Holzen (near Eschershausen)

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 56 '  N , 9 ° 40'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Holzminden
Joint municipality :	Eschershausen-Stadtoldendorf
Height :	190 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.6 km 2
Residents:	527 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	80 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	37632
Area code :	05534
License plate :	HOL
Community key :	03 2 55 022
Address of the municipal administration:	Hilsstrasse 17a 37632 Holzen
Website :	www.holzen.info
Mayor :	Silke Hage ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Holzen in the Holzminden district

Holzen is a municipality in the northern district of Holzminden in Lower Saxony ( Germany ) and is part of the Eschershausen-Stadtoldendorf municipality . Holzen lies at the intersection of the Ith and Hils mountain ranges . The place consists of two locations , the village of Holzen and Holzen-Ith .

history

Traces of Stone Age settlement and sacrificial rituals could be found in the caves around Holzen. Finds from the Rothestein cave and a reconstructed cave entrance are exhibited in the Hanover State Museum.

Under the name Rothe, a settlement in the Wikanafeld was first mentioned in 1004 , which was in the area of ​​the Holzener Hütte. For this reason, Holzen gives its origin 1004 and held a millennium in 2004, for which a village chronicle was published.

In the 11th and 12th centuries, the Poppenburg existed on a mountain spur north of Holzen , for which no historical record exists.

In the 18th century there was a glass factory in the village, the Holzen glass factory , which existed from 1744 to 1768. It mainly produced hollow glass in the form of bottles (bottles). After the relics were archaeologically examined between 2000 and 2005, the subsequently covered site is open to the public.

During the Second World War , the Holzen satellite camp existed in Holzen from September 1944 as a satellite camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp ( code name Hecht). The prisoners were assigned to the "Stein company" (code name for the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg ) for construction work that carried out the underground production facilities for military equipment under the management of Minette GmbH , of which the Volkswagen factory was the main shareholder . At the beginning of April 1945, the forced laborers were taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp. In addition, insisted on the Greitberg about two kilometers northeast of Holzen the prison camp Holzen six stone barracks, with about 500 prisoners in the penitentiary Hamelin was occupied. On the outskirts of Holzen there was a hut camp for Italian military internees who could move around freely.

The camps were part of the project to develop the Hils into an armaments focus in the German Reich. Since the Allies had gained air superiority over Germany in 1943, the extensive system of pits and tunnels of Deutsche Asphalt AG offered ideal conditions for the underground relocation of the armaments industry. Under the direction of Organization Todt , production facilities for the manufacture of fighter planes were created from 1944 according to the Jägerstab . More than 10,000 forced laborers were temporarily employed in over 30 camps in the Hils, with around 5,000 forced laborers being housed in the Lenn camp as the main warehouse of the armaments complex near the town of Lenne .

In 1996 there were 741 residents in the municipality.

politics

mayor

• 1928–1933: August Morie (SPD)
• 1933–1934: Robert Störmer
• 1934–1935: Wilhelm Ahlswede
• 1935–1939: August Hoppmann
• 1939–1946: Hermann Meyer
• 1946–1952: Walter Markworth (SPD)
• 1952–1956: Hermann Meyer
• 1956–1961: Walter Markworth (SPD)
• 1961–1964: Otto Ritterbusch (SPD)
• 1964–1973: Friedrich Nagel (SPD)
• 1973–1981: Wolfgang Pagel (SPD)
• 1981-2001: Herbert Schlotter (SPD)
• 2001–2016: Helmut Alms (SPD)
• since 2016: Silke Hage (WGH)

Municipal council

Municipal election 2016

Turnout: 67.96%

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70

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

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26.81%

65.17%

8.02%

SPD

WGH

Green

After the local elections on September 11, 2016 , the municipal council consists of:

• WGH: 6 seats
• SPD : 2 seats
• GREEN : 1 seat

Culture and sights

theatre

The Low German amateur play group fills the village community center every year.

music

The village band GummiArabikum is known for the rather absurd character of their appearances. Song titles that can contain any genre of music include "The animals can eat the rest" or "The wild boar".

In 2010 the Holzen Trombone Choir celebrated its 60th anniversary. According to his own statement, his main task is to accompany church services in the entire parish of Eschershausen.

Paths and monuments

There is a paved hiking trail around Holzen, on which parts of the old concentration camp can also be visited. In most cases, however, only the foundation walls are evidence of the former structures. Another attraction is the war memorial on the Hils. The eagle sculpture that once adorned the monument was stolen in the 1990s and has been missing since then.

Natural monuments

Natural monuments in the Ith are climbing rocks and caves, especially the Drachenwand with the great classic "Dragon Slayer" in the 7th grade of the UIAA .

Architectural monuments

In the 18th century there was a glass factory in Holzen, the Holzen glass factory , which mainly produced hollow glass in the form of bottles. Their excavated and covered remains are in the northern district of Auf der Holzener Hütte and can be viewed.

Economy and Infrastructure

Today, Deutsche Asphalt AG operates the last natural asphalt underground mine still active in Germany in Hils near Holzen . There are also two carpentry shops, a wine shop and a bakery are available for shopping. In addition, there are two full-time agricultural businesses.

The civil service school Ith (Holzen), which was located on the site of an old Wehrmacht air base, belongs to Holzen, although it is locally separated from the village. However, since it is not possible to drive directly from Holzen to the community service school (detour via Scharfoldendorf), many community service providers got lost in the village of Holen-Dorf. Since the suspension of community service, the facility has been subordinate to the Federal Office for Education and Family and is now an education center.

literature

• Detlef Creydt (Ed.): Forced labor for industry and armaments in Hils 1943–1945. Mitzkat, Holzminden 2001, ISBN 3-931656-37-3 ( forced labor 4).
• Holzen - Chronicle of a Village , 2004.

Web links

Commons : Holzen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• HOLZEN - Nestled between Ith and Hils website of the municipality of Holzen
• Integrated community of Eschershausen-Stadtoldendorf

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. ↑ Buchenwald concentration camp, Holzen branch at holzen.info
3. ↑ Trombone Choir Holzen: About Us ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 1, 2011.