Schönewörde

This article deals with the community in the Gifhorn district. For the former town of Schöneworde before Hanover, see Schöneworth (Hanover)

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 38 '  N , 10 ° 38'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Gifhorn
Joint municipality :	Wesendorf
Height :	63 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.73 km 2
Residents:	917 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	52 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	29396
Area code :	05835
License plate :	GF
Community key :	03 1 51 026
Address of the municipal administration:	Schulweg 4 29396 Schönewörde
Mayor :	Gerald Flohr ( CDU )
Location of the community Schönewörde in the district of Gifhorn

Schönewörde is a municipality in the Gifhorn district in Lower Saxony .

"Deutsches Haus" restaurant

geography

Schönewörde is located between the Südheide and Elm-Lappwald nature parks on the Ise . The community belongs to the integrated community of Wesendorf , which has its administrative seat in the community of Wesendorf .

history

The community was first mentioned in 1318 as Sconenworden ; belongs to the settlements of the more recent clearing period (800–1200); probably influenced in the development by the influx from desert areas such as Große Wöhrde and Kleine Wöhrde, which were also located in the district. For a long time, Schönewörde remained a small, slowly growing settlement that only had 30 courtyards or chargeable fireplaces in 1811. The first census in the same year showed 233 inhabitants - however, based on old tax lists, some chroniclers estimate the population at only 180 to 190 people.

An upswing came with the division of the Great Moor in 1849 and the coupling in 1853/72, which made 616 hectares of heather and 513 hectares of moorland available for cultivation and thus directly and indirectly offered new opportunities for existence.

The connection to the Braunschweig – Wieren railway that Schönewörde received in 1900 also had a positive effect . In 1972 the stop had to be moved a few hundred meters to the south, because the dam of the bridge ramp over the Elbe canal was to be built at the original location (construction began in the Schönewörde district in 1968).

The former abundance of forests certainly played a role in the origins and development of the place, the deciduous forest was suitable as pasture for cattle and its nutrient-rich soils could become fields after clearing; Even before the First World War , the forest density for the old Isenhagen office was given as 35%. Schönewörde belonged to the Oberförsterei Wahrenholz, Oberforstamt Celle, and its first forest official mentioned in the Hanoverian state calendar in 1778 was the outgoing forester Johann Christoph Hölsen. A few years later, a forester's house is also listed for Schönewörde with the walking forester Nickel (although forest houses were initially only available to riding foresters ).

The forester's tasks were the allocation of firewood and construction wood (subject to a fee), hunting and game preservation as well as the prevention of poaching - the latter is not without risk, as the memorial stone for the Schöneword auxiliary forest overseer, Ernst Sander, who was murdered in 1863 shows.

For today's municipality of Schönewörde, its forests play a role insofar as it receives income from leasing them after the hunt became more attractive in 1967 when fallow deer were abandoned - the first in the district.

As the only member community of the Wesendorf integrated community, Schönewörde always had a close connection to Knesebeck - whether as a fief in the possession of the von dem Knesebeck family or the Amt, the Vogtei, the parish of Knesebeck or from 1969 to 1974 as part of the Knesebeck integrated community. What remains is the membership of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Knesebeck.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the community Schönewörde consists of 9 members. The last local election took place on September 11, 2016. Since then, the municipal council has been composed as follows:

• CDU 4 seats
• SPD 4 seats
• Free voters Schönewörde (FWS) 1 seat

mayor

The honorary mayor has been Gerald Flohr since 2016.

Culture and sights

In the Espenleus forest area you will find a large granite block with the following inscription:

"Here on August 14, 1863, the good Hülfs forest overseer Ernst Sander from Schönewörde was killed by murder."

The stone (position: 52 ° 35 '40.6 "N, 10 ° 37' 46.3" E) reports the violent death of a forest ranger who caught a poacher in the act and was killed by two headshots. After his arrest, the murderer initially denied the crime, but was convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. However, it was converted into a life sentence with forced labor in the Lüneburg Kalkberg. After the murderer had atoned for 28 years there, he was released and died in the poor house in Wunstorf .

The poet Hermann Löns took the story of this crime as a template for his novel The Third Dam .

Ophelia by the artist Anne Heusel

The landscape of the region is characterized by heather, moors and ponds and especially by the Ise. To the south lies one of the largest nature reserves in Lower Saxony, the Great Moor. The nature close to water is already a popular destination for cyclists, water hikers and day trippers. "Artificial" objects have been placed in unspoilt and striking places by the water. They are intended to encourage visitors to linger, look at and reflect. The district of Gifhorn, in cooperation with the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig, announced the “Art on the Water” competition. 27 drafts were submitted by students and graduates of the university and artists of the district, of which the award-winning 10 drafts can be seen. The artist Anne Heusel was awarded with her Ophelia . In an open grave, a white robe lies in a visible coffin. First loved by Hamlet and then spurned, Ophelia falls mad and goes into the water - the giver and taker of life. Ophelia is located north of Schönewörde on the Ise (position: 52 ° 40 '4.1 "N, 10 ° 38' 28.2" E, around 500 meters before the bridge over the Elbe canal towards Knesebeck ).

The monk's cross in the leu

There is also a monk's cross in the area. In the Gifhorn-Isenhagen district calendar of 1951 it says:

“Few people know that the simple, brown, half-weathered wooden cross in the middle of the large, dark lei has a strange connection with the chapel and the monastery. It says in the old yellowed parish chronicle from 1528, the Ev. Parish office of Wahrenholz: 'A monk is said to have come from the monastery (Steimke) every 4 weeks and to have held mass in this chapel (Wahrenholz). After many years it is said that there was a strong winter and there was a lot of snow, that the monk came to the Holtz -that is what the peoples call-, got lost in it, froze and perished. '

Many summers and winters have now passed over the heath, and people have had to get to know an unimaginable amount of hardship and death during this time. And yet, the mute mark in the Waldesdom still shines today; since long sparkling rails run through forest and heather, cars glide silently and silvery four-engine vehicles dominate the ether, not to have lost their own mysterious power of memory. "

The cross still reminds us of an old, bygone era and the lonely death of a monk in 1528. The monk's cross is around three kilometers northwest of Schönewörde im Leu, position: 52 ° 40 '1.2 "N, 10 ° 37 '3.3 "O.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

• Schönewörde is east of the B 4 Uelzen - Braunschweig .
• The Elbe Lateral Canal runs east of the community.
• The community has a stop on the Braunschweig – Wieren railway line .

Web links

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

• Website of the joint municipality

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 ).