Holzminden district
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Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ' N , 9 ° 33' E |
| Basic data | |
| State : | Lower Saxony |
| Administrative headquarters : | Holzminden |
| Area : | 692.65 km 2 |
| Residents: | 70,458 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
| Population density : | 102 inhabitants per km 2 |
| License plate : | HOL |
| Circle key : | 03 2 55 |
| NUTS : | DE926 |
| Circle structure: | 32 municipalities |
| Address of the district administration: |
Bürgermeister-Schrader-Strasse 24 37603 Holzminden |
| Website : | |
| District Administrator : | Michael Schünemann (independent) |
| Location of the district of Holzminden in Lower Saxony | |
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The district of Holzminden is a district in the south of Lower Saxony . After the districts of Lüchow-Dannenberg and Wittmund , it is the third smallest in Lower Saxony and the eleventh smallest in Germany by population.
geography
location
The district of Holzminden is located in the Weserbergland and Leinebergland at altitudes between 85 and 525 m above sea level. Its district town is the middle center of Holzminden. The mountain ranges include the Solling and Vogler , Ith and Hils and the Ottenstein plateau . The high proportion of forests of around 45 percent and the mountainous low mountain range characterize the landscape. The highest point in the district is the Great Ahrensberg (525 m above sea level) in the Solling between Holzminden and Dassel . The Weser runs in a north-south direction through the district and is often the border river to North Rhine-Westphalia. The location of the Weser, which has cut deep into the Weser Uplands between Bodenwerder and Holzminden and meanders around mountains, makes the region a popular excursion destination on land and on water. At Bodenwerder , the Lenne flows into the Weser on the right-hand side when coming from the Holzberg. The west-east extension of the district is 36 km (Heinsen to Ammensen), from north to south it is around 44 km (Bremke to Lauenförde).
Neighboring areas
The district borders clockwise (starting in the north) on the districts of Hameln-Pyrmont , Hildesheim and Northeim (all in Lower Saxony) and on the districts of Höxter and Lippe (both in North Rhine-Westphalia ). The Hessian district of Kassel is also close to the border, although it is not adjacent to it because of a corner of North Rhine-Westphalia.
history
The district of Holzminden was founded on October 12, 1832 by law of Duke Wilhelm von Braunschweig . The offices of Holzminden , Eschershausen , Stadtoldendorf and Ottenstein belonged to the former Holzminden district directorate . Until 1850, the Thedinghausen office near Bremen (then the Braunschweig district , now the Verden district ) was looked after from Holzminden. On November 1, 1941, the district of Holzminden came from the Free State of Braunschweig (from 1933, the state of Braunschweig) in exchange for the district of Goslar to the Prussian province of Hanover . With effect from November 1, 1941, the communities Bodenwerder and Pegestorf from the district of Hameln-Pyrmont , which had previously belonged to the province of Hanover as an exclave , were incorporated into the district of Holzminden.
With effect from January 1, 1962, the “Neuhaus Act” of December 13, 1961 merged the three communities of Fohlenplacken (district of Holzminden), Neuhaus (district of Holzminden) and Preußisch Neuhaus ( district of Northeim ) to Neuhaus im Solling with the district of Fohlenplacken and the Assigned to the district of Holzminden. In October 1971, following an area change agreement between the federal states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, the Otterbach area, which was formerly on the Holzminden side, was incorporated into the municipality of Lüchtringen in exchange for areas on the Stahler Ufer, making 112 residents new citizens of Lüchtringen and the city of Höxter.
In the course of the regional reform on January 1, 1973, a major restructuring of the district took place. The municipalities of Brevörde , Heinsen , Meiborssen, Polle and Vahlbruch came from the Hameln-Pyrmont district . In return, the communities of Bessingen , Bisperode and Harderode were assigned to the Hameln-Pyrmont district. Lauenförde and Silberborn came from the district of Northeim to the district of Holzminden. The municipality of Neuhaus im Solling, which was assigned to the district in 1962, was incorporated into the town of Holzminden on January 1, 1973 together with the municipalities of Mühlenberg and Silberborn.
On March 1, 1974, the district of Gandersheim added the spots Delligsen and the communities Ammensen , Kaierde and Varrigsen . The communities Brunkensen , Coppengrave and Lütgenholzen were given to the district of Alfeld (Leine) .
As a result of the administrative and territorial reform, the Alfeld (Leine) district was dissolved on August 1, 1977 and assigned to the Hildesheim district with the exception of the communities of Coppengrave , Duingen , Hoyershausen , Marienhagen and Weenzen , which were assigned to the Holzminden district. On the same day, the Holzminden district was also assigned to the Hanover administrative district .
On July 1, 1981, the communities Coppengrave , Duingen , Hoyershausen , Marienhagen and Weenzen were reorganized into the Hildesheim district.
From 1986 the district of Holzminden, together with the districts of Northeim, Hameln-Pyrmont (later also Schaumburg) and the DEHOGA district associations, were co-partners of Weserbergland-Touristik GmbH (WTG) based in Uslar .
