Knesebeck

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Knesebeck
City of Wittingen
Former municipal coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′ 44 ″  N , 10 ° 42 ′ 9 ″  E
Height : 70 m above sea level NN
Area : 34.09 km²
Residents : 2683  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 79 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1974
Postal code : 29379
Area code : 05834
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Location of Knesebeck in Wittingen
Knesebeck Castle as a Merian engraving around 1650

Knesebeck is a district of the city of Wittingen in the district of Gifhorn ( Lower Saxony ).

history

Knesebeck is with the Knesebeck Castle the ancestral home of the black tribe of the von dem Knesebeck family . The tribe was first mentioned in a document in 1248 with Wasmodos von dem Knesebeck . The dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg gave the moated castle as a fiefdom to various lords during the 14th century. Since the middle of the 14th century, the castle was primarily used as an administrative and court seat. From the 16th to the 17th century the castle was a princely administrative building on which officials sat. They administered around 20 villages in the bailiwicks of Knesebeck and Wittingen and the courts of Brome and Fahrenhorst . The administrative and judicial function of the Knesebeck office ended in 1859. At that time, only the office building remained of the castle, which became the state forestry office from 1880. When the forest administration left the listed building in 2005, it threatened to deteriorate. In 2006 it was bought by the owner of the Knesebeck-based Butting Group . After extensive restoration work, the former office building opened in 2009 as the conference center of the Butting Academy .

On March 1, 1974, the communities of Eutzen , Hagen bei Knesebeck , Vorhop and Wunderbüttel were incorporated into the community of Knesebeck. Just one month later, on April 1, 1974, this enlarged community was dissolved and integrated into the city of Wittingen.

politics

Local council

CDU SPD FWG total
2016 3 2 2 7 seats

The local mayor is currently Heinz-Ulrich Kabrodt from the SPD.

coat of arms

The former arms of Knesebeck is as follows described : unequally divided into silver and blue, in the first field a red Einhorn, the second field by double silver shaft section divided. The unicorn comes from the coat of arms of the Lower Saxon tribe of the von dem Knesebeck family , the two waves stand for the Knesebach and the Jönsbeck that flow through Knesebeck. Design by the painter Ernst Elster (see personalities).

Culture and sights

  • St. Catherine's Church is first mentioned in 1296 and 1336.
  • The Knesebeck mill was built at the end of the 19th century.
  • Knesebeck Castle , today the conference venue
  • Forest adventure trail and house of the landscape

Sports

The Association for Physical Exercise (VfL) Knesebeck was founded in 1909 as a men's gymnastics club. There were gymnastics groups for men, women, boys and girls. Gymnastics took place in the halls of the Knesebeck inns. The Knesebeck soccer club was founded in 1921. At the beginning of the club era, the game was played on a part of the Schützenplatz, the so-called "Bleiche". Today's sports field (Ernst-Hiestermann-Platz) was named after the former chairman Ernst Hiestermann. In 2006, the open sports home roofing was completed. VfL Knesebeck with around 1200 members is now home to the departments of badminton , soccer , swimming , tennis , table tennis , ju-jutsu , gymnastics and volleyball .

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

Butting is one of the leading stainless steel processors in Europe. The focus of business activity in Knesebeck is the production of pipes, pipe accessories, ready-to-install pipelines and components made of stainless steel . The Butting company was founded in 1777 and has been at the Knesebeck site since 1945, with more than 1,000 employees.

traffic

Knesebeck has a stop on the Braunschweig – Wieren railway line and is located on the Elbe Lateral Canal .

Personalities

  • Ernst Ludwig von Lenthe (1823–1888), lawyer, member of the Reichstag, born in Knesebeck
  • Ernst Elster (* 1893 in Braunschweig, † 1964 in Knesebeck), painter, lithographer, student at the Weimar Art School. His works are a mixture of romantic, expressionistic and naturalistic style elements. In 1964 he was awarded the Lower Saxony Cross of Merit on ribbon. Numerous Elster pictures now hang in museums, public buildings and private collections. The municipal coat of arms was also designed by him; lived and died in Knesebeck.
  • Klaus Schneck (* 1958), politician, member of the state parliament, born in Knesebeck
  • Bernd Fix (* 1962), computer security expert, grew up in Knesebeck
  • Lars Nieberg (* 1963), show jumper, Olympic champion, grew up in Knesebeck
  • Detlef Bothe (* 1965), actor, director, producer, screenwriter and cameraman, grew up in Knesebeck
  • Oliver Graf (* 1981), actor and cultural manager, grew up in Knesebeck

literature

  • Jürgen Delfs: Pig fattening in the forest. Mast use in the offices of Gifhorn, Knesebeck, Isenhagen and Bodenteich . Gifhorn: Landkreis 1999. (Series of publications from the Gifhorn district archive . No. 16) ISBN 3-929632-43-8
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Boldewin Ferdinand Knesebeck: Family tables of the ancient family of the Lords of the Knesebeck . Göttingen 1867 ( digitized version )
  • Wolfgang Meibeyer : Origin and development of Knesebeck in the Middle Ages . Ceremonial lecture on the occasion of the opening event to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the first mention on January 29, 1994 in Knesebeck. Braunschweig: self-published by W. Meibeyer 1994.
  • Wolfgang Meibeyer: The desert village of Vahldiek near Knesebeck . In: Kreiskalender - Gifhorner Heimatbuch , 1995, pp. 65–74.
  • Reiner Rode: Knesebeck. History of a village . Knesebeck 1981.
  • Ulrich Zeigermann: 10 years of forest renewal in the Knesebeck Forestry Office . In: The forest and wood host . Vol. 37 (1982), pp. 539-544.
  • Knesebeck City of Wittingen. Ev. Church of St. Catherine. / Former Office building. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , page 806 f.

Web links

Wikisource: Knesebeck in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures from wittingen.de (PDF file, 34 kB, last accessed on August 27, 2019)
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 227 and 228 .
  3. ↑ Local Council Knesebeck 2016. Accessed on January 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ St. Katharinenkirche on the website of the city of Wittingen
  5. ↑ Ohrdorfer Mühle ( Memento from February 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Gifhorn: Nature trails and themed trails Lüneburg Heath. Retrieved September 13, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Gifhorn: House of Landscape, forest nature trail and museum. Retrieved September 13, 2018 .
  8. ↑ VFL Knesebeck v. 1909: Home. Retrieved September 13, 2018 (American English).
  9. ^ Butting in Numbers , accessed March 13, 2015