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Holle municipality
Coat of arms of the village of Heersum
Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 25 ″  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : approx. 100 m
Residents : 738  (Nov. 30, 2017)
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 31188
Area code : 05062
Heersum (Lower Saxony)
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Location of Heersum in Lower Saxony

Heersum is a village in the municipality of Holle in the Hildesheim district in Lower Saxony .

Geographical location

Heersum is located in the Innerstebergland  - just under 12 km southeast of the city center of Hildesheim . In the valley of the Innerste it is located on the southern slope of the Vorholz ridge ( 243  m ), to the north of which the Hildesheimer Börde extends. Beyond the river that passes through the village in the south are the Sauberge ( 317  m ). Neighboring towns down the Innerste are Astenbeck in the east and Listringen in the west.

politics

Local council election
Wbt .: 67.5% (+ 0.2% p)
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62.4%
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37.6%
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2011

2016


After the municipal elections in Lower Saxony in 2016 , the five seats in the local council are distributed as follows (changes to the 2011 election in brackets ):

  • SPD : 3 seats (± 0)
  • CDU : 2 seats (± 0)

coat of arms

The Heersum coat of arms shows an Ammonshorn , a petrification from the so-called Heersum layers , which was discovered in 1864.

history

St. Urbani Church in Heersum

Heersum was mentioned for the first time in 1022 in the property registers of Hildesheim's Hildesheim Michaeliskloster . A large part of the village then belonged to the Count von Wohldenberg .

Today's Heersum was created around the year 1300 when the Heersumer Feldmark was expanded by clearing and the Derneburg monastery made major changes to the land for agricultural reasons by exchanging land and including the Astenbeck district. Across from Heersum was the village of Cantelsum, which was mentioned until 1645, after which it was abandoned and fell into disrepair. Later Count Ernst zu Münster built a Vorwerk here , which his wife named "Vorwerk Ernst" after the Count's death in 1839.

Like all Holler villages, Heersum also suffered from the numerous wars and feuds of the Middle Ages (see also Hildesheimer Stiftsfehde ).

An incident from the year 1485 has been handed down more precisely: During the feud between Bishop Barthold and the city of Hildesheim, the citizens undertook a raid to Heersum. All of Heersum's villagers holed up in the churchyard, and although they wounded and killed several attackers in the defense, they were overwhelmed and arrested. The victors took the cattle from the village as booty.

Today, on an old Heerstrasse, Mittelstrasse, there are farms, residential and commercial buildings and the parish home of the Protestant church, which was inaugurated in 1953 and where training courses and seminars took place. Since 2004 the house has served as a children's home on behalf of the Catholic Caritas Association .

On the outskirts of the village, the new housing estates "Auf dem Kampe", "Kreuzgarten" and the development "Großer Böckel" were built from 1947, but they did not destroy Heersum's village structure. Before the turn of the millennium there was a further enlargement of the place with the new development area "In den Gänseköpf". Now there is the new development area "Innersteblick", which has ensured a brisk increase in population.

On March 1, 1974, Heersum was incorporated into the municipality of Holle.

An enrichment of village life came in 1990 with the Forum Heersum for art and culture. Since then, almost all associations have been taking part in the annual country tours, during which the life of the village is staged from historical and everyday aspects. The forum ensured that Heersum became known throughout Germany. It has been staging a “landscape theater” every summer for more than 20 years: the venues are spread around Heersum, and the audience has to wander around to see the next scene. A performance takes about three and a half hours. The Heersumer Heimatmuseum organizes the ticket sales, and a large barn serves as a fund in which the props and costumes are stored.

Worth seeing

St. Urbani Church

The age of the St. Urbani Church in Heersum is not known. The strong tower dates from before 1300 and was renewed together with the nave in 1731. Inside, the pulpit altar from 1739, a work of the Hildesheim Baroque , as well as the baptismal angel from 1721 and the colorful ceiling painting are particularly noteworthy.

The old bell of the church from 1521 bears the name of Petronilla , who, according to legend, went about her work with particular diligence. Its inscription reads: “By ringing the bell I wake the lazy”.

Heersumer layers

Heersum achieved its greatest degree of popularity through a simple quarry near the village, in which the geologist Karl von Seebach found strange sea animal fossils during a scientific study of the Jura formations in 1864 , which had arisen about 150 million years ago. He gave this rock formation the name Heersum Layers . These layers from the Jura are made up of light-colored limestone and marl stones that were previously quarried in four large quarries north of Listringen and Heersum. In decades of collecting, the Hildesheim professor Emanuel Pfaff has gathered rich fossil material from these layers.

Transport links

Heersum is located directly to the west of the intersection of the merging axis of the district road  212 and the state road  499, which runs through the village, with the federal road 6 . Via the B 6 there is a connection to the Federal Motorway 7 and to the Federal Motorway 39 located a little to the east . While the village in the east is affected by the B 6, the Heerstraße used to run from Hildesheim to Goslar .

There are bus connections of the regional traffic Hildesheim available. The next train station is about 2 km southeast in Derneburg on the Hildesheim – Goslar railway line .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures in the districts of the municipality of Holle , accessed on December 27, 2017
  2. ^ Website of the municipality of Holle , accessed on October 1, 2016
  3. ^ 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. 210 .
  4. ↑ Hartmut Kemmerer u. a .: Hildesheimer Land travel guide , p. 118. Hildesheim 2003.

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