Vechelde

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Torment
Height :	77 m above sea level NHN
Area :	75.87 km 2
Residents:	17,584 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	232 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	38159
Primaries :	05302, 05300
License plate :	PE
Community key :	03 1 57 007
LOCODE :	DE 74C
Community structure:	17 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Hildesheimer Strasse 85 ; 38159 Vechelde
Website :	www.vechelde.de
Mayor :	Ralf Werner ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Vechelde in the district of Peine

Vechelde is a municipality with 17,584 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the Peine district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality of Vechelde lies in the transition area between the foothills of the northern Harz foreland and the North German lowlands , on the left side of the Oker River . It borders directly on the three cities of Braunschweig , Salzgitter and Peine .

Community structure

Aerial photos of the districts
Bodenstedt
Sir
Sonnenberg

The municipality consists of the following districts:

Neighboring communities

The neighboring municipalities of Vechelde are:

Torment	Wendeburg
Ilsede		Braunschweig
Lengede		Salzgitter

climate

Vechelde lies within the temperate latitudes in the transition area between oceanic and continental areas.

Average precipitation values in the municipality of Vechelde 1961–1990 (district Fürstenau)

history

Until the regional reform in Lower Saxony , the former municipality of Vechelde consisted only of the current district of Vechelde .

On March 1, 1974, the 17 localities Alvesse, Bettmar, Bodenstedt, Denstorf, Fürstenau, Groß Gleidingen, Klein Gleidingen, Köchingen, Liedingen, Sierße, Sonnenberg, Vallstedt, Vechelade, Vechelde, Wahle, Wedtlenstedt and Wierthe were newly created Unified municipality Vechelde summarized. At that time the community had about 12,900 inhabitants.

Before that, the places formed independent communities in the Braunschweig district . Since its dissolution on March 1, 1974, the municipality and its localities have belonged to the district of Peine .

In July 2014, Vechelde hosted the Braunschweigische Landschaft cultural festival .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1975	12,748
1976	12,571
1977	12,613
1978	12,594
1980	12,764
1985	13,692
1990	14,585
1995	15.005
2000	16,095
2005	16,230

year	Residents	source
2010	16.094
2012	16,014
2013	16,264
2014	16,353
2015	16,738
2016	16,925
2017	17,071
2018	17,247
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0

Year chart

politics

Vechelde town hall

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Vechelde consists of 32 councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 15,001 and 20,000. The 32 council members are elected for five years each by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The full-time mayor is also entitled to vote in the council of the municipality.

The last local elections gave the following result:

Local election	SPD	CDU	Green	FDP	WVS	total
11th September 2016	17th	10	4th	1	-	32 seats
September 11, 2011	17th	10	4th	-	1	32 seats
September 10, 2006	17th	12	2	1	-	32 seats

mayor

Mayor of the municipality of Vechelde since 1974
1974-1981	Werner Kirschner	SPD
1981-1986	Carl Lauenstein	CDU
1989-1996	Heinz Otto Schoeck	CDU
1996-1998	Horst Hartmann	SPD
1998-2014	Hartmut Marotz	SPD
2014 – date	Ralf Werner	SPD

The full-time mayor is Ralf Werner (SPD). On July 6, 2014, the community's voters elected the successor to Hartmut Marotz (SPD), who has been in office since 1998. Ralf Werner took up his position on November 1, 2014.

Until 1998, the political representation of the community and the administration remained separate from each other: an honorary mayor as the highest representative of the community and a full-time community director as the head of administration. According to the Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Act , there has been a full-time mayor since 1998, who is also the head of administration and is directly elected by the residents of the municipality.

coat of arms

Municipal coat of arms

The draft municipal coat of arms of the community Vechelde comes from the Braunschweiger heraldist and author War Wilhelm .

The coat of arms was approved by the municipal council on July 13, 1965 and approved by the Brunswick district president on January 12, 1966.
The decision of the new municipality created on January 1, 1974 to continue the coat of arms was passed on May 6, 1975 by the municipal council and approved on October 31, 1975 by the Peine district.

	Blazon : "In blue a golden sloping bar , topped with three red roses with golden clusters."
	Explanation of the coat of arms: The municipal coat of arms is a color change of the former coat of arms of the von Vechelde family. Already with this coat of arms three silver roses were to be seen on a black sloping beam on a silver shield background. The blue-gold coloring expresses the affiliation of the community to the Braunschweig district, to which Vechelde belonged at that time.

