Seulingen

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '  N , 10 ° 10'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Goettingen
Joint municipality :	Radolfshausen
Height :	167 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.09 km 2
Residents:	1346 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	121 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	37136
Area code :	05507
License plate :	GÖ , DUD, HMÜ, OHA
Community key :	03 1 59 033
Address of the municipal administration:	Neue Strasse 5 37136 Seulingen
Website :	www.seulingen.de
Mayor :	Matthias Rink ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Seulingen in the district of Göttingen

Seulingen (view from the west)

Seulingen is a municipality in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony .

geography

Seulingen is located in the Untereichsfeld and belongs to the municipality of Radolfshausen , which has its administrative headquarters in Ebergötzen . Through the village flows wallow flowing to the Gothenbeek.

history

The first written mention of Seulingens as Sulliggi is believed to be in the Corveyer traditions today for the period 973–975 . In the Traditiones Corbeienses the place is dealt with as follows: Tradidit Sicca promatre sua Bertha I familiam in Sullig, x iugera et aliam familiam in Neghenborne x iugera, in Gitlithi x iurnales . One, presumably male, person gives the Corvey monastery a "famlia" (farm cooperative) in Sulligi alongside another "familia" and various goods in today's towns of Negenborn and Gittelde for his mother Bertha, d. H. for the monks' obligation to pray for his mother. The recording thus functions as a kind of memo for the monks, it also represents a donation note for all eternity, as a date was not given. The definition of the years 973 to 975 comes from Klemens Honselmann, who re-edited the Corveyer traditions. Place name researcher Uwe Ohainski clearly speaks in favor of Seulingen instead of Sohlingen near Uslar when using the name Sullige . On the other hand, another early mention from the year 1055 is wrongly mentioned in other elaborations as the first mention. In this document, the place appears under the name Suligge . The medieval ministerial family von Seulingen had their seat in the so-called Herpaul (Herrenpfuhl, Herrenpfuhl). The family attested since the 12th century died out in the 15th century, whereby the municipality took over the coat of arms, which represents the three pillars and is still valid today, from the extinct family. With the expansion of the Duderstadt sphere of influence , Seulingen also came under the rule and jurisdiction of the city. From then on, the place belonged to the five Kespeldörfern of the city of Duderstadt, which later the Elector Albrecht of Mainz placed under the jurisdiction of the Gieboldehausen office in 1525 , although the previous duties and services were left to Duderstadt. Under the care of Duderstadt, Seulingen had to do grain taxes as well as manual and tensioning services. In addition, the village was obliged to provide services for construction projects and to implement road connections. The close connection to Duderstadt can be seen if you look at the outer fortification ring of the city. This not only included the city itself, but also included Seulingen. It was not until the 19th century that these circumstances changed with regard to the taxes that Seulingen had to pay. With the agrarian reforms and the replacement laws, the village was freed from these services.

From the middle of the 14th century, the city of Duderstadt had a control room built on the Westerberg in the Seulingen district . In the Middle Ages, it was part of the outer fortification system of the city of Duderstadt as a Landwehr with kinks, trenches and 15 other waiting areas. The Seulinger Warte stood u. a. in visual contact with the Tettelwarte near Breitenberg, the Sulbergwarte near Mingerode, the Euzenbergwarte near Westerode, the Wehnder Warte and with the city of Duderstadt itself. It also served to secure the old military road that ran along here via Duderstadt to Göttingen. Today there is an excursion restaurant of the same name at the site of the former Seulinger Warte. This location is particularly suitable as a vantage point for visual observation and perception of the cultural landscape of the Golden Mark in northern Eichsfeld. In addition, it grants a view of the city of Duderstadt, most of the villages in the northern Eichsfeld, the Ohm Mountains, the Rote Berg south of Berlingerode, the ridge of the Rotenberg, the Harz and, with good visibility, even as far as the Brocken.

Further defenses were found in the fortified church at that time . The church tower at that time is now part of the local parish church of St. John the Baptist . This church tower and three other houses remained the only buildings that were not burned down by Christian von Braunschweig during the Thirty Years' War on July 19, 1623. After the war, the old vigilante group became a rifle guild . During the two world wars , many victims were found among the Seulin people, while the place itself was spared from destruction in the Second World War . After 1945 many refugees and homeless people sought refuge in Seulingen and found a new home.

The historical center of Seulingen is characterized by a large number of half-timbered houses , which contrast with the newly built areas and thus document the development of the community in an architectural sense. Numerous investments have also contributed to improving the quality of life, making it possible to build kindergarten places, a sports and leisure facility, a new school building, the construction of a community center with administration, a library , a youth room and common rooms . Efforts were made to locate further industrial, craft and utility companies and redesigned the townscape to the extent that the village streets, paths and squares were given a new face.

politics

Municipal election

Turnout: 62.22%

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69.93%
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CDU

SPD

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Municipal council

The Seulingen local council consists of 11 councilors.

• CDU 8 seats
• SPD 3 seats

(As of: local election on September 11, 2011 )

After the local elections in 2016, the distribution of seats remained unchanged.

mayor

The honorary mayor Matthias Rink was elected on September 12, 2013.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Three 2: 1 stylized silver (white) columns set in green."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms designed by Clara Gerlach from Duderstadt and awarded by the President of the Prussian Province of Hanover on June 9, 1938 is derived from the coat of arms of the Lords of Sulingen (Seulingen). It was first detected on a seal from the 14th century. It is a so-called " talking coat of arms ".

Culture and sights

Regular events

• On Holy Saturday , the fire department organizes the Easter fire at the fire station.
• On April 30th there is "Tanz in den Mai" in the community center.
• The shooting festival takes place on the third weekend in June.
• At the end of December, the Christmas concert takes place in St. John's Church.

Parish Church of St. John Baptist

Catholic Parish Church of St. John Baptist

Interior view of the Church of St. Johannes Baptist in Seulingen

Today's Seulingen parish church is the third church building in the village. Archaeological excavations that took place in 1986 uncovered a Romanesque hall and a Gothic hall church as predecessor buildings . The hall church at that time had a retracted, cross-vaulted square corridor and a gallery partition in the western part of today's church and was about 19 m long.

In the 13th century, after the old church was destroyed by fire, it was rebuilt as an enlarged Gothic hall church with a retracted polygonal broken choir and a square tower. The length of the church was about 30.5 m. The church was destroyed in the Thirty Years War .

The third church was built in the years from 1685 to 1687 under the direction of the Italian master mason Domenico Bennoth in the baroque style. The square tower of the previous church was retained. In 1869 the church was extended by a transept and a choir with a semicircular apse and a sacristy was added. On the current nave there is therefore a partly baroque façade made of quarry stone masonry , partly a neo-Romanesque façade made of red sandstone blocks , with a clear gradation of the individual components. The tower was covered with copper in 1996, while the interior of the church has a flat coffered ceiling and wall paintings that have been renewed several times. Originally, the ornaments designed in a neo-Romanesque style, were made in 1879, but in 1924 by the Flemish painter Lode van der Linden with Art Nouveau elements expanded. In 1977 the church got new, abstractly designed windows, which replaced the earlier glazing by the Hanoverians Henning and Andres.

Similar to the mix of styles in architecture, different elements can also be found in the inventory. There is a neo-Romanesque main altar from 1869 with a baroque cafeteria , which can be dated to 1687. There are also remains of the baroque altar, the pulpit, an altar of pain from the early 17th century, figures of Joseph and Mary, a larger than life crucifix and a statue of the Virgin Mary from the 17th century. A painting of the Coronation of Mary dates from 1694 and was made by the court painter Dominikus from Aschaffenburg . The sandstone baptismal font is kept in the forms of the Renaissance , dates from 1630 and the upper part was expanded with baroque volutes . In 2018 the church got three new bronze bells because the previous bells had become damaged. The new bells ( chimes : d ¹ f ¹ g ¹ ) were cast in the Bachert bell foundry in Karlsruhe on October 20, 2017 , consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Heinz-Günter Bongartz on May 10, 2018 and have been ringing since June 23, 2018.

