White water

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Weißenwasser is a desert near Kalefeld . It was named after the so-called Weißenwasserbach because of its calcareous water .

The documentary first mention that the White Water Church is based, going to Luitpold I. back. It is assumed that the village was destroyed in the Hildesheim collegiate feud . An oil mill is documented for the first time in 1560 . It belonged to the old Westerhof office . It was recorded in the Kurhannoversche Landesaufnahme . On September 12, 1899, she and other buildings burned down. A building was erected in their place, into which displaced persons moved after the Second World War and lived there until the 1960s. The place has been desolate ever since; A millstone was preserved.

literature

  • Kirstin Casemir, Franziska Menzel, Uwe Ohainski: The place names of the Northeim district. Publications of the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen, Lower Saxony Book of Place Names, Volume 5, Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-895346-07-1 , p. 401.
  • Helfrick Bernhard Wenck: Hessian country history. With certificate book. Volume 2, 1789, pp. 787f., Online .

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