Benniehausen

51.48764710.05136Koordinaten: 51 ° 29 ' 16 "N, 10 ° 3' 5" E

The district Benniehausen located in the center of the municipality peers

Benniehausen is a municipality in the district of Göttingen peers with 349 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2010). To Benniehausen part of the district Wittmarshof.

• 3.1 Chapel Wittmarshof

History

In the course of municipal reform Benniehausen was on 1 January 1973 a district of the newly formed community peers.

Policy

Ortsrat

The Ortsrat consists of five council women and councilors.

• Wählergemeinschaft Benniehausen: 5 seats

(As at municipal election on September 11, 2011)

Mayor

Mayor of Benniehausen Dirk Otter.

Attractions

Chapel Wittmarshof

The Evangelical Protestant chapel in Wittmarshof was built in the early 17th century, for this time is the fact that at that time in 1575 the nobility of those laid to Bodenhausen resident of New peers after Wittmarshof. The half-timbered gable front and roof skylights are from the early 19th century, on the weather vane of the turret -year dates in 1819 is given. The bell dates back to 1696th For centuries, the chapel was the church of the Hessian Office Wittmarshof and was co-supervised until the First World War by the parish Rich Hausen. Since the municipality decreased by the war, were later the church services only carried out every 4 weeks from 1922 by Pastor Bunnenberg from Gelliehausen. In the immediate vicinity of the chapel stood until 1870, the old home of the Hessian bailiff, later the tutor of the Barbican Wittmarshof. It contained the ground floor of some prison cells with iron-studded doors.