Sophiental (Wendeburg)

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Sophiental
Municipality Wendeburg
Sophiental coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 37 ″  N , 10 ° 21 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : approx. 70  (68-71)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 465  (Jan 2020)
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 38176
Area code : 05303
map
Location of Sophiental in Wendeburg
St. Martin
Bridge over the Mittelland Canal near Sophiental

Sophiental is a district of the Wendeburg municipality in the Peine district in Lower Saxony .

location

Sophiental is located between the cities of Braunschweig (24 km) and Peine (9 km) on the L 321 state road in a landscape characterized by agriculture and forest. The 186 ha area is crossed by the Mittelland Canal in the south . In the north and south there are state and cooperative forests . The municipal reference point is Wendeburg. The community center is 3 km away.

The A2 motorway can be reached via the Peine Ost connection (distance 9.1 km) or Braunschweig-Watenbüttel (distance 8.2 km). The nearest train stations are in Peine (distance 8.7 km) and in Vechelde (distance 9.4 km).

From Sophiental there are bus connections to the district town of Peine ( middle center ), to Wendeburg, Vechelde and Braunschweig ( upper center ).

Neighboring places

Duttenstedt (Peine) (5.5 km) Rüper (4.1 km) Wendeburg (3.0 km)
Woltorf (Peine) (2.8 km) Neighboring communities Völkenrode (Braunschweig) (6.2 km)
Fürstenau (Vechelde) (1.7 km) Wahle (Vechelde) (4.4 km) Bortfeld (4.1 km)

geography

The Sophiental district with the adjacent forests north of the Mittelland Canal is part of the Burgdorf-Peiner Geestplatten natural area . Boulder clay and meltwater sands from the Saale Ice Age cover a layer of clay sloping from northeast to southwest. It occurs close to the surface of the earth south of the Mittelland Canal. The predominantly slightly loamy sandy soil merges into a boggy meadow in the western part of the field . The agricultural yield potential is assessed as predominantly low. The groundwater level is consistently high. The drainage takes place in a south-westerly direction towards the Schneegraben , which flows in the Sophientaler Feldflur towards the Mittelland Canal. The hill immediately south of the Mittelland Canal was created as an overburden dump during the canal construction.

The State Forest Sophiental and its neighboring forests have been a landscape protection area since 1969 . With an area of ​​720 ha , it is the largest contiguous forest area in the Peine district.

history

Sophiental is the youngest part of the Wendeburg community. In 1724, the ruling Duke August Wilhelm of Braunschweig and Lüneburg transferred an area in the Wendeburg Holzmark to his third wife Elisabeth Sophie Marie by means of a feudal letter . In the following years she had a pleasure palace built there with outbuildings and a baroque garden. The place named after the Duchess developed from the settlement of the servants on both sides of the lime tree avenue leading to the palace complex . After her death, the timber-framed princely houses were demolished around 1769. A large part of the building materials was auctioned, some beams were used in the Wendeburg Marienkirche . The former kitchen building on the castle grounds was converted into a forest ranger's office . Parts of the moat with ramparts and old trees are still preserved.

Duchess Elisabeth Sophie Marie,
painting by Christoph Bernhard Francke , before 1729

Originally Sophiental was written with 'th'. The spelling was changed in connection with the spelling reform of 1901.

At the beginning of the 1930s, the construction of the Mittelland Canal reached Sophiental from the west. On March 29, 1931, the first barge tied up to load building materials that were no longer needed.

In 1966 Sophiental became part of the Vechelde municipality . On March 1, 1974, Sophiental was incorporated into Wendeburg as part of the regional reform .

Development of the population

year Residents
1767 about 80
1774 93
1793 148
1802 148
1823 207
1858 222
1891 229
year Residents
1895 246
1906 249
1910 236
1925 240
1933 242
1939 294
1950 457
year Residents
1961 325
1970 328
1980 396
1990 436
2000 503
2015 485
2020 465

Graphic representation of the population development according to the table above

coat of arms

Coat of arms Sophiental.jpg

The coat of arms shows in gold (yellow) in front and behind a blue hazel leaf with a fruit cluster above a raised, ascending blunt blue tip with a golden (yellow) bell.

The bell depicted in the coat of arms refers to the bell that was originally intended by the town's founder, Duchess Elisabeth Sophie Marie, for her pleasure palace in Fürstenau, but has now been hanging as an hour bell in a dormer of the church tower in Sophiental since 1890 . The hazel leaves represent the loose bush vegetation of the formerly wooded Wendeburger Holzmark , which was then cleared by charcoal burners . The Braunschweig national colors blue and yellow attest to the former affiliation to the state and district of Braunschweig.

The design of the coat of arms was adopted by the citizens' assembly on February 23, 1985 and approved by the Wendeburg administrative committee in the same year.

