Laatzen

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Laatzen
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Coordinates: 52 ° 18 '  N , 9 ° 49'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Hanover region
Height : 68 m above sea level NHN
Area : 34.06 km 2
Residents: 41,606 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 1222 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 30880
Primaries : 0511, 05102
License plate : H
Community key : 03 2 41 009
LOCODE : DE LAZ

City administration address : 		Marktplatz 13
30880 Laatzen
Website : www.laatzen.de
Mayor : Jürgen Koehne ( CDU )
Location of the city of Laatzen in the Hanover region
Region Hannover Niedersachsen Wedemark Burgwedel Neustadt am Rübenberge Burgdorf Uetze Lehrte Isernhagen Langenhagen Garbsen Wunstorf Seelze Barsinghausen Sehnde Hannover Gehrden Laatzen Wennigsen Ronnenberg Hemmingen Pattensen Springe Landkreis Hameln-Pyrmont Landkreis Schaumburg Landkreis Nienburg/Weser Landkreis Heidekreis Landkreis Celle Landkreis Peine Landkreis Gifhorn Landkreis Hildesheimmap
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Laatzen is a city in the Hanover region ( Lower Saxony ). It has the status of an independent municipality . It is located south of the state capital Hanover.

geography

location

Laatzen is on a leash . Together with the Leinemasch, the river forms the western border of the urban area. The transition from the residential development to the state capital Hanover in the north is fluid. In the east, Laatzen is bordered by the Kronsberg and the Bockmerholz (the largest forest area in the vicinity of Hanover).

City structure Laatzen (Alt-Laatzen, Laatzen-Mitte and Grasdorf in red)

City structure

Laatzen consists of the following districts:

Neighboring communities

Hemmingen Hanover Sighted
Neighboring communities
Pattensen Sarstedt
( District of Hildesheim ) 		Algermissen
( District of Hildesheim )

Protected areas

The Alte Leine nature reserve is located west of the Leine, about half (near Alt-Laatzen and Grasdorf) on the Laatzener area and about a quarter each on Hemminger and (near Rethen) on Pattenser area. The nature reserve Leineaue between Ruthe and Koldingen lies (near Gleidingen) about a quarter in the Laatzener area. Most of them belong to the fauna-flora-habitat area Leineaue between Hanover and Ruthe , which, unlike the NSGs, reaches almost everywhere up to the Leine. A very small part of the FFH area Bockmerholz, Gaim in the Laatzener area is located in the far east on the A 7 federal motorway . The Mastbrucher Holz conservation area is located on the Messeschnellweg south of the exhibition grounds . The Mastbrucher wood is (like the Bockmerholz in Sehnde) a residual forest and a former Hutewald and houses species-rich forest communities of the pedunculate oak-hornbeam forest with transitions to the alder-broken forest in the moister areas to fresh mixed beech forests in the drier areas. Also available within the Mastbrucher wooden barrows . Other landscape protection areas surround or overlay the aforementioned nature reserves and FFH areas. In the south, on the B 6 federal road near Gleidingen, the Tonkuhle and Südwiese guns are part of the landscape .

history

The municipality of Laatzen was first mentioned in a document in 1259. The name comes from the then resident von Lathusen family , who were the largest landowners in town. The founding saga, which is taught in schools, speaks of a peasant tribe or a peasant clan of the Lathen , who settled on the banks of the Leine around the year 800.

In the first half of the 14th century, the von Lathusen family gradually sold their rights to the Marienrode monastery , which was formally landowners until 1580.

On June 22, 1671, Duke Georg Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Lüneburg donated the three villages of Laatzen, Wülfel and Döhren to Prince Johann Friedrich von Braunschweig-Calenberg as a thank you for helping to capture the city of Braunschweig . Since that day Laatzen has been part of the little outdoors . The residents of the Little Free World had special rights. They were allowed to hunt in the forests of the area, but they had to assign an independent company (subordinate to the Koldingen office ) to the Calenberg prince .

Incorporations

Under city director Erich Panitz , here his grave of honor in the cemetery in Heidfeld , Laatzen expanded

On January 1, 1964, the municipalities of Grasdorf and Laatzen merged to form the new municipality of Laatzen, which received city rights on June 21, 1968. As a result of the regional reform in Lower Saxony on March 1, 1974, the communities of Gleidingen , Ingeln , Oesselse and Rethen / Leine were merged with the city of Laatzen. On January 1, 1981, parts of the city of Hanover with then more than 100 inhabitants were finally incorporated. Up until December 31, 2004, Laatzen belonged to the then administrative district of Hanover , which, like all other administrative districts in Lower Saxony, was dissolved.

