Steinlah

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Steinlah
Haverlah Parish
Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 31 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 46 ″  E
Height : approx. 160 m above sea level NN
Residents : 622  (Nov. 30, 1998)
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 38275
Area code : 05341
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Location of Steinlah in the Haverlah municipality
Church of St. Catherine of Steinlah
Church of St. Catherine of Steinlah

Steinlah is a district of the municipality Haverlah , which belongs to the joint municipality Baddeckestedt in the district of Wolfenbüttel in Lower Saxony.

geography

The following places surround Steinlah:

Steinlah is located on the western edge of the northern central part of the Salzgitter ridge .

history

The area around Steinlah had already been visited by people in the Neolithic Age, which tool finds prove.

It is believed that the place Steinlah was formed during the Great Migration in the 3rd to 5th centuries AD. From here, the Hellweg, which ran through the Salzgitter ridge and led to the brine springs in today's Salzgitter-Bad, was secured . However, the first documented mention of the village comes from the year 1239. Steinlah was created on a previously wooded area and developed from a farm to the knight's seat of the Lords of Steinlah, who can be traced back to 1311. Up to this point in time and beyond, several farms were liable to the landlords; this later included aristocratic families, monasteries and churches in the area.

Only after the village of Grundstedt in the west of Steinlah, first mentioned in 1146, was given up around 1350, the Gutsort Steinlah developed into a farming village. At least since the 15th century the village belonged to the duchy of Hildesheim . Through the Hildesheim collegiate feud from 1519 to 1523 it came to the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , to which it belonged until 1643.

In 1654 a teacher is mentioned in Steinlah. In 1739 the school burned down. After it was rebuilt, a new building had to give way in 1848, which was enlarged in 1889. The building of the last school, which was finally closed in 1980, opened in 1951.

Up until the 1930s, canaries were bred in Steinlah , which were mainly sold to America.

Mill

Location of the Steinlah Mill in Haverlah Municipality

Steinlah's mill was built on a hill southwest of the village after the Thirty Years War . At first it was a post mill , which was later replaced by a Dutch mill . In 1936 the mill lost its wings due to a lightning strike, but it is still the location of a craft business.

Mining

church

The tower of St. Catherine's Church in Steinlah dates from 1447. However, the nave had to be renewed in 1867 and is 420 years younger. The Gothic baptismal font, however, is older than the church tower.

A Protestant pastor can be found in the village since the Reformation.

Culture and sights

Ark Village

In Steinlah, a number of animal owners are breeding old breeds of domestic animals, several of which are endangered and are therefore on the Red List of the Society for the Conservation of Old and Endangered Domestic Animal Breeds (GEH).

The following breeds are kept:

The GEH gave the project the name Arche-Dorf .

Economy and Infrastructure

Transport links

The county road 81 leads through Steinlah, which connects the village with the federal road 6 and Haverlah in the south as well as with the state road 670 between Gustedt and Gebhardshagen.

The nearest train stations are in Baddeckestedt on the Hildesheim – Goslar line and in Salzgitter-Bad on the Braunschweig – Salzgitter-Bad line .

Personalities

Sign of the Walbaumstrasse in Steinlah

literature

swell

To the history section :

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steinlah on the website of the Samtgemeinde Baddeckestedt , accessed on March 28, 2018.
  2. ↑ Internet site of the Arche-Dorf Steinlah , accessed on May 18, 2015.
  3. ↑ GEH website , accessed on May 18, 2015.