In 1997 the administrative budget of the district was around 145 million DM, the property budget 29 million DM and the debts were 48 million DM with annual repayments and interest rates of 5.5 million DM is endowed with prize money of 1000 euros.
In September 1999, the district and the co-shareholders sold the Wesertal power station to the Finnish Fortum Group. Sales proceeds of 89 million euros arose for the district.
From 2003 the district also participated in the 14 million euro tourism project Erlebniswelt Renaissance (EWR). One of the projects was to expand Bevern Castle for around 1.6 million euros . A large part of the financing came from state funds and EU funds (a total of 1.2 million euros). The district of Holzminden was left with 37,500 euros, which it had to contribute proportionately to the company “Erlebniswelt Projektentwicklung GmbH” (EWR) (district of Hameln 60 percent, district of Schaumburg 25 percent) and the likewise proportionate deficiency guarantee of 450,000 euros for the GmbH. The project location in Bevern was completed by 2008. However, the tourism project failed after the main location in the Hameln wedding house was closed. In June 2009, the state of Lower Saxony examined the recovery of funding. The background is investigations by the NBank, according to which individual project expenses were not eligible for funding. This led to the insolvency of the company in August 2009. 70 percent of the EEA was financed by funds from the EU, federal and state governments. After the insolvency of Erlebniswelt Renaissance PE GmbH, the district acquired the trademarks and license rights for the project location in Bevern Castle, which has been in operation since May 2008.
Since June 2008 the district has been one of the founding members of the association "Municipalities in the metropolitan region of Hanover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg ".
On March 23, 2009, the joint municipal councils of the joint municipality of Polle and the joint municipality of Bodenwerder in Buchhagen agreed to merge to form the new joint municipality of Bodenwerder-Polle on January 1, 2010.
On June 7, 2009, at the same time as the European elections, there was a referendum in favor of “keeping the waste management of the district of Holzminden in municipal hands”. With a turnout of 41.4 percent, 94.5 percent of citizens voted to keep the waste management (AWH) in the district.
On October 12, 2009, the joint municipal councils of Eschershausen and Stadtoldendorf in Eschershausen agreed to dissolve and re-establish the Eschershausen-Stadtoldendorf joint community on January 1, 2011.
In November 2009, the two district administrators Walter Waske and Michael Wickmann, supported by Interior Minister Uwe Schünemann , agreed to prepare an expert report to examine whether a merger of the Holzminden district with the Northeim district to form a new “Solling district” would make sense from a synergy point of view.
In the future atlas, which the Swiss Prognos AG compiled in cooperation with the Handelsblatt , the district of Holzminden took 375th place out of 412 examined urban districts, districts and regions in Germany and was rated as "high future risk".
Population development
Today's district area
| date | Residents |
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| Census on May 17, 1939 | 61,089 |
| Census on June 6, 1961 | 90.228 |
| Census on May 27, 1970 | 89,070 |
| Update from June 30, 1976 | 86,264 |
| Update from June 30, 1980 | 84,042 |
| Update from June 30, 1985 | 81,288 |
| Census on May 25, 1987 | 80.070 |
| Update from December 31, 1987 | 79,585 |
| Update from December 31, 1988 | 79.123 |
| Update from December 31, 1989 | 80.065 |
| Update from December 31, 1990 | 81,421 |
| Update from December 31, 1991 | 81,986 |
| Update from December 31, 1992 | 82,853 |
| Update from December 31, 1993 | 83,356 |
| Update from December 31, 1994 | 83.263 |
| Update from December 31, 1995 | 83,341 |
| Update from December 31, 1996 | 83,317 |
| Update from December 31, 1997 | 83.008 |
| Update from December 31, 1998 | 82,493 |
| Update from December 31, 1999 | 81,870 |
| Update from December 31, 2000 | 81,389 |
| Update from December 31, 2001 | 80,866 |
| Update from December 31, 2002 | 80,338 |
| Update from December 31, 2003 | 79,715 |
| Update from December 31, 2004 | 78,683 |
| Update from December 31, 2005 | 77,918 |
| Update from December 31, 2006 | 76,888 |
| Update from December 31, 2007 | 76.103 |
| Update from December 31, 2008 | 75,099 |
| Update from December 31, 2009 | 74.097 |
| Update from December 31, 2010 | 73,240 |
| 2011 census and update of December 31, 2011 |
73.155 |
| Update from December 31, 2012 | 72,459 |
| Update from December 31, 2013 | 71,877 |
| Update from December 31, 2014 | 71,438 |
| Update from December 31, 2015 | 71,659 |
| Update from December 31, 2016 | 71,510 |
| Update from December 31, 2017 | 71,144 |
The population density decreased from 1974 with 127 inhabitants per km² to 106 inhabitants per km² in 2010.
