Jesteburg

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Jesteburg
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Coordinates: 53 ° 18 '  N , 9 ° 57'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Harburg
Joint municipality : Jesteburg
Height : 34 m above sea level NHN
Area : 27.97 km 2
Residents: 7969 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 285 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 21266
Primaries : 04183, 04181
License plate : WL
Community key : 03 3 53 020
LOCODE : DE JEG
NUTS : DE933
Community structure: 6 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Niedersachsenplatz 5
21266 Jesteburg
Mayor : Udo Heitmann ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Jesteburg in the Harburg district
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Jesteburg is a municipality on the Seeve in northern Lower Saxony and the seat of a joint municipality administration for three municipalities in the Harburg district .

Location and districts

Jesteburg is ten kilometers north of the Lüneburg Heath Nature Reserve and 30 km south of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

The member municipality of Jesteburg was merged by the law on the reorganization of the municipalities in Lower Saxony of 23 June 1972 together with the previously independent municipalities of Bendestorf and Harmstorf to form the joint municipality of Jesteburg .

Districts of Jesteburg are Itzenbüttel , Reindorfer Osterberg, Lüllau and Wiedenhof .

politics

Local council election 2016
Voter turnout:
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
31.17%
24.98%
13.88%
5.77%
22.35%
UWG Jes!
Gains and losses
compared to 2011
 % p
 25th
 20th
 15th
 10
   5
   0
  -5
-10
-15
-10.03  % p
-11.52  % p
-4.02  % p
+ 2.67  % p.p.
+ 22.35  % p.p.
UWG Jes!

The local elections on September 11, 2016 led to the following distribution of seats in the local council:

history

Early history / castle complex

Jesteburg lies at the confluence of the Schmalen Aue in the Seeve . This site marked the border between the territories of the Counts of Stade and the Dukes of Lüneburg . Until 1202 the landscape belonged to the County of Stade.

Jesteburg was mentioned for the first time in 1202 by a document from Archbishop Hartwig II of Bremen, in which he gave the church in Gersedeburg ("Burg im Grasland", according to recent research also known as "Frau Gerswid's castle" to the dean's office of the Hamburg cathedral chapter ) interpreted) together with the church in Wilstorf ( Hamburg-Wilstorf ). This also proves that the Jesteburg St. Martins Church as a field stone building already existed at that time. A Romanesque bell hangs in the wooden tower of the church; it was cast around 1190 and is one of the oldest bells in northern Germany.

The castle, after which the village is named, will have guarded the Seeve crossing before the 13th century, which later had an important traffic function. It was probably an earth wall fortification that served as a customs post. Ruins or fragments are no longer available, which is why, despite intensive investigations by the Archaeological Museum Hamburg (Helms Museum) in Hamburg-Harburg, localization has not yet been successful.

Twelve localities belonged to the parish of Jesteburg; the area extended to Handeloh . Since the end of the Middle Ages there was a Vogt resident in Jesteburg, who performed administrative tasks for the sovereign, the Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg .

Historical events

For the year 1497 there are eight farm positions in Jesteburg, in 1667 there were already thirteen.

In the 17th century, eleven localities belonged to the Bailiwick of Jesteburg.

From 1831 the farmers were able to redeem taxes and services and in this way become free owners of their jobs. The recession of 1840 formed the basis for the land reform, through which the common areas were divided up for private use to the individual entitled persons and the mixed situation of the property shares in the arable land was abolished (coupling). At that time the owners were the village office, the church and 22 farmsteads with farmer successions.

In 1841 the old stone church was demolished and a new building was erected in a classicist style, slightly offset, according to the plans of the building expert of the Evangelical Consistory in the Kingdom of Hanover, Ludwig Hellner . Until 1535 there was a stone bell tower to the west of the original church. The current, free-standing wooden tower dates from 1768.

In the years 1872 and 1873, the Wittenberge – Buchholz line was built , a connection between Wittenberge on the Berlin-Hamburg Railway and Buchholz on the Hamburg-Venloer Bahn . The connection to the rail network resulted in a modest economic boom in local industry. In 1899 the Harburg building contractor Heinrich Körner founded a brick factory in the area of ​​today's Seevetal settlement. This operation developed after the establishment of the Jesteburger Brickyard track quickly became the largest employer Jesteburgs with 42 employees in 1925. The bricks, roof tiles and drain pipes were in the whole environment Jesteburgs until after Hamburg delivered where they, among other things for the construction of Chile house were used . The second largest employer in the 1920s was the carpentry Bahlburg, which was founded before 1872 and had 28 employees (1921). In 1928 it comprised a construction business, a steam sawmill and a timber shop.

Since June 28, 1928, the Jesteburg volunteer fire brigade has ensured fire protection in the community. With the establishment of the voluntary fire brigade, the previously existing mandatory fire brigade was replaced. It is no longer possible to determine when the compulsory fire brigade existed, but it is known that the municipality of Jesteburg ordered a fire engine in 1859, which was delivered in 1860.

World War II and more recently

On the night of January 30th to 31st, 1943, British planes launched an air raid on Hamburg. On the return flight over the southern area, the bombs still on board were dropped on some villages. In Jesteburg and Itzenbüttel numerous buildings were destroyed and 23 people left homeless. Evacuees from Hamburg came to Jesteburg. Among them were the building officer Franz Wiesner and his Jewish wife Margarete, daughter of the Berlin banker Carl Hagen (1856–1938). After the destruction of their home near the Alster in Hamburg, they moved to their weekend home in Wiedenhof . Margarete Wiesner initially remained unmolested, but was persecuted by the Gestapo in the final phase of the war in 1944/45. However, with the help of her husband, she was able to evade arrest and threatened deportation. She died in 1968.

Home house

British troops reached Jesteburg on April 19, 1945. To make the advance more difficult, the railway bridge was blown up by Wehrmacht soldiers on the same day.

Jesteburg experienced a strong population increase from 1945 onwards from refugees and displaced persons , which led to considerable housing problems. Between 1933 and 1946 the population had increased from 1099 to 2044. In the final phase of the war, more than three hundred wounded soldiers and tuberculosis patients had to be accommodated in the main hospital Heidehaus and the reserve hospitals Weevil, Gasthaus Buhr, Gasthaus Niedersachsen and in Wintermoor . Many of them died. The dead were first buried at the church. On August 13, 1950, a war cemetery was laid out for them on the church grounds.

In 1986/87 the Heimathaus (a 450-year-old farmhouse from Eyendorf moved to Jesteburg ) and in 1992 the new town hall of the community were built on Niedersachsenplatz .

In the early evening of July 6, 2006, a storm with strong thunderstorms and heavy rain caused considerable damage to property, which was probably more than a million euros. A total of 18 fire brigades from the district and the technical relief organization were required to process the more than 350 sites. The fire brigade was in constant use for more than 24 hours to repair the damage or to help citizens in need.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, larger parts of the dissolved communities Itzenbüttel and Lüllau were incorporated.

schools

There is a primary school (Moorweg) in Jesteburg , as well as in the Bendestorf district . The Realschule Hittfeld had a branch in Jesteburg (Sandbarg), which was closed in 2010. The high school, which was newly founded in 2012 and offers a gymnasium, initially moved into the premises of the former secondary school on a temporary basis until it moved to the new building on Moorweg, which was completed in 2014.

traffic

railroad

Jesteburg lies on the formerly continuous railway line Wittenberge – Buchholz . In 1981 it was shut down for passenger traffic between Lüneburg and Buchholz and dismantled in 2000 from the level of the Seeve / Auebrücken near Marxen in the direction of Lüneburg. The section near Jesteburg , on the other hand, was expanded as early as the 1970s in the course of the creation of a freight bypass railway to the then newly built Maschen marshalling yard , so that (freight) trains still roll through Jesteburg today.

In recent years it has been suggested that the bypass route should also be used by passenger trains by running a regional train connection (e.g. extension of the “ Heidebahn ”) from Buchholz via Jesteburg to Harburg. In July 2008, the municipal council passed a resolution to reactivate the route. Concrete steps have not yet been taken.

bus

The rail replacement service Buchholz – Lüneburg was replaced by a line Buchholz - Jesteburg - Brackel - Winsen due to low demand. For a long time, however, the most important connection was the Harburg - Hittfeld - Jesteburg - Hanstedt post bus route, which was taken over by the KVG Stade in the 1980s. Today it belongs to the Hamburg Transport Association as route 4148.

Since 2008 the new line 4207 (Egestorf - Hanstedt - Jesteburg - Buchholz) has been running every one to two hours. It has a connection to the metronome trains in Buchholz and is the fastest connection to Hamburg. Together with line 4408 (Winsen - Brackel - Jesteburg - Buchholz) it is now the most important line for the Jesteburg community. All lines run in Hamburg Transport network.

In school traffic, which is open to the general public, there are connections to numerous other places.

In addition, the “Heide-Shuttle” connects Jesteburg with other heath locations six to eight times a day between 8:00 am and 8:00 pm during the summer months. It is possible to take bicycles with you. The ride is free.

Culture and sights

Bossard Art Center

In the district of Lüllau, the Bossard art site, built from 1926 by the sculptor Johann Michael Bossard , is located on a three-hectare heather plot . It is considered to be one of the most impressive total works of art in Europe and shows how architecture, sculpture, painting, applied arts and garden art can merge into one.