Coat of arms of the municipality of Vechelde (1968–1974)

In addition to the municipal coat of arms, from 1968 until the territorial reform in 1974 there was a separate coat of arms for the combined municipality of Vechelde, which consisted of an amalgamation of the villages of Bodenstedt, Denstorf, Fürstenau, Klein Gleidingen, Köchingen, Liedingen, Sophiental, Vechelade, Vechelde and Wedtlenstedt. The design of this coat of arms also comes from the Braunschweig heraldist and author Wilhelm Krieg. The coat of arms was adopted on November 6, 1967 by the joint municipal council and approved by the administrative president on March 26, 1968.

	Blazon : "In gold, a blue sloping wavy bar between a red rose with a golden slug."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The sloping beam was a modification of the beam of the municipal coat of arms and was intended to represent the location of the villages on both sides of the floodplain and the Mittelland Canal. The color scheme was arranged differently, but remained the same.

Coats of arms of the districts

Alvesse
Bettmar
Bodenstedt
Denstorf
Fürstenau
Great Gleidingen
Klein Gleidingen
Kochingen
Liedingen
Sir
Sonnenberg
Vallstedt
Vechelade
Vechelde
Choose
Wedtlenstedt
Wierthe

Flag and official seal

Flag : The flag of the municipality of Vechelde shows the colors blue and yellow, in the middle the coat of arms of the municipality of Vechelde.

Official seal : The official seal contains the coat of arms of the municipality of Vechelde and the inscription "Municipality of Vechelde, district of Peine" .

Town twinning

The municipality of Vechelde maintains city partnerships with:

Finland Valkeakoski in Finland , since 1976
Germany Biederitz in Saxony-Anhalt , since 1990
Poland Niemodlin in Poland , since 2006

Infrastructure

Volunteer firefighter

The Vechelde volunteer fire brigade consists of 13 local fire departments. These are currently divided into a fire brigade , two base fire brigades and ten basic fire brigades .

traffic

With a stop on the Hanover – Braunschweig railway line , the municipality has access to local rail passenger transport .

The Salzgitter branch canal , a federal waterway that connects the Mittelland Canal with the port facilities of the city of Salzgitter , runs through the east of the municipality in a north-south orientation . The Heidanger yacht harbor on the Salzgitter branch canal near Wedtlenstedt offers 90 berths.

The municipality is connected to the district town of Peine via the B 65 federal highway . The B 1 leads east to Braunschweig , in a west-southwest direction it leads to Hildesheim .

education

In the central location there are schools of the general school forms of lower secondary level ( Hauptschule , Realschule and Gymnasium ), a primary school for grades 1 to 4 and a special school with a focus on learning. The school building for the Vechelde orientation level was converted into a grammar school in 2004.

Further primary schools and branches of the Vechelde primary school exist in the districts of Bettmar, Sierße, Vallstedt and, since 1997, in the district of Wedtlenstedt, the second largest district of the municipality after the central town of Vechelde.

Elementary schools

Albert Schweitzer School, elementary school with kindergarten, Vechelde
- Elementary school branch office Bettmar
- Sierße primary school branch
Heinrich Kielhorn School, Vallstedt
Löwenherz Elementary School, Wedtlenstedt

