Holtensen (Göttingen)

Holtensen City of Göttingen Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 46 ″ N , 9 ° 53 ′ 24 ″ E
Height :	149–159 m above sea level NN
Area :	3.07 km²
Residents :	1876 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	611 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1973
Postal code :	37079
Area code :	0551
	Holtensen in the urban area of Göttingen

Holtensen is a district in the northwest of Göttingen .

It borders in the north on the municipality of Bovenden , in the east on the district of Weende and the Weststadt and in the west on Elliehausen . Holtensen is surrounded in the south by the Göttingen motorway slip road and in the north and west by the federal motorway 7 . Since its six-lane expansion began, it can only be reached by car from the south and east, as the road to Bovenden OT Lenglern has since been led over the motorway feeder to relieve the town center from through traffic.

history

St. Margarethen in Holtensen

The place was first mentioned in 1299 as "Holthusen". This happened in a document, which is dated April 18 of the year, in which a Göttingen citizen named Hildebrandus Longus owned a piece of land in the northern part of today's Neustadt in Göttingen, the then called Levenowe , in exchange for a payment of a annual pension of 3 marks sold to a group of buyers. One of the buyers was Helmoldo de Holthusen, who, like the other buyers, was required to build houses on the purchased land. Should a house be sold, Hildebrandus had the right of advance sale. In the Middle Ages, the noble lords of Plesse in Holtensen owned property as an allod , while it is proven for the 14th century that the city of Göttingen owned rights to the place. These rights were exercised in contrast to the sovereign, as the owners of the same were mainly citizens of Göttingen and it fell under private ownership. By the 14th century at the latest, Holtensen, like the surrounding villages, got into armed conflicts. As part of his feud with the city of Göttingen, Otto der Quade burned down the village and churchyard of Holthusen on June 2, 1387 and had the church and the steeple thrown down. Otto used the broken stones from the church to expand his fortifications at Grona Castle . In 1465 Holtensen was burned down again in the war with Friedrich Turbulentus , the same fate befell the place during the Hildesheim beer feud from 1481 to 1486 when Hildesheim Bishop Berthold III. devastated Holtensen with Duke Heinrich the Elder . The church was also looked after from Lenglern until 1973 .

The previously independent village was incorporated on January 1, 1973. At the end of 2006 it had 1659 main residents.

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : “In the white (silver) shield on the green floor a red half-timbered house, which is surrounded on the right and left by a green oak growing out of the ground. A white (silver) spindle lying in the green ground. ”The coat of arms is based on the etymology of the place name with“ Das Dorf im Holze ”, while the spindle represented the house trade that was maintained in spinning rooms at that time. In Holtensen there was flax and wool processing that had been in operation for centuries, in which the yarn was not only spun, but also made into linen cloth in looms set up in the houses . In addition, the spindle indicates that the overwhelming majority of the inhabitants worked as linen weavers in the Göttingen cloth factory Graetzel, located on the Grone, around the middle of the 19th century. The building in the coat of arms indicates the few (wooden) houses in the north-western linen lowlands of Göttingen that were inhabited by their citizens, shepherds and servants. The village of Holthusen later emerged from this settlement, and the two oaks show that this area was forested. The local coat of arms was approved by the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior in 1949 .

literature

Horst Henze: From the history of Holtensen, now part of the city of Göttingen . Self-published, Göttingen 1990.
Elsa Vollmer, Hans-Werner Diederich (edit.): The family book Holtensen . Ed .: Local Home Care Holtensen. Self-published, Holtensen (Göttingen) 2012.

Web links

Commons : Göttingen-Holtensen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

City of Göttingen - districts. City of Göttingen, accessed on December 21, 2019 .

Individual evidence

^ Olaf Mörke: Göttingen in the political environment. Urban power and territorial politics . In: Dietrich Denecke , Helga-Maria Kühn (ed.): Göttingen. History of a University City, From the Beginnings to the End of the Thirty Years War . tape 1 , 1987, ISBN 3-525-36196-3 , pp. 280 .
↑ Horst Henze: From the history of Holtensen, now part of the city of Göttingen . Self-published, Göttingen 1990, p. 11-13 .
^ 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. 207 .
↑ Horst Henze: From the history of Holtensen, now part of the city of Göttingen . Self-published, Göttingen 1990, p. 30 .

[1] Olaf Mörke: Göttingen in the political environment. Urban power and territorial politics . In: Dietrich Denecke , Helga-Maria Kühn (ed.): Göttingen. History of a University City, From the Beginnings to the End of the Thirty Years War . tape 1 , 1987, ISBN 3-525-36196-3 , pp. 280 .

[2] Horst Henze: From the history of Holtensen, now part of the city of Göttingen . Self-published, Göttingen 1990, p. 11-13 .

[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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 207 .

[4] Horst Henze: From the history of Holtensen, now part of the city of Göttingen . Self-published, Göttingen 1990, p. 30 .