Clenze
The patch Clenze is a municipality in the south of the district Lüchow -Dannenberg in Lower Saxony.
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 2.2 Origin of the name
- 4.1 Structures
- 4.2 parks
- 4.3 Sport
- 5.1 Education 5.1.1 schools
Geography
Geographical Location
The municipality is located in the Clenzer Switzerland at the transition from High to Low Drawehn Drawehn, about 16 kilometers from the district town of Lüchow. In the West, the community is bordered by the Lower Saxony Uelzen district, on the southeast by the Altmark Salzwedel in Saxony- Anhalt.
Community structure
The community Clenze has the following districts:
Bausen, Beseland, evil, Braudel, Bussau, Clenze, Corvin, Dalitz, Gistenbeck, Gohlefanz, Granstedt, United Sachau, Guhreitzen, Kassau, Small Sachau, Monastery, Kussebode, Lefitz, Meußließen, caps, Prießeck, Quartzau, Reddereitz, Satkau, Schlannau, Seelwig, Vaddensen
History
Incorporations
On 1 July 1972, the municipalities Bausen, Beseland, Braudel, Bussau, Dalitz, Gistenbeck, Granstedt, Kassau, Corvin, Meußließen were incorporated (until then in the district of Uelzen ), Prießeck, Quartzau, Reddereitz, Sachau and Schlannau.
Origin of the name
Old names were 956 Klinizua, 1004 Claniki, 1017 Claniki, 1330/52 Clentze, 1360 and 1394 Clentze Clentze. The place name is a Slavic name from a basic form of the Serbian " Klanec " Croatian " klanac " for " defile, ravine, gorge " and " kajkav, KLANJEC " for " valley, narrow path."
Policy
The municipality belongs to the Clenze Parliament Constituency 48 Elbe and the Bundestag constituency 38 Lüchow -Dannenberg - Lüneburg.
Culture and sights
Structures
Clenze was from 1972 to 1994 the site of an over the horizon radio relay system for the radio traffic to West Berlin (radio relay system Berlin- Frohnau ). Since 1994, the radio station was still used to make connections to Hamburg, Hannover, Uelzen, Sprakensehl, Zernien and Gartow, but this function soon fell away. On 22 June 1999, the large dishes were eventually dismantled. Today, the antenna mast is only used as a carrier for mobile phone antennas.
Parks
A few kilometers northwest of Clenze you reach a quite lovingly designed geological rock garden, the so-called boulder park, which leads the visitor through the worm-shaped geological age to beyond the Precambrian.
Sports
Clenze has several sports clubs, including the SV Eintracht Clenze and the TC Clenze. When SV Eintracht classic gymnastics, fist ball, table tennis and badminton, among others soccer and handball (within the FSG and SG south circle ), offered. The TC is a pure tennis club with its own three-site complex north of Clenzer lido.
In addition, there is the Riding and Driving Club Clenze, the annual show jumping tournaments on its own space aligns the Ski Club Güneitz and the Archers of 1848.
Economy and infrastructure
The largest employer is the group of companies Grocholl. It produces industrially prefabricated food and so-called semi-finished products for restaurants, caterers and delicatessen factories. This is to pasta, meat, vegetables, mushrooms, potatoes and onions. In addition Grocholl maintains its own mushroom cultures.
Education
Train
In the community Clenze the Astrid Lindgren Elementary School and the Drawehn school is located.
The Drawehn School is the only cooperative Gesamtschule ( KGS) of the district currently has over 900 students, most of whom come from the area of the velvet municipality and the county.
From the school year 2011/12, the upper secondary school branch up to class 12 and are thus attended to placing the baccalaureate at the Drawehn School Clenze. The secondary level is organizationally out as a branch of the Fritz -Reuter -Gymnasium Dannenberg.
Religions
In Clenze is the Evangelical Lutheran St. Bartholomew Church. At the church, the St. Andrew's chapel belongs in Gistenbeck. Bussau has its own parish, the parish officially connected with Clenze. In the district Gistenbeck is also the St. Pauli Church of SELK.
1961/62, the Catholic Church of St. John Mary Vianney was built. 2012 was their profanation, recently it belonged to the parish of St. Agnes in Lüchow. The building was purchased by a church member.
In Clenze there is a Free Christian community, which belongs to the Union of Pentecostal Churches.
Personalities
- In the district Prießeck the German rock band Madsen lives.
- On October 31, 1630 Gottfried zu Pappenheim Henry resided in Clenze.