Gifhorn district
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Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ' N , 10 ° 36' E |
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| State : | Lower Saxony |
| Administrative headquarters : | Gifhorn |
| Area : | 1,562.86 km 2 |
| Residents: | 176,523 (Dec 31, 2019) |
| Population density : | 113 inhabitants per km 2 |
| License plate : | GF |
| Circle key : | 03 1 51 |
| NUTS : | DE914 |
| Circle structure: | 41 municipalities |
| Address of the district administration: |
Schlossplatz 1 38518 Gifhorn |
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| District Administrator : | Andreas Ebel ( CDU ) |
| Location of the district of Gifhorn in Lower Saxony | |
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The district of Gifhorn is a district in eastern Lower Saxony .
geography
location
The county is from the rivers Aller , Ise , ear and Oker , the Midland Canal , the Elbe Lateral Canal and the Aller Canal crossing.
- The Ise rises near Wittingen and flows into the Aller in downtown Gifhorn.
- In the northeast, the Ohre , which also rises near Wittingen ( Ohrdorf ), forms the border river to Saxony-Anhalt .
- Coming from Braunschweig, the Oker flows into the Aller when tired .
- At Edesbüttel , the Elbe Lateral Canal branches off from the Mittelland Canal.
The lowest point in the Gifhorn district is on the Aller near Müden (46 m above sea level). The highest point is in the north of the district at Sprakensehl (124 m above sea level).
Neighboring areas
The district borders clockwise in the northeast, beginning with the districts of Altmarkkreis Salzwedel and the district of Börde (both in Saxony-Anhalt), the district of Helmstedt , the independent city of Wolfsburg , again the district of Helmstedt, the independent city of Braunschweig , the district Peine , to the Hanover region and to the districts of Celle and Uelzen (all in Lower Saxony).
history
The history of an administrative unit known as the “Landkreis Gifhorn” begins with a Prussian administrative reform on April 1, 1885. The predecessors of this territory, however, could in part look back on centuries of history.
The district since 1885
The Gifhorn district, which was formed in 1885, essentially comprised the south and the center of today's district, although the borderline, especially in the southeast, was different than it is today. The administrative seat was in Gifhorn as early as 1885. With an ordinance of August 1, 1932, which came into force on October 1, 1932, the Isenhagen district , which was also founded in 1885, was attached to the Gifhorn district. This added the extensive area of the northern district around Wittingen and Hankensbüttel , and the two enclaves Heßlingen (with Wolfsburg Castle ) and Hehlingen were taken over by the Gardelegen district .
When the city of Wolfsburg and the Volkswagen plant there were founded, they were still part of the Gifhorn district. Soon after the Second World War, Wolfsburg became an independent city (October 1, 1951). Nevertheless, the district of Gifhorn with 1604.69 km² remained one of the largest districts in the Federal Republic of Germany at the time.
The population structure changed significantly after the war. While only 31,940 people lived in the district (based on the territorial status after 1951) in 1821 and this number had increased moderately to 44,324 (1871), 55,236 (1904) and finally 65,739 (1939) due to population growth, statistics from 1950 showed despite 119,281 inhabitants, including 52,075 displaced persons and immigrants, mainly from the eastern regions .
The district's territorial status changed again as a result of the Lower Saxony municipal reform . First, on July 1, 1972, the city of Fallersleben and ten other communities in the north-western Hasenwinkel were incorporated into the city of Wolfsburg under the Wolfsburg Act . At the same time, the Essenrode community left the Gifhorn district and was incorporated into the Lehr community in what was then the Braunschweig district. In the south-east of the district, however, there was an increase in the area through the reclassification of the communities Bergfeld , Parsau , Rüßen and Tiddische from the district of Helmstedt to the district of Gifhorn.
The law on the reorganization of the municipalities in the Braunschweig / Wolfenbüttel / Helmstedt / Peine / Salzgitter area and the law on the reorganization of the municipalities in the Gifhorn area on March 1, 1974:
- The municipalities of Ummern and Pollhöfen from the district of Celle were merged into a new municipality of Ummern and reclassified into the district of Gifhorn.
- The municipality of Hahnenhorn from the district of Celle was incorporated into the municipality of Müden (Aller) in the district of Gifhorn.