Since November 1, 2014, the Seulingen parish has also included the churches in Bernshausen , Germershausen , Obernfeld , Rollshausen and Seeburg .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Seulingen is located between Seeburg and Esplingerode, directly on the 446 federal highway , which leads from Nörten-Hardenberg to Duderstadt .

forestry

The Seulingen Forest is an important economic factor for Seulingen and its real community. In addition, it is an ecologically valuable part of the landscape in the relatively poorly forested, predominantly agrarian cultural landscape of the lower field due to its relatively natural forest cover and remarkable size. It is located one to two kilometers west or southwest of the village of Seulingen. It includes the trees on the Sonnenberg (278 m above sea level), the Ottenberg (273 m above sea level) and the Westerberg (265 m above sea level). The forest has been managed since time immemorial by the Realgemeinde Seulingen, whose oldest records can be proven to date from 1577. The Realgemeinde Seulingen, already one of the largest real municipalities in southern Lower Saxony with 340 hectares of property to date, purchased 38 hectares of forest from the state of Lower Saxony in April 2011, increasing its property by 11% to 378 hectares. Special features of the Seulingen Forest are isolated Bronze Age barrows on the Sonnenberg and the Ottenberg and the remnants of the Landwehr that surrounded the Eichsfeld in the Electorate of Mainz.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Anna Maria Nachtwey (* 1736), last abbess of the Beuren monastery

literature

• Bettina Bommer: Seulingen. From the story of a village in the Untereichsfeld . Mecke, Duderstadt, 2004. ISBN 3-936617-32-5 .
• Gerold Wucherpfennig: The Golden Mark around the Seeburger See . In: Eichsfeld-Jahrbuch , ISSN  1610-6741 , Vol. 25 (2017), pp. 293-303.
• Gerold Wucherpfennig: The Seulinger Forest and its real community . In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift , vol. 55 (2011), pp. 356–359
• Johannes Turi: To the school system in Seulingen . In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift , vol. 48 (2004), pp. 252-256.
• Erika Dittrich: The church “St. John the Baptist ”in Seulingen. An architectural study . In: Eichsfeld yearbook . tape 7 . Mecke, Duderstadt 1999, p. 64-87 .

Web links

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

• Website of the joint community
• Website of Seulingen

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. ↑ Kirstin Casemir, Uwe Ohainski, Jürgen Udolph: The place names of the district of Göttingen . In: Jürgen Udolph (Hrsg.): Lower Saxony Place Name Book (NOB) . Part IV. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89534-494-X , p. 369-371 .
3. ↑ www.seulingen.de - History. Retrieved October 6, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Bettina Bommer: The problem of the first mention. Why Seulingen is not celebrating a local anniversary in 2005 . In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift , Vol. 47. 2003, Issue 10. P. 346.
5. ↑ Peter Ferdinand Lufen: Göttingen district, part 2. Altkreis Duderstadt with the communities Friedland and Gleichen and the joint communities Gieboldehausen and Radolfshausen . In: Christiane Segers-Glocke (Hrsg.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony . tape 5.3 . CW Niemeyer, Hameln 1997, ISBN 3-8271-8257-3 , p. 314-316 .
6. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume 6, 1865, p. 421
7. ↑ Bettina Bommer: Seulingen. From the story of a village in the Untereichsfeld . Mecke, Duderstadt 2004, ISBN 3-936617-32-5 , p. 98.
8. ↑ Gerold Wucherpfennig: The Golden Mark around the Seeburger See . In: Eichsfeld-Jahrbuch , Vol. 25 (2017), pp. 293–303.
9. ↑ http://wahlen.kds.de/2011kw/Daten/152403_000042/index.html
10. ↑ http://www.seulingen.de/wp/kontakt/#Gemeinderat
11. ↑ Wappenbuch Landkreis Duderstadt, 1960, pp. 17 and 75.
12. ↑ Erika Dittrich: The church “St. John the Baptist ”in Seulingen. A study of the history of architecture . In: Eichsfeld-Jahrbuch , Vol. 7 (1999) pp. 64–87.
13. ^ Theo Petersen: Seulingen in the Thirty Years' War. What reminds of that time . In: Die Goldene Mark: Zeitschrift für die Heimatarbeit im Kreis Duderstadt , ISSN  1610-255X , vol. 19 (1968), issue 2, pp. 30–33.
14. ↑ Erika Dittrich: The Catholic village churches of Eichsfeld in the Electorate of Mainz (1670–1802) . Mecke, Duderstadt 2001, ISBN 3-932752-40-6 , p. 54.
15. ↑ Casting of the Seulingen bells. kath-kirche-seulingen.de, accessed on June 25, 2018.
16. ↑ New bells for Seulingen. kirche-untereichsfeld.de, accessed on June 25, 2018.
17. ↑ Gerold Wucherpfennig: The Seulinger forest and its real community. In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift, 2011, issue 10. pp. 356–359