Wachenhausen

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Wachenhausen
Wachenhausen coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 5 ′ 45 ″  E
Height : 138 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.67 km²
Residents : 525  (Jul. 1, 2018)
Population density : 68 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 37191
Area code : 05552
Wachenhausen (Lower Saxony)
Wachenhausen

Location of Wachenhausen in Lower Saxony
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Wachenhausen is a district of the municipality of Katlenburg-Lindau in the Northeim district in Lower Saxony .

geography

The place is located immediately south of Katlenburg (Katlenburg-Lindau) and borders the nature reserve Rhumeaue / Ellerniederung / Gillersheimer Bachtal to the west .

history

Wachenhausen was first documented in 1105 when the Katlenburger monastery was founded. Its medieval center was along the Beeke, a stream that is now partially piped. In the Middle Ages it had a church and at least two gates, which suggests a fence. At the time of Henry the Lion in the 12th century, the noble family of those who belonged to Sharks was who had their ancestral home on the Klawenberge. They had received goods in the region from the Guelph, including the village of Wachenhausen, as fiefdoms . When the sex was later divided into different lines, the village of Wachenhausen was added to the one who named himself von Suterode after his seat in Suterode . From the time of the late Middle Ages it is stated that there was a commander of the Order of Lazarus in Wachenhausen . However, since Wenck cites a sale by the Lords of Plesse , who handed over lands around Bilshausen to the Bishop of Hildesheim in 1322 , where the Teutonic Order was wealthy, the existence of a former order of the Knights of Lazarus is rather unlikely. After the Thirty Years' War the people of Wachenhausen went to the church on the Burgberg, but the churchyard was in Gänsewinkel until the 19th century. In Wachenhausen there were some larger farms for which flax cultivation was important in addition to arable farming . Many Wachenhausen residents became artisans or workers who found a job elsewhere and ran the farm on the side.

Wachenhausen had around 500 inhabitants around 1914, the census on October 29, 1946 showed 1094 inhabitants, of whom 502 were already living in Wachenhausen on September 1, 1939, 107 in the western zones , 21 in the Soviet zone and Berlin , and 335 in the Oder-Neisse -Regions and 129 abroad. In 1969 there were 138 houses with 227 households with 703 inhabitants, of which 521 were locals, 161 were refugees and 21 were evacuated. These 703 inhabitants were distributed over 17 one-generation households, 64 households were two-generation, 52 three-generation and five four-generation households.

The large community Katlenburg-Lindau was formed on March 1, 1974 from the previously independent communities Katlenburg-Duhm, Lindau , Gillersheim , Berka , Elvershausen , Wachenhausen and Suterode .

politics

Local council

The local council of Wachenhausen consists of 8 council members from the following parties:

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor is Ralf Schwarz (CDU). His deputies are Gabriele Nendel (non-party) and Marc Schwaiger (non-party).

coat of arms

Wachenhausen coat of arms
 Blazon : "In silver on a green three-mountain top , covered with a golden sun wheel , between two green oak heisters with two golden acorns each, a blue ploughshare ."
Justification of the coat of arms: The plow iron and the oak heister indicate the still strongly developed agricultural character of the place and its wooded surroundings, the Dreiberg and the wheel cross are supposed to symbolize the barrows and prehistoric finds found in the Wachenhausen district.

literature

  • Gerd Berkenbrink: Processes of change in a village culture - Wachenhausen, Northeim district . Ed .: Helmut Plath and Kurt Ranke (= Lower Saxony State Office for Folklore at the Seminar for German Folklore Göttingen [Hrsg.]: Writings on Low German Folklore . Volume 6 ). Otto Schwartz & Co. Verlag, Göttingen 1974, ISBN 3-509-00734-4 .

Web links

Commons : Wachenhausen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Figures, data, facts. In: Website of the municipality of Katlenburg-Lindau. July 1, 2018, accessed November 29, 2019 .
  2. ^ Ernst Friedrich Mooyer: On the genealogy of the counts of Spiegelberg . In: Journal of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony . 1953, p. 180 .
  3. ^ Helfrich Bernhard Wenck: Hessian national history . The second and last section of the second volume. Varrentrap and Wenner, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1797, p. 790 note x .
  4. ↑ Gerd Berkenbrink: Transformation processes of a village culture - Wachenhausen, Northeim district . Ed .: Helmut Plath and Kurt Ranke (= Lower Saxony State Office for Folklore at the Seminar for German Folklore Göttingen [Hrsg.]: Writings on Low German Folklore . Volume 6 ). Otto Schwartz & Co. Verlag, Göttingen 1974, ISBN 3-509-00734-4 , p. 2 ff .
  5. ^ 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.  214 .
  6. ↑ a b Members of the Wachenhausen local council. In: Website of the municipality of Katlenburg-Lindau. Retrieved November 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Wachenhausen coat of arms. In: Website of the municipality of Katlenburg-Lindau. Retrieved November 29, 2019 .