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Wettensen coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 3 ″  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 94 m above sea level NHN
Area : 1.89 km²
Residents : 70  (Sep 2017)
Population density : 37 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 31061
Area code : 05181
Wettensen (Lower Saxony)
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Location of Wettensen in Lower Saxony

Urbanus Chapel
Urbanus Chapel

Wettensen is a northern part of the town of Alfeld (Leine) in the Hildesheim district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Wettensen is located in the Leinebergland west of the Seven Mountains and east close to the Leine , opposite Godenau.

history

The place was first mentioned in documents in 1334 when the abbess von Gandersheim enfeoffed the Lords of Steinberg .

In the course of the regional reform in Lower Saxony , which took place on March 1, 1974, Wettensen lost its independence and has since been part of the city of Alfeld (Leine).

politics

City Councilor and Mayor

At the local level the place Wettensen is from the City Council represented from Alfeld.

Mayor

The current head of the village Wettensen is Ina Geldmacher (CDU).

coat of arms

The municipality was awarded the municipal coat of arms on November 18, 1938 by the President of the Province of Hanover . The district administrator from Alfeld presented it on January 31, 1939.

Wettensen coat of arms
Blazon : "In gold , a black Rehbockkopf with a powerful six horns ."
Justification of the coat of arms: Since the history of the municipality of Wettensen offered no clues for the design of a coat of arms, the mayor, after hearing the local councils, chose the one described above. The nature lover and hunter expresses himself here, who rightly sees the decoration of the district in the deer because of its noble shape.

Culture and sights

the Jewish cemetery

Buildings

  • The chapel was built by five farmers in 1904 after the old church became dilapidated. It was a half-timbered building dedicated to Saint Urban . The current structure was built from quarry stone and provided with arched windows.
  • In the north of the village, at the edge of the forest, there is the Jewish cemetery of the former Jewish community of Alfeld, with two gravestones still in existence. The last burial took place in 1880. In the middle of the 19th century, four Jewish families (three peddlers , one Kiepenmacher ) with 13 people lived in Wettensen. At the beginning of the 20th century there were no longer any Jews living in the village.

Web links

Commons : Wettensen  - 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. 205 .
  2. Mayor of Wettensen. In: Website city of Alfeld (Leine). October 28, 2016, accessed on June 24, 2017 (PDF; 765 kB).
  3. ^ Directory of the mayors and mayors in the Hildesheim district. In: diekholzen.de. Accessed June 24, 2017 (DOCX; 72 kB).
  4. ^ 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]).
  5. ^ Wilhelm Mithoff : Principality of Hildesheim together with the formerly free imperial city of Goslar, Volume 3, 1875, p. 240.