Algermissen

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Algermissen (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '  N , 9 ° 58'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Hildesheim
Height :	76 m above sea level NHN
Area :	35.62 km 2
Residents:	7918 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	222 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	31191
Area code :	05126
License plate :	HI, ALF
Community key :	03 2 54 003
Address of the municipal administration:	Marktstrasse 7 31191 Algermissen
Website :	www.algermissen.de
Mayor :	Wolfgang Moegerle ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Algermissen in the Hildesheim district

Algermissen is a municipality in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony in Germany .

geography

Geographical location

The community lies in the middle of the Hildesheimer Börde and extends over 35.56 km². The Hildesheim branch canal flows through the middle of the municipality and the Alpebach flows north past the main town to the south into the Bruchgraben .

Structure (localities)

Locality	Residents (January 1, 2019)
Algermissen	4807
Bledeln	689
Great Lobke	602
Lühnde	1418
Ummelt	543
Wätzum	200

(Source for the table :)

history

The oldest written mention of Algermissen is from the year 985.

The two formerly independent villages Groß- and Klein-Algermissen are among the oldest settlements in the Gau Astfala and together belonged to the Lühnde ban as a parish. From the 12th to the 14th century there is a noble family called "von Algermissen". A Dietrich von Algermissen had a magpie in his seal as early as 1350 - today the heraldic animal of the community.

Algermissen experienced rapid development in the late Middle Ages.

Due to its uninterrupted membership of the Hildesheim monastery , Algermissen remained largely unaffected by the Reformation and today still has a clear Catholic majority, which is surprising for Lower Saxony . The places bordering to the north, on the other hand, are predominantly Evangelical-Lutheran. During the Thirty Years War in March 1626, the Danes devastated both villages.

The canton of Groß-Algermissen existed from 1807 to 1810 . The greatest upheavals came in the 19th century with the inauguration of the Hildesheim - Lehrte railway line (1846), the construction of the brickworks, the sugar factory and the dairy, and the founding of numerous companies and associations. The dairy, for example, shipped its products to Hamburg , Berlin and Cologne . In previous years, up to 130,000 geese were fattened on the farms of the village for Christmas. The Reichsbahn built its own goose train station especially for the goose transport trains from Poland and Russia.

St. Matthew Church

Under pastor Franz-Kaspar Köhnen, who officiated in the community for 56 years, today's Catholic was created. Main church St. Matthew with the impressive baroque altar, consecrated on May 5th, 1720. The chairs with the carved cheeks are valuable. The even older Gothic St. Mauritius Chapel from the 14th century with the dates 1670, 1710, 1875, 1915 and 1961 in the weathercock is the oldest building in town (see also under sights).

A big fire in the autumn of 1878 on the Tieberg destroyed four houses and stables, all residents of these houses lost their belongings. Based on this knowledge, a meeting of the warriors' association was held on August 3, 1879 in the Göbbel restaurant. This probably resulted in the establishment of the volunteer fire brigade.

In 1985 Algermissen celebrated its 1000th anniversary. In 2012 Algermissen had around 7,900 inhabitants.

Place name

Former place names of Algermissen were in the years 980–982 Algrimsen, 985 Alegrimesheim, 989 Aleghrimesheim, 989–992 Alegremishusun, 990 Alegrimesheim, 1143 Alegrimessem, 1143 Alegrimeshem, 1161 Algermissen, 1161 Aligrimeshem, 1204 Alegremessen and 1204 Alegremessen. In the first part of the place name is the Germanic first name "Alagrim", too "al-" for "all, whole" and "grim", for example in Old High German "grim, grimmi" for "angry, wild, terrible, excited". Old Norse is “grima” for “mask, larva”, probably related to the fight, which was supposed to appear “grim, terrible”.

Incorporations

On April 1, 1936, the villages of Groß- and Klein-Algermissen were united to form the municipality of Algermissen.

On March 1, 1974, the communities Bledeln, Groß Lobke, Lühnde, Ummeln and Wätzum were incorporated.

Population development

year	1885	1910	1925	1933	1939	2013	2014	2018	2019
Resident of the core town of Algermissen	1865	2589	2776	2680	2699	4777	4697	4793	4697
Residents of the municipality of Algermissen (from 1974)	-	-	-	-	-	8275	8173	8266	8259

(Sources: 1885, 1910 [with large and small Algermissen] , 1925–1939, 2013–2014, 2018–2019)

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Algermissen consists of 5 councilors and 16 councilors. The electoral term began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

Distribution of seats:

CDU :	10 seats
SPD :	7 seats
Alliance :	3 seats
Greens :	1 seat

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

mayor

The directly elected full-time mayor has been Wolfgang Moegerle (CDU) since February 1, 2005. His deputies are Marianne Seifert (CDU) and Werner Preissner (SPD).

