Visselhövede

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 59 ′  N , 9 ° 35 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Height :	70 m above sea level NHN
Area :	158.89 km 2
Residents:	9598 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	60 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27374
Area code :	04262
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 051
Website :	www.visselhoevede.de
Mayor :	Ralf Goebel (independent)
Location of the city of Visselhövede in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district

Visselhövede [ ˌfɪsl̩ˈhøːvədə ] (Low German Visselhöövd ) is a small town in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme) , Lower Saxony , on the western edge of the Lüneburg Heath .

geography

Geographical location

City center (market square)

Visselhövede is about 70 meters above sea level on the ridge of the Neuenkirchen terminal moraine , which borders the southern heath to the northwest and rises from the Wümmen lowlands by a good 50 meters. The highest point is the Höllenberg in the district of Drögenbostel with 93.4 m above sea ​​level . The river Vissel (also Visselbach ) rises with a strong spring in a park in the city center . The headwaters of the Lehrde , a right tributary of the Aller , the Warnau and the Rodau flowing to the Wümme , are also located in the urban area .

The city is located in the city triangle Bremen - Hamburg - Hanover . The area is predominantly characterized by agricultural land (107.09 km²). 26.44 km² is forest area and 5.22 km² is courtyard or building area.

City structure

In addition to the core town, Visselhövede consists of the 14 surrounding villages: Bleckwedel , Buchholz , Dreeßel , Drögenbostel, Hiddingen , Jeddingen , Kettenburg , Lüdingen , Nindorf , Ottingen , Rosebruch , Schwitschen , Wehnsen and Wittorf . The population is roughly half distributed in the core town and the other half in the localities.

Neighboring cities

Directly neighboring local authorities are the municipality of Kirchlinteln in the district of Verden , the municipality of Bothel in the district of Rotenburg and the municipality of Neuenkirchen , the city of Soltau and the city of Walsrode in the district of Heidekreis .

Bothel , Rotenburg (Wümme) 14 km, 19 km	Tostedt 51 km	Neuenkirchen , Schneverdingen 11 km, 21 km
Verden , Bremen 26 km, 66 km		Soltau 21 km
Nienburg (Weser) 62 km	Walsrode , Hanover 15 km, 77 km	Bad Fallingbostel 17 km

history

middle Ages

Visselhövede has developed in a high trough around the sources of the Vissel river. At this point there was a pre-Christian shrine. The first known documentary mention of the place falls on the year 1258. A document from 1288 proves the transfer of the Gografschaft Visselhövede to the Verden bishop Konrad .

In 1432 the parish of Visselhövede was badly damaged in fighting and the core town burned down. The Verden bishop Johann then had the newly built place slightly fortified with ramparts and moats and closed with two gates (1450). This gave the place the status of a patch .

Early modern age

In 1567 the Reformation was introduced. After a Catholic interlude through the imperial edict of restitution between 1629 and 1631, Visselhövede became Protestant. In 1645 the place with the Duchy of Verden fell to Sweden . Visselhövede became Danish in 1712 and finally in 1719 by the Hanoverian Elector Georg Ludwig , together with the Duchy of Verden. Between 1805 and 1813, Visselhövede belonged to France for most of the time due to the conquests of Napoleon . The liberation from French rule took place on October 12, 1813 by Russian-Prussian troops. Then Visselhövede belonged to the Kingdom of Hanover . From 1866 followed 80 years of membership in Prussia , which was dissolved by the victorious powers in 1946 .

19th and 20th centuries

In 1874, Visselhövede received a railway connection through the construction of the American line, which was supplemented in 1890 by a line via Walsrode to Hanover ( see Heidebahn ; dismantled in 1986) and in 1906 by the Bremervörde – Walsrode railway to Rotenburg (Wümme) (dismantled between 1974 and 1982) . In 1938 Visselhövede received city status.

Incorporations

On the occasion of the regional reform, the communities Bleckwedel, Buchholz, Dreeßel, Drögenbostel, Hiddingen, Jeddingen, Kettenburg (previously in the Fallingbostel district ), Lüdingen, Nindorf, Ottingen, Rosebruch, Schwitschen, Wehnsen and Wittorf were incorporated on March 1, 1974 .

religion

St. John's Church

Evangelical Lutheran Church

The majority of the denominational residents belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church (St. Johannis parish with St. Johannis church in Visselhövede and chapel in the Wittorf district). Since September 1, 2010, this has formed the Brockel / Kirchwalsede / Visselhövede church association (BKV) in the Rotenburg parish together with the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirchengemeinde in Brockel and the St. Bartholomäus-Kirchengemeinde Kirchwalsede.

Roman Catholic Church

The Catholic Christians are organized in a parish with churches in Visselhövede ( Herz-Jesu-Kirche ), Walsrode, Bad Fallingbostel and Bomlitz (Benefeld).

Islam

The members of Islam are predominantly of Turkish or Kurdish, but also of Arab, Iranian or Pakistani origin and belong to communities in Rotenburg, Verden, Bremen or Walsrode.

