Meinersen

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Meinersen
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Coordinates: 52 ° 29 '  N , 10 ° 22'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Gifhorn
Joint municipality : Meinersen
Height : 52 m above sea level NHN
Area : 53.83 km 2
Residents: 8140 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 151 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 38536
Area code : 05372
License plate : GF
Community key : 03 1 51 017
LOCODE : DE ME
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Hauptstrasse 1
38536 Meinersen
Website : www.meinersen.de
Mayor : Thomas Spanuth ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Meinersen in the Gifhorn district
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Meinersen is a municipality in the west of the Gifhorn district in Lower Saxony . The municipality of Meinersen is a member municipality and the seat of the Meinersen municipality . The place lies between the towns of Peine , Gifhorn , Celle and Burgdorf .

Community structure

The municipality of Meinersen has a total of 8190 inhabitants (July 1, 2019) and covers an area of ​​53.83 km². It is divided into the following districts (the number of residents in brackets as of July 1, 2019):

Location of the district of Meinersen in the municipality of Meinersen

history

Middle Ages and Modern Times

Merian copper engraving 1654, on the right the church tower-like and no longer existing castle

In the Middle Ages, Meinersen was the seat of the von Meinersen family , who were first mentioned in a document in 1147. They received their domain directly as an imperial fief and were not subject to any prince or duke. From 1248 to 1260 Oda von Meinersen was the abbess of the combined monasteries of Gernrode and Frose . In 1316 troops of Duke Otto der Strenge from Lüneburg conquered the castle on the Weinberg , which stood on the vineyard parcel east of the Oker , and added Meinersen to the Principality of Lüneburg . Meinersen Castle was built on the west side of the Oker around 1350 . During the Hildesheim collegiate feud (1519–1523) there was serious damage, but as the Merian engraving from 1654 shows, the complex was restored. In its place, the Amthaus was built in 1765 , which today functions as an artist 's house.

The von Meinersen family died out in 1367 with the death of Bernhard II. In 1428 Meinersen fell back to the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and was then loaned or pledged to various owners. In 1532 the duchy established the Meinersen office , which existed until 1885. It served the administration and collected taxes from the residents.

Younger story

Meinersen gained national notoriety in the forest fire disaster on August 8th, when a forest fire got out of control and moved towards the village. Two days later, five firefighters died in a forest there after flames trapped them. A memorial was set up at the site of the accident east of Meinersen and south of the B 188 .

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the municipalities of Ahnsen, Böckelse, Höfen, Päse and Seershausen and the municipality of Ohof from the Peine district were incorporated.

politics

The 2016 municipal council election resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Distribution of seats after the 2016 municipal council election
    
A total of 23 seats

Mayor of Meinersen is Thomas Spanuth (CDU). His deputies are Heinrich Beutner (CDU) and Hans-Joachim Hoffmann (Alliance 90 / The Greens)

Religions

St. George Church

The following churches are located in Meinersen:

The St. George Church (Alte Straße 15) belongs to the Lüneburg district in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover.

After Catholics had settled again in the area of ​​Meinersen, which had been evangelical since the Reformation , as a result of the Second World War , Catholic services were initially held in a hall or in the Protestant St. George Church. In 1960 a chapel was set up in the former district court building, and in 1977 the St. Maria Goretti Church , which existed until 2014, was built. Today the Catholics in Meinersen belong to the parish of St. Altfrid in Gifhorn, a little closer to their branch church St. Bernward , also in Gifhorn.

The New Apostolic Church (Dalldorfer Straße 9) was built in 1985, the congregation belonged to the Braunschweig church district. The church ceased to exist in 2015, and the historical archive moved into the building bought by the congregation in spring 2017.

The neo-Gothic St. Stephen's Church in the Seershausen district belongs to the independent Evangelical Lutheran Church .

Culture and sights

Historical-style pedestrian bridge over the Oker next to the main street
Former administration building , which now houses
Official clerk's house, today a joint municipality administration

Buildings

The traditional island on the Oker in Meinersen consists of historical buildings in a park-like setting with 300-year-old trees. It is located in the western part of the village, where the main road (former B 188 ) leads over the Oker. It includes:

Okermühle (out of service today)

Directly on the Oker is a watermill , which was first mentioned in 1551. In 1653 it became a compulsory mill for the Meinersen Bailiwick. After destruction by floods (1849) and arson (1894), the reconstruction takes place. The other years 1873, 1950 and 1977 on the facade of the large brick building indicate renovations and enlargements. In 1974 the mill was shut down and since 1994 - equipped with a modern Kaplan turbine - it has been generating electricity.

