Westergellersen

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Westergellersen
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Coordinates: 53 ° 14 '  N , 10 ° 15'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Luneburg
Joint municipality : Gellersen
Height : 55 m above sea level NHN
Area : 20.38 km 2
Residents: 2258 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 111 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 21394
Area code : 04135
License plate : LG
Community key : 03 3 55 041
LOCODE : DE WRL
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Hauptstrasse 13
21394 Westergellersen
Website : www.westergellersen.de
Mayor : Eckhard Dittmer ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Westergellersen in the Lüneburg district
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Westergellersen is a municipality in the district of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony . In 2019 the community had 2,258 inhabitants on an area of ​​20.38 km².

Geographical location

Westergellersen is located between the nature reserves Lüneburg Heath and Elbufer-Drawehn. The municipality belongs to the Gellersen municipality , which has its administrative seat in the municipality of Reppenstedt .

history

Population development

year 1848 1925 1933 1939 2015 2017
Residents 198 221 213 216 1904 2053

politics

The municipality of Westergellersen belongs to the state constituency 49 Lüneburg and the federal constituency 38 Lüchow-Dannenberg - Lüneburg .

Municipal council

The municipal council from Westergellersen consists of ten council members.

(Status: local election on September 11, 2016 )

mayor

The honorary mayor is Eckhard Dittmer ( CDU ).

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The A 7 and A 39 motorways , which are in the west and north-east of the municipality, are approx. 15 and 12 km away. Westergellersen is connected to the road network in the south about eight kilometers away on the federal highway 209 ( Lüneburg - Amelinghausen - Soltau ).

Local public transport is ensured by the bus lines 5200, 4618, 4410, 5201 and 5202 of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund . The nearest train station with a connection to local and long-distance Deutsche Bahn is located in Lüneburg, approx. 13 km away .

education

Westergellersen has a kindergarten, a crèche and a primary school.

economy

The community has a riding arena where important horse tournaments are held. Despite being named after the neighboring town of Luhmühlen , the actual venue is in the municipality of Westergellersen. Different tournaments and festivals attract a wide variety of people.

Attractions

The so-called Georg-Rex-Stone with the numbering (Roman I) from 1746 on the roadside from Kirchgellersen to Putensen (Salzhausen) , taken in April 2017

Historic landmarks in the beginning of Gellers

As part of the landscape protection area of ​​the district of Lüneburg (LSG LG 00001) , south of Westergellersen, the Gellerser Anfang forest area, which is managed by the Garlstorfer Wald monastery district ranger, is located in which there are historical boundary stones . The oldest of them were set up at the behest of George II ( King of Great Britain and Ireland as well as German Elector of Braunschweig-Lüneburg ( Hanover ) from 1727 to 1760) to mark the border between manorial forest and farm forest in this, in the administrative area of ​​the Winsen office to mark the forest.

The Georg-Rex stone made of hewn sandstone and named after it with the monogram of the king - consisting of the interwoven capital letters G (George) and R (Rex = Latin king ) as well as the Roman number II , which also has the Roman number I, marks the beginning of this anticlockwise petrified border that surrounded the forest at the northern edge of the forest area on the way from Kirchgellersen to Putensen (Salzhausen) . The inscription reads: "GELLERSER ANFANG", followed by the year "ANNO MDCCXLVI" (1746) and the four other Latin words: "FORESTUM HOCCE TRANSACTIONE ACQUISITUM". Rolf Kliemann translated the message of the stone in the Westergellerser Chronik as follows: "'In 1746 this forest was acquired by Georg II. [...] through comparison with the previous interested parties (farmers)" ".

However, this stone was only set in 1752, and the name Gellerser did not even exist at the beginning of 1746 at the time of the recession , which regulated the new rights and ownership in this "core of the even larger Gellerser woodwork ". In 1986, Carsten Päper put the number of stones set as part of this "primordial petrification" as "31 or 32" and the total number of stones from the first and allegedly three other petrifications as "44" stones. Eva König's statements vary slightly: She puts the number of stones that were placed on the border ditches dug in 1746 at "31", of which at the beginning of February 1987 there were still "16". According to the representation of the king, there were only three fossils:

  • the first in the wake of the 1746 recession using granite stones with a number pointing outwards and a wolf tang pointing to the forest side as a forest or rulership symbol of the sovereign in the forestry context;
  • the second, clockwise petrification from 1881, for which the wolf-fishing stones were given new numbers and were also used for this petrification;
  • the third petrification - again running counter-clockwise - of unknown origin, "probably between 1756 and 1881", of which 14 stones are still preserved and for which no wolf-fishing stones were used.

In addition to the Georg-Rex Stone , who from forest historical reasons than today monument under monument protection stands ( ID: 28836639 ), King leads a total of 38 stones.

There are two competing theses about the naming of Gellerser Anfang , the second of which is related to the fossilized forest borders: According to the first hypothesis, the term beginning has to do with catching and thus goes back to hunting. This thesis is not only presented as a fact in the literature from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, but can also currently be read in exactly the same way on the homepage of the Gellersen community . On the other hand, Wilhelm von Hammerstein formulated the connection between the naming and use of the forest area in 1869 even more cautiously than assumption: "It seems that [sic!] The old language also spoke of 'beginning' when catching game, and so the name, as with so many forests, come from the catch of game ”. The second thesis, formulated by Klaus Dierßen and Rolf Kliemann in the Westergellerser Chronik, is that the forest area got its name because here in the first “there was a final recession from the manorial forest areas that introduced forest management reforms”. In the course of this reform, "manorial free float" was to be combined and, if subjects had to give up rights of use in the course of this reform in the beginning of Gellers, these should be compensated in return "elsewhere". By amalgamating the 20 stately wood meadows scattered between those of the farmers, it should be made possible to better control the farmers' rights in the royal forest, that is: the logging in terms of appropriateness and the right time, better regulate and any wood thefts due to the "non-observance of the Limits during felling ”as well as the devastation caused by the“ uninhibited pasture-like use of the forests ”to be able to contain more effectively. Against this background, a further argument arises from the aforementioned recess of 1746 for the second view of the origin of the naming of the royal forest: The beginning of Gellers was not designed as a hunting ground, but should be geared towards forestry and timber management , which also includes protection made the neighboring fields of the farmers a part of the contract against damage caused by game.

The oldest boundary stones in the beginning of Gellers are thus in the context of the “forest inventory” carried out in all “Dominalforsten in der Lüneburg Heath ” (stately forests) in all of the Principality of Lüneburg from 1740 at the behest of George II . The work of the employed by specially for this purpose commissions aimed through measures such as those described above to improving the condition of these forests by introducing forestry reforms from - but this first mostly on resistance of the moorland farmers failed for so usually a limitation of their hat and grazing rights and the use of litter in the forests so far used . After the final recession of 1746 about the new rights and ownership in the beginning of Gellers , this thrust was followed by reforms in other forest areas, which from 1760 by Georg III. , the grandson and successor of George II. To be mentioned are z. B .:

Carsten Päper puts the number of all stones set from the rose garden to the Gellerser at the beginning of the 15th century as “1050 ​​to 1100 forest boundary stones”, of which he was able to find and map “576” in the mid-1980s.

