Parsau

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '  N , 10 ° 54'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Gifhorn
Joint municipality :	Brome
Height :	62 m above sea level NHN
Area :	29.33 km 2
Residents:	1869 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	64 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	38470
Area code :	05368
License plate :	GF
Community key :	03 1 51 021
Community structure:	4 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 21 38470 Parsau
Mayoress :	Kerstin Keil ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Parsau in the Gifhorn district

Parsau is a municipality in the east of the Gifhorn district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Parsau lies between the natural parks Südheide and Drömling in the historical scenery of Vorsfelder Werder , a glacial Geest back . The parish belongs to the Brome parish .

Community structure

The districts of the municipality are:

• Ahnebeck (136 inhabitants), immediately north of Parsau
• Croya (392 inhabitants), immediately northeast of Ahnebeck
• Kaiserwinkel (89 inhabitants), east of Parsau
• Parsau (1251 inhabitants)

As of December 31, 2019

Gable, partial view

• The Giebel residential area belongs to the district of Parsau and is an enclave in the community-free area of Giebel (seven inhabitants).

Neighboring communities

The following cities and municipalities border on the municipality of Parsau. They are called clockwise starting in the west:

• Tiddish
• Mountain field
• Tülau
• Brome
• Blocks
• Oebisfelde-Weferlingen
• Gable (unincorporated area)
• Stir

history

Parsau was first mentioned in documents around 1505 as Barso , 1510 as Persauw . The name comes from the Old Slavic prabû for dust or borû for pine, so something like "place near the pine forest." Parsau was Brunswick ; the border with the Principality of Lüneburg was between Ahnebeck and Croya. The original village shape was that of a Wendish round . In 1561 the first church was built in the area of ​​Vorsfelder Werder in Parsau, and in 1567 the first school.

In 1742, the Vorsfelde office was founded, to which Parsau also belonged. A description made on the occasion of a land survey in 1757 mentions, among other things, 28 courtyards in Parsau , a half-timbered church with a small bell tower and a school. A jug (restaurant), a mill, a forge and a brickworks were not available in Parsau at that time.

In 1807 the office of Vorsfelde was dissolved by the French occupying forces, after which Parsau belonged to the canton of Vorsfelde in the Helmstedt district , in the Oker department of the Kingdom of Westphalia, until 1813 . In the 19th century Parsau came to the newly founded district of Helmstedt . In 1828 the dilapidated church was replaced by a new building, and its tower was added in 1910. from 1846 to 1849 the separation took place in Parsau . According to a settlement register from around 1850, there were 31 farms at that time. The Drömling lowland begins immediately east of Parsau. Like the other neighboring villages, the place had wood parts in the quarry forest area for centuries until modern times. In 1851 the Rundling was pierced with a road to the east. In 1866 a brick factory was opened southwest of Parsau . There were once two windmills in the area north of Parsau . The Holländermühle built in 1876 was demolished in 1925. The post mill was built in 1843 and demolished in 1926. The windmills were replaced by the motor mill of a village dairy cooperative.

In 1909 a volunteer fire brigade was founded in Parsau and the train station was built, and in 1919 a war memorial was erected. In 1935 the brickworks were closed again and the Polle farm is located in its place today. On April 11, 1945, shortly before the end of World War II, American troops from Bergfeld took Parsau. In 1949 a public library was founded in Parsau, in 1955 the cold house was built and the cold house cooperative founded. From 1972 the municipality of Parsau belonged to the joint municipality of Rüßen . In the same year she came from the Helmstedt district to the Gifhorn district. On March 1, 1974, the joint municipality of Rüßen was dissolved. On March 15, 1974, the municipality of Parsau became part of the combined municipality of Brome. In 1974, a half-timbered house built in 1655 was moved to Braunschweig-Riddagshausen , where it is today on the road between the streams .

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the communities Ahnebeck, Croya and Kaiserwinkel were incorporated.

Population development

Population of Parsau without Ahnebeck and Croya:

year	1774	1793	1821	1849	1858	1871	1885	1905	1910	1925	1928	1939	1948	1950	1956	1961	1971	1985	2017
Residents	211	225	265	322	330	411	521	551	577	599	601	566	1010	970	890	852	844	1000	1222

In 1928 there were 601 people living in Parsau. By 1939 the number had dropped to 566. In 1948, as a result of the influx of refugees, it had risen to 1010, and then fell to 844 by 1971. In 1985 1000 people lived in Parsau. Since then, the number has risen further through the designation of new settlement areas.

politics

Current distribution of seats in the municipal council

  

A total of 11 seats

• CDU : 6
• SPD : 5

Municipal council

Since the local election on September 11, 2016, the council of the municipality of Parsau has been composed of eleven councilors.

