Hoya

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Hoya
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Coordinates: 52 ° 48 '  N , 9 ° 8'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Nienburg / Weser
Joint municipality : County Hoya
Height : 14 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.39 km 2
Residents: 3898 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 465 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 27318
Area code : 04251
License plate : NI
Community key : 03 2 56 014
LOCODE : DE HOY

City administration address : 		Schloßplatz 2
27318 Hoya / Weser
Website : www.hoya-weser.de
Mayoress : Anne Sophie Wasner ( SPD )
Location of the city of Hoya in the Nienburg / Weser district
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Hoya ( Low German de Haaien , Hejen or Hajen ) is a town in the Nienburg / Weser district near the geographic center of Lower Saxony . The seat of the county Hoya is located in Hoya . Since 2010 the joint municipalities of Hoya and Eystrup have formed an administrative unit. The headquarters of the administration is in the Hoya town hall. Head of administration is Detlef Meyer (since 2010).

geography

Meaning of the place name

Hoya for the first time about 1150 in the "miracles of St. Bernward" than at the Weser located hogen mentioned. The name is interpreted as Old Low German for "high", which, due to the in no way exposed location of Hoya to the surrounding area or the Weser, is only an allusion to the Grafenburg ("the high fortress") or the Weser crossing ("the high ford") leaves. However, since de Hogen has also been handed down as a minor form , it may be due to a meaning that can no longer be deduced today, or in prehistoric times there was actually a high bank that was no longer recognizable due to the alluvial clay deposits.

In the further course of the Middle Ages, the middle consonant was softened ( -g- to -j- , similar to Kerckwege zu Kirchweyhe or Ogenhusen zu Oeynhausen ) and the final vowel was latinized to -a , which can be attributed to a language quirk that was widespread in the imperial clerk's office , due to the high prestige of the written language, but also passed into oral use (similar to: Vechte zu Vechta ).

In Low German today the place is called de Haaien , which shows the “natural” language development without the fixation by the written language of High German: de Hogen - de Hoyen - de Haaien . This corresponds to the place Hajen on the Oberweser near Bodenwerder , which is also first recorded as Hogen .

history

Hoya has been documented since the 12th century. The lineage of the Counts of Hoya probably went back to the Counts of Stumpenhausen (former Stumpenhausen Castle near Wietzen ). The first residence of the Counts of Hoya was their castle in Hoya. After the county was divided into a lower and an upper county, Nienburg an der Weser also became a residence.

At the beginning of the 16th century the Hoya line of the Counts of Hoya died out, which is why the county was first reunified. At the end of the 16th century the Nienburg line also died out, so that the county of Hoya came to the Guelphs on the basis of a feudal and inheritance contract . The coat of arms of County Hoya (two black bear paws, not identical to the coat of arms of the city of Hoya) was included in the alliance coat of arms of the Welfenhaus. Most of the county of Hoya came together with the town of Hoya permanently to the Principality of Lüneburg with the Celle residence . During the Thirty Years' War between 1625 and 1626, Hoya was the scene of the fighting between the Danish king Christian IV and the imperial general Johann T'Serclaes von Tilly . The former residential palace was badly damaged by numerous cannon balls. Hoya surrendered to the Danish armed forces on December 12, 1626.

Hoya was garrison several times ; In 1784 part of the 2nd Battalion of the 5th Hanover Infantry Regiment was in Hoya, towards the end of the 18th century the Hoya Land Regiment and the staff of the 6th Infantry Regiment (the Gibraltar). These had a narrow, tall building ("old guard") on the old bridgehead in Deichstrasse (level with "Die Hütte"), which was demolished in the second half of the 20th century.

In 1705, Hoya and Lüneburg came to the Electorate of Hanover (from 1815 Kingdom of Hanover ) after the death of the so-called Heath Duke Georg Wilhelm . Since the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia in 1866, Hoya has belonged to the Prussian province of Hanover . With the Prussian administrative reform, the district of Grafschaft Hoya was initially established in the town of Hoya. In 1929 Hoya was given city rights. Three years later, Syke became the seat of the district. With the territorial reform in 1974, the joint municipality of Hoya was founded with its seat in the city of Hoya.

Since 1977 the combined community with its member communities has been part of the Nienburg district using the name Grafschaft Hoya .

