Wendisch Evern

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 13 '  N , 10 ° 28'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Luneburg
Joint municipality :	Ostheide
Height :	59 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.87 km 2
Residents:	1761 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	118 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	21403
Area code :	04131
License plate :	LG
Community key :	03 3 55 040
Community structure:	Klostergut Willerding, Auf der Hausstelle, Hegeberg, Hundberg and Fünfstücke, Heisterberg
Address of the municipal administration:	Birkenweg 2 21403 Wendisch Evern
Mayor :	Clemens Leder ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Wendisch Evern in the district of Lüneburg

Wendisch Evern is a municipality in the integrated municipality of Ostheide in Lower Saxony . It is located around three kilometers southeast of Lüneburg on the eastern edge of the Lüneburg Heath .

Community structure

Districts of the municipality Wendisch Evern are Göxe and Wendisch. There is also a place to live with the Willerding Monastery .

history

Early history and the Middle Ages

The exact date of foundation of the place is unknown. Allegedly the settlement Evern , mhd. Everinge , was the home of the clan of a Longobard chief Ibur (lat. "Everardus" = "boar"). In the annals of this people, which were written down much later, a corresponding clan is listed.

After the Lombards withdrew as part of the migration of peoples from the 5th or 6th century, the settlement area that was released was populated from the east by Wends (Slavs) and from the west by "Germans" ( Saxons ). The border between the settlement areas of the two peoples ran roughly in the area of Ilmenau . In 805 , Emperor Charlemagne stipulated that Saxon merchants who wanted to do business with the Wends were allowed to move to Ilmenau. In the course of this development, Evern , located near the Ilmenau, was apparently taken over by Saxons (Germans) (today: Deutsch Evern ), while the Slavs (Wends) about three kilometers further northeast, in a more sterile and less accessible area, established a new settlement, founded today's Wendisch Evern .

It is possible that the village was divided much earlier or later and has nothing to do with the German-Wendish conflict. The village belongs to a large number of pairs of places in which one of the places has the addition "Wendisch" or "Windisch". This addition does not automatically mean that the places were "Wendish". The addition is often nothing more than an indication of the direction; comparable to "east" - although east does not always apply either.

Second World War

Admiral von Friedeburg and Field Marshal Montgomery signing the declaration of surrender

In 1995 a memorial stone for the surrender at the foot of the Timeloberges

→ Main article : Partial surrender by the Wehrmacht for Northwest Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands

On the 79 meter high Timeloberg near Wendisch Evern, a German delegation led by Hans-Georg von Friedeburg signed in the presence on May 4, 1945 on behalf of the last Reich President Karl Dönitz , who had left the last Reich government in Flensburg - Mürwik of the British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery the partial surrender of the Wehrmacht for Northwest Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands , which came into force on May 5th at 8 a.m. With the signing, the Second World War came to an end in northwest Germany.

After the war, a memorial was erected on the hill called Victory Hill by the British , but it was dismantled in 1958 and rebuilt at the Sandhurst Military Academy . The site is now in the restricted military area of the Wendisch Evern training area and is not open to the public. In 1995, 50 years after the signing of the surrender, a memorial stone was erected at the foot of the Timeloberg outside the restricted military area.

After Heinrich Himmler's suicide in May 1945, his body was possibly buried in an unknown location at the Wendisch Evern military training area.

politics

Constituencies

The municipality of Wendisch Evern belongs to the state electoral district 48 Elbe and the federal electoral district 38 Lüchow-Dannenberg - Lüneburg .

coat of arms

The 1960 approved crest of Wendisch Evern is on blue plate in the center as a common figure attached to the Lower Saxon houses typical gable boards in the shape of horse heads . The fact that the heads look inwards was originally intended to indicate the "Wendish Art", which is statistically not tenable (this direction of view is no more common in Wendland than anywhere else in Lower Saxony). The horse heads are above, left and right accompanied by three golden hearts. These are taken from the coat of arms of Lüneburg (whereby the color was adjusted from red to gold) and are intended to indicate the connection to the city. Among the horses heads the leftward golden head of a wild boar - boar . This stands for the Longobard chief Ibor (boar), who is said to have given the place its name (see section History).

Sports

Various sports clubs are based in Wendisch Evern:

• The SV Sportverein Wendisch Evern e. V. from 1984 maintains a sports area on the eastern outskirts and offers activities in the disciplines of football, gymnastics and table tennis.
• The KKSV small-bore shooting club Wendisch Evern e. V. from 1931 maintains a sport shooting range for air rifles and small caliber in the town center. The club is active in sporting competitions and directs u. a. every year at the beginning of June a people's and rifle festival. The KKSV has a very successful biathlon department that is also active on a national level.
• The archery club BSC Wendisch Evern e. V. from 1983 maintains an archery area on the eastern edge of the village.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Wendisch Evern has a stop on the Wendlandbahn , which runs from Lüneburg to Dannenberg (Elbe) .

District roads connect Wendisch Evern with Lüneburg (K37 via Klostergut Willerding in a north-westerly direction), Deutsch Evern (K37 in a south-westerly direction) and Barendorf (K40 in an easterly direction).

The Elbe Lateral Canal runs past the town about 400 m to the east and cuts through the district.

education

Wendisch Evern has a crèche, a kindergarten and a primary school. The crib was set up right next to the kindergarten.

The former school building is the oldest house in town (built in 1841). Today it is maintained as a village community center by the Alte Schule association .

Web links

Commons : Wendisch Evern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the place within the webpage of the joint municipality
• Homepage of the Wendisch Evern community
• Homepage of the chronicler with history and statistics
• Page about the surrender on the Timeloberg on geschichtsspuren.de
• Page about the surrender on the Timeloberg on wendischevern.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ↑ Wendisch / Windisch places
3. ↑ Memoirs of Montgomery, p. 380 (deed of surrender signed at 8 a.m.)
4. ^ Helmut C. Pless: Lüneburg 45 Verlag Landeszeitung Lüneburg, 1982
5. ↑ Michael Grube: geschichtsspuren.de (formerly lostplaces.de) - May 4, 1945 - Surrender on the Timeloberg near Lüneburg ( de ) April 5, 2005. Accessed on May 13, 2008.
6. ↑ Landtag constituencies from the 16th electoral term. Constituency division for the election to the Lower Saxony state parliament. Annex to Section 10 (1) NLWG, p. 4. ( PDF ( Memento from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); 87 KB)
7. ↑ Description of the constituencies. Annex to Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the Federal Election Act. In: Eighteenth law amending the federal electoral law. Annex to Article 1. Bonn March 18, 2008, p. 325 ( PDF ( Memento of July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); 200 KB)
8. ↑ Gerhard Körner, Hans Boy-Schmidt: The coat of arms of the district of Lüneburg. Lüneburg, Museum Association for the Principality of Lüneburg, 1973