Sehlem (Lamspringe)

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Sehlem
Lamspringe municipality
Sehlem coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 37 ″  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 30 ″  E
Height : 146 m above sea level NHN
Area : 12.77 km²
Residents : 842  (December 31, 2015)
Population density : 66 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : November 1, 2016
Postal code : 31195
Area code : 05060
Sehlem (Lower Saxony)
Sehlem

Location of Sehlem in Lower Saxony

Cecilia Church
Cecilia Church

Sehlem is a district of the municipality of Lamspringe in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

geography

Geographical location

Sehlem is located south of Hildesheim , south of the Hildesheim Forest and west of the Harplage ridge .

Subdivision breakdown

history

The place name can be traced back to the 12th century, but its meaning is unclear. At the beginning of the 20th century Sehlem had 665 inhabitants and had an important brick factory. At the south-eastern edge of the village, a stop for the Lammetalbahn from Hildesheim to Bad Gandersheim , which was completed on October 1, 1902, was set up, which was moved around 600 m further north in the 1950s, near the center of the village.

The community was founded in 1974 the Samtgemeinde Lamspringe affiliated to its administrative headquarters in the spots Lamspringe had. Sehlem station was closed in 1975 because the section from Bodenburg to Bad Gandersheim was closed. A hiking trail was created on the former railway line, which can still be seen in the Sehlem area.

On March 1, 1974, the community Evensen was incorporated.

The municipalities of Sehlem, Harbarnsen , Lamspringe, Neuhof and Woltershausen of the dissolved Lamspringe municipality were merged on November 1, 2016 to form the new municipality of Lamspringe .

politics

Local council

The local council from Sehlem consists of a councilwoman and six councilors from the following parties:

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor of Sehlem is Martin Hauk (SPD). His deputy is Wolfgang Schrader (non-party).

coat of arms

The municipality was awarded the municipal coat of arms on November 15, 1938 by the President of the Province of Hanover . The district administrator from Alfeld presented it on March 14, 1939.

Sehlem coat of arms
Blazon : "In blue on a silver floor on the right asilver thie tree markedwith linden leaves ,visibleto the beginning of the branches , next to it on the left a silver cross stone , the wheel cross of which is held in gothic forms."
Justification of the coat of arms: In Sehlem, as is rarely the case in this country, the old village with a mighty linden tree on it and a beautiful medieval cross stone in its shadow is magnificently preserved. The community chose this place of medieval justice, where the villagers have been gathering for important consultations since prehistoric times.

Culture and sights

Schwedenstein, Sehlem

Buildings

  • The west tower of the Protestant Church of St. Cecilia, with its distinctive corner blocks and an eight-sided, slated spire, was built in 1494, the nave in 1566. On the outside of the nave, several massive, bricked buttresses stand out. In the eastern part of the church there is a walled-up window on the outside, above which the year 1566 is engraved. After several renovations, the church was redesigned in the neo-Gothic style in 1875/76 and its original exterior was restored.
  • In the center of the village is also the Schwedenstein, a memorial stone that reminds of the horrors of the Thirty Years War .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Günter Bongert (* 1953), church music director, organist, choir director and conductor

Web links

Commons : Sehlem  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. a b municipalities in Germany by area, population and postcode. (XLS; 4.4 MB) In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 2015, accessed on July 9, 2019 (see under: No. 1764).
  2. Max Broesike, Wilhelm Keil (eds.): Neumann's Gazetteer lexicon of the German Reich . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1905, p. 999 .
  3. Uwe Helbig: 100 years of the Lammetalbahn . Ed .: Passenger Association Pro Bahn e. V. S. 8 ( digitized version [accessed on July 9, 2019] reading sample).
  4. Uwe Helbig: 100 years of the Lammetalbahn . Ed .: Passenger Association Pro Bahn e. V. S. 11 ( digitized version [accessed on July 9, 2019] reading sample).
  5. ^ 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. 204 .
  6. Lower Saxony State Chancellery (Ed.): Law on the reorganization of the Lamspringe community, Hildesheim district . Lower Saxony Law and Ordinance Gazette (Nds. GVBl.). No.  19/2015 . Hanover November 12, 2015, p. 305 ( digitized version [PDF; 464 kB ; accessed on July 5, 2019] p. 7).
  7. a b The local council of Sehlem. In: Website of the municipality of Lamspringe. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  8. ^ A b Wilhelm Barner : Coat of arms and seal of the Alfeld district . Rebinding. Lax GmbH & Co. KG, Hildesheim 1998 ( digitized version of the text part of the first edition from 1940 [PDF; 10.0 MB ; accessed on June 11, 2019]).
  9. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bremen, Lower Saxony . Ed .: Dehio Association. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p.  1200 .
  10. Hartwig Kemmerer: Travel Guide Hildesheimer Land . Hildesheim 2003, p. 188 .