Nordsteimke

Nordsteimke City of Wolfsburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 1 ″  N , 10 ° 49 ′ 56 ″  E
Residents :	2696  (December 31, 2015)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	38446
Area code :	05363
Location in Wolfsburg

Nordsteimke is a district in the east of the city ​​of Wolfsburg .

history

Merian copper engraving by Nordsteimke 1654 with the representative manor complex

Heinrich Büssing House

In 1238 the place is mentioned in a document as Steinbeke . In 1332 the name is given as Stembeke and in this century a von Steimke family owned fiefs here . Nordsteimke is not mentioned until 1440. The von Mahrenholtz family appeared as noble landowners in the village in 1303 . During the Thirty Years War, Franz Julius von Mahrenholtz asked the city of Braunschweig for help with looting. He could not hold the manor , which then passed to Frantz Julius von dem Knesebeck . In 1654, Matthäus Merian described Nordsteimke as follows:

The Hauß Nord-Steimke / is in the Principality of Braunschweig Wolfenbüttel / occupies about half a mile away from Drömling / formerly only terrible farms were supposed to have been here / afterwards it came to the von Marenholtz / who also bawled the house; now this property is owned by the prince. Braunschweigisch Hoff / Marschalck / Frantz Julius von dem Knesebeck

Heinrich Büssing , the pioneer of truck and bus construction and founder of the later Büssing AG , was born in the village in 1843 . The house where he was born is the former village smithy, which was converted into the Heinrich-Büssing-Haus Museum in 1988 . There he learned the blacksmith's trade from his father.

In 1968 a large shopping center was built on the outskirts, today's Real -Markt.

On July 1, 1972, Nordsteimke, which comes from the Helmstedt district , was incorporated into the city of Wolfsburg in accordance with the Wolfsburg Law .

From 2019 the large new development area "Sonnenkamp" will be built in the northeast of the district.

politics

Nordsteimke and the neighboring district of Barnstorf form the village of Barnstorf-Nordsteimke and are represented by a local council. Local mayor is Hans-Georg Bachmann ( SPD ) (as of December 2016).

Culture and sights

• The former village smithy, the Heinrich-Büssing-Haus , is the house where Heinrich Büssing was born and is now a museum.
• Großsteingrab Nordsteimke south of the village near today's sports center.

It was discovered in 1968 by a farmer while plowing his field. In 1969 an archaeological excavation of the site was carried out and it was rebuilt in 1975 at a different location than the site. The age of the comparatively small and simple complex can be traced back to the Neolithic around 3600 BC. Classify. The grave site is a rare form in eastern Lower Saxony. A similar megalithic complex from the same period is the Lübbensteine about 30 km south of Helmstedt.

• Elevated water reservoir on the Windmühlenberg (126 meters above sea level) with a good view.
  The elevated tank with 30,000 m³, built in 1943, was at the time the largest drinking water tank in Europe, along with a tank in Munich. The container was later expanded by three round chambers, so that today it can store a total of 45,000 m³ of drinking water from the Harz Mountains and from the Westerbeck and Rüßen waterworks .
• St. Nicolai Church (1235) ( Evangelical-Lutheran ) with Gothic carved altar; The oldest component is the Romanesque west tower made of field stones and boulders . The nave dates from 1904. The patron saints have been the Counts von der Schulenburg since 1846. The parish belongs to the Provosty Vorsfelde .
• The Nordsteimke manor has been owned by the Counts of Schulenburg-Wolfsburg since 1846 . The boarding hotel Yard has existed on part of the property since 2016 .

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  Mansion of the manor von der Schulenburg

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  Reconstructed large stone grave in Nordsteimke

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  LSW elevated water tank on Windmühlenberg Nordsteimke

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  St. Nicolai Church

Personalities

The city of Wolfsburg granted the following resident of Nordsteimke honorary citizenship :

• 1981: Günther Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg (born April 15, 1891 - March 12, 1985), the last lord of the Wolfsburg castle , on his 90th birthday.

Other personalities of the district are

• Benno von Henninges (1836–1899), royal Prussian lieutenant general
• Heinrich Büssing was born on June 29, 1843 in Nordsteimke
• Günzel Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg lived - with interruptions - in Nordsteimke from 1945 to 2018
• The professional soccer player Marcelinho lived in the Nordsteimke district until 2008

literature

• Siegfried Mahlmann among others: Nordsteimke, A village through the ages. Wolfsburg City Archives, Texts on the History of Wolfsburg, Volume 14, Wolfsburg 1984.
• Count Albrecht Konon von der Schulenburg (1865–1930, son of the landlord Gebhard von der Schulenburg): Nordsteimke and that of Steimker - a contribution to Braunschweig's local and family history. Munich / Nordsteimke 1899.
• Matthaeus Merian : Topographiae, 30 volumes, Frankfurt / Main 1642-1688; Facsimile edition of the complete works by Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel from 1960.
• Hans Adolf Schultz : The manor house Nordsteimke. In: Castles, palaces and mansions in the Gifhorn-Wolfsburg area. Series of publications on local history from Sparkasse Gifhorn-Wolfsburg , 1st edition, Gifhorn 1985.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topographia and actual description of the ... Hertzogthumer Braunschweig and Lüneburg ..., 1654/1658 ff.
2. ↑ Mahlmann / Stelzel: 750 Years of Nordsteimke 1238 - 1988. Druck + Werbe Center F. Möhle, 1988, p. 59.
3. ^ 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. 221 .
4. ↑ Information on the large stone grave at www.region-braunschweig.de
5. ↑ yard. parkhotel-wolfsburg.de, accessed on October 2, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Nordsteimke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Nord-Steimke in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Nordsteimke.de
• Reconstruction drawing of the Nordsteimke manor by Wolfgang Braun
• Dolmen on Megalithic Portal (English)