Wellie

Wellie Spots Steyerberg
Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 36 ″  N , 9 ° 4 ′ 36 ″  E
Height :	28 m
Residents :	498  (2008)
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	31595
Area code :	05023
Location of Wellie in Steyerberg

Wellie, aerial photo 2015

Wellie is one of seven districts of the borough Steyerberg in Nienburg / Weser , Lower Saxony .

geography

The village is located in the Weser valley , about 60 km south of Bremen and 50 km northwest of Hanover . One kilometer east of the village is the Wellier Loop nature reserve and one kilometer northwest the Große Aue flows .

history

Various finds indicate that the area was already settled during the Stone Age . In a field near the village, the remains of the approximately five hectare earthworks by Wellie from the 4th millennium BC lie in the ground . BC, which was discovered in 2018. In the area of ​​the gravel pit behind the former Wittenberg brickworks, urns from the period from 4100 to 2000 BC were found. In the 1940s and 1950s, traces of settlement were found in the area of ​​the brickworks and the marshland, dating back to the Iron Age (450–30 / 15 BC).

The first documents exist from 1208, when the Minden bishop gave the monastery Nendorf and later also the monastery Schinna the tithe over various farms in Wellie. The area of ​​the Middle Weser was disputed at that time between the Mindener bishop and the emerging family of the Counts of Hoya . In 1335 the Counts of Hoya penetrated through the destruction of the Mindener moated castle Novum Castrum (New House, between Liebenau and Wellie) over the floodplain to the area of ​​the later Stolzenau. From then on, Wellie belonged to the county of Hoya until the Hoya Counts died out in 1582. In a tax list from 1521, twenty Wellier farms are listed for the first time. That number hardly changed until the end of the 18th century. From the year 1613 there is even a detailed description of the farms in the Stolzenau camp book. During the Thirty Years' War , Wellie was sacked by imperial troops during the siege of Nienburg, three farms that had been on the Vorbömen between Wellie and Steyerberg were burned down and then settled in the Wellier town center.

At that time Wellie belonged to the Stolzenau office , from 1885 to the Stolzenau district, but always to Liebenau in terms of the church .

After the Welfs took over the county of Hoya in 1582, Wellie even belonged to the French Empire from 1810 to 1814 due to the Napoleonic wars . After the liberation in 1815 the peasants were slowly liberated in the upgraded Kingdom of Hanover (previously the Electorate) . The court owners were able to buy their way out of the feudal lordship. The size of the village also grew. Wellie had 258 inhabitants in 1810 and consisted of 23 farms; at the end of the century there were 359 inhabitants and 60 farms and houses. Many so-called house-dwellers, who previously lived with their families on the farms of the farmers, had built up their own, albeit meager, livelihoods with small farms.

From the 1860s, the farmer Sander started operating a brick factory on Steinacker. It was run by a brick master from Lippe with his workers in the summer months. In 1896, this brick factory then became the property of August Albert. To this day, bricks are manufactured at the Albert brickworks, which today belongs to the AKA brick group. In 1903, the farmer Spellerberg also opened a brickworks on the Steinacker, which in 1928 became the property of August Graue, Kreuzkamp, ​​and was operated by the Ilse and Hermann Wittenberg couple from 1949. At the end of the 1990s, the AKA Ziegelgruppe also acquired the Wittenberg brickworks, which closed this production site in 2004. In the meantime, however, three new companies have settled on the site.

Before the Thirty Years' War, the Brinksitzer Meyer and later the Kötner Wehrenberg had the right to drink in Wellie, in 1865 it came into the possession of the Freese family, who have been running the Freesenhof in the sixth generation to this day. There was also the Gasthaus Hormann from 1875 until recently. At the end of the 19th century, Leymann and Imkenberg were available as retail stores before they were replaced by the Röher and Thielker stores around 1960. Since 1989 there have been no more shops in Wellie.

In 1916, electrification reached Wellie, which was one of the first villages in the area to receive electric light. In the First World War fell twenty Wellier and in the Second World War eighteen. In the post-war period , the population increased dramatically as a result of refugees and displaced persons and reached its peak in 1950 with 693 inhabitants.

On March 1, 1974 Wellie was in patches Steyerberg incorporated .

politics

The responsible municipal administration for Wellie is that of the Steyerberg area . The interests of the village are represented by a five-person local council made up of the following people:

• Ralf Bemmann, local mayor
• Lutz Bade, Deputy Mayor
• Astrid Greve
• Mario Henniger
• Heinrich Melloh

Culture and sights

• The Wellier Kolk is a partially posed in 1969 under protection, about 400 hectares of recreational area with swimming and fishing.

Since at least 1575, the Wellie has been celebrating the fair on the first Sunday after Michaelmas (29 September). While Sunday and Monday were the days of the fair, since the 1990s it has been Saturday and Sunday. In addition to the house devotion on one of the first 20 courtyards, at the Freesenhof (formerly alternating with Gasthaus Hormann) there are rides as well as shooting and candy booths. The ball game played by the Wellier youth on Good Friday is also a long tradition.

The clubs have been the Kyffhäuser Comradeship since 1883, the Wellie gymnastics club since 1920, the volunteer fire brigade since 1935 and also a local DRK club, the rural youth club and the ARGUS archery club. After the 800th anniversary of Wellies in 2008, the Wellie Village Community was founded.

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  Wellie's former school

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  Chapel from 1575

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  Brickworks

Education, economy and infrastructure

From 1750 onwards, the Wellier students were taught in their own school, until 1938 next to the chapel and then in the new building opposite the Freese inn. 12 schoolmasters taught the Wellier children until the end of the 1960s. Since then they have been attending the Steyerberg Forest School and the secondary schools in Stolzenau.

Wellie is connected to Steyerberg and the district town of Nienburg every hour on weekdays via a bus line operated by the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Nienburg , as well as a bus line to Stolzenau.

Wellie was on the Nienburg – Rahden railway line . This is shut down in this section .

Web links

Commons : Wellie  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Wellie on the Steyerberg website

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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. 199 .
2. ^ Wellier Kolk