	CDU	SPD	total
2016	6th	5	11 seats

The CDU is the only party to have a local association in Parsau.

mayor

The honorary mayor Joachim Zeidler (CDU) was elected on November 24, 2011. Before that, Helmut Werthmann (CDU) was mayor for ten years. In September 2015, Kerstin Keil (CDU) took over the office after Zeidler's resignation.

coat of arms

The coat of arms is split into green and silver. On the left there is a picture of a silver heron . On the right is a green black alder rice with an upright leaf and three hanging seed cones.

Community partnerships

Parsau has been linked to Landesbergen , a municipality in the Nienburg / Weser district , through a municipal partnership since 1978 . The initiator of this partnership was Willi Heineking , CDU politician in Landesbergen. A second partnership has existed since 1992 with Nowa Karczma (German Neukrug ) in Poland , a village near Gdansk .

Culture and sights

Theater and music

The men's choir Parsau-Ahnebeck dates back to 1878, today's theater group Parsau was formed in 1987.

Churches

Kreuzkirche

St. Raphael Church

There are three parishes in Parsau with the following churches:

Christ Church

Christ Church

The Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church on Hauptstrasse was built in 1828/29 and a tower was added in 1910. In addition to Parsau, its parish also includes Ahnebeck and Bergfeld; since July 1, 2012, it has formed a parish association with the Evangelical Lutheran parishes of Ränen and Brechtorf-Eischott. The Christ Church is the northernmost church of the Provosty Vorsfelde , and thus belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran regional church in Braunschweig . Its simple interior is closed off by a flat ceiling and offers around 180 seats. In 1561 the first church was built in Parsau to save the inhabitants of Parsau the long way to the St. Petrus Church in Vorsfelde. The services in the Parsau church were initially held by priests from Vorfeld. In 1828 the now dilapidated half-timbered church was demolished and replaced in 1829 by today's church building made of Velpker sandstone . The parsonage was built in 1896 , but a pastor did not live in Parsau until 1907. The tower, which stands on the east side and is also made of Velpker sandstone, was added to the church in 1910. After one of the two bells had to be handed in during the First World War in 1917, the second, remaining bell was removed and two steel bells purchased in 1925. In 1977/78 the church was extensively renovated and redesigned, including relocating the entrance from the west to the east, installing an organ gallery and purchasing new church stalls. The church was consecrated again on December 3, 1978, and a new organ was installed in 1979. The parish also includes the Parsau cemetery.

Kreuzkirche

Another church is the Baptist Kreuzkirche in Hehlertstrasse 1 from 1900. The congregation was founded in 1889 and a parish hall has already been built. In 1905 80 of the 551 inhabitants of Parsau were Baptists. The church has recently been expanded with an extension.

St. Raphael Church

→ Main article : St. Raphael (Parsau)

The Catholic St. Raphael Church was built in 1962/63 as a branch church of the parish of St. Michael in Vorsfelde, to which it still belongs today. Their parish was formed when, from 1945/46 onwards, Catholic refugees and displaced persons from the eastern regions of the German Reich settled in Parsau, which has been evangelical since the Reformation , and the surrounding villages. The church, named after the Archangel Raphael , is located on Bahnhofstrasse and belongs to the Hildesheim diocese .

Green spaces and recreation

BBQ area

A somewhat situated outside the village of barbecue , the large, south located Parsau of forest area, the nearby landscape conservation areas Drömling and Kaiserwinkel and nature reserves Kaiserwinkel and gable Moor offer recreational opportunities in nature.

Sports

Parsau has two sports fields, a fitness studio , a tennis facility, a sports home built in 1970 and a locking system. The sports club SG Parsau / Ahnebeck from 1902 is active in Parsau. Football is also played in the FC Germania Parsau club, which was founded in 1910, and youth football in the Kleine Aller Drömling youth club . The tennis club Parsau eV was founded in 1989, its club area west of the railway line offers two tennis courts and the club house built in 1991. In 1986 incurred Skatclub Drömling boys Parsau is Skat played.

Regular events

The annual shooting festival takes place on the weekend of Pentecost, it is organized by the shooting society Parsau-Ahnebeck eV , founded in 1892 . The Easter fire is lit on Holy Saturday . The Parsau / Ahnebeck Young Society , which dates back to 1951, organizes other events .

