Veltheim (Ohe)

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Wolfenbüttel
Joint municipality :	Sank
Height :	130 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.44 km 2
Residents:	985 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	117 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	38173
Area code :	05305
License plate :	WF
Community key :	03 1 58 033
Association administration address:	Am Kamp 12 ; 38173 Sickte
Mayor :	Alexander von Veltheim ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Veltheim (Ohe) in the Wolfenbüttel district

Veltheim around 1654/1658, engraving by Matthäus Merian

Gatehouse of Veltheim Castle

Veltheim (Ohe) is a place and a municipality in the district of Wolfenbüttel in Lower Saxony . In addition to Veltheim, the town of Klein Veltheim also belongs to the community. The municipality of Veltheim is a member of the Samtgemeinde Sickte .

geography

Veltheim is located on the western foothills of the Elm in the fertile loess area of the East Brunswick hill country . Several brooks flow together from the Elmrand, one of which is Ohe . The forest area north of Klein Veltheim has the same name and is connected to the Veltheim Forest to the east.

The place is now off the road connecting Sickte and Lucklum , the state road L 625, which runs south of the honeycomb . The honeycomb drove several mills in earlier times.

history

The village name Veltheim, formerly also Veltem or Veltum, means home in the field . However, there are also indications that the Wolfenbütteler Veltheim dates from the Franconian period between 500 and 900 AD, when the Franks established church villages at strategically favorable points during Christianization .

Castle and manor

The current owners of the estate, the von Veltheim family , are first mentioned in a document in 1160. They built the Veltheim moated castle, which was later transformed into Veltheim Castle . Around 1494 the destroyed castle was sold to the von Honrodt family. In 1537 Ernst von Honrodt was enfeoffed by Brunswick Duke Heinrich the Younger with the castle, the court, the church patronage and the forests. In 1555 he redesigned the moated castle into a palace. In 1832 the Veltheim family bought back their ancestral estate. Today the farmer and landowner Alexander von Veltheim is mayor of the community. The Veltheim family has been a church patron in Veltheim for over 400 years .

The Cuntercamp is on the way to the castle. A grave slab in the church commemorates the death of the Junkers Hans and Christoph von Honrodt in 1531 on the day of Ascension . These are said to have quarreled over a peasant girl until both remained in their blood . The massive walls of the Veltheimer Wasserburg are also the cause of numerous legends that speak of "evil spirits".

religion

The historic church of St. Remigius is located on Kirchstrasse, its parish belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran provost of Königslutter.

The Catholic Church Heilig Kreuz is located on the waterway, it was built in 1949 by Josef Fehlig and is today the oldest post-war church in the Diocese of Hildesheim that is still in operation. Your parish, which has also included the Catholic Church in Weddel since 2006 , is part of the Braunschweig deanery .

View of Veltheim (Ohe) from the east
Evangelical village church
Catholic Church

politics

The municipal council, which was elected on September 11, 2011, is composed as follows:

CDU 6 seats
SPD 5 seats

(As of: local election on September 11, 2011)

The Veronika lake

Culture and sights

A specialty of Veltheim are the two sinkholes in the Feldmark , in which spring ponds have formed. A sinkhole formed on September 7, 1949. According to a legend, Napoleon is said to have hidden a gold treasure on the historic road between Braunschweig and Magdeburg or on the course of the Ohe stream.

Lake Veronika is located a little north of Veltheim (Ohe) in the Ohe forest . It was formed in 1972 when the Ohe brook was dammed and is just under two hectares in size. On the western edge of the lake is the former mill pond of the Veltheimer Mühle.

Personalities

Wilhelm Hille (1803–1880), German Lutheran theologian and Abbot of Amelungsborn

literature

Hans-Adolf Schultz : Castles and palaces of the Braunschweiger Land , Braunschweig 1980, ISBN 3-87884-012-8
Ernst Andreas Friedrich : Das Schloß Veltheim , pp. 131–132, in: If stones could talk. Volume IV, Landbuch-Verlag, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-7842-0558-5
Herbert Wolff: Veltheim (Ohe) 1160-2010 - Ortschronik for the 850 year celebration 2010 , Veltheim (Ohe) 2010

Web links

Commons : Veltheim (Ohe) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Veltheim in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian) - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

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

[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 ).