Grasdorf (Holle)

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Grass village
Holle municipality
Grasdorf coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 27 ″  N , 10 ° 9 ′ 41 ″  E
Height : 100 m
Residents : 823  (Nov. 30, 2017)
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 31188
Area code : 05062

Grasdorf is a village in the municipality of Holle in the district of Hildesheim in the state of Lower Saxony ( Germany ). On March 1, 1974, Grasdorf was incorporated into the municipality of Holle.

location

Ev. Nikolaikirche Grasdorf
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Ev. Nikolaikirche Grasdorf
Catholic Marienkirche Grasdorf
Marienkirche Grasdorf

Grasdorf is situated in a beautiful landscape in the Harz foreland between the Hildesheimer Börde and the Wohldenberg .

The proximity to the motorways 7 and 39 as well as the federal highways 6 and 444 ensures good transport connections. Bus connections or the Derneburg train station are available as public transport.

The favorable traffic situation has led to the fact that many commuters have settled in Grasdorf who do their work in the metropolitan areas. The townscape is also shaped by farms and the industrial area that has arisen on the eastern edge of the town.

politics

After the municipal elections in Lower Saxony in 2016 , the seven seats in the local council are distributed as follows (changes to the 2011 election in brackets ):

  • SPD : 4 seats (± 0)
  • CDU : 3 seats (± 0)

coat of arms

A bell on a red background with the Wohldenberger tournament collar above it. The bell of the Grasdorf coat of arms was in today's Protestant church, which is mentioned as early as 1179 as a chapel in the bannus Lamspringe . The Romanesque bell with a diameter of 1.04 m shows the eye of the crown as ribbon decorations. The coat of arms is reminiscent of another bell from the 13th century, which is now in the Roman Museum in Hildesheim . The tournament collar above the bell is taken from the Wohldenberg coat of arms and draws attention to the period from 1523 to 1643 when Grasdorf and the Wohldenberg office belonged to the Brunswick duke after the Hildesheim collegiate feud .

history

Numerous excavation finds on the Grasdorfer Oheberg already show camps and hunting grounds from the Stone Age. Other finds suggest settlements as well as border and ramparts from the time of the Franks .

The first written mention with the name Gravesthorp at the time comes from 1131. Gradually, in the 12th century, the Derneburg monastery developed into the largest landowner in Grasdorf. The chapel built in 1330 by Bishop Otto II (today the Catholic Church) also acquired large estates, so that at that time almost all of Grasdorf was under the influence of the church.

In the years that followed, Grasdorf suffered particularly from this influence due to the wars of religion. After the Hildesheim collegiate feud and the Reformation , the place was often haunted by troops traveling through, who plundered the pantries.

During the Thirty Years War , the Count of Tilly's troops set fire to all Lutheran villages, and in 1641 the imperial general Piccolomini set up camp on Wohldenberg and also sacked Grasdorf.

In addition to all the wars, there was also an environmental poisoning that lasted for centuries, caused by ore mining in the Harz Mountains, which poisoned the meadows at the innermost with its lead-containing sewage.

After the Reformation, the Brunswick government left the Grasdorf chapel unused, so that it gradually weathered. In the course of the Counter Reformation , the dilapidated church was gradually restored from 1701 onwards . At the beginning of the 18th century, the Grasdorfer replaced the houses destroyed in the war with handsome half-timbered buildings in the northern Thuringian style.

Around 1840 the Grasdorfer farmers were able to replace the tithe , which until then had to be paid to the Counts of Münster . The redemption sum of 20,000 thalers in gold was delivered to the Gräflich-Münsterische Gutsverwaltung in the horse-drawn “pastor's carriage”.

Grasdorf owned a Protestant and a Catholic school for over two centuries . In 1908 the Protestant school was converted into a single school association for both denominations. The Catholic school existed until 1936.

Grasdorf today

After the renovation and new building phases after the Second World War , Grasdorf is now the third largest town in the municipality of Holle after Holle and Sottrum, with a self-contained, harmonious townscape, although the expansion of federal road 6 has divided the village in two halves. The “Am Thieberg” settlement to the north by the forest is an exemplary success. Numerous small embellishments, such as the restored village fountain, which is located on a listed linden tree, determine the village. In 2009, the Schwarzes Huhn brewing group established itself to revive a historic type of beer.

At the foot of the Oheberg there is the “Mastbruch” weekend house area and two campsites. One of them is right next to the old mountain mill, which was shut down in 1934.

Worth seeing

  • In addition to the mountain mill, the old stone two-arch bridge with the weir behind is also a sight.
  • The Catholic Marienkirche was founded in 1330 as an expiatory chapel by Bishop Otto II from the Wohldenberg family. The current building was erected after 1648 and initially had only the roof turret that is still preserved today in place of a tower . The west tower with its distinctive corner blocks was only built in 1936. In December 2001 the church received ten new stained glass windows, eight of which show different scenes from the life of Mary. Two further windows are dedicated to the martyr Johannes Nepomuk , who can often be seen as a "bridge saint" in the Hildesheimer Land, and to the copatron Laurentius. The rectory next to the church, which has been the Catholic parish church of Grasdorf since 1701 and offers almost 100 seats inside, was built in 1789.
The church is open daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. as a “ motorway church ”.
  • The Protestant Nikolaikirche was first mentioned in a document in 1178, at that time it was owned by the Lamspringe monastery . The massive west tower with its clearly visible loopholes, which suggest that it also served as a defensive tower at times, dates from the Romanesque period , while the nave was rebuilt several times. The year 1765, which can be seen in the south side wall, refers to the year of such a renovation. The baroque pulpit altar from 1730 was restored in 2001. The font dates from 1795, while today's font was designed in 1962. The church has had an organ since 1836, which was replaced in 1913 by the organ builders Furtwängler & Hammer . It has 19 stops on two manuals and a pedal, and the organ was restored in 2008. Two stained glass windows from 1911 inside the Nikolaikirche are also noteworthy: one shows Jesus as the Good Shepherd, the other Martin Luther. The rectory next to the church, which has around 70 seats inside, was built in 1743.
This church is also open daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. as a “motorway church”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures in the districts of the municipality of Holle , accessed on December 27, 2017
  2. ^ 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. 210 .
  3. ^ Website of the municipality of Holle , accessed on October 1, 2016
  4. ↑ http://www.schwarzeshuhn.de/story.html
  5. ↑ Hartmut Kemmerer u. a .: Hildesheimer Land travel guide , p. 126. Hildesheim 2003.
  6. ↑ Hartmut Kemmerer u. a .: Hildesheimer Land travel guide , p. 127. Hildesheim 2003.

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