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Fronds municipality Cremlingen
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 15 ″  N , 10 ° 37 ′ 17 ″  E
Height :	93 m
Area :	6.62 km²
Residents :	3078  (December 31, 2017)
Population density :	465 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	38162
Area code :	05306
Location of Weddel in Cremlingen

Christ Church in Weddel

Weddel is a district of the municipality of Cremlingen in the Wolfenbüttel district in Lower Saxony .

history

The name Weddel is related to the word "Watt"; This means the area, which was originally characterized by wetlands, in which Weddel is a pass “to wade through”. From a Germanic basic form * wadil- or * wadul- it developed to Wedele until it was first mentioned around the year 1226 and changed over the centuries from Weddele to Weddel .

On March 1, 1974, Weddel was incorporated into the municipality of Cremlingen.

Population development

Cremlingen-Weddel - population development since 2007
development	year	Residents	year	Residents
	2007	3,012	2017	3,078
	2008	2,950
	2009	2,947
	2010	2,966
	2011	2,974
	2012	3,055
	2013	3,072
	2014	3,087
	2015	3,097
	2016	3,076
Source: up to 2016, from 2017. As of December 31 of each year.

religion

St. Boniface Church

The Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church is located on Kirchstrasse, its parish belongs to the Königslutter provost . The parish also includes the Paul-Gerhardt-Haus next to the church, a former school building built in 1897, which was used as a parish hall after its renovation in 2015, and the day care center Noah's Ark on Nordstrasse.

The Catholic St. Bonifatius Church was built in 1991 on Ahornallee, it is the youngest church in the Braunschweig deanery and today belongs to the parish of Heilig Kreuz in Veltheim .

politics

Local council

The local council consists of eleven seats, five of which are occupied by the SPD , four by the CDU and two by the Greens .

The local mayor is Harald Koch.

coat of arms

The coat of arms is divided obliquely to the left. In the upper left half you can see half a red lion with black claws on a white background, in the lower right half you can see a golden linden leaf on a blue background.

Economy and Infrastructure

education

Weddel owns the Erich Kästner School, which accepts students from grades 1 to 4 from Cremlingen, Klein Schöppenstedt and Weddel.

traffic

The Weddel (Braunschw) train station is located south of the village.

The K141 connects the place in the south with the federal highway 1 as well as with Cremlingen.

literature

• Family sheets Weddel 1668-1940. Copy of the family sheets . Leipzig 1995. 5 volumes, 1770 families, according to the inventory, part IV of the German Central Office for Genealogy , p. 522

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Population figures from January 1, 2016
2. ↑ ^{a b} Cremlingen / population figures 01.01.2018  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on cremlingen-online.de , accessed on July 11, 2018.  
3. ^ Kirstin Casemir: The place names of the district Wolfenbüttel and the city of Salzgitter . 2003, p. 341 f . ( google.de ).
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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 267 .
5. ↑ Erich Kästner School Weddel
6. ^ Bahnhof Weddel ( Memento from February 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive )