Wennigsen (Deister)

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Wennigsen (Deister)
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Coordinates: 52 ° 16 '  N , 9 ° 34'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Hanover region
Height : 99 m above sea level NHN
Area : 53.78 km 2
Residents: 14,017 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 261 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 30974
Primaries : 05103, 05105, 05109, 05045
License plate : H
Community key : 03 2 41 020
Community structure: 8 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Hauptstrasse 1–2
30974 Wennigsen (Deister)
Website : www.wennigsen.de
Mayor : Christoph Meineke ( independent )
Location of the community of Wennigsen (Deister) in the Hanover region
Region Hannover Niedersachsen Wedemark Burgwedel Neustadt am Rübenberge Burgdorf Uetze Lehrte Isernhagen Langenhagen Garbsen Wunstorf Seelze Barsinghausen Sehnde Hannover Gehrden Laatzen Wennigsen Ronnenberg Hemmingen Pattensen Springe Landkreis Hameln-Pyrmont Landkreis Schaumburg Landkreis Nienburg/Weser Landkreis Heidekreis Landkreis Celle Landkreis Peine Landkreis Gifhorn Landkreis Hildesheimmap
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Wennigsen (Deister) is a municipality with around 14,000 inhabitants in the Hanover region , which is about 15 km southwest of Hanover in Lower Saxony . The wooded place is located on the Deister ridge within the Calenberger Land .

geography

location

The municipality of Wennigsen (Deister) is located on the Deister ridge , a northern branch of the low mountain range of the Weser Uplands . It is located around 15 km southwest of the state capital Hanover and is part of the historic landscape of the Calenberger Land , which extends between the Deister and the Leine rivers. In addition, the place is in the Calenberger Lössbörde with fertile soils that are used intensively for agriculture as arable land . The highest elevation in Wennigsen and also in the Hanover region is 405  m above sea level. NHN on the Bröhn as the crest of the Deister. The 16 km long Ihme rises from the confluence of the two brooks Wennigser Mühlbach and Bredenbecker Bach in the district of Evestorf . Here is also the lowest point at 69  m above sea level. NHN .

Neighboring communities

Wennigsen borders - clockwise, starting in the north - on the cities of Gehrden , Ronnenberg , Springe and Barsinghausen .

Districts

Widdergut four oaks in Argestorf
Manor of the Baron Knigge in Bredenbeck

Since the regional reform in 1970, the municipality of Wennigsen (Deister) has consisted of eight districts:

  • Argestorf (321 inhabitants, district 2.9 km²)
  • Bredenbeck with Steinkrug (3,401 inhabitants, district 14.4 km²)
  • Degersen (2,128 inhabitants, district 6.4 km²)
  • Evestorf (322 inhabitants, district 1.5 km²)
  • Holtensen (1,299 inhabitants, area 5.7 km²)
  • Sorsum (590 inhabitants, district 2.7 km²)
  • Wennigsen with Waldkater (5,899 inhabitants, area 20.3 km² incl. Wennigser Mark)
  • Wennigser Mark (1,204 inhabitants)

Local locations ( splinter settlements ) of the municipality of Wennigsen (Deister):

  • Waldkater (Wennigsen district, 220 inhabitants)
  • Steinkrug (district Bredenbeck, 201 inhabitants)

Land use

The total area of ​​the municipality of 53.9 km² is divided into the following types of use:

  • Courtyard and building area: 4.5 km²
  • Sports and urban green areas (recreation): 0.4 km²
  • Streets, paths, squares: 2.2 km²
  • Arable land: 20.5 km²
  • Other agriculturally used areas: 1.4 km²
  • Forest (deciduous forest 5.1 km², coniferous forest 4.8 km², mixed forest 14.6 km²): 24.5 km²
  • Watercourses and areas: 0.33 km²
  • Other areas: 0.07 km²

At 46 percent, the municipality has the highest proportion of forest in the Hanover region.

climate

Wennigsen has the average annual temperature and rainfall in the temperate zone . The coldest month is January with an average of 0.6 ° C. The warmest months are on a long-term average July and August with 17.2 and 16.9 ° C respectively.

