Grafhorst

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '  N , 10 ° 57'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Helmstedt
Joint municipality :	Velpke
Height :	58 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.65 km 2
Residents:	1048 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	109 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	38462
Area code :	05364
License plate :	HE
Community key :	03 1 54 007
Address of the municipal administration:	Grafhorster Strasse 6 38458 Velpke
Website :	www.grafhorst.de
Mayor :	Klaus Wenzel ( SPD )
Location of the community Grafhorst in the district of Helmstedt

Grafhorst is a municipality in the Helmstedt district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a member municipality of the Velpke joint municipality .

geography

Grafhorst lies between the Elm-Lappwald and Drömling an der Aller nature parks . Part of the community lies in the Drömling.

Elisabeth Church

history

The community was first mentioned in a document in 1212. The origin of the name is not clear. The name part Graf- like other places in the area could have a Slavic origin, where grab or hrab stands for white beech . Likewise, the place name could have been taken over from a desolate Slavic village Grabow. The part of the name Horst indicates an elevated place in the settlement on the edge of the Drömling lowland area .

To the north of Grafhorst, west of today's road to Breitenrode , there was a fortification in the former marshland, which was probably an early medieval refuge . In 1898 an archaeological excavation took place on the site . An oval structure with a diameter of 45 × 65 m was discovered, which was once surrounded by a moat and a wall. Pieces of masonry, animal bones and pottery shards were found in the ground. After the end of the Second World War, until reunification, the place lay directly on the inner-German border , which was formed here by the Aller.

politics

advice

Council election 2016

Turnout 65.5%

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

52.1

38.3

9.7

SPD

CDU

Green

Gains and losses

compared to 2011

 % p

 10

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-8.0

-1.6

+9.7

SPD

CDU

Green

Current distribution of seats in the council

   

A total of 9 seats

• SPD : 5
• CDU : 3rd
• Greens : 1

The council is the municipal representative of the community of Grafhorst. Every five years, citizens decide on the allocation of the nine seats in a general, direct, free, equal and secret ballot. In the 2016 municipal elections, the SPD received five seats, the CDU three and the Greens one seat.

mayor

The honorary mayor Klaus Wenzel was re-elected in 2011.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Grafhorst is located directly on the federal highway 244 , which leads from Helmstedt to Wittingen .

Until 1945 Grafhorst had a station on the Wittingen – Oebisfelde railway line , and from 1953 to 1955 on the Schandelah – Oebisfelde railway line .

Religions

The Evangelical Lutheran Elisabeth Church is located in Grafhorst . On January 1st, 2017 the parish of Grafhorst merged with the parish of Danndorf to form the parish of Danndorf-Grafhorst. For the Catholic residents, the St. Mary's Church is in Velpke, five kilometers away .

Personalities

• Georg Wenzel, honorary citizen and politician

See also

• Southern Drömling
• Politz and Hegholz

Web links

Commons : Grafhorst, Germany  - 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. ^ Grafhorst - Das Dorf am Drömling , Helmstedt, 2001
3. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2016 Samtgemeinde Velpke
4. ^ Official gazette of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig, edition of November 15, 2016, accessed on March 25, 2018.