secondary schools

Albert Schweitzer School, Vechelde

secondary school

Realschule Vechelde, Vechelde

high school

Julius Spiegelberg High School, Vechelde

special school

Albert Schweitzer School, special school with a focus on learning, Vechelde

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
^ 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. 268 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p population figures. In: Website of the State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony (LSN). Retrieved July 24, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Population and areas in the Peine district. (PDF; 14 kB) In: Peine district website. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG); Section 46 - Number of Deputies. In: Internet site for the Lower Saxony Regulation Information System (NI-VORIS). December 17, 2010, accessed July 24, 2019 .
↑ Werner succeeds Marotz. In: Website Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung . July 6, 2014, accessed July 24, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b designs of coat of arms by Wilhelm Krieg. In: Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved July 24, 2019.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Arnold Rabbow: Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch . The coats of arms of the communities and districts in the urban and rural districts of Braunschweig, Gandersheim, Gifhorn, Goslar, Helmstedt, Peine, Salzgitter, Wolfenbüttel and Wolfsburg. Ed .: Braunschweiger Zeitung, Salzgitter Zeitung and Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Eckensberger & Co Verlag, Braunschweig 1977, DNB 780686667 , p. 96 .
↑ Main statute, § 2 national emblem / official seal, paragraph 1. (PDF; 39 kB) In: Website of the municipality of Vechelde. December 19, 2011, p. 1 , accessed on July 24, 2019 (the unheraldic addition, “The bar runs from top left to bottom right,” which is not necessary for exact blazon, is omitted here).
^ Arnold Rabbow: Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch . The coats of arms of the communities and districts in the urban and rural districts of Braunschweig, Gandersheim, Gifhorn, Goslar, Helmstedt, Peine, Salzgitter, Wolfenbüttel and Wolfsburg. Ed .: Braunschweiger Zeitung, Salzgitter Zeitung and Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Eckensberger & Co Verlag, Braunschweig 1977, DNB 780686667 , p. 96-97 .
↑ Coat of arms of the joint municipality of Vechelde 1968 to 1974. In: www.ngw.nl. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .
↑ Main statute, § 2 national emblem / official seal, paragraph 2. (PDF; 39 kB) In: Website of the municipality of Vechelde. December 19, 2011, p. 1 , accessed July 24, 2019 .
↑ Main statute, § 2 national emblem / official seal, paragraph 3. (PDF; 39 kB) In: Website of the municipality of Vechelde. December 19, 2011, p. 1 , accessed July 24, 2019 .
↑ Sister cities. In: Website of the municipality of Vechelde. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .
↑ Heidanger marina. In: ADAC Skipper Portal website. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-NI-1] State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).

[BibISBN-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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 268 .

[LASNDS-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p population figures. In: Website of the State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony (LSN). Retrieved July 24, 2019 .

[Landkreispeine-4] Population and areas in the Peine district. (PDF; 14 kB) In: Peine district website. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .

[Abgeordnete-5] Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG); Section 46 - Number of Deputies. In: Internet site for the Lower Saxony Regulation Information System (NI-VORIS). December 17, 2010, accessed July 24, 2019 .

[Bürgerm.-6] Werner succeeds Marotz. In: Website Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung . July 6, 2014, accessed July 24, 2019 .

[W._Krieg-7] designs of coat of arms by Wilhelm Krieg. In: Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved July 24, 2019.

[Wappen_I-8] Arnold Rabbow: Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch . The coats of arms of the communities and districts in the urban and rural districts of Braunschweig, Gandersheim, Gifhorn, Goslar, Helmstedt, Peine, Salzgitter, Wolfenbüttel and Wolfsburg. Ed .: Braunschweiger Zeitung, Salzgitter Zeitung and Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Eckensberger & Co Verlag, Braunschweig 1977, DNB 780686667 , p. 96 .

[Wappen_2-9] Main statute, § 2 national emblem / official seal, paragraph 1. (PDF; 39 kB) In: Website of the municipality of Vechelde. December 19, 2011, p. 1 , accessed on July 24, 2019 (the unheraldic addition, “The bar runs from top left to bottom right,” which is not necessary for exact blazon, is omitted here).

[Wappen_II-10] Arnold Rabbow: Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch . The coats of arms of the communities and districts in the urban and rural districts of Braunschweig, Gandersheim, Gifhorn, Goslar, Helmstedt, Peine, Salzgitter, Wolfenbüttel and Wolfsburg. Ed .: Braunschweiger Zeitung, Salzgitter Zeitung and Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Eckensberger & Co Verlag, Braunschweig 1977, DNB 780686667 , p. 96-97 .

[Wappen-11] Coat of arms of the joint municipality of Vechelde 1968 to 1974. In: www.ngw.nl. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .

[hauptsatzung_2-12] Main statute, § 2 national emblem / official seal, paragraph 2. (PDF; 39 kB) In: Website of the municipality of Vechelde. December 19, 2011, p. 1 , accessed July 24, 2019 .

[hauptsatzung_3-13] Main statute, § 2 national emblem / official seal, paragraph 3. (PDF; 39 kB) In: Website of the municipality of Vechelde. December 19, 2011, p. 1 , accessed July 24, 2019 .

[Partner-14] Sister cities. In: Website of the municipality of Vechelde. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .

[ADAC-15] Heidanger marina. In: ADAC Skipper Portal website. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .