Pillow bridge

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 6 '  N , 10 ° 36'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Wolfenbüttel
Joint municipality :	Elm aces
Height :	93 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.46 km 2
Residents:	1725 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	267 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	38324
Area code :	05337
License plate :	WF
Community key :	03 1 58 021
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Im Winkel 4 38319 Remlingen
Website :	www.elm-asse.de
Mayor :	Gerhard Wiche ( CDU )
Location of the community of Pilsenbrück in the district of Wolfenbüttel

Pillowbrück is a municipality in the Wolfenbüttel district in Lower Saxony . It belongs to the Elm-Asse community , which has its administrative headquarters in the town of Schöppenstedt .

geography

Geographical location

Pillowbrück is located in the north-west of the municipality of Elm-Asse on the southern foothills of the Ösel in a depression open to the west towards the Oker . The eponymous Kisse flows through the village east of the church , a tributary of the Great Grave , which has historically been passed down as theissena .

The Große Graben, coming from the east, runs between the town center and the Hedwigsburg manor and flows into the Alte Ilse . Oker and Alte Ilse form the western boundary of the municipality.

structure

Hedwigsburg (51 inhabitants) is part of the municipality .

Neighboring places

Wolfenbüttel Ohrum Hedwigsburg	Klein Thought Neindorf	United Denkte Wittmar Sottmar
		Remlingen Klein Biewende Groß Biewende
Dorstadt Heiningen	Bornum Börßum	Kalme

history

The first mention of Pillowbrück comes from the 9th century and goes back to a document that is in the files of the Corvey Monastery as number 1419 . Count Thuring bequeathed his property in Pilsenbrück and Neindorf to the monastery. The considerable number of twenty witnesses speaks for the importance of the document. The exact year of the notarization is not known, due to investigations, the date of creation of the document was limited to the period from 822 to 826.

Furthermore, the building of a church by Bishop Hildegrim and later the existence of a royal palace Curtis Cissenbrugea are recorded for the year 827 . Emperor Otto I stayed there in 944 and several documents were issued by other kings in the following decades. Chroniclers believe that this courtyard is in the triangle between the Kisse and Scharrenbeeke streams (today Großer Graben) in the Eulenburg corridor south of the town center. They lead the name back to "oil" like "swamp". The Palatinate is likely to have secured the historical traffic route between the Oker crossing in Ohrum and Schöningen . This long-distance road, handed down as Deitweg , presumably ran between Pilsenbrück and Neindorf. The Deiweg is mapped there or, to the west of Remlingen, the field name Hinter dem Deiwege . After the founding of Wolfenbüttel at the latest, this path finally lost its supra-regional importance and thus probably also the royal court. This became the property of the manor in the 18th century as a writings court.

The Hedwigsburg Castle has been documented since the 12th century, and was predominantly in princely possession and entrusted with jurisdiction .

→ Main article : Hedwigsburg Castle

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council from Pilsenbrück consists of three councilors and eight councilors. The council also has two other members (CDU, SPD).

• CDU : 7 seats
• SPD : 4 seats

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

mayor

The mayor of Pillowbrück is Gerhard Wiche (CDU). His deputies are Dieter Fricke (SPD) and Wilfried Bennecke (CDU).

coat of arms

The draft emblem of Kissenbrück comes from Kleinau and from which in Isernhagen born and later in Hannover living heraldry and crest painter Gustav nations , which includes the coat of arms of Großburgwedel , Melle village , Wunstorf and many other towns has designed. The exact date of introduction of the coat of arms can no longer be determined. It is likely to have been introduced in late 1955 or early 1956; in any case, approval was given by the Lower Saxony Minister of the Interior before January 11, 1956.

Blazon : "In red over waves a silver bridge , in the arch of which a golden mill iron hovers and above which a fallen silver sword with a golden hilthoversbetween two golden ears ."

Justification of the coat of arms: The talking coat of arms refers to the second half of the place name, which has been handed down in a similar form from the 9th century. In the 10th century there was even a royal court here, later a court seat. B. 1360 and 1391 is mentioned. The peasant court was repealed in 1400 by the dukes Bernhard and Heinrich referring the peasants to the Goding and the regional court. As a strict judicial symbol of the jurisprudence of the time, the sword is said to be a reminder of life and death. The mill iron indicates the ferry mill , which is located on the Oker . The ears of wheat symbolize agriculture and its yields, which are important for the region.

Sports

• 18-hole golf course
• Football field
• Tennis courts

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The course book route 353 of the Deutsche Bahn AG (Braunschweig – Wolfenbüttel – Vienenburg – Bad Harzburg – Goslar) runs through the municipality of Pillowbrück. It has been expanded as a two-track main line and is intended for electrification in accordance with the Lower Saxony spatial planning program. In the past, the district of Hedwigsburg had a train station on this route. The federal highway 79 ( Wolfenbüttel - Halberstadt ) runs about two kilometers north of the village in a west-east direction.

Mill location

A watermill has been operating in the Hedwigsburg district since 1318. This was called the ferry mill and was in the meantime owned by the city of Braunschweig. Hedwigsburger Okermühle GmbH still operates an industrial mill supplied from the power grid at the site.

→ Main article : Hedwigsburger Okermühle

Sons and daughters of the church

• Viktor Schwanneke (1880–1931), actor
• Jörg Röhmann (* 1956), politician (SPD), district administrator and state secretary

gallery

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  DGH Community Center Pillowbrück

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  Center (town center) pillow bridge

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  St. Stephen's Church in Pillowbrück

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  Golf course

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  Hedwigsburg Okermühle

literature

• Walter Bennecke, Municipality of Pillowbrück (Ed.): Pillowbrück - Contributions to the History of an Old Village , Pillowbrück 1997.

Web links

Commons : Pillow Bridge  - Collection of Images

• Community website

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. ↑ Walter Bennecke u. a., Municipality of Pillowbrück (Ed.): Pillowbrück - Contributions to the history of an old village. Pillowbrück 1997, p. 14 ff.
3. ↑ Walter Bennecke u. a., Municipality of Pillowbrück (Ed.): Pillowbrück - Contributions to the history of an old village. Pillowbrück 1997, p. 11.
4. ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipality of Pillowbrück. In: Website Zweckverband Kommunale Datenverarbeitung Oldenburg (KDO). September 13, 2016, accessed December 28, 2018.
5. ^ Council of the municipality of Pilsenbrück. In: Internet site of the Elm-Asse community. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
6. ↑ District of Hanover (ed.): Wappenbuch district of Hanover . Self-published, Hanover 1985.
7. ^ ^{A b} Arnold Rabbow: Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch . The coats of arms of the communities and districts in the urban and rural districts of Braunschweig, Gandersheim, Gifhorn, Goslar, Helmstedt, Peine, Salzgitter, Wolfenbüttel and Wolfsburg. Ed .: Braunschweiger Zeitung, Salzgitter Zeitung and Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Eckensberger & Co Verlag, Braunschweig 1977, DNB  780686667 , p. 102 .
8. ↑ Internet presence of the Hedwigsburg Okermühle. Retrieved March 9, 2013.