Grafelde

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Grafelde
Sibbesse parish
Grafelde coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 24 ″  N , 9 ° 55 ′ 21 ″  E
Height : 185 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.56 km²
Residents : 236  (Jan. 1, 1973)
Population density : 42 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Incorporated into: Adenstedt
Postal code : 31079
Area code : 05065
Grafelde (Lower Saxony)
Grafelde

Location of Grafelde in Lower Saxony
Lady Chapel in Grafelde
Lady Chapel in Grafelde

Grafelde is a district of Adenstedt in the municipality of Sibbesse in the district of Hildesheim , Lower Saxony , Germany.

geography

location

Grafelde is located between the Seven Mountains in the northwest, the Hildesheimer Wald in the north, the Heber in the south-southeast and the Sackwald in the southwest. From the municipality you can take the L 469 through the Sackwald over the "Adenstedter Berg" to Alfeld to the west .

Local division

Grafelde, Sellenstedt and the core town of Adenstedts together form the district of Adenstedt in the municipality of Sibbesse.

history

In the oldest documents Grafelde was mentioned around the year 1000 as "Grafla" or "Graflon". These names mean something like "grave" or "graveyard". The Marienkloster from Hildesheim used to have larger property on site. A particularly beautiful late Gothic altar shrine has been preserved in the chapel, which was in Grafelde before the Reformation.

At the beginning of the 20th century Grafelde had 210 inhabitants.

On March 1, 1974, the formerly independent municipality of Grafelde was incorporated into the municipality of Adenstedt. The Sibbesse community , to which Adenstedt also belonged, was created on April 1, 1974 as part of the local regional reform in Lower Saxony .

Grafelde, a district of Adenstedt, belonged to 31 December 2004 the Region of Hanover , which was dissolved as a result of administrative reform at the end of this date.

On November 1, 2016, the Sibbesse Congregation was dissolved and transformed into the Sibbesse Unified Congregation.

politics

Local councilor and local mayor

Grafelde is represented at the local level by the Adenstedt local council.

coat of arms

The former rural community Grafelde was the municipal coat of arms on August 10, 1938 the Provincial President of the Province of Hanover awarded. The district administrator from Alfeld presented it on March 14, 1939.

Grafelde coat of arms
 Blazon : "In the green shield , divided by a silver diagonal thread , above a golden , two-leaf beech branch with an open, silver, four-leaf fruit cup, inside the golden booknuts , and below a golden, awned and leafy rye ear ."
Foundation of the coat of arms: The district of the farming village Grafelde consists of half forest and half of arable land, which form the basis of the community's prosperity. So it made sense to anchor both symbolically in the coat of arms. The ear of rye symbolizes arable farming as a main fruit of the people's diet and the beech rice symbolizes the magnificent stands of the community forests.

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • The Protestant Marienkapelle in Grafelde, which has a roof turret instead of a tower , was built from rubble stones with corner blocks made of sandstone. It stands on a sandstone base and is u. a. Worth seeing because of its late Gothic winged altar from the end of the 15th century. It was restored in 1896, 1928 and 1954. The core of the chapel is Romanesque; a Christ head from this period has been preserved above the entrance. The eastern part of the chapel, the slightly raised choir, was built in 1512 in the Gothic style, as indicated by the year on the southeast corner. The extraordinarily massive walls of the chapel and the small windows in the gable, reminiscent of loopholes, suggest that it also served as a fortified church. In the outer wall of the Gothic part, there is a niche under a window with Gothic tracery, in which possibly originally a figure of a saint stood. Inside the chapel, to the left of the brick altar, there is a stone baptismal font with heavily weathered reliefs , which was made in 1511 and originally stood outside the chapel. The beamed ceiling of the chapel was installed in 1753.

  • Lady Chapel rear view

  • Lady Chapel interior view with altar shrine

Web links

Commons : Grafelde  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Community directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 28 ( digital copy [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on September 18, 2019] Alfeld district (Leine)).
  2. ^ History of the village of Adenstedt / Grafelde. In: Sibbesse parish website. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Max Broesike, Wilhelm Keil (eds.): Neumann's Gazetteer lexicon of the German Reich . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1905, p. 331 .
  4. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p.  204 .
  5. ↑ Lower Saxony State Chancellery (ed.): Law on the reorganization of the community Sibbesse, district Hildesheim . Lower Saxony Law and Ordinance Gazette (Nds. GVBl.). No.  19/2015 . Hanover November 12, 2015, p. 304 ( digitized version ( memento from July 5, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 464 kB ; accessed on July 9, 2019] p. 6).
  6. ↑ Local reorganization. In: Sibbesse parish website. Retrieved June 30, 2017 .
  7. ^ A b Wilhelm Barner : Coat of arms and seal of the Alfeld district . Rebinding. Lax GmbH & Co. KG, Hildesheim 1998 ( digitized version of the text part of the first edition from 1940 [PDF; 10.0 MB ; accessed on June 10, 2019]).
  8. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bremen, Lower Saxony . Ed .: Dehio Association. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p.  552 .