Seesen
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Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ' N , 10 ° 11' E |
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| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | Goslar | |
| Height : | 205 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 102.2 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 19,240 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 188 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 38723 | |
| Primaries : | 05381, 05384 | |
| License plate : | GS, BRL, CLZ | |
| Community key : | 03 1 53 012 | |
| City structure: | 10 districts | |
City administration address : |
Marktstrasse 1 38723 Seesen |
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| Mayor : | Erik Homann ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the city of Seesen in the district of Goslar | ||
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Seesen is a town in the district of Goslar , Lower Saxony , on the northwestern edge of the Harz between Göttingen and Hanover . It was first mentioned in a document in 974 and received city rights in 1428 .
geography
Geographical location
Seesen is located between the slightly hilly Harz foreland and the Harz, the largest north German low mountain range, and also sees itself as the “window to the Harz” because of the favorable traffic situation.
Neighboring communities
Seesen's neighboring communities are Bockenem , Lamspringe (both in the Hildesheim district ) and Hahausen in the north, Lautenthal and Wildemann in the east, Bad Grund (in the Göttingen district ) and Bad Gandersheim and Kalefeld (both in the Northeim district ) in the west.
City structure
In addition to the core city (10,794 inhabitants), Seesen includes the following districts:
- Bilderlahe (467 inhabitants) with Adenhausen and castle
- Bornhausen (1,013 inhabitants) with Klingenhagen
- Engelade (595 inhabitants)
- Herrhausen am Harz (725 inhabitants)
- Ildehausen (710 inhabitants)
- Kirchberg (531 inhabitants)
- Mechtshausen (371 inhabitants)
- Münchehof (1,525 inhabitants) with Stauffenburg and Fürstenhagen
- Rhüden (2,719 inhabitants) with Ödishausen and Ober- and Unterpanshausen
The population figures refer to June 30, 2018.
More than half of all residents of the city live in the core city, which is not designated as a district. With an area of 16.70 km², it is smaller than Rhüden but larger than any other district. Therefore, the largest districts of Seesen, both by area and by population, are Rhüden, Münchehof and Bornhausen.
climate
history
The place was created at a crossroads and became the location of a royal court. Otto II gave it to the Gandersheim monastery . The Lords of Wohldenberg and the Hildesheim Monastery took over parts of the Billunger dominion in nearby Ambergau . The name Seesen goes back to a lake that has since disappeared. In the Middle Ages, the place name Sehuson (Seehausen) was common. When the Brunswick dukes took over the bailiwick over the monastery, Seesen came to Wilhelm I (Brunswick) in 1279 and to the Principality of Göttingen in 1345 . In the 13th century, Sehusa Castle in Seesen was the center of an administrative district. The Dukes of Braunschweig often left the exercise of jurisdiction in their territories to bailiffs, and so an iudex et vorstmester is named for the year 1287 , whose area of responsibility extended to the Harz region between Sieber and Oder . In 1314 the court belonging to the castle was pledged to the city of Goslar cum ducatu et vorstehove nostro . In 1448 there were several huts in the Seesen bailiwick. In the 15th century the princes mortgaged the place temporarily to the Lords of Cramm . Seesen experienced a medieval increase in population through immigration from surrounding, thus desolate villages. Heinrich I (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) sold the castle and town to various wealthy aristocrats in the surrounding area. Bishop Johannes conquered and destroyed the place in 1522. The place, which was rebuilt with the assurance of princely privileges, was destroyed again in the Thirty Years War and a city fire, so that a new construction was necessary. The first chapel of St. Vitus was expanded into a church and the seat of an archdeaconate, which became a superintendent after the Reformation . In the 18th century, however, the church fell into disrepair, as the citizens preferred St. Andrew. In the Westphalian era, the place belonged to the Einbeck district and then became one of the railway hubs in the area. In the 20th century, Seesen belonged to the Free State of Braunschweig .