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

A kiosk with a Hermes - Package Store and a butcher are now the only shopping for everyday goods in Parsau after the grocery stores and bakeries were closed. There is also a hairdressing salon , a gas station and room rental in Parsau. The restaurants Zur Post , Dreyer and Zum Bahnhofs-Krug were closed , only in the community center you can still find gastronomy today with the restaurant Unter den Eichen .

The only bank branch belongs to the Sparkasse Gifhorn-Wolfsburg , but has only been operated as a self-service branch since 2015. The branches of Volksbank Tülau eG , which was merged into Volksbank Braunschweig Wolfsburg , and Norddeutsche Landesbank no longer exist. In 1907 a savings and loan fund had already been established in Parsau. The post office in Parsau, which had been in operation since 1904, was also closed. It was assigned as post office I to the main post office in Vorsfelde, later Wolfsburg.

Former dairy

Stork couple on the chimney of the former dairy (2018)

The dairy had existed since 1891, the cooperative-run facility belonged to the dairy, Müller- u. Saatgutveredel.-G. Parsau u. Umg. EGmbH . In 1950 around 7,000 kg of milk were still being delivered daily, the catchment area of ​​the dairy included Parsau, Ahnebeck, Bergfeld and Croya, and since the dairy there was closed in 1937, Tiddische . Since the location of the dairy was not too far from the Helmstedt / Marienborn border crossing , it also delivered its products to West Berlin , in 1954 over a million kilograms of whole milk.

Several craft businesses are located in Parsau. The Rauschenbach Metallbau company emerged from a forge that was founded in 1885 by the blacksmith August Rauschenbach , who had moved from Croya . The Mattke car service emerged from another forge . Granitwerk Lichtnack Naturstein GmbH dates back to 1928; it was closed in the 2010s due to bankruptcy .

Public facilities

Fire station

The voluntary fire brigade in Parsau was founded in 1909, today's fire station was built in 1967 and expanded in 1979 and 1995. At times there was also a compulsory fire brigade in Parsau . In 1937 the first motorized sprayer was purchased; 1964 the first fire engine , a Ford Taunus Transit . In 1970 a youth fire brigade was founded , which in 1991 merged with the Kaiserwinkel youth fire brigade, as well as a fire brigade chapel. As a result of the forest fire disaster in 1975 , the largest fire disaster in the Federal Republic of Germany to date, the Parsau fire brigade received a Unimog for the first time in 1979 . In 1992 the Parsau volunteer fire brigade merged with the volunteer fire brigade in Ahnebeck and has been called Parsau / Ahnebeck since the volunteer fire brigade . In 1999, the fire brigade received women for the first time.

The community center offers rooms for events and gastronomy with the restaurant Unter den Eichen . The cemetery with the chapel passed from the parish of Parsau into the ownership of the Samtgemeinde Brome in 2009, but it is operated by the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Parsau. A book exchange in a former telephone booth was set up in 2012.

education

Former school from 1894

The fly agaric day care center is located next to the community center in Parsau. The sponsor is the Förderverein Kindertagesstätte Parsau eV , to which at least one family member of the children must belong to be able to use the daycare center. The facility offers 50 places in 4 groups for children between the ages of two and six. It goes back to a game group founded in 1984, which was initiated by parents and initially housed in a former shop. In 1987 the foundation stone was laid for today's daycare center, and it was completed in the same year. An extension for a second kindergarten group was built in 1993/94.

There is a primary school in Parsau , which was created in 1995 through the division of the village community school in Rorien, and is supported by the joint municipality of Brome. It includes the newly created main building with four classrooms, a break room, a care room and three group rooms, one of which is used as a library. A room is also available for music and handicraft lessons. Successful participation in the "Project n-21: Schools in Lower Saxony online" (Lower Saxony variant of schools on the network ) enabled a computer room to be set up. In 1567, a school was built in Parsau for the first time, it was described as dilapidated in 1757 and replaced by a new building in 1825. Due to the population growth in Parsau in the second half of the 19th century, this school building was soon too small and demolished, and in 1894 it was replaced by a larger new building. Today this serves as the municipal administration and is the office of the mayor.

traffic

Road traffic

B 244 in Parsau

The B 244 branches off west of Dedelstorf from the B 4 and leads via Wittingen through the municipality of Parsau, and on via Helmstedt to Elbingerode (Harz) . The closest localities on the B 244 are from Parsau in the north Ahnebeck and in the south Rüllen. Near Parsau, the B 244 was once part of the old military and trade route from Halberstadt via Braunschweig and Vorsfelde to the Altmark and Salzwedel . From 1857 to 1866 the road between Vorsfelde and Ahnebeck was expanded with a sand substructure and a solid pebble-loam top surface. In the local areas the street was cobblestone. District roads lead from Parsau in the east to Giebel and in the west to Bergfeld. The closest motorway junction is Weyhausen , around 18 kilometers away ( A 39 ).

