Hohnhorst

This article deals with the community of Hohnhorst; for other meanings of Hohnhorst see Hohnhorst (disambiguation)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′  N , 9 ° 22 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Schaumburg
Joint municipality :	Nenndorf
Height :	60 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.98 km 2
Residents:	2088 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	174 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	31559
Area code :	05723
License plate :	SHG, RI
Community key :	03 2 57 016
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Rodenberger Allee 13 31542 Bad Nenndorf
Website :	www.hohnhorst-online.de
Mayor :	Cord Lattwesen ( CDU )
Location of the community of Hohnhorst in the Schaumburg district

Hohnhorst is a municipality within the combined municipality of Nenndorf in the Schaumburg district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Hohnhorst

Geographical location

Hohnhorst lies between the Mittelland Canal and Haster Wald in the north and Bad Nenndorf am Deister in the south. The landscape of the municipality, which is characterized by flat farmland, flows through the Haster Bach, the Osterriehe, the Büntegraben and the Rodenberger Aue . The Hanover-Minden railway runs through the town, as well as the S-Bahn -distance Haste bath nominal village Weetzen-Hannover and the federal highway 442 . The Hinter den Höfen development area has also been part of the community since 2009.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the localities

• Hohnhorst with the district Scheller and 930 inhabitants
• Ohndorf with the Bradtmühle and the former dairy and 377 inhabitants
• Rehren , this includes the Rehrener mill with three residential buildings and the villages of Rehrwiehe and Nordbruch with 758 inhabitants.

history

Excavation of the urn burial site in Hohnhorst in May 2011

The predominantly agricultural area north of the Deister has been inhabited since prehistoric times. In 2011, when a biogas plant was being built, the Hohnhorst urn burial site from the pre-Roman Iron Age around the 7th to 3rd century BC. Discovered. Around 350 burials were documented in a two-week rescue excavation . This makes the burial ground one of the larger facilities of this era in northern Germany . The restoration of the finds and the scientific processing are currently (2012) in planning. Individual finds are shown in a small exhibition at the location where they were found.

Hohnhorst is first mentioned as Hanhurst between 1121 and 1140 in a deed for the transfer of real estate to the Minden Church . Around 1380 Count Otto von Holstein-Schaumburg enfeoffed a Theobert von Hohnhorst with tithes. One of his successors sold half a tithe to the brothers Hinrich and Lambert von Dageforde in 1494. A witch hunt was carried out in Hohnhorst in 1581 : Barbara Bruggenmansche got into a witch trial . When the old Grafschaft Schaumburg was divided in 1647/1648, Hohnhorst came to the Hessian part. Until 1932 the community was Hessian territory. It was incorporated into the Prussian province of Hanover. Until August 1, 1977, Hohnhorst belonged to the Grafschaft Schaumburg district and then became part of the new Schaumburg district.

In 1933, a chair factory was built on the border with Haste, but production stopped in the mid-1970s. The Hohnhorst volunteer fire brigade was also founded in 1933.

The other places in the community can look back on a 700-year history that has been handed down in writing.

The municipalities of Hohnhorst, Ohndorf and Rehren, district court district Rodenberg (short: Rehren AR) , which were independent until March 1, 1974 , were merged during the regional reform .

religion

The parish of Hohnhorst includes the communities of Haste and Hohnhorst and the Helsinghausen district of the community of Suthfeld. There are two pastors: on the one hand Pastor Jürgen Wiegel (in honorary office), on the other hand Gero Cochlovius as the main pastor.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Hohnhorst consists of 13 councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 2001 and 3000 inhabitants. The council members are elected for a five-year term by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats
CDU	48.45%	6th
SPD	41.18%	6th
WG Nenndorf	10.35%	1

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 69.83%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

Previous election results

	CDU	SPD	WGN	FWH	total
2006	5	5	-	3	13 seats
2011	6th	5	2	-	13 seats

Mayor / Administration

In the local elections in 2016, the district farmer Cord Lattwesen (CDU) was elected mayor of the community. The community office is located at Ohndorfer Straße 4 a.

coat of arms

In red, a three-row black-and-silver nested rafter, underneath a silver nettle leaf.

Culture and sights

Evangelical Church of St. Martin

Catholic Church of St. Peter Canisius

Theaters and museums

• The Ohndorf Theater is an amateur drama group.

Buildings

• The Protestant parish church of St. Martin in Hohnhorst with a nave built in 1899 in the neo-Gothic style by Conrad Wilhelm Hase and a cross vault from the 13th century. The baptismal font comes from the previous church and dates from 1601.
• In 1966 the foundation stone was laid for the Catholic St. Petrus Canisius Church in the Scheller district. The church is used as a branch church and belongs to the parish Maria of the Holy Rosary in Bad Nenndorf.

See also : The list of architectural monuments in Hohnhorst

Sports

• TuS Germania Hohnhorst eV from 1912 with the divisions gymnastics, hiking, table tennis, tennis, handball, gymnastics, athletics and badminton. There is a practice hall in the Dorfkrug and a sports hall in the Scheller district. In handball there is a syndicate with ETSV Haste.
• MTV Rehren AR eV from 1911 with the divisions soccer, table tennis, gymnastics, gymnastics and athletics as well as a double-headed league. Two sports fields and a sports hall are available as sports facilities.
• MTV Ohndorf eV from 1911 with the divisions handball, table tennis, gymnastics and athletics. A multi-purpose hall and a sports field are available here. In handball there is a syndicate (HSG Schaumburg Nord) with the clubs VfL Bad Nenndorf, TSV Riepen, MTV Waltringhausen and TuS Kreuzriehe-Helsinghausen
• Schützenverein Hohnhorst eV from 1953. The club has its own club house and a covered shooting range.
• Rehren AR shooting club from 1962. The shooting ranges are set up in the basement of the "old school".

Economy and Infrastructure

Public facilities

• The police station in Bad Nenndorf is responsible for public safety and order.
• The defensive fire protection and general help by volunteer fire departments ensured in Hohnhorst, Ohndorf and Rehren.

traffic

Hohnhorst benefits from its proximity to its conveniently located neighboring towns of Haste and Bad Nenndorf . The BAB 2 is ten minutes by car to the Bad Nenndorf or Wunstorf / Kolenfeld junctions. The public transport is provided by the Schaumburger Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (SVG) with the 2602 bus. From the train station in Haste there are connections to Hanover and Minden with a journey time of 20 to 30 minutes.

literature

• Munk, Heinrich: Hohnhorst: the history of a church village in the district of Schaumburg, Hohnhorst 1993
• Munk, Heinrich: Rehren Amt Rodenberg 1287–1987, published by the municipality of Hohnhorst
• Munk, Heinrich: 750 (recte 700!) Years Ohndorf: 1289–1989, published by the municipality of Hohnhorst, Rinteln 1988

Web links

Commons : Hohnhorst  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the community of Hohnhorst

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. ^ Gerhard Schormann: Witches' persecution in Schaumburg , in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte, Volume 45, Hildesheim 1973, pp. 149–151.
3. ^ Historical index of places for Schaumburg by Gudrun Husmeier, Verlag für Regionalgeschichte Bielefeld 2008
4. ^ 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. 192 .
5. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on April 1, 2017.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Hohnhorst - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on April 1, 2017.
7. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016, accessed April 1, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Internet presence of the volunteer fire brigade Hohnhorst