Gelliehausen

Gelliehausen Unified community equals
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 31 ″  N , 10 ° 3 ′ 18 ″  E
Height :	254 m
Residents :	426  (May 4, 2015)
Incorporation :	1st January 1973
Postal code :	37130
Area code :	05508
The district of Gelliehausen in the center of the municipality of Gleichen
Town view from the northeast

Gelliehausen is a part of the municipality of Gleichen in the district of Göttingen . The cluster village has 426 inhabitants (as of May 4, 2015).

Directly southwest of Gelliehausen rise Die Gleichen , a pair of mountains 430 meters high.

history

During the 17th century, Gelliehausen was part of the patrimonial Altenleichen in the Guelph Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . While the upper ownership remained with the sovereign, the aristocratic family of Uslar-Gleichen received the patrimonial court and all accessories in 1381 as a fief . They appeared as patrons of the church, landlords and landowners in the village until the Landgraves of Hesse appeared in 1451 and claimed the open quarter that the Lords of Uslar-Gleichen did not own. On January 1, 1973 Gelliehausen was incorporated into the new municipality of Gleichen.

In 1987 Gelliehausen was the winner (bronze) in the national competition Our village has a future (formerly “Our village should become more beautiful”) (see list of winners in the national competition Our village has a future ).

politics

Local council

The local council consists of five councilors and councilors.

• SPD : 4 seats
• Free community of voters equals: 1 seat

(As of: local election on September 11, 2011 )

Local mayor

The local mayor of Gelliehausen is Andreas Heidemann.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In silver (white) over green Two mountain growing two red castles with blue roofs; the right with a round pointed tower and a lower extension, the left with a mighty higher main tower accompanied by two side towers; a red pinnacle bar floating above. "

Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms designed by Otto Rössler von Wildenhain was approved by the President of the Prussian Province of Hanover on December 15, 1937. It symbolizes the two earlier castles of the same age ; the alternating battlements and the colors silver and red come from the coat of arms of the Lords of Uslar-Gleichen, who ruled over the area and the castles from 1270.

religion

The Evangelical Lutheran Church is in the village. Pancratiikirche. The altar painting in the church was created by the artist Johannes Heisig in 2002.

Since 2009 the ev.-luth. Gelliehausen parish together with the parishes from Beienrode, Benniehausen, Kerstlingerode, Rittmarshausen and Wöllmarshausen to form a parish association called “Ev.-luth. Parish Association of the Oberes Gartetal ”.

Personalities

• Gottfried August Bürger (1747–1794), poet, worked from 1772 to 1784 as a bailiff in the administrative building in Gelliehausen. He lived in Gelliehausen from 1772 to 1773 and in Wöllmarshausen from 1774 to 1784 .

Web links

Commons : Gelliehausen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gelliehausen on the website of the municipality of Gleichen
• Website of the district of Gelliehausen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} residents of the municipality of Gleichen (as of May 4, 2015), accessed on March 3, 2016
2. ^ Anna-Carolina Vogel: "Et qualis pastor talis et auditor". Lines of conflict between pastor, congregation and authorities using the example of pastor Andreas Backhaus . In: Michaela Fenske (Ed.): Everyday life as politics - politics in everyday life . Lit Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10836-4 , pp. 491 .
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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 208 .
4. ↑ Local councils  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the community of Gleichen, accessed on December 24, 2016 (PDF)  
5. ^ Göttingen district archive, coats of arms of the localities of the municipality of Gleichen and their descriptions, email from April 24, 2019, municipality of Gleichen
6. ↑ Ev.-luth. Parish of St. Pancratii, Gelliehausen