- The communities Ahmstorf , Rennau and Rottorf from the eastern Hasenwinkel were merged into a new community Rennau, which came to the district of Helmstedt.
- The communities of Beienrode , Klein Steimke , Ochsendorf , Rhode and Uhry from the southern Hasenwinkel were incorporated into the town of Königslutter in the Helmstedt district.
- The community of Didderse was given to the district of Peine and incorporated there into the community of Wendeburg .
- The number of municipalities in the district was significantly reduced by numerous other parish mergers. Among other things, the new communities Obernholz , Sassenburg and Schwülper were formed.
The community of Didderse was rebuilt in 1981 after resistance from the population and reintegrated into the district of Gifhorn. In the 1970s, a second stage of territorial reform was intended for a time; a merger of the districts of Gifhorn and Peine with administrative headquarters in Peine was under discussion. These then very unpopular plans were - u. a. after a change of state government - not implemented.
Predecessor of the district since 1265
- The district in the north was the district of Isenhagen from 1885 to 1932 and the Isenhagen office from 1859 to 1885 . This was created in 1859 by amalgamating the offices of Isenhagen and Knesebeck . In the time before the Hanoverian judicial and administrative reforms that took place around 1852, the offices were further subdivided. So in 1841 the Gohgräfschaft Hankensbüttel and the Vogtei Steinhorst belonged to the Office Isenhagen , the Gohgräfschaft Wittingen, the Vogtei Knesebeck and the courts Brome and Fahrenhorst belonged to the Office Knesebeck .
- The middle and southern district area was formed into a district in 1885. Previously (1859-1885) were the offices of Fallersleben and Gifhorn, the city of Gifhorn, which had been free since 1852 (then about 3,000 inhabitants) and nine municipalities of the Meinersen office , which was then fragmented and divided among three counties. In 1841 there were a total of four forerunners of the district in the district, which were divided into further units: the Gifhorn office (consisting of the town of Gifhorn, the Boldeckerland court , the so-called Hausvogtei - north of the town of Gifhorn -, the Bailiwick of Wahrenholz, the Obergohgräfschaft Papenteich and the Untergohgräfschaft Papenteich), furthermore the Amt Fallersleben (consisting of the Gohgräfschaften Grevenlahe and Hasenwinkel) as well as the Hausvogtei of the Amt Meinersen and three villages from the Amtsvogtei Eicklingen .
- If one sees the Gifhorn office as its historical core among the many predecessors of today's district , the history of this administrative district can be proven as an "office" until at least 1520 (redemption of the pledged Gifhorn office by Duke Ernst). Further evidence of the administrative unit - possibly even then as an "office" - goes back to at least 1265, because a ducal bailiff has been recorded in Gifhorn since that year . The Vogtei Gifhorn is the oldest predecessor of the district. The later office was headed by a bailiff . The lists of Gifhorn officials have been in existence since 1564. They are the predecessors of the later district administrators. Like them, they officiated in Gifhorn Castle , but only since 1791, because the castle served as a fortress until 1791 and was administered by a castle captain (from 1734 Landdrost ). He was in command of the fortress and had commanded a military occupation since the 16th century.
- A special development was recorded in the years 1539–1549, when Gifhorn was the seat of a small independent Guelph territory that belonged to the Duchy of Lüneburg . During this time Duke Franz, the younger brother of Duke Ernst ("The Confessor"), who was in office in Celle, ruled Gifhorn. Franz granted temporarily a. a. Philipp Melanchthon and the Luther family . The Reformation had already been introduced in the district under Duke Ernst: In 1528 the Isenhagen Abbey was reformed and in 1529 Heinrich Werden held the first Protestant service in Gifhorn. In 1549 Gifhorn's brief statehood came to an end, as Duke Franz died that year without male descendants. His widow Clara, b. Duchess of Lauenburg, had to move to Fallersleben.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the district of Gifhorn, a design by the Berlin artist Gustav Adolf Closs , was adopted by the district council on April 29, 1929. It is based on the heraldry of the Lüneburg line of the Guelphs and shows a soaring, red armored and tongued blue lion on a golden ground sprinkled with red hearts, holding a silver hip horn in its front paws. The Welfs took over the blue lion from the Danish royal coat of arms in the 13th century after a family connection with the Danish royal family. The hunting horn is often explained with a corruption of the name Gifhorn, but the meaning of this name is de facto unclear to this day. The derivation of "Hifthorn" (hip horn, hunting horn) has long been considered absurd within regional research. Another theory, according to which the name Gifhorn can be derived from the old Wendish word "Javor" (maple), suffers from the fact that no maple stocks have been found in the Gifhorn area for the period in question.
