Lessien
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Lessien
Ehra-Lessien municipality
Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 15 ″ N , 10 ° 45 ′ 24 ″ E
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| Height : | 72 m above sea level NN | |
| Residents : | 585 (Jun. 30, 2019) | |
| Incorporation : | 1929 | |
| Postal code : | 38468 | |
| Area code : | 05377 | |
Location of Lessien in Lower Saxony |
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Lessien [ lɛˈsiːn ] is a district of the municipality Ehra-Lessien . To the north of the actual village is a former military training area , the barracks of which have been used as refugee accommodation with one interruption since 2015 .
geography
Lessien is located around two kilometers west of Ehra in a geest landscape . The Malloh forest is located north of Lessien. The site includes the barracks in the north, the "Zollhaus", which used to be a forester's house, and the "Zollhaussiedlung" on the road to Grußendorf .
history
Tools from the Neolithic Age were found in the area. The place name suggests a Wendish foundation, either from the Old Slavic lêsû for forest or from lazú for Hag, clearing. The village was in a large heather area that is now afforested.
Lessien was first mentioned in a document in 1570. Occasionally the place was called Lassin . He belonged to a Brandenburg exclave in the area of the Principality of Lüneburg and only came to Lüneburg in 1692 through the Treaty of Wallstawe .
With numerous new buildings in the north and south, Lessien developed into a row village . The municipality of Lessien was combined with the municipality of Ehra to form the municipality of Ehra-Lessien in 1929, making it the largest municipality in the Isenhagen district at the time . In 1936 a cemetery was created and the Lessien school closed. From then on, the students went to school in Ehra. In the same year, work began on a military training area north of Lessien, which was opened in 1938. Initially, it was used by pilots as a bomb dropping site and during World War II also for explosive tests. On February 20, 1944, a British Avro Lancaster bomber crashed in Lessien; five inmates died. In 1939 there were 615 residents in Lessien; after the end of the Second World War, the number of inhabitants rose sharply. In the early post-war years, the barracks at the military training area were inhabited by refugees before the Bundeswehr took over the area in 1956 . In 1984 the population had fallen to 402. In 1984 there were two farms there. In 2013 the 1650 hectare military training area was closed.
On July 1, 1970, the Ehra-Lessien community joined the Brome community . Ehra-Lessien has been part of the newly founded joint municipality of Brome since March 15, 1974.
Infrastructure
In 2015 the former barracks were set up as refugee accommodation. At the same time, it was announced that 1100 hectares of the square are to be placed under nature protection in the future. In September 2015, in the wake of the refugee crisis in Europe , the refugee accommodation was converted into an emergency reception center for around 800 people. After it was closed, the accommodation was used again for asylum seekers.
Lessien belongs to the Protestant-Lutheran parish office Brome II of the parish association Brome-Tülau / Ehra.
Lessien is located on Landesstraße 289 between Ehra and Grußendorf. The planned A 39 ( Wolfsburg - Lüneburg ) should run between Lessien and Ehra and have a motorway junction there. Lessien is served by buses on the ZGB line 164 ( Brome - Gifhorn ) every two hours. In addition, the ZGB lines 162 and 166 run to and from Lessien, mostly in school or weekend traffic.
literature
- Johann Dietrich Bödeker: The land of Brome and the upper Vorsfelder Werder, history of the area at Ohre, Drömling and Kleiner Aller. Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-87884-028-4 , pp. 381-416.
- Winfried Rolke: 444 Years of Lessien - Stories and Memories, 1570–2014. Ehra-Lessien 2014.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Dietrich Bödeker: The land of Brome and the upper Vorsfelder Werder, history of the area at Ohre, Drömling and Kleiner Aller. Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-87884-028-4 , p. 382.
- ^ Website of the Ehra-Lessien community , accessed on September 12, 2011
- ^ Plane crash with five dead in Lessien. in: Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung of February 20, 2014, accessed on February 21, 2014
- ^ Johann Dietrich Bödeker: The land of Brome and the upper Vorsfelder Werder, history of the area at Ohre, Drömling and Kleiner Aller. Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-87884-028-4 , p. 410.
- ↑ Ex-Bundeswehr areas will be protected in the future. Die Welt vom June 18, 2015, accessed on June 19, 2015
