Vechelade

Vechelade Vechelde municipality
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 7 ″  N , 10 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	approx. 73 m above sea level NHN
Area :	34 ha
Residents :	581  (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	1,709 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	38159
Area code :	05302
Location of Vechelade in the municipality of Vechelde
Paul-Behmann-Strasse

Vechelade is a district of the municipality Vechelde in the district of Peine in Lower Saxony .

geography

Vechelade is located north of the Bundesstraße 1 (former Reichsstraße 1 ) between Braunschweig (10 km) and Hildesheim (29 km). The municipal reference point is Vechelde (3 km); the district town of Peine (12 km) is in the immediate vicinity. The next train station is Vechelde on the Hanover – Braunschweig railway line .

Neighboring places

		Bortfeld (Wendeburg)
Choose		Wedtlenstedt
Vechelde		Denstorf

history

Duchess Elisabeth Sophie Marie,
painting by Christoph Bernhard Francke , before 1729

The place on which the new settlement was founded the year before is referred to on a map in 1724 as the “Vecheld'sche Lage”. The land surveyor translated this name from "Vech'lah" according to the vernacular. The name for Vechelde was spoken similarly as early as 1145. because it appears in a document as "Vechtla". The final syllable “la” or “Iah” is derived from “loh” and, in the most ancient times, had the meaning for “forest”.

Vechelade was founded in 1723 by Duchess Elisabeth Sophie Marie (1683–1767) on an oak-lined island in the Auebruch as a settlement for day laborers from the princely estate of Vechelde. The Duchess placed the residents who had settled here under her special protection and granted them freedom. 1724 called “Houses on the Vecheldschen Lage”, 1755 Vechelage, later Vechelade. The place originally consisted of two streets that met at an angle. Immigration created a large triangle, the interior of which was occupied by gardens (later also residential buildings). The village shows two-storey workers' houses and some small central German stretch and hook yards. Vechelade has always belonged to the core area of ​​the state of Braunschweig.

Up until the First World War, there was a large apartment building in Vechelade, popularly known as "barracks". This apartment building accommodated foreign workers for the jute spinning mill in Vechelde. The number of tenants is said to have even approached the population of Fürstenau .

Incorporations

When the district of Braunschweig was divided up during the Lower Saxony regional and administrative reform in 1974 , Vechelade came to the district of Peine . On March 1, 1974, the village also lost its independence and is now part of the municipality of Vechelde.

Population development

year Residents source 1723 0 1802 163 1847 253 1871 312 1877 283 1910 377 1925 319 1933 323 1939 724 1954 431

year Residents source 1996 513 2007 487 2009 461 2011 457 2014 458 2017 540 0 0 0 0

politics

Local council

The 13 seats of the Vechelde / Vechelade local council are distributed as follows:

	SPD	CDU	Green	FDP	total	was standing
2016	8th	4th	-	1	13 seats	Local election on September 11, 2016
2011	8th	4th	1	-	13 seats	Local election on September 11, 2011
2006	7th	4th	1	1	13 seats	Local election on September 10, 2006

The local mayor is Olaf Marotz (SPD).

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows on a blue shield a golden rafter under which there is a golden house.

Before Vechelade was founded by the Duchess Elisabeth Sophie Marie in 1723, there was only a house at this place, which was used for hunting and forestry purposes. The first settlement consisted of two streets forming an angle. The new settlers were exempted from the customary taxes by the Duchess and were under her personal protection. The rafter refers both to this arrangement of the streets and to the protective function performed by the Duchess. The house is reminiscent of the town's first building and at the same time symbolizes its village character. The colors blue and gold make it clear that it belongs to the former district of Braunschweig.

The coat of arms was adopted by the local council on November 6, 1990, the design comes from Arnold Rabbow.

Economy and Infrastructure

Public facilities

In 1797 the Vecheladern set up their own burial ground on the edge of the village. In 1966 a cemetery chapel was also built in the cemetery.

education

In 1896 the municipality of Vechelade built its own school. The first teacher was the assistant teacher Fuhrmann and later this position was held by Paul Behmann , who held this position until his retirement in 1942. After the end of the Second World War, school operations were resumed in 1946. Hugo Herden , who had been expelled from the Sudetenland, was hired as a teacher and continued teaching until the school closed in 1969.

literature

• Wilhelm Bornstedt : Chronicle of the community Vechelde 973-1973. 2 vols., Vechelde 1973.
• Heinrich Keune: [1] Vechelade village clan book. Goslar 1939 (= The ancestors of the German people 15), 1158 families in the period 1730–1938
• Rudolf Paes: Vechelade. 1723-1973. Bodenstedt 1973.

Web links

Commons : Vechelade  - Collection of Images

• Website for the district of Vechelade
• Website of the municipality of Vechelde

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Population figures . In: Website of the municipality of Vechelde. December 31, 2018, accessed March 11, 2019 .  
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. 268 .
3. ↑ G. Hassel and R. Bege: Geo-statistical description of the principalities of Wolfenbüttel and Blankenburg . tape 1 . Friedrich Bernhard Culemann, Braunschweig 1802, p. 479 f . ( Google Books [accessed November 13, 2017]).
4. ↑ Karl Venturini: The Duchy of Braunschweig in its previous and present condition . C. G. Fleckeisen, Helmstedt 1847, p. 191 ( Google Books [accessed November 15, 2017]).
5. ^ Karl Andree : Geographie des Welthandels , 3rd volume, Julius Maier, Stuttgart 1877, p. 751
6. ↑ Municipal directory Germany 1900. - Duchy of Braunschweig - District of Braunschweig. Uli Schubert, 2014, accessed on November 13, 2017 .  
7. ^ ^{A b c} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Braunschweig. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  
8. ^ Council information system of the municipality of Vechelde , accessed on November 9, 2016
9. ^ Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch. Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , p. 153.
10. ↑ Vechelade coat of arms on ngw.nl