Religions
Under Charlemagne (742–814) in the course of the sometimes violent evangelization of the Saxons, Gifhorn and the surrounding area were also Christianized. Gifhorn was then part of the Archdeaconate of Meine . The new faith spread slowly at first. Only two centuries after Charlemagne, prayer houses, chapels and baptisteries were built in many localities in the region, and in Gifhorn in 1279 a town church, named after Nikolaus, the patron saint of merchants and truckers, according to the importance of the market town of Gifhorn on the Lübeck - Nuremberg trade route.
In 1519 the town and church were destroyed during the Hildesheim collegiate feud . After the introduction of the Reformation, Duke Franz built a new church in 1540 and his brother Duke Ernst established the first superintendent , separated from the Archdeaconate Meine. Only two centuries later could a large town church be consecrated in 1744, today's St. Nicolai Church with its precious Christian-Vater-Organ (1748).
Until 1918 Gifhorn was practically no larger than today's parish in terms of the number of 3,500 inhabitants. Between the world wars, the population increased only slowly from 3,500 to 5,000, but it quadrupled due to the large influx of refugees in the post-war period and has grown to around 44,000 to this day - reinforced by the influx of ethnic repatriates in the 1990s. This brought about an enormous increase in parish members in the church parishes and religious communities.
Churches in the Gifhorn district
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Almost all Evangelical Lutheran parishes in the Gifhorn district belong to the regional church of Hanover . It includes the Gifhorn parish, which includes the city of Gifhorn and the villages in the south and west of the district, and the Wolfsburg-Wittingen parish; it includes the villages in the north and east of the district that belonged to the Wittingen church district until 2012. The parishes of Parsau and Rüßen belong to the Provostei Vorsfelde , they are the northernmost parishes of the regional church in Braunschweig .
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic churches in the Gifhorn district belong to the Wolfsburg-Helmstedt deanery . The churches in Gifhorn and Meine belong to the parish of St. Altfrid in Gifhorn, the churches in Wesendorf and Wittingen to the parish of Maria Königin in Wittingen, and the church in Parsau to the parish of St. Michael in Wolfsburg-Vorsfelde. The St. Bernward Church in Gifhorn was consecrated in 1915 and is the oldest Catholic church in the Gifhorn district, the other churches were built after 1945.
Evangelical Community Gifhorn e. V.
The Gifhorn Evangelical Community began with the establishment of the “Regional Church Community” in the 1920s, where small Bible and prayer groups met in various houses in Gifhorn. From 1930 people gathered in the Protestant kindergarten "Bleiche" until 1990 the former building of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Ringstrasse could be taken over. In 2008 the regional church community was renamed "Evangelical Community" and has since been located in a former Baptist church on Calberlaher Damm.
Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church
In 1996, the Evangelical Lutheran Philippus Congregation of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK) was founded as the youngest congregation in the Lower Saxony-South church district .
The four communities of the SELK, which are located in the district of Gifhorn, belong to the church district of Lower Saxony-Süd:
- Evangelical Lutheran Philippus Congregation Gifhorn-Gamsen
- Evangelical Lutheran Immanuelsgemeinde Groß Oesingen
- Evangelical Lutheran Stephanus Congregation Meinersen-Seershausen
- Evangelical Lutheran St. Stephen's Congregation Wittingen
The church district is headed by a superintendent as the leading clergyman, who is in charge of the church district advisory board. Other organs are the church district synod, which meets annually. Synodale provides a parish with a lay representative and the parish priest. In addition to the synod, the district pastors' convention, to which all pastors belong with a seat and vote, is the organ of the church district. The Lower Saxony South church district extends to numerous administrative districts.
Brethren congregations of Lutheran character
There are many different Brethren congregations of the late repatriates in the city and district of Gifhorn in independent congregations that see themselves as Lutheran. Most were founded in the 1990s.
