Neuenkirchen (Liebenburg)

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Neuenkirchen
Municipality Liebenburg
Coat of arms of Neuenkirchen
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 25 ″  N , 10 ° 28 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 130 m above sea level NN
Residents : 199  (Jun. 30, 2019)
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 38704
Area code : 05339
Neuenkirchen (Lower Saxony)
Neuenkirchen

Location of Neuenkirchen in Lower Saxony

Neuenkirchen is a district of the municipality of Liebenburg in the Goslar district in Lower Saxony . With 199 inhabitants, it is the least populous part of the municipality.

geography

location

The following places surround Neuenkirchen:

The Warne flows north of Neuenkirchen about one and a half kilometers away .

Local division

The Lüderode district belongs to Neuenkirchen .

history

A place called Eilenrode is mentioned for the first time in 1131 in the inventory of the Goslar monastery of St. Georg . It is assumed that it is today's Neuenkirchen. The former place name gives information about the origin of the place. The suffix -rode shows that the place was created in the course of the deforestation of neighboring forest areas, when more agricultural land was needed to feed the population. Bark was extracted for tannery in the remaining forest areas.

The village is located at a spring that used to provide the place with drinking water.

In the 12th century, the church administration in the Diocese of Hildesheim was expanded, which probably also led to the name change in Neuenkirchen. An archdeaconate seat had been set up in neighboring Gielde . From this ecclesiastical seat several surrounding places , which were assigned to the Leragau , were administered. In Gielde, however, the bishop's influence on the church there waned, so that the archdeaconate was relocated to a newly built church in Neuenkirchen, from where 16 other places were administered.

By the end of the 15th century, the church gradually lost its importance, so that the official seat was moved to Goslar. At least since the Reformation, Neuenkirchen was only a branch of the Gielder Church.

A census in 1622 confirms the rather small size and importance of the place in the years preceding and following the Middle Ages.

On July 1, 1972, Neuenkirchen was incorporated into Liebenburg.

Population development

  • 2016: 224 (as of May 1st)
  • 2017: 206 (as of June 30)
  • 2019: 199 (as of June 30)

politics

Local council

The local council of Neuenkirchen consists of five councilors who belong to the electoral community. Local mayor is Bernd Quadt.

(Status: local election on September 11, 2016 )

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a schematic representation of the aerial view of the place. The black cross with the yellow circle symbolizes the village center with the church, the red areas the houses, the green elements stand for the wealth of forests in the area and the yellow background is the symbol for agriculture. The coat of arms was introduced informally in 1974.

Culture and sights

The current church was last rebuilt in 1913. Compared to the original church from the Middle Ages, it has been greatly changed by this time. The building is on a hill and, with its small bell tower in the middle of the roof, is also visible in the area as a landmark .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Neuenkirchen is on Landesstraße 500, which connects the place with Liebenburg, Lutter am Barenberge and Bundesstraße 6 in the west and with Schladen and the A 36 in the east. There is also a side road that leads north towards Lüderode and Gielde.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The district of Goslar at a glance. Numbers, data, facts. District of Goslar, December 3, 2018, accessed on December 20, 2019 .
  2. ^ Website of the communal data processing in Oldenburg , accessed on October 1, 2016.
  3. ^ Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch . Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , p. 90 .