Other denominations

There is also a church of a New Apostolic congregation . In Visselhövede - as in the rest of Germany - there is a growing proportion of non-denominational residents.

politics

City council

The council of the city of Visselhövede consists of 24 councilors. This is the specified number for a city with a population between 9,001 and 10,000. The 24 council members are elected by local elections for five years each. The full-time mayor Ralf Goebel (non-party) is also entitled to vote in the city council.

Local election 2016

Turnout: 55.6% (2011: 53.35%)

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42.0%

30.6%

12.5%

3.3%

11.6%

CDU

SPD

Green

FDP

WfV

town hall

After the last local election on September 11, 2016 , the result led to the following distribution of seats:

Party / list	Seats
CDU	10 seats (- 1)0
SPD	7 seats (- 2)
Green	3 seats (- 1)
FDP	01 seat (± 0)
We in Visselhövede (WiV)	3 seats (+ 2)

mayor

The full-time mayor of the city of Visselhövede is Ralf Goebel (independent). In the last mayoral election on May 25, 2014, he was elected with 71.3% of the vote. His opponent Eckhard Langanke (non-party) received 28.7%. The turnout was 56.4%. Goebel took office on November 1, 2014, replacing the previous incumbent Franka Strehse (SPD), who was no longer running.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “In silver (white) a broad-ended black nail-pointed cross covered with a golden (yellow) bowl, in which the silver (white) head of St. John the Baptist . "
	Foundation of the coat of arms: The coat of arms awarded in 1885 goes back to a privilege granted by Bishop Eberhard von Holle in 1581. The Johanneshaupt is attached to the Nagelspitzkreuz as a symbol of the Diocese of Verden as a reference to the local church with this patron, which existed before 1258.

Banner and flag

	00Banner: "The banner is green and white striped lengthways with the coat of arms above the middle."
	00Hoisted flag: "The flag is cross-striped in green and white with the coat of arms in the middle."

Culture and sights

St. Johannis in Visselhövede

Sights include the old town with the market square and alleys, the Vissel spring and the town hall. The St. Johannis Church was built in 1358 as a Gothic stone building, to which the bell tower was added in 1799. The restored, old town house in Burgstrasse is now the seat of the Visselhövede cultural and local society . In 2006 the property was expanded into the Visselhof with a historic Heidespeicher . As part of the urban redevelopment, the former Sonnentau honey and wax goods factory with the 27 m high water tower was partially reconstructed. Galleries for contemporary art and studios are located in the water tower and the former office building. As in the Heimathaus, there has also been a branch office of the registry office in the former water tower since 2007. Those willing to marry can marry there.

In Königshof, the dog from the fairy tale " The Bremen Town Musicians " is said to have joined the donkey. A long-distance cycle path, which connects all four places where the four animals are said to have lived, and which leads through Visselhövede, the “Town Musicians Path”, was inaugurated in 2008.

After 1820, the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß used the summit of the Elmhorstberg as a triangulation point to survey the Kingdom of Hanover (on behalf of King George IV ) . Part of the triangular network with the Elmhorstberg was shown on the back of the “10 DM” banknote of the fourth series of the Deutsche Mark ( see picture ).

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  Memorial stone in Visselhövede

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  Former sundew honey and wax goods factory

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  Transmission exhibit

Economy and Infrastructure

In the past there were companies in match manufacture, candy production and vehicle construction. Today the most important company is active in the mineral oil wholesale business.

Visselhövede was a Bundeswehr location until the beginning of 2016 . The command support battalion 285 was stationed in the Lehnsheide barracks ( called Mölders barracks until January 2005 ). As part of the Bundeswehr reform (11/2011), the location was supposed to be closed in 2015 and was therefore bought by the city of Visselhövede after it had already found a subsequent user. In the short term, however, it became necessary to temporarily use the facilities as emergency accommodation for refugees .

The organic farming associations Bioland Niedersachsen / Bremen , Naturland and the Competence Center Ökolandbau Niedersachsen GmbH are based in Visselhövede. They employ a total of around 30 people there.

On the outskirts of Visselhövede, the NDR operates the Visselhövede transmitter . Visselhövede owns branches of Volksbank Lüneburger Heide eG and Sparkasse Rotenburg-Bremervörde .

Social facilities

Visselhövede is the location of a large nursing home. Heimstätte Jeddingen , an institution for mentally handicapped adults, is located in the neighboring town of Jeddingen . The closest hospitals are the Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum Rotenburg , the Heidekreis-Klinikum in Walsrode and the Aller-Weser-Klinik in Verden. In the emergency medical service, Visselhövede is assigned to the Walsrode district. Visselhövede is the location of an ambulance station in the Rotenburg district, manned by the German Red Cross and has a local association of Johanniter Unfallhilfe e. V., who provide voluntary rescue personnel and offer training. The emergency medical service is supervised by the on-call practice in the Walsrode hospital.

traffic

railroad

Visselhövede train station

Visselhövede has a train station on the Uelzen – Langwedel railway line ( American line ). The former double-track rail link, which has been single-track since 1987, is not electrified.