Baptists
The Evangelical Free Church of Gifhorn ( Baptists ) began in the church in Neudorf-Platendorf, which was inaugurated in 1894, and became independent with the new building on Brandweg in 1962. There is also a Baptist congregation with predominantly Russian-Germans .
In addition to the town of Gifhorn, there are also Baptist congregations in the district in Sassenburg (Neudorf-Platendorf), Brome (Altendorf), Parsau, Wasbüttel, Schwülper and a Brethren congregation in Hillerse.
Seventh-day Adventists
In 1926 the first Adventist church was founded in Gifhorn. The first church was built in 1959 and a new one in 1991. Around 2000, another Adventist church was founded in Gifhorn, which is located in Gifhorn-Kästorf.
New Apostolic Church
The New Apostolic Church (NAK) has two congregations in the Gifhorn district, both of which belong to the NAK Central Germany District Church , but within different districts. The community in the city of Gifhorn belongs to the church district of Braunschweig, the community in Hankensbüttel , which has existed since 1919, belongs to the church district of Hanover-North.
Pentecostal Church
The Free Christian Congregation belongs to the Pentecostal spectrum of the city. It belongs to the German Federation of Free Church Pentecostal Congregations .
Non-denominational associations
Evangelical Alliance
The next twentieth century began with the great ecumenical movement. After looking at what separates the Christian churches for centuries, the ecumenical movement has been trying for 90 years to see what is common first, also in Gifhorn. About 30-40 years ago, people who were concerned about unity within the Protestant area united in Gifhorn to form the local group of the Evangelical Alliance. The main event is the week of prayer every year in the second week of January, which is celebrated in turn in the congregations.
Working Group of Christian Churches
The Working Group of Christian Churches , which came together again in Gifhorn in 2001, is not made up of individuals, but rather institutions such as parishes . The following churches or communities belong to it:
- Roman Catholic parish of Sankt Altfrid Gifhorn / Meine
- Evangelical Lutheran parishes of Gifhorn in the parish of Gifhorn
- Evangelical Lutheran Philippus Congregation of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Russian Orthodox parish
- Evangelical Free Church Congregation (Baptists)
Guest status:
- Adventist Church
politics
Historic election results since 1920
The historical election results in the Gifhorn district differed markedly from the overall German results. Small parties that were meaningless elsewhere often achieved very high results in Gifhorn.
The data refer to the district boundaries from 1969. Despite some changes, they can be compared with today's results.
1920–1929: Guelphs against Prussia
Gifhorn was more influenced by the resistance of the Welfen ( German-Hanoverian party ) to the annexation by Prussia that took place in 1866 , more than the classic contrasts between left and right or between Catholics and Protestants . But the conservative Prussians also had their supporters, e. B. in the DNVP . In 1920, for example, the district elected to the Reichstag as follows: Welfen 48.7%, SPD 27.9%, DVP 8.6%, DNVP 8.2%.
The Welfen leveled off at around 36% in the following years, the SPD lost a little and the DNVP achieved variable results between 8.8 and 20.7%. In May 1924 , the NSDAP achieved a success with 11.9% in its first candidacy, but was initially unable to maintain this result. The Center Party never played a role in the Protestant district and always remained below one percent.
1930–1945: landslide to the right
As early as the 1930 Reichstag election , the NSDAP was the strongest party with 34.2%. In the elections in April 1932, the Welfs lost almost all of their voters to the NSDAP, which achieved one of its strongest results in Germany: NSDAP 68.1%, SPD 14.2%, Welfen 6.4%, KPD 5.0% , DNVP 4.1%, all others below 1%. In the Reichstag election in March 1933 , with a 90 percent record turnout, 73.8% voted for the NSDAP - which was the highest figure for the NSDAP in the entire German Reich.
1945–1964: High results for right-wing parties
After the war, the population had changed significantly due to the settling of war refugees. For a long time, many of them voted for their own party, the BHE . This had its highest result in the district election in 1952 with 31.5%. There were also various small parties in the spectrum on the right of the CDU , namely the conservative Lower Saxony DP (German Party), the German Reich Party ( DRP ) and the right-wing extremist Socialist Reich Party ( SRP ), which was later banned . In the federal election in 1949, the DP was the strongest party in the district with 32.2% and the DRP was the second strongest with 29.0%. The leading parties in the Bundestag followed behind: the SPD with 24.6%, Adenauer's CDU with only 9.1% and the FDP with 2.6%. Until 1961 these parties improved more and more, the CDU came in at least 39.3% in the Bundestag election, but only in fourth place in the district council with 14.6%.