Average monthly temperatures and precipitation for Wennigsen
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 4th 4th 9 13 18th 21st 23 23 19th 14th 8th 4th O 13.4
Min. Temperature (° C) 0 -1 2 4th 8th 11 13 13 10 7th 3 1 O 6th
Temperature (° C) 0.6 1.1 4th 7.8 12.6 15.8 17.2 16.9 13.7 9.7 5 1.9 O 8.9
Precipitation ( mm ) 51.7 38.3 49.6 50.1 58.6 66.0 64.9 62.5 48.3 41.5 53.9 56.6 Σ 642
Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 1.39 2.38 3.52 5.00 6.88 6.93 6.61 6.57 4.55 3.47 1.72 1.12 O 4.2
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Source: Sun standard values ​​- DWD Wennigsen - Gehrden / Lemmie, precipitation - DWD Wennigsen - Gehrden / Lemmie

Local panorama

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Panoramic view in south direction from the monastery church in August 2011

history

history

Ceramic shards from the 10th to 12th centuries, found during an excavation in March 2012 in Wennigsen
Wennigsen was first mentioned in a document around 1200 as Wenekessen (left column, 9th / 8th row from the bottom)
Merian engraving by Wennigsen around 1650
Map from 1751
Plan of Wennigsen Monastery in 1765
Fire station as the center of the former farming village of Wennigsen around 1920

Wennigsen and its neighbors probably emerged during the settlement and clearing period of the Frankish Empire between the 5th and 8th centuries. The oldest settlement finds to date in the form of pit houses and pottery shards were made in March 2012 during archaeological excavations at the new construction of the Vogelnest kindergarten in Neustadtstrasse about 200 m from the monastery. These finds were dated to the 10th to 12th centuries.

The first written mention (between 1199 and 1206) of Wennigsen, which is only available in a 13th-century copy in the Amelungsborn monastery book , is in a document from Bishop Hartbert von Hildesheim . This document certifies that Count Bernhard von Poppenburg from Wennigsen renounces the administration of the salt works in Swalenhusen near Hemmendorf , which the Amelungsborn monastery had transferred to his father . The existence of this document shows that at that time there was a settlement of Count Bernhard von Poppenburg in Wennigsen. Count Poppenburg had a coat of arms in the seal with a crossbar on which there were three five-petalled roses. This Poppenburg rose is still used today by the Wennigsen community as a coat of arms.

In 1330, the rights of 88 surrounding villages in the Deisterwald were redistributed, with Wennigsen being named as jointly entitled. A document from the year 1352, in which the abbesses of the Wunstorf and Wennigsen monasteries, as well as Gerhard I von Schauenburg , the bishop of Minden and other nobles are witnesses, regulates, among other things, the separation of the Wennigsen forest from the Redderse forest .

During the Thirty Years' War the place was almost completely destroyed by fire, and the population suffered robbery and looting. In 1626 the monastery was looted.

Duke Georg Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (united to the Principality of Hanover after his death) assigned jurisdiction to the place after the division of the Grand Bailiwick of Calenberg in the newly founded Amt Calenberg; the Wennigsen district court still exists today.

The discovery of hard coal in the Deister and its extraction from 1636 onwards brought a strong economic boom. The first documented mention of the coal mine on the Bröhn dates back to 1639. Due to the poor quality, the coal was unsuitable for blacksmithing and was mainly used for lime kilns in Linden or in Forest glassworks as used in Bredenbeck - Steinkrug .

From 1859 to 1885 Wennigsen was the main town of the Wennigsen office , which included the area of ​​today's cities Barsinghausen, Gehrden, the municipality of Wennigsen and the western parts of the city of Ronnenberg. In 1885, the Office Wennigsen with the Office was Linden to the district Linden combined, which existed until 1932 and then the district Hannover slammed. Until December 31, 2004, Wennigsen was part of the Hanover administrative district , which, like the other administrative districts of Lower Saxony, was dissolved in 2004.

In 1872 the railway line from Linden to Haste ( Deisterbahn ) was put into operation. Today this railway line forms part of the S1, S2 and S21 lines of the Hanover S-Bahn .

