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Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 4 "  N , 10 ° 24 ′ 36"  E
Height :	124 m
Area :	6.32 km²
Residents :	538  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	85 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1942
Incorporated into:	Watenstedt-Salzgitter
Postal code :	38259
Area code :	05341
Location of Groß Mahner in Salzgitter
View of Groß Mahner from the B 248 between SZ-Bad and Beinum

Groß Mahner is one of the total of 31 districts of the independent city of Salzgitter in Lower Saxony , located in the village of South . Groß Mahner belonged to the district of Goslar until March 31, 1942 and became part of the city of Watenstedt-Salzgitter through an administrative act on April 1, 1942. On January 23, 1951, it was officially renamed Salzgitter .

history

History of the place name

Groß Mahner is dated to the 1st to 5th century, making it one of the oldest settlements in the Salzgitter region. A first written mention comes from 996/97. This was found in the records of the Corvey monastery, the traditiones Corbeienses , in which the possessions of the monastery are recorded - including land in Manderiwesteran , that was the former name of the place.

According to a majority opinion, the place name mandere is derived from the Indo-European ma-no or ma-ni , which means something like “humid” or “wet” and indicates the location of the place in a wetland. In the period that followed, the name varied little. B. 1152 Mandre and 1181 a citizen named Steppo di Mandere is listed in a document book . Towards the end of the 13th century, the addition "Groß" was used to distinguish it from the south-eastern town of Klein Mahner . The place is called Maiorj Mandere in 1274 , Maius Mandere in 1281 and Magno Mandere in 1304 .

History of the place

Around 1000, Groß Mahner belonged to the Leragau , an area about 10 km wide that reached the Aller in the north and the Harz in the south. Groß Mahner belonged to the Bocla court (today: bookstore near Schladen ). After its division in the 14th century, the place was assigned to the newly founded Liebenburg Office .

Until 1523 this district belonged to the prince diocese of Hildesheim . In 1523, with the end of the Hildesheim collegiate feud , this had to cede a large part of its territory to the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , including Groß Mahner. The process that the Diocese of Hildesheim then led before the Reich Chamber of Commerce for the return of its former areas lasted 120 years. The verdict was not passed until 1643 and Hildesheim was reassigned most of the lost territories.

When Prussian soldiers marched into the Diocese of Hildesheim on August 3, 1802, the Hildesheim Monastery fell and the territory was annexed to the Kingdom of Prussia . In 1806 the Prussians lost all areas west of the Elbe to Napoleon and in the subsequent French period, Groß Mahner belonged from 1807 to 1813 as a commune in the canton of Salzgitter of the Goslar district in the Oker department of the Kingdom of Westphalia .

After the end of the Napoleonic occupation, the former Hildesheim areas were assigned to the Kingdom of Hanover by resolution of the Congress of Vienna . After the Battle of Langensalza , the Kingdom of Hanover fell to victorious Prussia. Here Groß Mahner was again in the Liebenburg office. On April 1, 1885, the district of Goslar was formed by amalgamating the Liebenburg and Wöltingerode offices, to which Groß Mahner now belonged. Since the city of Watenstedt-Salzgitter was founded on April 1, 1942, Groß Mahner has been a district of Salzgitter and, together with the districts of Salzgitter-Bad, Grid, Hohenrode and Ringelheim, forms the village south .

Vosspass settlement

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About one kilometer northwest of Groß Mahner is the Vosspass settlement. This was opened up after the Thirty Years War . At that time the place name was Rhoden or Rohen , indicating that it was cleared. Population registers from the middle of the 19th century show around 45 inhabitants for this settlement. Since the founding of today's town of Salzgitter on April 1, 1942, the settlement has belonged to the Salzgitter-Bad district .

Population development

After the area fell under Brunswick rule in 1523, the then ruler, Duke Heinrich the Younger, had inheritance registers created for each place in his area in order to gain an overview of his area of ​​rule. In this first Erbregister 1548 nine were for large Mahner arable farms and nine Kothöfe called to two courts included a mill. The first register of residents was created in 1572 by the pastor Basilius Alemann from Liebenburg. It enumerated 21 families with a total of 116 inhabitants. From the time after the Thirty Years' War there is a head tax certificate from 1664, according to which there were 107 taxable citizens (over 14 years old) in Groß Mahner. The number of farms is given unchanged at 18 - seven farm workers, two half-spouses and nine Kothsassen. The number of farms remained almost unchanged until the beginning of the 20th century. Since then, the smaller farms in particular have been given up; today (2010) there are still eight farms in Groß Mahner.

