Northeim
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Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ' N , 10 ° 0' E |
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| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | Northeim | |
| Height : | 120 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 145.67 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 29,098 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 200 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 37154 | |
| Primaries : | 05551, 05503 , 05553 , 05554 | |
| License plate : | NOM, EIN, GAN | |
| Community key : | 03 1 55 011 | |
| LOCODE : | DE NOM | |
| City structure: | 16 districts | |
City administration address : |
Scharnhorstplatz 1 37154 Northeim |
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| Mayor : | Simon Hartmann ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the city of Northeim in the Northeim district | ||
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Northeim is a medium-sized town and independent municipality in southern Lower Saxony , Germany . The former Hanseatic city is the seat of the Northeim district and fulfills the functions of a medium-sized center . The European city , which extends over an area of around 145 km², has around 29,100 inhabitants (2011) . In terms of area, Northeim is the second largest city in southern Lower Saxony after Einbeck .
geography
Geographical location
Northeim is located in southern Lower Saxony in the Lower Saxon mountainous region on the extreme southwestern foothills of the Harz Mountains or a few kilometers east of the Solling . It is located 20 kilometers north of the city of Göttingen . The 10th degree east longitude runs through the city center . The longitude is marked by white cobblestones on the Breite Straße shopping street.
The Rhume flows through Northeim with its Rhume Canal , which was once created to operate the Northeimer Mühle. The dune flowing through Langenholtensen flows into the Rhume near the B-241 bridge. Not far west of the city, the Leine runs in a south-north direction. The Rhume flows into it 4.5 km northwest of the city center and the moors coming from the west .
Northeim is located on the Northeimer Seenplatte , which currently consists of twelve lakes created by gravel mining with a total area of 360 hectares (August 2006) . At least three more lakes will be added by the end of the dismantling work. The largest single lake will then extend over an area of 160 ha.
City structure
This also includes the following settlements, which are assigned to the respective villages: Wetze zu Stöckheim, Brunstein zu Langenholtensen, Gut Wickershausen zu Hollenstedt. Güntgenburg, a former Vorwerk of the Höckelheim monastery estate with six inhabitants (2005), belongs to Hammenstedt.
Neighboring communities
The city of Einbeck and the municipality of Kalefeld border Northeim to the north . In the east it borders on the municipality of Katlenburg-Lindau . To the south of Northeim is Nörten-Hardenberg and to the west is the city of Moringen .
history
The oldest time
For the area around the Northeim core city - for example on the slopes of the Leinetal and the mountains to Imbshausen - settlements from the Younger Stone Age can be identified. This evidence goes back to 2,000 BC. Chr. For the Bronze Age can be tumuli notice. In the area of what is now Northeim, the Cheruscans lived around the birth of Christ during the Germanic era and became part of the Saxons.
First mention up to the turn of the millennium
Northeim was first mentioned at the end of the 8th century, as the Franconian aristocrat Nithard and his wife Eggehild transferred owners in Northeim, Medenheim and Sudheim to the Fulda monastery . Around 800 there was a Saxon settlement in the area of today's Sankt Sixti Church , which was later called "Oberdorf". The original name of this settlement is not known. At that time there was also a Frankish settlement in the vicinity, which was supposed to help secure trade routes. This passed into the possession of the Northeim Counts in the 10th century . The first mention of a Count des Rittigaus , Count Siegfried von Northeim, who is mentioned in a document by Emperor Otto II, dates back to 982 .
Northeim during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
The city was first mentioned as the seat of the Northeim Counts from the year 1002. The Northeimer Siegfried I, Siegfried II and Benno as well as Heinrich and Udo von Katlenburg murdered the Meissen Margrave Ekkehard on the night of April 30th to May 1st I. in Pöhlde Monastery .
Around 1050 Count Otto von Northeim married Richenza von Werl . In this way he increased his property considerably and became one of the most respected and wealthy princes of the time. 1061 Otto was by the widow of Heinrich III. , Agnes, the tribal duchy of Bavaria awarded. Since he should have forged plans to assassinate King Heinrich IV during a visit to Northeim, Otto was found guilty of the majesty crime in 1069 and thus lost his legal fief and the Duchy of Bavaria. Otto von Northeim, who died in 1083 as a result of a riding accident, was planning to found a monastery in Northeim, Sankt Blasien . The market settlement in the area of today's Breite Straße, the third nucleus of Northeim, was built under the protection of this monastery.
In 1110 Otto's granddaughter Richenza von Northeim married Lothar von Supplingenburg , which later made her German Empress. Richenza, after whom a girls' high school in Northeim was named until the 1970s, is the grandmother of Henry the Lion . The male line of the Counts of Northeim expired with the death of Heinrich von Boyneburg in 1147. The property of the Northeim Counts, including the monastery, passed to Count Hermann von Winzenburg. After his murder five years later, the monastery belonged to Heinrich the Lion.
In 1204 Northeim was first mentioned as civitas (Latin: city), Northeim was granted city rights almost 50 years later, in 1252. This led to the construction of the city wall, which is still partially preserved today . In 1246 Northeim entered into a mutual protection association with the city of Münden, 50 kilometers away . In 1265 the city of Göttingen took over town charter , which was a privilege. The branch of the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg served as the town hall from 1334 (until the devastating fire of 1832). At the same time Northeim got the right to mint its own coins. From this time on Northeim began to flourish economically and in 1384 became a member of the Hanseatic League . In 1477 Northeim got its first city school, which still exists today as the Corvinianum high school . The renovation of the entire monastery complex was dated around 1480. At this time the Gothic hall church of the monastery was built in 1485. However, the Reformation brought construction work to a standstill. Northeim became Protestant . On March 7, 1539, the reformer Anton Corvinus and his vicar Jörge Thomas presented the first Protestant church ordinance they had written for the city, and the council became the patron saint of St. Sixti Church. A few years later the monastery became the town's lien until 1592, when the monastery ceased to exist as a spiritual institution in 1562. Northeim's membership in the Hanseatic League remained a relatively short episode, as the city left it again in 1554. The construction of the first stone bridge over the Rhume and the establishment of the first pharmacy are dated for the years 1568 and 1574 . In 1580, the Northeim City Council signed the Lutheran Agreement formula of 1577.
Northeim since the Thirty Years War
A turning point in the city's history was the loss of the pledge for the monastery in 1592. The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) did not pass Northeim either. The city was besieged three times by imperial troops in 1626. First from April 8 to 17 by troops under Colonel Martigny, then again from August 6 to 10 under Colonel Blankart. The third siege took place in September 1626 by Count von Fürstenberg and Colonel Blankart. Northeim surrendered the following year and had to take on a crew of 300 and feed them with 300 thalers a week. The Catholic general Tilly ordered the demolition of Northeim's fortifications, but the removal of the ramparts and filling of the inner ditches was enough for him in 1629. 1641 was a dark year for Northeim. The defenseless city was attacked by General Piccolomini and relentlessly robbed. Many Northeimers fell victim to this. The city's interim economic prosperity ended with the Thirty Years' War at the latest. The consequences were decline and severe impoverishment.
