Grass life

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 18 '  N , 11 ° 1'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Helmstedt
Joint municipality :	Grass life
Height :	99 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.27 km 2
Residents:	2391 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	212 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	38368
Area code :	05357
License plate :	HE
Community key :	03 1 54 008
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 4 38368 Grasleben
Website :	www.samtgemeinde-grasleben.de
Mayoress :	Veronika Koch ( CDU )
Location of the community Grasleben in the district of Helmstedt

Grasleben is a municipality in the Helmstedt district in Lower Saxony (Germany). The community Grasleben is a member congregation of the joint community Grasleben .

geography

Inner German border near Grasleben (July 1989)

The community of Grasleben is located 13 kilometers north of the district town of Helmstedt in the Elm-Lappwald Nature Park . The eastern municipal boundary to the city ​​of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen is at the same time the district boundary to the Börde district and the state border to Saxony-Anhalt . Until German reunification in 1990 , it was also part of the inner-German border . The Heidwinkel district belongs to Grasleben .

history

The first documented mention of Grasleben can be found around 1150 in a list of goods and taxes from the St. Ludgeri monastery in front of Helmstedt . The history of Grasleben was significantly influenced by the neighborhood of the Mariental Monastery , which Grasleben belonged to for a long time. In 1830 the church was built without a tower, which was later placed in front of it. Under the National Socialists, the salt mine was used as a depot for archival material, such as sound foils with sound recordings from sessions of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic.

Place name

The old names of the place are around 1150 Graseslove, 1191 Graslove, around 1191 Graselowe, 1197 Graslove, 1225 Grasleve and around 1226 Grasleve. The place name is made up of the old first name “Graso” and “-leben”, in Low German “-leve”, meaning “legacy, heritage”. The old first name is difficult to grasp; therefore, a different approach may be preferable: “Hlaiw” means “hill”, so the meaning “grass hill” would also be possible.

A curiosity is that the place name read backwards results in the word mist coffin .

politics

The council of Grasleben consists of 13 council members:

• CDU : 7 seats
• Citizens' list Grasleben: 5 seats
• Single nomination: 1 seat

(As of: local election September 11, 2016).

The municipal council elected:

• to honorary mayor Veronika Koch ( CDU )
• to the honorary community director Gero Janze ( Mayor of the community )

(Status: constituent council meeting November 2016)

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Headframe of the esco rock salt works Braunschweig-Lüneburg in Grasleben

Allerthal-Werke AG produced rubber goods in Grasleben until the 1990s . The company headquarters were later relocated to Cologne. The active rock salt mine Braunschweig-Lüneburg of the esco company for the production of table , thawing and industrial salts is located in Grasleben .

In 2006 a biogas plant was built in the immediate vicinity of the salt mine. The esco factory purchases the heat generated by the system. There are currently considerations for further biogas plants in order to supply other companies, large facilities or even residential areas with the generated heat. Furthermore, quartz sand is mined in Grasleben and the company Sport-Thieme, a large sporting goods distributor with representatives in other European countries, has its headquarters in Grasleben.

traffic

Grasleben is connected by county roads 50 and 56 as well as with state road 651. It is only 6 kilometers south to Autobahn 2 , exit Helmstedt-West. Grasleben is on the Helmstedt – Oebisfelde railway line, which is only used by freight trains .

Religions

Evangelical Church of St. Mary

Catholic Church of St. Norbert

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Maria from 1830 is located on Kirchstrasse, it is the northernmost church of the Helmstedt Propstei. The parish also includes the “Adventure Land” kindergarten on Magdeburger Strasse, which is located next to the church.

The Catholic Church of St. Norbert from 1961 is located on Helmstedter Straße. Today the church belongs to the parish of St. Ludgeri in Helmstedt. The kindergarten located next to the church also belongs to the parish.

literature

• Joachim Schmid: Grass life - from a farming village to an industrial community. The story of a monastery village in the Lappwald. Grasleben 2000, ISBN 3-00-007248-9

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. ↑ Rudi Fischer: 800 years Calvörde - a chronicle until 1991 .
3. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Hanover: Journal for Architecture and Engineering . Volume 54, 1908, p. 219.
4. ↑ The Broadcasting Corporation outsource decided early 1940s, particularly relevant archive footage from Berlin and lead them to safety. The British found the sound foils at the end of the war in 1945, brought them to London, where they were recorded on tapes by the BBC and sent to the German Broadcasting Archive in Frankfurt. The material can be heard on SWR2 archive radio.
5. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; accessed on March 11, 2019 . 

Web links

Commons : Grasleben  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Community website
• From history. (pdf, 799 kB) Grasleben community, June 6, 2006, archived from the original on June 26, 2007 . 
• History. The municipality of Grasleben