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. ↑ Friedrich W. Harseim, C. Schluter (ed.): Statistical Manual for the Kingdom of Hanover . Schlueter, 1848, p. 104 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ A b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Lüneburg. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  4. ↑ Landtag constituencies from the 16th electoral term. Constituency division for the election to the Lower Saxony state parliament. Annex to § 10 para. 1 NLWG, p. 4. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note .; 87 KB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nls.niedersachsen.de
  5. ↑ 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 the original from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice .; 200 KB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundeswahlleiter.de
  6. ^ Members of the council of the community of Westergellersen. Retrieved January 24, 2018 .
  7. ↑ 2017: Changes in politics and administration. Retrieved January 24, 2018 .
  8. ↑ a b Carsten Päper: Landmarks - cultural monuments of the Harburg district. In: Stone Cross Research. No. 12, 1986, p. 38.
  9. ^ Rolf Kliemann: Field names in the Westergellersen area . In: Westergellersen community (ed.): Westergellersen. Water and more . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2009, p. 91 .
  10. ^ Klaus Dierßen, Rolf Kliemann: Forest and hunting . In: Westergellersen community (ed.): Westergellersen. Water and more . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2009, p. 135-136 .
  11. ↑ a b c Eva König: The beginning of Gellers - the story of a forest in Lüneburg . In: Kurt Horst (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the natural science association for the Principality of Lüneburg from 1851 e. V. Band 38 . Beckers Buchdruckerei, Uelzen 1988, p. 217 .
  12. ↑ Eva König: The beginning of Gellers - on the history of a forest in Lüneburg . In: Kurt Horst (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the natural science association for the Principality of Lüneburg from 1851 e. V. Band 38 . Beckers Buchdruckerei, Uelzen 1988, p. 219 .
  13. ↑ Eva König: The beginning of Gellers - on the history of a forest in Lüneburg . In: Kurt Horst (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the natural science association for the Principality of Lüneburg from 1851 e. V. Band 38 . Beckers Buchdruckerei, Uelzen 1988, p. 221 .
  14. ^ Rolf Kliemann: Listed buildings . In: Westergellersen community (ed.): Westergellersen. Water and more . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2009, p. 309 .
  15. ↑ Eva König: The beginning of Gellers - on the history of a forest in Lüneburg . In: Kurt Horst (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the natural science association for the Principality of Lüneburg from 1851 e. V. Band 38 . Beckers Buchdruckerei, Uelzen 1988, p. 220-221 .
  16. ^ Klaus Dierßen, Rolf Kliemann: Forest and hunting . In: Westergellersen community (ed.): Westergellersen. Water and more . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2009, p. 135 .
  17. ↑ Erich Hessing : The district of Lüneburg in old views . European Library, Zaltbommel / Netherlands 1978 (text for picture no. 129 (without numbering)).
  18. ^ Erich Hessing: Monuments, people and history in the district of Lüneburg . Ed .: District of Lüneburg. From Stern-Verlag, Lüneburg 1981, p. 29 .
  19. ↑ Ulf Amelang: Around Lüneburg. Small hiking guide and local excursion guide for the Lüneburg district . Hahn, Lüneburg 1986, p. 67 .
  20. ↑ Boundary stone "Gellerser Anfang". Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  21. ^ Wilhelm von Hammerstein : The Bardengau. A historical study of its circumstances and the Billunger's property . Hahn, Hanover 1869, p. 560-561 .
  22. ^ Klaus Dierßen, Rolf Kliemann: Forest and hunting . In: Westergellersen community (ed.): Westergellersen. Water and more . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2009, p. 140 .
  23. ^ A b Klaus Dierßen, Rolf Kliemann: Forest and hunting . In: Westergellersen community (ed.): Westergellersen. Water and more . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2009, p. 139 .
  24. ^ Klaus Dierßen, Rolf Kliemann: Forest and hunting . In: Westergellersen community (ed.): Westergellersen. Water and more . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2009, p. 137 .
  25. ^ Klaus Dierßen, Rolf Kliemann: Forest and hunting . In: Westergellersen community (ed.): Westergellersen. Water and more . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2009, p. 136 .
  26. ^ Klaus Dierßen, Rolf Kliemann: Forest and hunting . In: Westergellersen community (ed.): Westergellersen. Water and more . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2009, p. 137 .
  27. ^ Klaus Dierßen, Rolf Kliemann: Forest and hunting . In: Westergellersen community (ed.): Westergellersen. Water and more . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2009, p. 138 .
  28. ↑ a b Gerd Völksen: Landscape development of the Lüneburg Heath. Formation and change of an old cultural landscape . In: Dieter Brosius, Gerhard Fischer, Holger Mantey, Gerd Völksen (eds.): The Lüneburg Heath (=  landscapes of Lower Saxony and their problems ). Episode 3. Rautenberg, Leer 1984, p. 22 .
  29. ↑ Carsten Paeper: hallway monuments - cultural monuments of the district Harburg. In: Stone Cross Research. No. 12, 1986, pp. 34-36.
  30. ↑ Tracey Runciman: Landmarks in the rose garden. In: Helms-Museum aktuell. No. 34, September 2014, p. 1. Helms-Museum aktuell, No. 34, September 2014. (PDF) Retrieved on April 14, 2018 .
  31. ↑ Forest boundary stones in the rose garden. Retrieved January 2, 2017 .
  32. ↑ a b Carsten Päper: Landmarks - cultural monuments of the Harburg district. In: Stone Cross Research. No. 12, 1986, p. 36.
  33. ^ Heinrich Schulz : 120 years of struggle for the Garlstorfer forest. A contribution to local history d. Winsener Geest . Ravens brothers, Winsen (Luhe) 1942.
  34. ↑ Carsten Paeper: hallway monuments - cultural monuments of the district Harburg. In: Stone Cross Research. No. 12, 1986, pp. 36-38.
  35. ↑ Carsten Paeper: hallway monuments - cultural monuments of the district Harburg. In: Stone Cross Research. No. 12, 1986, p. 38.

literature

  • Westergellersen community (ed.): Westergellersen. Water and more. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2009, ISBN 978-3-89876-479-7 .

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