Lenthe
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Lenthe
City of Gehrden
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| Height : | 67 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 5.14 km² | |
| Residents : | 780 (2017) | |
| Population density : | 152 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | 1st August 1971 | |
| Postal code : | 30989 | |
| Primaries : | 05108, 05137 | |
Location of Lenthe in Lower Saxony |
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 Scene at the church in Lenthe
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Lenthe is a village and part of the city of Gehrden in the Hanover region . It belongs to the four mountain villages Lenthe, Northen , Everloh and Benthe am Benther Berg in Lower Saxony .
history
Lenthe was first mentioned in a document in 1055 in which Bishop Egilbert von Minden transferred various lands to Duke Bernhard II of Billung .
The von Lenthe family was already divided into several lines around 1300, each of which had its own knight's seat or saddle yard in Lenthe. Up to 1500 there were four such saddle farms, of which only two still exist today, the so-called Obergut and one Untergut . While the upper estate is still in the possession of the von Lenthe family , the family on the lower estate in the male line has expired, which is now owned by the von Richthofen family .
On the upper estate in Lenthe is the tenant house, the house where Werner von Siemens was born , who spent part of his childhood here as the son of the landlord Christian Ferdinand Siemens . It was renovated in 2016 for the 200th birthday of the electrical pioneer, and since then there has been a permanent exhibition on the ground floor of the listed building, which uses central documents and exhibits to trace the most important stages in the life of the important inventor and entrepreneur.
On August 1, 1971, the community merged voluntarily to form the city of Gehrden.
politics
Local council
The local council of Lenthe consists of two councilors and five councilors. The local council also has an advisory member (SPD).
(Status: local election September 11, 2016)
Local mayor
The local mayor of Lenthe is Jürgen Ermerling (SPD). His deputy is Baron Jakob von Richthofen (CDU).
coat of arms
The draft emblem of Lenthe comes from Joachim-Heinz Stöckl . The approval of the coat of arms was granted on March 30, 1965 by the district president in Hanover.
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Blazon : “On a divided shield on top of blue two crossed golden keys ; below on gold a five-fold, blue tree branch . " |
| Foundation of the coat of arms: The place Lenthe emerged as a clearing in the hollow on the slope ( Middle High German : hlene ) of the Benther mountain. The crossed keys ( key Petri ; insignum of the bishops of Minden) are to remind that the place Lenthe was mentioned for the first time in a document of the bishop Egilbert von Minden in 1055. The lineage of the von Lenthe family is closely connected with the founding of the town ; the blue tree branch was borrowed from the coat of arms of the noble family still resident in this municipality - with their consent. |
Culture and sights
Buildings
- In the village there is the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the 10,000 Knights , whose origin goes back to a church consecrated in 1394.
- The two manors in Lenthe.
Architectural monuments
→ See: List of architectural monuments in Lenthe
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the place
- Eleonore Deichmann (1792–1839), mother of Werner, Hans and Carl Siemens (→ see under: Christian Ferdinand Siemens )
- Werner von Siemens (1816–1892), industrialist, inventor and founder of electrical engineering
- Hans Siemens (1818–1867), industrialist and brother of Werner von Siemens
- Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823–1883), inventor, engineer, natural scientist and industrialist, he built up the English branch of Siemens & Halske
People connected to the community
- Ludolf Siegfriedt (17th century – after 1673), a Hanoverian bell, piece and red caster, he made two bells for the church of the 10,000 knights in Lenthe in 1670
- Ernst Ludwig Julius von Lenthe (1744–1814), lawyer, diplomat of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Minister of the German Chancellery in London, son of Otto Christian von Lenthe, on Obergut Lenthe (1706–1750)
- Christian Freiherr von Hammerstein (1769–1850), officer, farmer and agricultural writer, he moved to the Lenthe estate to rent
- Christian Ferdinand Siemens (1787–1840), farmer and tenant, father of Werner, Hans and Carl Siemens, he was tenant of the upper estate in Lenthe
- Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves (1788–1864), architect, urban planner and civil engineer, he built the bridge on Gut Lenthe in 1854
- Franz Nause (1903-1943), social democratic resistance fighter, he attended elementary school in Lenthe
literature
- Werner Fütterer: Gehrden - From the spot to the large community . Gehrden 1991
- Waldemar Brandes: Lenthe, town of Gehrden
- Waldemar Brandes: 1955 - 900th anniversary
- Waldemar Brandes: 1980 - 925 anniversary
- Waldemar Brandes: Lenthe - history and stories of a Calenberg village 1987
- Hans-Erich Wilhelm: Des Mandages darna (book about the parish , 1984)
- Hans-Erich Wilhelm & Friedrich Meyer: On the history of the villages Lenthe and Northen 1994
- Hans Erich Wilhelm & Hans Mahrenholtz: The manors of the von Lenthe family ... 2000
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual statistical report. In: Website of the city of Gehrden. 2017, accessed on October 22, 2018 (PDF; 279kB).
- ^ 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. 196 .
- ↑ a b The local council of Lenthe. In: Website of the city of Gehrden. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
- ^ Coats of arms drafts by Joachim-Heinz Stöckl. In: Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
- ↑ a b District Hanover: Wappenbuch district Hanover . Published by the author himself, Hannover 1985, p. 162-163 .
