Mahlerten

Mahlerten Community Nordstemmen
	Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 5 ″ N , 9 ° 47 ′ 51 ″ E
Height :	100 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.79 km²
Residents :	599 (March 31, 2018)
Population density :	68 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	31171
Area code :	05069
Location of Mahlerten in Lower Saxony
	St. Bartholomew Church

Mahlerten is a village in the municipality of Nordstemmen in the Hildesheim district in Lower Saxony .

history

Finds and excavations indicate an early settlement of the area. The Beusterburg is located in what is now the Betheln-Escherde district, which borders the Mahlerten district . It is a Neolithic site around 3000 BC. BC, which can still be seen today as a rampart . In the districts of Mahlerten (7), Heyersum (6) and Betheln (13) there are a total of 26 barrows.

On both sides of Breslauer Strasse and in what is now the new development area, a heel ax with a cord eyelet, a lance tip and a battle ax made of primary rock were found. A menhir was found at the “source” (upper end of the “Am Kastenborn” street), and a flint work ax was found on the field path halfway up to the “milking shed”. The finds are in the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim and date from the Bronze Age (2000–1000 BC).

The village of Malertune was first mentioned by name in 1160 in a document from Bishop Hartbert von Hildesheim . In 1224 the village is mentioned as Malerthe , in 1284 as Malerte or Malerde in documents.

On March 1, 1974, Mahlerten was incorporated into the municipality of Nordstemmen.

religion

The Mahlerter St. Bartholomew Church is a single-nave Romanesque quarry stone church from 10/11. Century. At the time of Charlemagne around 800, the first mission church was built in Elze , from where congregations were founded mainly west of the Leine . I.a. The town of Burgstemmen (south-west neighboring town, one kilometer away, the church there is mentioned in 996) seems to owe its existence to the Elzer Mission. Mahlerten and Heyersum (eastern neighboring town, one kilometer away), on the other hand, were converted to Christianity through activities from Hildesheim. In the year 815 Ludwig the Pious founded the diocese of Hildesheim . At the turn of 10./11. The archdeaconates, the forerunners of today's church districts, emerged as a sub-organizational level. In 1040 the Archdeaconate Sarstedt took over the church supervision.

The Reformation and the Hildesheim collegiate feud brought about changes in church life. When a large part of the Hildesheim monastery fell to Calenberg in 1523 , the Mahlerters were still subject to a Catholic sovereign: Erich I. His second wife, Elisabeth von Brandenburg , recognized the Reformation as a good means of strengthening sovereign power and resigned after death from Erich I (1540) to the new faith.

Today Mahlerten, together with Burgstemmen and Heyersum, is part of the Protestant three-church community.

politics

Local council

The local council of Mahlerten consists of two councilors and five councilors. The local council also has two advisory members (each CDU and SPD).

SPD : 4 seats
CDU : 1 seat
Non-attached: 2 seats

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor is Markus Schwenkler (SPD). His deputies are Oliver Ohlendorf (SPD) and Raimund Schmack (CDU).

Chronology of the incumbents of Mahlerten

Municipal accountant:

around 1900 Carl Gesemann
in the First World War Ulrich Deppe (former teacher until 1925)
1919–1931 Albert Höpfner (also joint head)
1931–1946 Heinrich Bartels (also Mayor)
1946 Otto Albrecht
1946–1947 Wilhelm Ahrens
1947–1951 Heinrich Schwarze
1951–1966 Gerhard Wieland
1966–1974 Helmut Piesker

Municipal Directors:

1946–1950 Ferdinand Hubrich
1950–1955 Otto Albrecht
1955–1956 Heinrich Bartels (also Mayor)
1956–1974 Oskar Schwabe (from 1964 also mayor)

Local mayor after the municipal reform in 1974:

until 1981 Oskar Schwabe
1981–1986 Gustav Ullrich
1986–2007 Hermann Hartmann
2007–2011 Uwe Laxa
2011–2016 Rolf Ising
since 2016 Markus Schwenkler

coat of arms

The municipality was given the coat of arms on July 30, 1938 by the President of the Province of Hanover . The district administrator from Alfeld presented it on November 14th of the same year.

Blazon : "In blue , a silver stone table ( Thiestein ) on a green hill , at the foot of a silver, braided fence consisting of three bars and three bands."

