Rennau

This article deals with the community of Rennau, for the German translator and author of the same name see Joachim Rennau .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 18 '  N , 10 ° 55'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Helmstedt
Joint municipality :	Grass life
Height :	114 m above sea level NHN
Area :	22.63 km 2
Residents:	687 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	30 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	38368
Primaries :	05356, 05365
License plate :	HE
Community key :	03 1 54 018
Community structure:	3 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Bahnhofstrasse 4 38368 Grasleben
Website :	www.samtgemeinde-grasleben.de
Mayor :	Jörg Minkley ( CDU )
Location of the municipality Rennau in the district of Helmstedt

St. Stephan chapel in the Rennau district

Rennau is a municipality in the Helmstedt district in Lower Saxony (Germany). The community Rennau is a member congregation of the joint community Grasleben .

geography

location

Rennau is located northwest of Helmstedt in the Elm-Lappwald Nature Park and is the southeasternmost tip of the Hasenwinkel .

Community structure

The municipality of Rennau consists of three districts:

• Ahmstorf
• Rennau
• Rottorf am Klei

The Trendel estate, which is located a few kilometers south of Rennau, directly on federal motorway 2, also belongs to the community .

history

In 1022 the community was first mentioned in an episcopal Hildesheim document.

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the communities Ahmstorf and Rottorf were incorporated.

religion

The chapel in Rennau part of the 2007 founded parish Hasenwinkel and thus to the church district Wolfsburg-Wittingen in Sprengel Lüneburg the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover .

politics

The council of the Rennau municipality consists of nine councilors.

• Citizens' list Rennau 8 seats
• FDP 1 seat

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

The municipal council elected:

• to honorary mayor Jörg Minkley ( CDU )

• to the honorary community director Frank Nitsche (general representative of the joint community mayor )

(Status: constituent council meeting November 2016)

economy

With the exception of a butcher, a bus company and a now closed hotel and conference center (Gudhorst), the municipality of Rennau has few commercial settlements. A joint industrial area proposed by the city of Helmstedt between the Helmstedt district of Barmke and the municipality of Rennau, directly on the federal motorway 2 , was rejected by the municipality of Rennau. The Rennau community has also decided to take economic development into its own hands and is against a planned centralization at the district level.

traffic

Rennau is to the west of the federal highway 244 and has a connection to the federal highway 2 from Hanover to Berlin in the immediate vicinity .

Sons and daughters of the church

• Heinrich-Wilhelm Ronsöhr (1945–2010), politician (CDU) and Member of the Bundestag

literature

• Dagmar Zehme: Businesses and craftsmen in the old clearing village Rennau in the Hasenwinkel in the circle book 2011 of the district Helmstedt

Web links

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

• Rennau on the website of the Grasleben community

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. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 228 .
3. ↑ http://www.kirche-wolfsburg-wittingen.de/wir_fuer_sie/gemeinden/hasenwinkel