Since the middle of the 18th century people who belonged to the Jewish religion lived in Seesen. In the 19th century they founded institutions of Jewish culture such as a school, an orphanage, a mikveh and a synagogue. The Jacobson School was founded in 1801 by the regional rabbi Israel Jacobson and soon accepted Christian students. The school was a boarding school for external students and city dwellers. In the 20th century, what was then a secondary school was converted into a grammar school. Israel Jacobson also donated the Jewish cemetery in 1806. In 1827 a mikveh was set up. In 1851 the Jewish orphanage was founded by the son Meyer of Israel Jacobson. This house also took in Christian children. From the beginning, the school had a prayer room that members of the Jewish community also used. A synagogue was later built in the school's courtyard. At the beginning of the 20th century the number of Jews decreased. With the beginning of National Socialism , in early 1933, there were still around 50 Jews in Seesen. In mid-March, Seesen was one of the first places in Braunschweig where SA and SS units arrested and abused “political enemies” and Jews. There was already one dead. Max Bremer, the owner of the Jewish department store Bloch und Bremer, was presumably "arrested and beaten to death" by SA units. The synagogue was burned down during the Reichspogromnacht . Ecclesiastically, the area today belongs to the Seesen provost (Protestant) and the Hildesheim dean's office Alfeld-Detfurth (Catholic). After the war ended in 1945, Seesen came to the state of Lower Saxony.
Seesen belonged to the Gandersheim district until it was dissolved on August 1, 1977 and Seesen came to the Goslar district.
Incorporations
On July 1, 1972, the communities of Bilderlahe (previously in the district of Hildesheim-Marienburg ), Engelade, Herrhausen, Ildehausen, Kirchberg and Münchehof (previously in the district of Gandersheim ) were incorporated. On March 1, 1974, Bornhausen, Groß Rhüden, Klein Rhüden and Mechtshausen (previously in the Hildesheim-Marienburg district) were added.
Population development
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(From 1968 as of December 31st)
religion
Seesen is the seat of the Evangelical Lutheran Propstei Gandersheim-Seesen , to which the parish of St. Vitus and St. Andreas with the Church of St. Andreas belongs in Seesen (see “Buildings”). Another evangelical institution in Seesen is the St. Vitus retirement center .
The Catholic Church of Maria Königin is located on Zimmerstrasse, it was built by Josef Fehlig in 1956 and a bell tower was added in 1997. A catholic emergency church was built in Seesen as early as 1927, previously the Seesen Catholics used the church in Bilderlahe. Since 2010, the parish of Maria Königin , which belongs to the Deanery Alfeld-Detfurth, also includes the Catholic churches in Bilderlahe and Bockenem . The former branch church in Münchehof was profaned in 2007 .
In the 1990s, the "Free Christian Community Seesen" moved into a former school building on Linnenstrasse as a parish hall; it belongs to the Bund Freikirchlicher Pfingstgemeinden .
The New Apostolic congregation Seesen was founded in 1919 and is now part of the Wolfenbüttel district. After the first church built in 1928 had become too small, today's church was built on Hochstrasse in 1966.
A Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses is located at the Garden Street.
politics
City council
The council of the town of Seesen consists of 32 councilors (2011: 34). This is the specified number for a city with a population between 15,001 and 20,000. The 32 council members are elected for five years each by local elections. The current term of office begins on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.
The full-time mayor Erik Homann (CDU) is also entitled to vote in the city council.
After the local elections on September 11, 2016, the city council is composed as follows (changes to 2011):
- CDU : 14 seats (−3)
- SPD : 13 seats (± 0)
- GREEN : 2 seats (± 0)
- FDP : 2 seats (+1)
- LEFT : 1 seat (± 0)
mayor
The full-time mayor of Seesen is Erik Homann (CDU). In the last mayoral election on September 11, 2011, he was elected with 63.6% of the vote. The turnout was 55.9%. Homann took office on November 1, 2011.
coat of arms
Blazon : "In red a golden lion armed in blue with a raised right front paw over a golden lily pad."
