Volpriehausen

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Volpriehausen
City of Uslar
Former municipal coat of arms of Volpriehausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 26 ″  E
Height : 211 m
Residents : 1201  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 37170
Area code : 05573
Volpriehausen (Lower Saxony)
Volpriehausen

Location of Volpriehausen in Lower Saxony

View of Volpriehausen from the direction of Delliehausen
View of Volpriehausen from the direction of Delliehausen

After the core city, Volpriehausen is the second largest district of the city of Uslar on the Solling rand in the Northeim district in southern Lower Saxony .

Geographical location

Volpriehausen is located on the southeast edge of the Solling and Solling-Vogler Nature Park in the Rehbach valley near Bollert to the east . Neighboring towns - each about 1.5 km away - are the Uslar districts Delliehausen (north), Schlarpe (south) and Gierswalde (west). The core city of Uslar is around 7 km to the west.

history

The first secure mention of the village of Volpriehausen comes from the year 1242. In this document the Counts of Lutterberg and Ludolf von Plesse put the local bailiwick of Volpriehausen back into the hands of the Archbishop of Mainz , who gave it to the Steina monastery (now Marienstein ) near Nörten -Hardenberg handed over. The first known form of the name is Volporgehusen . This name can be traced back to the old German female nickname Volporg , which is attested until the 11th century.

The population of Volpriehausen lived mainly from agriculture, forestry and charcoal burning . The first industrial operations after the connection to the Solling Railway ( Ottbergen - Nordhausen ) were towards the end of the 19th century a briquette factory , which received the lignite from the opencast mine in Delliehausen, and the Justus I potash and rock salt works . The potash mining shaped the life in the village for almost 40 years until the cessation of salt mining in 1938. After that taught Wehrmacht underground in the mines in a Heeres- munitions plant with a storage capacity of about 30,000 tonnes. In July 1944, an external command of the Moringen youth concentration camp was set up in the ammunition factory in order to be able to maintain production despite the shortage of labor. Based on the documented storage of many locked boxes towards the end of the Second World War, it is suspected that parts of the Amber Room were stored in the mine . There were extensive searches for this in the post-war years. Explosions in large quantities of ammunition still stored underground destroyed the mining facilities in September 1945. After 1945, the population grew to over 1,600 due to the influx of refugees from the former German eastern regions. Various refugee companies later settled on the mine site, but they no longer exist. Until the final bankruptcy in 1986, the Buder glassworks existed in the above-ground buildings. Their toxic legacy (grinding dust and hydrofluoric acid residues from lead glass production) gave Volpriehausen the dubious fame of what was then the largest industrial contaminated site in Lower Saxony in the 1990s.

In the 1960s, Volpriehausen received the status of a climatic health resort, and the annual number of overnight stays rose to over 12,000.

On March 1, 1974, Volpriehausen was incorporated into the city of Uslar.

In 1985 the Potash Mining Museum was opened in Volpriehausen. It was the first museum in Germany that exclusively deals with the representation of stone and potash mining.

Until December 31, 2010, Volpriehausen was a state-approved resort .

politics

Local council

Local mayor of Volpriehausen is Gerd Kimpel (status: 07/2012) .

The local council consists of nine members of the Volpriehausen citizens' list (status: 07/2012) .

coat of arms

Blazon : In green over three golden ears, two slantingly crossed silver mountain hammers with golden stems.

"This coat of arms symbolizes the economic peculiarity of the municipality of Volpriehausen: There the traditional agricultural occupation is supplemented by the potash deposits that have been exploited for decades."

St. George Church
St. Joseph Church

Culture and sights

Attractions

  • Potash Mining Museum Volpriehausen
  • Potash mine wheel
  • Historic bakery
  • Nature experience path on Rothenberg
  • Helenenquelle
  • Protestant Church of St. Georg
  • Catholic Church St. Joseph , built in '61

Economy and Infrastructure

Infrastructure

In Volpriehausen there is the primary school "Rehbachschule Volpriehausen" as well as a kindergarten of the German Red Cross. There is a heated outdoor pool with a 25-meter pool, a non-swimmer pool and a children's pool, a 3-meter diving tower, slide and beach volleyball court. There is also a voluntary fire brigade . For medical care, two general medical practices, a dentist and a physiotherapy practice, as well as a retirement and nursing home and a pharmacy are located in the village.

For tourist supplies and for daily needs there are u. a. the grounds of the Landhotel am Rothenberg and two bakeries with a café, which are also open on Sundays. There is also a food market and a butcher shop in town. The local Gasthaus Zur Linde has closed in the family in the summer of 2012 after more than 150 years and thus provides an indication of the now widespread in rural areas pubs dying . In addition to a gallery, a Crystal Studio a workshop for beautiful lifestyle and design there are pottery and Floristry, a lottery and stationery store, a driving school, two hairdressers, Volksbank, Raiffeisenbank and Sparkasse. There are also a number of craft and commercial companies based in the village, including the Grund joinery, the Guko Sondermaschinenbau company, Classic Cars, Hilke Feinmechanik and others.

traffic

Volpriehausen is located directly on federal highway 241 and is approx. 17 km from the Nörten-Hardenberg motorway junction of the A7 . The next cities are Uslar , about 8 km and Göttingen , about 24 km away. The place has a stop at the Sollingbahn ( Northeim - Ottbergen ) as well as three bus stops, which guarantee a connection to Uslar, Hardegsen and Göttingen.

literature

  • Ulrike Kingreen: How nice something. Village life in Solling - Volpriehausen, Schlarpe, Gierswalde, Delliehausen and the surrounding area in the first half of this century with special consideration of the change in Volpriehausen from a small farming village to a village for miners, ammunition workers and refugees. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. 588 pp., 3rd ed., 1990. (1st ed., 1983)
  • Detlev Herbst: 750 years of Volpriehausen. From the history of our village. Tourist office Volpriehausen. 1983. 268 pp.
  • Detlev Herbst: Volpriehausen in Solling. Pictures tell of the changes in village life. Heimatverein Volpriehausen. 2004. 108 pp.
  • Ulrike Kingreen: Problems of the social integration of the displaced people in rural areas using the example of Volpriehausen . o. O., 1981.

Web links

Commons : Volpriehausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Volpriehausen  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. Population data of Uslar including districts, published by the city of Uslar (as of December 31, 2019; accessed on April 6, 2020)
  2. Local history on uslar.de (parts of the history section taken over with the permission of the city of Uslar, see discussion page )
  3. Dietmar Sedlaczek: The Moringen Youth Concentration Camp , Moringen 1994, p. 3 ( pdf )
  4. ^ 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 .
  5. Lower Saxony Landtag, 16th electoral period, printed matter 16/3359: Small question "What is the significance of predicates such as" state-approved climatic health resort "especially for heather tourism and the tourism industry in Lower Saxony?" (PDF; 102 kB) . Retrieved March 22, 2011
  6. ^ Local council Volpriehausen on the website of the Uslar council information system, accessed on July 16, 2012
  7. ^ Result of the local council election in Volpriehausen 2011 on September 11, 2011 on the website of the municipal data processing center in Southern Lower Saxony, accessed on July 16, 2012
  8. Explanation of the coat of arms on uslar.de (text copied with the approval of the city of Uslar, see discussion page )