1965–1969: stronghold of the CDU
After 1961, the CDU and SPD received more votes at the expense of the small parties. Since it was often a question of right-wing conservative groups of voters, the CDU benefited more, so that the Gifhorn district developed into one of its strongholds. When the Federal Republic of Germany elected Willy Brandt as Chancellor with a narrow majority in 1969 , the district elected 52.1% CDU, 36.4% SPD (still record results in this district at the time), 6.6% NPD and 4.4% FDP.
Since 1969: gradual adjustment to the national average
Although the CDU initially dominated after 1969, the district developed more and more towards the national average.
At the federal level, Gifhorn has been united with the SPD stronghold of Peine to form a single constituency since 1949 .
In the district of Gifhorn, the majorities were black-and-yellow up to 1998 and red-green up to 2009 in accordance with the federal results (second vote result 2005: SPD 46.4%, CDU 32.4%, FDP 8.1%, Greens 6.1%, Left Party .PDS 4.2%). This changed in line with the federal trend in the 2009 federal election , in which the SPD in particular also recorded losses in the Gifhorn district: CDU 36.8%, SPD 29.6%, FDP 11.6%, Greens 9.1%, The Left 7.7% (second vote results based on the Gifhorn district). Hubertus Heil (SPD), who was re-elected in 2002, 2005, 2009 and 2013, was elected as a direct candidate . From 2005 to 2009 Eva Möllring (CDU) also represented Gifhorn in the German Bundestag , as did Ewa Klamt (CDU) from Gifhorn from 2010 to 2013 .
District council
In the district election on September 11, 2016 , the following was elected:
In 2014 there were the following parliamentary groups and groups in the district council (as of April 10, 2014):
- CDU parliamentary group (21 seats)
- SPD parliamentary group (19 seats)
- Green / Pirates / Left parliamentary group (9 seats)
- As an amalgamation of the two aforementioned parliamentary groups, the group SPD / Greens / Pirates / Left (28 seats)
- FDP parliamentary group (2 seats)
- Independent Group (2 seats)
- As a merger of the two aforementioned parliamentary groups, the FDP / Independents group (4 seats)
| Election results 2001 to 2016 | Percent 2016 |
Seats 2016 |
Percent 2011 |
Seats 2011 |
Percent 2006 |
Seats 2006 |
Percent 2001 |
Seats 2001 |
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| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 37.1 | 20th | 41.2 | 22nd | 45.2 | 24 | 47.9 | 27 |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 29.6 | 16 | 36.0 | 19th | 38.0 | 21st | 37.6 | 21st |
| Green | Alliance 90 / The Greens | 11.1 | 6th | 12.7 | 7th | 7.2 | 4th | 5.7 | 3 |
| FDP | Free Democratic Party | 3.3 | 2 | 3.0 | 2 | 5.6 | 3 | 4.7 | 2 |
| INDEPENDENT | INDEPENDENTS (voter group) | 6.8 | 4th | 3.5 | 2 | 4.0 | 2 | 3.5 | 1 |
| left | The left | 2.5 | 1 | 1.8 | 1 | ||||
| Pirates | Pirate Party Germany | 1.4 | 1 | ||||||
| PBC | Party of faithful Christians | 0.5 | 0 | 0.6 | 0 | ||||
| AfD | Alternative for Germany | 9.1 | 5 | ||||||
| total | 100 | 54 | 100 | 54 | 100 | 54 | 100 | 54 | |
| Turnout in percent | 56.4 | 54.3 | 53.2 | 60.6 | |||||
District administrators and district chiefs
Andreas Ebel (CDU) has been representing the Gifhorn district as district administrator since November 2014 . He was elected in the first ballot on May 25, 2014. Marion Lau (SPD) previously held office for 13 years.
From 1946 to 2001 the district had a “dual leadership”: the full-time senior district director headed the administration and thus had the more influential office in fact, the honorary district administrator formed the political head. Until shortly before the end of the 20th century, all district administrators and senior district directors and also their predecessors, the district chiefs and bailiffs, which can be verified since 1564, were male.
District chiefs of the Gifhorn district
Until April 1, 1885, the heads of the administration of the Gifhorn district were called "Kreishauptmann".
- 1842–1863: August von der Wense from Wohlenrode
- 1867–1873: Carl von Arnim from Fallersleben
- 1873–1880: Theodor Eilers from Syke
- 1880–1884: Ernst Mejer from Weener
- 1884–1885: Benno von Niebelschütz from the north
District administrators of the Gifhorn district
- 1885–1890 Benno von Niebelschütz
- 1890–1900 Kurd von Berg-Schönfeld
- 1900–1908 Ludwig von der Wense
- 1908–1937 Eugen von Wagenhoff
- 1937–1943 Karl Glehn
- 1943 August Heinichen (substitute)
- 1946–1949: Heinrich Senge CDU
- 1949–1962: Karl-Heinrich Heise ( DP )
- 1963–1991: Heinrich Warnecke CDU
- 1991-2001: Margarete Pertzel CDU
- 2001–2014: Marion Lau ( SPD )
- Since 2014: Andreas Ebel ( CDU )
Partnerships and sponsorships
- North Lincolnshire Council ( England )
- Sponsorship for the Flatow home district ( Złotów ) - among other things, the History Museum, located in Gifhorn Castle, has a Flatow home room with a small archive and book collection. There are also friendly contacts with the city and today's Polish Flatow district (Powiat Złotowski) .
Demographic data and population development
According to the Lower Saxony State Office for Statistics , 175,192 people lived in the Gifhorn district in 2005 in 48,898 buildings with a total of 71,493 apartments with an average living space of 44.8 m² per person. In 2005, 21.90% of the population were under 18 years old, 7.80% between 18 and 25, 29.00% between 25 and 45, 25.30% between 45 and 64, and 16.00% were 65 years old or older older. The unemployment rate averaged 11.0% (men: 9.4%, women: 13.4%). 36,408 people regularly commute out of the district, 3,308 in.
The population of the Gifhorn district has developed as follows since 1890:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1890 | 30,828 | |
| 1900 | 34.097 | |
| 1910 | 37.208 | |
| 1925 | 39,174 | |
| 1939 | 71,335 | |
| 1950 | 144,959 | |
| 1960 | 117,800 | |
| 1970 | 135,600 | |
| 1980 | 122,700 | |
| 1990 | 140.428 | |
| 2000 | 171.501 | |
| 2010 | 172,643 |
Culture and sights
Museums
There are a total of five official museums in the Gifhorn district (see web links). The Historical Museum is housed in the Gifhorn Castle . Also in Gifhorn is the Kavalierhaus from 1546 with an exhibition on bourgeois living culture in the 20th century. The remaining three museums are in the northern district. The school museum is located in the Erich Less House in Steinhorst . In addition to the permanent exhibition and special events (including school lessons in the style of 1900 for children), the school museum is also working on a series of publications, the Steinhorster writings on regional school history and school development (started in 1989, nine volumes so far). The Isenhagen cloister courtyard museum shows the history of the monastery, which was founded by the Cistercians in 1243 and has been run as a Protestant women 's monastery since the Reformation . A special focus is the history of historical monastery gardens . There is a model garden at the museum and a herb book published in 1993. Brome Castle, first mentioned in 1203 , houses a castle museum. There are also numerous publications from the area around the castle museum: between 1980 and 2000, 28 works, mainly on regional history, were published here.
Four museums in the district are outside their homes Museum trails established in the wild.
In addition to these museums, there are a number of other museums and exhibitions. The best known is probably the mill museum in Gifhorn, in which mills are exhibited, some of which were dismantled in East German "mill regions" and transported to Gifhorn. The otter center in Hankensbüttel is also well known . Furthermore, a cinema museum has opened in Vollbüttel , a hunting museum in Dedelstorf - Oerrel and a museum in the village in Lüben .