Holzminden district with the respective territorial status
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1890 | 47,095 | |
| 1900 | 51,132 | |
| 1910 | 51,756 | |
| 1925 | 50,894 | |
| 1939 | 51,738 | |
| 1950 | 95.034 | |
| 1960 | 80,000 | |
| 1970 | 80,400 | |
| 1980 | 90,100 | |
| 1990 | 81,421 | |
| 2000 | 81,389 | |
| 2010 | 73,240 |
politics
At the federal level, the district has been represented since 2017 by the SPD member of the Bundestag Johannes Schraps , who last won the Bundestag constituency Hameln-Pyrmont - Holzminden (constituency 46) as a direct candidate in 2017.
At the state level, the following politicians from the Holzminden district ( state electoral district 20 ) are represented in the state parliament in the 2017–2022 electoral period:
- Sabine Tippelt ( SPD ) as directly elected MP with 42.6% of the first votes
- Uwe Schünemann ( CDU ) on the state list
- Christian Meyer ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) on the state list, from 2013 to 2017 Minister of Agriculture
- Hermann Grupe ( FDP ) on the state list
District council
The following table shows the composition of the district council and the local election results:
| 2016 | 2011 | 2006 | 2001 | 1996 | ||||||
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| Political party | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % |
| SPD | 14th | 33.95 | 17th | 41.76 | 18th | 43.46 | 21 1 | 45.80 | 21st | 47.1 |
| CDU | 13 | 30.25 | 13 | 30.54 | 16 4, 5 | 38.41 | 16 | 36.23 | 15th | 34.7 |
| GREEN | 4th | 8.88 | 5 | 11.65 | 2 | 4.74 | 1 3 | 3.75 | 2 | 5.0 |
| FDP | 5 | 11.23 | 3 | 7.23 | 4th | 8.86 | 3 2 | 6.86 | 2 | 8.2 |
| UWG | 2 | 6.01 | 3 | 6.87 | 2 | 4.13 | 2 | 6.07 | 2 | 3.5 |
| LEFT | 1 | 1.92 | 1 | 1.58 | - | 0.20 | - | 0.90 | - | - |
| AfD | 3 | 7.77 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Others | - | - | - | 0.37 | - | 0.20 | - | 0.40 | 1 | - |
| total | 42 | 100 | 42 | 100 | 42 | 100 | 43 | 100 | 43 | 100 |
- 1 During the electoral term in 2006, district member Rolf Heise left the SPD parliamentary group and remained non-attached.
- 2 After the dissolution of the district coalition with the SPD by the FDP in August 2004, district member Siegfried Böker left the FDP parliamentary group and joined the new SPD Lönneker-Böker group as a non-attached member.
- 3 During the electoral term, Rudolf Lönneker, member of the SPD-Lönneker-Böker group, left the constituency in 2005, but Franz Satzke moved into the district council as a non-attached member and took part in the SPD-Satzke-Böker majority group.
- 4 In 2009 the two MPs Heinrich Schoppe and Hubertus Berhörster resigned from the CDU and formed the Samtgemeinde Stadtoldendorf (FSS) parliamentary group. This was dissolved again in December 2009 and Heinrich Schoppe rejoined the CDU and Hubertus Berhörster ended his mandate.
- 5 From May to December 2009 MP Hans-Dieter Steenbock left the CDU and remained non-attached. Since January 2010 he has been a member of the CDU parliamentary group again.
| Political party | Seats | Representative |
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| SPD | 14th | Elective area I: Wilhelm Brenneke, Sebastian Rode, Elke Perdacher, Friedel Lages, Hermann Harling (deceased, therefore Willi Bost from March 24, 2017),
Elective area II: Sabine Tippelt , Andreas Fischer, Karl-Heinz Schmidt, Karl Dehne, Stephan Reinisch, Elective area III: Dirk Reuter, Klaus Rickmeier, Birgit Grottke, Susannejacket |
| CDU | 13 | Elective area I: Axel Munzel, Birgit Oercke, Wilhelm Weißenborn (mandate resigned, therefore Martina Sudhof-Werner moved up), Thomas Juncker, Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidt
Elective area II: Helmut Affelt, Hans-Dieter Steenbock, Lutz Teckluck, Theodor Krause Elective area III: Uwe Schünemann , Thomas Hagemann, Bernd Kaussow, Sabine Echzell |
| FDP | 5 | Elective area I: Ernst Warnecke,
Elective area II: Hermann Grupe , Frank Lutze Elective area III: Karl Friedrich Pieper, Dr. Ernst-Wilhelm Scharffetter |
| Green | 4th | Elective area I: Christian Meyer ,