The first seal, of which later impressions have been preserved, was made around 1400 and shows a Guelph lion as an indication of the rule. It also contains a stalked lily pad under the lion, which alludes to the place name, which comes from the former lake fed by the Schildau. Later seals from the period between the late 15th century and the 18th century show the same picture largely unchanged, apart from minor changes. There the lily pad adorns a stem of different lengths. However, this is no longer preserved in the current version of the coat of arms.
Town twinning
There are partnerships with the English town of Wantage (since November 7, 1978), the French Carpentras (since June 10, 1993), the Italian town of Montecorvino Rovella (since July 14, 2006) and the town of Thale on the north-eastern edge of the Harz (since June 24 , 2006) . March 1990). In addition, Seesen sponsored the Latvian Rauna in 1993 .
Culture and sights
Buildings
- Today's Sankt Andreas Church was built between 1695 and 1702 as a parish and court church according to plans by the Braunschweig fortress construction director Völcker . The previous building was destroyed by fire in 1673. Because of its excellent acoustics , the Sankt-Andreas Church regularly provides the setting for classical music with often top-class orchestras (such as the Sinfonia Varsovia) and soloists (such as Ludwig Güttler or Yehudi Menuhin in the past ). The organ was built by Friedrich Besser, a student of Friedrich Stellwagens , and restored in 2002.
- In downtown Seesen you can visit the back house of the renowned piano maker Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later Henry E. Steinway in the USA), where he built his first piano, which is still in the Municipal Museum today.
- Between 1892 and 1896 a park was created that is now named after Steinway and one of Bingo! sponsored tree adventure tour.
- Almost 100 tombstones are still preserved in the Jewish cemetery on Dehnestrasse .
Museums
Green spaces and recreation
- In Schildautal on the eastern outskirts, the Steinway-Park, a spa room with several ponds and a nature trail. This is also the starting point and end point of the Steinway Trail , a hiking trail in the Harz Mountains that leads northeast to Wolfshagen in the Harz Mountains .
Regular events
- Sehusa Festival: Every year on the first weekend in September around Sehusa Castle (central part of 1592), the largest North German history festival takes place.
- Kulturforum Seesen eV - a private cultural initiative that has been organizing music, cabaret and literature events in the Aula school center since 1987.
- Concerts at St. Andreas eV - for several years now, several classical concerts have been held in the St. Andreas Church in Seesen under the artistic direction of Martin Weller .
Club life
One of the local clubs is the sports club SV Union Seesen 03 , which emerged in 2003 from the merger of several clubs ( VfL Seesen , FC Azzurri and Eintracht Seesen).
The MTV Seesen from 1862 eV uses the athletics facility called "Harzkampfbahn". The club was founded by men for the purpose of gymnastics in the spirit of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn and today has several sports branches.
The Harz Club was founded in Seesen in 1886, and today it has around 90 branches with around 16,000 members and maintains the Harz customs and hiking trails .
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
Seesen is located between the slightly hilly Harz foreland and the largest north German low mountain range and, because of the favorable traffic situation , sees itself as the "window to the Harz ". Tourism is an essential economic factor.
The factory of the Sonnen Bassermann brand, which has existed since 1967 and belonged to the Heinz Group ( HJ Heinz Company ) from 1999 to 2012, is located in Seesen . From 1892 onwards, the machine was used to produce canned food. Another factory in Seesen produced pasta for the brand. After Sonnen Bassermann was sold to the Dutch food company Struik Foods, production in Seesen was discontinued in May 2014. Since August 2015, the main plant has been under new ownership and has been converted into the Lower Saxony business park. The former noodle factory is also privately owned and is used for various storage and logistics purposes.
In addition, Crown Food Doses Deutschland GmbH produces metal cans for food packaging; this uses the site of the former Seesener Blechwarenfabrik Fritz Züchner .
traffic
- Seesen is on the federal highway 7 as well as the federal highways 64 , 82 , 242 , 243 and 248
- At Seesen station , the Herzberg – Seesen line branches off from the Braunschweig – Kreiensen line .
- In the Münchehof district there is another train station in the city, Münchehof (Harz) .
