Gessel

Gessel City of Syke Coordinates: 52 ° 56 ′ 21 ″ N , 8 ° 48 ′ 15 ″ E
Area :	9.82 km²
Residents :	2297 (2006)
Population density :	234 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	28857
Area code :	04242
Location of Gessel in Lower Saxony

Gessel is a district of the town of Syke , district of Diepholz , Lower Saxony . Leerßen and Schorlingkamp belong to Gessel.

geography

Geographical location

Together with the Syker districts of Ristedt , Barrien and Okel, a northern area with the connection to the " Bremer Speckgürtel " is formed. In terms of population, Gessel is in 3rd place within the 13 Syker districts and in 8th place in terms of area (9.82 km²; for comparison: Syke = 17.24 km²).

Neighboring places

Neighbors are the Syker districts of Ristedt, Barrien and Syke (core area). The neighboring municipality of Syker Weyhe in the north has no point of contact with Gessel.

Ecclesiastically, Gessel with Ristedt, Leerßen, Barrien, Okel and Osterholz belongs to the parish of Barrien.

history

Gold hoard from Gessel

Before the construction of the NEL natural gas pipeline, the Bronze Age gold hoard of Gessel was discovered on April 7, 2011 during archaeological prospecting on the route in the Gesseler Feldmark . It is one of the largest prehistoric gold hoards in Central Europe .

In addition, a Germanic burial ground from the Roman Empire of the 2nd and 3rd centuries was discovered on March 22, 2011 near Gessel on the edge of an earlier settlement. In the area examined, there were 76 burials and around 60 other sites with remains of corpse burns. The burial ground contained, among other things, a Roman bronze vessel ( Hemmoorer bucket ) as an urn.

The old, traffic-calmed B6 in Syke-Gessel, it ends as a dead end

On March 1, 1974, the community Gessel was incorporated into the city of Syke.

Population development

1950: 1153 inhabitants
1961: 1179 inhabitants
1966: 1364 inhabitants
1970: 1315 inhabitants
1982: 1567 inhabitants
2006: 2297 inhabitants

Infrastructure

There is a Protestant parish hall in Gessel, but no church. The place had its own school (in Leerßen) until 1969, to which the Leerßen children went; on the other hand, the children of Gessel were sent to Barrien. Gessel has its own volunteer fire brigade (basic fire brigade ), which provides fire protection and general help. It is equipped with a portable pump vehicle (TSF) and a crew transport vehicle equipped (MTF).

traffic

Gessel is away from major traffic flows. The next federal road, the B 6 , runs 1 km away through Barrien and creates connections to the north (Bremen, to the A 1 and the A 27 ) and to the south (Hanover, to the A 2 ).
The former railway station (since 1972 only a stopping point) of the Deutsche Bahn, also 1 km away, north of the Barrier town center, is on the Wanne-Eickel – Hamburg railway line .

Streets and paths

By 1974 all Gesseler streets and some of the paths were given names. When it was incorporated into Syke that year, some Gesseler streets had to be renamed in order to avoid double names. There are a total of 51 streets and paths in Gessel (including Leerßen and Schorlingkamp) that have names.

The three well-developed main roads that cut the town and divide it into different areas are:

the street "Am Spreeken / An der Wassermühle" (K 122) runs east to Barrien
the "Leerßer Straße" (K 122) runs from Gessel in a southerly direction through Leerßen to Syke
the "Syker Straße" runs south through the "Altdorf Gessel" to Syke

Gessel is located on the Jakobsweg in northern Germany in the area of the section between Bremen and Osnabrück . For the closer area, the route runs from Barrien over the Hohe Berg in Leerßen, via Sörhausen, Fesenfeld, Gräfinghausen, Klosterseelte and Dünsen to Harpstedt .

Attractions

The forest areas “Gesseler Fuhren” and “Gesseler Spreken” (popularly: “Gesseler Spreeken”), in which specimens of the wild-growing orchid Broad-leaved Stendelwurz ( Epipactis helleborine ) bloom from mid-July to mid-August .
From Leerßer Berg (54.7 m above sea level ) you have a wide view of the Hachetal to the east .
Under conservation standing Schlatts in Schorlingkamp are the Möhring-Schlatt that Leerßener Schlatt Schlatt and in Leerßens moorland
War memorial in Gessel on Syker Strasse. It contains the names of 17 fallen from World War I and the names of 28 fallen and 10 missing from World War II . (see Gessel war memorials )
War memorial in Leer on "Leerßer Strasse". It contains the names of 11 fallen and missing persons from the First World War and the names of 19 fallen and 8 missing persons from the Second World War. (see Leerßen war memorials )

literature

Heinz-Hermann Böttcher, Heiner Büntemeyer, Hermann Greve , Wilfried Meyer: Syke and umzu. Syke 1983, pp. 121-128. ISBN 3-923965-00-1
Hermann Greve, Gabriele Ullrich : 13 times Syke. A historical reading tour. Almedia, Delmenhorst 1992, pp. 22-30.
Hermann Greve, Klaus Fischer (photos): Cityscapes from Syke. Leipzig 1996, p. 41. ISBN 3-931554-13-9
Hermann Greve, Gabriele Ullrich: On the way ... in Syke. A culture and nature travel guide for Syke and its districts. A guide through the Hachestadt. Nature - culture - history. Fischerhude 2002, pp. 44-59. ISBN 3-88132-305-8
Author collective: 800 years of Gessel - Leerßen. A chronicle of the localities. Edited by Local councilor Gessel. Syke-Gessel, Syke 2011.

Individual evidence

↑ Gold find: Once a gift for the gods? in: Kreiszeitung.de from October 25, 2011
↑ Ulf Buchert: A burial ground of the Roman Empire near Gessel in: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony 1/2012.
↑ ^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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 191 .

Web links

Commons : Syke-Gessel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Gessel's private website

[1] Gold find: Once a gift for the gods? in: Kreiszeitung.de from October 25, 2011

[2] Ulf Buchert: A burial ground of the Roman Empire near Gessel in: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony 1/2012.

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982-3] 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. 191 .