Westfeld (Sibbesse)

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West field
Sibbesse parish
Westfeld coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 29 ″  N , 9 ° 54 ′ 51 ″  E
Height : 276 m above sea level NHN
Area : 13.36 km²
Residents : 895  (December 31, 2015)
Population density : 67 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : November 1, 2016
Postal code : 31079
Area code : 05065
Westfeld (Lower Saxony)
West field

Location of Westfeld in Lower Saxony
Westfeld in the Hildesheim district
Westfeld in the Hildesheim district

Westfeld is a district of the municipality Sibbesse in the district of Hildesheim , Lower Saxony , Germany.

geography

Geographical location

Westfeld is located near Hildesheim 1.5 km southeast of Sibbesse between the Weserbergland Schaumburg-Hameln and Harz nature parks . The landscape is a wide valley between the mountain ranges of Hildesheimer Wald (north) and foothills (south-west) with the Seven Mountains on the other side , open to the west to the Leinetal . The upper reaches of the western Riehe tributary Alme flows through Westfeld near the source .

West field from the northwest

Local division

In addition to the core town, Westfeld also includes Wrisbergholzen .

history

For a long time Westfeld was in the shadow of Wrisberg woods. Westfeld was first mentioned in a Corveyer property register from 826. From the late Middle Ages to the secularization of 1803, the Hildesheim Michaeliskloster had extensive property here.

The small St. Katharinen chapel was and is assigned to the parish of the mother church in Wrisbergholzen. Both, like the majority of the population, have been Protestant since the 16th century .

Since the Hildesheim collegiate feud in 1523, the area belonged to the rulership of the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . In 1643, however, the Hildesheim Monastery was restored to its old extent, and the western fields again became subjects of the bishop. Although the re-Catholicization of the reclaimed areas was prohibited by imperial law, he set up new Catholic places of worship and parishes in various places.

One of the Hildesheim canons owned an estate in Westfeld ; there the first Catholic mass took place in Westfeld in 1693 since the Reformation. Already in 1695 the elevation to the parish with the patronage of the Assumption took place . In 1698, after sometimes bitter denominational disputes, a small Catholic half-timbered church was completed on the site of today's Catholic cemetery. In 1848, after long efforts, this was replaced by a larger stone church in neo-Romanesque form south of the main street .

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the neighboring town of Wrisbergholzen was incorporated. Until the regional reform in 1977, the region belonged to the Alfeld (Leine) district .

On November 1, 2016, the Sibbesse Congregation , which Westfeld also belonged to, was transformed into the Sibbesse Congregation.

politics

Local council

The local council of Westfeld consists of five councilors from the following parties:

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor of Westfeld is Herbert Zimmermann (CDU).

coat of arms

The municipality of Westfeld was awarded the coat of arms on February 11, 1938 by the President of the Province of Hanover . The district administrator from Alfeld presented it on April 13 of the same year.

Westfeld coat of arms
 Blazon : "In gold, a red- armed black wolf ."
Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms goes back to the family of the "de Westfelde" (von Westfeld) who lived in Westfeld in the 13th and 14th centuries and showed the wolf in the coat of arms. Members of this family are often attested by documents from the Marienrode monastery near Hildesheim, and on June 5, 1342, the two brothers Berthold and Aschwin von Westfeld occasionally meet us as guarantors of a legal act, which is attested by the seals of both that form the basis for the municipal coat of arms have been used.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Catholic Church
  • Ev. St. Katharinen Chapel (Westfeld)
  • Catholic Church of St. Mary of the Assumption (Westfeld)
  • Wrisbergholzen Castle with manor, built between 1740 and 1745 with the tile room from 1752, the walls of which are completely covered with around 800 motto tiles (in Italian, French and Latin).
  • Former faience manufactory Wrisbergholzen , built in 1736 as "Porcellain Fabrique".
  • Ev. St. Martin Church (Wrisbergholzen). The originally early Romanesque church has through its St. Martin - patronage in the time of the Frankish Saxony return mission. It has a remarkable baroque interior and decoration. The west tower from around 1200 has 2 m thick quarry stone walls in the lower part, which indicates that it was built as a medieval fortified church . Inside, a wooden pulpit from 1612, a baptismal font from the end of the 16th century, a retable from the middle of the 18th century and the altar from around 1700 are noteworthy.
  • The rectory opposite St. Martin's Church was built in 1603 (western part) and expanded in 1728 (eastern part)
  • In the main street of Wrisbergholzen, whose closed development is unusual for a place the size of Wrisbergholzen, several well-preserved half-timbered houses decorated with carvings and wall paintings are worth seeing.

traffic

Westfeld is connected to the road network via district roads with the federal highway 243 . The high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg ( ICE ) runs through the northeast of the local area without a train station.

Personalities

People connected to the place

  • Peter Gerloff (* 1957), Roman Catholic priest, lyricist and composer of numerous sacred songs, was a subsidiar in Westfeld after his ordination

literature

  • Oskar Kiecker , Paul Graff : The art monuments of the province of Hanover - II.  Administrative district Hildesheim - 6th  district of Alfeld . Self-published by the provincial administration, Hanover 1929, p. 5, 10, 273 ff., 311 (issue 17 of the complete works).
  • Karl Oelze (Hrsg.): West field stories - True incidents from the village life . Self-published, Westfeld 1994.
  • Rainer Oelze (author): Westfeld history - insights into the history of a village and the surrounding area . Self-published, Westfeld 2006.

Web links

Commons : Westfeld  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 204 .
  2. ↑ Lower Saxony State Chancellery (ed.): Law on the reorganization of the community Sibbesse, district Hildesheim . Lower Saxony Law and Ordinance Gazette (Nds. GVBl.). No.  19/2015 . Hanover November 12, 2015, p. 304 ( digital version [PDF; 464 kB ; accessed on July 9, 2019] p. 6).
  3. ↑ Local reorganization. In: Sibbesse parish website. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Local councils and mayor of the municipality of Sibbesse. In: Sibbesse parish website. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
  5. ^ A b Wilhelm Barner : Coat of arms and seal of the Alfeld district . Rebinding. Lax GmbH & Co. KG, Hildesheim 1998 ( digitized version of the text part of the first edition from 1940 [PDF; 10.0 MB ; accessed on June 11, 2019]).
  6. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Bremen, Lower Saxony. Munich 1992, p. 1416.