Zahrensen

Zahrensen City of Schneverdingen Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 50 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 43"  E
Height :	67 m
Area :	7.5 km²
Residents :	446  (Feb. 1, 2011)
Population density :	59 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	29640
Area code :	05193
Location of Zahrensen in Schneverdingen

Zahrensen ( Low German / Plattdüütsch Zoarn ) is a district of the town of Schneverdingen in the Heidekreis district in Lower Saxony .

geography

The district is located about two kilometers west of the core town of Schneverdingen on state road 170.

history

Baptismal font in the Peter and Paul Church (left in the picture)

The place name probably goes back to the family of the Knights von Zahrenhusen. The place was first mentioned in a document in 1231. The last knight of Zahrenhusen was Moritz von Zahrenhusen, who made the area unsafe as a robber baron at the end of the 16th century. A castle of the Knights of Zarenhusen once stood on the site of today's Junkernhof . At the beginning of the 17th century, Magdalena von Zahrenhusen married and took the name of her husband Dietrich Freese, she was the last name bearer. The baptismal bowl, which for a long time lay in the baptismal font of the Peter and Paul Church in Schneverdingen, was donated in 1652 by that Magdalena von Zahrenhusen.

On June 11, 1923, a memorial made of field stones and a granite ball was erected in the center of the village, initially to commemorate the nine people who died in the First World War and the three missing residents of Zahren. In 1954/55 the memorial was expanded to also commemorate the eleven fallen and five missing men of the Second World War . A rifle club was founded in Zahrensen in 1930 ; the first rifle festival took place in 1939. Due to the lack of a serving permit, however, this was terminated prematurely by the police. On March 1, 1974, Zahrensen was incorporated into the municipality of Schneverdingen as part of the municipal reform.

politics

Carmen Engelhardt is the head of the village.

coat of arms

The coat of arms, which is still used today, shows three fish next to a rose, which is in the upper right corner. The translation of the surrounding inscription reads: Seal of Anthony of Sarhusen .

The first documents that adorns the seal date from the years 1326, 1343 and 1357. The coat of arms was probably used for the first time in 1322 by Anthon von Zahrenhusen, lord of the castle of Rotenburg. The similarity with the coat of arms used in Bremen suggests a relationship to a Bremen sex.

Web links

• Official website of the city of Schneverdingen
• official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.feuerwehr-schneverdingen.de/index.php/stadtfeuerwehr
2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Decision on the bilingualism of place names in Schneverdingen (PDF, 7 MB)
3. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peter and Paul in Schneverdingen (ed.): 250 years of Peter and Paul Schneverdingen 1746 to 1996. Festschrift for September 15, 1996 on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Church of Peter and Paul in Schneverdingen. Schneverdingen 1996
4. ^ 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. 235 .
5. ↑ Zahrensen - Contact ( Memento of the original dated August 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.