The number of inhabitants did not increase until the beginning of the 19th century, in 1773 there were 112 inhabitants, so in 1806 there were already 253 people living here. In 1885 - shortly after the founding of a sugar factory - Groß Mahner had more than 600 inhabitants for the first time. After the end of the Second World War , numerous refugees and displaced persons were added, so that in 1950 a high of 974 inhabitants was reached. But just five years later (1955) there were only 774 inhabitants. Between 1955 and 2004 the population fluctuated around 700, since then it has been falling slightly in line with the trend in the whole of Salzgitter.

Sources: The population figures from 1821 to 2000 are based on the statistical yearbook of the Department for Economics and Statistics of the city of Salzgitter. The population statistics from 2001 are based on the monthly statistical reports of the city of Salzgitter (residents with main residence) according to the population register at the end of December.

church

Salzgitter-Groß Mahner Church

The Reformation was introduced in the country in 1542, but five years later, after Charles V's victory over the Schmalkald troops , Duke Henry the Younger ordered a return to the Catholic faith. Only his son Duke Julius , who came to power after him, finally introduced the Reformation in 1568. Following the example of 1542, the principality was again divided into five general superintendentes : Wolfenbüttel, Helmstedt, Gandersheim, Alfeld and Bockenem. These church districts were further subdivided into special superintendentures. Gandersheim belonged to the Salzliebenhalle (today part of Salzgitter-Bad), which also includes Groß Mahner.

As early as 1571 it was reported that Groß Mahner did not have its own pastor, the parish was alternately looked after by pastors from Klein Mahner, Lewe (now part of Liebenburg ) and Ohlendorf. Today (2010) Groß Mahner belongs to the provost of Salzgitter-Bad and forms a parish association with Flachstöckheim, Flöthe and Ohlendorf.

It is not known exactly when the church in Groß Mahner was built. However, the first mention of the church comes from 1239. According to the reports of church visits in the 16th century, information on the structural condition of the church building is only available again from the 19th century. As early as 1844, due to the poor condition of the church, considerations for a new building were made, but could not yet be implemented due to lack of funds. In 1891 the new building of the church was put out to tender, construction work began after Whitsun 1893 and just six months later the new church building was inaugurated on the 3rd Advent in 1893. This is still used by the community today.

politics

Local council

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coat of arms

Description: The coat of arms shows a red and silver chess in a divided shield and a golden oval with a cross.

The red and white fields in the upper part of the coat of arms are reminiscent of the 18 farms that were listed in the first register of inheritance from 1548. Red and white were also the colors of the Lords of Mahner, who sat in Groß Mahner from the 12th to the 15th century. The oval in the lower field stands for the oval moat, which once surrounded the village and which was built as a defense system. This oval ring can still be seen in the course of the north and south rings. The paths crossing the village are represented by the cross. The cross also stands for the Diocese of Hildesheim, to which Groß Mahner belonged from the 12th to the beginning of the 19th century. The colors green and gold stand for the cultivation of grain and sugar beet, the former main economic branch of the place.

The coat of arms was adopted in December 2004 by a citizens' meeting as the local coat of arms of Salzgitter-Groß Mahner.

literature

• Wilfried Bartels: History of Groß Mahner - Chronicle for the 850th anniversary of Groß Mahner . Baddeckestedt 1981.
• Kirstin Casemir: The place names of the Wolfenbüttel district and the city of Salzgitter . Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2003, ISBN 3-89534-483-4 , p. 238 f .
• Mechthild Wiswe : The field names of the Salzgitter area . Self-published by the Braunschweigisches Geschichtsverein, 1970, p. 479 f .
• Wolfgang Benz (Ed.): Salzgitter - Past and Present of a German City - 1942-1992 . Verlag CH Beck Munich, 1992, ISBN 3-406-35573-0 .
• Franz Zobel : The home book of the district of Goslar . Verlag der Goslarschen Zeitung Karl Krause, 1928, p. 90-94 .
• Literature on the Groß Mahner catalog of the DNB

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Casemir, place names , S. 238 et seq.
2. ↑ Wiswe, Flurnamen , p. 479
3. ^ Department for economics and statistics: Statistical yearbook of the city of Salzgitter. City of Salzgitter, accessed on February 22, 2020 (total number of eligible residents (main and secondary residence) © City of Salzgitter).  
4. ^ Department for Economics and Statistics: Monthly Statistical Reports of the City of Salzgitter. City of Salzgitter, accessed on February 22, 2020 (Population at the location of the main residence © City of Salzgitter). 
5. ↑ Benz: Salzgitter 1942-1992 , p. 595
6. ↑ Groß Mahner gets its own coat of arms as the 17th district , Salzgitter Zeitung from December 2004