Elective area II: Thomas Samse (resigned, therefore Erhard Böhm moved up) Elective area III: Peter Ruhwedel, Gerd Henke |
| AfD | 3 | Elective area I: Manfred Otto
Elective area II: Manuela Kassel Elective area III: Herbert Rappe (resigned from the AfD parliamentary group, but still as an individual representative in the district council) |
| UWG | 2 | Elective area II: Hartmut Kumlehn
Elective area III: Eberhardt Asche |
| left | 1 | Elective area III: Sabine Golcyk |
| Political party | Seats | Representative |
|---|---|---|
| SPD | 17th | Werner Allerkamp, Annelies Böker, Willi Bost, Wilhelm Brennecke, Wilhelm Bußhoff, Marlies Grebe, Birgit Grottke, Andreas Fischer, Gerhard Halling, Hermann Harling, Hans-Dieter Krösche, Friedel Lages, Friedrich Mönkemeyer, Elke Perdacher, Klaus Rickmeier, Dirk Reuter, Sabine Tippelt . |
| CDU | 13 | Berlita Albrecht, Eberhard Asche, Konrad Edelmann, Ruth Koßmann, Theodor Krause, Patric von Löwis of Menar , Friedrich-Wilhelm Schmidt, Karlheinz Schmereim, Hartmut Schüler, Hans-Dieter Steenbock, Lutz Tekluck, Wilhelm Weißenborn, Marc Wellmann. |
| FDP | 3 | Karl-Friedrich Pieper, Gerhard Ross, Ernst Warnecke. |
| Green | 5 | Timo Brandt, Gerd Henke, Christian Meyer , Peter Ruhwedel, John Hix. |
| UWG | 3 | Helmut Affelt, Adolf Nobel, Wilfried Steinmetz |
| left | 1 | Sabine Golczyk |
| total | 42 |
| Political party | Seats | Representative |
|---|---|---|
| SPD | 18th | Ulrich Ammermann, Michael Bauermeister, Annelies Böker, Wolfgang Bönig (until September 2006 mayor of the city of Holzminden), Friedrich Dörnemann, Elli Fehse (from 2007 for Joachim Lienig), Andreas Fischer, Annegret Gauding, Hermann Harling, Eckhard Jungk, Uwe König, Friedel Lages, Ingeborg Müller, Andreas Parsewark, Elke Perdacher, Wolfgang Rahmann, Dirk Reuter (from June 2007 for Sabine Kretschmer-Janssen), Sabine Tippelt. |
| CDU | 16 | Berlita Albrecht, Eberhard Asche, Ina Brandes, Herbert Bröckel, Konrad Edelmann, Heinrich Heppner, Patric von Löwis of Menar, Wilhelm Meyer, Karlheinz Schmerein, Uwe Schünemann (Minister of the Interior of Lower Saxony), Heinrich Schoppe, Hans-Dieter Steenbock, Lutz Tekluck, Heinrich Timmermann, Wilhelm Weissenborn. |
| FDP | 4th | Jens Ebert, Hermann Grupe, Karl-Friedrich Pieper, Ernst Warnecke. |
| Green | 2 | Christian Meyer, Peter Ruhwedel. |
| UWG | 2 | Adolf Nobel, Otto Winzmann. |
| total | 42 |
District administrators
- 1934–1942 August Knop , ( NSDAP )
- 1942–1943 Eberhard Appel, member of the government
- 1943–1945 Unger
- 1945–1946 Albert Schelz (SPD, acting)
- 1946–1952 Karl August Poth (SPD)
- 1952–1956 Karl Naumann ( GB / BHE , later CDU)
- 1957–1961 Fritz Olms (SPD)
- 1961–1973 Willi Schewe (SPD)
- 1973–1981 Martha Warnecke (SPD)
- 1981–1985 Bruno Brandes ( CDU )
- 1985–1986 Dietrich Adam (CDU)
- 1991-2001 Heinz Sassin (SPD)
- 2001–2011 Walter Waske (SPD) (elected with 58.8 percent of the votes in the 2004 district election and first full-time district administrator from 2004)
- 2011–2019 Angela Schürzenberg ( SPD )
- 2019– Michael Schünemann (independent)
Senior District Director / District Director
- (1833/1864): Wilhelm Johann Baptist Pockels
- around 1870: Vockels (unclear whether identical to Pockels)
- -1896: Hermann Koken
- 1906–1913: Hans Koch
- 1913–1919: Rudolf Hoffmeister
- 1919–1920: vacant
- 1920–1927: Rudolf Hoffmeister
- 1928–1931: Albert Schelz
- 1931–1933: Friedrich Bergmann
- 1956: Otto Höltje from Bevern
- 1962–1988: Rudolf Jeep (* 1916; † October 13, 2003 in Detmold)
- 1988–2004: Klaus-Volker Kempa from Holzminden
Holzminden constituency
In the Lower Saxony state elections, the district has its own state election district of Holzminden under electoral district number 20 . In the federal elections, the Holzminden district has been part of the Hameln-Pyrmont-Holzminden federal constituency since 1980 .
badges and flags
The district of Holzminden received a certificate from the Lower Saxony Minister of the Interior dated July 24, 1950 - III 332.408 / 4 - to use the coat of arms described below.