Amtshaus (today the Künstlerhaus)

The office building is a two-storey half-timbered building from 1765 directly on the main street. It was established as the official seat of the officials of the Meinersen office. Before that, there was Meinersen Castle , of which remains of the wall were still in the ground. After the office was dissolved in 1885, the house served as the official residence of the judge at the district court until 1959. It was then used as a kindergarten until it became an artist's house with six studio apartments in the 1980s . Artists from home and abroad work here in rural seclusion for a year. The Künstlerhaus has been municipal property since 1989 and is managed by a sponsoring association made up of local authorities , art colleges and industrial companies ( Volkswagen AG ).

Amtsschreiberhaus (today the seat of the Meinersen municipality)

The office clerk's house was built in 1745 as the official residence of the senior official of the office. The two-story half-timbered building with pink partitions is set back slightly north of the main road. When the Meinersen office was dissolved in 1885, an agricultural school was set up there, which existed there until 1965. After a short transition period as a police station, the municipal administration moved into the historic building in 1971. From 1986 to 1990 the new seat of the Meinersen municipality was built . For this purpose, the restored clerk's house, an equally old outbuilding and a new building were connected with each other by clear glass corridors.

Gate house (today residential building)

The historic Pforthaus building is located next to today's Künstlerhaus and served as the district court until 1959 . Today the old Poorthus is a carefully restored house.

  • Half-timbered house from 1749

  • Meinersen watermill

art

The group “North German Realists” held a symposium at the invitation of the Bösenberg Foundation and the Künstlerhaus Meinersen . In October 2013, the plein air painters Nikolaus Störtenbecker , Meike Lipp, Frank Suplie and Matvey Slavin painted 36 pictures on site. Selected works were presented at the Künstlerhaus Meinersen in November 2013 and, thanks to the help of Meinerser companies and private individuals, acquired so that they remain permanently in Meinersen.

Economy and Infrastructure

Meinersen is located on Bundesstraße 188 , which ran through the town center until 2004 and has been a bypass road to the north around the town since then. Meinersen train station is located in the district of Ohof on the Berlin-Lehrter railway , about 7 km from the town center. Local public transport is part of the Braunschweig region association tariff .

Personalities

literature

  • Hans Adolf Schultz : Castles, palaces and mansions in the Gifhorn-Wolfsburg area , Gifhorn, 1985
  • Gero Wangerin: Das Künstlerhaus Meinersen , in: Museums and excursion destinations in the Gifhorn-Wolfsburg area . Gifhorn 1989
  • Horst Berner: 850 Years of Meinersen 1154-2004, The Chronicle . Meinersen 2004
  • Matthias Blazek: The execution site of the Meinersen Office - A collection of sources . Stuttgart: ibidem 2008, ISBN 978-3-89821-957-0
  • Dirk Bösenberg, Ernst Posselt: Meinersen - An inventory . Meinersen 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-046560-4

Web links

Commons : Meinersen  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Meinersen in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
  2. ↑ http://www.sg-meinersen.de/pics/medien/1_1562662788/Juni-Juli_2019.pdf
  3. ↑ Przybilla, Peter: Die Edelherren von Meinersen, Hannover 2007, p. 33, ISBN 978-3-7752-6036-7 .
  4. ↑ Cf. Jendsch, Wolfgang: Das große Feuer, Fachbeitrag 2727/98, November 1998. ( Memento of the original from July 19, 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. (PDF; 45 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.feuerwehrpresse.de
  5. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 227 .
  6. ↑ [1] Community letter NAK Uetze, August 2016.
  7. ↑ House of History officially inaugurated. Aller-Zeitung, December 12, 2017, accessed on May 8, 2019.
  8. ↑ Dirk Bösenberg, Ernst Posselt: Meinersen - An inventory . Meinersen 2014, p. 5, ISBN 978-3-00-046560-4