Steinhorst (Lower Saxony)

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′  N , 10 ° 24 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Gifhorn
Joint municipality :	Hankensbüttel
Height :	72 m above sea level NHN
Area :	57.78 km 2
Residents:	1235 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	21 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	29367
Area code :	05148
License plate :	GF
Community key :	03 1 51 029
Address of the municipal administration:	29367 Steinhorst
Mayor :	Klaus-Hinrich Singer ( CDU )
Location of the Steinhorst community in the Gifhorn district

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

geography

Geographical location

Steinhorst is located on the Lachte between the Südheide and Drömling nature parks . The municipality belongs to the joint municipality of Hankensbüttel , which has its administrative seat in the municipality of Hankensbüttel .

Partly on the territory of the municipality Steinhorst is the 1,090 hectare large nature reserve Upper Laughed Kainbach, Jafelbach .

Neighboring communities

The municipality of Steinhorst borders in the north on the municipality Sprakensehl , in the east on the municipality Dedelstorf , in the south on the municipality Groß Oesingen and in the west on the district of Celle .

Community structure

The community is divided into the following places:

• Gut Auermühle (northeast of Lüsche)
• Lüsche
• Radloh
• Steinhorst

history

In 1668 there were bloody disputes over forest rights with the neighboring villages of Bargfeld and Eldingen (the "pig war").

On February 18, 1895, the founding meeting of the volunteer fire brigade took place in the Wilhelm Hasselmann house (today Marktstrasse 17) , to which 33 Steinhorst citizens had come. The royal forester Behneke was elected as 1st captain and master cartwright Dedekind as his deputy.

The artillery - Landwehrmann Wilhelm Buhr, born on 16 January 1886 in Steinhorst, wrote, according to the second book of the school chronicle for school Helmerkamp, parish Beedenbostel, inspection Beedenbostel on July 3, 1915 on his experiences in the First World War . He returned home on December 19, 1918 , decorated with the Iron Cross .

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the communities Lüsche (with Gut Auermühle, 14.80 km²) and Radloh (15.64 km²) were incorporated.

Before that, the area of ​​the old municipality of Steinhorst was 27.30 km².

Population development

year Residents December 1, 1905 666 June 16, 1925 860 June 16, 1933 852 October 29, 1946 1579 June 6, 1961 1519 May 27, 1970 1467 December 31, 1989 1478 December 31, 2009 1376 December 31, 2010 1361 December 31, 2011 1353 December 31 2013 1259 December 31, 2016 1291

¹ census result

politics

Municipal council

The Steinhorst municipality council consists of eleven members.

	CDU	SPD	UWGS	total
2001	7th	3	1	11 seats
2006	8th	3	0	11 seats
2011	8th	3	0	11 seats
2016	7th	4th	0	11 seats

Status: Local elections in Lower Saxony 2016

mayor

Klaus-Hinrich Singer was elected honorary mayor, replacing Wilhelm Hasselmann on November 14, 2016. Hasselmann was mayor for 20 years and no longer stood for election.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms is as follows: divided 2: 1 by a silver wavy bar in green and red, topped with a silver horse head to the right, accompanied by an ear of wheat and an oak leaf with acorn, both gold, underneath topped with a horizontally halved black mill wheel.

The upper part indicates the agriculture and forestry of the place; the undulating dividing line symbolizes the Lachte river . The lower part of the coat of arms shows a water wheel and stands for the Steinhorster mill.

Culture and sights

• List of architectural monuments in Steinhorst
• Steinhorst School Museum in the Erich Less House, Marktstr. 20th
• St. George's Church in Steinhorst (13th century)
• Gasthaus Weißes Roß (19th century, demolished in winter 2012/2013)
• House of the community. The building was erected in 1911/12 by Heinrich Tessenow as an apprentice residence for a Jewish agricultural school. In 1926 the North German Football Association bought the house, in 1952 it was acquired by the Hamburg Football Association and used as the association's youth home, and since 1973 it has been owned by the Steinhorst community. In 1988 it was placed under monument protection.

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  Lachtefurt in place

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  St. George's Church

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  Townscape

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  Bells in front of St. George's Church

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  Former inn "Weißes Roß" on an old postcard; today there is a memorial stone there.

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  Memorial stone

Regular events

• Shooting festival: Whitsun weekend
• Fair: last Tuesday in August
• Steinhorster reading summer
• Sports week of the sports club: July / August
• Harvest festival: first weekend in September
• Oldtimer / tractor meeting: mid-September, Steinhorst, Reinhorn district

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

• Steinhorst is west of the federal highway 4 , which leads from Braunschweig to Lüneburg .
• The state road L 282 runs through Steinhorst from Celle towards Wittingen .
• Starting from Steinhorst, the district roads K 1 lead in the direction of Groß Oesingen and the K 2 to federal road 4 near Auermühle.

education

• Elementary school, Brauelweg 3
• Kindergarten, Apfelweg 4
• Forest and nature kindergarten, animal-assisted, Reinhornweg 8
• House of the community (rural youth room), Metzinger Str. 1

Sons and daughters of the church

• Fritz Beindorff (1860–1944) was the owner of the Pelikan Holding company from 1895 and built the Auermühle estate
• Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord (1878–1943), buried in the family cemetery in Steinhorst, Reichswehr chief and general
• Felix Linnemann (1882–1948), fourth DFB president, head of the Hanover criminal police station, SS standard leader
• Erich Less (1894–1961), Professor of Education

literature

• Werner Siebarth: Steinhorst - The youth home in the Lüneburg Heath . Hamburg 1953
• Hans Türschmann: The Postmoor (Bargfeld ,räderloh, Steinhorst): 100 years of soil improvement and landscape management in the Postmoor - an association chronology . Ed .: Bodenverband Postmoor Steinhorst /räderloh. End wood 2010

Web links

Commons : Steinhorst (Lower Saxony)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the joint community of Hankensbüttel
• Official blog of the Steinhorst community

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. ↑ In detail: Matthias Blazek: The fire extinguishing system in the area of ​​the former Principality of Lüneburg from the beginnings to 1900. Adelheidsdorf 2006, p. 486 f., ISBN 978-3-00-019837-3 .
3. ↑ Matthias Blazek: Helmerkamp - our village. Hohne 2009, p. 188.
4. ^ 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. 227 .
5. ^ 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. 43 ( digital version [PDF; 27.1 MB ]).
6. ^ Result of the local council election Steinhorst 2016 . hankensbuettel.de. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
7. ↑ http://www.schloss-gf.de/amtsblatt/2016/abl1602.pdf