Winsen (Luhe)
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Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ' N , 10 ° 13' E |
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| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | Harburg | |
| Height : | 5 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 109.58 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 35,227 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 321 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 21423 | |
| Primaries : | 04171, 04173 , 04179 , 04133 | |
| License plate : | WL | |
| Community key : | 03 3 53 040 | |
| LOCODE : | DE WIN | |
| City structure: | 13 districts | |
City administration address : |
Schloßplatz 1 21423 Winsen (Luhe) |
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| Mayor : | André Wiese ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the city of Winsen (Luhe) in the Harburg district | ||
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Winsen (Luhe) , often colloquially Winsen an der Luhe , is the district town of the Harburg district in Lower Saxony , Germany and an independent municipality . With around 36,500 inhabitants, it is the second largest city in the district after Buchholz in the Nordheide and belongs to the Hamburg metropolitan region .
geography
location
The city is located as a middle center between Lüneburg Heath and the Winsener section of the Elbmarschen on the Luhe River between the regional centers of Lüneburg (20 km) and Hamburg (30 km).
Surroundings
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Hamburg 33 km |
Wentorf near Hamburg 28 km |
Geesthacht , Schwarzenbek 19 km, 33 km |
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Point 7 km |
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Lauenburg 35 km |
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Jesteburg 24 km |
Amelinghausen 30 km |
Lueneburg 24 km |
Community structure
Through a community reform in 1972, the 13 previously independent communities Bahlburg , Borstel , Gehrden , Hoopte , Laßrönne , Luhdorf , Pattensen , Rottorf , Roydorf , Sangenstedt , Scharmbeck , Stöckte and Tönnhausen were incorporated into Winsen and are now districts of the city as a whole, each with its own local councilor , the be appointed by the council of the city of Winsen on the proposal of the strongest party in the respective district in the local elections for five years.
climate
Winsen lies in a transition zone between the maritime influenced and the continental climatic area. The weather is shaped by the air masses of the continent (North German Plain).
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7.3 h / day 4.3 h / day |
| Daily maximum temperature |
in July and August as an annual average |
22.5 ° C ~ 13 ° C |
| Precipitation | annual mean | 63 l / month |
history
Early history and the Middle Ages
The Luhe created the conditions for settlement. At this point it reached the glacial valley of the Elbe, the substances carried by the river were stored in an alluvial fan that rose a few meters above the Elbe valley over time. It is not known when the first people settled. This embankment created an ideal natural harbor and became an optimal transshipment point from wagons to ships and vice versa, as it could be used at high and low tide. The port of Winsen extended from the current location of the watermill in the south to the Luhebrücke, which connects Marktstrasse and Deichstrasse, in the north. It gained importance in the 12th century when the Bardowicks trading post was destroyed and closed in 1189. In the 14th century, the port was particularly important for the export of wood and grain and contributed significantly to Winsen's rise to the city. The importance of shipping between Winsen and Hamburg is documented by many documents and only decreased in the 19th century with the advent of steam shipping and the new landing stages on the Elbe. Around 1830, the harbor basin began to be filled in, so that today only the drainage of the water mill, popularly known as "Mühlenluhe", is left of the harbor.
At a crossing of the Luhe a castle was built , which is explicitly mentioned in a document in 1315 . A document from 1277 suggests that the castle already existed at that time. The castle was originally intended primarily to protect port operations.
On May 21, 1158, under the reign of the Guelph Heinrich the Lion , Winsen was mentioned for the first time in a document from the Verden diocese , which had to pay tithes to that monastery. In this document, Bishop Hermann von Verden settled the disputes of the canons in Bardowick. The certificate has only survived in a later copy. When copying the original place name Winhusen was probably replaced by Winsen . At the time of becoming a town, the place was called Winhusen , later it was shortened to Winsen . In the past, different authors have suggested different interpretations. But the documented geographic features of Winsen and a grammatically correct word formation of the place name Winhusen allow the following conclusion: The second part of the name “husen” indicates houses. The first part of the name, the so-called defining word in place names, appears in most cases in the genitive and is often the personal name or the court of a nobleman who is associated with the establishment of the place. Occasionally he also describes special features of the place. The first part of the name “Win” is probably an old German, shortened genitive ending, in the nominative “Wi” also “Vi” , which means swamp, break or pond in Middle Low German . In medieval documents, four swamps or breaks around the city are documented by name. Therefore, the interpretation of the place name Winhusen with houses on the swamps (or breaks) is currently the most likely.
In the city center of Winsen, the parish of St. Gertrud in Pattensen had a branch church. In 1233, Helena von Lüneburg and her son Otto I acquired the patronage of the Winhusen Church in exchange . This resulted in a decoupling from the mother church Pattensen and the Winsener church became an independent parish church. With Otto's appointment as Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in 1235, the church patronage was from then on with the Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg .
At the beginning of the War of the Lüneburg Succession , Duke Magnus II was forced in 1371 to relocate the Grand Bailiwick of Lüneburg to Winsen. The Winsener Schloss served from now on as large bailiwick Winsen and managed the Guelph goods in the northern part of the Principality of Lüneburg , the part of the Principality Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg was.
In 1392 Winsen became a member of the Sate , a power contract between the sovereigns and the state estates of the Principality of Lüneburg . However, Winsen was forced to leave the Sate in 1396, whereby important rights from the treaty, in particular the privileges acquired by Lüneburg, remained in force, which severely limited Winsen's development opportunities in favor of Lüneburg.
In 1401 the Leprosen-Hospital St. Georg is mentioned for the first time, which at that time was outside the city.
In the 14th and 15th centuries, the castle and the associated lands were pledged several times by the dukes. From 1374 to 1389 it belonged to the City Council of Lüneburg , went to Hamburg and Lübeck in 1396 , was again in possession of Lüneburg with interruptions from 1434 and went to the Electors of Saxony from 1493 to 1523 . In 1415 a Winsen school was first mentioned in a document. It was an institution of the Church.
At the beginning of the 15th century, the Gothic St. Mary's Church was built on the same site as the successor to the church mentioned in 1233. However, this church had no relation to the Termini and the monastery . The appointments were created in 1348 by the Lüneburg Franciscan Conventuals as a branch for collecting alms in Winsen. Since 1477 there was a convent of the Franciscan Observants on Luheinsel , who belonged to the Saxon Franciscan Province ( Saxonia ). However, these two order directions had no relation to each other.
Reformation and Thirty Years War
Duke Ernst 'the Confessor' of Braunschweig-Lüneburg introduced the Reformation in 1526 under pressure from the townspeople . The monks had to leave the monastery in July 1528 and go to the Lüneburg monastery, from where they were driven out again in the course of the Reformation in Lüneburg in 1530. In the same year a major fire destroyed all buildings except for the castle, the church and the monastery. In 1585 another fire destroyed two thirds of the city. After the city fire of 1585, the noble court of the Lüneburg noble family Haselhorst, a noble secular fiefdom of the Guelph dukes, was settled and built with town houses. Johann Haselhorst was administrator of the Lüne monastery from 1529 and from 1532 also governor of Winsen and princely councilor and confidante Ernst of the confessor. The Haselhorsthof was originally a princely farm , which is mentioned as early as 1438 and was owned by Johann Haselhorst from 1543 until his death in 1549. The street is still called “Haselhorsthof” today. The remains of this noble court, later called "Brauhof", were demolished in 1972. Another princely outbuilding is mentioned in a document in 1585. This was near the current tax office and was surrounded by trenches. Although this Vorwerk was abolished in 1624/25, it still existed in a different form. This system is still present on the city map from 1785.
From 1593 to 1617, Winsen Castle was inhabited by Dorothea von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , the widow of Wilhelm the Younger, as a retirement home. She had the castle chapel rebuilt in the only preserved tower of the castle. At the beginning of the 17th century, Winsen Castle was the scene of several witch trials .
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Duke Christian the Elder founded a mint in Winsen in 1619 . This was probably in the immediate vicinity of the water mill and existed until 1626. During the Thirty Years War , the fortifications of the castle were reinforced. Since April 1627 there was an imperial garrison of about 100 men in Winsen. In the same year, the Danes fighting on the Lutheran side briefly invaded the city, looted it and set about 25 houses on fire. The castle with the Lüneburg soldiers was not attacked. After the battle at Pinneberg Castle in September 1627, the injured Johann t'Serclaes von Tilly was brought to Winsen Castle on the orders of Christian the Elder to cure his injuries. The Swedes later followed suit and pushed back the imperial troops. After the Thirty Years' War, the castle was only used as the seat of the bailiffs and from 1882 was administered by Prussian district administrators.
According to the so-called Kalkberg Agreement of 1637, the city was to be cleared by the military and the fortifications dismantled. However, this did not happen in full. Three city moats with the ramparts in between were preserved and were still impassable for civil traffic. The city gates were only demolished in 1827. The people lived in low houses that were close together with the gable facing the street. Fires repeatedly devastated large parts of the village. There were craft businesses, ship and wagoners united in offices, jugs and hostels lived from through traffic.
Modern times and industrialization
During the Seven Years' War , Winsen was occupied by French troops in 1757.
In 1792 the city's most famous son, Johann Peter Eckermann , was born on Marktstrasse . After spending his childhood and youth in his hometown, he came to Weimar in 1823 as a collaborator and confidante of Goethe . Here he experienced the last nine years of Goethe's life as a “shining shadow” and gained his permanent place in literary history through his “conversations with Goethe” and his loyal service to the prince poet after his death. As an honor, Schulstrasse was renamed Eckermannstrasse in 1939. Every year on Eckermann's birthday, pupils from the Johann-Peter-Eckermann-Realschule lay down a wreath made of heather in front of the monument to their namesake on September 21. The Kulturverein Winsen (Luhe) eV takes care of Eckermann's grave in the historical cemetery in Weimar .
In 1810 Winsen belonged to the Harburg district of the French department of the Lower Elbe of the Kingdom of Westphalia for four months . From 1811 to 1814 Winsen belonged to the Lunebourg district of the Département des Bouches de l'Elbe of the first French Empire in Germany . After the Congress of Vienna in 1814, Winsen belonged to the Kingdom of Hanover .
In 1827 the city gates were broken off and the controls at the city limits were no longer necessary. Around 1830 there was the first development outside the old city limits when the crane wall was built up step by step. In 1847 Winsen was connected to the railway network ( Hanover – Hamburg line ).
From 1847 the composer Johannes Brahms spent several recreational stays in the house of the papermaker Adolph Heinrich Giesemann on Deichstrasse. Brahms began his first concert tour in Winsen in 1853.
In 1852 the district court moved into the castle. With the introduction of the freedom of trade by the Prussian government, a newspaper was allowed to appear in Winsen for the first time in 1868. In 1870 the "Winsener Nachrichten" emerged from it, later the "Winsener Anzeiger", which is still published today. From 1858 the first industrial plants as well as the Eppen paper mill and numerous new buildings were built: the elementary school in 1894, a post office in 1895, the town hall in 1896 and a district savings bank in 1899.
" Winsen (W. an der Luhe), district town in Prussia. Administrative region of Lüneburg, on the Luhe, not far from its confluence with the Ilmenau, and on the Lehrte-Harburg line of the Prussian State Railway, 8 m above sea level. M., has a Protestant church, a castle, a district court, a forest ranger's office, tobacco and cigar, paper and synthetic wool production, beer brewery, brandy distillery, shipping, lively trade with Hamburg and (1885) 2973 almost only Protestant residents. "
In 1900, the Naylor & Lemm cloth factory on the Hanover – Hamburg railway line was given permission to build an electricity company to power their factories. In return, it was commissioned to supply the city and its citizens with electricity. The city took over the electricity company in 1926 and shortly afterwards the Stadtwerke Winsen was established.
In 1926 the water pipe was built in Winsen . In the same year, the Hamburg machine factory Alfred Eriksen set up a plant on Luhdorfer Strasse in Winsen. In 1929 the tax office building on today's Von-Somnitz-Ring was completed. In return, the old tax office building on Marktstrasse, which was the town hall and the birthplace of the chamber singer Agnes Stavenhagen until 1896 , was demolished amid considerable protests.
In the course of the district reform in 1932, the Winsen district was dissolved and incorporated into the Harburg district. Regardless of the protests and without hearing the population, this incorporation took place rather clumsily as a purely administrative act by the Prussian government at the time. From then on, Winsen was no longer a district town. The seat of the district administration was outside the Harburg district in the Harburg-Wilhelmsburg district . By the Greater Hamburg Law , which came into force on April 1, 1937, Harburg-Wilhelmsburg was united with other areas on April 1, 1938 to form the unified municipality of Hamburg. Since then, the seat of the district of Harburg was no longer in Prussia , but in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .
National Socialism and World War II
On April 23, 1932, Adolf Hitler spoke at a rally as part of the election campaign for the Prussian state parliament in the Winsener Viehhalle. In the Prussian state election on April 24, 1932, the NSDAP received 162 seats, 153 more than in the previous state election. In the Reichstag elections on July 31, 1932, the NSDAP received 49.5% of the vote in constituency 15 - East Hanover, to which Winsen also belongs.
When the National Socialist leadership ordered the “ boycott of Jews ” on April 1, 1933 , the NSDAP's district image supervisor posted the Stern department store on Bahnhofstrasse in front of the only Jewish shop in Winsen and photographed customers. During the Reichspogromnacht on November 9, 1938, Bernhard Stern's department store was smeared and the windows of the shop and apartment destroyed. A day later the business was closed and liquidated. As part of the name change ordinance, the Winsen Jews also had to adopt the additional first names Sara and Israel from 1939. By 1943, the last eight Jewish residents of Winsen were deported , including Bernhard Stern. His wife Elsa Stern, who was classified by the National Socialists as “half-Jewish” and was not initially scheduled for deportation, accompanied her husband to the camp and to his death.
In 1938, before the outbreak of World War II , the population was 5369. There were several civil labor camps for foreign prisoners of war and civilians in Winsen during the war years. There were additional accommodations for slave labor in the city.
Due to the war-related destruction of the district administration in Harburg , the seat of the district administration was relocated to Winsen Castle in 1944. In 1945, Winsen was repeatedly attacked by low-flying aircraft. The main goals were the railway facilities and the factories on the Hanover – Hamburg line. At the end of the war, Winsen had become a hospital town . Wounded lay in the halls of the Schützenhaus, Beckmanns Hotel (today Haus des Handwerks), Ahlers Tivoli, Bahnhofshotel, police barracks and the elementary school (today Alte Stadtschule). At the end of World War II, Winsen was taken on April 19, 1945 by the British 11th Armored Division and the 1st Herefordshire Regiment (infantry).
Post-war and recent history
After Germany's surrender, the British government set up the 505th military government under the leadership of Major Alan Seddon in the zone of occupation it controlled for the Harburg district. He served as British Resident Officer together with his staff at Villa Eppen on Bahnhofstrasse in Winsen. Major Seddon appointed the politician (DP, NSDAP) on November 19, 1945 and studied farmer Fritz Broistedt as deputy head of the municipality of Winsen. On November 26, 1945, the first appointed mayor council met, which was democratically elected for the first time on September 15, 1946. Broistedt was elected mayor from 1948 to 1952 and then became district administrator of the Harburg district.
The first edition of the Winsener Anzeiger appeared on November 1, 1949 . For the first time after the war there was a daily newspaper based in Winsen . It emerged from the former Winsener daily newspapers Winsener Nachrichten and Winsener Zeitung .
From 1950 the present structure of the city was mainly characterized by the convenient location to relieve Hamburg. Due to the increase in the number of refugees, the population grew to 8,886 inhabitants by 1950.
The Winsen grammar school was built in 1955 and was given a new school building in 1970 at the end of the Bürgerweide. The new school building of the middle school established as an independent school in 1925, today Johann-Peter-Eckermann-Realschule an der Bürgerweide, was completed in 1957. Due to the population growth, more schools were created: in 1968 the primary and secondary school on the Fuhlentwiete, in the same year the new school building for the special school in the Bürgerweide. Further schools were built in the districts of Winsen.
On June 30, 1958, at a meeting in Brackel , the district council decided to build a district building and thus the seat of the Harburg district in Winsen. The district house was inaugurated on March 10, 1961.
During the Cold War , in June 1962 at Hamburger Straße 81, the city also became the location of the Technical Border Guard Department North (GSA T Nord) and the Border Guard Administration Office of the Federal Border Guard (BGS). The BGS location was closed in 1999.
On July 1, 1972, the communities of Bahlburg, Borstel, Gehrden, Hoopte, Laßrönne, Luhdorf, Pattensen, Rottorf, Roydorf, Sangenstedt, Scharmbeck, Stöckte and Tönnhausen were incorporated as part of the community reform. As a result, the population rose from 12,363 in 1970 to around 22,000.
