Hänigsen

Hänigsen Uetze municipality
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 3 ″  N , 10 ° 5 ′ 49 ″  E
Height :	47 m above sea level NHN
Area :	27 km²
Residents :	5967  (December 31, 2017)
Population density :	221 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	31311
Area code :	05147
Location of Hänigsen in Lower Saxony
The location of Hänigsen in the municipality of Uetze

Hänigsen ( Low German Hähnsen ) is the second largest village in the municipality of Uetze in the Hanover region of Lower Saxony .

geography

Hänigsen, in the eastern part of the Hanover region , is located about 27 km northeast of Hanover near the Burgdorfer Aue , a little north of the federal highway 188 between Burgdorf and the district of Uetze. On the western edge the place has grown together with Obershagen , another part of the municipality.

The Burgdorfer Berg is 55  m above sea level. NHN the highest point of the place. According to the local interpretation, Hänigsen has seven mountains. They are as follows: Burgdorfer Berg, Mühlenberg, Slötschenberg, Bäckerberg, Schmiedeberg, Homanns Berg and Kuhlenberg .

history

Hänigsen was first mentioned in a document in 1226 and was still called Henighusen at that time (that meant: place of the Henning clan ).

The nickname for Hänigsen is Kasparland . Until the middle of the 19th century, many of the people of Hänigs had the first name Kaspar. The Kleinbahn of Burgdorfer Kreisbahnen GmbH, which connected Hänigsen with Burgdorf from 1908 to 1961, was nicknamed the Kasparbahn .

In 1529 the Reformation was introduced in Hänigsen.

Two major fire disasters struck the place: In 1647 a fire destroyed a large part of the village, and on Whit Monday of 1693 57 buildings burned down.

On July 8, 1746, Catharina Dammann, a beautiful young shoemaker's wife from Hänigsen, was at the execution site of the Meinersen Office. The woman, born on December 29, 1715 in Obershagen, tried to lead a horse away from a pasture in order to sell it in Gifhorn. She was caught, spent two years in Meinerser prison and was beheaded by the messenger Johann Christoph Funke from Uetze, who performed his “masterpiece” on her.

From 1852, Hänigsen belonged to the Burgdorf office, previously it had belonged to the Meinersen office for several centuries .

Hänigsen is known for the deepest potash and salt mine in the world (1525 m) and for the oldest oil deposit in northern Germany , the use of which is documented in writing: "Teerkuhlen" are mentioned in a letter from the Vogtes von Meinersen . In 1860 and 1862 Georg Hunäus drilled oil deposits near Hänigsen. Sinking of the Riedel shaft began in 1905, operations began in 1909, and after mining ceased, the shaft was taken over and expanded by the Army High Command in the mid-1930s.

Since 1938 the Wehrmacht built the Heeresmunitionsanstalt Hänigsen ( Heeresmuna Waldlager ) about two kilometers north of the shaft , and the ammunition produced was stored in the shaft. Halfway between the production area and the shaft, a barrack warehouse was built for the workers of the munitions factory, the Celler Weg camp .

In April 1945 the Muna Hänigsen operations were occupied by Allied troops. Attempts were made under British occupation to fully extract the ammunition from the mine. There was an explosion on June 18, 1946, in which around 10,000 tons of ammunition detonated. In the accident, 86 people died, mainly underground. In 1996 the mine was closed. The plan to set up a hazardous waste dump in the mine was abandoned after protests by a citizens' movement and due to changed economic conditions. The former mine is currently being flooded as planned.

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  Aerial view from the potash winding tower

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  Potash winding tower in Hänigsen / Riedel

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  Site of the Riedel mine in Hänigsen - the world's deepest potash salt mine, closed in 1996

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  Old factory building of the shaft

The Hänigsen Horse Insurance Association was founded on August 16, 1908 on the initiative of the farmer Wilhelm Pries. 26 farmers were there at the beginning. They elected Wilhelm Pries as first chairman, Heinrich Müller vom Hof ​​Nr. 39 as his deputy and the innkeeper Otto Ewald as accountant. Today the association insures horses from Hänigsen, Uetze, Dahrenhorst, Dollbergen, Katensen, Schwüblingsen, Ahlten, Kolshorn, Burgwedel, Dachtmissen, Otze, Weferlingsen, Obershagen and Bockelskamp and thus covers a fairly large catchment area.

The place was also made famous by the club TSV Friesen Hänigsen from 1908. As part of the 750th anniversary celebration, a friendly match between Bundesliga soccer club Werder Bremen and district league club TSV Friesen Hänigsen took place in front of 2,200 spectators on June 8, 1977 (10: 3 final score).

On November 20, 1984 a match between FC Bayern Munich and TSV Friesen Hänigsen took place in the Hänigser Stadium in front of 16,000 spectators as part of the second round of the 1984/85 DFB Cup (final score 8: 0 for Munich).

