible residents (main and secondary residence) © City of Salzgitter).
  4. ^ Department for Economics and Statistics: Monthly Statistical Reports of the City of Salzgitter. City of Salzgitter, accessed on February 22, 2020 (Population at the location of the main residence © City of Salzgitter).
  5. ^ A b Försterling: Ortschaft West , p. 190.
  6. ↑ Church buildings in Salzgitter , p. 24.
  7. ↑ Salzgitter-Zeitung from January 15, 2018
  8. ^ Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch . Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , p. 35 .
  9. ^ Background to the Spectaculum . Förderverein Wasserburg Gebhardshagen e. V .. July 30, 2015. Retrieved September 9, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Gebhardshagen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Gebertshagen in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts