Wallensen
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Wallensen
Patches Salzhemmendorf
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| Height : | 155 m above sea level NN | |
| Residents : | 914 (June 30, 2016) | |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1973 | |
| Postal code : | 31020 | |
| Area code : | 05186 | |
Location of Wallensen in Lower Saxony |
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 View from the war memorial on Wallensen
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Wallensen is a district of the Salzhemmendorf patch in the Hameln-Pyrmont district , Lower Saxony . The place has about 1000 inhabitants.
history
On August 5, 1068, the place appears for the first time in a document when King Heinrich IV. Gives Bishop Hezilo of Hildesheim the county rights in Gudingau, to which Wallensen belonged. There is also the first documentary mention of the Church of St. Martin . Wallensen was the seat of an archdeaconate until the Reformation. Outside the curtain wall on the hill east of Wallensen, the Weiberg (field name Wenberg), was the castle Walaburgun or Walburgon where Homburg vassals lived. The old city was built in a square and was surrounded by walls, ramparts and moats.
In 1295 Wallensen was owned by the Homburgers. The following are named as vassals: Friedrich, Hermann and Degenhard von Wallenhusen. In 1351 the town charter for Wallensen was granted by Siegfried von Homburg. The municipal rights included market, court, brewing and customs rights, the so-called Wallensian privileges. Wallensen had a fortification with a wall and tower as early as 1400. The old city wall can still be seen today in the area of the church. The Hameln City Archives keep a Wallens document from 1409, on which hangs an amazingly well-preserved city seal with the inscription Sigillum Burgensium in Wallensen . At that time Wallensen was already one of the 40 Lauensteiner districts.
On November 4th, 1435 Wallensen was conquered and burned down by Siegelberg and episcopal besiegers. In 1483 a fire destroyed the place. In 1498 the place is mentioned as "corrupt and desolate". Wallensen was not referred to as a Flecken again until 1525 . Wallensen was not able to maintain the status of a town due to many accidents - fires and cattle epidemics - and the dwindling power of the dynasty, and in 1533 another fire destroyed the town. In 1586 Wallensen was rebuilt after the great fire of 1582. In order to reduce the risk of fire, thatched roofs were replaced by stone roofs. The settlement area was extended to the northern bank of the Saale with the restriction not to increase the total number of residential buildings. Many "burned down" people lived in stalls and huts by the city wall.
In 1629 the Hildesheim Abbey was put into its old possession and it was re-Catholicized. The Reichsbund Wallensen was founded in 1917.
In 1963, the district president of Hanover confirmed that Wallensen was entitled to use the name “Flecken”.
Industrial history
Mining
After the discovery of lignite in the area around Wallensen in 1787, the scheduled coal mining began in 1843 by the Royal Hanover Mining Administration . After mining was temporarily stopped in 1861 due to unprofitability, ten years later, in 1871, the Prussian mine administration resumed operations and put a briquette press shop into operation. 1899 began union Humboldt with the lignite mining in civil engineering. The briquette factory, a cable car and a siding to the small train were built. The lignite extracted from the opencast mine near Weenzen was brought by cable car to the briquette factory located between Thüsten and Wallensen. At the end of the 1960s, the brown coal mining area was recultivated . When the Humboldt trade union was founded in 1901, Wallensen became a mining town. The Humboldt opencast mine began in 1903 .
In 1925 the richest coal field was exploited. Only after the war was the company made profitable again in 1947 with new extraction systems. In 1960 the name was changed to Humboldt Bergbaugesellschaft mbH . But six years later, on June 30, 1966, the production of the sun briquettes was discontinued due to sales difficulties and inefficient mining conditions.
dairy
In 1897 the foundation stone for the dairy cooperative was laid. Catchment areas were initially Wallensen, Fölziehausen, Capellenhagen and Ockensen , later Duingen and Coppengrave were added. In 1898 the cooperative dairy was built. From now on, the milk should be processed under expert guidance and with the most modern machines in a more profitable and hygienic way than on the home farm. In 1901 milk from Lauenstein and Salzhemmendorf was also delivered to Wallensen. In the next few years, more and more machines were purchased and the product range expanded. A milk drying plant was put into operation in 1929 to produce milk powder.
In 1954 a washing, filling and sealing machine for milk bottles was purchased. The production of milk powder was given up, followed by the production of quark and layered cheese . In 1965 the dairy was closed.
Saalemühle
The Wallenser mill used to stand at the foot of the Weiberg, where the bridge crosses the Saale by the miners' settlement. It was probably called Bruch- or Braukmühle. During the Middle Ages it was moved to the edge of the village in order to be able to better protect it in the numerous feuds. In 1974 the flour production had to be stopped by order of the federal government. The company was converted to the production of different types of feed. The mill gate finally closed on January 1st. The old millstone , now standing in front of the building, is intended to remind of the eventful tradition of the Wallenser mill and to draw the attention of posterity to the fact that the mill wall, which is now a traffic-calmed street, owes its name to the old Saale mill.
Other companies
- Towards the end of the 1970s, the Rüdiger Pommerening Spiel + Sportgerätefabrik from Wallensen developed, among other things, the so-called "Rools". These are roller skates with only two wheels, which have similar driving characteristics as ice skates.
- In Marienwald, a former estate near today's Bruchsee, there was a brick factory for a short time around 1850.
- At the brine spring east of Wallensen there was the Willichshall salt works for a short time . Details are not yet known.
politics
Local council
Wallensen forms a joint local council with Thüste and Ockensen .
The local mayor of the joint local council is Karl-Heinz Grießner (SPD).
coat of arms
The town's coat of arms shows three silver towers and a silver city wall with a blue background. Meaning: It seems to have reference to the three city gates with towers, of which the remains of a large round tower at the gate to Thüste could be seen around 200 years ago. The old seal, handed down in 1409, showed a crenellated wall with a gate and within this the parish and archdeaconate church under the Homburg lion.
Culture and sights
Buildings
- A first church probably came from the year 900. One of the 6 bells in the church, the "citizen bell", so named because it was donated by the citizens and is still rung in a special shower to ring out the Wallens citizens, comes from the year 1617. In 1696, under Pastor Daniel Berckelmann (1630–1708), a son of Theodor Berckelmann , the construction of a rectory, which was later (1966) converted into a parish hall with an organist's apartment. In 1714 Pastor Johann Heinrich Grupen (1669–1731), the son-in-law of his predecessor, had the church expanded at his own expense. He had a small sacristy, the so-called confessional chamber, added and took care of the first organ.
- On the Jewish cemetery Wallensen high above the village in the fields near a water tank one's grave stone of 1917 received.
- In 1968 a miners memorial was erected on the occasion of the 900th anniversary on September 14th and 15th.
- In 1991 a memorial stone for the city of Wallensen was erected in front of the church.
societies
Wallensen is home to several clubs, including:
- Small bore rifle club Wallensen e. V.
- German Red Cross - Wallensen local association
- Men's Choir Wallensen e. V.
- Wallensen women's choir
- Sports club Weenzen-Thüste-Wallensen e. V.
- Association of the Wallensen bowling clubs
- Kindergarten Wallensen e. V.
- Wallensen volunteer fire department
- Wallensen youth fire brigade
- DorfKulTour e. V.
- Social Association Germany
- Parents' association of the Wallensen primary school
- Music train from the Wallensen Volunteer Fire Brigade
- Church council ev.-luth. Parish
- Hut Ostkreis e. V.
- Wallensen swimming pool association V.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Local election 2011 Wallensen ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 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.
- ↑ Flyer Politics in Flecken Salzhemmendorf (PDF)
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