1702 the rule of the council was abolished and replaced by the establishment of a magistrate constitution by the sovereign government. In the first half of the century, the vacant lots that arose during the war disappeared thanks to a building program sponsored by the state government. In the second half of the 18th century, under the mayor Dr. Johann Achterkirchen an exemplary administration . Achterkirche's grave is still one of the few in the old cemetery on Gardekürassierstrasse. The replacement of the old city gates by new, wider gates is dated to 1773. This had become necessary in order to do justice to the construction of the new military roads. In 1803 sulfur-containing springs were found at the so-called "Gesundbrunnen". While Northeim was part of the Kingdom of Westphalia (1807-1813), it belonged to the Göttingen district in the Leinedepartment . The first newspaper was the “Northeimer Wochenblatt” from 1831. In the following year there was a serious fire in the city center, which destroyed 46 houses, the pharmacy and the magnificent town hall. Since the city now lacked a town hall, it bought the Rumannsche patrician house on Entenmarkt in 1842, which served as the new town hall and remained so until the middle of the 20th century. In 1848 the city gates, which had long since lost their importance, were removed. For the same year, the formation of a vigilante group and the founding of the still existing gymnastics community are given. In the second half of the 19th century, with the establishment of the Northeim district, supra- local administrations settled in the city for the first time.
During this time the economic importance of the city increased again significantly. In 1854 the railway line from Hanover to Göttingen was put into operation and the city wall was opened to the south in order to allow access to the newly created military hospital from Kurzen Strasse. The building kept its function as a hospital into the 20th century. With the new construction of the hospital at Wieter at the end of the 1950s, the hospital moved to Wieter. The old hospital then functioned as the town hall until the turn of the millennium, when it moved again. With the breakthrough of the city wall on today's Wieterstraße, Berg Wieter was opened up as a residential area in 1867. In 1868 Northeim got its own train station when the southern Harz line was opened . With the commissioning of the Solling Railway in 1878, Northeim became an important railway junction. From then on, the railway largely determined the development of the city. In 1883 the Wieterturm, which is still a popular excursion destination, was built on the highest Northeimer mountain. However, its history goes back many years. In 1890 the city museum was founded. Industrialization began in Northeim from 1892, especially in the tobacco and sugar processing sector. In addition, a large waterworks was built, the Rhumemühle. In the same year Northeim was hit again by a devastating fire, which led to the destruction of the eastern row of houses on the market and the north side of the eastern Breiten Straße. This is, among other things, the reason why there are relatively many Wilhelmine stone buildings on the market today .
Since the beginning of the 20th century
In 1902 the construction of the aqueduct and sewerage began. Seven years later the second Northeimer Zeitung was published, the “Northeimer Neuesten Nachrichten”, which still exists today as part of the HNA . Northeim was not supplied with electricity until 1912. During the First World War Northeim had a NCO school that existed between 1915 and 1918. With the introduction of women's suffrage in 1919, women were represented in the Citizens' Board for the first time. From 1920 there was a housing shortage in the city, which is why an immigration ban was imposed and non-profit building associations were founded.
The time of the Weimar Republic and the rise of National Socialism in Northeim are discussed in detail in the work “We didn't want that!” By William Sheridan Allen . Northeim, under the pseudonym “Thalburg”, serves as an example of an average small town in Germany. The NSDAP quickly became a determining power in the bourgeois-conservative (from around 1950 rather social-democratic) Northeim. From 1933 the city wall and the historic ramparts were renovated. 1934–1936, the “Lower Saxony open-air theater” was built by the Reich Labor Service , which is still one of the largest of its kind in the northern half of Germany. In the years 1934 and 1939, the city was given nationwide importance with the conference of the National Socialist War Victims Supply (NSKOV). During the Second World War , Northeim, especially the old town, was largely spared from severe damage.
In September 1944, however, an air raid on the outskirts of Northeim's old town caused severe damage. In heavy bombing raids in February and April 1945, the Northeim train station with its representative reception hall was completely destroyed, while the Göttingen train station, for example, was not so badly damaged, which shows the importance of the former train station. On April 9, US tanks finally rolled into the city. For Northeim the war was over. A total of 18 houses and five factories as well as the train station were completely destroyed and 80 houses were damaged.
After the Second World War, the reconstruction of the city and the train station began. Northeim became part of the newly created state of Lower Saxony . In 1952 the city's 700th anniversary was celebrated, and Northeim took on a sponsorship for Neustadt in Poland (formerly Silesia). In 1957 Northeim was given the status of an independent city. An extensive school building program began in 1958. Before the Second World War, Northeim was the location of a garrison and was again from 1961 until it was closed in 1992, so that Northeim was the location of the armed forces. In 1947 and 1948 the Norwegian German Brigade had its headquarters in Northeim.
In 1967 Northeim entered into a partnership with the French city of Tourlaville . From 1969 the old town was renovated. At the beginning of the 1970s, large parts of the historic monastery were demolished and built on, the "City Center" was created. In the course of the administrative reforms that affected all of Lower Saxony, Northeim grew by 15 surrounding localities, which are now districts (districts). Thus Northeim grew beyond the 30,000 mark. The district of Northeim was supplemented by the district of Einbeck and parts of the districts of Gandersheim and Duderstadt , Northeim remained a district town in the new district of Northeim. In 1975 Northeim became a European city . A year later, the restoration of the historical building fabric in the old town began. In the same year the town hall was built, but it burned down a little later and was rebuilt in 1986.
From 1986 a pedestrian zone was established in the city center, which encompasses almost the entire width of the street. The city center had previously been used by cars. In 1987 an east and a west bypass were put into operation. In 2002 Northeim hosted the Lower Saxony day , and the same year saw the 525th anniversary of the Corvinianum high school.
With the incorporation of the municipality of Kreiensen into the city of Einbeck in 2013, Northeim lost its status as the largest city in the Northeim district. In the more than 100-year history of the district, this is the first time that the district town is not home to most of the residents.
Incorporations
On July 1, 1970, the communities Hillerse and Höckelheim were incorporated. On March 1, 1974, Berwartshausen, Bühle, Denkershausen, Edesheim, Hammenstedt, Hohnstedt, Hollenstedt (until then in the Einbeck district ), Imbshausen, Lagershausen, Langenholtensen, Schnedinghausen, Stöckheim (until then in the Einbeck district) and Sudheim were added.
Population development
(as of December 31, 1961: June 6, 1970: May 27, census results)
- 1689: 1.624
- 1775: 2,933
- 1820: 3,360
- 1848: 4.115
- 1860: 5,000
- 1890: 6,695
- 1910: 8,625
- 1925: 9.412
- 1933: 10,435
- 1939: 11.033
- 1950: 18,651
- 1961: 19.261
- 1970: 19,799
- 1977: 32.725
- 1980: 32,300
- 1990: 31,200
- 1998: 31.902
- 1999: 31,804 (- 98)
- 2000: 31,691 (−113)
- 2001: 31,432 (−259)
- 2002: 31,183 (−249)
- 2003: 31,033 (−150)
- 2004: 30,973 (- 60)
- 2005: 30,744 (−229)
- 2006: 30,617 (−129)
- 2007: 30,294 (−323)
- 2008: 29,980 (−314)
- 2009: 29,657 (−323)
- 2010: 29,431 (−226)
- 2011: 29,145 (−286)
- 2012: 28,843 (−302)
- 2013: 28,865 (+ 22)
- 2014: 28,833 (- 32)
- 2015: 28,920 (+ 87)
- 2016: 28,966 (+46 )
- 2017: 29,040 (+ 74)
- 2018: 29,107 (+ 67)
At its heyday in the Middle Ages, Northeim is said to have had over 3,000 inhabitants. Due to the Thirty Years' War , which devastated Northeim, the population sank to its lowest level with 1,624 inhabitants in 1689. After the liberation wars , Northeim in the Kingdom of Hanover, which was established in 1814, experienced an increase in population from 3,360 inhabitants (1820) to 5,000 in 1860. The Despite the higher population rate, the city had not increased in size and people still lived in the old ring of walls that had been built 500 years earlier. In the following years the population stagnated, which can also be explained with the general loss of importance of the city. Northeim only flourished again in the second half of the 19th century through trade and traffic, as well as increased importance through numerous authorities that were settled in the new district town , and the population grew to 8,600 inhabitants by 1910.
By incorporating surrounding villages in the mid-1970s, Northeim grew beyond the 30,000 mark. At the end of the 20th century, Northeim had just under 32,000 inhabitants. From 1998 to 2012 the population fell to just under 29,000, which corresponds to an annual decrease of around 200 inhabitants.
Religions
see also "Churches" under "Culture and Sights"
Northeim is the seat of the superintendent of the Evangelical-Lutheran church district Leine-Solling of the regional church of Hanover . To it belong three parishes in Northeim with the churches Apostelkirche on Teichstraße, Corvinuskirche on Schumannstraße and St. Sixti in the city center. Further Evangelical Lutheran churches are located in the villages incorporated into Northeim.
The Catholic Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary , also known colloquially as the Marienkirche for short , is located between Breitem Weg and Gardekürassierstraße. Their parish , which today also includes the Catholic churches in Kalefeld and Moringen , belongs to the Nörten-Osterode deanery of the Hildesheim diocese . The branch church in Katlenburg was profaned in 2009 .
Various free churches are represented on site, including the Evangelical Free Church Community Northeim ( Baptists ) with the Christ Church at Wolfshof, which dates back to 1949, since 1947 .
A New Apostolic Church is located on Ostpreußenstrasse, its congregation, founded in 1953, belongs to the Göttingen church district.
The Turkish-Islamic community Northeim has had a branch belonging to the DITIB since 2008 in the building of a former car repair shop on the street “Am Mönchsgraben”. The previously used premises on Schlachthausweg are now used by the Arab community Northeim.
The Jehovah's Witnesses are also represented with a meeting in Northeim.
Before 1933 there had been a Jewish community in Northeim , but it was destroyed by National Socialism and did not rebuild after the Second World War.
politics
City council
The city council is the highest political body in Northeim. It consists of 36 elected councilors and the mayor.
| Diagram showing election results and distribution of seats (election period from November 1, 2016 to October 31, 2021) |
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On February 19, 2017, there was a by-election in the Schnedinghausen district. The result only led to minor changes and had no effect on the distribution of seats.
The result shown here includes the town of Schnedinghausen.
In September 2017 a councilor from the FDP switched to the FuL parliamentary group, which means that both parliamentary groups now have 3 seats each.
Mayor (20th / 21st century)
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In January 2013, the council initiated a voting procedure against the then mayor Kühle with 34 votes. With a declaration of February 4, 2013, he preceded being voted out by the citizens and thus resigned from office.
After the council had initiated a voting procedure against Kühles successor in the office of mayor Hans-Erich Tannhäuser in the following electoral term in September 2017, the latter declared his resignation on September 11, 2017 and resigned from office.
City Directors
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| 1946-1958 | Adolf Galland | independent |
| 1958– | Johannes Rauball | independent |
| 1959-1963 | Karl Ahrens | SPD |
| 1964-1968 | Karl Otto | independent |
| 1969-1980 | Horst Pilgrim | SPD |
| 1980-1993 | Werner Hesse | SPD |
| 1993-1997 | Bernhard Bramlage | SPD |
| 1997-2001 | Dieter Riedmiller | independent |
The post of city director was introduced after the war and abolished in 2001.
City arms
Northeim's city coat of arms is described as follows: In green over a red raised Dreiberg, in it a golden soaring lion, a silver castle with a silver Gothic 'N', with three red-roofed towers, flanked by two towers of the same type.
The city colors red and yellow can be proven up to the time around 1250. They can already be found on a sealing cord of a city document in the Lower Saxony State Archives in Hanover. The red stands for the color of the old Saxon shield, the yellow comes from the Brunswick lion, which is also part of the coat of arms. Furthermore, yellow and red are the original colors of the Guelphs. There were close family ties between these and the Northeim counts.
Town twinning
Northeim maintains the following cities a twinning :
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Gallneukirchen (Austria), since 1992 -
Prudnik (Poland), German: Neustadt in Schlesien , since 1990 -
Tourlaville (district of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin , France), since 1967
Culture and sights
Old town
Northeim has a well-preserved old town , consisting mainly of half-timbered houses from the 16th to 18th centuries, and large parts of the former city wall have been preserved. The (Protestant) St. Sixti Church, a three-aisled late Gothic hall church with the largest church organ in the southern Lower Saxony region, is of great importance for the cityscape.
The oldest houses in the old town can be found in the monastery freedom area. The oldest structures were also located there. The Gothic style prevailed in Northeim architecture until 1550 . The most important representative of this epoch is the “Holy Spirit”, the former Hospital St. Spiritus, the current building of the Heimatmuseum am Münster. There are several of this type in the old town. For example those houses on the Breite Straße, which are opposite the cathedral. Also in the southern, eastern and northeastern parts of the city. However, they only represent a closed street scene in Häuserstraße . Northeim's trapeze is characteristic of this period .
Between 1550 and 1600 the so-called transition style prevailed in Northeim architecture. During this time, the jewelry on the houses - generally also in other southern Hanover cities - increased. The Gothic was not abandoned in the construction, which is why there is also talk of a transition style. Examples of this can be found in the houses in Breite Straße 49, Hagenstraße 12 and Häuserstraße 12. The house at Hagenstraße 12, which has its models in jewelry in Göttingen , should also be emphasized . According to Fahlbusch, the fan rosette jewelry, popular at that time, was well known to the Northeim builders, but they would have used it indiscriminately. Arcade arches are to be found at the house at Breite Strasse 37. Northeim as an agricultural town is characterized by the floorboards going through the ground floor and mezzanine. Some of these are still in good condition in most of the larger houses. Refractory stone additions were also a style-defining factor for this period. Because of the frequent fires, they wanted to store their most important goods there.
The High Renaissance found its way into architecture from 1600 to around 1650 . In contrast to other cities in southern Hanover, Northeim lacks the richly decorated houses of the High Renaissance. It is conceivable that Northeim was too poor for this or that the previous construction was able to best satisfy Northeim's needs.
During the Thirty Years War there was hardly any construction activity in Northeim. Only after the war - probably not until the end of the 17th century - can houses be proven. For example Kirchstrasse 4 and 5 or the old town clerk's house on the corner of Hagenstrasse and Kirchstrasse. In the 18th century there was a lot of building activity, which the government wanted and supported. During this time, over 100 new residential buildings were built in Northeim. Larger buildings from this time are Hagenstrasse 15, Entenmarkt 15 and Häuserstrasse 5. In 1768 the old town hall was built, which was later destroyed by a devastating fire. In 1734 the so-called “Alte Wache” was placed in front of the market chapel on the south side. She served as a garrison guard for the city commanders. The building cost 400 thalers and has been crowned with a bell tower since 1738, in which the bell of the poor sinners found its place. The Alte Wache has been used as a senior meeting place for the city of Northeim since autumn 1986.
In the years that followed, the exterior facades of the houses were increasingly given a uniform coat of paint or plaster. The buildings of the 19th century are then ultimately characterized by their sobriety. From the middle of the century, brick construction found its way into Northeim. For example after a fire in the new town in 1846. But half-timbering was still used at that time.
At the turn of the 20th century, numerous buildings were built in the style of the Wilhelmine style that was customary at the time . The stone buildings on the market square should be mentioned here, which were built after a major fire in 1892.
During the Second World War (1939–1945), the old town, unlike the railway station destroyed by air raids in 1945, was completely spared from destruction.
In 1955, the city fathers announced a public ideas competition to change the old town. First and foremost, these changes should be limited to the old monastery estate, which covered an area of 3.5 hectares. In the absence of investors and the lease period for the monastery not yet expired, there were initially no changes. But at the end of the 1960s it became clear that the changes could not be confined to the monastery grounds, as large parts of the old town were also in need of renovation. So in 1969 GEWOS commissioned an expert opinion on what a fundamental renovation should look like. In 1970 Northeim was recognized as a model project by the Federal Ministry for Urban Development and Housing. The report was delivered in 1971 and was intended to form the basis for further action.
The report found serious defects in the quality of the building and in the functional area. A total of 43% of the apartments and 28% of the floor area of residential buildings were rated as in need of renovation.
For the expanding district town, the problem arose that Northeim urgently needed new space for administration, work and supply centers. In this context, the monastery property in the middle of the old town was seen as a disruptive factor and "area reservoir" that was no longer needed. Except for the monastery chapel on the cathedral, it was completely removed.
Architecturally, the urban development tendencies of the 1960s were adhered to, which would probably not be repeated today. The newly created City Center, the Stadthalle (which had to be rebuilt for the second time after a fire in the 1980s) or the district administration on Medenheimer Straße were built in the style of functionalism , which postulated pure objectivity and the abandonment of any jewelry . This corresponded to the zeitgeist of the time, which also provided for a structural densification of urban centers.
Looking back, it can be said that the urban development measures actually led to an improvement in the situation in the city center and were able to revive it. The newly created 1,000 parking spaces also let business life in the old town benefit.
The actual renovation work began in 1972. Sometimes a lot of persuasion was required, as there was great resistance, for example in the form of a citizens' initiative “Save the Old Town”. In addition to area-related renovation, the focus was also on property renovation, which made it possible to restore numerous old buildings. All in all, the renovation work that spanned decades cost 137 million DM, most of which had to be paid for from the public purse.
The old town was also opened to car traffic in the second half of the 20th century. In the course of this, the market square was also abandoned and now served as a thoroughfare. At the end of the 1980s, efforts were made to restore the old state and the old town was largely declared a pedestrian zone. The market place is also used weekly in its old purpose.
In a major fire in the early morning hours of April 6, 2009, eight half-timbered houses, especially in the area of Hagenstrasse, were badly damaged, six of which had to be demolished. Thanks to the rapid deployment of the Northeim volunteer fire brigade , a devastating old town fire - such as in the 19th century, to which large parts of the old town fell victim - could be prevented.
City wall and fortifications
Northeim has a largely well-preserved city wall . Northeim had no fortifications until 1252, as it was just a patch up until then . It was only when the city was granted city rights in the year mentioned that it was possible for the city to build a fortification to protect it. The work began immediately and with great enthusiasm.
As can be seen from Merian's engraving, there were several towers on the original wall. There were 48 of them. The tower at Höckelheimer Tor has been preserved, it can still be seen from the old cemetery. The wall was built with two sides as hammer-right layered masonry. Quarry stone masonry is the intermediate layer of the 0.90 to 1.60 meter thick wall. Shell limestone was mainly used in the construction in a strongly horizontal stratification. In addition, colored stone blocks were occasionally added.
There was a wall in front of the wall and a ditch between them. At Tilly's behest, however, trenches and ramparts were largely removed during the Thirty Years' War. From 1322 a Landwehr was added. With the Landwehr, the city fortifications were also strengthened at the same time with further towers, such as the slider tower and the powder tower at the northeast corner of the wall ring. None of these have survived.
With the advent of gunpowder , however, bare walls no longer offered adequate protection and deep and wide trenches were dug. The earth was thrown up into high walls. The fortifications were completed in 1491 by the erection of the Zwinger at the Mühlentor. Today the trenches have to be imagined as individual ponds. Because of the different heights they could not be connected, otherwise some areas would have dried out. You can get an impression of what it looked like back then in today's ramparts on Tourlaviller Wall. This is where the original wall is best preserved and you can imagine what it must have looked like in the fortifications in the past. The ponds, on the other hand, only emerged in their current form in the 20th century.
The most impressive structure of the Northeim fortifications is the old brewery tower with its 2.80 meter thick walls. Fahlbusch describes it as follows: “In the shape of a three-quarter circle, it leans against the wall with its open back. It is divided into two floors, which are separated from each other by a thick, flat vaulted stone and plaster ceiling. The lower room is 4.50 m high [...] The three preserved gun niches in the upper room are again above the bottom row [...] The gun niches can be recognized by the small square openings, while the long vertical slots to keep the wall dry, some also served to divert the powder gases. "
With the Thirty Years' War, large parts of the fortifications then disappeared. However, the grinding could not be carried out completely, so that even today there is enough reminder of the original facilities.
The city currently has around 880 meters of city wall, excluding the gates and passages. In the 1970s, the city wall suffered serious damage to its structure, sometimes resulting in permanent losses (around 50 meters), so that it was comprehensively restored in three stages from 1982 to 1988.
Tower at the Höckelheimer Tor
City wall on Unteren Strasse
Brewery tower
Healthy well
If you go down the Weinbergsweg, you will come to the Gesundbrunnen, which is a frequent destination and today houses a hotel called “Freigeist”, among other things. Some sulfur ponds belong to the Gesundbrunnen . In 1803 the city of Northeim had two muddy fish ponds excavated, and a source with a smell of sulfur compounds was found. There were hopes to be able to set up a bathing establishment here. The Gesundbrunnen was expanded for guests and the hotel that exists today can be seen as the successor to an inn from 1810. It turned out, however, that the spring was not sufficient to guarantee high-quality bathing operations. Nevertheless, today the Gesundbrunnen is used in a variety of ways by associations and citizens.
Waldbühne
The “Freilichtbühne Niedersachsen” was built in 1934 at Gesundbrunnen. The Waldbühne was originally planned as a thing place . With more than 400 participants, the open-air stage was inaugurated on June 7, 1936, when the drama Die Hermannsschlacht von Kleist was chosen as the play . After the war it was the scene of the unofficial first German championship of artistic gymnastics. In the 1960s, there were mostly smaller events that brought the local schools, churches and associations to the stage, while the performance of The Les Humphries Singers on September 5, 1974 reached a capacity of almost 4,500 visitors. The actual capacity of the open-air stage has always been controversial, while prior to the German Gymnastics Championships it was assumed that there would be enough space for 3000 seats, according to the then voluntary youth worker there should have been around 10,000 visitors. Between the 1980s and 1990, an average of two to three thousand visitors attended the annual Whitsun dance meeting, which was also held by several hundred participants. From 1990 the area of the open-air theater experienced a change. Trees that restricted the view were removed, the interior space was leveled and the terraced front stages were filled with loose material. A performance by the Toten Hosen then attracted 6,500 people.
After renovation work and infrastructural improvements, an open-air arena is now available that can be used in a variety of ways. The arena, which is lined with ancient beeches, can accommodate 8,000 visitors. The Northeim Waldbühne is known nationwide; the NDR 1 Radio Niedersachsen with Michael Thürnau as moderator organized the festival of folk music there. Apart from that, the stage is also used by regional groups and organizations. From 1990 to 2000, the open-air theater attracted over 200,000 visitors.
Theater of the night
The theater of the night is a well-known puppet theater , which is housed in a former fire station of the Northeim volunteer fire department. It was opened in 2001.
movie theater
The cinema culture has a long tradition in Northeim. With electricity, the first cinema came to Northeim in 1912, the “Royal Theater”. Before the First World War it was renamed the “Central Theater”. In 1923, the “Northeimer Lichtspiele (n)” opened another movie theater on the market, which was reopened in 1936 under the name “Schauburg - Film und Bühne” with 500 seats. A third cinema followed in the 1950s, the “Capitol”. In the mid-1980s, the lights went out for the "Capitol" as a result of the cinema crisis of the 1970s. Even the “Central-Kino” renamed “Crank” could not hold up as a nationally known porn cinema.
For the "Schauburg", the only cinema in the district town today, times were economically worse. However, it benefited for a short time from the fact that the town hall burned down in 1986 and thus the Schauburg was often used as an event location until 1989. In 1997 the cinema was completely renovated. The Schauburg received many awards for its selection of films from state and federal politics. In 2002 a second cinema room was set up in the Schauburg, with around 50 seats available.
Local museum
Opposite St. Blasius on the west side of the former cloister courtyard is the half-timbered house St. Spiritus, first mentioned in 1478. The house, which was built in the Gothic architectural style, has a high architectural historical value for Northeim.
This building houses the Northeim local history museum, which has been exhibiting the important Northeim-Höckelheim coin find since 2004 .
Churches
The city of Northeim has numerous churches, which are located both in the city center and in the districts. During the 20th century, religious life in Northeim had experienced a marked expansion. There are three Protestant churches in the city center.
Evangelical Lutheran St. Sixti Church
Sankt Sixti , Northeim's largest civic church, was built in several phases in the Gothic style, with major parts of the current building dating from the 15th century. The exact time when the first church was built at this point is not known, but a predecessor of today's church is mentioned for the first time in 1208 in a document from the Hildesheim provost for the Northeim monastery. Almost 20 years later, in 1229, the monastery also had the right of patronage over the church of St Sixti . The incorporation of the church into the monastery would often lead to quarrels in the following centuries, as the monastery, among other things, appointed the pastor and drew all the income to itself. Due to the differences that arose, the incorporation was confirmed to the monks several times in the course of the 14th century, but wasrepealedby the Council of Basel from 1431 to 1449. Between the years there were confirmations turn in favor of the monastery, so in 1435 by Pope Eugene IV. , But again assignments as 1438. Final should a decision be taken only in 1447, by Pope Nicholas V went out of for incorporation into the monastery decided. This did not settle the disputes, however, at the beginning of the 16th century a contradiction flared up with regard to the design of the palm consecration festival . The council spoke out against the consecration of palm branches in the monastery. A court decision came in 1511 to the ruling that the consecration should take place outside the Church of St. Sixti . The monks' activists, including the prior and pastor, were expelled from the city. In the Great Recess of 1525 it was agreed, with the mediation of Duke Erich I of Calenberg-Göttingen , that essential points of the disputes would be clarified. The nave is spanned by a ribbed vault and has five bays . The choir room is connected as a five-sided apse via two front bays. There are chapel extensions on both sides of the tower. The forces acting outwards areinterceptedby sandstone buttresses, which, similar to the Laurentius Churchin Dassel, shape the external appearance. The organ was built by Johann Heinrich Gloger and his son Johann Wilhelm Gloger in1721–1734and has since been rebuilt and renewed several times. Johann Christian Hartig created the prospectus.
Other churches
The St. Mary's Church , which was consecrated in 1886, exists in the city center as a Catholic church . It is the only Catholic church in the city of Northeim, as Northeim has been and has been Protestant since the Reformation.
There are also two other Lutheran churches in the city center, the Apostle Church and the Corvinus Church . They were built in the mid-1960s and each form a separate parish. In addition, there are other Evangelical Lutheran churches in the districts of Northeim.
After the Baptist parish work had met in different rooms since 1910, a parish hall was built after the Second World War in place of one of the few houses destroyed by bombardment , which was inaugurated in 1949. Today it is called the Christ Church .
The New Apostolic Congregation has a house of God built in 1969/70 on Ostpreußenstraße. There is also a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses on Gartenstrasse. The Evangelical Free Church Community Meeting Point holds its services in the Alte Wache. Its founding year is 1990.
Monasteries
There are three former monasteries in the city of Northeim. Two of them are in the Northeimer localities. On the one hand the former Cistercian convent Wiebrechtshausen , on the other hand another Cistercian convent in Höckelheim. In addition, there are still buildings of the Sankt Blasien monastery at Northeim Minster in the city center .
Dungeons Castle
The castle in Imbshausen with its approximately 13,000 m² park was built in 1862–1864 by the master builder Julius Rasch (architect) in place of previous buildings as a manor for the von Stralenheim family. After the Second World War , the von Stralenheim family had to vacate the castle, which then served as emergency accommodation. From 1946–1951 there was a Polish cadet school, and since 1952 a seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover . In 1963 Baron Henning von Stralenheim donated the castle to this regional church. From 1998 to 2013 the palace was owned by Campus für Christus , before Carl-Christian von Plate Freiherr von Stralenheim bought the property back as a member of the original noble family.
Wieterturm
The Wieterturm is an observation tower in the urban area of Northeim. It is located on the so-called 3rd Wieter, which towers over the Northeim market square with its 326 meters above sea level by 200 meters and represents the highest mountain in Northeim. It was created in the 1880s and was last renewed in 2008.
Monuments
Until the 19th century there were very few monuments in Northeim. In 1820, a memorial in honor of Major General Alexander von Arentschildt was erected on the site of the former Guard-Kürrasier-Kaserne and the Wesselstein in 1880. Both of these monuments were private. For the dead in the wars of 1866 and 1870/71, a Germania statue by the sculptor Eberlein was erected on Münsterplatz in 1879 . At the beginning of the 20th century, plans were drawn up for the construction of a monumental fountain on the market square. As a monument hero, it was decided in favor of Otto von Northeim. In 1907 the fountain with the bronze count was completed and ceremoniously unveiled. In 1918, however, the bronze statue was melted down for the armaments industry. The base of the fountain was later relocated in front of today's City Center and is still there in an unadorned state after it was renovated in the 1980s.
In 1925 another war memorial was erected in front of what was then the Corvinianum, today's Martin Luther School. A memorial plaque for those who died in the Second World War has also been in place since 2000. Another memorial is located in the cemetery.
In 1944, Germania was also melted down on the cathedral. The remaining base was removed after the minster had been redesigned in 1959. The last memorial for war dead was built in 1954 on the Wieter vineyard .
Northeim had had a Schlageter stone since 1933 , which was only removed in 1971 and completely destroyed in 1989.
After the Second World War, more monuments were built, but they no longer deal primarily with war. The “Pfennigbrunnen” has existed since 1966, as well as the so-called “Quellhügel”, which was designed as a fountain but was not used for long and now contains the fountain bowl in memory of Count Otto.
In 1993, a memorial to the city's murdered Jewish citizens was unveiled at the former Northeim town hall on Entenmarkt.
In February 2007, 16 stumbling blocks were laid in Northeim's inner city in memory of Jews murdered during the Nazi era. The Moringen concentration camp memorial also supports this remembrance project. The laying of the Stolpersteine took place with great sympathy from the Northeim population.
Since November 9, 2009, an original segment of the Berlin Wall has stood on a green area on the north side of the Rhumebrücke on Rückingsallee , which was donated to the city of Northeim by the "Circle of Comrades of the Northeim Garrison" on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Wall. The originally unpainted surface of the segment was artistically designed by students from the Corvinianum high school.
Swimming pools
There had been no swimming pools in Northeim for a long time. At the beginning of the 20th century, there was only one private river bathing establishment in the area of the street Am Rhumekanal . In 1904 the bathing establishment passed into municipal hands and was now operated under the name Städtische Badeanstalt an der Rhume . From 1925, the bathing establishment became a family bathing establishment and thus men and women were able to bathe together, which was previously not permitted due to the moral values of the time.
In 1926 an all year round municipal hot water system was added to the Schaupenstiel, which was connected to the municipal brewery and used its waste heat. Due to the large number of visitors, the institution was expanded, but closed at the end of the 1960s. In 1927 it was decided to build a new bathing establishment, as the bathing establishment on the Rhume was unsuitable because of the current there and the low water temperature. In 1929 the mountain bath was built, which opened in 1930 and has a swimming lane over 25 meters. In addition, a jumping facility, built and used for the Amsterdam Olympic Games in 1928, was purchased for RM 4,382 . The construction cost 138,201.11 RM, exceeding the original planning by 103%. In 1934 the bath went to the army administration and was temporarily used exclusively by the army stationed in Northeim. The mountain bath was visited by more than 100,000 visitors per season from 1967 to 1969. The mountain bath was extensively renovated around 2000.
With the incorporation of Sudheim as a district, Northeim got another outdoor pool with the local outdoor pool in 1974, which can be heated and is now operated by a sponsoring association.
In 1973 the indoor swimming pool was built on Arendtschildstrasse. In the first ten years of operation, 1,600,000 bathers visited the indoor pool. In 1996 the municipal indoor swimming pool was handed over to the Northeimer Stadtwerke for cost reasons and extensively renovated in 1998 for 4.5 million DM . In 2008 the ceiling at risk of collapse was renovated. The Northeim indoor swimming pool is used today by swimming clubs from all over Germany for training camps because of the only covered 50-meter lane in southern Lower Saxony.
Parks
Several central small parks, which are interrupted by a series of cross streets, run along the northern edge of the city wall. It is essentially a walkway lined with green spaces with park benches. There are also several ponds (some with water features) and a mini golf course with a large children's playground in the immediate vicinity.
Old city cemetery
The old city cemetery is located on Gardekürassierstraße, which was in operation in its current form from the 18th century to the 19th century. It lies in front of the city wall, which is best preserved at this point. The old cemetery was also called "Alter Kirchhof". It was created at the end of the 1780s at the behest of the magistrate. One of the first people buried there was Johann Achterkirchen . Friese, for example, mentions him as the second to find the last rest there. He was buried there on June 8, 1789 with great sympathy from the population. Up until the 1920s there were still a lot of old graves with sandstone monuments, but they were already badly weathered at that time.
All important people who Northeim had to show at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century were buried. For example, next to Achterkirchen, the Lieutenant General and chief of the 9th Infantry Regiment Sachs-Gotha, which was then in Northeim, Siegesmund von Wurmb and the colonel and chief of the 14th Hanoverian Infantry Regiment. The chief of the dragoon regiment, Lieutenant General Jakob Konrad Niemeier, buried two of his children in the cemetery. The Senator of Northeim Friedrich Christian Reddersen, Pastor August Friedrich Ellissen and Andreas Mathias Steltzner are also buried there.
The old cemetery was replaced on October 19, 1875 by the still current city cemetery Am Harztor in the direction of Hammenstedt. The old cemetery is now a park in which only a few graves and a mausoleum of the Oberamtmann Lueder remind of its former function.
Lake district
The Northeim Lake District , created by gravel mining, extends over an area of around 360 hectares and currently consists of 12 artificial lakes. At least three more will be added. Already today there are many opportunities for recreational activities, such as hiking, swimming, sailing, surfing, diving and fishing. The nature-loving visitors, on the other hand, have the opportunity to discover the unique “ Northeimer Seenplatte water bird reserve” as a protected habitat for flora and fauna. It initially consists of three lakes, later of four lakes. The lake district is already an essential part of Northeim's cultural and leisure life. On the occasion of international sports competitions, sailing and surfing frigates, and at the annual lake festival, thousands of visitors come from near and far to the lake and the city.
Sports
The men of the Northeim handball club , which was founded in 2011 as the successor to HSG Northeim , will play in the third division in the 2019/20 season .
FC Eintracht Northeim currently (2014/15) plays in fifth class in the Lower Saxony football league , the highest division in football in Lower Saxony.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Northeim is located 20 kilometers north of Göttingen and 16 km southeast of Einbeck on the Autobahn 7 and the federal highways 3 , 241 and 248 . In autumn 2007, Northeim's western bypass was inaugurated.
The Hannöversche Südbahn (old north-south route Hannover – Kassel) runs through the city . This is where the southern Harz line via Herzberg (Harz) to Nordhausen and the Solling Railway to Ottbergen begin . In the west, the city area is crossed by the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg .
On November 15, 1992, at around 1:30 a.m., the Northeim railway accident occurred at the level of the level crossing on Bundesstrasse 241 : an express train drove into the derailed wagons of a freight train. Eleven dead and 51 injured were the result.
Most of the Intercity trains run on the Hanover – Würzburg high-speed line . Only three pairs of trains use the Hannöversche Südbahn and stop in Alfeld, Northeim and Kreiensen.
In the east of the city - in the middle of the water protection area - is the Northeim airfield , which is used for sightseeing and charter flights.
Established businesses
The Wilvorst company , which produces evening and night wear for men, has its headquarters in Northeim.
The ContiTech Elastomer Coatings GmbH , a subsidiary of Continental AG , engaged in the city of about 1,800 employees and develops and manufactures rubber and rubber products, such as coated fabrics (eg. As life rafts, protective suits and membranes) and blankets (for the printing industry offset print ). Furthermore, there are the ContiTech Vibration Control GmbH (braking and steering seals made of rubber), the ContiTech Schlauch GmbH and the ContiTech Conveyor Belt Systems at its Northeim.
The THIMM , originally a pure packaging manufacturers (corrugated), now also offers displays (presentation packaging), printing services , and consulting services.
The SABEU GmbH & Co KG develops injection molded articles from thermoplastics or thermoplastic elastomers and manufactures them on injection molding machines . The development, production, maintenance and repair of the required injection molds is done in its own mold shop.
The publishing company Muster-Schmidt is based in Northeim .
Public facilities
As a district town, Northeim is the seat of various offices and public and private institutions, the most important of which are listed below:
- Northeim District Court
- Northeim tax office
- Land registry office Northeim
- District administration of the district of Northeim
- City administration of Northeim
- Citizen's Office of the City of Northeim
- Police station Northeim / Osterode
- Northeim Health Department
- Employment Agency Göttingen
- Northeim Forestry Office
- Chamber of Agriculture Hanover
- DGB South Lower Saxony
- District Volkshochschule Northeim
- Albert Schweitzer Hospital.
Educational institutions
There are 24 schools in Northeim. The most famous school in Northeim is the Corvinianum high school , which is one of the oldest high schools in the German-speaking area. There are also nine primary schools, five vocational schools, four secondary schools, a secondary school and a secondary school (Thomas Mann School), a special needs school and an all-day school.
A federal college for business administration in the motor vehicle trade (BFC) and a federal center for metal and technology are also located in Northeim.
media
The Northeimer Zeitung has been the “Northeimer Latest News” since 1910 (entry in the commercial register). It was taken over in 1974 by the "Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine" (HNA) , which has an office in Northeim, and is an important daily newspaper with regional and local sections for the Northeim district.
In addition, there is another newspaper, "Hallo", which appears twice a week and reports on the southern district of Northeim and the district town.
With “Northeim now” and “Northeim News” there are two other media that deal mainly with local topics.
Personalities
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sons and daughters of the town
- around 1020, Count Otto von Northeim ; † January 11, 1083, Duke of Bavaria
- around 1040, Ethelinde von Northeim ; † after 1075, daughter of Otto, Duchess and Countess
- around 1055, Henry the Fat ; † before April 10, 1101, son of Otto, Count
- around 1087/89, Richenza von Northeim ; † June 10, 1141, Queen and Empress under Lothar III.
- around 1460/70, Hans Raphon ; † after 1512, painter
- around 1587, Jeremias Sutel ; † April 11, 1631 in Hanover, sculptor
- 1658, February 17, Joachim Justus Breithaupt ; † March 16, 1732 in Bergen Monastery near Magdeburg, Lutheran theologian, homileticist and hymn poet
- 1740, February 12, Ernst Friedrich Frank ; † March 7, 1822 in Bardowick, Lutheran theologian
- 1740, May 9, Christoph von Schmidt-Phiseldeck ; † September 9, 1801 in Wolfenbüttel, lawyer, archivist and author
- 1741, January 28, Johann August Weppen ; † August 18, 1812 in Hollenstedt, civil servant and writer
- 1767, December 13, August Eberhard Müller ; † December 3, 1817 in Weimar, composer, organist and Thomas Cantor
- 1777, August 17, August von Stralenheim ; † May 19, 1847 in Hanover, Minister of Justice and Culture of the Kingdom of Hanover, curator of the University of Göttingen
- 1778, January 4, Gerhard Ellissen ; † January 4, 1838 in Gartow, physician
- 1788, October 18, Johann Philipp Bauermeister ; † January 16, 1851 in Rostock, Protestant theologian
- 1802, October 18, Georg Heinrich Bode ; † June 26, 1846 in Göttingen, classical philologist
- 1814, August 20, Friedrich Julius Tittmann ; † January 17, 1883 in Göttingen, literary scholar
- 1822, September 10, Karl Ernst Hermann Krause ; † May 28, 1893 in Rostock, pedagogue and linguist
- 1824, April 16, Hans Theodor Krause ; † July 15, 1888 in Hanover, Prussian major general and head of the technical department for artillery matters
- 1827, June 28, Eduard von Krause ; † February 1, 1886 in Magdeburg, Prussian lieutenant general and commandant of the Spandau fortress
- 1842, November 4, Friedrich Heinrich Bertling ; † May 26, 1914 in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, businessman and senator
- 1852, May 25, Theodor Krüger ; † August 17, 1926 in Hanover, architect and municipal building officer
- 1857, November 4, Julius Winckel ; † October 11, 1941 in Munich, lawyer and consular officer
- 1864, March 1, Johannes Röttger ; † 1943 in Berlin, sculptor
- 1886, April 27, Anna Schlueter ; † July 30, 1971 in Anderten, local politician (SPD)
- 1887, September 1, Otto Eißfeldt ; † April 23, 1973 in Halle / Saale, theologian
- 1888, June 14, Otto Fahlbusch ; † March 5, 1971, historian and local historian
- 1888, December 19, Heinrich Severit ; † May 9, 1977 in Northeim, local politician (NSDAP), Lord Mayor of the Saxon city of Radebeul
- 1890, June 5, Willi Meyer ; † October 23, 1958 in Oldenburg, painter
- 1890, December 28, Gerhard Jacobshagen ; † July 8, 1953 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, politician
- 1896, July 1, Ernst Girmann ; † March 17, 1969 in Northeim, politician (NSDAP), mayor of the city 1934–1945
- 1899, August 15, Rudolf Diederichs ; † 1967 in Munich, federal judge.
- 1900, December 2, Georg Diederichs ; † June 19, 1983 in Hanover, politician (SPD), Minister-President of Lower Saxony 1961–1970
- 1928, November 4, Bernhard Thebes ; † March 27, 2010 in Goppeln (Saxony), religious
- 1929, December 30, Werner Hesse ; † August 19, 2014 in Northeim, councilor and city director 1980–1993 (SPD)
- 1935, May 2, Helmut Engel ; † September 19, 2019 in Berlin, art historian and monument conservator
- 1946, December 25th, Reinhard Rauball , politician (SPD), lawyer and current President of Borussia Dortmund
- 1948, March 14th, Jochen Schimmang , writer
- 1951, July 18, Christoph von Blumröder , musicologist
- 1951, Kurt Anglet , theologian
- 1952, March 5, Hartmut Heinrich , marine geologist and climatologist
- 1954, June 4th, Christiane Ratjen-Damerau , politician
- 1956, March 14, Johannes Fiebag ; † October 11, 1999, writer, scientist and ufologist
- 1956, May 7, Helmut Fiebig ; † May 11, 2011, journalist and film critic
- 1956, September 17th, Christian Jung , plant geneticist and molecular biologist
- 1957, Harald Kühle , Mayor (SPD) of Northeim (2006–2013)
- 1958, Peter Fiebag , Mayaist and frontier scientist, coordinator at the Fachgymnasium Wirtschaft der BBS1 Northeim
- 1959, January 13, Karlheinz Weißmann , historian and publicist of the New Right, also teacher at the Corvinianum high school
- 1963, July 24th, Andreas Tyrock , journalist
- 1963, August 21, Michael Krieter , handball player
- 1963, December 11th, Bernd Leinemann , racing car driver
- 1964, April 8th, Maren Thurm , actress
- 1965, Edgar Lissel , visual artist
- 1966, Norbert Neuss , educational scientist and media educator
- 1966, March 24th, Frauke Heiligenstadt , politician (SPD), since 2013 Lower Saxony's minister of education
- 1966, July 6th, Jens Seiler , alias "Jens, the thinker", memory artist, multiple world record holder in the art of memory as well as in high-speed computing
- 1968, March 10, Jens Brüggemann , photographer
- 1968, March 31, Detlev Buchholz , computer scientist
- 1970, January 28th, Jürgen Austin-Kerl , long-distance runner
- 1970, February 3rd, Henning Schmidtke , cabaret artist, musician and author
- 1971, December 25, Jens Kestner , politician (AfD), member of the Bundestag since 2017
- 1973, August 9, Peter Imhof , presenter, actor
- 1976, Christoph Klektiven , researcher in the field of computer games
- 1977, June 22nd, Simon Hartmann , politician (SPD) and acting mayor of the city
- 1978, March 15, Andrea Cleven , actress
- 1979, Michael Polle , film and television producer
- 1981, September 8th, Dennis Haberlach , pop musician
- 1991, August 27th, Nicolas Demuth , music producer
- 1992, May 2, Katharina Kiel , soccer player
- 1995, March 8, Franziska Ippensen , soccer player
- 1996, September 9, Eros Dacaj , football player
Other people connected to the city
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- Anton Corvinus (1501–1553), theologian and reformer; City reformer
- Johann Sutel (1504–1575), theologian and reformer
- Franciscus Lubecus (1533–1595), chronicler of the city of Göttingen; lived and worked in Northeim for a few years
- Johann Heinrich Gloger (≈1670 / 75–1732), organ builder
- Emmerich Otto August von Estorff (1722–1796), lieutenant general of the Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- Johann Achterkirchen (1722–1789), lawyer and mayor of the city
- Jacques de Chapeaurouge (1744–1805), merchant
- Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755–1813), military reformer; lived and worked in Northeim for a few years
- Georg Christoph Conradi (1767–1798), city physician of Northeim
- Johann Peter Eckermann (1792–1854), writer and Goethe confidante; married in Northeim and often stayed in town
- Dietrich Georg von Kieser (1779–1862), physician and psychiatrist
- Georg Heinrich Schuster (1799–1890), architect; was trained in Northeim
- Wilhelm Friedrich Groos (1801–1874), Prussian politician
- Gustav Julius Vennigerholz (1820–1901), pedagogue and historian, Northeim town historian
- Ernst Iffland (1820–1904), politician, Prime Minister of Schaumburg-Lippe, assessor and mayor of Northeim
- Richard Uffeln (1859–1939), Mayor of Moringen
- Theodor Abbetmeyer (1869–1944), teacher and Nazi journalist
- Georg Zülch (1870–1942), lawyer and politician (DNVP); worked as a lawyer in Northeim
- Hermann Fliß (1878–1961), politician (SPD) Mayor of the city from 1946 to 1948
- Otto von der Schulenburg (1888–1972), politician (NSDAP)
- Fritz Emil Irrgang (1890–1951), politician (NSDAP)
- Paul Franke (1892–1961), politician (NSDAP)
- Arnold Poepke (1901–1989), economist and politician
- Hartmut Schmökel (1906–1991), Old Testament scholar and ancient orientalist
- Erich Gerlach (1910–1972), politician (SPD) and economist
- Winfrid Hedergott (1919–2002), politician (FDP), vice-president of the Lower Saxony state parliament, mayor
- Jürgen Hövermann (* 1922), geography professor
- Anton Kokars (1922–2006), German- Latvian journalist and writer
- Loriot (1923-2011), humorist; passed his high school diploma at the Corvinianum grammar school in Northeim - after completing his high school diploma in Stuttgart
- Karl Ahrens (1924–2015), politician (SPD), City Director and President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (1983–1986)
- Ernst Arfken (1925–2006), church musician and theologian
- Burkhard Heim (1925–2001), physicist
- Wolfgang Senger (1925–2009), senior district director
- Otto Graeber (* 1926), politician, a. a. Northeim councilor and federal chairman SPD 60 plus
- Hans-Peter Voigt (1936–2014), politician (CDU), mayor and district administrator of Northeim
- Dietrich Stratmann (* 1937), politician (CDU)
- Axel Endlein (* 1941), politician (SPD), President of the German District Assembly a. D.
- Hubertus Gojowczyk (* 1943), object and concept artist
- Bernhard Bramlage (* 1949), retired city director D., District Administrator of the District of Leer
- Albrecht Gralle (* 1949), Baptist clergyman and author of numerous books
- Erardo Cristoforo Rautenberg (1953–2018), retired public prosecutor. D. of the state of Brandenburg
- Christopher Paul Jones (1958–2005), American musician
- Peter-Ulrich Wendt (* 1959 in Regensburg), 1st chairman of the Northeim Youth Association. V., professor at the Magdeburg University of Applied Sciences
- Hans-Erich Tannhäuser (* 1960), engineer and politician (independent), former mayor of the city from 2013–2017
- D-Bo (* 1978 in Göttingen), rapper
- Michael Polle (* 1979), film and television producer
- Anna Naklab (* 1993), singer
literature
- Ferdinand Ahuis : The importance of standard German for the Northeim church order of 1539 . In: Yearbook of the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony 115 (2017) 47-66
- William Sheridan Allen : The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town 1922–1945 1984 (2nd ed.)
- Kurt Brockhausen: Colored Northeim . Northeim 1981, ISBN 3-9800614-0-X .
- Heinrich Eggeling: Northeim: 700 years of the city; 1252-1952; a festival book for the 700th anniversary . Northeim 1952
- Otto Fahlbusch: Northeim - A guide for foreigners and locals . Northeim 1926
- Friedrich Wilhelm Körber: On the history of the Northeim city fortifications . Northeim 1974
- GJ Vennigerholz: Description and history of the city of Northeim in Hanover and its immediate vicinity . Northeim 1894
- Walter Ohlmer: Northeim Garrison: 1604–1987; a military foray into the historical troop occupation of a German city . Moringen 1987, ISBN 3-926434-00-7
- Hans Otte : Agree, adapt, resist. The Northeimer St. Sixti parish in the time of National Socialism , in: Northeimer Jahrbuch , 75 (2010), pp. 69–92.
- Northeim in the 20th century , ed. v. Home u. Museum Association for Northeim u. Environment e. V., 2002.
- List of authors: Northeimer Heimatblätter / Northeimer Jahrbücher 1950–2010
Web links
- Official city homepage
- Link catalog on Northeim at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
- FachWerk5Eck
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ^ Higher Administrative Court of Lüneburg : Order of February 9, 2009. 13 LA 155/07 . dbovg.niedersachsen.de
- ↑ Olaf Weiß: The city has hardly any money for bridge renovation . In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine online , April 20, 2010, accessed on May 8, 2010
- ^ Northeim - A Guide for Strangers and Locals . 1926, p. 14.
- ↑ Ferdinand Ahuis, The importance of standard German for the Northeim church order of 1539. In: Yearbook of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History 115 (2017), pp. 47–66
- ↑ Cf. confessional writings of the Evangelical Lutheran Church , p. 766; see. P. 17.
- ↑ A city falls to Hitler . In: Die Zeit , No. 44/1966
- ^ Nazi seizure of power: Our small city . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1966, pp. 59-62 ( Online - Nov. 28, 1966 ).
- ↑ Lower Saxony city book . Braunschweig 1952
- ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 213-215 .
- ↑ Friedrich W. Harseim, C. Schluter (ed.): Statistical Manual for the Kingdom of Hanover . Schlueter, 1848, p. 80 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Northeim district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ^ Municipal directory Germany 1900. - Kingdom of Prussia - Province of Hanover - District of Hildesheim - District of Northeim. Uli Schubert, 2014, accessed on April 17, 2017 .
- ^ Northeim, a city with a future . 1972, p. 10.
- ↑ baptisten-northeim.de ( memento from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 26, 2015.
- ↑ Wahlen.northeim.de
- ↑ hna.de: Burkhart Ernst changes to the FUL parliamentary group
- ↑ hna.de: Vote against Kühle: City council unanimously
- ^ HNA dated February 5, 2013 Northeim: Harald Kühle is no longer mayor
- ↑ hna.de: Northeim's mayor Hans-Erich Tannhäuser resigns
- ^ Northeim - A Guide for Strangers and Locals . 1926, p. 58 f.
- ^ Northeim, a city with a future . 1972, p. 82 f.
- ^ Hesse, Werner, in: Northeim in the 20th century . 2002, p. 17
- ^ Rettig, Karl-Heinz: In: Northeim - in the 20th century. 2002, p. 494
- ^ Northeim - A Guide for Strangers and Locals . 1926, p. 40
- ^ Rettig, Karl-Heinz: In: Northeim - in the 20th century. 2002, p. 493
- ^ Harald March: The Waldbühne in Northeim. Open-air jewel in the country . In: Lower Saxony Book 2002 Northeim . 2002, ISSN 0946-5588 , p. 166-172 .
- ^ Northeim - life picture of a town in southern Lower Saxony from the past and present . 1962, p. 18.
- ↑ Erhard Kühlhorn: Historical-regional excursion map. Leaf Moringen am Solling . Ed .: Erhard Kühlhorn. Lax, Hildesheim 1976, ISBN 3-7848-3624-0 , p. 165 f .
- ↑ Helmut Engel : On the building history of St. Sixti . In: Northeimer Jahrbuch 1962, pp. 28–33
- ↑ Christian Kämmerer, Peter Ferdinand Lufen: Monuments in Lower Saxony 7.1: District Northeim, part 1. Southern part with the towns of Hardegsen, Moringen, Northeim and Uslar, the areas Bodenfelde and Nörten-Hardenberg, the community Katlenburg-Lindau and the community-free area Solling . Published by Christiane Segers-Glocke. (Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany). Verlag CW Niemeyer, Hameln 2002, ISBN 3-8271-8261-1 , pp. 240–245
- ↑ Precise information about the laying locations and the biographies can be found on the Stolperstein in Northeim page
- ^ Northeim - A Guide for Strangers and Locals . 1926, p. 67.
- ↑ bordenau.de (accessed on February 25, 2012)
- ↑ Kreisjugendring von Northeim ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 6, 2010)
- ↑ hs-magdeburg.de ( Memento from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 9, 2010)
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