Windhausen (Bad Grund)
Windhausen
Municipality Bad Grund (Harz)
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Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
Height : | 249 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 3.54 km² | |
Residents : | 994 (Jun 30, 2013) | |
Population density : | 281 inhabitants / km² | |
Incorporation : | 1st of March 2013 | |
Postal code : | 37539 | |
Area code : | 05327 | |
Location of Windhausen in Lower Saxony |
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Half-timbered church St. Johannis
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Windhausen am Harz is a district of the municipality of Bad Grund (Harz) in the district of Göttingen (formerly Osterode ) in Lower Saxony .
location
Windhausen is located both on the western edge of the Upper Harz and on the Harz nature reserve . It is located at Markau influx Schlungwasser . To the northeast is Bad Grund (Harz), to the south of Badenhausen , to the southwest of Eisdorf and to the northwest of Gittelde .
history
Place name
The settlement's earliest written evidence was created around 1221 and tells of the knight "Basilius de Winthusen". The etymology of the name remains speculative. As raw form would be a compound of Old Saxon Winith - and - husen imagine what with pasture settlement could translate.
Incorporations
On March 1, 2013, the member communities of the combined community Bad Grund (Harz) merged to form the new community Bad Grund (Harz). Windhausen was the administrative seat of the joint municipality and is now the administrative seat of the municipality of Bad Grund (Harz).
Population development
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¹ as of December 31st
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politics
Local council
The local council consists of five council members (changes from 2013). In addition, there are two advisory members in the local council (both PRO Windhausen).
- SPD : 2 seats (± 0)
- PRO Windhausen : 2 seats (± 0)
- CDU : 1 seat (± 0)
(Status: local election on September 11, 2016 )
Local mayor
The local mayor is Burkhard Fricke (SPD). His deputy is Jutta Schwarze (SPD).
coat of arms
The design of the municipal coat of arms of Windhausen comes from the Braunschweig head of studies , heraldry and graphic artist Wilhelm Krieg . The Windhausen municipal council approved the coat of arms on June 26, 1972. After the design of the coat of arms had been approved by the Lower Saxony State Archives on January 8, 1973, the coat of arms was approved by the regional president in Hildesheim on April 18, 1973 .
Blazon : “ Divided by red and gold ; above three four-petalled golden roses , below a red lined blue helmet . " | |
Justification of the coat of arms: On the website of the municipality of Bad Grund (Harz) is mentioned:
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Banner and flag
Banner: "The banner is red and yellow striped lengthways with the coat of arms above the middle." | |
Hoisted flag: "The flag has red and yellow stripes with the coat of arms in the middle." |
Culture and sights
Museums
- Village and local history museum in Schlungweg, visits on request
Buildings
- Windhausen Castle , mentioned in a document since 1338, today the remains of the castle complex are used as a leisure and recreation facility.
- Half-timbered church St. Johannis (Evangelical-Lutheran) on the church square
traffic
Windhausen is in the immediate vicinity of the federal highway 243 , which leads from Osterode am Harz to Bad Gandersheim . The Windhausen stop was on the Gittelde – Bad Grund railway line . This is shut down.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the district
- August Orth (1828–1901), architect
- Eduard Orth (1830–1895), administrative officer
People who are connected to the district
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Reck, nobleman, bailiff in Windhausen, father of Philipp Georg Friedrich von Reck
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b municipalities in Germany by area, population and postcode. (XLS; 4.5 MB) See under: Lower Saxony, No. 1534 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 2012, accessed on February 5, 2020 .
- ↑ a b population figures. In: Website of the municipality of Bad Grund (Harz). June 30, 2013, accessed February 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Uwe Ohainski, Jürgen Udolph : The place names of the district of Osterode (= publications of the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen . Volume 40 ). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-89534-370-6 , p. 181–184 ( adw-goe.de [PDF; 2.6 MB ]).
- ↑ Lower Saxony State Chancellery (Ed.): Law on the reorganization of the Bad Grund (Harz) community, Osterode am Harz district . Lower Saxony Law and Ordinance Gazette (Nds. GVBl.). No. 16/2012 . Hanover July 18, 2012, p. 267 , p. 17 ( digitized version [PDF; 290 kB ; accessed on February 5, 2020]).
- ^ Ulrich Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900 - Gandersheim district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed February 5, 2020 .
- ^ A b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Gandersheim ( see under: No. 69 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ a b Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p. 206 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 33 , district of Osterode am Harz ( digitized [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on February 5, 2020]).
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Community directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on February 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Result of the local council election Windhausen 2016. In: Website communal services Göttingen. September 11, 2016, accessed February 5, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Local Council Windhausen. In: Website of the municipality of Bad Grund (Harz). Retrieved February 5, 2020 .
- ^ Drafts of coat of arms by Wilhelm Krieg. In: Wikimedia Commons . Retrieved February 5, 2020.
- ↑ a b c History of the community of Windhausen - coat of arms. In: Website of the municipality of Bad Grund (Harz). Retrieved February 5, 2020 .
- ^ A b Arnold Rabbow: Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch . The coats of arms of the communities and districts in the urban and rural districts of Braunschweig, Gandersheim, Gifhorn, Goslar, Helmstedt, Peine, Salzgitter, Wolfenbüttel and Wolfsburg. Ed .: Braunschweiger Zeitung, Salzgitter Zeitung and Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Eckensberger & Co Verlag, Braunschweig 1977, DNB 780686667 , p. 118 .