Wienhausen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 35 '  N , 10 ° 11'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Celle
Joint municipality :	Flotwedel
Height :	42 m above sea level NHN
Area :	40.38 km 2
Residents:	4077 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	101 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	29342
Area code :	05149
License plate :	CE
Community key :	03 3 51 022
Community structure:	6 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Am Alten Bahnhof 3 29342 Wienhausen
Mayor :	Henning Witte ( CDU )
Location of the municipality Wienhausen in the district of Celle

Wienhausen ( Low German Wienhusen ) is a municipality in the district of Celle in Lower Saxony . Since August 12, 2011, Wienhausen has officially been known as the “Klostergemeinde”.

geography

Geographical location

Wienhausen is located southeast of Celle an der Aller . The municipality is the administrative seat of the combined municipality Flotwedel with the municipalities Bröckel , Eicklingen , Langlingen and Wienhausen. The municipality of Wienhausen borders on the municipalities of Nienhagen , Ahnsbeck , Lachendorf and Hohne .

Community structure

Six districts are identified for the community:

• Wienhausen
• Bockelskamp with Flackenhorst
• Oppershausen ( Oppershusen )
• Offensen ( Uffenhusen )
• Schwachhausen ( Swachhusen )
• Nordburg ( O'erborch )

history

Wienhausen was first mentioned in a document in 1052 as Huginhusen . The mouth castle of Bishop Bernward von Hildesheim (950 / 960-1022), located at the earlier confluence of the Aller and Oker , could have been located here in 998. Although the place Müden at the current confluence of the Aller and Oker rivers is assumed for the castle, Bernward had privately owned land in the nearby Schepelse and Wathlingen, according to Horst Gädtke. The important routes from Wittingen and Hankensbüttel also converged here in Wienhausen .

Duke Otto I gave his aunt Agnes von Landsberg a house, called "Domus Ottonis" (Otto's house), together with lands and forests in the city of Celle in a document in 1243 with the authorization to leave it to the Wienhausen monastery .

In 1715 the horticultural artist Georg Ludwig Charbonnier was employed at the hunting lodge in Wienhausen.

On April 12, 1945 Wienhausen was captured by the 335th and 333rd regiments of the 84th US Infantry Division. Only a few days earlier, between April 6 and 8, 1945, concentration camp transport trains with the destination Bergen-Belsen or Neuengamme passed through Wienhausen. One of the trains was hit on April 8, 1945 during an Allied bombing raid on Celle. The following happened the tragic events that went down in history as the Celle massacre . There is evidence that one of the trains (probably the second) stopped on the former Celle - Gifhorn railway line near Wienhausen. Deceased prisoners were buried at the stop and there are indications that those who were still alive were murdered. In May 1947, the bodies were exhumed and buried in the forest cemetery in Celle.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1973, the communities of Bockelskamp, ​​Nordburg, Offensen and Oppershausen were incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality Wienhausen consists of 15 councilors.

	CDU	SPD	LUB	Green	FDP	total
2001	8th	5	2	0	0	15 seats
2006	8th	4th	1	1	1	15 seats
2011	8th	3	2	2	0	15 seats

last local election on September 11, 2011

coat of arms

Blazon : “in silver over a green shield base, in it a silver stream, a red church with a stepped gable, three Gothic windows and pointed side stair towers. The base of the shield and the portal point are covered with a golden shield, inside a red armored blue lion, between whose front paws a red heart hovers (coat of arms of the district of Celle). The stepped gable is covered by two green oak leaves ”.

Town twinning

Since July 1985 there has been a partnership with the municipality of Portbail from France .

Culture and sights

Buildings

• The Wienhausen Monastery , a former Cistercian monastery, is known for its collection of valuable Gothic tapestries from the 14th and 15th centuries and Gothic chests and cupboards. The oldest known spectacle frames and the Wienhausen songbook were found here. The monastery was founded around 1230 by Agnes von Landsberg , daughter of Konrad II von Landsberg , daughter-in-law of Heinrich the Lion , about 15 kilometers from Celle in Wienhausen an der Aller .
• The monastery has an interesting architecture with the St. Mary's Church and the separate wooden bell tower. The beginnings of the church probably go back to the end of the first millennium.
• The old water mill (first documented mention in 1351) is located directly on the monastery pond, which today drives an electricity-generating generator.
• In front of it is the trunk of the Blasek oak , which was given to the gift of Emperor Heinrich III. to commemorate the Bishop of Hildesheim around 1052: Huginhusen = Wienhausen.
• The Maria Magdalenen Chapel, which was built in 1657, is located in the district of Oppershausen .

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  Wienhausen watermill

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  St. Mary's bell tower

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  Blasek oak from 1987

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  Maria Magdalenen Chapel in Oppershausen

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  Wienhausen Abbey and St. Mary's Church

Architectural monuments

• List of architectural monuments in Wienhausen

Regular events

• Carpet exhibition in the monastery from May 31st to October 3rd
• Regular services in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mary
• Regular church services in the Evangelical Free Congregation
• Christmas market on the village square in front of the old town hall in December every year

Natural monuments

• Oak on the Allerwiese with a chest height of 7.40 m (2016).
• Fabian oak near the monastery with a chest height of 6.90 m (2016).

traffic

• The state road 311 runs through Wienhausen, the federal road 214 runs about 3.5 kilometers away .
• Wienhausen owned a train station on the Gifhorn - Celle section of the Allertalbahn , but on which rail passenger traffic was discontinued in 1981. Other stops existed in the districts of Offensen and Bockelskamp.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Helmut Siuts (1994, long-term care and promotion of choral music, honorary choir leader of the Wienhausen men's choir)

Personalities who have lived or live in the town

• Albert Heinemann (* 1938 ), lawyer and member of the state parliament (CDU)
• Hans Jürgen Baden (* 1911; † 1986), Protestant theologian, honorary professor and writer, pastor in Wienhausen until 1951
• Hanna Fueß (* 1886; † 1972), local writer (from 1951 to 1972 in the women's monastery in Wienhausen)
• Frieder Gadesmann (* 1943; † 2014), Protestant theologian and educationalist (from 1949 to 1965 in the Bockelskamp district)
• Karl-Heinrich Langspecht (* 1950; † 2011), lawyer and member of the state parliament (CDU)
• Wilhelm Pahls (* 1936), car mechanic, businessman, evangelist, preacher and founder of the missionary organization Die Bruderhand

literature

• Otto Weltzien: Kloster Wienhausen, Celle o. J.
• Johannes Wiebe: Wienhausen Abbey. In: Landkreis Celle (ed.): The memory. Faßberg 1978, p. 247 ff.
• Bernhard Otte: Fetch the ball (in Bockelskamp). In: Landkreis Celle (ed.): The memory. Faßberg 1978, p. 307 ff.
• Georg Santelmann: The Oppershausen Chapel. In: Landkreis Celle (ed.): The memory. Fassberg 1978, p. 258.
• Horst Appuhn: Wienhausen Monastery. Wienhausen 1986. ISBN 3-9801316-0-2
• Chronic of Wienhausen Monastery, originally until 1692, subsequently written until 1793 , Chronicle and Book of the Dead of Wienhausen Monastery, revised. by Horst Appuhn. Wienhausen 1986. ISBN 3-9801316-6-1
• Matthias Blazek : Chronicle 75 years of the Wienhausen local fire brigade 1930–2005. Wienhausen 2005.
• Matthias Blazek: In the shadow of the Wienhausen monastery - village origins and development of the villages in Flotwedel, carried out and explained using the example of the villages of Bockelskamp and Flackenhorst. ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8382-0157-3
• Frieder Gadesmann : Hermann Löns (Interwivs with Hanna Fueß ). Bockelskamp 1962 (secondary school work)
• Frieder Gadesmann: Wienhäuser songbook . Aichwald 2010

Web links

Commons : Wienhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Klostergemeinde Wienhausen - Chronicle on the website of the Samtgemeinde Flotwedel

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. ^ Federal Statistical Office - Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2011
3. ↑ http://www.plz-suche.org/de/niedersachsen/kreis.celle/wienhausen/6600.html
4. ↑ 1022-1038 the Hildesheim bishop owned a large farm in "Huginhusen" (Löffler, Eugenie; Dörries, Hans; Weber, Hans, Central Commission for Scientific Regional Studies of Germany - A Comparative Urban Geography, Volume 27, Stuttgart 1929, p. 258).
5. ↑ Cf. Matthias Blazek, Günther Bütepage: Dorfgeschichte Wiedenrode. Langlingen 2004, p. 13.
6. ^ Matthias Blazek: Village history Ottenhaus - A search for traces. with the support of Wolfgang Brandis, archivist of the Lüneburg monastery archives, Celle 2005, p. 6.
7. ↑ Helmut Knocke : Charbonnier. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 84, online via Google books
8. ↑ Celle today: "End of the war 70 years ago"
9. ↑ See: http://found-places.blogspot.de/2012/08/z zusammenhange-der-auffindung-von.html
10. ↑ See: http://found-places.blogspot.de/2012/08/z zusammenhange-der-auffindung-von.html
11. ^ 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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 223 .
12. ↑ Preliminary results of the district and municipal elections as a PDF document 2.90 MB ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ Weihnachtsmarkt-deutschland.de .
14. ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017
15. ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017