Description of the coat of arms : "On a blue ground above a silver cross stream, a silver ( Everstein'scher ) lion grimacing heraldically to the right , gold armored and crowned, red tongued."
meaning
The colors blue-silver are the Everstein colors. The Everstein coat of arms lion was chosen because the family of the Everstein Counts in today's Holzminden district was wealthy, exercised jurisdiction, had market and civil rights, as well as the right to escort over the Weser. The silver wave bar characterizes the river Weser, which is of the utmost importance for the district.
flag
"The flag of the district shows the colors blue and white arranged one below the other."
Award
The highest distinction that the Holzminden district has to award by the district council is the coat of arms ring. Members of the district council are granted this honor if they have been a member of the district council for at least 15 years or a total of 20 years.
Regional cooperation
The district of Holzminden lies on the state border between Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia and is not part of the interdependence of regional centers. But he works closely with his neighbors. Since 1992 he has been a member of the Regional Association of Southern Lower Saxony and the Regional Association of Southern Lower Saxony . Since 2000 it has been in a regional development cooperation with the districts of Hameln-Pyrmont and Schaumburg under the name Weserbergland Region . In this cooperation, a number of regionally important projects are advanced jointly or in coordination with one another on the basis of a regional development concept. In addition, the district is a member of Weserbergland Tourismus e. V. based in Hameln.
Sponsorship and partnerships
In 1955, the district of Holzminden took on the sponsorship of the Germans from the district of Leobschütz , Upper Silesia, who were expelled from their homeland and who are represented by their home committee. Since 2003 there has also been a partnership with today's Polish district, the Powiat Głubczycki .
Since the German reunification in 1990, the district has maintained partnership relationships with the Aschersleben-Staßfurt district in Saxony-Anhalt.
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
In the Future Atlas 2016 , the district of Holzminden was ranked 355 out of 402 districts and urban districts in Germany, making it one of the districts with "future risks".
Industry and service industries
Due to its location in the low mountain range, the Holzminden district has an above-average proportion of forest and a comparatively smaller amount of agricultural land. Existing mineral resources ( sandstone , lime , gypsum ) and wood as an energy source led to the early formation of commercial and industrial companies. Especially during the work of the Brunswick chief hunter Johann Georg von Langen in the middle of the 18th century there was an initial industrialization, which Schott Desag AG in Grünenplan and the porcelain manufactory Fürstenberg still remember today. Today, the district of Holzminden has the highest proportion of employees in the manufacturing industry of all districts in Lower Saxony. In contrast, the share of employees in the service industry is below average. The most important sectors are the fragrance and flavoring industry in Holzminden, companies producing porcelain and glass, the electrotechnical industry and mechanical engineering as well as the gypsum industry. Among them are a number of companies of international and national importance. The largest employers in the district are Symrise and Stiebel Eltron in Holzminden .
tourism
Favorable conditions are given for tourism , which has so far only developed below average. The focus is on the Hochsolling with Neuhaus and Silberborn in the middle of the Solling-Vogler Nature Park and the Weser with Bodenwerder and Polle . The Weserradweg , the most popular German cycle path, and the European cycle path R1 lead a large number of cycle tourists to the district.
Due to its central location, motorcycle tourism is of increasing importance. The destinations of the region include: Vogler region, Ottenstein plateau and Rühler Switzerland . The Bevern Tourism Association is developing as a starting point for motorcycle tourism.
Organizationally, the Holzminden district, together with four other districts, belongs to the umbrella association Weserbergland Tourismus , to which 29 cities and municipalities, seven spas and health resorts from the Weser Valley and the adjacent low mountain ranges and 15 other members are affiliated. In 2010 there were a total of 80,617 guests and 161,860 overnight stays in the district. Compared to the previous year there was an increase of 11.2 percent.
Statistical data
| year |
Employees subject to social security contributions at the place of work |
Gross domestic product per employed person |
Annual average unemployment rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 19,293 | 53,952 euros | 12.5% |
| 2007 | 19,336 | 56,921 euros | 10.5% |
| 2008 | 19,671 | 56,270 euros | 8.9% |
| 2009 | 19,588 | 54,909 euros | 9.1% |
| 2010 | 19,704 | 59,606 euros | 9.2% |
| 2011 | 19,844 | 59,779 euros | 8.2% |
| 2012 | 20,158 | 8.2% | |
| 2013 | 20,136 | 8.3% |
Source: State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony
traffic
Measured in terms of connections to the German motorway network and the distance to motorway junctions, the Holzminden district ranks bottom of all the districts in Germany. In all directions you need at least 50 km to reach a motorway.
Street
The federal highways 64 (Eschershausen - Holzminden - Höxter), 83 (Bodenwerder - Holzminden - Kassel), 240 (Bodenwerder - Eschershausen), 241 (near Lauenförde) and 497 (Holzminden - Neuhaus im Solling), as well as the European cycle route R1, run through the district and the Weserradweg . As of January 2011, the district of Holzminden also had a total of 207.018 km of district roads (compared to 1974: 174.073 km). From 1954 to 1974 the district spent around 18 million DM on a 174 km long network of district roads.
