Lesse (Salzgitter)

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Lesse
City of Salzgitter
Salzgitter-Lesse local coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 43 ″  N , 10 ° 15 ′ 30 ″  E
Height : 98 m
Area : 12.5 km²
Residents : 1133  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 91 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1942
Incorporated into: Watenstedt-Salzgitter
Postal code : 38228
Area code : 05341
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Location of Lesse in Salzgitter

Lesse is one of the total of 31 districts of the independent city of Salzgitter in Lower Saxony , located in the north-west region . Lesse belonged to the Wolfenbüttel district until March 31, 1942, and on April 1, 1942, an administrative act made it part of the city of Watenstedt-Salzgitter. On January 23, 1951, it was officially renamed Salzgitter .

history

Lesse was first mentioned in a document in 1022. As early as 1400 the place consisted of 90 farms. In 1543 the place was attacked by Braunschweig troops and completely destroyed. In 1529, 1597 and 1598 many residents of Lesse fell victim to the plague .

Postal history

On October 1, 1867, a mail expedition was opened in Lesse , which was connected to Salder via a driving post . The country mail carriers went to Berel, Hohenassel, Nordassel, Oelber aw W. and Westerlinde.

Nienstedt desert

1548 the village will Nienstedt already desolate be gone. Desert farms and hooves in Nienstedt then belonged to farms in Lesse, Reppner and Barbecke . In 1797 the last "House of Nienstedt" was built and in 1868 moved to Lesse.

Volunteer firefighter

With the “Law on Fire Relief” of April 2, 1874, a wave of volunteer fire brigades was founded in the Duchy of Braunschweig in the following months. On July 17, 1874, the Lesse volunteer fire brigade was founded.

Population development

In 1900 there are 199 residential buildings and 1,126 inhabitants in Lesse.

Sources: The population figures from 1821 to 2000 are based on the statistical yearbook of the Department for Economics and Statistics of the city of Salzgitter. The population statistics from 2001 are based on the monthly statistical reports of the city of Salzgitter (residents with main residence) according to the population register at the end of December.

religion

Protestant church

St. Peter and Paul Church

The name of the Lesser Church is usually given as St. Peter and Paul, although this is not historically established. It is also not clear how long this name has been used. Around 1200 the church was built from natural stones, some of which are still preserved in the lower part of the church tower. When the new heating was installed in 1998, the foundations of the previous building were found during excavation work in the church in the area of ​​the former south-east entrance. From 1796 to 1799 the dilapidated church was partially demolished, rebuilt and enlarged. The master chamber builder Martin Carl Jakob Fricke, Braunschweig, is considered the architect of this new building. In keeping with the style of the time, a church was built with all around lofts, on the east side of which a wooden altar wall was built, in which the pulpit was placed at loft height, directly above the altar. The number of seats rose to a good 700 after the renovation. The inscription in the sandstone lintel above the former south-east entrance from 1796 also reminds of this new building. It also bears the name of the builder Johann Heinrich Julius Schweinhage ( n) junior. The lower part of the church tower was preserved in the new building. In 1868, five years after the previous roof turret had been destroyed by a storm, the upper part with the hexagonal tower hood was built. This now has a height of 35 meters.

In 1957 the interior of the Lesser Church was rebuilt in the sobriety style. Both the wooden pulpit altar and the side galleries (Priechen) have been removed. The pews were renewed. The now over-wide nave is separated in the west by a wooden wall with glass windows to form a hallway. The altar can be reached in the east via a central aisle that divides the nave into two halves. It stands in a conch-like niche and can be reached via several steps. So sublime, it forms the imaginary center of the church with the simple oak cross. When the Kniestedter Church was converted into an event center in the early 1980s , its baroque altar was moved to the Lesser Church. This altar was returned to the regional church in 1999 and replaced with a new one. A modern, colored glass window was installed above this, showing scenes from the life of Peter. It is a present from a Lesser farming couple, was designed by the artist Verena Halbrehder von Falkenstein and was created in the Schneemelcher glass workshop in Quedlinburg. To the right of the altar is the pulpit, made of simple oak. On the left, almost at ground level, is the font from the 19th century.

Catholic chapel

After residents of the Saarland were evacuated into the interior of the Reich area in 1939, Catholic services were held in Lesse. In 1940 Lesse became the seat of a newly founded local chaplaincy, which belonged to the parish vicaria "Reichswerke-Hermann-Göring-West" of the Wolfenbüttel parish of St. Petrus located in Krähenriede .

After a result of the Second World War in since the Reformation Catholic refugees and expellees had settled Protestant dominated Lesse and a Catholic children's home of Watenstedt was moved to Lesse initially found services are held in the hall of the inn Schmidt. In 1949 about 350 of the 2,200 residents of Lesse were Catholic. (Mid-1970s in the first floor of an existing building in the Little Road 9 Lütge street renamed) a Marian chapel was decorated with about 50 seats, on October 2, 1949 carried their blessing by Bishop Joseph Godehard making . In 1966 it was renovated, in 1987 the chapel no longer existed.

Today the Catholic residents of Lesse belong to the parish of St. Maximilian Kolbe in Fredenberg, about four kilometers away .

politics

Local council

coat of arms

The cattail with the two bent leaves alludes to the place name, which means something like watercourse with sedge . Even today, reed plants grow on the banks of the Sangebach stream that runs through Lesse . The cattail also stands for the tenacious will to survive of the Lesser citizens, who repeatedly rebuilt their village from 1492 to the end of the Thirty Years War after being destroyed several times. Today's Lesse also includes the old neighboring settlement of Nienstedt , which grew up in Lesse - the two leaves of the cattail stand for these two roots. The colors blue and yellow show that Lesse has always been part of the Braunschweig region.

The coat of arms was adopted as the local coat of arms of Salzgitter-Lesse by a citizens' meeting on September 5, 2001.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kirstin Casemir: The place names of the district Wolfenbüttel and the city of Salzgitter . Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2003, ISBN 3-89534-483-4 , p. 225 .
  2. ↑ ff-lesse.de: History of the fire brigade from 1874 to 1974
  3. ^ Department for economics and statistics: Statistical yearbook of the city of Salzgitter. City of Salzgitter, accessed on February 22, 2020 (total number of eligible residents (main and secondary residence) © City of Salzgitter).
  4. ^ Department for Economics and Statistics: Monthly Statistical Reports of the City of Salzgitter. City of Salzgitter, accessed on February 22, 2020 (Population at the location of the main residence © City of Salzgitter).
  5. ↑ Bilderchronik Lesse , p 34
  6. ^ Thomas Flammer: National Socialism and the Catholic Church in the Free State of Braunschweig 1931–1945. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, pp. 158 and 160
  7. ↑ 40 years of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Salzgitter-Fredenberg. May 19, 1977 - May 19, 2017. Salzgitter 2017, pp. 5, 6 and 8
  8. ↑ Willi Stoffers: Diocese of Hildesheim today. Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-87065-418-X .
  9. ^ Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch . Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , p. 37 .