Almstedt

Almstedt is a municipality of the velvet municipality Sibbesse in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

2.1 Amalgamations

3.1 administrative headquarters
3.2 municipal
3.3 Mayor

4.1 traffic

Geography

Almstedt is located south of Hildesheim on the southern flank of the Hildesheim Forest between the natural parks Weser Uplands in the west and resin in the southeast. Almstedt is traversed by the Alme (tributary of Riehe ).

Community structure

The quarters are Almstedt and Segeste.

History

In 1151 Almstedt was first mentioned in records. The town's name means "place of the Alme ". However, the meaning of the name of Segeste, which was already called 845 the first time as " Seguti " documentary is still unclear. At that time the monastery of Corvey there had eighty acres of land. Through a connection with the Cheruscan Segestes was often speculated, especially because near the village of a parcel with the name " castle place " is. In 1020 Segeste was mentioned as a " Segate ".

At the beginning of the 20th century the number of Almstedt 606 inhabitants, while in Segeste 263 people lived.

On 7 November 1901, the railway line was extended from Elze to Gronau until after floor castle, and between Almstedt and Segeste a railway station was built. Initially held here five pairs of passenger per day, and an existing lime plant in Almstedt received a private siding for its freight on September 24, 1966, the passenger traffic was set to the railway line, however, and in 1974 the freight.

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the municipality Segeste was incorporated.

Policy

Administrative headquarters

The administrative headquarters of the velvet municipality Sibbesse who belongs to the community Almstedt, located in Sibbesse.

Parish council

The local council of Almstedt is made up of eleven women council and councilors.

CDU 5 seats
SPD 6 seats

(As at municipal election on September 9, 2001)

Mayor

The honorary mayor Claudia Tönnies was elected on November 11, 2011.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

The most important connection with the Almstedts on local road network, the national road 482 represents; the nearest main roads are the B 243 in the east and the B 3 in the West. The high-speed line Hannover -Würzburg runs without stop by the municipality. It has here, however, over an operating train station with the name Almstedt.

Attractions

The 1901 inaugurated railway Elze - floor castle with the Almstedt - Segeste station was abandoned in 1966 and 1974 for passenger and for freight; However, now operates on a renovated section several times a year a heritage railway that Almetalbahn the Arbeitsgemeinschaft historic railway eV ( AHE ). In the 1980s, the station building was moved from the south to the north side of the tracks.

Also worth seeing is the Protestant chapel built in 1770 in Segeste, at 1823 a school was built. The school was founded in 1909 converted into a house, where the chapel was rebuilt. The organ in the chapel, the bell was incorporated in 1835 manufactures, located above the altar and not - as usual - on the gallery in the area of the tower. The chapel has about 100 seats. Over her input in the area of the west tower, whose dome is covered with slate, is found carved into stone year 1770. On the south side of the chapel is a sundial carved into the brickwork.

The 1618 built of rubble and enlarged in 1819 St. Maurice Church in Almstedt has a Baroque altar from 1760, a pulpit from 1784 and an organ from 1752 on. Its tower was built in the 14th century and also served as a defensive tower. In its sacristy late Gothic wall paintings can be seen from the period around 1400. The one cast in 1748 bell rang originally in the parish church in the East Prussian Nemmersdorf (now Russian: Majakowskoje ), where she was taken for war purposes. She survived the war and found their new Läuteort here.

In Almstedt with its tree-lined main street, in the middle of the Alme flows, as well as on the main street of Segeste numerous well-preserved half-timbered houses are worth noting. In Segeste available on the street " in the village " five houses or farms under monument protection.

General view of Segeste

Main road, Segeste

Chapel in Segeste and former school

Chapel in Segeste

Ehem. station building

St. Maurice Church, Almstedt

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