It takes around 46 minutes to get to Federal Motorway 7 with the Nörten-Hardenberg or Northeim-West junction and around an hour to Federal Motorway 2 with the Rehren junction and around 50 minutes to the 44 with the Warburg junction. A closer connection of the district to the motorway network, which was planned earlier, has not yet been implemented. In the early 1970s there was this plans a highway route in Weserbergland between Bundesautobahn 2 - Lemgo - Hameln - Elze - Bundesautobahn 7 ( Bundesautobahn path 35 / 36 ) and / or between the Federal Highway 44 - Beverungen - Uslar - Hardegsen - Bundesautobahn 7 ( Bundesautobahn 46 ) .
According to the Lower Saxony State Statistical Office, there were a total of 55,784 motor vehicles in the Holzminden district in 2007, including 46,443 cars. For comparison in 1974: 25,488 motor vehicles.
Public transport
For all local public transport in the Holzminden district, the tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Süd-Niedersachsen (VSN) applies , which is adjacent to the local transport network Paderborn-Höxter . The regional bus Braunschweig GmbH (RBB) is here to Südniedersachsenbus on different routes one:
- Line 500: LandesBus Holzminden-Stadtoldendorf-Kreiensen (since July 2018)
- Line 501: Nordring StadtBus Holzminden
- Line 502: Südring StadtBus Holzminden
- Line 509: Stadtverkehr Holzminden (Ring 1 and Ring 2)
- Line 511: Holzminden – Neuhaus – Fohlenplacken
- Line 520: Holzminden – Polle – Bodenwerder – Hameln
- Line 521: Holzminden – Polle – Bad Pyrmont
- Line 528: Holzminden – Rühle – Bodenwerder
- Line 530: Holzminden – Bevern / Stadtoldendorf – Eschershausen – Grünenplan
- Line 531: Holzminden – Golmbach – Stadtoldendorf
- Line 540: Holzminden – Stadtoldendorf / Eschershausen – Einbeck and
- Line 554: Holzminden – Fürstenberg – Beverungen
The long-running line 210 from Holzminden to Göttingen has only been in effect from Uslar since April 2010 and the line 551 Holzminden-Fohlenplacken-Neuhaus-Silberborn was also discontinued in April 2010 and the line 510 or later 511 was supplemented by a few stops.
The district financed the local public transport in 2010 with a total of 1,260,800 euros.
Rail transport
Passenger rail transport is currently limited to three stations (Holzminden on the Altenbeken – Kreiensen railway , Stadtoldendorf on the Altenbeken – Kreiensen railway and Lauenförde-Beverungen on the Solling Railway ) in the district.
- History of rail transport in the district
Because the Holzminden district previously belonged to the state of Braunschweig, the Duke of Braunschweig State Railroad built the first Kreiensen – Altenbeken railway line in 1865 . This "Brunswick Southern Railway" named range bound as the main railway Magdeburg or Goslar about Kreiensen -Holzminden- Paderborn with the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area .
From the south, the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft built the Holzminden – Scherfede railway line in 1876 . In addition, the Paderborn – Northeim ( Sollingbahn ) line of the Prussian State Railway , which only has a station in Lauenförde , was added in 1878 .
The cities of Bodenwerder and Eschershausen received a connection to the rail network in 1900 through the railway line of the Vorwohle-Emmerthaler Railway Company . The “informal” opening of this small railway from Vorwohle via Eschershausen - Bodenwerder to Emmerthal took place on October 9, 1900. The construction and the first operating period was carried out by Vering & Waechter, later until the first shutdown on September 24, 1966 by the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebsgesellschaft (DEBG, last seat in Hameln). Shortly afterwards, the Holzminden district, neighboring communities and shippers founded the Vorwohle-Emmerthaler transport company, which at times also offered passenger transport again. There were / are also museum trains from various organizers (including with VT 11/5 (TEE)). This line connected the main lines from Kreiensen to Ottbergen in Vorwohle with that from Altenbeken to Hanover in Emmerthal.
A year later the company introduced Vering & Waechter the little train Voldagsen-Duingen-Delligsen of Voldagsen until after Delligsen in Hils. This marked the highest level of the rail network with a length of 76 km. Only a little more than half of them are still in operation; but also a museum train. The following were shut down:
- 1963: (Duingen -) Hohenbüchen = Green Plan - Delligsen 5 km
- 1975: Kirchbrak - Vorwohle 14 km
- 1982: (Emmerthal -) Hehlen - Bodenwerder - Kirchbrak 9 km
- 1984: Holzminden (- Lüchtringen-Steinkrug - Boffzen) Fürstenberg (- Wehrden - Beverungen - Scherfede) 8 km
Airports and airfields
The Höxter-Holzminden airfield is a commercial airfield and is located in Höxter-Brenkhausen. The nearest airports are the Airport Paderborn / Lippstadt , the Kassel-Calden Airport and the airport Hannover-Langenhagen .