The Katharinenmarkt, which was founded primarily for commercial reasons at the end of the 20th century, is a reminder of the count's daughter Katharina von Hoya , an abbess of the Wienhausen monastery near Celle , to whom the so-called Holy Grave on the nuns' choir goes back.

Incorporations

On August 1, 1972, parts of the municipality of Dedendorf (Wienhofsiedlung) were incorporated.

Population development

year 1952 1961 1970 1987 1992 1997 2002 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2015 2016 2017
Residents 4,638 4,508 4,374 3,662 3,944 3,949 3,883 3.811 3,780 3,728 3.714 3,654 3,772 3,880 3,865

(1961: June 6th, 1970: May 27th, from 1987 always on December 31st )

politics

City council election 2016
Turnout: 51.37%
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
47.07%
33.26%
13.09%
5.38%
1.18%
WGBFGH c
Heye d
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Remarks:
c Hoya County Civic Forum voters group
d Individual nomination Heye

City council

The 15 seats of the city council are distributed as follows:

  • SPD : 7 seats
  • CDU : 5 seats
  • Hoya County Civic Forum voter group: 2 seats
  • Individual nominations: 1 seats

(Status: local election on September 11, 2016 )

coat of arms

In red a stylized silver castle with three blue roofed towers and bay extensions; A golden sign leaning against the broad central tower, inside two red-armored, upright black bear paws connected at the bottom.

Town twinning

Between Hoya and Bad Reinerz in the county of Glatz (originally - until 1741 - part of Bohemia , until 1945 part of the Prussian province of Silesia , since 1945 in Polish officially Duszniki-Zdrój ) there has been a town partnership since 1997 . After 1945, the city of Hoya took over the sponsorship of the city of Allenburg in northern East Prussia . A boulder next to the Martinskirche reminds of this.

Culture and sights

Buildings and parks

  • The Castle of Hoya has after the demolition of the keep and other parts of the building in the second half of the 18th century, only small remains of medieval buildings on. The district court was housed in the castle until the district court district of Hoya was dissolved . The now existing branch of the Nienburg District Court is now also closed.
Martinskirche from the northeast
  • The former parish church of St. Martinus on the right side of the Weser shows larger remains of Gothic buildings (including a brick choir with an inscription in memory of Count Gerhard von Hoya “Greve Gerde was milde un rike ...”, probably in secondary construction), but mostly comes from it the 18th century (half-timbered nave) and 19th century (tower). Some grave slabs from the Gothic period are remarkable, one of which has recently been exposed to weathering along with other reliefs that have been there for a long time outside the church. After the St. Martin's Church was abandoned by the Protestant regional church in 1967 and the replacement of the Martin Luther Church , popularly known as the “soul launching ramp” because of its modernist shape, on the left side of the Weser, the historic church has been used since 1995 after extensive restoration so-called cultural center Martinskirche . The sometimes used name of St. Martin's Church as the former castle chapel of the Counts of Hoya is erroneous and goes back to an error made by the Nienburg teacher and local historian Gade in the 19th century. A castle chapel is located in a castle, but St. Martin's Church and Hoya Castle were always spatially separated from each other. However, in the early days of the county, St. Martin's Church served the Counts of Hoya as a burial place. The church is now rarely used for church services. Today it serves more as a cultural center for concerts. Weddings also take place there.
  • In the town center there are a number of interesting half-timbered buildings from the early 17th to the 19th centuries. Deichstraße 11 is a two-storey building from the middle of the 17th century, the gable of which protrudes several times. Deichstraße 13 is also two-story and was built in 1658. On the property at Deichstrasse 18 , behind a simple solid gable built after 1905, the city's oldest known residential building was once hidden. It was built in 1604 and still had the original framework with head and foot straps on the eaves and on the rear gable . The single-storey wall stud construction stood empty for a long time and was demolished in December 2007 despite its special significance for the site and the history of the building. Parts of the framework were stored elsewhere for later reconstruction. At the beginning of 2017, an open refuge was built from this in the Bürgerpark, which is provided with cables for events, whereby about 2/3 of the hut consists of the old beams.
  • In the vicinity of the church is the Bürgerpark , which emerged from the park of Countess Bremer inherited from the Hoya area and the site of the first communal cemetery in the Hoya area. The Bürgerpark has various rare trees and plants as well as historical monuments, u. a. a boulder in memory of the battle of Langensalza in 1866.
  • On the edge of the public park is the local history museum Grafschaft Hoya e. V. It is housed in the so-called Staffhorstschen manor house, which dates from the 17th century. The printing museum is located in the immediate vicinity of the local history museum .
  • The elementary school, which was built in the neo-Gothic style from 1864 to 1865, is a building that characterizes the town center. The school was extensively restored from 2012 and supplemented by modern extensions that replace an outbuilding built in 1928.
  • The Burgmannshof of the von Behr family , rebuilt in 1758 after being destroyed ; On the manor there are ceiling paintings and wallpaper as well as other buildings from the 18th century, which can be visited on the "Open Monument Day". Right next door is the Art Nouveau town hall from 1914 and the former district office, which was built from 1777 to 1780 in the classicist style.
  • The "Old Town Hall" built in 1884 at Langen Strasse 64.

