Windhausen (Bad Grund)

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Windhausen
Municipality Bad Grund (Harz)
Windhausen coat of arms
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
Windhausen (Lower Saxony)
Windhausen

Location of Windhausen in Lower Saxony
Half-timbered church St. Johannis
Half-timbered church St. Johannis

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

year Residents source
1910 782
1925 810
1933 872
1939 793
1950 13020
1956 11480
1973 10840
1975 1200 ¹
1980 1193 ¹
year Residents source
1985 1206 ¹
1990 1228 ¹
1995 1242 ¹
2000 1133 ¹
2005 1064 ¹
2010 1004 ¹
2012 0999 ¹
2013 994
0 0 0

¹ as of December 31st

politics

Local council election 2016
Turnout: 57.59% (2013: 64.68%)
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
41.10%
39.37%
19.54%
n. k.
PRO b
Gains and losses
compared to 2013
 % p
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-1.11  % p
+ 4.98  % p
+ 4.57  % p
-8.43  % p
PRO b
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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).

(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 .

Windhausen coat of arms
 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:

“The municipal coat of arms of Windhausen makes strong reference to the history of the village and Windhausen Castle . The golden roses in the red field are said to come from the coat of arms of the von Oldershausen family. That is possible, but the question is whether the roses are reproduced correctly. In the coat of arms of Westerhof, the rose from the coat of arms of the von Oldershausen family is shown with five petals. However, the Lords of Winthusen also had three roses under a wolf in their coat of arms. The red lined blue helmet in the golden field is taken from the coat of arms of the von Koch family, who owned the manor in Windhausen for centuries . Her coat of arms showed a tournament helmet from the Baroque period with rich feather headdress and a decorative chain. "

Banner Windhausen.svg 00Banner: "The banner is red and yellow striped lengthways with the coat of arms above the middle."
Flag Windhausen.svg 00Hoisted 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

People who are connected to the district

Web links

Commons : Windhausen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ↑ a b population figures. In: Website of the municipality of Bad Grund (Harz). June 30, 2013, accessed February 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ 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 ]).
  4. ↑ 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]).
  5. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900 - Gandersheim district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed February 5, 2020 .
  6. ^ 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).
  7. ↑ 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 ).
  8. ↑ 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]).
  9. ↑ 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 .
  10. ↑ Result of the local council election Windhausen 2016. In: Website communal services Göttingen. September 11, 2016, accessed February 5, 2020 .
  11. ↑ a b Local Council Windhausen. In: Website of the municipality of Bad Grund (Harz). Retrieved February 5, 2020 .
  12. ^ Drafts of coat of arms by Wilhelm Krieg. In: Wikimedia Commons . Retrieved February 5, 2020.
  13. ↑ 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 .
  14. ^ 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 .