Local council

The local council from the core town of Algermissen consists of 3 councilors and 8 councilors.

Distribution of seats:

CDU :	7 seats
SPD :	4 seats

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor of the core town of Algermissen is Ulrich Käsehage (CDU). His deputies are Lukas Schlemeyer (SPD) and Petra Schröter (CDU).

coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold over a raised green shield base a magpie stridingto the right ."

Foundation of the coat of arms: In Algermissen there was a documented knight dynasty between 1143 and 1356 who were wealthy in the place and therefore called themselves von Algermissen . This family was also wealthy in Alferde , Lühnde and Lobke and most likely relatives of those from Bolzum and Ummeln , who owned land in the same places. A knight Bertold von Algermissen had three bolts in their seal in 1345, just like those of Bolzum and Ummeln (→ see the following coats of arms: Bolzum and Ummeln ). A Dietrich von Algermissen , on the other hand, had a magpie in his coat of arms as early as 1350 . How this knight finally came to the Elster is unfortunately no longer understandable. The color scheme of the municipal coat of arms is new. The color green symbolizes the sprouting seed, gold indicates ripe ears; therefore the farmers love these colors.

Religions

The Catholic Christians in Algermissen belong to the parish of St. Cäcilia in Harsum . The parish of St. Matthew, which was independent until 2014, was merged on November 1, 2014 with the former parishes of St. Cäcilia in Harsum and St. Catharina in Asel . The main Catholic church in Algermissen is St. Matthew's Church on Marktstrasse. The St. Mauritius Chapel on Langen Strasse is also used for weekday masses. The cath. Parish belongs to the deanery Borsum-Sarstedt in the diocese of Hildesheim .

The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Algermissen, to which the Advent church on Grasweg belonged in Algermissen, became the Evangelical Lutheran Twelve Apostles on January 1, 2012 with the parishes in Groß Lobke, Hotteln, Gödringen, Lühnde, Oesselse and Wirringen-Müllingen-Wassel -Church community Sarstedt-Land amalgamated in the parish of Hildesheim-Sarstedt.

Culture and sights

St. Mauritius Chapel

Pietà on Hottelner Strasse

Buildings

• St. Matthew : main Catholic church in Algermissen; Baroque hall church built in 1720, square tower, octagonal choir closure. Fully preserved original baroque furnishings by Ernst Dietrich Bartels . Remarkable ceiling paintings and altars rich in figures. Since November 1, 2014, branch church of the cath. Parish of St. Cäcilia in Harsum.
• St. Mauritius Chapel : Built in the 14th century; cath. Branch church of the cath. Parish of St. Cäcilia in Harsum.
• Domküsterhof: The Domküsterhof in Alten Straße, built in 1629, is one of the oldest farms in the Hildesheim district.
• Old village cemetery: The old village cemetery at the St. Matthew Church has 20 valuable gravestones, the oldest of which date from 1700. The stone of the tightrope walker and balance artist Joseph Bruns is on the main path.
• War Victims Memorial : The War Victims Memorial on Neue Straße was erected in the 1970s. It is a work by Hanns Joachim Klug .
• Local history museum: The local history museum in house Neue Straße 10 shows u. a. an East German home parlor, handicraft and household collections, historical school facilities, a sports history collection and numerous picture documents of everyday village life from 1864.
• Also worth seeing in the village are 17 crosses, statues and wayside shrines, including the Corpus Christi altars from 1744.

Regular events

Traditions are still cultivated today: Corpus Christi with kettledrum, gun shooting and own pieces of music; Carnival: Carnival fun of the young people, taking carnival guys away after midnight, “fooling” the girls and boys while they go from house to house, recite poems and ask for sweets; Carnival parade with bears; Collecting medicinal herbs (Weihbund) for the day of the Assumption, the corridor and prayer procession as well as the pilgrimage to the Westphalian Werl for the feast of the Visitation at the beginning of July. In 2013 the old waterworks at the Kranzwegbrücke was converted into a cultural event center with 50 seats and run by citizens as a non-profit association. Concerts, readings, cooking events, summer festivals and plays take place there.

traffic

Federal motorway 7 runs west of the municipality ; The federal highway 494 runs southeast from Hildesheim to Peine .