In August 1957, Horst Mohaupt (1927-2006) was appointed municipal director and held this office for 12 years. In 1969 it was decided to merge with the neighboring communities of Argestorf, Bredenbeck, Degersen, Evestorf, Holtensen and Sorsum to form a single community of Wennigsen (Deister) on January 1, 1970. This amalgamation and the law regulating it served as a model for the territorial and administrative reforms that followed a few years later throughout Lower Saxony. Reinhard Feldkamp was the first parish director of the new large parish.

In the local elections in Lower Saxony in 2006 , Christoph Meineke, born in 1979 (independent), was elected full-time mayor in a runoff election on September 24, 2006 . He took over his office on January 1, 2007 from Renate Borrmann (SPD) and community director Kunibert Ewert (CDU). For many years after his election he was the youngest full-time mayor of Lower Saxony . In 2014 he was confirmed in office with almost 90 percent of the votes.

Place name

Around 1200 the place was called Wennekessen , in 1230 the place name was Wennicigissen . It was not until 1932 that the name was officially set to Wennigsen. The name could be derived from wenec = little, tiny and mean small settlement.

The place name has always changed slightly.

  • 1236 Few memes
  • 1241 Wenekessen
  • 1250 Wennigessen
  • 1274 Weningesen
  • 1291 Weningissen
  • 1301 Little Senes
  • 1349 Weningessen
  • 1368 Weninghessen
  • 1392 Wennynghessen
  • 1506 Wennigessen
  • 1571 Wennigßen
  • 1592 and 1616 Wennigsen
  • 1653 Wennessen
  • from 1654 Wennigsen

Re-establishment of the SPD

Memorial to Kurt Schumacher and the Wennigs conference

At the Wennigs Conference from October 5 to 7, 1945, after the Nazi dictatorship, the SPD was re -established in what was then the Petersen station hotel . The place was chosen, among other things, because of the rail connection to the former Bückeburg airport (now Bückeburg Army Airfield ) and the social democratic tradition of the place. At what was referred to as the first central gathering of social democrats , social democrats from all parts of Germany and the London executive in exile came together. The meeting decided to appoint Kurt Schumacher to lead the reconstruction of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in the three western occupation zones . A memorial plaque at today's Hotel Calenberger Hof in Bahnhofstrasse and a memorial opposite the train station remind of this event.

Population development

In 1925 the villages that make up today's Wennigsen had a total of 5,458 inhabitants. After a slight decrease to 5444 in 1933, there was an increase to 5807 inhabitants by 1939. From 1940 onwards, the Wennigs population increased until 1985 and has remained constant at around 14,000 since then, with 3% foreigners being represented. Since 2005 the trend has been falling slightly. The Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Hanover region are assuming stagnation in the future . Despite the negative birth rate, this results from the influx of foreigners. The agglomeration of the state capital increases its attractiveness and compensates for the negative birth rate in Wennigsen. In recent years, the total birth rate in Wennigsen was 1.39 children per woman and thus 0.04 children below the national average of 1.43 (2014). To keep the population it would have to be around 2.1. Conversely, this means that around a third of children (0.7) are missing per generation.

Birth development 1940 to 2011

The average age in Wennigsen is 43.8 years. The 41 to 60-year-olds make up the largest population group with 31%, followed by the elderly with 29%. In third place is the so-called parent generation with 18%. Their share loses around 10% compared to the aforementioned groups. Children (6%) and adolescents (16%) have only a slightly higher proportion of 22% together. The absolute proportion of women is 7,113, that of men 6,710. The range of variation of the age groups between the individual villages is very different. The 41 to 59 year olds are very homogeneously distributed at 4%. For the 60 plus generation, the difference is 16%. Here Sorsum has the lowest share with 19.1%, the Wennigser Mark with 30.3% the highest share. The proportion of children is also heterogeneously distributed and fluctuates between 1.9% (Argestorf) and 6.4% (Holtensen).

The number of commuters who worked outside Wennigsen - mostly in the Hanover region - in 2004 was 3,576 compared to 1,252 inbound commuters.

religion

Evangelical Lutheran Churches

The Wennigs parishes belong to the parish of Ronnenberg in the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover .

  • Ev.-luth. Parish of Holtensen-Bredenbeck, An der Kirche 3, district Holtensen
    • Church , Linderter Strasse 13, Holtensen district
    • Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Haus, August-Warnecke-Weg 2, Bredenbeck district
  • Ev.-luth. Marien-Petri-Gemeinde Wennigsen, Klosteramthof 3, Wennigsen district

Roman Catholic Church

St. Hubertus Church

The parish of St. Bonifatius in Gehrden, to which Wennigsen also belongs, is part of the Hanover deanery of the Hildesheim diocese .

  • St. Hubertus, Wehweg 1, Wennigsen district

The St. Hubertus Church, named after Hubertus von Lüttich , is located on the northern outskirts of Wennigsen. The foundation stone was laid in 1960 and it was consecrated on September 30, 1961.

Another Catholic church, St. Christophorus , was located in the Holtensen district from 1962 to 2014 .

Free Church

The Christ Congregation Wennigsen ( Baptists ) belongs to the Evangelical Free Church Community in Hanover in the Federation of Evangelical Free Church Congregations .

  • Community building of the Christ Congregation, Neustadtstrasse 52, Wennigsen district

politics

Municipal council

The results of the last municipal council elections were as follows:

Political party Sept 11, 2016 Sept 11, 2011 Sept 10, 2006 2001
SPD 36.5% 8,135 11 seats 37.3% 7,410 11 seats 42.8% 8,421 13 seats 14 seats
CDU 26.0% 5,786 8 seats 30.6% 6,073 9 seats 33.8% 6,641 11 seats 12 seats
GREEN 14.8% 3,295 4 seats 24.8% 4,938 7 seats 13.4% 2,628 4 seats 3 seats
FDP 8.0% 1,780 2 seats 5.0% 987 2 seats 9.9% 1,947 3 seats 2 seats
LEFT 2.3% 466 1 seat
Pirates 2.2% 495 1 seat
AfD 9.2% 2,043 3 seats *
Community of voters 3.3% 743 1 seat
voter turnout 7,709 of 11,794 6,962 of 11,747 6,848 of 11,587 -
65.4% 59.3% 59.1% -

(* The AfD had only put up 2 list candidates.)

Town twinning

Memorial plaque on the town hall

Wennigsen has had a partnership with the French town of Forges-les-Eaux , a municipality in Normandy , since October 14, 1997 .

coat of arms

The colors of Wennigsen municipality are green - gold - red . In the green shield a silver shield head in the form of a Romanesque arched frieze with four arches; underneath a red rose, golden rose . This so-called Poppenburger rose is part of the Wennigs coat of arms.

Coats of arms of the districts

Citizen participation

Wiki loves monuments: Citizens enrich Wikipedia with their knowledge and photos

In September 2011, the municipal administration organized a local photo competition with Wikimedia Germany on architectural and cultural monuments. The aim was to document and publicize historical objects. Of the 311 photos submitted, one of the Holtens Church came eleventh in the national competition. Another positive effect was the newly created register of monuments in Wennigsen and numerous independent articles on local topics within Wikipedia .

Climate action program : Citizens develop a municipal roadmap for reducing CO 2

Between 2009 and 2010, the climate protection action program with 52 proposals for reducing the CO 2 balance was developed with large public participation . The Wennigs currently consume an average of 6.9 tonnes per year, which is to be reduced to less than 2 tonnes per year by 2050 in order to meet the targets of the Kyoto Protocol . The climate protection action program was decided by the local council at the end of 2010 and is intended to be the future guide for all local stakeholders.

The climate promise: regional alliance for changing energy behavior

In the spring of 2011, the “Climate promise: Wennigsen and the Calenberger Land tackle it!” Was launched. The participants undertake to save at least 2% on the previous year in all CO 2 -related areas such as mobility, energy, nutrition and consumption within one year . The data are evaluated online by the University of Bremen in a citizens' panel and compared with the regions of Bremen, Bremerhaven and three regions in Austria and Spain. In September 2011, the German UNESCO Commission recognized this project as the United Nations' exemplary education offensive .

Citizen participation project Hohes Feld: redesign of a residential area

The community of Wennigsen carried out the participation project “Hohes Feld” at the end of 2011 with the support of the Bremen University's Institute for Information Management . The aim was to redesign the public areas (playgrounds, green spaces and residential area) in an aging residential area from the 1970s. The demographic gap is very pronounced there, two thirds of 550 inhabitants are older than 60 years. Over 60% of all households contributed to the design of their immediate environment with 122 suggestions and a subsequent vote. The online process lasted four months and developed a high level of civic engagement. On-site visits and working group meetings took place at the same time. The project was awarded first prize for online participation in April 2012 by Init AG and the Spiegel authorities .

Economy and Infrastructure

Economic structure

The economic structure of the municipality of Wennigsen (Deister) is largely determined by its location in the economic area of ​​the Hanover region and its high quality of life in the area surrounding the Deister. The resulting location gives the municipality an above-average purchasing power and one of the highest academic rates in the Hanover region. Wennigsen's industry focus is on natural cosmetics as well as precision mechanics and electrical engineering in the manufacturing and processing industries as well as retail .

Purchasing power, creditworthiness, taxes

With a purchasing power index of 108.7 (2010) (D = 100), the municipality of Wennigsen takes one of the top ranks (7th) in an inter-municipal comparison of the Hanover region. The above-average value for the Hanover region (Hanover region = 107.4) proves the excellent retail potential within the municipality. In addition, Wennigsen, like the surrounding municipalities in the Calenberger Land, is characterized by a low proportion of debtors in all households. The tax rate is 500 points for property tax A, 560 points for property tax B and 440 points for trade tax.

Business networks

Trade show 2010

Economically relevant networks in Wennigsen are the Wennigsen Economic Interest Group (WIG) and the Management Senior Service (MSS). The WIG is a network of around 100 companies that have been actively representing the economic interests of Wennigs companies, traders, dealers, freelancers and artists since 1975. Every three years the Wennigs trade show is organized by the WIG on the grounds of the Sophie Scholl Comprehensive School. In 2018, the trade show took place for the first time on the manor in the Bredenbeck district.

Companies

  • Laverana Naturkosmetik: Manufacturer of natural cosmetics
  • Kreie Bauelemente - since 1963 - marble, granite & more
  • Müller electronic: develops electronic meters (water and district heating meters) especially for shipping
  • marai mechanics and electronics: engineering office specializing in housings for information systems in the railway technology sector
  • Calenberger precision mechanics
  • Handke medical technology
  • mvk Line: precision engineering company in the field of dental technology
  • Freiherr Kniggesche co-ownership, agriculture and forestry: largest commercial forest owner and manager of 1,230 ha

tourism

The State Office for Statistics and Communication Technology Lower Saxony has 12 accommodation establishments (with more than nine beds) and 548 beds in the municipality. As of 2012: 7 hotels, 1 country home, 25 private renters.

When the Expo 2000 took place in nearby Hanover in 2000 , there were 39,813 overnight stays, the largest number of overnight stays in Wennigs accommodation establishments. In 2011, guests booked 34,362 overnight stays in the municipality, an increase of 9.5% compared to the previous year. A record figure was reached in 2011 with 2,200 foreigners. A total of 13,410 people visited the community with an average length of stay of 2.3 days per guest.

education

Sophie Scholl comprehensive school Wennigsen (cooperative comprehensive school)

schools

The primary schools in Wennigsen and Bredenbeck are located in the municipality . In Wennigsen itself there is the Sophie Scholl Comprehensive School, a cooperative comprehensive school that emerged from the former Wennigsen school center with an orientation level , secondary school and secondary school . The specialty of this school is that classes 5 to 7 are taught integratively. This in turn means that the students in the grammar school branch can only take the Abitur after 13 years. Since the Sophie Scholl Comprehensive School does not have its own upper school, there is a cooperation with the KGS in the Ronnenberg district of Empelde for attending the upper school there. From the 2013/2014 school year, the Abitur can be taken for the first time after 13 school years at KGS. Since the 2007/2008 school year, all-day lessons have been gradually introduced. Extensions are under construction for operation as an all-day school .

In the district of Sorsum there is a Waldorf school with an attached kindergarten .