From 1972 to 1984 the old town was extensively renovated and the infrastructure adapted to modern needs. Some historical buildings were lost, including the Villa Eppen and the historical brewery. It was the remainder of an aristocratic court, which was originally mentioned as a princely outbuilding of the Guelph dukes as early as 1438. The "Bethesda" hospital in Wallstrasse was given up, and in 1974 the Winsen hospital was rebuilt, which is now part of the Elbe-Heide hospital network. In 1976 the Ilmen lock in Hoopte was completed. In 1975 the stately "Schützenpalast" was demolished. In its place, the town hall was built as a modern event center in 1980. In 1977 a railway underpass was built in the south of the city, thereby ending the frequent traffic jams.
By means of a border amendment agreement between the city of Winsen / Luhe and the community of Stelle, which included a border adjustment between Ashausen and Achterdeich, on July 1, 1981, a part of the area with then around 80 inhabitants was assigned to the neighboring community of Stelle.
In 1987 a feeder road for the first section to the newly built Federal Motorway 250 (part of Federal Motorway 39 since November 2010 ) was completed. In 1991 the east bypass was built and the pedestrian zone in the city center was inaugurated. During this time, the palace square was representative redesigned.
In 1992 around 360 asylum seekers were admitted to Winsen, who were forwarded by the central contact points in Braunschweig and Oldenburg. Around 61 asylum seekers were accommodated in the former "Hotel Stadt Hamburg" at Bahnhofstrasse 64. On November 29, 1992, two young men set fire to the home of a family from Romania.
Since 2000
From April 21 to October 15, 2006, the third Lower Saxony State Garden Show was held in Winsen under the motto "A blooming fantasy". The event ended with 536,000 visitors and the handover of the 22 hectare park landscape to the people of Winsen. The former state horticultural show site is now called "Luhegärten".
In 2008 Winsen celebrated its 850th anniversary in the city and hosted the 28th Lower Saxony State Festival from July 4 to 6, 2008 .
As a result of the demolition of two houses on Deichstrasse at the corner of Mühlenstrasse, parts of the former monastery cemetery were found during archaeological excavations in April 2012.
On April 10, 2016, the MTV gym in Eckermannstrasse, built in 1889, was completely destroyed by fire. The cultural monument with its elaborate half-timbered construction was Winsen's oldest surviving gymnasium and served as a medical park for the surrounding hospitals during World War II. It was a meeting place for sport and other events for over 125 years. After TSV Winsen handed over its sports facility in need of renovation to the city of Winsen in 2015, it was converted into refugee accommodation. One resident confessed to setting fire to his accommodation. The destruction of "their" gym caused great horror and sadness among the residents.
religion
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Winsen is denominational in the majority Protestant-Lutheran and is represented in the city area with the church district Winsen in the church district of Lüneburg. It includes the parishes of St. Marien (core area Winsen), St. Jakobus (southern city) and St. Gertrud (in the Pattensen district).
An important diaconal institution in the church district is the Herbergsverein Winsen / Luhe und Umgebung eV It began as a so-called non-sedentary institution , the Bodelschwingh home in Winsen. From this a large center for assistance to the homeless, assistance for addicts, and professional assistance for young people with diverse fields of work has emerged.
Catholic Church
After the Second World War, numerous refugees and displaced persons found a new home in Winsen, including many Catholics. The Catholic parish of Winsen was founded in August 1945 by Provost Leo Koplin from East Prussia . In 1949 the Bishop of Hildesheim Joseph Godehard Machens consecrated the Chapel of St. George and the Catholic parish became independent. The parish used the chapel until the new parish church "Guter Hirt" with parish center and rectory was built in the newly created Hansaviertel in 1967.
Other Christian religious communities
In addition to the Evangelical Church and the Roman Catholic Church, there are other Christian churches and communities in Winsen:
The New Apostolic Church has been based in Winsen since 1923. Since 1993 she has had her own church building in Laßwehr. In 2013 the municipality of Winsen was merged with the municipality in Stelle to form one municipality. After a transition period in which the services alternately took place in Stelle and Winsen, the Stelle location was given up in 2017 and the church building was sold. A residential and commercial building is to be built there in 2019.
The Free Christian Community e. V. has been gathering in their church building on Hamburger Strasse for many years. The church has a pastor.
The Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses is located in the Ring of Europe .
The congregation association of Gospel Christians-Baptists has only been based in Winsen for a few years. They have their meeting room on Dieselstrasse.
Islamic community
Around 3000 Muslims live in Winsen ; the vast majority are of Turkish descent. In 1984 the Turkish workers' association DITIB ( Diyanet İşleri Türk İslam Birliği = Turkish-Islamic Community of Winsen (Luhe) eV ) was founded in Winsen, which maintains a mosque . The association is a member of DITIB , the Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion.
politics
City council
The council of the city of Winsen consists of 38 council women and councilors. This is the specified number for a city with a population between 30,001 and 40,000. The 38 council members are elected by local elections for a five-year term. The full-time mayor is also entitled to vote in the city council.
After the local elections on September 11, 2016, the city council is composed as follows:
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City council election 2016
Turnout: 53.46%
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39.26
20.54
16.09
4.05
4.61
2.02
3.19
9.52
0.72
Gains and losses
compared to 2011
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-2 -4 -6 -8th -2.95
-7.11
+1.90
-0.03
+2.52
-4.94
+1.35
+9.52
-0.26
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Allocation of seats in the city council
A total of 38 seats
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mayor
The full-time mayor and thus head of the city administration has been the previous member of the state parliament, André Wiese (CDU) , since 2011 . In addition to the full-time mayor, there are three other deputy mayors elected by the city council, who support and represent the mayor in protocol tasks.
- List of mayors from 1946
- 1946–1948: Wilhelm Rohlandt (SPD)
- 1948–1952: Fritz Broistedt (DP)
- 1952–1956: Albert Bollmann (DP)
- 1956–1971: Fritz Broistedt (DP, from 1959 CDU)
- 1971–1972: Walter Köster (CDU)
- 1972–1984: Heinrich Riedel (CDU)
- 1984–2001: Gustav Schröder (CDU)
- 2001-2005: Bodo Beckedorf (CDU)
- 2005–2011: Angelika Bode (independent)
- since 2011: André Wiese (CDU)
City Director
In addition to the honorary mayor, a city director was appointed as the main administrative officer of the city administration in 1947. The office of city director was integrated into the newly created office of a full-time mayor in 2005. The first full-time mayor was Angelika Bode .
- List of city directors
- 1947–1962: Erich Leuffert
- 1962–1969: Günther Hamacher
- 1969–1993: Jens Volkert Volquardsen
- 1993-2005: Angelika Bode
Representatives in the Land and Bundestag
The Winsen constituency has been represented by the directly elected MP André Bock ( CDU ) since the 2013 state elections .
The Bundestag constituency of Harburg (constituency 36) is represented by Michael Grosse-Brömer ( CDU ) as a directly elected member and, via the state list Svenja Stadler (SPD) in the Bundestag (18th electoral period).
badges and flags
The coat of arms of the city of Winsen shows in the blue field an upright, snot-tongued, golden (or yellow) lion with red claws and surrounded by eight red hearts. The colors of the flag are blue, yellow, red.
The Winsen coat of arms is an early symbol of rule. The city seal from the 12th century, which still bears the name Winhusen, already shows a lion surrounded by hearts. The coat of arms is at the origin with a blue lion on a gold field tinged . The red hearts in the shield varied in number. This Winsen city coat of arms is based on the Danish coat of arms , to whose royal house there was a family relationship. This also shows blue lions on a gold background sprinkled with red hearts.
The color of the Winsen coat of arms was reversed in the 19th century . The old coat of arms was last recorded in 1852 in the flag of the Winsen (Luhe) rifle corps, on which the blue lion with a golden background is depicted. In 1892 a local script mentions the Winsen coat of arms with the new color scheme. Since then, the Winsen coat of arms has shown a golden lion on a blue field. The reason for this color change has not yet been clarified. Thus, today's Winsen coat of arms, with its colors that violate the heraldic rules, is an urban peculiarity.
Town twinning
Winsen maintains city partnerships with
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Fukui ( Japan ) -
Le Pont-de-Claix ( France ) -
Pritzwalk ( Germany , Brandenburg ) -
Drezdenko ( Poland )
Integrated rural development concept "ILEK Achtern-Elbe-Diek"
The municipalities of Barum , Seevetal , Stelle , the city of Winsen and the joint municipality of Elbmarsch came together in 2006 to form a working group “Economic Area Winsener Elbmarsch”.
Attractions
Winsener Castle
The Winsener Castle was first clearly mentioned in a document in 1315. Another document from 1277 indicates that the castle probably already existed at that time. The building served most of its history as an administrative building and was the seat of the grand bailiffs, bailiffs and district administrators. Today it houses the district court , so the rooms are generally not open to the public. An exhibition has been set up in the castle tower since 2008.
Stables
The Marstall was originally built as a building for the horse and cart of a princely court. Although one of the beams bears the year 1599, the year of construction of the current building is unknown. Today the four-storey half-timbered building houses the tourist information, the city library, the local history museum and an event room. A modern carillon is now attached to the east gable.
St. Mary's Church
The construction of the late Gothic hall church probably began around 1415. The choir was covered in 1437, the nave in 1465. The church received only one aisle and the vault of the nave was never completed. The interior is mostly from the time of the major redesign in the 1950s. The colorful choir windows were created by Claus Wallner from 1958 to 1966 . The altarpiece, the baptismal font and the bronze pulpit panels are the work of Fritz Fleer . The Luther statue comes from the sculptor Friedrich Meinecke, who was born in Winsen . Like the neo-Gothic tower with a height of 62 meters, it was completed in 1899.
Blue dye house
The oldest surviving town house in the city is located on Luhestrasse. The blue dye house on the so-called Luheinsel was built right after the great fire in 1585. The gable is richly decorated with Renaissance motifs. It cannot be visited inside.
The St. Georg Abbey
A leprosy hospital , the St. Georg Foundation, was established outside the city before 1401 . The collegiate chapel is first recorded in 1445. The current hospital building was built in 1766, the chapel was built in 1750 and was given its current appearance in 1903.
Other structures
Historic houses in the old town with the Luheinsel can still be found in Deichstraße, Mühlenstraße, Luhestraße and in Kehrwieder.
The old town school in Eckermannstrasse was built in 1893 in the historicist style. It is the oldest school in Winsen and is now a pure elementary school . On the upper floor of the main building there is a historic auditorium that is used for events. Opposite was the MTV Winsen gym, built in 1889, which was destroyed to the ground in a fire in April 2016. The half-timbered house was Winsen's first gymnasium.
Other buildings worth seeing are the historic town hall from 1896. The former clerk's house in Kehrwieder was mentioned in a document as early as 1714. The hotel "Zum Weißen Roß" already existed in 1684 and in 1866 was the quarters of General von Manteuffel , commander of the Prussian troops in the German War of 1866. The lovingly restored Buchengasse, a connecting path between Rathausstrasse and Plankenstrasse, invites you to linger. The ducal watermill was first mentioned in 1385 and in 1750 it was moved to the southern tip of the Luheinsel, today's Mühlenstraße location. She received the brick facade in 1940.
Monuments
The Eckermann memorial erected by the city of Winsen in 1954 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death stands on the northern church square . Every year Eckermann's birthday is commemorated at the Eckermann monument with a heather wreath, which pupils from the Winsener Johann-Peter-Eckermann-Realschule take care of. The war memorial for the fallen soldiers of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 is located on the south side of the church square .
The sculpture "The Golden Goose" by the Danish sculptor Arne Ranslet has been on the Schloßplatz since 1992 . The monument is only of decorative character, the fairy tale The Golden Goose by the Brothers Grimm has no relation to the history of Winsen.
A memorial stone of the East and West Prussia Landsmannschaft stands on the edge of the Schloßplatz and reminds of the lost homeland in the east . Another memorial stone with the elk shovel coat of arms of the East Prussia Landsmannschaft , the coats of arms of Schloßberg and Ebenrode with the indication of the distance: "1,000 km" and the inscription "Remembrance of the German areas in the east with the districts of Schloßberg (Pillkallen) , Ebenrode (Stallupönen) in East Prussia ”is located at Rote-Kreuz-Straße 6.
In the tower of St. Mary's Church there is a chapel with plaques commemorating those who fell in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 and the First World War . In a showcase in the side aisle of the church there is a memorial book for the fallen soldiers of the Second World War .
At the entrance to Luhepark (a residential and shopping area created in 1999 through the conversion of a former BGS barracks) there is a memorial stone with a federal eagle and the inscription "Federal Border Guard 1962-1999" in memory of the BGS.
In 2009 ten stumbling blocks by the artist Gunter Demnig were laid in memory of the Jewish residents of Winsen and the homosexual businessman Ernst Meincke, who were victims of National Socialism.
Green spaces
The Winsener Luhegärten are located on the site of the 3rd Lower Saxony State Horticultural Show , which took place in 2006. With the new parks, permanent values have been created for Winsen and are used by various associations for events. The Förderverein Gartenschau Winsen eV organizes flower shows several times a year. The 22 hectare nature and park area is divided into five different park areas: In the park “Gardener's Fantasies” , events such as the “Dahlia Day” or the “Tulip Festival” take place on a regular basis. The “GartenCafe” and the themed gardens “Chinese Medicinal Herbal Pharmacy” and the “Monastery Garden” are also located here. The "Luheband" is the flood basin of the Luhe. The newly created paths and the Luhe promenade invite you to stroll and linger. "Luhis Lagune" is the play and sports park for children and young people. In the “Dorothea's Garden” palace gardens there are rose beds and an ancient tree population. With the "Eckermann-Park" part of the park , a modern space was created for large events. Mediterranean terraces and cultural landscapes of Winsen's twin cities determine the image of this park. The Winsener Luhegärten are barrier-free .
The city has a high proportion of smaller green spaces - mainly due to the old town renovation completed in 1982 . Formerly built-up plots are now again natural areas and invite you to linger.
graveyard
Since October 11, 1829, Winsen has had a forest cemetery that is well worth seeing and is sponsored by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Marien . After extensions in 1958, the cemetery now covers around 5.2 hectares . It is enclosed by a wall of field stones and has an ancient population of trees.
In 1931, five approximately 8 m high columns made of red brick were erected in the cemetery as a memorial to the fallen, according to a design by Willi Pahl, which are connected with inscribed panels with the text:
- The victims of the world war -
- From the city of Winsen Luhe -
- Built to remember -
- During the hard time of need in 1931
The pillars bear the dates 1914 to 1918. After the Second World War, two additional pillars were erected on the right and left in 1958, bearing the dates 1939 and 1945. The annual memorial event for Memorial Day with wreath-laying takes place at this memorial for the fallen . 101 soldiers' graves with stone crosses can be found near the monument. There are also the resting places of Mayor Gustav von Somnitz, the first honorary citizen of the city and the general of the artillery Kurt Waeger . There are more graves from the Second World War on the eastern cemetery grounds . 15 forced laborers and their children are buried in a grave field . Not far from there is a mass grave for 14 unknown Russian soldiers.
In April 2004, a community grave facility for star children was inaugurated in the forest cemetery to enable the burial of children who did not have to be buried and who died prenatally .
Jewish Cemetery
The Jewish cemetery on Eckermannstrasse is one of the oldest in the northeastern region of Lower Saxony and was used from 1748 to 1956. Today it is protected as an important cultural monument. During the Nazi era , part of the cemetery was excavated in order to create a parking space for a fire engine. Some graves were destroyed. Today there are still 46 tombstones . There is no longer a Jewish community in Winsen today.
Culture
theatre
In addition to the theater program of the Kulturverein Winsen (Luhe) eV, various amateur theater groups have been founded. These are mostly organized in the sports clubs of the Winsen districts and organize theater performances. Every year there is a "colorful evening" with the amateur theater group of the fire brigade in Rottorf.
Museums
The museum is located in the stables with a permanent exhibition on the history of the town of Winsen, prehistory and early history, Elbe marshland culture and Johann Peter Eckermann . In addition, several special exhibitions on various cultural topics take place every year. The museum is handicapped accessible on 4 floors. A permanent exhibition on the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War has been set up in the castle tower . This can be viewed on certain days as part of a guided tour. The Heimatstube is housed in the rooms of the district community Schloßberg (Pillkallen). A large number of objects from East Prussia are exhibited here, but maps and literature from the region can also be viewed there.
art
Between 1995 and 2006, the landscape art campaign “ Marschkunst - Kunstmarsch ” took place annually in the neighboring municipality of Elbmarsch . On a nearly 15 km long route through the inland marshes , works of art were presented almost exclusively in the open air, which aroused great interest, especially in summer. Many of these works of art can still be viewed there today.
music
The cultural association Winsen (Luhe) e. V. offers a demanding musical program. In addition to individual events, the Winsen Palace Concerts have been taking place since 1953 . This chamber music concert series was initiated by the harpsichordist and pianist Elfriede Otto and took place in the castle chapel for the first few decades.
The St. Marien Church is the traditional venue for church music. Musical performances and performances take place there regularly. The market music concert series has a long tradition .
The ensemble L'ART POUR L'ART, founded in 1983, is one of the most unusual formations for contemporary music. Their varied program can be experienced in different locations.
The educational institutions Musikschule Winsen as well as the Martin Woodford School Of Music and the Big Band Woody's Sound eV regularly organize student auditions and concerts.
Since 2008, the WinJam Rap Festival (whose line-up already included national rap greats such as Samy Deluxe , Olli Banjo , Kaas , Laas Unltd. , Franky Kubrick and MoTrip ) has been one of the annual events.
Nature and nature reserves
The Winsener Marsch has become particularly interesting for (hobby) ornithologists since the establishment of a clay removal point for dyke construction from 1995 . Here breed (te) n u. a. Shelduck , pipe and harrier , curlew , black-tailed godwit , avocet , Whinchat , Barred Warbler and Red-backed Shrike .
The Rethmoorsee nature reserve is located southeast of Winsen and was created between 1983 and 1989 through excavation for the construction of the A250, now the A39. Rare animal species have once again settled on the 60 hectare site. At the edge of the quarry pond there is a covered lookout point for nature observation.
In 2014, the 434 hectare lowland area of Luhe and Ilmenau was declared a nature reserve. The Ilmenau-Luhe-Niederung is one of the last large habitats that are shaped by ebb and flow. Most of the areas in this nature reserve are flooded areas and are located in the Laßrönne, Stöckte and Winsen districts. Among other things, wet meadow breeders and reed dwellers find optimal living conditions here. The area of the Ilmenau-Luhe lowland is an important feeding area for the breeding white stork pairs in the vicinity .
regional customs
In the course of the year there are several traditional events in Winsen : Winter ends in the villages with Faslam events with the choice of Faslam parents (Faslamsvadder and Faslammudder), the "Lumpenball" (alternatively also called Faslamsparty, Faslamsdisko), as the highlight Moving and the common “scrounging” (you walk through the village, ring the doorbell, sing something and expect the highest percentage possible in return, some money, a few eggs or the like in return) and the subsequent consumption of the scorched things at a party. Faslam is only available in the country, of course, and that has to do with its original origin. Even the core town of Winsen, which still has a rather village character, does not have its own Faslam, but has to “borrow” the Stöckter every year.
On the eve of May 1st, the maypole is erected with “ Tanz in den Mai ”. Rifle festivals and fire brigade festivals take place from spring to autumn . In autumn there is the “lantern walking” for children, when the children move through the streets with lanterns; the running of the lantern is similar to the parades of Martin . During the Advent season there are Christmas markets and other Christmas customs .
Culinary
In spring (late February to late March) is smelt time . Smelt is gutted, without the head, but with the tail and bones, turned in rye flour and fried in a pan. As a side dish, there are fried potatoes or potato salad. Asparagus dishes are also popular . The asparagus season starts at the beginning / middle of April and ends on June 24th (Asparagus New Year's Eve). Mid-April to the end of October is season for Heidschnuckenbraten , for example with cranberries or as a sauerbraten with red cabbage . Kale is served with cabbage sausage and Bregenwurst in winter .
Friendship societies
The following bi-national associations exist in Winsen:
- Europe - Union Germany - Winsen Group
- German-Japanese Society - Winsener Japanfreunde e. V.
- Indo-German Society V. Winsen
Regular events
Some festivals in particular shape the social life of the city during the year:
- Pattenser Faslam - Annual carnival-like parade of numerous floats, foot groups and music through the Pattensen district
- Hoopter Faslam - Annual carnival-like parade of numerous floats, foot groups and music through the district of Hoopte
- landKULT.- On three weekends a year cultural events at a fruit farm in the district of Hoopte
- Stöckter Faslam - Annual carnival-like parade of numerous floats from the Stöckte district to the center of Winsen and back
- Bauer Computing (Low German: Buurnreken) - Annual end of town meeting in the spring with the participation of mayors and mayor.
- Dance into May - Every year on April 30th on the Schlossplatz with a maypole set up and on the following Saturday the Winsener maypole festival of the folk dance group
- City and dyke run - The running event leads through downtown Winsen on the Stöckter dyke and takes place on May 1st
- Tulip Festival and Dahlia Day on the former state horticultural show grounds in the “Gärtner-Fantasien” part of the park, sponsored by the garden show Winsen eV
- Winsener city festival
- Tönnhafen Festival - music festival and village festival at Tönnhausen harbor
- Duck race on the Luhe
- Schützenfest of the Schützenkorps Winsen (Luhe) from 1848 eV
- Stöckter harbor festival
- Blue Hour - light event at dusk with music, light and water art
- Wine festival in the castle park
- Winsener Schlossnacht - simultaneous evening cultural events in the castle, Marstall and St. Mary's Church
- Scharmbeck harvest festival - on the 1st weekend in September, with a pageant on Sunday
- Christmas Market
Sports
There are numerous clubs in Winsen (Luhe), the largest being TSV Winsen with over 3000 members, which was founded in 1850 as MTV Winsen. In 1999 TSV was created from the merger of SV / MTV Winsen and TSC Winsen. The main sports field is Jahnplatz, which belonged to SV / MTV Winsen, while the TSC sports facility on Schirwindter Straße was replaced by a residential area in 2009. The predecessor club SV / MTV Winsen played in football in the 1970s at times in the highest class in Lower Saxony. It was there that in 1975 the record of 3,000 spectators against Atlas Delmenhorst was set.
The men's team of TSV Winsen currently plays together with MTV Borstel-Sangenstedt and SG Scharmbeck-Pattensen in the district league 2 Lüneburg. Other men's teams from Winsen are MTV Luhdorf-Roydorf (Harburg district league), SG Elbdeich (1st district class Harburg), MTV Rottorf (2nd district class) and MTV Laßrönne (3rd district class).
In handball, HG Winsen sometimes played in the major league for men and was runner-up there in 1988. About the promotion round succeeded the jump into the Regionalliga Nord, which one had to leave again after one season. For women, HG Winsen also played in the top division in the 1985/86 season, but rose again immediately. HG Winsen currently plays with the men in the regional league and women in the regional league.
The European Open has been taking place on the Green Eagle golf course in the Luhdorf district since 2017 .
Regular sporting events
- City and dyke race of the TSV Winsen - annually on May 1st
- International youth handball tournament "we live" Elbemasters - annually at Whitsun
- Run for Help - charity city run for the benefit of the multiple sclerosis society - every year on the first Friday in September
- Stadtpokal - traditional indoor soccer tournament of soccer clubs from the Winsen city area and the surrounding area (MTV Ashausen-Gehrden, TSV Auetal, MTV Borstel-Sangenstedt, SG Elbdeich, Eintracht Elbmarsch, MTV Laßrönne, MTV Luhdorf-Roydorf, MTV Rottorf, SG Scharmbeck-Pattens, TSV Winsen) - The date and place of the event is always the 1st Saturday in January in the WINArena
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
The central location within the metropolitan region of Hamburg and the direct connection to the Autobahn 39 and the resulting close proximity to the A1 , A7 and A24 motorways has decisively favored Winsen's development as a business location.
Around 3,000 businesses have settled in the city. The majority of the companies are located in the construction, mechanical and vehicle construction, wood, electrical, food and pharmaceutical industries, logistics services as well as administration and trade.
The largest employers are the public service authorities with over 1,500 employees. These include the city and district administration, tax office, land registry, district court, district hospital, the branch office of the Lüneburg employment agency and offices of the health insurance companies AOK, BEK, DAK and IKK.
Winsen is home to several commercial companies with more than 100 employees. The largest commercial entrepreneur employs more than 300 people. Well-known companies are the companies
- Alfred Kuhse GmbH (process automation, emergency power controls, electromagnets)
- Amazon logistics center HAM2 in the Luhdorf industrial park, Germany's northernmost logistics center
- DEDON , the trading company is in the industrial area Luhdorf settled
- Feldbinder special vehicle works (silo and tank vehicles )
- Koch trailer works (vehicle trailer)
- Dr. Loges + Co. GmbH , manufacturer of pharmaceutical products
- STARCO , the largest European supplier of special wheels and tires
- Takko , the textile merchant, operates a central warehouse in the Luhdorf industrial park
- Trost Auto Service Technik , wholesale company for passenger cars, commercial vehicle parts and tools and concepts
- Winsenia , food processing plant of Wilhelm Reuss GmbH & Co. KG , subsidiary of Krüger GmbH & Co. KG
There are a total of five industrial parks in Winsen with a total area of around 193 hectares. The oldest is the 11.8 hectare Torfmoor industrial park , which was designated as early as the 1950s on the only east-west connection in Winsen, the then Bundesstraße 4 . In the 1970s, with its 37 hectare area, what is now the second largest industrial park in Winsens Osterwiesen was created . In the 1990s, the Boschstraße industrial estate was established in the vicinity of the Osterwiesen . The youngest places for commercial enterprises are the industrial areas Gewerbepark Winsen-Ost with 33 hectares and the industrial area Luhdorf with around 70 hectares. Both are directly connected to Autobahn 39 .
As part of a conversion of the former barracks of the Federal Border Guard, a large-scale Luhepark shopping center with a start-up center and a specialist retail center with a famila department store was created in 2003 . In the Luhepark, 150 residential units were also built in single-family, terraced and semi-detached houses.
A total of over 12,000 employed people live in the city area. Many of them benefit from Winsen's location on the Hanover – Hamburg railway line . In 2017, Winsen station was not only used by around 9,400 outbound commuters, but also in 8,200 inbound commuters who are employed in Winsen. Due to the increasing number of businesses, there were more in-commuters in 2018 for the first time. 55% of the employees living in Winsen work in the service sector, 27% in trade, hospitality and transport, 17% in manufacturing and 1% in agriculture and forestry. In 2018 the unemployment rate in Winsen was around 3.9 percent, in the district it was 3.6%. The employment rate in Winsen was 60.7%.
tourism
Winsen has many options for recreational activities, such as B. cycling, canoeing, hiking, skating, horseback riding, sailing, swimming and golfing. The Heide Express museum railway is a popular excursion vehicle. The districts on the Elbe ( Hoopte , Stöckte , Laßrönne ) are popular excursion destinations on weekends.
Residential quarters
After the war, one of the most urgent tasks was to provide housing for the population. From the 1950s onwards, a number of new residential areas emerged in the city center, such as the Hansaviertel in the northwest, on Kronsbruch and on Niedersachsenstrasse. The Europaring residential area was built in the 1970s and is located south of the railway line. The train station and city center can be reached quickly. This residential quarter had a model character when it was built. A special living area had developed here. The tranquility of petty-bourgeois settlement forms has mixed with (for Winsen standards) urban influences. In 2013, the high-rise Europaring 18-20 was awarded the seal of quality for safe living from the security partnership in urban development in Lower Saxony.
Education
In Winsen there are kindergartens and primary schools as well as all types of secondary schools such as secondary schools, secondary schools, two general high schools (Gymnasium Winsen and Gymnasium Roydorf) and vocational schools. The Integrated Comprehensive School (IGS) was founded in Winsen-Roydorf in summer 2011 . It enables all school qualifications including the Abitur . The Wolfgang Borchert special needs school is located in the Bürgerweide. The Buchholzer Förderschule An Boerns Soll with a focus on intellectual development has two branches in Winsen-Roydorf.
The closest technical colleges and universities are in Hamburg and Lüneburg. There is also the Winsen Music School with a comprehensive range of lessons that around 1,000 students take up. The Kreisvolkshochschule district of Harburg, through its Winsener office a broad educational program.
Healthcare
The Winsen Hospital has 235 beds in the fields of general surgery , hand surgery , trauma surgery , anesthesiology and intensive medicine , gynecology , ear, nose and throat medicine , internal medicine , orthopedics and radiology . Together with the Buchholz hospital, the hospital forms the Buchholz und Winsen charitable GmbH, which is operated by the Harburg district as the sole provider.
media
The dominant regional daily newspaper in Winsen is the Winsener Anzeiger . In addition, the Hamburger Abendblatt appears with its own local section. Furthermore, the advertising newspapers Wochenblatt Elbe + Geest and the Wochenblatt Marsch und Heide are distributed to households free of charge and nationwide .
Libraries
City library
The city library with around 51,000 media units has been located in the historic stables on Schlossplatz since 1989 . In addition to printed media (such as books, magazines and daily newspapers), it also offers non-book and virtual media as well as the option of interlibrary loan . A wide range of services is available to customers of the city library, including a delivery service for elderly, sick or disabled people, rental of reading glasses , the permanent library flea market, an Internet workstation and a photocopier . E-book readers can be borrowed to test the e-book offer . The NBib24 online library is affiliated with the Winsen city library . This portal offers access to around 17,000 digital media such as e-books, e-papers, e-audios and e-videos. Users of the city library have free access to the Internet via a WLAN hot spot .
St. Marien Children's and Youth Library
The library of the Protestant St. Mary's Church is located in the parish hall next to the church. Its holdings are mainly aimed at children, young people and parents and offer books, audio books and CDs that can be borrowed free of charge.
Venues
The town hall has a good 500 seats and is the largest event center in Winsen. Other options include the St. Mary's Church, the castle chapel, the "FORUM Social - Culture" in the St. Georg chapel, the town hall of the town hall, the Marstall and the Catholic church "Good Shepherd". The WINArena, a 5-field sports hall from 2004, is the largest sports hall in Winsen.
The Bleiche fairground is the traditional venue for fairs and circuses and, with around 20,000 m², the largest fairground in Winsen. The area was once a peat extraction site and then served as a garbage dump until the 1930s. Today, besides the events, the Bleiche is mainly used as a parking lot.
Flea markets take place regularly on Schützenplatz . The Luhegärten park area offers space for open-air events, while larger concerts and other events take place regularly in the Eckermann-Park section and on the Schlossplatz. The church square of the St. Marien Church in the city center is the traditional venue for the Christmas market. The parking area of the ZOB in the immediate vicinity of the city center serves as an alternative location for the weekly market .
traffic
Road traffic
Winsen is connected to the A1 and A7 motorways via the A39 . Commuters with jobs in Hamburg cause significant traffic with the main times in the morning and in the afternoon.
railroad
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Winsen is on the Hamburg – Hanover railway line . Winsen station is served by the RegionalExpress (RE 3) and the RegionalBahn (RB 31) operated by the operator " Metronom ". Winsen is no longer a station in the long-distance rail network, the nearest long-distance train stations are in Lüneburg and Hamburg-Harburg .
The Winsen – Niedermarschacht railway was also used for passenger traffic until May 1966; it is currently only used by freight trains. The East Hanoverian Railways handle freight traffic in Winsen. A large part of the DB freight traffic is also carried through Winsen to the North Sea and Baltic Sea ports and to the Maschen marshalling yard . The heavily used route between Stelle and Lüneburg was expanded with a third track.
The museum railway on the Winsen – Hützel railway line serves goods and tourist transport .
Bus transport
Several bus lines with hourly or less frequent lines open up the city area and the surrounding area. There is no bus service on Sundays and public holidays. The bus transport operator is the " KVG Stade " whose shareholders are the Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen (OHE) transport company based in Celle and the Elbe-Weser railways and transport company (EVB) in Zeven , as well as the Osthannover transport company (VOG), whose lines run along the OHE- Freight rail lines run. Outside of these hours, a regular taxi service is operated by the city.
Since December 12, 2004, Winsen has been part of the Harburg district together with the Lüneburg district of the Hamburg Transport Association .
Bicycle traffic
Due to the topography and the shortness of the routes, Winsen has a bicycle traffic share of all routes of the inhabitants that is above the national average. A bicycle traffic concept was decided upon for the urban area, from which measures are implemented annually. For this purpose, around 200,000 euros are available annually. The long-distance cycle paths Elberadweg , Luheradweg and Ilmenauradweg run through the urban area, each with bike signs, along the course of the river, the Elberadweg along the southern bank of the Elbe to the Hoopte-Zollenspieker ferry.
Shipping
The Elbe and Ilmenau Canal serve as nearby waterways for transport.
The Zollenspieker car ferry on the Elbe connects Winsen with its pier in Hoopte with the southern Hamburg district of Kirchwerder .
An important river for Winsen's nature is the Luhe - one of the cleanest rivers in Germany. The Luhe rises near Bispingen before reaching the border with the Harburg district south of Putensen . Passing the town of Luhmühlen via Garstedt , the river reaches Winsen. The Luhe flows through the entire city area. In the lower course of the river it flows into the Ilmenau . The Luhe is not navigable, apart from the recreational boating.
air traffic
The Hamburg , Hanover and Lübeck airports connect Winsen to the international air traffic network.
Personalities
Honorary citizen of the city of Winsen
- 1929 Gustav von Somnitz (1859–1941), 1888–1925 mayor, first honorary citizen of the city of Winsen
- 1936 Julius Schröder (1859–1946), longtime councilor, honorary commander of the Winsen rifle corps, honorary master of the bakers' guild
- 1961 Wilhelm Rohlandt (1882–1963), mayor from 1946 to 1948.
- 1971 Fritz Broistedt (1893–1972), mayor from 1948 to 1952 and 1956–1971
- 1984 Heinrich Riedel (1910–1992), mayor from 1972 to 1984.
