Vahlbruch

This article deals with the municipality in Lower Saxony. For terms and personalities of the same name, see Vahlbruch (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 55 '  N , 9 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Holzminden
Joint municipality :	Bodenwerder pollen
Height :	276 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.19 km 2
Residents:	415 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	29 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	37647
Area code :	05535
License plate :	HOL
Community key :	03 2 55 035
Association administration address:	Münchhausenplatz 1 37619 Bodenwerder
Website :	www.muenchhausenland.de
Mayor :	Heinrich Ostermann
Location of the municipality of Vahlbruch in the Holzminden district

Vahlbruch is a municipality in the Holzminden district in Lower Saxony (Germany) and is part of the Bodenwerder-Polle municipality .

geography

Geographical location

Vahlbruch lies on the Ottenstein plateau in the Weser Uplands .

Neighboring communities

Vahlbruch is the westernmost municipality in the Holzminden district. In the west, the municipality border also forms the state border with North Rhine-Westphalia , namely with the city of Lügde ( Lippe district ). Clockwise close to the town of Bad Pyrmont ( Landkreis Hameln-Pyrmont ) and Ottenstein , Brevörde and Polle (all bodenwerder-polle , district of Holzminden ).

Community structure

In addition to the center of Vahlbruch itself, the Meiborssen district to the south-east of it belongs to the community .

history

The village of Meiborssen was mentioned in documents in 1508 as Meibodessen or Maybarssen .

However, the name Vahlbruch is already mentioned as "Valebroch" in the list of witnesses in a document of the Counts of Everstein from 1263. There is a "Domino burgardo militi de valebroch", ie "Herr Burkhard, Lehnsmann von Vahlbruch".

From April 1922 Vahlbruch belonged to the Hameln-Pyrmont district . In the course of the territorial reform by law to reorganize the communities in the Holzminden area , Vahlbruch came to the district of Holzminden on January 1, 1973 and to the integrated community of Polle , which was founded in January 1973 .

In 1976 the gallery owner Rudolf Jüdes opened a weekend gallery of the Steintor Verlag in Meiborssen on an "old farm" . At the opening he brought works by Werner Hilsing , Woldemar Winkler , Akkitham Narayanan, Dusanka Jovic and Maximilian Hutlett. At the same time, the Steinhaus-Presse artist printing company had its headquarters in the same place. In the weekend gallery, Rudolf Jüdes showed numerous graphic exhibitions until the mid-1990s. Advertising material from the period between 1978 and 1984 has been preserved in the Holzminden city archive.

On October 18, 1988, a British F-4 Phantom II fighter plane crashed into a wooded area near Brevörde due to an engine failure . The two pilots Pete Lines and Colin Fryer can save themselves with the ejector seat in a field in Meiborssen. The combined municipality of Polle then demanded from the federal government in November 1988 a ban on low-level flights in the Upper Weser region.

Since January 1, 2010, the municipality of Vahlbruch has been part of the joint municipality of Bodenwerder-Polle .

Incorporations

On January 1, 1973, the neighboring municipality of Meiborssen was incorporated.

Population development

year	Residents
1925	412
1933	407
1939	376
1961	444
1970	389
1973	591
1987	556
1996	595
2005	555
2008	492
2009	471
2011	458
2017	384

politics

Municipal council

Following the local elections on September 11, 2011 (voter turnout: 54.76%), the municipal council consists of seven representatives from the Vahlbruch community of voters (WG).

mayor

Mayor is Heinrich Ostermann (WG).

coat of arms

Description of coat of arms

"On gold a black church standing over a green crossbar"

church

St. Matthew's Church dates back to the time of the Reformation after 1535. The organ was built by the organ builder dynasty of the Euler family from Reinhardswald in 1845 and was thoroughly restored in 2009/2010 by the Wurm workshop from Neustadtgödens .

Economy and Infrastructure

In addition to agricultural and forestry operations, Vahlbruch also has a window and door construction company, a quarry and wind turbines, as well as an agricultural machinery trade with a repair shop. In Meiborssen there is also an elderly u. Retirement home.

The People's Bank in Emmerthal was represented for a long time in the village and merged to Volksbank Hameln-Stadthagen eG (formerly Volksbank Hameln-Pyrmont eG ).

The house numbers in Vahlbruch go back to the original yard sizes and are therefore confusing. In the center of the village there is a display with the current distribution.

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. ↑ Steintor-Verlag Rudolf Jüdes: Flyer invitation to the opening of the weekend gallery Meiborssen on the weekend of Pentecost 1976.
3. ↑ Description at Arcsys Niedersachsen , retrieved on November 25, 2019.
4. ↑ ^{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. 195 .
5. ^ Samtgemeinde Polle - Vahlbruch ( Memento of October 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

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

• Homepage of the joint community of Polle