Grave (Brevörde)

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Grave
Brevörde municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 46 "  N , 9 ° 27 ′ 40"  E
Height : 80  (77-88)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 289
Incorporation : 1st January 1973
Postal code : 37647
Area code : 05535

Grave is the eastern of the two districts of the municipality of Brevörde in the district of Holzminden in Lower Saxony .

Geographical location

Grave is located within the Weser Uplands in the Upper Weser Valley , about 8.5 km south-southwest of Bodenwerder , 9.5 km north of Holzminden and 2 km (as the crow flies ) east of the Brevörder core town. It is located on the orographically left and western bank of the Weser , which forms a U-shaped river bend (valley meander) around the at about 77 to 88  m above sea level. NHN located village makes. To the northwest, the loop of the river leads to the steeply rising Kleff (approx.  281  m ) when viewed from Grave , a southern edge of the Ottenstein plateau ; in neighboring towns Brevörde, Polle and Heinsen the Weser forms stream upstream a further flow loop. Beyond and thus to the east of the river, where the villages of Dölme belonging to Bevern are to the north and Reileifzen to the south-southeast, the Solling-Vogler Nature Park extends with the Kollberg ( 208  m ) belonging to the Golmbach Mountains and rocky cliffs in the lower part of its steep western flank out. The approx. 750 m long Lakebach rises a little north of Grave , passes the village northeast and flows into the Weser after a trench-like course about 200 m northeast of the village church.

View from the former quarry on the far east bank of the Weser to Grave with the elongated and wooded Kapenberg ( 234.8  m ) and the village of Reileifzen and the Knapp ( 242  m ) on the far left in the background; in the middle to the right on the horizon is the natural area of Oberwälder Land

history

General

During the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia (1810-1813), Grave belonged to the canton of Bodenwerder . Since April 1, 1922, it belonged to the Hameln-Pyrmont district . As part of the regional reform in Lower Saxony , the village became a part of Brevörde on January 1, 1973 and has been part of the Holzminden district since then . As part of Brevörde, it belonged to the joint municipality of Polle from 1973 to 2009 , and since 2010 it has been part of the joint municipality of Bodenwerder-Polle .

Monastery and village church

In the past, Grave was subordinate to the Kemnade monastery, which was founded around 960 in nearby Kemnade (today's district of Bodenwerder) . The Grave Church , which is one of the Evangelical Lutheran regional churches in Hanover , was built in 1614. In 2006 she received a modern altar. The church belongs to the parish of Hehlen-Hohe within the parish of Holzminden-Bodenwerder .

Population development

Lived / live in Grave:

  • 1961: 396
  • 1970: 372
  • current: 289

Institutions and associations

The institutions and associations in Grave include:

Sons and daughters

traffic

Streets

The district road  36, which branches off a few hundred meters northwest of Grave from the federal road 83 ( Pegestorf – Brevörde), leads as a cul-de-sac to and through the village, ending directly afterwards on the west bank of the Weser. From there the Weser ferry Grave runs , with which hikers and cyclists can cross over to the K 35 ( Dölme - Reileifzen ) on the other side of the river with the Weser cycle path and connection to the nearby European cycle path R1 ; the Kollbergsbaude is located on the K 35 near the ferry . On the north-western edge of Grave, next to the junction of the connecting path from the K 36 to Brevörde, there has been a small log cabin since 2004, which is used as a refuge for cyclists and hikers . From the B 83 which branches west of Grave at the entrance of Brevörde national road  428 from the serpentine rich over the Kleff northwest of lying on the Ottenstein Plateau Ottenstein leads.

Weser ferry Grave

From 1926 to 1965 there was a Weser ferry operated as a low- speed cable ferry at Grave . After that it was a high- wire prahm ferry, whose operation was stopped in 1977 because no ferryman was found.

Since June 4, 2005 there is the culture and ferry association Grave e. V. operated Gravena ferry , which carries a maximum of 28 pedestrians (also with prams or handcarts) per trip and cyclists across the Weser. The electric motor's battery gets its electricity from a solar module system installed on the ferry house .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Grave in the geodata center of the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy
  2. Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  3. a b c 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. 195 .
  4. a b Info u. a. to Church in Grave  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on brevörde.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.xn--brevrde-d1a.de  
  5. Project description of the Grave solar ferry ( Memento of the original dated December 28, 2013 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. , on kulturverein-grave.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / Kulturverein-grave.de
  6. Solar-Weser ferry Grave on spezialbootsbau.de