Hänigsen also made a name for itself in horse breeding from 1786 to 1988 as the largest breeding station at the Celle State Stud .

In October 1992, a 19-year-old schoolgirl was raped and murdered during a fire ball. This led to the first mass investigation of DNA in all of Germany. 120 participants at the ball gave a blood sample at the time. The perpetrator, a 34-year-old masseur, was convicted.

This case was dealt with in an episode "The Most Spectacular Criminal Cases" on kabel eins , which was last broadcast on December 3, 2017.

On November 4, 1999, construction work caused a gas explosion in a two-family half-timbered house. Six people died.

Incorporations

For the territorial reform in Lower Saxony , the previously independent municipality of Hänigsen was incorporated into the municipality of Uetze on March 1, 1974.

Population development

The population rose sharply up to 1939 due to the strong immigration of workers from the potash mine and their family members. As a result of the Second World War and the influx of refugees and displaced persons from East Prussia , Pomerania and Silesia , the number of residents continued to rise until 1946, but fell again until 1950 because some of the new citizens moved to other areas of Germany due to a lack of work.

year Residents source 1885 0857 1910 1577 1925 1919 1933 1851 1939 2081 1946 4606 1950 4163 1956 4315 1961 4410

year Residents source 1970 4314 1973 4368 1974 4588 2005 6000 2013 5997 2014 6014 2016 6030 2017 5967 0 0 0

religion

St. Peter's Church

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Petri Church is located in the center of the village; its oldest components date from around 1274. It belongs to the Hänigsen-Obershagen parish in the Burgdorf parish . The cemetery also belongs to the parish in Hänigsen.

The Catholic St. Barbara Church was built in 1960/61 and profaned in 2012 . The church on Obershagener Strasse was most recently part of the parish of St. Nikolaus in Burgdorf. The church building was demolished in autumn 2013, and houses were built on the property from 2014.

The New Apostolic Church on Obershagener Strasse, built in 1959, has not been used for divine services since February 2006.

politics

Local council

The local council of Hänigsen consists of two councilors and seven councilors from the following parties:

• SPD : 5 seats
• CDU : 3 seats
• Greens : 1 seat

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

Local mayor is Norbert Vanin (SPD).

coat of arms

The Hänigs municipal coat of arms is based on a design made by the students at the Hänigsen elementary school in 1953. The heraldist and coat of arms painter Gustav Völker brought it into its final form . The artist designed all coats of arms in the Hanover region. The coat of arms was awarded on June 20, 1955 by the Lower Saxony Minister of the Interior .

Blazon : " Divided , above split . In front,two crossed gold mountain hammers in black ; behind in silver a black oil derrick . Below in green is a striding, silver horse . "

Justification of the coat of arms: Since agriculture and industry each form the basis of today's economic life about halfway, this was also symbolically represented equally among each other in the municipal coat of arms . The front mountain hammers symbolize the local potash mining and the derrick the local oil industry as the industrial basis of Hänigs working life. The striding (Hanoverian) horse was deliberately chosen as a symbol of local agriculture, because Hänigsen is verifiably an old horse breeding village and, despite progressive motorization, occupies a special position. In 1815 a breeding station for the Celle State Stud was set up here, which still exists today and is an external reason why Hänigsen has repeatedly become a meeting place for riders, horse breeders and lovers.

Culture and sights

Buildings

See also : List of architectural monuments in Uetze - Hänigsen

• In the western town there is one of the few post mills in Germany (built in 1704, used commercially until 1995).
• The school from 1911 (also known as the coffee grinder due to its distinctive construction) was expanded in 1954 with the so-called sheepfold in the vernacular, in 1959 with the sports hall and in 1964 with the so-called ten-class wing. The former primary and secondary school has been a pure primary school since 2006, the secondary school has been relocated to Uetze.
• The outdoor swimming pool (inaugurated in 1954, known for its ten-meter diving tower) and the stadium (inaugurated in 1961) were planned by the Hildesheim architect Otto Immendorff and are used for the recreational enjoyment of the population.

Photo gallery

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  Aerial view of post mill from 1704

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  Post mill from 1704

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  Post mill at night

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  School from 1911

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  Ten-meter diving platform in the Hänigsen swimming pool

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  Tower of the St. Petri Church

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  St. Barbara Church

Museums

The place houses two small local museums.

One of them is the Hänigser Heimatstube with many interesting exhibits from the local history. It is housed in the “Haus am Pappaul” in the center of the village and always opens on Sunday afternoons.