- 2002 Gustav Schröder (1926–2018), mayor from 1984 to 2001.
sons and daughters of the town
- Erik von Winsen († 1391), first real bishop of Przemyśl
- Christian Wilhelm Flügge (1772–1828), Lutheran theologian
- Johann Peter Eckermann (1792–1854), poet and friend of Goethe
- George Wilhelm Glimmann (1802–1876), tax officer and ornithologist
- Wilhelm Moritz Keferstein (1833–1870), professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in Göttingen
- Rudolf Sievers (1841–1921), businessman, senator and member of the Reichstag (NLP)
- Eduard Schlöbcke (1852–1936), building officer, councilor
- Hugo Haase (1857–1933), carousel builder
- Erdmann Hartig (1857–1925), architect, trade school councilor and professor
- Agnes Stavenhagen , b. Denninghoff (1860–1945), soprano and chamber singer
- Ernst Preczang (1870–1949), author and co-founder of the Gutenberg Book Guild
- Franz Evers (1871–1947), author and editor of the monthly "Litterarian Blätter"
- Friedrich Meinecke (1873–1913), sculptor who worked in Freiburg im Breisgau
- Georg Eppen (1874–1974), paper manufacturer
- Wilhelm Burkamp (1879–1939), philosopher
- Willem Fricke (1928–2009), actor
- Erich Brüggemann (1928–2019), freelance artist, known for inlays, sculpture, painting, drawing, carpentry
- Jürgen Peter Ravens (1932–2012), journalist, newspaper publisher and author
- Hans-Peter Voigt (1936–2014), politician (CDU) and member of the German Bundestag
- Björn-Hergen Schimpf (* 1943), radio and television presenter
- Monika Wörmer-Zimmermann (* 1944), politician (SPD) and member of the state parliament
- Marlène Charell (* 1944), dancer, singer and presenter
- Manfred Gailus (* 1949), historian
- Hans-Henning Lühr (* 1950), graduate in administration, politician (SPD), lawyer and state councilor in Bremen
- Rudolf Meyer (* 1953), agricultural master, politician (CDU), member of the German Bundestag
- Andreas Ole Ohlendorff (* 1958), painter, freelance artist, 2009 cultural award winner from the Harburg district
- Karin Seick (* 1961), swimmer and Olympic participant
- Regina Weber (* 1963), gymnast and Olympic participant
- Dörte Lyssewski (* 1966), theater actress, winner of the Nestroy Prize
- Ulrich Koch (* 1966), writer
- Dirk Wojewsky (* 1972), football player
- André Wiese (* 1975), politician (CDU), former member of the state parliament, mayor of the city of Winsen since 2011
- Sanny van Heteren (* 1977), actress and director
- Birte Gutzki-Heitmann (* 1977), cabinet maker, politician (SPD), member of the Hamburg parliament
- Esther Möller (* 1977), track and field athlete
- Benjamin Maack (* 1978), journalist and author
- Timo Schierhorn (* 1979), video artist and filmmaker
- Norman Martens (* 1986), ice hockey player
- Hendrik Helmke (* 1987), German-Brazilian soccer player
- Patrick Müller (* 1988), actor
- Tobias Nolde (* 1998), racing cyclist
Other personalities with a connection to the city
- Wulbrand of Oberg (before 1479-1523), Dean of the Cathedral in Osnabrück , provost in Einbeck and Braunschweig , papal notary at the Rota . His activity as governor at Winsen Castle is documented from 1506 to 1513.
- Duchess Dorothea von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1546–1617) received the castle and office of Winsen as a widow's seat in 1592; she had the lock renewed.
- Philipp Nicolai (1556–1608) stayed several times with Duchess Dorothea in the castle. A sermon that Nicolai gave in the castle chapel is still preserved today.
- Johann t'Serclaes von Tilly (1559–1632), military leader of the Catholic League and a well-known general of the Thirty Years' War; established his headquarters in the castle in 1628
- Johann Friedrich Hodann (1674–1745), theologian and pedagogue, promoter of the school system in Winsen; temporarily secretary Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , from 1715 worked as rector of the Winsener city school
- Dietrich Georg von Kieser (1779–1862), physician and psychiatrist, settled in Winsen in 1804 and practiced here as a doctor until 1806.
- Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), composer; From 1847–53 the young Johannes Brahms often visited the Giesemann family of paper manufacturers on Deichstrasse. Elise Giesemann is his childhood friend, with whom he was in correspondence while still old.
- Ernst von Salomon (1902–1972), writer
- Josef Müller-Marein (1907–1981), journalist and writer, lived in Stöckte
- Gudrun Pausewang (1928–2020), writer; found his first relatively safe place to stay in Winsen on November 4, 1945 after being expelled from Czechoslovakia
- Guido Neumann (1932–2009), TV judge from a dispute over three
- Wolfgang Kahle (* 1954 in Oldershausen) freelance artist in Winsen since 1973, co-founder of the group "Kunstasyl", initiator of the "Winsener Kulturtage"
- Bernd Lucke (* 1962 in Berlin), economist and politician, co-founder of the AfD and the LKR
- Jala Gangnus (* 1986 in Lüneburg), athlete, grew up in Winsen, where her sporting career began, initially as a handball player
- Jana Sussmann (* 1990 in Hamburg), track and field athlete, grew up in Winsen (Luhe) - Tönnhausen , 2011 German champion over 3000 m obstacle
literature
- Jürgen Klahn, Wilfried Mertens: Source texts on the Winsener parish church St. Marien - Middle Ages and Reformation (Winsener Schriften, Volume 15). 2015, ISBN 978-3-946053-00-2 .
- Jürgen Klahn, Wilfried Mertens: Source texts on the Winsener Franciscan monastery. (Winsener Schriften, Volume 16). 2013, ISBN 978-3-9809115-7-3 .
- Günther Hagen, Ilona Johannsen, Jürgen Klahn: Winsen (Luhe) - the city guide. J. Stekovics Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-89923-122-8 .
- Günther Hagen: History of the city of Winsen an der Luhe. 3. Edition. 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-023537-5 .
- Walter Gröll (text), Klaus Schumann (illustrator): Winsen (Luhe). City between Elbe and Heide (= country and people ), Hamburg: Christians, 1988, ISBN 978-3-7672-1058-5 and ISBN 3-7672-1058-4
Web links
Individual evidence
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- ↑ a b Annual review by Mayor André Wiese in the weekly Marsch & Heide on January 3, 2019
- ↑ a b c Main Statute of the City of Winsen (Luhe) , accessed on January 10, 2014.
- ^ Günther Hagen, Ilona Johannsen, Jürgen Klahn: Winsen (Luhe) Der Stadtführer, Verlag Janos Stekovics, p. 3.
- ^ H. Sudendorf, document book on the history of the dukes of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and their lands Volume I (Hanover 1859), No. 279, document dated November 28, 1315
- ^ WF Volger, document book of the city of Lüneburg up to the year 1369 (Hanover 1872), No. 122, document from April 10, 1277
- ↑ Jürgen Klahn, Wilfried Mertens: Medieval documents and messages to St. Marien - Winsen, Winsener Schriften, Volume 15, pp. 18-25.
- ↑ Winsener Anzeiger. December 23, 2006, p. 2.
- ↑ Jürgen Klahn, Wilfried Mertens: Medieval documents and messages to St. Marien - Winsen, Winsener Schriften, Volume 15, pp. 18-25.
- ↑ First mention of the Leprosorium St.Georg on July 21, 1401 by Uta Reinhardt: Lüneburg Testaments of the Middle Ages 1323 to 1500 , Hanover 1996, No. 58, page 85. Explicit mention as Leprosorium in: Lüneburg Testament No. 103 of February 4, 1414
- ↑ Jürgen Klahn, Wilfried Mertens: Source texts on the Winsener parish church St. Marien: Middle Ages and Reformation, Jürgen Klahn; Wilfried Mertens, Winsener Schriften, Volume 15, No. 12
- ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History: Chronological outline of the history of the Saxon Franciscan provinces from their beginnings to the present (Saxonia Franziscana) Werl 1999, p. 115.197.267.273.
- ^ Günther Hagen: History of the city of Winsen an der Luhe. Timeline, p. 284.
- ↑ Main State Archives Hannover Celle: Or 100 Bardowick No. 429
- ^ Günther Hagen: History of the city of Winsen an der Luhe. P. 58ff.
- ↑ Klaus Scharenberg: Winsen 1619 - 1626, The coins and the years of need, Winsener Schriften, Volume 8.
- ^ Günther Hagen: History of the city of Winsen an der Luhe. P. 80ff.
- ↑ eckermann.weblit.de
- ↑ see the correspondence between Giesemann's daughter Elise Denninghoff and Brahms from the 1880s, documented in: Gerhard Kohlweyer: Brahms studies. Vol. 13, Hans Schneider, Tutzing, ISBN 3-7952-1092-5 . See also Harburg district calendar. Edition 2003, 2004.
- ^ Günther Hagen: History of the city of Winsen an der Luhe. P. 192.
- ^ Gerhard Kohlweyer: Agnes Stavenhagen, Weimar Prima donna between Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss . Weimarer Taschenbuchverlag 2007, page 9.
- ↑ Meyers Konversationslexikon. 1890, Volume 16: Uralsk to Zz. P. 678: Winnipeg to Winter.
- ^ Günther Hagen: History of the city of Winsen an der Luhe. P. 170ff.
- ↑ Dirk Stegmann (Ed.): Der Landkreis Harburg 1918-1949, Chapter III, 2, District Reform 1932 by author Günter Könke, p. 84, Christians Verlag
- ↑ NSDAP (Hitler movement) 36.29%, SPD 21.29%, center 15.28%, KPD 12.89%, DNVP 6.96%, DVP 1.7% German state party 1.51%, Christian social service (Evangelical movement) 1.16%, German-Hanoverian party 0.29% and others - without mandates - 1.99%. Source: www.gonschior.de
- ↑ SPD 24.5%, DNVP 8.4%, KPD 8.2%, center 1.4%, DVP 1.3%, DDP 1.0%.
- ↑ st-marien-winsen.de ( Memento from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Günther Hagen: History of the city of Winsen an der Luhe. P. 236.
- ↑ Dirk Stegmann: Der Landkreis Harburg 1918-1949, Chapter XVII, 3, Der "Fall Stern" by author Günter Könke, p. 509, Christians Verlag.
- ↑ K.-H. Ahrens, A. Hillmann, L. Klevesath, S. Obenaus: Integrated in the bundle of life, p. 26 u. 27
- ↑ Katharina Hoffmann, Michael Kreidner: Forced Laborers in the Harburg District 1939-1945, page 44, writings of the Freilichtmuseum am Kiekeberg, volume 61.
- ↑ Katharina Hoffmann, Michael Kreidner: Forced Laborers in the Harburg District 1939-1945, Writings of the Freilichtmuseum am Kiekeberg, Volume 61.
- ↑ Jürgen Peter Ravens The end of the war with us , page of the Winsener Anzeiger für Regionalgeschichte, January 31, 2009.
- ↑ 65 years of Winsener Anzeiger, special section in the daily newspaper of the Winsener Anzeiger on November 1, 2014, page 24
- ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 228 .
- ↑ Hartmut Millarg: Winsen (Luhe): Report on the renovation of the old town. Hanover 1991, ISBN 3-922805-42-6 .
- ↑ Main State Archive Hanover Celle Or. 100 Bardowick No. 429
- ↑ gemeinde-stelle.de
- ↑ zeit.de
- ↑ 3rd Lower Saxony State Garden Show Winsen / Luhe, 2006 , accessed on October 14, 2012.
- ↑ Jürgen Klahn, Wilfried Mertens: Source texts on the Winsen Franciscan Monastery (PDF; 4.0 MB)
- ↑ Refugee admits arson in Winsen. Archived from the original on April 12, 2016 ; accessed on December 29, 2018 .
- ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on January 10, 2014.
- ↑ Local elections 2016. Accessed December 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Announcement of the official final results of the 2016 local elections on September 11, 2016. Accessed on December 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Municipal coat of arms of the Harburg district , W. Marquart, Immenbeck, R. Sander, page 13, Rosengarten-Nenndorf 1983
- ↑ Elbmarsch.eu .
- ^ H. Sudendorf, document book on the history of the dukes of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and their lands Volume I (Hanover 1859), No. 279, document dated November 28, 1315
- ^ WF Volger, document book of the city of Lüneburg up to the year 1369 (Hanover 1872), No. 122, document from April 10, 1277
- ↑ Flyer about the city of Winsen (Luhe), tourist information .
- ↑ Ilona Johannsen: The Marstall and its Use, Lower Saxony Book 2008 Winsen (Luhe), Lower. Ministry of the Interior and Sport, pp. 32, 33.
- ↑ Ilona Johannsen: The Marstall and its Use, Lower Saxony Book 2008 Winsen (Luhe), Lower. Ministry of the Interior and Sport, pp. 32–40.
- ↑ Kurt Schoop: History of the Winsener church towers in: Winsener Geschichtsblätter , Heft 11, 1930, p. 41f.
- ↑ First mention of the Leprosorium St.Georg on July 21, 1401 by Uta Reinhardt: Lüneburg Testaments of the Middle Ages 1323 to 1500 , Hanover 1996, No. 58, page 85. Explicit mention as Leprosorium in: Lüneburg Testament No. 103 of February 4, 1414
- ^ Sara Buchheister: Refugee accommodation in Winsen is on fire. In: Kreiszeitung Wochenblatt. April 10, 2016, accessed April 10, 2016 .
- ↑ First mention of the ducal water mill in the documents issued in Winsen: Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein, Urk.-Abt. 121 No. 93 of March 10, 1385; Schleswig-Holstein State Archives, Document Dept. 121 No. 95 of June 24, 1402.
- ^ Jan von Winsen (= Jürgen Peter Ravens): Parole blue yellow red, p. 167ff.
- ↑ Falk-Reimar singer: The Jewish cemeteries in the administrative district of Lüneburg . In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony. 18 (1998), No. 4, p. 166.
- ^ Winsen Cultural Association - Castle Concerts
- ↑ kirchenmusik-in-winsen.de Church music to St. Marien in Winsen / Luhe
- ↑ L'ART POUR L'ART - Homepage
- ↑ Hans-Uwe Schumacher: The avifaunistic meaning of the Winsener March. In: Hamburg avifaunistic contributions. (hab) 30, 1999, ISSN 0340-5168 , pp. 59-89.
- ^ Hoopter Faslam - Home.
- ↑ landkult.de
- ↑ Faslamsbrüder Stöckte
- ↑ The Winsener Castle Night on winsen-kulturell.de
- ↑ scharmbecker-erntefest.de harvest festival Scharmbeck
- ↑ Youth handball tournament association Winsen (Luhe) eV Accessed on June 14, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Information brochure Winsen Luhe - Your business location in the metropolitan region of Hamburg , publisher Wochenblatt-Verlag Schrader GmbH & Co. KG Winsen, page 3, 2015 edition, as a supplement in the Elbe & Geest weekly
- ↑ Information brochure "Wirtschaftsstandort Winsen", published by Wochenblatt-Verlag Schrader GmbH & Co. KG Winsen, page 10, 2014 edition, as a supplement in the Elbe & Geest weekly
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- ↑ gruenderzentrumwinsen.de start-up center Winsen
- ^ City of Winsen (Luhe) - Profile - KomSIS. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Quality seal for the Winsener high-rise. on: winsen.de
- ↑ Vocational Schools Winsen (Luhe)
- ↑ musikschule-winsen.de Music School Winsen
- ^ Hospital Winsen - About us ( Memento from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ WINSENER ANZEIGER (ZIS No. 101856); Publishing house Winsener Anzeiger Ravens & Maack GmbH; Widespread circulation 10.184 according to IVW 4/2013; Internet: www.winsener-anzeiger.de.
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- ↑ KVG Stade GmbH u. Co.
- ↑ Minutes to the decision in the city council 10-2010
- ^ "On February 13, 1375 by Gregory XI. cannonically erected, and the Franziscaner Heinrich or Ericus von Winsen (1377 is 1391) was the first actual bishop of Przemyśl […] “[in:] Heinrich Joseph Wetzer, Joseph Hergenröther, Benedict Welte, Franz Kaulen, Hermann Joseph Kamp, Melchior Abfalter . Wetzer and Welte's Kirchenlexikon, or, Encyclopedia of Catholic theology and its auxiliary sciences. Herder. 1891, p. 1722.
- ↑ WP: List of canons of the Einbecker Alexanderstift
- ↑ Main State Archives Hannover Celle Or. 100 Bardowick Nos. 546 and 558
- ^ Günther Hagen, Ilona Johannsen, Jürgen Klahn: Winsen (Luhe) Der Stadtführer, Verlag Janos Stekovics, pp. 46, 47.
- ↑ wokahle.de Art & Design - Everything about pictures, art, painting, web design, culture days, contemporary painting and painting class.
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