Kirchlinteln (Kernort)

Kirchlinteln municipality Kirchlinteln Coordinates: 52 ° 56 ′ 21 ″  N , 9 ° 18 ′ 52 ″  E
Height :	41 m
Residents :	2523
Postal code :	27308
Area code :	04236
Location of Kirchlinteln in Lower Saxony

The core town of Kirchlinteln ( Kerklinteln in Low German ) of the rural community of the same name in the Verden district in Lower Saxony has around 2500 inhabitants. It is the largest town in the parish, the seat of the most important administrative institutions, the location of a school, the police and an Evangelical Lutheran parish.

geography

Kirchlinteln is located in a rural, slightly undulating and heavily forested landscape, around 10 kilometers east of Verden (Aller). The Lintelner Geest begins directly northeast of the village , a transition area between the Stader Geest and the Lüneburg Heath that touches the district of Verden . To the south, the autobahn separates the place from the so-called Kleinbahnwinkel , a group of villages within the Kirchlinteln community. The village of Kirchlinteln is traversed by the mostly dry and mostly canalised Gibbach, which the locals call the Reith . This flows into the Gohbach at Weizmühlen , a tributary of the Aller .

Kirchlinteln is traversed in an east-west direction by the main street, on which the most important shops and the Lintler Krug , a former inn from the 18th century, which is now used as the community's public event space, are located. In the north, the railway line called America line , which also runs in an east-west direction, forms the northern boundary of the local development.

history

The name Lintlo for the Kirchlinteln district was first mentioned in a document in 1123. The Kerke to Lintloh , dedicated to St. Peter - whose tower from around 1200 is still standing - was first mentioned in 1385 in a document from the Verden bishop Johann II.

Kirchlinteln was initially part of the territory Verden , which after the Thirty Years' War to Swedish territory Bremen-Verden arrived. The "Lintler Beet Market" first took place in 1660. After a brief Danish interlude, Kirchlinteln became part of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in 1715 , which became the Kingdom of Hanover after the Napoleonic Wars in 1814 . From 1866 Hanover was occupied by Prussia after the German War and remained a Prussian province until 1946 . Kirchlinteln experienced an upswing as a destination for tourism and excursion tourism with the construction of the America Line in 1874. The core town of Kirchlinteln was officially called Großlinteln until the 20th century .

In 1946 Kirchlinteln became part of the re-established state of Hanover , which in the same year merged with Braunschweig, Schaumburg-Lippe and Oldenburg to form the state of Lower Saxony. After the war, many expellees from East Prussia , Pomerania , Silesia and Czechoslovakia settled in the area of ​​today's municipality.

As part of an administrative reform in 1972, a total of 17 communities in the eastern district of Verden were merged to form a single community of Kirchlinteln. The main administrative offices are located in the core town of Kirchlinteln. Since the 1990s, new residential areas have been developed and many vacant lots have been built on.

Attractions

The place

North of the main road to the railway line is the historic town center with a lot of half-timbered architecture in the regional Lower Saxon architectural style and the slightly elevated St. Petri Church as well as a park-like village square that is used as a fairground for the annual beet market. The town hall, the fire station , the police, a social station, the building yard and the Unter den Buchen day-care center are located southeast of the main street in the vicinity of the municipality's business center . The settlement areas were built around this core with single-family houses.

St. Peter's Church

Individual sights

• St. Petri Church
• Lintler Krug building complex (half-timbered architecture from the 18th century)
• Lindhoop monument
• Barrows heather
• Old ravines in the tumulus heather

Economy and Transport

economy

On the main street there is a small business center with several supermarkets, restaurants, pharmacies, doctors and dentists. There is an industrial park in the area of ​​the former train station . The community tries to promote rural tourism.

traffic

Street

Kirchlinteln is on the road 171 Verden (Aller) - Visselhövede . The next motorway exit is Verden-Ost on federal motorway 27 .

Public transport

There is a regular bus service of the Verden Transport Company , which connects the place with the district town of Verden. There is also a citizen bus to supply the smaller towns in the area.

Rail transport

In 1987 the station on the Uelzen – Langwedel railway line was closed. The re-establishment of a stop in Kirchlinteln is currently planned.

Club life

In Kirchlinteln there is the sports club TSV Kirchlinteln, the Heimatverein , a men's choir , a rifle club , the volunteer fire brigade and the youth fire brigade Kirchlinteln, a culture and support association that takes care of the use of the Lintler mug , as well as a flute orchestra, which is organized in the rifle club .

regional customs

The beet market festival has been celebrated since 1660 . This takes place annually on the last weekend in September. The former Lintler Krug inn in the center of the village is used as an event center for amateur theater and citizens' assemblies . Further celebrations are the annual shooting festival (mid-July, as the penultimate of the community before Kreepen) and the Easter bonfires on Holy Saturday.

literature

• Robert Kienzle: Chronicle Kirchlinteln. 1969
• Günter Lühning u. Hermann Meisloh: Kirchlinteln and its 17 districts. 1983

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Klaus Tietje / Klaus Merkle: Der Lintler Krug, history, owner tenant, from 1660-2012 . In: Yearbook for the district of Verden 2017, Verden 2016, ISSN  0948-9584 , pp. 157-173.
2. ↑ Reopening of the train station