Kirchgellersen
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Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ' N , 10 ° 18' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Lower Saxony | |
County : | Luneburg | |
Joint municipality : | Gellersen | |
Height : | 38 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 19.99 km 2 | |
Residents: | 2534 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 127 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postcodes : | 21394, 21444 | |
Area code : | 04135 | |
License plate : | LG | |
Community key : | 03 3 55 020 | |
LOCODE : | DE KGE | |
Address of the municipal administration: |
In the village 11 21394 Kirchgellersen |
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Mayor : | Jürgen Hövermann ( CDU ) | |
Location of the municipality of Kirchgellersen in the district of Lüneburg | ||
Kirchgellersen is a municipality in the Lower Saxony district of Lüneburg .
Geographical location
Kirchgellersen lies between the Lüneburg Heath and Elbufer-Drawehn nature reserves . The municipality belongs to the Gellersen municipality , which has its administrative seat in the municipality of Reppenstedt .
history
prehistory
A tool made by a Neanderthal man was found in Kirchgellersen , the age of which was estimated to be 34,000 to 100,000 years. In the 3rd millennium BC Chr. Became the hillside grave De swatte Barg created. Items such as silver and bronze brooches, razors and bone combs were unearthed at the end of the 19th century. A Roman gold coin of Emperor Valentinian II (375–392 AD) was found in the village.
middle Ages
The first documentary mention as money meal took place in the year 1123. In 1263 it was mentioned as kerc money instead . According to a document dated November 22, 1313, there was a gift from the knight Lippold von Dhoren, with which he laid the foundation stone for the Kirchgellers monastery. In 1314, Duke Otto von Braunschweig and Bishop Nikolaus von Verden confirmed the establishment of the Premonstratensian monastery in Kirchgellersen. The oldest building in Kirchgellersen was built in 1559. The Kirchgellers School was instituted in 1562/63. Kirch Gildersen was founded in 1585 on the SAXONIA IMPERIOR ET MEKLENBORG DVC card. recorded by Gerhard Mercator . During the Thirty Years' War (1618 to 1648) the St. Laurentius Church was looted several times and the rectory burned down.
Modern times
In 1704 the place is shown on a map as "Kirch Geldersen". In 1829 a savings bank was founded. A fire engine was purchased in 1880. The Kirchgellersen volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1881.
Place name
The old names of the place are around 1123 Geldersen, around 1180 Chelderhorses, 1229–35 Geldersen, 1244 Geldersen, 1263 Kercgeldereses, 1267 Gelderdissen, Gelderhorses, 1271 Geldersen, 1304 Westerghelderhorses, 1326 Ghelderßen, 1326 Gheldereses and around 1326 Sudergeleses.
The place name Kirchgellersen cannot be separated from Südgellersen and Westgellersen. The old documents require the basic form “Gelderd-es-husen”. There was an early weakening from "-husen" to "-sen" (Adelebsen, Erbsen, Holtensen). In the basic word there is "-husen" (old plural for "hus" house), in the defining word a so-called personal name. The place name could mean Geldherdes Siedlung, which stands for a settlement of a man whose name could have been Geld-hard, -herd. The personal name contains Germanic “money” in the sense of “worth” and “hard, robust, strong”.
politics
The municipality of Kirchgellersen belongs to the state electoral district 49 Lüneburg and to the federal electoral district 38 Lüchow-Dannenberg - Lüneburg .
Municipal council
The municipal council in Kirchgellersen consists of 13 councilors from the following parties:
(Status: local election September 11, 2016)
mayor
Mayor is currently Mr. Jürgen Hövermann (CDU).
Culture and sights
Buildings
Ev.-luth. St. Lawrence Church
In 1313 Premonstratensian monks found the predecessor of the Laurentius Church when they founded a monastery in the village. The church was renovated in 1858 in neo-Gothic style, but without a tower due to lack of money. This was only built in 1904 after a referendum and is 44 m high. The baptismal font has been preserved from 1450.
Green spaces and recreation
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The A 7 and A 39 motorways , which are to the west and east of the municipality, are approx. 15 and 8 km away.
The community has a connection to the state road 216.
The bus routes 5200 ( Lüneburg - Salzhausen ) and 5201 (Lüneburg-Südergellersen-Salzhausen), 5202 (Lüneburg-Westergellersen-Vierhöfen) and 5203 run with several stops in Kirchgellersen within the tariff framework of the Hamburg Transport Association :
- Primary school: 5201
- Heiligenthaler Strasse: 5201, 5202
- In the village: 5200 (towards Salzhausen), 5201, 5202, 5203
- In the sand: 5200, 5201, 5202
- Im Wiesengrund: 5200, 5203
- Church: 5200 (towards Lüneburg)
- Schützenstrasse: 5200, 5201, 5202
Broadband expansion
Fiber optic is available to the community.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ↑ Map supplement to: Christian Schlöpken: Chronicon or description of the city and the Stifft Bardewick / Before and after the destruction: In it at the same time different from the state of the old Saxony-Land / as well in Heydenthum, as after the Christian religion / included / Wobey too the surrounding donors / monasteries and parish churches, and their clergy now and then report history; Compiled from unmistakable archives / old and new scribes / together with other credible watch customers / and personal experience . Self-published, Lübeck 1704. Digitized
- ^ Peter R- Jante: Kirchgellersen. From 875 years of village history. pj-press press service and local history publisher, 1997 ISBN 3-00-00-2271-6 .
- ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: Website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; accessed on August 5, 2019 .
- ↑ http://www.kirchenkreis-lueneburg.de/ihre_gemeinden/kirchengemeinden_land/kirchgellersen
- ↑ Welcome to Kirchgellersen. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .