Off life

Off life City of Helmstedt
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 24 ″  N , 11 ° 2 ′ 29 ″  E
Height :	102 m
Residents :	984
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	38372
Area code :	05352
Location of Offleben in Lower Saxony

Offleben is a district of the city of Helmstedt in the Helmstedt district in Lower Saxony . The place gained supraregional importance through the Offleben lignite power station , which was in operation until 2002.

geography

Offleben is about 10 km south of the core town of Helmstedt . The closest town of Schöningen is about 5 km to the west. The place is located directly on the border with the state of Saxony-Anhalt and borders on the Schöningen opencast mine in the Helmstedt lignite mining area . Offleben is connected to the federal trunk road network via the federal highway 245a , which runs to the east .

history

The village of Offleben was first mentioned in the 9th century. For many years it was owned by the Riddagshausen monastery . Up until the 19th century, agriculture was characteristic of the place. Sugar beet cultivation in particular was intensively pursued.

With the beginning of large-scale lignite mining at the end of the 19th century, the population structure of the place also changed. Due to the increased influx of workers for the opencast mining, housing estates for miners were created by the Braunschweigische Kohlen-Bergwerke AG (BKB) in the 1920s and 1930s. The BKB also built a smoldering plant in 1936 , which was used to process the lignite until 1967. A part of the place did not belong to the Free State of Braunschweig until 1945 , but as an independent municipality Preußisch Offleben to the neighboring Prussia , province of Saxony , district of Haldensleben .

Offleben power plant around 1978

After the Second World War , Offleben was right on the inner-German border with the GDR , with Prussian Offleben now being included in the British zone of occupation. Since the Harbke power plant on the east side could no longer be used by the BKB, a brown coal power plant was built on the outskirts of Offleben, the first block of which went into operation in 1954. The opening of the Alversdorf , Helmstedt and Schöningen opencast mines also changed the landscape around the place considerably.

On April 1, 1971, parts of the dissolved community of Alversdorf were added. On March 1, 1974 Offleben was incorporated together with the communities Neu-Büddenstedt and Reinsdorf into the new community Büddenstedt, which merged with Helmstedt on July 1, 2017.

With the closure of the Helmstedt open-cast mine in 2002, the last of the three power plant blocks with an output of 325 megawatts was also shut down.

Religions

Former Catholic Church Holy Family

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Georg (Kirchstrasse 3) belongs to the Offleben parish association, which includes the entire Büddenstedt community and belongs to the Helmstedt provost.

The Catholic Church of the Holy Family on Alversdorfer Strasse was built in 1932/33 and later expanded to include the adjacent Kolpingheim. In 2015 the church was profaned , most recently it belonged to the parish of Maria Hilfe der Christisten in Schöningen. Before the church was built, a wooden barrack built in 1924 was used as an emergency church. Today the nearest Catholic church services take place around four kilometers away in St. Barbara (Büddenstedt) and St. Joseph and Augustinus (Hötensleben) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bueddenstedt.de , accessed on July 2, 2017
2. ^ Community directory of the district of Haldensleben, number 37 , see also [1] Presentation by Dietrich Kuessner, Chapter 1, "After Offleben from the power plant", paragraph 7
3. ↑ Presentation by Dietrich Kuessner, Chapter 14, "The historical boundary between Prussian and Braunschweigisch-Offleben"
4. ↑ ^{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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 271 and 272 .
5. ↑ Shutdown of the Offleben power plant at www.vimudeap.de
6. ^ Karl Rose: Home book of the community Offleben . 1954.