Triangle (Sassenburg)

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Municipality Sassenburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 33 "  N , 10 ° 35 ′ 11"  E
Height : 54 m above sea level NN
Residents : 2210  (Nov. 1, 2006)
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 38524
Area code : 05371
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Triangel is part of the municipality of Sassenburg in the district of Gifhorn
Outbuilding of the estate, former estate of the Vesper family
Outbuilding of the estate, former estate of the Vesper family

Triangel ('Dreieck') is a district of the municipality of Sassenburg in the district of Gifhorn in Lower Saxony . The name refers to the original shape of the district.

geography

Geographical location

To the east of the Ise and the Dragen state forest and north of the Aller is the town of Triangel. In the north and east, the area merges into the Great Moor in a narrow strip .

Neighboring places

The Sassenburg districts Neudorf-Platendorf in the north, Westerbeck in the east, the city of Gifhorn in the south and the Gifhorn district of Gamsen in the west are adjacent . The closest larger cities are Wolfsburg in the east and Braunschweig in the south.

history

It was officially mentioned for the first time in 1796 as Auf dem Triangel , initially belonged to the then municipality of Neudorf-Platendorf , from which it was separated in the 19th century.

The first German peat factory was founded in Triangel in 1871. In 1885, the Norddeutsche Torfmoorgesellschaft KG applied for the development of their peat extraction areas by a railway line. After three years of construction, freight traffic was opened on May 1, 1889.

Triangle has been part of the Sassenburg community since March 1st, 1974.

politics

Local council

The local council is a non-quorum body within the institutions of the municipality of Sassenburg. However, local councils are to be heard on important matters affecting the locality. However, the final decision on a measure rests with the Sassenburg municipal council. The following parties are represented in the local council:

After the local elections in 2006, the SPD replaced the CDU as the strongest party in the Triangle after more than 30 years.

mayor

In 2006, SPD member Beate Morgenstern-Ostlender replaced Dieter Fuhrmann (CDU) as local mayor , who had held this office for one year. Morgenstern-Ostlender was previously deputy mayor. After Morgenstern-Ostlender's election as local mayor, the SPD politician Friederike Wolff von der Sahl was elected to this office.

Culture and sights

House triangle
  • In the Triangel estate park there is a family grave as well as hundreds of rhododendrons that are more than a hundred years old, some of them up to ten meters high .
  • The manor house was built from 1920 to 1922 in an English country house style. The Reichsnährstand acquired it in 1936, and during the Second World War ethnic Germans were housed in the building , and it also served as a reserve hospital . From 1945 it was used as a sanatorium for the lungs, in 1960 it was acquired by the Diakonisches Werk and initially used as a home for women. Today the building serves as a home for mentally handicapped adults as the house triangle .
  • The station on the Braunschweig – Wieren line, opened in 1894 by the Prussian State Railways , was once a handsome building. However, it has been privately owned for a long time and has largely been replaced by a breakpoint of the same name.

Personalities

literature

  • Hans-Herbert Kleist, Tilman Wolff vd Sahl: Triangel 1796-1996, Festschrift. Triangle 1996.
  • The district of Gifhorn . The districts in Gifhorn, vol. 26. Ed. By Lower Saxony State Administration Office, Bremen 1972, ISBN 3-87172-327-4 .
  • Bernward Vesper : The Journey . (Roman essay, manuscript completed in 1971, published in 1977).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.sassenburg.de/staticsite/staticsite.php?menuid=65&topmenu=2
  2. ↑ Matthias Blazek: A look into the history of Triangels .
  3. ^ 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. 226 .
  4. ↑ Karsten Eggeling: Neudorf-Platendorf and the "Great Moor". Volume 2, Sassenburg 1996, p. 65
  5. ↑ Together. The magazine of the Diakonie Himmelsthür . , December 2010 edition, p. 10