Election (Vechelde)

Choose Vechelde municipality
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 15 ″  N , 10 ° 21 ′ 42 ″  E
Height :	approx. 77 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.27 km²
Residents :	1476  (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	178 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	38159
Area code :	05302
Location of Wahle in Lower Saxony
Location of Wahle in the municipality of Vechelde

Wahle is a district of the municipality of Vechelde in the Peine district in Lower Saxony .

geography

After the bypass of the core town of Vechelde, which was built in the years 2008–2009, Wahle is located directly on the Bundesstraße 1 and the Vechelder industrial area north and thus connects directly to the core town. The next train station is in Vechelde on the Hanover - Braunschweig - Magdeburg - Berlin route .

Neighboring places

	Fürstenau
Sir		Vechelade
	Vechelde

history

The village of Wahle was first mentioned in 1141 as "Walede", later it appeared as "Welethe" (1181), "Maior Woeledhe" (1258) and "Wolde" (1369). In addition to Wahle, there is also a village called “Walethe Minor” (1226) or “Lutteken Wolde” (1344; both names mean “Klein Wahle”). When Klein Wahle was abandoned in the second half of the 14th century and fell “desolate”, the inhabitants settled in Wahle and continued to cultivate their corridors from there. It is possible that Wahle took in more farmers from Vechelde around 1400 after the castle and village of Vechelde were pledged to the city of Braunschweig in 1392 .

The right of patronage of the village church of St. Martini was initially subject to the Brunswick Cyriakus foundation . At the beginning of the 14th century the village was attached to the archdeaconate Schmedenstedt . The parish continued to award the dean of the Cyriakus monastery.

In 1618 a mineral spring was discovered northeast of the village, which was developed and operated as a health well for a short time. The spring silted up again during the course of the Thirty Years War . In the 1720s, the Brunswick city physicist Rudolph August Behrens , personal physician to Duke August Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , examined the healing properties of the mineral spring. However, the source remained unused.

In 1802 Wahle had 300 residents in 42 fireplaces. With the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , Wahle was incorporated into the Kingdom of Westphalia created by Napoleon in 1807 . After the dissolution of the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1813, the place belonged to the Duchy of Braunschweig until 1918 .

Wahles assignment to the district of Braunschweig ended in 1974 in the course of the regional reform of Lower Saxony . On March 1, 1974, Wahle was incorporated into the municipality of Vechelde. In the past few decades, the place has started to expand with private homes and housing estates, and to the south with industrial areas.

politics

The local council of Wahle consists of nine council members and councilors.

	SPD	CDU	Individual applicants	total	was standing
2016	5	4th	-	9 seats	Local election on September 11, 2016
2011	4th	3	2	9 seats	Local election on September 11, 2011
2006	5	3	1	9 seats	Local election on September 10, 2006

Local mayor is Jörg Hollstamm (SPD).

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows on a golden shield a blue, wavy triangle ending in a point in which there is a golden millstone. This wave tip symbolizes the healing spring created in 1618 by a sinkhole, which later dried up again. The golden millstone reminds of the first settler named in 1313, the miller Johann, who was enfeoffed with his water and windmill by the Commander of the Order of St. John . The blue-gold color confirms the affiliation to the former state of Braunschweig.

The coat of arms was adopted by the local council on December 3, 1981. The design comes from Arnold Rabbow.

Attractions

• Wahle is a clustered village whose first settlement core is difficult to determine. The old village image is mainly determined by three-sided courtyards , hooked courtyards and low German hall houses .
• The St. Martini Church was built in 1494 in the Romanesque-Gothic style.

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  Town view

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  Old inn

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  St. Martini Church

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  War memorial

Personalities

• Christian Oberhey (1818–1905), Evangelical Lutheran theologian and hymnologist
• Alfred Treptow (1902–1962), Evangelical Lutheran pastor and writer
• Max Witte (1909–1955), Evangelical Lutheran theologian

literature

• Wilhelm Bornstedt : The Braunschweiger Gesundbrunnen zu Wahle, created in 1618, and the Wahler Church . In: Monument preservation and district history. Volume 4, Verlag Landkreis Braunschweig, Braunschweig 1966.
• Hermann Adolf Lüntzel: The older diocese of Hildesheim . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1837 ( digitized ).

Web links

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

• Website of the municipality of Vechelde
• Website of the Heimat- und Kulturverein Wahle eV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures . In: Website of the municipality of Vechelde. December 31, 2018, accessed March 11, 2019 . 
2. ^ Richard Andrée : Braunschweiger Volkskunde . Second edition, Verlag Friedrich Vieweg and Son, Braunschweig 1901.
3. ↑ Reinhold Möller: Dental suffixes in Lower Saxony settlement and field names in certificates before 1200 . In: Contributions to name research . Volume 43, Verlag Winter, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-533-04577-3 .
4. ^ Hans Friedrich Sudendorf : Document book on the history of the dukes of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and their lands . Volume 2, Verlag Carl Rümpler, Hanover 1860.
5. ↑ C. Venturini : The Duchy of Braunschweig in its previous and present condition . Verlag C. G. Fleckeisen, Helmstedt 1847, p. 186.
6. ^ Hermann Adolf Lüntzel : The older diocese of Hildesheim . Hildesheim 1837, pp. 290-293.
7. ↑ Rudolph August Behrens: Examen aquarum mineralium Fürstenauiens et Vechteldensium . Helmstedt 1724.
8. ↑ Rudolph August Behrens: Investigation of the mineral waters to Fürstenau and Vechtelde . Brunswick 1725.
9. ↑ C. Venturini : The Duchy of Braunschweig in its previous and present condition . Verlag C. G. Fleckeisen, Helmstedt 1847, p. 189.
10. ^ Georg Hassel : Geographical-statistical description of the principalities of Wolfenbüttel and Blankenburg . Friedrich Bernhard Culemann, Braunschweig 1802 ( digitized ).
11. ^ 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. 268 .
12. ^ Vechelde municipality / Wahle local council
13. ^ Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch . Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2003, p. 154, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 .
14. ↑ Wahle coat of arms on ngw.nl