Winzenburg

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Winzenburg
Municipality of Freden (Leine)
Winzenburg coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 59 ″  N , 9 ° 55 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 178 m above sea level NHN
Area : 16.64 km²
Residents : 714  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 43 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : November 1, 2016
Postal code : 31084
Area code : 05184
Winzenburg (Lower Saxony)
Winzenburg

Location of Winzenburg in Lower Saxony

Winzenburg in the Hildesheim district
Winzenburg in the Hildesheim district

Winzenburg is a district of the municipality of Freden (Leine) in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Winzenburg is located north of Bad Gandersheim between the Sackwald ridge and the Leine river . At the foot of the mountain of Winzenburg Castle are the Apenteich sources and the Apenteiche.

Local division

The following places belong to Winzenburg:

history

Family table: Counts of Reinhausen / Winzenburg

On the site of the village of Hasekenhausen, which fell desolate in the 16th century, and which Bishop Bernhard had allowed a chapel to have in 1140, a domain was built a little later under Duke Julius. It was named after the neighboring castle and the settlement of the same name developed from it.

Population development

At the beginning of the 20th century, Winzenburg, Klump, Schildhorst and Westerberg lived together 750 people.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1965, the then communities Everode , Meimerhausen , Freden (Leine), Winzenburg, Eyershausen , Ohlenrode and Wetteborn formed the integrated community of Freden .

On March 1, 1974, the communities Winzenburg, Westerberg, Klump and Schildhorst merged to form the community Winzenburg. This in turn was incorporated into Freden (Leine) on November 1, 2016, the integrated community of Freden (Leine) was dissolved.

politics

Local council

The local council from Winzenburg consists of five councilors from the following parties:

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor of Winzenburg is Dieter Hebner (SPD).

coat of arms

The design of the municipal coat of arms of the formerly independent municipality of Winzenburg comes from the heraldist and coat of arms painter Gustav Völker , who designed all the coats of arms in the Hanover region . The municipality was awarded the local coat of arms on January 4, 1929 by the Prussian State Ministry . The district administrator from Alfeld handed it over on January 24 of the same year.

Winzenburg coat of arms
Blazon : "A golden chevron on red , accompanied by two silver six-pointed stars at the top and a downward-facing silver crescent moon at the bottom."
Reasons for the coat of arms: The coat of arms is the original dark coat of arms of the old monastery district of Winzenburg , which was carried out into the 19th century .

Economy and Infrastructure

Traffic
Winzenburg is connected to the road network via the federal highway 64 which runs south of the municipality through Bad Gandersheim. The nearest train stations are in Freden (Leine) and Alfeld (Leine) .

Culture and sights

church

church

The Catholic Church of St. Mary's Birth has been located in Winzenburg since 1861 , and since November 1, 2006 as a subsidiary church of the parish of St. Marien in Alfeld . The church on Lamspringer Straße with its west tower that can be seen from afar was built in the neo-Romanesque style in 1857-61 according to plans by HWH Mithoff . Instead of a transept, it has projections with gables. The painting is from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. To the south of the church are four richly decorated Corpus Christi altars from around 1750.

Apenteichquellen near Winzenburg

The Apenteich springs were already worshiped in the Bronze Age. Many offerings have been found from this period.

Fortifications

Above the village on a mountain spur of the Sackwald lies the ruins of Winzenburg Castle . Further fortifications on the mountain ranges in the vicinity are the ramparts Dörhai , Tiebenburg , Ohlenburg, Läsekenburg and Hohe Schanze . A valley between the two ramparts is still called Römergrund today.

Hiking trails and long-distance hiking trails

Numerous hiking trails and long-distance hiking trails lead through the southern Sackwald near Winzenburg. The Europaweg 11 (Amsterdam-Harz), the Königsweg (Brüggen-Werla), the Jacobsweg (Via Scandinavia Fehmarn-Göttingen) and the historic courier route Hildesheim - Winzenburg (Rennstieg). Hiking parking lots and well marked hiking trails invite you to go hiking.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Sophie von Winzenburg (1105–1160), first Margravine of Brandenburg
  • Karl Rasch (1854–1931), President of the Marienwerder and Celle Higher Regional Courts
  • Werner Kunze (1909–1986), administrative officer and politician (SPD)

People connected to the place

  • Bruno von Hildesheim († 1161), Bishop of Hildesheim (1153–1161), built a high tower and an episcopal castle in Winzenburg
  • Johann Caspar Käse (1705–1756), rococo court sculptor, created a wooden figure in the Winzenburg church
  • Wilhelm Mithoff (1811–1886), architect, “art writer” and draftsman, builder of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary's Birth

Web links

Commons : Winzenburg  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Area information from Winzenburg. In: website meinestadt. Retrieved June 28, 2017 .
  2. ^ Official population of Winzenburg. In: Website of the municipality of Freden (Leine). December 31, 2017, accessed March 9, 2019 .
  3. ^ W. Paasch: History of the parish church in Winzenburg, formerly Hasekenhausen. In: Notifications of historical and non-profit content. Volume 2. Hildesheim 1833, pp. 212-268.
  4. ^ W. Keil: Neumanns Orts- und Verkehrslexikon . Volume 2. Leipzig 1905, p. 1192.
  5. History of the Samtgemeinde. In: Website of the municipality of Freden. Retrieved March 25, 2018 .
  6. Lower Saxony State Chancellery (ed.): Law on the new formation of the community Freden (Leine), district Hildesheim . Lower Saxony Law and Ordinance Gazette (Nds. GVBl.). No. 22/2015 . Hanover December 15, 2015, p. 401 ( digitized version [PDF; 278 kB ; accessed on July 1, 2019] p. 19).
  7. ^ Council members of the local council Winzenburg . In: Website of the municipality of Freden. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
  8. ^ Directory of the mayors and mayors in the Hildesheim district . In: www.diekholzen.de. Retrieved June 24, 2017 (DOCX; 72.1 KB).
  9. District of Hanover (ed.): Wappenbuch district of Hanover . Self-published, Hanover 1985.
  10. ^ A b Wilhelm Barner : Coat of arms and seal of the Alfeld district . Rebinding. Lax GmbH & Co. KG, Hildesheim 1998 ( digitized version of the text part of the first edition from 1940 [PDF; 10.0 MB ; accessed on June 11, 2019]).
  11. ^ Kurt Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments . Munich 1992, p. 1378.