The Ithwiesen glider airfield is located north of the municipality of Holzen , and the “Hellenhagen” glider airfield is located south-southeast of Halle - Bremke .
education
In addition to a decentralized range of primary schools, there are school centers at six locations in the Holzminden district in which orientation levels, secondary schools and secondary schools are combined. The Campe-Gymnasium , the vocational schools with a technical high school and the boarding school in Solling are located in Holzminden . Today's HAWK Hochschule Hildesheim / Holzminden / Göttingen in Holzminden can look back on more than 175 years of history . The HAWK maintains the Faculty of Management, Social Work, Building in Holzminden with the bachelor's degree courses BEng Baumanagement (focus on building construction, civil engineering), BEng Green Building (building technology, energy efficiency, people & the environment), BSc Real Estate Economics / Management , BA Social Work and BEng Industrial Engineering (fields of study Building, building-energy-environment, infrastructure). The master’s programs include MEng Energy-Efficient and Sustainable Building , MSc Real Estate Management and MA Social Work . Around 1200 students registered in Holzminden in the 2013/14 winter semester.
| Exam year | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University degree | 270 | 282 | 235 | 267 | 218 | 227 |
| of which bachelor's degree | 211 | 210 | 169 | 202 | 123 | 92 |
| of which master’s degree | 59 | 72 | 65 | 46 | 50 | 13 |
| Graduation | 2012/13 | 2011/12 | 2010/11 | 2009/10 | 2008/09 | 2007/08 | 1999/2000 | 1994/95 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University entrance qualification | 131 | 102 | 212 * | 124 | 128 | 100 | 95 | 132 |
| University entrance qualification | 8th | 2 | 2 | 10 | 4th | 4th | 9 | 2 |
| Secondary school leaving certificate | 381 | 312 | 385 | 340 | 366 | 410 | 346 | 363 |
| Secondary school leaving certificate | 122 | 158 | 131 | 144 | 108 | 163 | 210 | 209 |
| without a secondary school diploma | 50 | 42 | 37 | 25th | 57 | 74 | 94 | 79 |
| All in all | 692 | 616 | 767 | 643 | 663 | 751 | 754 | 785 |
* School year 2010/11: double year of Abitur
| Graduation | 2012/13 | 2011/12 | 2010/11 | 2009/10 | 2008/09 | 2007/08 | 2006/07 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General University Entrance Qualification | 50 | 60 | 72 | 67 | 68 | 70 | 56 |
| University entrance qualification | 125 | 95 | 86 | 90 | 85 | 83 | 79 |
| Secondary school leaving certificate | 97 | 92 | 127 | 118 | 134 | 168 | 159 |
| Secondary school leaving certificate | 28 | 23 | 20th | 17th | 15th | 19th | 23 |
| All in all | 300 | 270 | 305 | 292 | 302 | 340 | 317 |
Healthcare
In the district town there is the Agaplesion Evangelical Hospital Holzminden with a capacity of 183 beds. In addition to other medical care centers (MVZ), the rescue station (RW) of the Holzminden district and the central on-call service practice are located at the hospital . There is also the Albert Schweitzer Therapeutikum, a specialist clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy with 21 inpatient places in Holzminden.
| hospital | Seat | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agaplesion Evangelical Hospital Holzminden | Holzminden | 218 | 218 | 215 | 207 | 202 | 202 | 195 | 188 | 188 | 183 | 183 | 183 | 183 | 183 |
| Charlottenstift / Charlottenhospital Stadtoldendorf (2013 insolvency) | Stadtoldendorf | 117 | 117 | 110 | 110 | 110 | 102 | 102 | 102 | 92 | 77 | (77) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Albert Schweitzer Therapeutic Holzminden | Holzminden | 21st | 21st | 21st | 21st | 21st | 21st | 21st | 21st | 21st | 21st | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 |
| total | 356 | 356 | 346 | 338 | 333 | 325 | 318 | 311 | 301 | 281 | 284 | 207 | 207 | 207 |
With 75.1 percent, the district was the majority shareholder of the Charlottenstift Stadtoldendorf GmbH district hospital, founded in 1901, for many years and took over the shares of the Stadtoldendorf municipality in 2009 and has been a 100 percent sole shareholder since then. In August 2010, the district sold the clinic to the Gesellschaft für Hospital Management mbH (GeHoMa) based in Ratingen. For a year later, the Saxony-Anhalt workers' welfare organization took over the clinic. On August 1, 2012, the clinic had to file for bankruptcy.
Participations of the district
Own operations and government operations:
- 100% waste management in the district of Holzminden (AWH), annual turnover in 2011 was around EUR 6.68 million with 58 employees.
