Wierthe

Wierthe Vechelde municipality
	Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 3 ″ N , 10 ° 23 ′ 4 ″ E
Height :	approx. 78 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.88 km²
Residents :	381 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	132 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	38159
Area code :	05302
Location of Wierthe in Lower Saxony
	Location of Wierthe in the municipality of Vechelde

St. Urban Church

Wierthe is a district of the municipality of Vechelde in the Peine district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Wierthe lies on a flat bump in the ground between the river Aue and the Dummbruchgraben . The place was an agricultural village until the second half of the 20th century and has retained its village character.

Neighboring places

Vechelde		Denstorf
Kochingen		Sonnenberg
Vallstedt	Alvesse	Üfingen (Salzgitter)

history

Wierthe was mentioned in a document of the Aegidienkloster Braunschweig as "Wiriti" in 1178 , later also as "Wirete" (1318).

In 1802 Wierthe had 151 inhabitants in 20 fireplaces . With the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Wierthe was incorporated into the Kingdom of Westphalia created by Napoleon in 1807 . After its dissolution in 1813, the place belonged to the Duchy of Braunschweig until 1918 .

Wierthe's assignment to the Braunschweig district and its status as an independent municipality ended on March 1, 1974 in the course of the regional reform of Lower Saxony .

From 1866 to 2005 the village was the location of a sugar factory, initially as Actien-Zucker-Fabrik Wierthe . In December 2005, the production facility, last owned by Nordzucker AG, was shut down. During the renovation of the town hall building in Vechelde in 2008, the municipal administration used the office building of the sugar factory. Wierthe was the official seat of the mayor and the municipal administration of Vecheldes for almost a year.

Many of the village's residents now do their business mainly in the regional center of Braunschweig or in the nearby industrial area in the Salzgitter area .

Politics and coat of arms

The mayor is Joachim Kleinert (SPD).

coat of arms

Blazon : "The coat of arms is divided diagonally by a golden wavy bar and shows three silver beets on a red backgroundin the lower left fieldand a silver crook on a blue backgroundin the upper right field."

Justification for the coat of arms: This staff reminds of the possessions of the Braunschweig Aegidia Monastery , while the three sugar beets refer to the sugar factory that operated until 2005. The color combinations red-gold and blue-gold indicate the former affiliation to the principality, state and district of Braunschweig.

The coat of arms was approved by the Vechelder municipal council on May 10, 1983, and the design was made by the local home administrator Rudolf Jerolewitz.

Culture and sights

The village church of St. Urban was probably built in the 13th century. At the beginning of the 16th century the patronage rights of the church were transferred to the Braunschweiger Kreuzkloster .
The village image is determined by central German three-sided and hooked courtyards , next to two-storey workers' houses. With the building complex of the former sugar factory on the eastern edge of the village, Wierthe forms a silhouette that is visible from afar in the otherwise flat landscape.

In the northwest of the village are the clarification ponds of the former sugar factory. These tailings ponds , which became useless when the sugar factory closed in 2005, have been transformed into a biotope since they were closed. Ornithologists estimate that around 200 species of birds can be seen in the clearing ponds. The clarification ponds are owned by the Kulturlandpflege Foundation, which wants to ensure the water supply for the pond areas important for breeding and resting birds via a well.

The Wierther Holz has been a landscape protection area since 1962 , together with the adjacent Sonnenberger Holz.

Peace oak from 1870/71
Town view
War memorial

Personalities

Hermann Künne (1897–1918), torpedo boat sailor
Gerhard Marquordt (1881–1950), lawyer, administrative officer and politician

literature

C. Venturini : The Duchy of Braunschweig in its past and present condition, presented historically and statistically. 3., rework. Edition. Verlag C. G. Fleckeisen, Helmstedt 1847, p. 191 ( scan in Google book search).

Web links

Commons : Wierthe - collection of images, videos and audio files

Website of the municipality of Vechelde

Individual evidence

↑ Population figures . In: Website of the municipality of Vechelde. December 31, 2018, accessed March 11, 2019 .
↑ August Lambrecht: The Duchy of Braunschweig. Verlag Albert Stichtenoth, Wolfenbüttel 1863, p. 361 ( scan in Google book search).
↑ Georg Hassel , K. Bege: Geo-statistical description of the principalities of Wolfenbüttel and Blankenburg . First volume, which contains the statistics of the two principalities and the topography of the Wolfenbüttel district . Friedrich Bernhard Culemann, Braunschweig 1802, OCLC 174943394 , p. 398 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
^ 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. 268 .
^ Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch. Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , p. 155.
↑ Wierthe coat of arms. In: ngw.nl, accessed on May 4, 2017.
↑ Nathalie Kruppa (ed.): Parishes in the Middle Ages. Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary in comparison (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 238; Studies on Germania Sacra . Vol. 32). With colleagues from Leszek Zygner. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-35892-4 .
↑ Harald Meyer: Clarification ponds - The muddy bank zone makes them so valuable for many birds. The lakes near Wierthe are preserved as an animal paradise and accessible to humans - 200 species are assumed. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung . December 1, 2007 ( online ).

[1] Population figures . In: Website of the municipality of Vechelde. December 31, 2018, accessed March 11, 2019 .

[Lambrecht-2] August Lambrecht: The Duchy of Braunschweig. Verlag Albert Stichtenoth, Wolfenbüttel 1863, p. 361 ( scan in Google book search).

[Hassel-3] Georg Hassel , K. Bege: Geo-statistical description of the principalities of Wolfenbüttel and Blankenburg . First volume, which contains the statistics of the two principalities and the topography of the Wolfenbüttel district . Friedrich Bernhard Culemann, Braunschweig 1802, OCLC 174943394 , p. 398 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[4] 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. 268 .

[5] Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch. Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , p. 155.

[6] Wierthe coat of arms. In: ngw.nl, accessed on May 4, 2017.

[Kruppa-7] Nathalie Kruppa (ed.): Parishes in the Middle Ages. Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary in comparison (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 238; Studies on Germania Sacra . Vol. 32). With colleagues from Leszek Zygner. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-35892-4 .

[8] Harald Meyer: Clarification ponds - The muddy bank zone makes them so valuable for many birds. The lakes near Wierthe are preserved as an animal paradise and accessible to humans - 200 species are assumed. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung . December 1, 2007 ( online ).