Kindergartens

There are 12 kindergartens in the entire municipality, which are run by seven providers. There is a speech therapy kindergarten in the Degersen district and a curative education kindergarten in Holtensen. The Emmaus Kindergarten is located in Wennigsen as a kindergarten with a Christian denomination. With the exception of the two smallest districts, Argestorf and Evestorf, there is childcare in every district. From 2012 to 2013, the Vogelnest kindergarten was rebuilt using a passive house-like construction. A family and service office was set up in the town hall in 2009 for all relevant matters.

traffic

Road traffic

Bundesstraße 217 runs along the eastern edge of the municipality . It runs on a bypass road east of the Evestorf district, then crosses the Holtensen district and leads west of Steinkrug over the Deister towards the Springer district of Völksen .

Transportation

Wennigsen stop

In the local area of ​​Wennigsen there are two stops of the Hanover S-Bahn . These are, on the one hand, the Wennigsen stop with the S1, S2 and S21 lines along the Deisterstreet towards Barsinghausen / Haste and, on the other hand, the Holtensen / Linderte stop on the S5 ( Hanover – Altenbeken line with connections to Springe , Hameln , Bad Pyrmont and Paderborn ) or Hannover Airport .

The S-Bahn stations Lemmie (town of Gehrden ) and Egestorf (town of Barsinghausen) are only a few meters outside the municipality . Due to the close proximity to the Wennigs districts of Sorsum and Wennigser Mark , these stops also serve to connect the municipality to local public transport.

Several RegioBus bus lines serve the area of ​​the municipality: Line 382 connects Wennigsen with the districts of Argestorf , Bredenbeck and Steinkrug and then continues via the bison enclosure Springe and the Springe hospital to the Springer train station. Some stub trips lead to Bennigser Bahnhof on school days . Line 520 also connects Wennigsen with the districts of Argestorf and Bredenbeck. It also serves the districts of Holtensen, Evestorf and Sorsum and ends at Weetzen train station . Line 540 connects Wennigsen with the Wennigser Mark district and continues along the Deister to Barsinghausen. Line 580 connects Wennigsen with the districts of Bönnigsen and Degersen and continues via Gehrden to Empelde , where there is a connection to the Hanover tram . Lines 521 and 522 are used for school traffic.

Air traffic

Monitoring of air traffic by the Deister radar system of the German air traffic control

On the Deister survey Höfeler ( 395  m above sea level. NN ) is a SRE-M -Radaranlage the DFS for monitoring the average airspace. There are a total of six systems in Germany that monitor German airspace. The detection radius is around 145 NM ( nautical miles , corresponds to 270 km). About 1.5 km away, on the so-called Bröhn , there are further air traffic control transmitting and receiving systems.

Bicycle traffic

In 2008, a cycle traffic plan was developed for the first time in the Hanover region together with the local ADFC , politics and local government . The aim was to strategically promote cycling. To this end, an extensive catalog of measures was developed, which was largely processed in the following years. Essential components were the area-wide signage with distance information, the expansion and modernization of the parking facilities as well as public awareness of the topic. The signage was completely implemented in 2011 on six routes with a length of 39 km and 140 signs. Around 950 bicycle parking spaces with frame holders and a central lockable bicycle garage at Wennigsen S-Bahn station were installed in the same year. Joint campaigns to strengthen mobility behavior in retail were carried out with the Economic Interest Group (WIG) . In cooperation with the state of Lower Saxony, two new bike paths with a total length of 3.5 kilometers have been built (Wennigsen - Wennigser Mark, Wennigsen - Sorsum). The Evestorf - Sorsum cycle path has been completely renovated. Further measures such as the marking of false dead ends, the installation of a lighting system on the way to the Holtensen train station (approx. One kilometer long), lowering of the curb and other small structural measures followed. To ensure a constant exchange process, a regular “round table for bicycle traffic” was set up between the voluntary ADFC and the municipal administration.

Climate protection

Wind turbines on the Vörier mountain

In 1990 wind turbines were built on the Vörier Berg . In 1998, an award-winning eco - settlement was built in the Langes Feld development area . After the closure of the Wennigs outdoor pool, the Wennigs water park was opened in 2000 with a self-cleaning regeneration pond. The formerly conventional system can completely dispense with the use of chemicals, which halved the operating costs.

