Westercelle

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Westercelle
City of Celle
Westercelle Coat of Arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 6 ″  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 16 ″  E
Height : 40 m above sea level NN
Area : 7.97 km²
Residents : 6987  (Jan. 1, 2011)
Population density : 877 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1973
Postal code : 29227
Area code : 05141

Westercelle is a district of the district town of Celle in Lower Saxony , about 3 km south of the city center on the river Fuhse .

history

Christ Church

The place got its name from the western location of the settlement to the original place Celles, now Altencelle . The first dwellings were built on the banks of the Fuhse . Westercelle is an old settlement area. The first Stone Age settlement traces in the form of several thousand stone tools on the Schinderkuhle site have been known since the beginning of the 20th century. There are graves from the Bronze Age on the road to the Bennebostel district. The first documentary mention can be found in an imperial charter from Heinrich II. From the year 1013. Westercelle developed into a purely agricultural, relatively large village with farms on both sides of the road leading from Celle south to Hanover , from which later the Bundesstraße 3 was. Individual farms still exist.

A large-scale fire raged in Westercelle in 1852. On the night of July 26th to 27th, 1852, a fire broke out and spread at high speed over the whole town. In a few hours, the houses, outbuildings and utility rooms at 9 Vollhöfner, 4 Halbhöfner, 2 Kötner and 2 dismantling sites were completely destroyed, as was the schoolhouse. A total of 28 residential buildings and 30 farm buildings fell victim to the flames. 40 families with 151 people had become homeless. Not only was a lot of cattle burned, but the entire first hay harvest of the year and a large part of the rye harvest were destroyed. However, a family also perished in the flames, namely the farm owner Friedrich Krüger together with his wife and two daughters, as an iron grave cross in the Westerceller cemetery reveals. Only the last member of the family, an eleven-year-old boy, remains intact, reports the daily newspaper of the city of Bamberg. In the following months, the farms were mostly rebuilt further away, but with large gaps between them.

With effect from 1 January 1973 the church was closed and mostly in the town of Celle incorporated . The areas south of the Fuhse Canal were added to the municipality of Adelheidsdorf and thus to the joint municipality of Wathlingen .

religion

The Evangelical Lutheran parish Westercelle's Christ Church home.

politics

Reinhold Wilhelms ( SPD ) has been the local mayor since November 16, 2011 . His predecessor was Michael Schwarz ( CDU ) for 10 years . The deputies are Dagmar Bedford ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and Torsten Schoeps ( WG ).

coat of arms

The green coat of arms is divided diagonally from bottom right to top left by a white wavy line, which symbolizes the Fuhse river. Above is a white horse's head, below a white linden leaf.

Culture and sights

  • Westercelle has its own outdoor pool, which is no longer operated by the city, but by an association (Förderverein Freibad Westercelle).
  • The floodplains of the Fuhse are worth seeing.

Architectural monuments

Sports

The Westercelle shooting club was founded in 1644. The sports club VfL Westercelle has existed since 1950 . It is the largest sports club within the city of Celle with currently 17 branches. Harald Nowatschin has been the chairman since 2016. The riding and driving club on Triftweg and the vaulting and riding community Westercelle offer additional recreational value.

Regular events

Economy and Infrastructure

Since the 1970s, industrial and commercial enterprises have settled in the commercial areas that have been created , taking advantage of the convenient location on Bundesstraße 3. In Westerceller industrial areas are u. a. "Street One" and "trispel" resident.

education

Westercelle has three general education schools: two primary schools (Bruchhagen primary school and Nadelberg primary school) and, since August 1, 2012, by order of the Lüneburg state school authority on February 10, 2012, secondary school  III (formerly Westercelle secondary school) with a branch in the nearby district of Heese (Heese -South School). The “Westercelle Youth Village” is important for youth work.

traffic

After completion of the second section of the east bypass in 2013, Westercelle has been relieved of through traffic considerably.

Through this area of Celle extends in the West train -distance Celle- Burgdorf - Taught -Hannover the Deutsche Bahn (DB) . The nearest train station is Celle with connections to Intercityexpress , InterCity , ME in the direction of Hanover and Hamburg and the S-Bahn in the direction of Hanover.

Until September 26, 1981, Westercelle had a stop on the now largely dismantled route book route 158 ( Allertalbahn , section Celle-Gifhorn city).

The bus lines 7, 11, 600 and 700 of the CeBus transport company stop in Westercelle and are connected to the central transfer point in the old town of Celle, from where there are connections to the city, the main train station and the district of Celle. [As of 04/15]

Personalities

literature

  • Artur Müller-Davidi: Westercelle: Notes for researching the history of the village . Celle 1981
  • Horst Bolle: Chronicle of the village of Westercelle . Celle 1951
  • Oskar Ansull : Heavens, what a country! A sighting. Celle 2010 (therein: "Westercelle in der Literatur", pp. 43–59)
  • Municipality of Westercelle (Ed.): The municipality of Westercelle. Your historical development and the struggle for further independence . Westercelle 1972

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Blazek: The fire extinguishing system in the area of ​​the former Principality of Lüneburg from the beginning until 1900 . Adelheidsdorf 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-019837-3 , p. 206-208 .
  2. ^ 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. 221 .
  3. ↑ Christopher Quantity: Nowatschin takes over the scepter at VfL Westercelle. In: cellesche-zeitung.de. February 23, 2016, accessed April 27, 2020 .