Art in public space

Dwarf fountain at the elementary school

In the Hoya cityscape there are very different sculptures by artists. These art objects are made from a wide variety of materials - copper , brass , sandstone , wood , plastic and stainless steel :

  • in the town center of Hoya in the Lange Straße the "dwarf fountain" (1989) by R. Duwe and R. Kubina. It is made of copper, brass, sandstone and wood. The sculpture is the creative implementation of the legend about the dwarves in the castle of Hoya .
  • two eel sculptures (2004; made of plastic and stainless steel) on the grounds of the “Famila-Markt” near the Weser bridge. The designs come from the artists A. Bittner, Dr. U. Bittner and RD Nerenberg. The sculptures are intended to represent a link to the city center and reflect Hoya's connection to the Weser. The ceiling of the tunnel between the central square and the port facilities is also painted with the underside of a canoe, which indicates the proximity of the Weser and the rowing club opposite.
  • In the cash desk of the Sparkasse Hoya there is a mural by the Schweringen artist Gottlieb Pot d'Or (1905–1978), possibly from the 1950s.
  • In front of the Martinskirche cultural center in the old town is the statue “Couple Dance” by the Hoya architect Norbert Thoss, 2006, bronze.
  • Opposite the old town hall there are two bear sculptures on the wall of a pharmacy.
  • Since 2018, a sculpture by the Warper artist Pablo Hirndorf has been located on the inner surface of the roundabout in Weserstraße, which was built in 2017, reflecting “intersection, circle, bridge, river and bike”.

education

Hoya Elementary School

In Hoya there are these general education schools:

  • Hoya Elementary School
  • Gutenberg School Hoya
  • Johann Beckmann High School Hoya
  • Marion Blumenthal High School Hoya
  • Weserschule Day training center for Lebenshilfe
Aerial view of the city center from a glider of the SFV Hoya
Illuminated bridge over the Weser ("Blue Wonder", 2009)
Weser Bridge in Hoya

traffic

Street

Despite its important location on the Weser and its function as the center of the northern district of Nienburg, Hoya has only limited access to the transport network. A trunk road does not run through the city area. This is where the roads from Hassel (Weser) to Bruchhausen-Vilsen and from Hilgermissen to Bücken intersect .

In terms of local public transport, Hoya is connected to the bus routes operated by the Grafschaft Hoya and Weser-Ems Bus transport companies .

railroad

Hoya is located on the railway connection from Eystrup via Hoya and Bruchhausen-Vilsen to Syke, operated by the Grafschaft Hoya public transport company . Historically, this rail connection emerged from two different railway lines that reached Hoya from two different directions and were only later connected by a bridge over the Weser. Today this connection is only used by the museum railway “ Kaffkieker ” for passenger traffic, otherwise freight trains run here. Until 1963 there was also a railway connection from Hoya to Bücken .

Others

Hoya has a dock on the Weser for excursion boats . In front of Hoya lies the Hoya glider airfield operated by the Hoya glider club from 1931 eV . There is a commercial harbor for the water and shipping authority near the bridges and a marina at the water sports club.

