Cremlingen
Cremlingen is a municipality in the district of Wolfenbüttel ( Lower Saxony), east of Brunswick. Cremlingen is the site of medium wave transmitter of Braunschweig Germany Radio, which is also sometimes referred to as transmitter king Lutter.
- 7.1 company
- 7.2 traffic
Geography
The municipality is located in the transition between the North German Plain and Central German Uplands.
The municipality consists of the villages Cremlingen:
- Abbenrode ( 496 inhabitants)
- Cremlingen ( 2611 inhabitants)
- Destedt ( 1490 inhabitants)
- Gardessen ( 596 inhabitants)
- Hemkenrode ( 374 inhabitants)
- Hordorf ( 1094 inhabitants)
- Small Schoeppenstedt ( 725 inhabitants)
- Schandelah ( 2267 inhabitants)
- Schulenrode (289 inhabitants)
- Weddel ( 3087 inhabitants)
Population figures from 1 January 2014
History
From the eastern edge of the upper center of Braunschweig, the approximately 60 -square-mile community extends into the northwestern Elm. The place has grown together of two communities, the village community with 65 houses and the Gutsgemeinde of 7 houses. The ending ~ ingen indicates that the name originated to about 500. The history of settlement, however, is far older, as an urn field on Ehler Mountains, southwest of the village, occupied. In 1302 Cremlingen is handed down as " Cremlinge " while it appears in records as " Cremninge " in the 14th century.
Advantageous for its development was the location on the ancient trade road that led in the Middle Ages from Cologne via Braunschweig to Magdeburg. Here was principally traded grain, which was also grown on the fields Cremlingens. From the local grain economy benefited particularly the Lords of Veltheim and the monastery Riddagshausen, the 1308 two tenth- free hooves and a word (Hof ) received. To this was later land of those of Veltheim, ducal fief. Land had been transferred as a fief also from Halberstadt bishop, lay on its diocesan territory Cremlingen.
Incorporations
The town of Cremlingen was established on March 1, 1974 as a unified community through the legal merger of the former independent municipalities Abbenrode, Cremlingen Destedt, Gardessen, Hemkenrode, Hordorf, Small Schoeppenstedt, Schandelah, Schulenrode and Weddel. On March 1, 1974 Hötzum was incorporated into the new municipality Sickte.
Religions
The Protestant parish church in Cremlingen ( In the village 13) was administered by the archdeacon of the spell Lucklum. A parish priest 1302 with Lubertus quon -dam Plebanus documented tangible. The tower with a pitched roof and octagonal lantern and the nave show late Romanesque traces, while the choir is Romanesque. Since the patronal feast of the church was not known in 1963 she received the name of St. Michael. Today, the church belongs to the provost Cremlingen king Lutter.
In Cremlingen was from 1953 to 2014, the Catholic Church of St. Theresa of the Child Jesus. Today, located in the district Weddel a Catholic church.
The thermal spring
Shortly after the beginning of the 20th century pushed the Central German Erdölbohrgemeinschaft in 410 feet of water on a hot spring with 34 ° C warm water. The healing power was discussed extensively in the press and it came on the dream of a spa. In the thirties of the 20th century, the Cremlinger doctor Ernst Matheis tried to organize the bathing - plans thwarted by the Second World War. In 1973 the site was the (now defunct ) slammed adjacent training area. In vain they tried to seal the source of sand: even today every hour gushing about 7600 liters of unused into the landscape. Meanwhile, the conservation authority has declared the area a worth protecting habitat. Massive cuts in the landscape resulted in the construction of the " Weddeler loop ", the A39 motorway and the ring road.
Fossil finds
Already the ammonite on the emblem indicates fossiliferous rocks in the area Cremlingens. When, in the course of a highway - new building took place earthworks, discovered a collector in May 2005, a large prehistoric skeleton from the Mesozoic era, which proved to be well-preserved ichthyosaur ( Acamptonectes densus ) turned out.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms of the town of Cremlingen shows the Braunschweig lion on an ammonite from the limestone mountain ridge Elm.
Economy and infrastructure
Business
Cremlingen is the seat of the telecommunications manufacturer Auerswald. Moreover Cremlingen seat and fabrication site belonging to the Halloren Chocolate Factory Confiserie Chocolaterie GmbH Weibler. This where it operates a factory outlet.
Traffic
In the community there are the stations Schandelah and Weddel on the railway Brunswick- Magdeburg; Weddel is also used by trains approached towards Wolfsburg ( " Weddeler loop ").
Through the municipal area leads the federal road 1, and since September 2006, has a Cremlingen same connection point to the southern bypass Braunschweig the A 39 which is consistently passable since the beginning of 2009 until the motorway junction Wolfsburg.
Medium wave transmitter of Deutsche Telekom AG
Near Cremlingen - Abbenrode the German Telekom AG operates since 1962 a large transmission system for medium wave, which radiates the program of the Germany radio.
See: broadcasting authority Cremlingen - Abbenrode
Culture
More than 500 members of the community Cremlingen take on a CD project called " Sounds like Cremlingen? " Part. In several villages of the municipality, there are in addition to traditional choirs several choirs, who are dedicated to modern music.
Personalities
- Heinz -Georg Keerl ( born January 7, 1946 in Weddel ), General of the Bundeswehr
- Manfred Trojahn (born 22 October 1949 in Cremlingen ), composer and conductor