Parsau is connected to the Wolfsburg –Brome bus line, which runs mostly every hour. On Sundays and public holidays, the buses mostly run every two hours. The Bachstein (Wolfsburg) public transport company also uses other bus lines for school traffic to Ehra-Lessien and Wolfsburg, and for rush hour traffic to the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg . The motorcycle friends of Parsau meet in a club .

railroad

Former station building in Parsau from 1909 with old tracks

Parsau and Croya each have a closed train station on the western outskirts as well as disused track systems that belonged to the Wittingen – Oebisfelde small railway line, which was inaugurated in 1909 . The line used by the OHE ( Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen ) from 1944 onwards came to a standstill at the end of June 1945 when the German-German border was drawn on the Rüllen– Oebisfelde section . It was initially used in a northerly direction ( Wittingen ). In the south, the line remained in operation as far as Rühren station, where passengers heading for Wolfsburg could transfer to buses. The next train station, Grafhorst , was already in the Soviet occupation zone . Passenger traffic was discontinued at the end of May 1974. Until 2003 there was still freight traffic on the route to the north: The Parsau company Lichtnack was supplied with stones. From 1979 the company had its own siding branching off from the direction of Rüßen. The track section in the direction of Rühren was used to park freight cars until 2004. Today the closest operating train stations are Wolfsburg around 16 kilometers away and Oebisfelde around 17 kilometers away.

Personalities

Personalities who worked in Parsau

• Kevin Schulze , soccer player, was a member of the soccer club FC Germania Parsau

literature

• Johann Dietrich Bödeker: The land of Brome and the upper Vorsfelder Werder, history of the area at Ohre, Drömling and Kleiner Aller. Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-87884-028-4 , pp. 492-521.
• Heinz Pohlendt: The district of Helmstedt. Walter Dorn Verlag, Bremen-Horn 1957.

Web links

Commons : Parsau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ Bulletin of the Samtgemeinde Brome from January 31, 2020; Counting of the total municipality
3. ^ Johann Dietrich Bödeker: The land of Brome and the upper Vorsfelder Werder, history of the area at Ohre, Drömling and Kleiner Aller. Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-87884-028-4 , p. 492
4. ^ Johann Dietrich Bödeker: The land of Brome and the upper Vorsfelder Werder, history of the area at Ohre, Drömling and Kleiner Aller. Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-87884-028-4 , p. 521.
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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 272 .
6. ^ Johann Dietrich Bödeker: The land of Brome and the upper Vorsfelder Werder, history of the area at Ohre, Drömling and Kleiner Aller. Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-87884-028-4 , p. 519.
7. ↑ 2016 election results , accessed on September 12, 2016
8. ↑ Kirmes Landesbergen: 25 years of partnership Parsau in focus. Samtgemeinde Mittelweser, October 21, 2003, accessed on May 13, 2018.
9. ^ Message on the website of the Parish Association ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Community letter of the ev. Free church communities Brome & Parsau, edition September-October 2014.
11. ↑ Parsau tennis club. , accessed on May 19, 2018.
12. ^ After scandal: shooters are looking for a new board. Internet presence of the Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung from February 21, 2013, accessed on May 19, 2018.
13. ↑ Sparkasse: Branch closure and reduced opening times. Internet presence of the Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung from September 26, 2014, accessed on May 18, 2018.
14. ^ Rauschenbach Metallbau , accessed on May 1, 2018.
15. ↑ Parsau / Ahnebeck volunteer fire department. , accessed on May 17, 2018.
16. ↑ Restaurant Unter den Eichen , accessed on May 17, 2018.
17. ↑ Who pays deficit for the cemetery? Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, December 18, 2009, accessed on May 17, 2018.
18. ↑ Books in the phone booth. Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, August 23, 2012, accessed on July 15, 2020.
19. ↑ “Fly Agaric” day-care center in Parsau. , accessed on May 16, 2018.
20. ↑ Parsau primary school. , accessed on May 16, 2018.