There is also the open-air museum " The Hänigser Teerkuhlen " on the Kuhlenberg. As early as 1546, Georg Agricola mentioned this oil deposit in his fundamental work De natura fossilium , in which he summarized the contemporary knowledge about mineral resources and mining. It is therefore one of the oldest documented oil deposits in northern Germany. The early residents of the village dug pits two to three meters deep, which were then given a wooden structure. In these pits the groundwater and oil collected on the water. This was skimmed off and sold as "Hängser Tar" or "Wagenschmer". The possible uses ranged from lubricants to medicinal products for humans and animals. The "Hänser Kiepenkerle" delivered the viscous oil in the area with Kiepen . Today the Heimatbund Hänigsen takes care of the area. A repaired tar hollow still works today. The support boards, some of which are 400 years old, can still be seen. The Heimatbund also runs a small museum on the oil industry there. In it and on the adjoining outdoor area there are exhibits on the oil industry, which has significantly shaped the development of the place.

societies

There are currently 39 clubs in Hänigsen. The offer ranges from the smallest club, the rabbit breeding club, to the chess club, goat breeding club, Heimatbund, male choir, DLRG , volunteer fire brigade (founded in 1898), citizen shooting club (founded in 1925), baseball club to the largest club, the Frisians Hänigsen .

Regular events

• The first Schützenfest (then called Pfingstbier ) was mentioned in 1614. Now it is regularly held on the third Saturday in August, the specialty being that it lasts from Saturday up to and including Monday. The traditional rifle parade is celebrated by the Hänigs clubs as well as various rifle clubs and marching bands from the area on Sunday.
• Since 1985, the old tractor and commercial vehicle meeting of the Die Selbstünder - Friends of old commercial vehicles in Lower Saxony e. V. instead.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Ernst Kohlmeyer (1882–1959), Protestant theologian, professor of church history in Kiel, Breslau, Halle an der Saale and Bonn
• Detlef Dürr (* 1951), professor of mathematics and theoretical physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich

literature

• Ralf Bierod: From Henighusen to Hänigsen - 775 years from our history, a village chronicle . Donated by Ursula Schroeter, Schlütersche GmbH Verlag, Hanover 2000.

Web links

Commons : Hänigsen  - Collection of Images

• Hänigsen on the website of the municipality of Uetze
• Hänigsen website
• Citizens' shooting club

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Community directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 35 , Burgdorf district ( digitized [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on September 12, 2019]).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Friedrich-Wilhelm Schiller: The community is no longer shrinking. In: Website Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . January 9, 2018, accessed October 11, 2018 .  
3. ↑ Distance from Hänigsen to Hanover. In: luftlinie.org. Retrieved August 14, 2019 .  
4. ^ Hans Sudendorf : Document book on the history of the dukes of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and their lands . tape  1 , no. 10 . Hanover / Göttingen 1859, p. 8 .
5. ↑ Uwe Ohainski, Jürgen Udolph : The place names of the district of Hanover and the city of Hanover . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1998, p. 183–184 , pp. 210–211 ( digital copy [PDF; 2,3 MB ; accessed on March 25, 2019]).
6. ^ Albert Depenau: 100 years of the Hänigsen volunteer fire department . Hänigsen 1998, p. 13 ff .
7. ↑ Matthias Blazek : The execution site of the Meinersen office - a collection of sources . Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-89821-957-0 , p.  34 ff .
8. ^ ^{A b} Rainer Slotta : Introduction to industrial archeology . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-534-07411-4 , pp.  43 .
9. ^ Johann Daniel Taube : The Theer sources bey Hänigsen . In: Contributions to the natural history of the Duchy of Cell . tape  1 . J. D. Schulze Verlag, S. 37-48 , cell 1766 ( (digitized) ).
10. ^ The Hänigsen Army Ammunition Plant. In: relict.com. Retrieved October 11, 2018 .  
11. ^ Matthias Blazek: The Hänigsen Horse Insurance Association is celebrating its 100th anniversary . (Flyer for the anniversary on June 27, 2008). Hänigsen 2008.
12. ↑ Background - Mass investigations helped solve many murders. In: Website Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. May 10, 2002, accessed August 15, 2019 .  
13. ↑ Education through genetic fingerprints - October 1992. In: Website n-tv news. March 13, 2001, Retrieved August 15, 2019 .  
14. ↑ The most spectacular criminal cases - subject u. a .: Murder after a fire brigade ball - a village under suspicion. In: Website Kabeleins. December 3, 2017, accessed April 9, 2019 .  
15. ^ Gas explosion - At least six dead near Hanover. In: Spiegel Online. November 4, 1999, accessed August 15, 2019 .  
16. ↑ ^{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.  222 .
17. ↑ ^{a b c d} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Burgdorf district ( see under: No. 25 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  
18. ↑ Ulrich Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900 - Burgdorf district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed April 1, 2020 .  
19. ↑ ^{a b} Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p.  172 ( digitized version ).
20. ↑ Advertisement for Burgdorf & Uetze . January 8, 2013, p.  6 .
21. ↑ ^{a b} Local council of Hänigsen. In: Website of the municipality of Uetze. Retrieved July 15, 2017 .  
22. ^ ^{A b} Landkreis Hannover (ed.): Wappenbuch Landkreis Hannover . Self-published, Hanover 1985, p. 458-460 .