Population development

Population development of Laatzen from 1939 to 2016
date Residents source
1824 000- 100
1905 1,986
1910 2,059
1925 3,019
1933 3,198
1939 4.015
1950 5,786
1956 6,046
1961 08,914 2
1970 12,145 3
1973 16,3700
year Residents source
1975 30,927 4
1980 34,748 4
1985 36,277 4
1990 37,242 4
1995 37,180 4
2000 38,402 4
2005 40,075 4
2010 40,254 4
2015 40,939 4
2018 41,422 4
0 0 0

1 51 fireplaces
2 census results from June 6th
3 census results from May 27th
4 as of December 31st

politics

City council

Laatzen town hall
Old town hall Laatzen

Since the local elections on September 11, 2016 , the city ​​council has consisted of 40 council members (14 women and 26 men). This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 40,001 and 50,000.

The mayor is also entitled to vote in the council.

The last local election resulted in the following distribution of seats immediately after the election:

Political party Share of votes
(in percent) 		Seats
(total 41)
SPD 37.50 15th0
CDU 33.80 14th0
Green 9.7 4th
FDP 7.4 3
The left 5.6 2
Community of Free Voters - Laatzen 6.1 2
independent - 1

mayor

The mayor of the city of Laatzen is Jürgen Köhne (CDU). His deputies are Ernesto Nebot Pomar (SPD), Angelika Rohde (CDU) and Gerd Apportin (Greens).

Local council Laatzen (Kernort)

The local council of the core town of Laatzen consists of 17 members (4 women and 13 men).

  • SPD: 7 seats
  • CDU: 5 seats
  • FDP: 1 seat
  • Greens: 2 seats
  • The left: 1 seat
  • Community of Free Voters: 1 seat

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor of the core town of Laatzen is Bernd Stuckenberg (SPD). His deputies are Siegfried Guder (CDU) and Ralf Wetzel (Die Linke).

coat of arms

The design of the Laatzen municipal coat of arms is of unknown origin.

  • The approval of the coat of arms was granted by the President of the Province of Hanover in 1930/31.
  • The city of Laatzen, newly formed by law on March 1, 1974, took over the coat of arms of the previous city of Laatzen, which was approved by the district president in Hanover on April 30, 1974.
Laatzen coat of arms
 Blazon : "In the divided shield above on a red background a growing , golden lion and below on green a silver wave bar ."
Justification of the coat of arms: When designing the coat of arms of the upper half of the shield, it was assumed that today's Laatzen district of the city of the same name, together with the current Hanoverian districts of Wülfel and Döhren, belonged to the so-called "Small Free", the old judicial association of the three then independent municipalities. This area in turn formed part of the so-called "Great County" and passed in 1248 from the Counts of Lauenrode to the Welfs . Both sexes, the Counts of Lauenrode and the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , have a soaring lion in their coat of arms. Since the rule of the Lauenroder counts in the Kleiner Free area ended in 1248, the Guelph lion was certainly thought of when designing the coat of arms. The silver wave bar on a green background in the lower half of the shield is intended to symbolize Laatzen's position on the leash embedded in green meadows.

Town twinning

The city of Laatzen maintains a city ​​partnership with three cities and municipalities :

In addition, since 1990 there has been a friendship with the city of Guben in Brandenburg , from which the city partnership with Gubin has initially been prepared and maintained since 1991. Guben is located opposite the town of Gubin on the western bank of the Lusatian Neisse .

religion

The Hanover region has been Protestant since the Reformation.

Denomination statistics

On June 30, 2018, 31.7% of the population were Evangelical Lutheran and 13.6% Roman Catholic. 55.3% belonged to other denominations or religious communities or were non-denominational .

Christianity

Catholic church in Alt-Laatzen

The Evangelical Lutheran church district Laatzen-Springe has its seat in Pattensen , it belongs to the regional church of Hanover . In Laatzen, it includes the Immanuel Church in Alt-Laatzen, the St. Gertruden Church in Gleidingen, the St. Marien Church in Grasdorf, the parish center "DIE ARCHE" of the Thomas parish in Laatzen-Mitte and the St. Peter's Church in Rethen. The St. Nicolai Church in Oesselse belongs to the Twelve Apostles parish Sarstedt-Land in the parish of Hildesheim-Sarstedt.