- 100% Kreisvolkshochschule Holzminden (KVHS), annual turnover in 2011 was around 2.41 million euros (mostly funding) with 44 employees and approx. 19,000 hours of teaching
- 100% rescue service in the Holzminden district
Own companies and investments:
- 83.30% Non-profit housing construction and settlement company for the district of Holzminden GmbH (Bausie) in Holzminden
- 34.50% employment company Holzminden GmbH in Holzminden, founded on August 1, 2005
- 6.06% Weserbergland AG with headquarters in Hameln , to promote the economic structure and employment development
- 2.42% Vorwohle-Emmerthaler Verkehrsbetriebe VEV GmbH based in Bodenwerder (the sale of the shares is planned for 2012)
- 2.00% Porzellanmanufaktur Fürstenberg GmbH based in Fürstenberg (Weser)
- 0.05% E.ON Avacon based in Helmstedt
- from April 2004 with a former 15% stake in the Erlebniswelt Renaissance Projektentwicklung GmbH based in Hameln, which has been in the process of bankruptcy since 2009.
Foundations:
- 100% nature conservation foundation of the district of Holzminden
- 100% cultural foundation of the district of Holzminden
Special purpose associations:
- 50% Zweckverband Naturpark Solling-Vogler in cooperation with the Northeim district (50%)
- 5.9% Municipal Data Processing Center South Lower Saxony (KDS)
- 5.26% association for animal carcass disposal in southern Lower Saxony / Hanover
Culture and sights
The Weser Renaissance castles, such as Fürstenberg Castle and Hehlen Castle, as well as the Castle in Bevern , the Amelungsborn and Kemnade monasteries , the house where Wilhelm Raabe was born in Eschershausen or the Homburg near Stadtoldendorf are just as much tourist attractions as the Fürstenberg Porcelain Museum and the glass museums in Boffzen and Grünenplan and the Munchhausen Museum in Bodenwerder .
High-quality concert series are regularly offered in the Holzminden town hall and in the Weser Renaissance - Bevern Castle . Individual concerts take place at various locations in the district. The Holzminden cultural association offers theater performances in the Holzminden town hall. Art exhibitions take place regularly in Castle Bevern, in the old town hall Stadtoldendorf and in other places. One of the cultural highlights in the Weserbergland is the Holzminden International Street Theater Festival , which is held every two years at Whitsun .
The district has as archaeological monuments:
- Burial mound near Lauenförde
- Redstone cave
- Homburg near Stadtoldendorf
- Everstein Castle near Negenborn
- Lauenburg Castle
- Church on the Heilgen-Berg near Heyen
- Kreuzstein in front of the church of Bodenwerder
Communities
The number of inhabitants on December 31, 2019 in brackets.
- Delligsen , Flecken (7762)
- Holzminden , district town , independent municipality (19,841)
Joint municipalities with their member municipalities
* Seat of the joint municipality administration
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unincorporated areas (all uninhabited)
- Boffzen (23.37 km²)
- Eimen (12.91 km²)
- Eschershausen (4.92 km²)
- Green plan (22.71 km²)
- Holzminden (15.01 km²)
- Merxhausen (22.50 km²)
- Wenzen (15.84 km²)
Old communities
The following table lists the old communities in the Holzminden district and their current affiliation:
Protected areas
In addition to landscape protection areas and natural monuments, there are 31 designated nature reserves in the district (as of February 2017).
See also:
- List of nature reserves in the Holzminden district
- List of landscape protection areas in the Holzminden district
- List of natural monuments in the Holzminden district
- List of protected landscape elements in the district of Holzminden
License Plate
On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive symbol HOL when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is still issued today.
literature
- Kirstin Casemir, Uwe Ohainski: The place names of the district of Holzminden . 2007, Publishing House for Regional History , ISBN 3-89534-671-3
- Matthias Seeliger (editing), authors: Volker Konrad, Christian Leiber, Andreas Lilge, Werner Jahns, Andreas Reuschel, Mechthild Wiswe , Klaus Kieckbusch , Ulrich Frischgesell: Yearbook for the Holzminden district. Yearbook 2000, Volume 18. Jörg Mitzkat Verlag, ISBN 3-931656-22-5
- Serious. G. Triloff: Small botanical local history of the area around Holzminden . 2002, Jörg Mitzkat Verlag, ISBN 3-931656-48-9
Web links
- Literature from and about the district of Holzminden in the catalog of the German National Library
- Link catalog on the topic of the Holzminden district at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
- Demography report for the district of Holzminden from 2006 (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ↑ a b c d Federal Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register 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. 211 f. and 220 .
- ↑ hna.de
- ↑ 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. holzminden.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
- ↑ Wahlen.kdgoe.de
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↑ a b Landkreis Holzminden: coat of arms ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , compare § 2 paragraph 1 of the main statute of the district of Holzminden ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the version of the last amendment of August 30, 2004 (approval of the Lower Saxony Minister of the Interior - III 332.408 / 4 - of July 24, 1950)
- ↑ § 2 Paragraph 2 of the main statute of the district of Holzminden ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Source: HW Rogl, History of an Unusual Railway. Vorwohle-Emmerthal. Seelze, o.Jg. (198.)
- ↑ 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: Landkreis Holzminden
- ↑ territorial.de: District of Holzminden
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