Winnigstedt

This article deals with the city of Winnigstedt; for the agronomist of the same name, see Robert Winnigstedt

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′  N , 10 ° 46 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Wolfenbüttel
Joint municipality :	Elm aces
Height :	94 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.05 km 2
Residents:	701 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	58 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	38170
Area code :	05336
License plate :	WF
Community key :	03 1 58 035
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Markt 3 38170 Schöppenstedt
Website :	www.winnigstedt.info
Mayor :	Michael Waßmann ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Winnigstedt in the Wolfenbüttel district

The Great Rupture Plain near Winnigstedt

Winnigstedt is a municipality in the Wolfenbüttel district in Lower Saxony on the state border with Saxony-Anhalt . It is a member community of the Elm-Asse joint community , which has its administrative headquarters in the city of Schöppenstedt .

geography

location

The place is near the lowlands of the Great Rift . A branch of the Magdeburg Börde extends up to here , so that the area around the village has good arable soil.

Community structure (districts)

• Matting inch
• Winnigstedt (until 1939 Large and Small Winnigstedt)

history

Winnigstedt was first mentioned in 1182 as Winnincstede in a document about a hoof exchanged by the Marienthal monastery . In 1351, the Riddagshausen monastery was given patronage over the church. In 1936 there was a need for space around the Völkenroder test airfield near Braunschweig . Eleven agricultural farms were relocated from this area to Winnigstedt. The newly erected courtyard buildings were created in the style of the historic "Niedersachsenhaus" ( Fachhallenhaus ). Until 1945 the state of Braunschweig bordered Prussia in Winnigstedt .

For the development of the postal system, see:

→ Main article : Postal route Braunschweig-Helmstedt-Magdeburg - Groß Winnigstedt

Matting customs limit point

The southern district of Mattierzoll had been the border area between different territories for centuries. After the Second World War, it was initially bordered by the Soviet occupation zone , and soon the GDR. In the 1950s, the border town on the western side had established itself as a railway junction. This is where the state railway ( Helmstedt-Holzminden ) met the Braunschweig-Schöningen railway and the Heudeber – Mattierzoll railway .

Parish mergers

On April 1, 1939, the previously independent municipalities Groß and Klein Winnigstedt merged to form the municipality of Winnigstedt.

In 2015, a merger between Winnigstedt and the neighboring municipality of Roklum failed because the residents of both villages and both municipal councils could not agree on a common name. The names Winnigstedt-Roklum , Tiefenbach (Elm-Asse) , Großes Bruch and Mattierzoll were up for debate .

Population development

year Residents source 1910 01208 ¹ 1925 01008² 1933 00955 ³ 1939 1014 1950 1998 1956 1634 1973 1165 1975 00989 * 1980 00919 *

year Residents source 1985 861 * 1990 971 * 1995 1045 *0 2000 933 * 2005 864 * 2010 766 * 2015 733 * 2018 686 * 0 0 0

¹ of which Groß Winnigstedt (= 761 inh.) And Klein Winnigstedt (= 447 inh.)
² of which Groß Winnigstedt (= 584 inh.) And Klein Winnigstedt (= 424 inh.)
³ of which Groß Winnigstedt (= 580 inh.) And Klein Winnigstedt (= 375 inh.)
* As of December 31st

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council of Winnigstedt consists of 8 council members. This is the fixed number for the member municipality of a combined municipality with a population between 501 and 1000. The council is elected for five years in local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The mayor is also entitled to vote and sit on the council.

The municipal council, which was elected on September 11, 2016, is composed as follows in the Xth council period:

• SPD : 5 seats
• CDU : 2 seats
• Independent Interest Group (UI) : 2 seats

(Status: local elections on September 11, 2016, new parliamentary group formation in the council meeting on September 12, 2017)

mayor

The mayor of Winnigstedt is Michael Waßmann (SPD). His deputy is Marc Germer (SPD).

coat of arms

The design of the municipal coat of arms of Winnigstedt comes from the heraldist and coat of arms painter Gustav Völker , who designed all coats of arms in the Hanover region . The approval of the coat of arms was granted on October 31, 1952 by the Lower Saxony Minister of the Interior .

	Blazon : "In blue three golden arrows standing next to each other."
	Justification for the coat of arms: The coat of arms is based on a seal by Dietrich von Winningstedt from 1378. The place Winnigstedt testifies with the blue and gold color of the coat of arms its attachment to the Braunschweiger Land.

Culture and sights

Windmills and water mills

There were several windmills and water mills near the village , which the names Trift am Mühlenbeek , Mühlenbach and Teichmühle are reminiscent of. The latter was proven as early as 1551 and later belonged to the princely Vorwerk , from which the place developed. The water used to flow from the pond into the mill wheel chamber under today's Teichstrasse. In a description of the village by Klein Winnigstedt (1750) a watermill on the Meesche Graben is reported. It produced wheat and rye flour until 1965 - most recently powered by a diesel engine. Grain was crushed and a feed trade was operated here until 1980. The building is now used as a residential building. The mill wheel in the former Klein Winnigstedt and some millstones remind of the traditional history of the two water mills.

Churches

• Christ Church
• Apostle Church

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Rudolf von Hantelmann (1874–1926), manor owner and court official, born in Groß Winnigstedt
• Otto Bülte (1886–1949), national soccer player

People connected to the community

• Hinrik Mente (around 1475–1531), bell and gun founder, he made a bell for the Christ Church in Klein-Winnigstedt in 1509
• Heiso Meyer (before 1650–1704), bell and gun caster, he made a bell for the Christ Church in Klein Winnigstedt in 1691
• Horst Reller (1928–2017), Evangelical Lutheran theologian and senior church councilor in the church office of the VELKD, worked in the parish parish in Winnigstedt

Web links

Commons : Winnigstedt  - Collection of Images

• Winnigstedt community

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. ↑ Ludwig Hänselmann (ed.): Document book of the city of Braunschweig . Statutes and legal letters 1227–1671. tape 1 . CA Schwetschke and Son (M. Bruhn), Braunschweig 1873, p. 55 .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wolfenbüttel district ( see under: No. 40, No. 57 and Winnigstedt ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  
4. ↑ Frank Schildener: Community merger has burst. (PDF; 350 kB) The project fails due to an emotional name debate. In: elm-asse.de. November 28, 2015, accessed December 18, 2017 .  
5. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900 - Wolfenbüttel district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed February 1, 2020 .  
6. ↑ ^{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.  209 ( digitized version ).
7. ↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 59 , Wolfenbüttel district ( digitized [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on February 1, 2020]).
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} 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 1, 2020 .  
9. ↑ ^{a b c d} Politics - Winnigstedt municipality in the Elm-Asse joint municipality. In: Winnigstedt municipality website. Retrieved December 17, 2017 .  
10. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG); Section 46 - Number of Deputies. In: Lower Saxony Regulations Information System (NI-VORIS). December 17, 2010, accessed February 1, 2020 .  
11. ↑ District of Hanover (ed.): Wappenbuch district of Hanover . Self-published, Hanover 1985.
12. ^ ^{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. 106 .