Wenzen

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Wenzen
City of Einbeck
Wenzen coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 12 "  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 47"  E
Height : 163 m above sea level NN
Residents : 685  (Jan. 1, 2017)
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 37574
Area code : 05565
Wenzen (Lower Saxony)
Wenzen

Location of Wenzen in Lower Saxony

Wenzen is a village and northwestern part of the city of Einbeck in Lower Saxony .

geography

View from the B64 to the St. Jacobi Church and the former Wielert guest house

The place is east of the Elfas on the southern edge of the Hils . The Hillebach flows with the Stroiter Bach into the Krumme Wasser , a tributary of the Ilme . During heavy rain it caused flood damage in Wenzen. The place is crossed from west to east by the federal highway 64 and from north to south by the county road 658.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1022 under the name Winithusen . There was emigration in the 19th century.

Until the administrative reform in 1974, the village of Wenzen belonged to the district of Gandersheim and to the joint municipality Auf dem Berge .

On the occasion of the district and territorial reform, Wenzen came to the city of Einbeck on March 1, 1974.

politics

Local council

The local mayor is Gerhard Mika (WG). Local representative is Carsten Pape. (As of July 2020)

The Einbeck towns of Bartshausen, Brunsen, Hallensen, Holtershausen, Naensen, Stroit , Voldagsen and Wenzen elect a joint local council.

coat of arms

In the divided coat of arms above there is an erect, golden lion against a blue background. Below is a red mountain with a silver shell on a gold background. The colors gold and blue symbolize the Duchy of Brunswick , the lion the family of Homburg , the red mountain the villages of the former integrated community on the mountain and the shell Saint James. In addition, the scallop on the coat of arms should also show that there should have been mussels in Hillebach.

Economy and Infrastructure

Fire station on the banks of the Hillebach
  • Elementary school on the mountain
  • The construction of a new fire station for Wenzen (total costs in two budget years: 513,500 euros) was decided and started.
  • Historic double-track, now dismantled single-track railway line Altenbeken – Kreiensen with a stop / station building in Wenzen that is no longer used on the railway side. It was part of the connection to the Braunschweigische Südbahn ( Herzoglich Braunschweigische Staatseisenbahn ) Kreiensen – Börßum (–Braunschweig) and was opened on October 10, 1865, a few months before the Duchy of Brunswick was occupied by the Kingdom of Prussia.
  • Wenzen local sewage treatment plant. For their renovation and new construction of the local sewer system in Wenzen, including the sewage disposal for 180 house connections, approx. 3.45 million DM were raised on behalf of Stadtentwässerung Einbeck.
  • Chrymont Stud, Am Hils, 37574 Einbeck-Wenzen

Culture and sights

St. Jacobi Church and memorial
Historical AK Wenzen

Buildings

  • The Evangelical Lutheran church building St. Jacobi is a small hall church from 1804 with a small octagonal tower that grows out of the sloping roof of the nave. In 2004, after 80 years, this church received new church bells made of bronze. The church's patron saint is James , one of the twelve apostles. The community is part of the Gandersheim-Seesen provost .
  • War memorial
  • Former elementary school, built during the reign of the Duchy of Braunschweig from 1885–1906 under Albrecht von Prussia (1837–1906) , see AK from 1901.
  • The Hilskapelle claims to be the smallest chapel in the world. It stands in Wenzen on the edge of the Hils forest in a park-like area. It was consecrated on August 17, 2008. The area and chapel were financed privately and are publicly available.
  • Old forestry office, directly adjacent to Hillebach in the Einbeck district of Wenzen, built in 1860 during the reign of Wilhelm (1806–1884), the Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg. The stately two-storey, non-listed oak half-timbered house with eleven high, bright rooms and a total of 400 m² of living space on two floors of almost the same size and 250 m² of usable space on a 4,000 m² property with additional outbuildings such as a large barn, garage, laundry room has been preserved.
  • Jewish Cemetery
  • The former so-called Mail-Art-Museum of Friedhelm Schulz in a listed, now vacant rest yard in the village center of Einbeck / Wenzen, between the B64 and the Hillebach

societies

Trivia

Wenzen is the location of the plot of the three humorous novels in the Löhnefink series by Konrad Beste , but in the books under the name Hunzen.

Personalities

literature

  • From the past of the village of Wenzen; Author Otto Hahne ; Wenzen municipal administration; 1956; 72 sheets
  • Friday, Friedrich: The schools on the mountain. In: Gandersheimer Chronikblätter: Local supplement to the Gandersheimer Kreisblatt. - Bad Gandersheim: Publ. Bad Gandersheimer Kreisblatt. Vol. 4 (1973) No. 5, pp. 33-37: Ill.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] . Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ Wenzen. Local council "Auf dem Berge", 2015, accessed on April 13, 2017 .
  3. ↑ List of emigrants (222 people) from Wenzen in the Duchy of Braunschweig to America.
  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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 207 .
  5. ^ Members. Local council “Auf dem Berge”, accessed on August 18, 2020 .