Vahle (Uslar)

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Vahle
City of Uslar
Former municipal coat of arms of Vahle
Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 26 "  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 34"  E
Height : 199 m
Residents : 250  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 37170
Area code : 05571
Vahle (Lower Saxony)
Vahle

Location of Vahle in Lower Saxony

Vahle is a district of the city of Uslar in southern Lower Saxony with 250 inhabitants .

location

Vahle is located in the Northeim district on the southern foothills of the Solling . The core city of Uslar is 2 kilometers southwest, the two neighboring towns of Eschershausen and Dinkelhausen are each 1.5 kilometers away.

The district town of Northeim is 21 kilometers to the east as the crow flies, the next major city of Göttingen is 23 kilometers to the southeast. The state capital Hanover is located approx. 78 kilometers north of Vahle and Berlin 279 kilometers northeast (all information as the crow flies).

The place is at an altitude of about 200 meters above sea level and is surrounded by meadows and fields. In the north, the densely forested Solling rises to over 500 meters.

View from the southwest of Vahle

history

The village is first mentioned in 1141 as "Valede". In a document from the State Archives in Hanover from May 18, 1488 it says u. a .: "... to the abbot and convent of the St. Blasii monastery in Northeim against a Vorwerk of 25 Hufen Landes with the bailiwick and the justice of the village of Vaelde near Uslar to the extent that the old documents show ...". Around 1590 there were 8 half-spouses , 18 Kötner and one house boy in Vahle .

Since March 1, 1974, the formerly independent community has been part of the then newly founded community of Uslar.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

There is only one side road through Vahle. The next motorway junctions are on the A 7 in Northeim, Nörten-Hardenberg and Göttingen. There are bus connections to Uslar and some surrounding towns.

economy

There are no industrial companies in Vahle itself. Agriculture and forestry are also declining, so that the majority of the working population have to commute to the surrounding towns and cities. There is a manufacturer and distributor of wood products for heating, a heating construction company, a company that produces electronic control elements for heating construction and one that produces lighting, and a few other self-employed people .

Culture and sights

Chapel and school

Chapel and school building

The Evangelical Lutheran chapel in Vahle is an unadorned rectangular half-timbered building with a hipped roof . Today, the walls, like the hexagonal turret in the center, are hung with slate on the outside. The building was erected in 1792. The chapel room only takes up the western part of the house, the former school and the teacher's apartment are located in the east. Two copies of the unique regional collection of skulls are kept inside the chapel, most of which were brought to the Uslar local history museum.

Attractions

  • Bomhof ruin , ruin of a medieval waiting tower in Solling (north of Dinkelhausen)
  • Harzblick observation tower on the Großer Steinberg (north of Vahle)
  • Sollingturm observation tower on the Strutberg (not far west of Vahle)
  • Otto Sorge grill hut on the edge of the forest

societies

Individual evidence

  1. a b Population data of Uslar including districts, published by the city of Uslar (as of December 31, 2019). Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  2. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 214 .
  3. a b Christian Kämmerer, Peter Ferdinand Lufen: Northeim district, part 1. Southern part with the cities of Hardegsen, Moringen, Northeim and Uslar, the areas of Bodenfelde and Nörten-Hardenberg, the community of Katlenburg-Lindau and the community-free area of ​​Solling . Ed .: Christiane Segers-Glocke. CW Niemeyer, Hameln 2002, ISBN 3-8271-8261-1 , p. 354–356 (Monument Topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural Monuments in Lower Saxony, Volume 7.1).
  4. ^ Vahle on the website of the city of Uslar, accessed on November 24, 2011

Web links

Page from Vahle on the official homepage of the city of Uslar