Facilities

One of the three training centers of the Technical Relief Organization and the Lower Saxony State Riding School are located in Hoya . The former district hospital was closed and demolished after it was bought by the Rhön clinics. The closest hospitals are the Mittelweser Clinics ( Rhön Clinic ) in Nienburg / Weser and the Aller-Weser Clinic in Verden (Aller) . From 1981 to 2010 the premises of the former Waterways and Shipping Office on the Weser existed under the patronage of Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Ernst Albrecht and initiated the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History Hoya e. V. , which contributed to making Hoya known worldwide.

economy

Smurfit Kappa cardboard factory

Big local employers are:

  • a paper and board mill belonging to the Smurfit Kappa Group (approx. 300 employees).
  • Hermann Hartje KG , wholesaler and producer of bicycle, motorcycle and car accessories (approx. 390 employees in Hoya, 800 in total).
  • Christian Lühmann GmbH & Co KG , mineral oils and lubricants, holding company with subsidiaries (approx. 220 employees).
  • Sparkasse Nienburg - Hoya branch , Hoya real estate center, Hoya commercial customer area, Hoya asset management
  • Volksbank Aller-Weser , cooperative bank
  • Oelschläger Metalltechnik GmbH , develops and manufactures system elements and lifting mechanisms for the office furniture industry (approx. 500 employees in Hoya)
  • Sanum-Kehlbeck GmbH & Co. KG , pharmaceutical company with a range of natural medicines

religion

In Hoya are resident:

  • the Evangelical Lutheran parish on Bücker Straße (as well as: the former Martinskirche as a cultural center in the old town) in the Syke-Hoya church district
  • the catholic church in the old town
  • the New Apostolic Church on Bücker Strasse
  • the Jehovah's Witnesses maintain a Kingdom Hall in Deichstrasse
  • a synagogue in Deichstrasse was destroyed in the course of the Reichspogromnacht, the "Jewish soil" and a memorial plaque remind of this

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Persons connected to Hoya

literature

  • Heinrich Gade : history of the patch Hoya. In: Journal of the historical association for Lower Saxony. 1866, ISSN  0179-0633 , pp. 125-213.
  • Bernd Ulrich Hucker : Hoya and the world. In flight for 1000 years. Lecture on the occasion of the opening ceremony of the Hoya Museum in Staffhorstschen Burgmannshof on June 4, 2000. Local history museum for the county of Hoya, Hoya 2002 ( Hoyaer Hefte No. 6, ZDB -ID 2283221-X ).
  • Daniel Fraenkel: Hoya. In: Herbert Obenaus : Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen. Published in collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel. 2 volumes. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, pp. 893-899.
  • HOYA Kr. Nienburg (Weser). In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, pp. 761–763; ISBN 3-422-03022-0

Web links

Commons : Hoya (Landkreis Nienburg / Weser)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Hoya in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts
Wikivoyage: Hoya  - travel guide

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. ↑ Miracula sancti Bernwardi , Chapter 11. In: Georg Heinrich Pertz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 4: Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Carolini et Saxonici. Hannover 1841, p. 784 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ).
  3. ↑ See Eberhard Wassenberg: Der ernewerte Teutsche Floruis, Elzevier, Amsterdam 1647, p. 115.
  4. ↑ Cf. Dieter Breuer (ed.): Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen. Courasche (...), Frankfurt a. M. 2007 (Deutscher Klassiker Verlag 21), p. 786. (Commentary on the text)
  5. ↑ Various authors: The County of Hoya County . Ed .: Gerhard Stalling AG, Syke district administration. Gerhard Stalling AG, Oldenburg 1967, p. 225 .
  6. ↑ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 190 .
  7. ↑ LSKN-Online
  8. ↑ https://wahlen.kdo.de/content.php?kunde=sg_grafschaft_hoya&wahlverz=sg_grafschaft_hoya/web/201609_K__Gemeinderatswahl_Stadt_Hoya_SL_Weser_11.09.2016&atei=index.html&wahlname=Gemeinderatswahl_Stadt_Hoyaer_SL_Wes.2016
  9. ↑ The city's oldest residential building donates remains to a new refuge. February 15, 2017, accessed January 7, 2019 .
  10. ^ Website of the Hoya Local History Museum
  11. ↑ The design of the top is taking shape. October 12, 2018, accessed January 7, 2019 .
  12. Jump up ↑ Schools in the County Hoya Joint Parish on the County Hoya Joint Church website
  13. ↑ http://www.flotte-weser.de/fahrplan/hoya.html
  14. ↑ Arnd Krüger : The NISH comes of age. Arnd Krüger, Joachim K. Rühl (eds.): Learn from local sports history. Hamburg: Czwalina 2001, 169–174
  15. ↑ Katharina Seidel: Executioner Fröhlich, Hoyaer Hefte No. 4, Heimatmuseum für die Grafschaft Hoya , 2001