Museums and cultural offers

  • Jesteburg Art House
  • Museum barn Jesteburg
  • Jesteburger Kammerspiele

More Attractions

  • Bendestorf watermill
  • Watermill Lüllau
  • Brookhoff in Lüllau
  • Fairytale hiking trail at the Lohof
  • Hof & Gut Jesteburg in Itzenbüttel
  • Tipper of the Jesteburg brickworks railway
  • Café Book Jesteburg

societies

  • Jesteburg rifle club from 1864 e. V.
  • Association for physical exercises Jesteburg from 1912 e. V. (VfL)
  • Tennis club Jesteburg e. V. from 2000 (from 1969 to 2000 as a department in VfL Jesteburg).
  • Reit- und Fahrverein Nordheide e. V.
    • The riding and driving association Nordheide e. V. organizes the "Maimarktturnier" every year. The three-day jumping tournament is known far beyond the local borders and regularly attracts 10,000 spectators.
    • Since 1990 he has also been organizing pony games under the name "Mounted Games".
  • Jesteburg Wind Orchestra from 1998 e. V.
  • Jesteburg table tennis club
  • Jesteburg Rugby Wombats
  • Friends of the Jesteburg Volunteer Fire Brigade e. V.

Personalities

literature

  • Jesteburg working group for home care e. V. (Ed.), Carl Meyer: Contributions to the history of Jesteburg. With many illustrations, Jesteburg 1961.
  • Heiner Dürr: Soil and social geography of the communities around Jesteburg, northern Lüneburg Heath. A contribution to the methodology of a planning-oriented regional survey in a topological dimension, Hamburg: Institute for Geography and Economic Geography of the University of Hamburg, 1971 (Hamburg Geographic Studies; H. 26).
  • Jesteburg working group for home care e. V. (Ed.), Carl Meyer: Jesteburg in words and pictures. Extended edition, Jesteburg 1979.
  • Heinrich Haustein: Jesteburg in the current events of the 20s. Jahn and Ernst, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-89407-004-8 .
  • Jesteburg: A village in the Lüneburg Heath. Photos by Helge Scheper. Texts by Hans-Joska Pintschovius, Leipzig: Stadt-Bild-Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-931554-60-0 .
  • Thomas Wolfes: Between self-assertion and inner emigration. The Jewish painter Margarete Wiesner in the “Third Reich”. In: District Harburg (Ed.): District calendar 1998. District Harburg 1999, pp. 159–167.
  • Jesteburg working group for home care e. V. (Ed.), Hans-Heinrich Wolfes: Jesteburg 1202–2002 - From farming village to large community. Beisner-Druck, Buchholz 2002, ISBN 3-00-009402-4
  • Jesteburg working group for home care e. V. (Hrsg.), Hans-Heinrich Wolfes: The refugees and expellees in Jesteburg. ALDRU, Buchholz 2003
  • Jesteburg working group for home care e. V. (Ed.), Hans-Heinrich Wolfes: On the 60th anniversary of the end of the war in Jesteburg and the surrounding area. Karisma, Buchholz 2005, ISBN 3-938497-66-1 (also as pdf online: see 'Weblinks')
  • Jesteburg working group for home care e. V. (Ed.), Hans-Heinrich Wolfes: Itzenbüttel - Osterberg - Reindorf. Village history. Karisma, Buchholz 2005, ISBN 3-938497-70-X
  • Jesteburg on the sofa. The other village chronicle. A photo session by Hauke ​​Gilbert and Hans-Jürgen Börner, Hamburg: Walter Zenner GmbH, 2008.
  • Jesteburg working group for home care e. V. (Ed.), Hans-Heinrich Wolfes: Lüllau, Thelstorf, Wiedenhof: A village history. PD-Verlag, Heidenau 2009, ISBN 978-3-86707-827-6 .

Web links

Commons : Jesteburg  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

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. ↑ [1]
  3. ^ Thomas Wolfes: Persecution and disenfranchisement in Jesteburg 1933–1945. In: Hans-Heinrich Wolfes (Ed.): On the 60th anniversary of the end of the war in Jesteburg and the surrounding area. P. 32 f. ( online ).
  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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 229 .
  5. ↑ history. In: www.realschule-hittfeld.de. Retrieved August 8, 2016 .
  6. ^ Oberschule Jesteburg :: Press & Media. In: obs-jesteburg.de. Retrieved August 8, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Future concept “Jesteburg 2020”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.jesteburg-online.de  
  8. ↑ Heidebahn soon via Jesteburg? Jesteburg Council decides future project. In: ( Nordheide Wochenblatt of July 9, 2008, pp. 1 and 44) (PDF; 138 kB)
  9. ↑ Every spot a piece of art. In: FAZ from June 6, 2012 (page R4), and Ulrich Greiner : Beauty source: The Bossard art site in Jesteburg. In: Die Zeit , July 19, 2012.