A tour through nature

For many hikers, cyclists and joggers, the extensive forest areas and the fields around Sophiental are the starting point for a short walk or a longer day tour. For those who do not only want to experience nature, it is worthwhile to head for the Zweidorfer Mühle, the ecologically oriented forest adventure trail in Basthorst, the small, colorfully planted Baroque castle park in Vechelde or the traditional farmhouse museum in Bortfeld on the well-developed paths .

Large motor cargo ships and push convoys can be observed from close by from the banks of the Mittelland Canal .

Club life

There is the volunteer fire brigade and other voluntary organizations, associations and groups.

literature

  • Edeltraut Hundertmark: The German districts, manual for administration, economy and culture. Vol. 22, The Braunschweig district, Braunschweig administrative district. Verlag W. Dorn, Bremen-Horn 1965, p. 176.
  • [K. Lühr]: Festschrift to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the villages of Sophiental and Fürstenau, 1724–1924. Printed by Rommel & Co., Braunschweig 1924, p. 14.
  • Paul Jonas Meier : The architectural and art monuments of the Braunschweig district with the exclusion of the city of Braunschweig. Vol. 2, Verlag J. Zwissler, Wolfenbüttel 1900, p. 384.
  • Rudolf Paes: Hasel-Hof, Fürstenau, Sophiental 1724–1974. Bodenstedt 1974, p. 117.
  • Hannelore Wiese, Margrit Seidel: St. Martin's Church in Sophiental: for the 100th Kirchweihtag, 1890–1990. Printed by W. Schmidt, Braunschweig 1990, p. 43.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Population figures in the Wendeburg community. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Lower Saxony soil information system NIBIS®
  3. ^ NLA - location Wolfenbüttel, 1 Alt 23 No. 309: Copy of a loan letter
  4. ↑ H.-H. Grote: Great gentlemen's palaces - castles in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. in: Herrmann Korb and his time: 1656–1735, baroque building in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. Braunschweig Appelhans, 2006, ISBN 3-937664-51-3 , p. 88.
  5. ^ S. Paulus, E. Arnhold: The pleasure palaces Fürstenau and Sophiental. in: Herrmann Korb and his time: 1656–1735, baroque building in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. Braunschweig Appelhans, 2006, p. 99 f.
  6. ↑ NLA location Wolfenbüttel, 4 Alt 6 No. 1987: Furnishing of the kitchen building in Sophiental into an apartment for the district forester
  7. ^ From the state capital: in Braunschweigische Staatszeitung of March 30, 1931, p. 6
  8. ↑ a b c 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 .
  9. ^ E. Hundertmark: The German districts, manual for administration, economy and culture , Vol. 22, The district of Braunschweig, administrative district of Braunschweig . Bremen-Horn 1965, p. 106.
  10. ↑ a b c d H. Kleinau : Geschichtliches Ortverzeichnis . August Lax, Hildesheim 1968, p.  586 .
  11. ↑ Georg Hassel , Karl Bege : Geo-statistical description of the principalities of Wolfenbüttel and Blankenburg . Verlag Culemann, Braunschweig 1802, p. 480 ( google.de [accessed on July 17, 2019]).
  12. ^ Fr. Knoll, R. Bode: Das Herzogtum Braunschweig: a handbook of the entire regional studies , Verlag H. Wollmann, Braunschweig 1891, p. 231 f.
  13. ^ Paul Jonas Meier: p. 294.
  14. ↑ J. Penzler: Ritter's Geographical-Statistical Lexicon , Part 2 L – Z, Verlag O. Wigand, Leipzig 1906, p. 906.
  15. ↑ Municipal directory Germany 1900. - Duchy of Braunschweig - District of Braunschweig. Uli Schubert, 2014, accessed on November 14, 2017 .
  16. ^ A b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Braunschweig. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  17. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Official municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Final results after the census of September 13, 1950 (=  Statistics of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 33 ). W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Cologne 1952, p. 60 ( digital copy [PDF; 27.1 MB ]).
  18. ^ Lower Saxony State Administration Office: Official directory of the municipalities and places to live in Lower Saxony 1964 . Hanover 1964, p. 125.
  19. ↑ August Seidensticker : Legal and Economic History of North German Forests . Dieterich, Göttingen 1896, p. 335 ( google.de [accessed on July 17, 2019]).
  20. ^ Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch. Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , p. 157.
  21. ↑ Bike tour: Forest and Meadows , accessed on January 6, 2018.
  22. ↑ Bike tour: Water route , accessed on January 6, 2018.
  23. ↑ Zweidorfer Windmühle , accessed on January 6, 2018.
  24. ↑ Zweidorfer Holz forest adventure trail , accessed on January 6, 2018.
  25. ^ Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum: Bauernhausmuseum Bortfeld , accessed on January 6, 2018.
  26. ↑ wendeburg.de: Enter “Sophiental” as the search term.