Willershausen (Kalefeld)

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Willershausen
Kalefeld municipality
Willershausen coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 51 ″  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 30 ″  E
Height : 150 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 511  (Aug 5, 2019)
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 37589
Area code : 05553
Willershausen (Lower Saxony)
Willershausen

Location of Willershausen in Lower Saxony

Willershausen is a district of the municipality of Kalefeld in the district of Northeim in Lower Saxony in Germany .

location

The village is located on the western edge of the Harz , at the confluence of the Aue and the Düderoder Bach.

history

The place is first mentioned in 1294 as Wilderekeshusen . Lieutenants in the Middle Ages were the lords of Bovenden and von Gittelde and the von Diepenbroick family. They lived in a moated castle . Later the place belonged to the old office of Westerhof.

In addition to agriculture, there was a brick factory from the 16th century until 1977 , where the villagers earned their living. Around 1920 the clay pit became known as a fossil deposit . The local clay pit was investigated as part of research by Hermann Schmidt (geologist) , Joachim Reitner and others. It was formed by a lake during the Pliocene . Clay was mined there from the 16th century until 1977. The deposited fossils are still being investigated, including parts of mastodents and giant salamanders , as well as insects , fish and mussel crabs , as well as parts of plants.

Willershausen station was on the Osterode – Kreiensen railway line , which has now been closed.

Willershausen was incorporated into the municipality of Kalefeld on March 1, 1974.

politics

Local council

The local council has a total of 7 members. The local mayor is Uwe Denecke.

coat of arms

In a shield split by gold and black, two outwardly curved petrified Comptonia leaves in confused colors; the shield is covered in the middle with a silver central shield with a continuous high cross.

The fern-like leaf of the Comptonia plant has only been found once in the clay pit of Willershausen and is unique of its kind in Europe. The Fulda pen cross should remember that Willershausen from the pen Fulda was established and the monastery of Fulda to even the late Middle Ages fiefs went.

Culture and sights

ev. church

The natural monument Tongrube Willershausen has been part of the Harz - Braunschweiger Land - Ostfalen Geopark since 2012 . There is an exhibition on this in the local fossil room. Guided tours are also offered.

Today's Evangelical Church of St. Alexander was built in 1750. At the end of the 19th century it was painted by the painter Friedrich Koch . In 2013 the stained glass windows were restored.

The local parsonage was built in 1865 according to plans by Conrad Wilhelm Hase and has been the parish hall of the Protestant community, which belongs to the Harzer Land parish, since 2000 .

The congregation of the Apostolic Church of Central Germany took advantage of a previously as since 1960 Darre serving building of agricultural precious court as a church, which was replaced by a new church 1,992th

The clubs include the Heimatverein and TSV Willershausen.

literature

  • Willershausen am Harz - Outlines of a Village History (1998).

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. 216 .
  2. ^ Municipality of Kalefeld. Municipality of Kalefeld, accessed on April 14, 2017 .

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