Upen

Upen Municipality Liebenburg
	Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 22 ″ N , 10 ° 20 ′ 42 ″ E
Height :	170 m above sea level NN
Residents :	363 (May 1, 2016)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	38704
Area code :	05341
Location of Upen in Lower Saxony

Upen is a district of the municipality of Liebenburg in the Goslar district in Lower Saxony. With 363 inhabitants, it is one of the smaller districts of the municipality.

geography

The following places surround Upen:

Alt Wallmoden in the northwest
Hohenrode in the north
Salzgitter-Bad in the northeast
Posthof and Othfresen in the east
Ostharingen in the southeast
Bredelem in the south
Ostlutter in the southwest
Neuwallmoden in the west

The Innerste flows northeast of Upen about one and a half kilometers away .

history

Upen village church

Upen was first mentioned in a document in 1125. Over the years, the place developed into a clustered village, while initially only on the Neile , a tributary along the Innerste , was built. From 1176 the village belonged to the Heiningen monastery . This is due to a gift from the Bishop of Hildesheim.

In the Middle Ages, Upen was an important crossing point between Goslar and Braunschweig with Lutter am Barenberge and Hornburg . At that time and in the centuries that followed, agriculture and some handicrafts were the main livelihoods of the inhabitants.

The current village center dates from the 19th and 20th centuries. Around 1850 mainly half-timbered houses were built, which were replaced by brick buildings after 1900. Around this village center, which mainly consists of courtyards and workers' houses, new residential areas emerged from the middle of the 20th century. Today there are only a few farms left; the old buildings in the town center are mostly listed .

On July 1, 1972, Upen was incorporated into Liebenburg.

Many houses and streets were rehabilitated or renovated around the turn of the millennium as part of a village renewal.

politics

Local council

The local council of Upen consists of five councilors:

Community of voters : 5 seats

(Status: local election on September 11, 2016 )

Local mayor

The local mayor is Andrea Bestian.

coat of arms

Coat of arms until 1983

The coat of arms with the ram's head was introduced around 1974/75. It is reminiscent of the numerous mouflon game in the area of the Wallmodener Klippen , which was released there in 1934 and which is still at home there today. The coat of arms was replaced by a new coat of arms in 1983. This shows a linden tree in the upper field - these trees were already standing on the village street in the 19th century - and is reminiscent of the former village name Lindendorf . The oblique blue wavy band stands for the Neile , on the banks of which the place was built. The now red mouflon head in the lower field was taken from the old coat of arms.

Economy and Infrastructure

Transport links

Upen is on a district road that connects the place with the federal highway 248 , Alt Wallmoden, grid and Salzgitter-Bad as well as with Posthof and Othfresen in the west. There is also a side road that leads south to the neighboring town of Ostharingen.

swell

For the sections history and politics : website of the community Liebenburg

Individual evidence

↑ Population statistics of the community of Liebenburg - as of May 1, 2016 .
^ Website of the communal data processing in Oldenburg , accessed on October 1, 2016.
↑ Composition of the local council of Upen (website of the community Liebenburg) , accessed on May 30, 2017.
^ Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch . Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , p. 91 .

[1] Population statistics of the community of Liebenburg - as of May 1, 2016 .

[2] Website of the communal data processing in Oldenburg , accessed on October 1, 2016.

[3] Composition of the local council of Upen (website of the community Liebenburg) , accessed on May 30, 2017.

[4] Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch . Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , p. 91 .