Algermissen is on the Lehrte – Hildesheim railway line . Since 2008, the S 3 line of the Hanover S-Bahn has been offering hourly connections via Lehrte to Hanover Central Station and via Harsum to Hildesheim Central Station .

A number of businesses are located on the Hildesheim branch canal between the Bolzum lock and the Hildesheim port. A jetty offers the opportunity to handle grain, fertilizer and fuel.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Johann Joseph Gerhard Hartmann (1806–1880), mathematician, university professor and second director of the Technical University of Hanover
• Hermann Rasch (1810–1882), city director of Hanover from 1854 to 1881, b. in Groß Lobke
• Joseph Ernst (1863–1928), priest, professor at the Hildesheim seminary, 1915–1928 Bishop of Hildesheim
• Heinrich Willers (1870–1915), archaeologist and numismatist
• Christel Machens (1877–1941), politician (center)
• Heinrich Fründ (1880–1952), surgeon
• Ursula Ernst (* 1944), politician (CDU), was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
• Bruno Eyron (* 1964), presenter, producer, author, businessman and actor; he became known in his role as "Hauptkommissar Balko", b. in Lühnde
• Diane Kruger b. Heidkrüger (* 1976), actress

People connected to the community

• Helmuth Albrecht (1885–1953), politician (DVP), director of the Carlshall trade union, a potash mine in Lühnde
• Hanns Joachim Klug (1928–2013), visual artist, created the war memorial "Pietà and Angels"
• Erich Franzke (1931–1996), politician (SPD) and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament and district administrator of the Hildesheim district, was a member of the municipal council in the Algermissen community
• Olaf Levonen (* 1966), District Administrator of the Hildesheim district, lives in Ummeln
• Mirko Slomka (* 1967), soccer coach who grew up in Lühnde
• Katrin Gray , b. Schwarz, also known as Mermaid Kat (* 1985), German beauty queen, underwater model and professional mermaid, reality TV star

Web links

Commons : Algermissen  - Collection of Images

Wikivoyage: Algermissen  - Travel Guide

• Website of the municipality of Algermissen

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. ↑ ^{a b} Population figures . In: Website of the municipality of Algermissen. January 1, 2019, accessed April 2, 2019 .  
3. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: Website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 7, 2015 ; accessed on October 10, 2018 .  
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.  209 .
5. ↑ ^{a b} Ulrich Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900 - district Hildesheim. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed March 5, 2020 .  
6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. See under 3. (online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  
7. ↑ Population figures 2013–2014. In: Website of the municipality of Algermissen. January 1, 2013, archived from the original on September 7, 2014 ; accessed on April 3, 2019 .  
8. ↑ ^{a b} City Council. In: Website of the municipality of Algermissen. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .  
9. ↑ Wolfgang Moegerle: people show. In: Mayor's website. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .  
10. ↑ ^{a b} Algermissen local council. In: Website of the municipality of Algermissen. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .  
11. ^ Main statute of the municipality of Algermissen. (PDF; 22 kB) § 2 Coat of arms, flag, official seal. In: Website of the municipality of Algermissen. November 8, 2011, p. 1 , accessed March 29, 2019 . 
12. ^ August Söding: Register of coat of arms of the Hildesheim-Marienburg district . Ed .: Heimatbund des Landkreis Hildesheim-Marienburg e. V. (=  local history series of publications . No. 7 ). Schwitalla Verlag, Himmelsthür 1966, p. 42-43 .
13. ↑ Document on the dissolution of the Catholic parishes of St. Cäcilia, Harsum, St. Catharina, Harsum-Asel, St. Matthäus, Algermissen and on the establishment of the Catholic parish of St. Cäcilia, Harsum . In: Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (Hrsg.): Kirchlicher Anzeiger for the Diocese of Hildesheim . No.  8 . Hildesheim November 3, 2014, p. 222–224 , pp. 18–20 ( digital copy [PDF; 3.1 MB ; accessed on April 2, 2019]).
14. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church Hanover (ed.): Ecclesiastical Official Gazette for the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover . No. 2/2012 . Hanover April 3, 2012, p. 54 ff ., P. 14 ff. ( Digital version [PDF; 573 kB ; accessed on April 2, 2019]).