Plockhorst

Plockhorst municipality Edemissen
	Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 14 ″ N , 10 ° 16 ′ 49 ″ E
Height :	approx. 58 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	756 (Jul 1, 2015)
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	31234
Area code :	05372
Location of Plockhorst in Lower Saxony
	The village shop

Plockhorst ( Low German Plockhost ) is a place in the municipality of Edemissen in the district of Peine in Lower Saxony .

geography

Plockhorst is located on the southern edge of the Lüneburg Heath.

history

The village "Plochhorst" was first mentioned in a document in 1272. From 1532 to 1885 the place belonged to the Gografschaft Edemissen in the Amt Meinersen. Then he came to the Peine district to this day.

In 1966 Eltze formed a joint community with the villages of Dedenhausen , Wehnsen, Plockhorst, Eickenrode and Ohof . In the course of the regional reform in Lower Saxony, on March 1, 1974, the unified municipality of Edemissen was formed from the localities of the joint municipality of Edemissen and eight other independent municipalities.

The fire in 1811 is historically remarkable. During this memorable event, 32 buildings were destroyed in one fell swoop. The new Plockhorst was no longer laid out so closely. They built more spaciously, two extinguishing water ponds were created. Plockhorst stayed drowsy until the train came and turned the village into a traffic junction.

The Magdeburg-Halberstädter Eisenbahngesellschaft set up a train station on the Lehrte – Stendal line they built in 1871 in Plockhorst. This is where the Reichsbahn line Celle – Braunschweig later crossed , which reached Plockhorst in 1921 from Celle and was continued to Braunschweig in 1923. The tower station was a special feature. A cross-connection between Plockhorst and Peine was added in 1922. But this was also the first to be shut down on June 1, 1958. On May 27, 1962, passenger traffic to Braunschweig was discontinued, and passenger traffic to Celle on May 23, 1971. In 1980 the station building was demolished. In 1988, stopping people on the Berlin – Lehrte line was given up. The last freight train on the Braunschweig – Uetze line ran in 1991. In 1984 the bridge and platform were removed except for a track trough, and in 1994 this was finally removed for the expansion of the Lehrte – Berlin line.

Population development

year	Residents
1821	114
1848	111
December 1, 1871 ¹	122
December 1, 1885 ¹	116
December 1, 1905 ¹	116 (122)
June 16, 1925 ¹	202
June 16, 1933 ¹	211
May 17, 1939 ¹	208
December 31, 1945	-
October 29, 1946 ¹	477 (472)

year	Residents
September 13, 1950 ¹	503
June 6, 1961 ¹	516
March 1, 1964	530
May 27, 1970 ¹	591

¹ census result

religion

The Protestant denomination was already consolidated in the early 16th century . Plockhorst is one of five chapel parishes in the parish of the Martin Luther parish of Edemissen. During the great fire of 1811, the old chapel was also destroyed by flames. In 1957 the chapel community acquired the old school building from 1910 in the course of the final dispute over property rights between the chapel and school community. From 1958, the old school served the Plockhorstern as a chapel. In 1995 Plockhorst inaugurated the newly built parish hall with chapel room - the Johannes Chapel.

politics

The districts of Plockhorst and Eickenrode form a joint local council.

Local mayor is Rolf Kobbe (SPD), deputy Jens Wrede (SPD).

coat of arms

The Braunschweigisch-Lüneburgische Löwe in interchanged colors, i.e. gold on blue with red reinforcement in the front half of a split shield, which contains a green oak leaf with two acorns in the rear golden field.

Economy and Infrastructure

Large areas of gravel mining take place in the east of the district; some of the ponds created have been renatured.

education

There is a primary school in Plockhorst, which is also attended by children from the neighboring villages of Eickenrode and Wehnsen. The school building was built under the headmistress Gisela Williges and moved into in August 2000. Two older classrooms, additions to the old school building (1958) from 1980 and 1989, were integrated into this new building.

In addition, there is a secondary school in the central town of Edemissen and the Ratsgymnasium and the Gymnasium am Silberkamp as well as vocational schools in Peine .

literature

Association of local history Edemissen e. V .: Die Gemeinde Edemissen , Sutton 2007. ISBN 978-3-86680-202-5
Jürgen Dieckhoff: Edemissen - Wellbeing Community, Edemissen Municipality 1999
Bernd Pabst: Plockhorst , Plockhorst local council 1984

Web links

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