Circular calendar
Every year the district of Gifhorn publishes a home book ("Kreiskalender"), which offers volunteer authors from the region a forum. The main category consists of articles on local history. There are also Low German texts, considerations of nature and other things. The series began in 1925 in the Isenhagen district and was taken over by the new general district after the merger with Gifhorn. The name "district calendar" comes from the fact that the book is published for the coming year and originally had an extensive introductory section that dealt with agricultural dates. The district calendar is sold in regional bookshops, but can also be ordered nationwide. Over the decades, it has become an institution of local history in the Gifhorn district.
Membership in associations
The district of Gifhorn is part of the Lüneburg Landscape Association .
schools
In the district of Gifhorn there are several grammar schools, comprehensive schools, secondary schools, secondary schools, elementary schools and a special school.
Local newspapers
economy
In the Future Atlas 2016 , the district of Gifhorn was ranked 77th out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany, making it one of the places with "high future prospects".
Communities
The number of inhabitants on December 31, 2019 in brackets.
- Gifhorn , town, independent municipality (42,837)
- Sassenburg (11,894)
- Wittingen , City (11,421)
Joint municipalities with their member municipalities
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community-free area (uninhabited)
- Gable (10.36 km²)
Former parishes
The following list contains all the former municipalities of the Gifhorn district and all incorporations:
Protected areas
In addition to landscape protection areas and natural monuments, there are 33 designated nature reserves in the district (as of February 2017).
See also:
- List of nature reserves in the Gifhorn district
- List of landscape protection areas in the Gifhorn district
- List of natural monuments in the Gifhorn district
- List of protected landscape elements in the Gifhorn district
License Plate
On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the GF distinguishing mark when the license plates that are still valid today were introduced . It is still issued today.
literature
- The district of Gifhorn . Edited by the Lower Saxony State Administration Office. Bremen 1972. (The districts in Lower Saxony, vol. 26. ISBN 3-87172-327-4 .)
- Gifhorner Kreiskalender , has been published annually since 1925, now with around 50 articles and a statistical appendix.
- Heinrich Munk: The post in the old district of Isenhagen . Published by the district of Gifhorn. Gifhorn 2006. ISBN 3-929632-75-6
- Rüdiger Koch: In the middle of Germany: memories of 100 years of the Gifhorn district, 1885–1985. Published by the district of Gifhorn. Gifhorn 1985
- Series of publications by the district of Gifhorn (edited by the district archive), so far 26 titles on various topics of local history
- Material series of the district of Gifhorn (edited by the district archive), 8 titles published so far
- Publications of the railway history working group of the district of Gifhorn (edited by the district archive), 8 titles published so far
- Werner Siebarth: Duke Franz of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and his time. Hanover 1953
- Fritz Brüggemann: A duke named Franz. A factual report. Gifhorn 1973
- Theo Bosse: The Gifhorner Ratsbuch (II) from 1557 to 1594. Adenbüttel 1989
- Theo Bosse: The registers and land registers of the offices of Gifhorn, Fallersleben and Isenhagen from 1563/64. Hanover 1988
- Theo Bosse: Extract Catastri (...). The building description and the list of the owners of the farm from 1753 in the Gifhorn office. Gifhorn 1985
- Theo Bosse: The register of inheritance of the Ambtes Gifhorn from 1669. Gifhorn 1983
- For specific information on the unification of the districts of Gifhorn and Isenhagen see: Preußische Gesetzsammlung 1932, Nr. 43, 13772, p. 255ff, ordinance on the reorganization of districts. From August 1, 1932 (entered into force October 1, 1932).
Web links
- Official website of the museums of the Gifhorn district
- Administrative history of the district in tabular form
- District of Gifhorn on the pages of Territorial Changes in Germany and German-Administered Areas 1874–1945 by Rolf Jehke
- Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Gifhorn district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ↑ http://www.nak-mitteldeutschland.de/gemeinde/gifhorn/
- ↑ http://www.nak-mitteldeutschland.de/gemeinde/hankensbuettel/
- ↑ election result in www.gifhorn.de , accessed on September 20, 2016
- ^ Website of the district , accessed on April 11, 2014
- ↑ [1] Results of the local elections in 2001 and 2006
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Result of the 2011 local elections
- ↑ IHK Braunschweig: Regional Report 2006 ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. gifhorn.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1981
- ↑ a b c Lower Saxony regional database
- ↑ Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ^ Municipal directory 1910: Gifhorn district
- ^ Territorial.de: District of Gifhorn
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