Laatzen is the seat of the Catholic parish of St. Oliver in the Hildesheim diocese . It includes the churches of St. Oliver in Laatzen-Mitte, St. Mathilde in Alt-Laatzen and St. Josef in Gleidingen. St. Mathilde was built in 1938 and was severely damaged in air raids during World War II on September 22, 1943, April 11, 1944 and March 14, 1945.

The church “Sveti Spas” of the Macedonian Orthodox community was inaugurated in 2012 in the former church contact center of the Thomas parish on Kiefernweg.

There are also three free churches in Laatzen: the Russian-speaking Brethren Congregation, which is located in the rooms of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Thomasgemeinde meets, the Christ Congregation Laatzen e. V. and the International Christian Congregation.

Other religions

Until 1938 there was a synagogue in the village of Gleidingen, which was destroyed on November 9, 1938. A Jewish cemetery is still located on the outskirts of Gleidingen.

A mosque of the Islamic community Millî Görüş has been in Grasdorf since 2010.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Nature and recreation

  • The southern Leineaue is part of the Leinemasch and local recreation area as well as a retreat for endangered animal and plant species and a resting place for numerous migratory birds

Museums

  • Aviation Museum (aviation history in the course of technology from 1783 to 1965)

Sports

  • aquaLaatzium (municipal indoor and outdoor swimming pool with a wide range of saunas and fitness options)
  • VfL Grasdorf (largest sports club in Laatzen)
  • The water polo players of SpVg Laatzen have been playing in the second division for more than a decade

Regular events

  • Wine festival in Ingeln (on the grounds of the Horrido Ingeln shooting club)
  • Fountain festival in Grasdorf
  • Festival of the Senses (Park of the Senses)
  • Old town hall wine festival in Alt-Laatzen
  • May festivals in Rethen and Gleidingen
  • Eichstrasse Festival in Alt-Laatzen (every 2 years)
  • Folk and rifle festivals
  • Village festival in Ingeln-Oesselse (end of April) [even years = Ingeln / odd years = Oesselse]

Photo gallery

  • Chapel in Alt-Laatzen

  • MiG 21 as an advertisement for the aviation museum

  • Aviation Museum entrance

Economy and Infrastructure

education

In addition to many evenly distributed elementary schools , Laatzen also has secondary schools , including the Albert Einstein School Laatzen , as well as Erich Kästner Oberschule and Erich Kästner Gymnasium.

Companies

The German Pension Insurance Braunschweig-Hanover is located in Laatzen and is responsible for most of Lower Saxony . The Stadtbad aquaLaatzium and the KRH Clinic Agnes Karll Laatzen of the Hannover Region Clinic are located on Hildesheimer Strasse . Siemens has been expanding its branch here, which was relocated from Hanover, since 1988 .

The Leine-Center shopping center forms the focal point of Laatzen-Mitte and is an attraction for customers from the southern part of the Hanover region . Several logistics companies are based in Laatzen. The service company Plural Servicepool , founded in 1917, is also based here. As a manufacturing company, Aventics GmbH (pneumatics, etc.) is represented with over 700 employees.

traffic

Hannover Messe / Laatzen train station

The Hannover Messe / Laatzen train station is located in Laatzen . Only trains on line S 4 of the Hanover S-Bahn (Bennemühlen – Hannover Hbf – Hildesheim Hbf) regularly stop here . At major trade fairs like Cebit , the long-distance and regional trains that usually pass through also stop here. The train station thus also serves to develop the Hanover exhibition center . There is another S-Bahn station in the Rethen district .

The Hanover tram opens up Laatzen with two routes in a north-south direction. Line 1 ( Langenhagen –Hannover Hbf – Laatzen– Sarstedt ) leads over Erich-Panitz-Straße through the Laatzen-Mitte district . Line 2 (Alte Heide – Hannover Hbf – Laatzen – Rethen) opens up the Grasdorf district via Hildesheimer Straße .

The further development and connection with the surrounding communities is carried out by several bus routes (see local transport in Hanover ).