Foundation of the coat of arms: The village of Mahlerten - the oldest form of the name is Malertune (12th century) - belongs to the group of border towns fortified by ramparts and fencing between Ostfalen and Engern, as the basic word of the name undoubtedly indicates. The village gained greater importance through a meal that was preserved until the Middle Ages. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Mahlerten was still the place of jurisdiction for the Poppenburg Office . The Thiestein points to the former Thie and Judgment Square and the wattle fence points to the importance of Mahlert in prehistoric times.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Mahlerten there was the Rühmekorf grain distillery, which was later operated under the name Wittenberg. The company, which has always been family-owned since 1818, stopped alcohol production and founded "napus GmbH" in 2004, which extracts and sells valuable vegetable and rapeseed oil (rapeseed = Brassica napus ssp. Oleifera). There are no longer any other farms that operate locally. In addition, a long-established company offers its services in the field of "Motor vehicles - sales and repairs". There is also a bakery / cafe, a tailoring shop, an advertising agency and a cosmetic studio.

education

The single-class school, built in 1860, was used until 1955. In the new two-class school building, the “Leunis School”, all age groups were taught from 1955 to 1967, after which only primary school students were taught until 1982. After the renovation in 1983, this former school is now the village community center of the village of Mahlerten.

traffic

The village is located on Bundesstraße 1 (formerly Reichsstraße 1) about twelve kilometers west of Hildesheim . In the main town of Nordstemmen there is a train station on the Hanover – Göttingen and Hildesheim – Hameln lines.

societies

Mahlerten has an active village life with numerous associations:

Mahlerten volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1902
Shooting club, founded in 1928
Local DRK association, founded in 1973
Association of Expellees (BdV), founded in 1950
Reichsbund, founded in 1950
Sports club Concordia Mahlerten, now: Spielvereinigung Burgstemmen-Mahlerten
Maypole team, founded in 1996
Förderverein Mahlerten, founded in 2007

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

Johannes Leunis (1802–1873), Hildesheim clergyman, teacher and botanist

People connected to the place

Oscar Wichtendahl (1860–1933), church painter of historicism, restored the wall paintings in St. Bartholomew's Church

literature

Gustav Ullrich: Mahlerten - A local history village book . 1992.
Wilhelm Barner: Prehistory of the Leinebergland . Lax, Hildesheim, 1934.

Web links

Commons : Mahlerten - Collection of Pictures

Individual evidence

↑ Population figures in the municipality of Nordstemmen. In: Website of the municipality of Nordstemmen. March 31, 2018, accessed September 15, 2018 .
^ 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. 205 .
↑ ^a ^b Local council of Mahlerten. In: Website of the municipality of Nordstemmen. Retrieved September 15, 2018 .
^ ^A ^b Wilhelm Barner : Coat of arms and seal of the Alfeld district . Rebinding. Lax GmbH & Co. KG, Hildesheim 1998 ( digitized version of the text part of the first edition from 1940 [PDF; 10.0 MB ; accessed on June 10, 2019]).
↑ History - Historic Buildings - Old School. In: Kulturium website. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
↑ Larissa Zimmer: “So that's how it was back then” . In: Leine-Deister-Zeitung . Gronau August 14, 2018, Nordstemmen ( digitized from the website mahlerten.nordstemmen-heimat.de [JPG; accessed June 10, 2019]).

[Einw.-1] Population figures in the municipality of Nordstemmen. In: Website of the municipality of Nordstemmen. March 31, 2018, accessed September 15, 2018 .

[BibISBN-2] 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. 205 .

[Rat-3] Local council of Mahlerten. In: Website of the municipality of Nordstemmen. Retrieved September 15, 2018 .

[wappen-4] A ^b Wilhelm Barner : Coat of arms and seal of the Alfeld district . Rebinding. Lax GmbH & Co. KG, Hildesheim 1998 ( digitized version of the text part of the first edition from 1940 [PDF; 10.0 MB ; accessed on June 10, 2019]).

[Schule-5] History - Historic Buildings - Old School. In: Kulturium website. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .

[Dorfgemeinschaftshaus-6] Larissa Zimmer: “So that's how it was back then” . In: Leine-Deister-Zeitung . Gronau August 14, 2018, Nordstemmen ( digitized from the website mahlerten.nordstemmen-heimat.de [JPG; accessed June 10, 2019]).