Giesen

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Coat of arms of the community of Giesen
Giesen
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Coordinates: 52 ° 12 '  N , 9 ° 54'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Hildesheim
Height : 86 m above sea level NHN
Area : 33.91 km 2
Residents: 9696 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 286 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 31180
Primaries : 05121, 05066
License plate : HI, ALF
Community key : 03 2 54 017
LOCODE : DE NZG
Community structure: 5 localities
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Rathausstrasse 27
31180 Giesen
Website : www.giesen.de
Mayor : Andreas Lücke ( CDU )
Location of the community of Giesen in the Hildesheim district
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Giesen is a municipality in the Hildesheim district in Lower Saxony , located on the Innerste on the northern edge of the Weser-Leine mountainous region. The main village of the municipality is Giesen , also giving its name to the Giesen mountains .

geography

Geographical location

Giesen lies directly west of the Innerste and immediately north of the Giesen mountains at an altitude of 70-100 meters. The municipality borders in a clockwise direction, starting in the northeast with Harsum , Hildesheim , Nordstemmen and Sarstedt . The situation at the Innerste turned out to be problematic in October 2007, as in the villages of Giesen (in the former Klein Giesen) and Ahrbergen numerous cellars, the entire Ahrberg Forest and an entire industrial area were flooded during the flood of the century .

Community structure

Giesen has five villages:

  • Ahrbergen : 2200 inhabitants (−23)
  • Emmerke : 1752 inhabitants (+39)
  • Giesen : 3370 inhabitants (−34) (Groß Giesen, Klein Giesen; Siegfried , former workers' settlement at the potash plant)
  • Groß Förste : 789 inhabitants (−2)
  • Hasede : 1604 inhabitants (+7)

(As of December 31, 2019, the changes compared to the previous year in brackets)

history

The community of Giesen was created on March 1, 1974 by merging the communities of Ahrbergen, Emmerke, Groß Förste, Groß Giesen, Hasede and Klein Giesen. The oldest of these places is Emmerke. The 1150th anniversary was celebrated there in 2004.

History of religion

The high proportion of Catholics, which is atypical for Eastern Lower Saxony, is due to its historical affiliation with the Little Hildesheim Monastery . The villages of today's municipality of Giesen, like Harsum, belonged to the monastery villages .

Since November 1st, 2014 the Catholic churches St. Maria, Mutter der Kirche and St. Peter and Paul (both Ahrbergen), St. Pankratius (Groß Förste), St. Vitus (Groß Giesen), St. Andreas (Hasede) belong , St. Johannes (in Klein Förste belonging to Harsum ) and St. Martin (Klein Giesen) to the parish of St. Vitus with its seat in Groß Giesen. The St. Martinus Church in Emmerke, however, belongs to the Hildesheim parish of St. Martinus .

Demographics

age structure

A share of 18% of the population is younger than 18 years, 26% older than 60.

Gender share

4874 inhabitants are female, 4841 male (as of the end of 2019).

Proportion of foreigners

In 2019, 525 foreigners lived in the community.

Births and deaths

The community reported 79 newborns and 89 deaths for 2019.

politics

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Municipal council

The municipal council of the municipality of Giesen consists of 24 councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 9,001 and 10,000. The 24 council members are elected by local elections for five years each. The current term of office began on November 1, 2011 and ends on October 31, 2016.

The full-time mayor Andreas Lücke (CDU) is also entitled to vote in the council of the municipality.

The last local election on September 11, 2011 resulted in the following:

mayor

The full-time mayor of the community of Giesen is Andreas Lücke (CDU). In the last mayoral election on May 25, 2014, he was re-elected as incumbent with 58.5% of the vote. His opponent Petra Heidemann received 41.5%. The turnout was 58.9%. Lücke began his further term on November 1, 2014.

coat of arms

Giesen coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality shows a shield, which is divided by a silver bar with a row of red monkshood. The upper green half of the shield is divided into three by two silver battlements rising at an angle to the left. The fields contain from right to left in silver: a lily, a mill wheel and three hare spoons forming an equilateral triangle. The lower half of the shield shows five red nails on a gold background.