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Erich Panitz (1922–1999), municipality and city director from 1961 to 1984, honorary citizen of the city of Laatzen (1993), the Erich-Panitz-Strasse in Laatzen was named after him

sons and daughters of the town

People connected to the city

  • Georg Diederichs (1900–1983), former Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, died in Laatzen
  • Kurt Grobe (1920–1987), former mayor of Gleidingen and Laatzen, district administrator of the Hildesheim district and member of the state parliament, he died in Laatzen-Grasdorf
  • Horst Schild (* 1942), former member of the Bundestag, in the Bundestag elections in 1998 and 2002 he won the constituency Hannover-Land II, to which u. a. the city of Laatzen also belongs
  • Jürgen Gansäuer (* 1944), former President of the Lower Saxony state parliament
  • Heinz-Günter Bongartz (* 1955), auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Hildesheim; was pastor in Laatzen
  • Jürgen Köhne (* 1957), mayor
  • Thomas Prinz (* 1957), former mayor
  • Hauke ​​Jagau (* 1961), regional president and former mayor of Laatzen
  • Christoph Dreyer (* 1966), former member of the state parliament
  • Matthias Miersch (* 1968), member of the Bundestag

literature

  • Albert Einstein School Laatzen (ed.): Laatzener stories. Compiled by students from the Albert Einstein School in Laatzen . Laatzen 1995.
  • Jörg Dornieden a. a .: Then and now: 50 years of Laatzen town charter . Ed .: City of Laatzen. Self-published, Laatzen 2018, DNB  1161656316 (169 pages).

Web links

Commons : Laatzen  - Collection of Images

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. ^ Amendment statute for the city of Laatzen. (PDF; 218 kB) In: Website City of Laatzen. 2015, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Landscape protection areas. In: Website City of Hanover. October 23, 2019, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  4. ^ Protected parts of nature and landscape in Lower Saxony. In: Website of the Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation. Retrieved December 10, 2015 .
  5. ^ Hans Winkler, Walter Dohrmann: 700 years of Laatzen, district of Hanover. Festschrift for the 700th anniversary of the municipality of Laatzen; 1259-1959 . Steppat Verlag, Hannover-Wülfel 1959 ( limited preview in the Google book search [accessed October 30, 2019]).
  6. ↑ a b c 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.  197 and 218 .
  7. ^ CH Jansen: Statistical Handbook of the Kingdom of Hanover (=  Statistical Handbooks for the Kingdom of Hanover ). Helwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Celle 1824, p. 350 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  8. ↑ a b c d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Hanover ( see under: No. 43 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Register of municipalities in Germany 1900 - District of Hanover. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed February 19, 2020 .
  10. ↑ a b Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p.  159 ( digitized version ).
  11. ↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 23 , District of Hanover ( digitized [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on September 12, 2019]).
  12. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j community directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on October 30, 2019 .
  13. ^ Election announcement. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: Website City of Laatzen. September 20, 2016, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  14. ↑ a b Citizen Information Portal - City Council of Laatzen. In: Website City of Laatzen. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
  15. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG); Section 46 - Number of Deputies. In: Lower Saxony Regulations Information System (NI-VORIS). December 17, 2010, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  16. ↑ a b Citizen information portal - local council of the core town of Laatzen. In: Website City of Laatzen. Retrieved October 24, 2017 .
  17. ↑ a b c Hanover district (ed.): Wappenbuch Landkreis Hannover . Self-published, Hanover 1985, p. 210-211 .
  18. ^ City partnerships - City of Laatzen. In: Website City of Laatzen. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
  19. ^ Catholic in the Hanover region. (PDF; 631 kB) Table 1: Population at the place of main residence according to Catholic and Protestant religious affiliation. June 30, 2018, accessed August 5, 2019 .
  20. ^ Hermann Seeland: The churches in Hanover that were destroyed in World War II . In: Our diocese past and present . Hanover 1952, p. 108 .
  21. ↑ Astrid Köhler: Village celebrates on Saturday on the plow field. In: Website Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . April 23, 2016, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Schools. In: Website City of Laatzen. Retrieved March 26, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Johannes Dorndorf: Siemens moves to the Laatzener fairground. In: Website Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. February 20, 2016, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Astrid Köhler: 20th anniversary of Erich Panitz's death: City commemorates honorary citizens. In: Website Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. April 5, 2019, accessed February 23, 2020 .