The voluntary climate protection officer Detlev Krüger-Nedde has been active in the community with public relations work and advice since 2008. In 2009, over 175 energy consultations were carried out in households and companies together with the climate protection agency.

In 2009 and 2011, two public participation projects were initiated by the municipality to protect the climate, see the section on public participation .

The municipality is the only municipality in Northern Germany to have installed a wood chip heating system, which is located in a comprehensive school with around 1,000 students. It has a nominal output of 360 kW and saves 300 tons of CO 2 a year. From 2009 to 2011, all street lamps in the municipality were replaced with energy-saving lighting. This enabled power consumption to be reduced by two thirds; that means an annual CO 2 saving of 140 tons.

Culture and sights

Old Wennigsen customs house from 1822
Wennigsen Monastery with a former forestry office
Wennigser water wheels in the Deister
Sundial by Erich Pollähne
Glassworks Steinkrug
Youth fountain by Friedrich Adolf Sötebier
The historic free shooting begins with a cannon shot .

The Deister with the Wennigser water wheels on the Feldberg and the outdoor pool, which has been converted into the Wennigsen water park, are particularly important for local recreation . A special event is the historic free shooting , which takes place every three years .

The Mühlendammweg promenade leads from Wennigsen Abbey along the Wennigser Mühlbach stream to the Bröhnweg , connecting the former mill ponds that still exist. At the fire station it leads past the Wennigsen Spritzenhaus , the former fire station of the Wennigsen volunteer fire brigade , which is now a center for handicrafts. Below the upper mill pond is the Wennigsen local history museum, in which, in addition to changing exhibitions on various topics, there are also permanent exhibitions on local history, old craft trades, Deister mining and the previous use of the building as a water mill.

Objects worth seeing are in summary the monastery with its Romanesque defense tower from 1150, the water park with a purely biological water treatment, the Wennigsen local history museum in the upper mill from around 1700, the works of art double helix and sundial (spiral of the life of Hugo Kükelhaus ) by Wennigser Precision mechanic Erich Pollähne , the Wennigser water wheels in Deister and the listed old customs house Wennigsen from 1822 should be emphasized.

See also:

Sights in the localities

Argestorf :

Bredenbeck :

Degersen :

Evestorf :

Holtensen :

Sorsum :

Steinkrug near Bredenbeck :

Wennigsen:

Wennigser Mark :

Deister :

More sightseeing tours:

  • The green thread. Hiking tour through Wennigsen
  • The green chain. Bike tour through eight Wennigs villages
  • In Lave's footsteps. Historical tour in the footsteps of the royal court architect through Bredenbeck

Regular events

Spring:

  • Easter market in the yard of the Warnecke grain distillery in Bredenbeck.
  • Opening of the Wennigs water wheels and the Wennigs water park .
  • Raising the maypole in Argestorf, Bredenbeck, Degersen and Holtensen.
  • Deistertag: Start of the hiking season in the Deister , forest parking spaces .
  • Wennigser Kunstspur - Open Studio Day. Every two years more than 30 Wennigs studios open their doors.
  • Open air as part of the Masala Festival in the courtyard of the Warnecke grain distillery in Bredenbeck

Summer:

Autumn:

  • Gutsfest on the manor of the Baron Knigge in Bredenbeck.
  • Wennigser cruising run: school run, walking and half marathon.
  • Region-wide discovery day with museum festival at the local museum .
  • Farmer's market in the courtyard of the Warnecke distillery in Bredenbeck.
  • Holtensen fruit wine festival with the choice of the wine queen.

Winter:

  • Advent market in the courtyard of the Warnecke grain distillery in Bredenbeck.
  • Classic Advent concerts in the Wennigsen monastery church.
  • Christmas market at the Wennigsen fire station.

Personalities

Adolph Freiherr Knigge

Web links

Commons : Wennigsen (Deister)  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Wennigsen (Deister)  - travel guide

Individual evidence

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  8. ^ Poppenburger Rose - Source: Calenberger Zeitung, edition September 16, 2006 (May 28, 2006).
  9. ^ Calenberger Zeitung: Former community director died (October 7, 2006).
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