Visselhövede has been a member of the Bremen / Lower Saxony transport association (VBN) since August 2018 . For journeys with the railway company erixx on the American line, the VBN tariff applies in the direction of Langwedel and further in the direction of Bremen or Verden, while the state- wide Lower Saxony tariff remains unchanged in the direction of Soltau , Uelzen and Hanover .

Street

Visselhövede is on federal road 440 Rotenburg – Dorfmark, and on state road 171 Verden – Neuenkirchen. Nearby motorways are the A 7 towards Hamburg via Bad Fallingbostel - Dorfmark or the A 1 and the A27 towards Bremen via Verden or towards Hanover via Walsrode.

bus

City traffic is essentially carried by a citizen bus system. This also creates a connection to Verden via the Kirchlinteln citizen bus.

The regional bus line 880 of Weser-Ems-Bus GmbH runs to the district town of Rotenburg with 8 daily trips on school days between 5:35 a.m. and 5:25 p.m., as well as 2 trips on Saturdays (as of 2018). The new line 588 of the Haller Busbetrieb has been providing a fast direct connection to Walsrode four times a day since August 2018, there with a connection to the Heidebahn from and to Hanover.

The Rotenburg district has been a member of the North East Lower Saxony Transport Association (VNN) since 1995 . In bus traffic within the district, the ROW tariff applies to all connections that are outside the Bremen / Lower Saxony transport association. In addition to its own regional tariff, the VNN offers a transitional tariff to HVV on line 880 , for example in the direction of Hamburg.

military

From 1972 to March 1992 the Federal Air Force operated a Control and Reporting Center nearby (outskirts of Drögenbostel) . The Air Force Unit Detached Technical Train 243 is stationed on Elmhorstberg . In 2013/14, their high-performance fixed radar system ( MPR ) for military airspace surveillance was replaced by the modern phased array radar system of the Ground Master 406F type . In addition, a relay station for military radio is operated in the vicinity (outskirts of Hiddingen).

Personalities

• Heinrich Hüner (1881–1945), local poet
• Dieter Brosius (* 1936), archivist and historian
• Gerd Lüdemann (* 1946), Protestant theologian, University of Göttingen
• Marlene Crüsemann (* 1953), theologian
• Christopher von Deylen (* 1970), musician

literature

• Klaus Heinzel: Visselhövede: Chronicle of a city. Geiger-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-89570-568-3 . (out of print, available online as PDF files on the city ​​archive site )
• Tourist Association Visselhövede e. V. (Ed.): From the career and history of the city of Visselhövede. Züclam, 1988, DNB 996099263 .

Web links

Commons : Visselhövede  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ^ 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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 245 .
3. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on September 16, 2016
4. ↑ KDO election presentation 2016: Visselhövede , accessed on September 17, 2019
5. ↑ Individual results of the direct elections on May 25, 2014 in Lower Saxony , accessed on November 26, 2014
6. ↑ Stadler, Klemens, Deutsche Wappen, Volume 5, Bremen 1970, p. 79
7. ^ Flag of the city of Visselhövede
8. ↑ Visselhof at Heritage House
9. ↑ www.kunstimwasserturm.de
10. ↑ Rotenburger Rundschau (from May 14, 2007)
11. ↑ Klaus Merkle: The story about the presumed origin of the town musicians ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ^ Verden district: Town Musicians Way
13. ↑ Overview of the measured triangular systems in Northern Germany
14. ^ "City of Visselhövede buys Bundeswehr barracks" Die Welt from March 11, 2015
15. ↑ "Refugees in the barracks" ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Rotenburger Neue Presse from October 15, 2015 
16. ↑ Bioland.de - The National Association of Lower Saxony / Bremen [26th December 2015]
17. ↑ ^{a b} From August 1st: Cheaper and easier travel in the southern district of Rotenburg (Wümme). City of Visselhövede, archived from the original on August 3, 2018 ; accessed on August 3, 2018 . 
18. ↑ Public transport - Visselhövede. Retrieved August 3, 2018 . 
19. ^ Deutsche Bahn AG, Passenger Transport Division, Marketing eCommerce: ROW Line 880. Accessed on August 3, 2018 . 
20. ↑ Timetable line 880 Visselhövede – Wittorf – Bothel – Rotenburg, valid from 2018-08-09. (No longer available online.) August 9, 2018, archived from the original on August 3, 2018 ; accessed on August 3, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
21. ↑ Express bus connection Visselhövede - Walsrode - Visselhövede. Retrieved August 3, 2018 . 
22. ^ Verkehrsgemeinschaft Nordost-Niedersachsen GbR: ROW tariff. Retrieved August 3, 2018 . 
23. ^ HVV - season tickets from Rotenburg . ( hvv.de [accessed on August 3, 2018]).