Great Lengden

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Great Lengden
Unified community equals
Great Lengden coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 32 ″  N , 10 ° 1 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 245 m
Residents : 918  (May 4, 2015)
Incorporation : 1st January 1973
Postal code : 37130
Area code : 05508
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The district of Groß Lengden is located in the north-western area of ​​the municipality of Gleichen

Groß Lengden is the northernmost part of the municipality of Gleichen in the district of Göttingen and has 918 inhabitants (as of May 4, 2015).

location

Groß Lengden is located on the south-eastern slope of the Göttingen Forest , which slopes steeply to the Bramke valley. Together with Sattenhausen , which is only a little further south, it is the northernmost district of the municipality. The district of Klein Lengden joins to the southwest ; the south-east lying settlement Niedeck with forester's house and domain belongs to the district of Groß Lengden. In the north, larger parts of the Göttingen Forest lie in the Groß Lengden district, which extends to the Kerstlingeröder field and up to 500 meters to the Mackenröder peak . To the north of the village rises the horse crib, further north is the highest point with the 425 meter high Staneberg. East of the village on the other side of the Bramke is the 385 meter high Kronenberg with a castle ruin, to the north of it the Hengstberg belongs to the district. The 315.5 meter high Kahlberg rises southeast of Groß Lengden in the Reinhausen Forest .

Place name

history

As is the case with most places in the region, the time when the town was founded is unknown. The first written mention of a place Lengithi or Lengidi is ascribed to the year 822 and can be found in the Codex Eberhardi of the Fulda Monastery . According to legend, white horses were once sacrificed on the Hengstberg. First references to two places with the name Lengden can be found in a document attributed to the year 1022.

As part of the municipal reform, Groß Lengden became a part of the newly formed municipality of Gleichen on January 1, 1973.

politics

Local council

The local council consists of five councilors and councilors.

  • Groß Lengden village list: 5 seats

(As of: local election on September 11, 2011 )

Local mayor

Detlef Buhr is the local mayor of Groß Lengden.

coat of arms

Great Lengden coat of arms
 Blazon : “In silver (white) a red round tower growing from the lower left edge of the shield; from it a jumping black horse (steed) bursting out from the side. "
Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms designed by Otto Rössler von Wildenhain was approved by the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior on September 28, 1948. It refers to the historical control room as well as the Hengstberg (the horse (stallion) serves as a talking symbol here ) not far from the village.

Personalities

Sons and daughters

Ev.-luth. Church in Groß Lengden

Attractions

  • the ev.-luth. Church from the middle of the 18th century
  • The highest known service tree in the world with a height of 35 meters is in Groß Lengden.
  • the nature reserve Stadtwald Göttingen and Kerstlingeröder Feld
  • Ruins of the medieval hill castle Niedeck on the Kronenberg, built around or shortly before 1200, destroyed, abandoned since the Thirty Years' War and in ruins
  • Early to high mediaeval ramparts at Hünsch Burg 500 meters south of Niedeck Castle

literature

See also

Web links

Commons : Groß Lengden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b residents of the municipality of Gleichen (as of May 4, 2015), accessed on March 3, 2016
  2. ↑ Kirstin Casemir, Uwe Ohainski, Jürgen Udolph: The place names of the district of Göttingen . In: Jürgen Udolph : Lower Saxony Local Name Book (NOB) , Part IV. Publishing House for Regional History , Bielefeld 2003, ISSN  0436-1229 , ISBN 3-89534-494-X , pp. 250f
  3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the municipalities in the Göttingen district, November 20, 1972 (PDF; 16 kB)
  4. ↑ Local council election Groß Lengden 2011
  5. ↑ Local councils  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the community of Gleichen, accessed on December 24, 2016 (PDF)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link /leichen.de  
  6. ^ Göttingen district archive, coats of arms of the localities of the municipality of Gleichen and their descriptions, email from April 24, 2019, municipality of Gleichen
  7. ↑ a b Lufen, Peter Ferdinand: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony , vol. 5.3: Göttingen district, part 2 . Altkreis Duderstadt with the communities Friedland and Gleichen and the combined communities Gieboldehausen and Radolfshausen. Published by the Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation -. CW Niemeyer, Hameln 1997, ISBN 3-8271-8257-3 , p. 271.
  8. ^ Klaus Grote : Medieval castle site Niedeck . Information board on the approach to the castle, 1999