The coat of arms was created in 1974 when the community of Giesen was founded. It is made up of the six coats of arms of the villages of Ahrbergen , Emmerke , Groß Giesen , Klein Giesen , Groß Förste and Hasede :

  • the red nails and the yellow background from the coat of arms of Groß Giesen
  • the lily from the coat of arms of Klein Giesen
  • the mill wheel from the coat of arms of Groß Förste
  • the triangular rabbit ears from the Hasede coat of arms
  • the 45-degree battlements from the Emmerke coat of arms
  • The horizontal bar in red and silver from the coat of arms of Ahrbergen - however, the colors red and silver were swapped.
  • The green background of the upper part comes from both the Hasede coat of arms and the coat of arms of Groß Förste.
  • The silver color of the upper ornaments comes from the coat of arms of Groß Förste as well as from the coat of arms of Klein Giesen.

flag

The flag of the municipality is in the colors green and gold.

Community partnerships

There has been a partnership with Chabanais in France since 1976 . The partnership is a registered association and officially belongs to the institution of the community of Giesen.

Culture and sights

Catholic Church of St. Martin

Museums

  • Giesen local history museum, Rathausstrasse 42
  • Ahrbergen local history museum, Krugstrasse 4

Buildings

Nature reserves

Sports

The TSV Giesen is represented in the German Volleyball 1. Bundesliga men.

economy

According to the regional spatial planning program, Giesen is a basic center with the special development tasks of housing and commerce.

traffic

The district of Emmerke is on the Lehrte – Nordstemmen railway line , but is over four kilometers from the other districts. The stop is served by the S 4 line of the Hanover S-Bahn and the NordWestBahn . The districts of the community are connected to each other and to the cities of Sarstedt and Hildesheim by the Hildesheim regional bus routes (RVHi) . The former Hanover-Hildesheim tram line was abandoned in 1958. The Federal Highway 6 and the national road 1 perform the municipality.

Established businesses

Wetterberg waste dump

The largest company in Giesen has long been the company K + S with the mine Siegfried whose Kali - slag heap is visible from afar. The Mettler Toledo Garvens GmbH presents with over 160 employees, dynamic weighing ago, and the company Völsing is known as one of Europe's leading manufacturer of urns.

Public facilities

Educational institutions

  • Giesen-Hasede primary school
  • Ahrbergen primary school
  • Primary School Emmerke

Social facilities

Giesen senior citizens' residential park

The Giesen senior citizens' home is divided into a retirement and nursing home with 72 places and a residential complex with 24 assisted retirement homes for senior citizens in the community of Giesen and the northern district of Hildesheim. The home provides care measures as fully inpatient care, temporary short-term care and preventive care. The privately owned facility, built in 2003, is centrally located in Giesen and is the employer for around 60 employees, mainly in social and domestic professions.

Others

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Personalities associated with this church

  • Erich Riebartsch (1902–1986), Roman Catholic theologian, was a parish cooperator in Groß Giesen
  • Heinrich Biermann (1938–2003), architect and politician (CDU), lived in Klein-Giesen
  • Werner Buß (* 1945), politician (SPD), lived in the Hasede district
  • Michael Weiner (* 1969), soccer referee, lives in the Hasede district
  • Jan Stöß (* 1973), SPD politician, grew up in Giesen
  • Tobias Willers (* 1987), soccer player, comes from Hasede

Web links

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

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. ↑ Giesener Gemeindebote 16.01.20. P. 2 , accessed January 26, 2020 .
  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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 209 .
  4. ^ Municipality of Giesen - results of local elections on September 11, 2011 , accessed on November 13, 2014
  5. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on November 13, 2014
  6. ↑ Individual results of the direct elections on May 25, 2014 in Lower Saxony ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 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. , accessed November 8, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landeswahlleiter.niedersachsen.de
  7. ↑ a b Main statutes of the municipality of Giesen , accessed on November 13, 2014
  8. ^ "About us" on the homepage of the German-French partnership Giesen eV. Accessed on April 26, 2019, 00:01
  9. ↑ "Haseder Busch" nature reserve in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN) , accessed on November 13, 2014
  10. ^ "Entenfang" nature reserve in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN) , accessed on November 13, 2014