- The regional bus Braunschweig GmbH (RBB) operates in Seesen a two routes city bus line and a plurality of bus lines within overland
Personalities
literature
- Tamar Avraham: Seesen. In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 1 and 2, Göttingen 2005, pp. 1370-1383 (with 3 illustrations), ISBN 3-89244-753-5 .
- Gerhard Ballin: History of the Jews in Seesen. City of Seesen, Seesen 1979, OCLC 6224892 .
- Karl Friedrich Bege : History of the cities Seesen and Scheppenstedt. Holle, Wolfenbüttel 1846. (Reprint: von Hirschheydt, Hannover 1974, ISBN 3-7777-0814-3 )
- Uli Borsch: And suddenly life begins. Memories of the youth in Seesen. Verlag Reinhold Liebig, 2007, ISBN 978-3-9523307-2-2 .
- Willy Hartmann: House book of the city of Seesen. History of the Seesener Brau-, Büdner- and town houses from the big city fires in 1664 and 1673. Chronicle of the city fires from the 16th to the 19th century. Directory of mayors of the city. HisChymia, Seesen / Libri Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-935060-06-8 .
- Rudolf Meier: Seesen, 1983 (PDF file; 181 kB)
- Andreas Safft: Seesen. Sutton, Erfurt 1998, ISBN 3-89702-054-8 .
- Horst Scheerer: Seesen in pictures from yesterday and today. Freundeskreis Städtisches Museum, Seesen 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035594-3 .
- Horst Scheerer: Streets and squares in the core town of Seesen - yesterday and today -. Friends of the Seesen Municipal Museum, 2013.
- Seesen - The 500 year old town on the Harz. 1428-1928. Magistrate of the city of Seesen, Artur Seelemeyer, Hanover 1928.
- Seesen in pictures up to 1930. Volume I, Geiger Verlag, Horb aN 1984, DNB 551222875 .
- Seesen and its districts - pictures from past decades. Volume II, Geiger Verlag, Horb aN 1985, ISBN 3-924932-08-5 .
- A thousand years of Seesen. Contributions to the history of the city of Seesen am Harz. 974-1974. City of Seesen, Seesen 1974.
- Miriam Tworuschka: Israel Jacobson and the emergence of Reform Judaism in Seesen. A small town in Lower Saxony and how it dealt with this topic after 1945. Würzburg 2013. (online at: opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de )
- Sabine Vollmers: Seesen - the film - a foray through the city on the Harz. DVD. Spotlight, Seesen 2005.
- Sabine Vollmers: Seesen is so beautiful. Seesen 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-028927-9 .
Web links
- Link catalog on Seesen at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
- Homepage of the city (administration) Seesen
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ↑ Population of the municipalities and districts of the district of Goslar , accessed on March 17, 2019.
- ^ Main statute of the city of Seesen. February 21, 2012, accessed March 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Area & population. Status March 1, 2018. City of Seesen, accessed on March 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Hans Patze: The Guelph territories in the 14th century . In: Hans Patze (ed.): The German territorial state in the 14th century . tape II . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1987, ISBN 3-7995-6614-7 , p. 44 .
- ^ Tamar Avraham: Seesen . In Herbert Obenaus (ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Volume 1 and 2. Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 , p. 1379.
- ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 268 and 269 .
- ^ Budget statutes and budget 2015 of the city of Seesen
- ^ Website of the communal data processing in Oldenburg , accessed on October 1, 2016
- ^ Website of the communal data processing in Oldenburg , accessed on October 1, 2016
- ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on February 8, 2015
- ↑ Individual results of the 2011 direct elections in Lower Saxony ( memento of the original from December 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 8, 2015
- ↑ Klemens Stadler: German coat of arms Federal Republic of Germany . The municipal coats of arms of the federal states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. tape 5 . Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1970, p. 73 .
- ↑ museum-seesen.de
- ↑ food newspaper.net
- ↑ Focus Money Online: Soup brand Sonnen Bassermann changes hands. dated April 27, 2012
- ↑ beobachter-online.de
- ↑ http://www.rmr.de
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