Erkerode

Erkerode is a place and a municipality in the district Wolfenbüttel in Lower Saxony. It lies on the western edge of the ridge Elm and about 17 kilometers south-east of Brunswick. East of the village begins around 3 km long Reitlingstal, leading into the Elm.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 2.2 Explanation of the name
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 4.1 own hard currency
  • 4.2 Structures
  • 4.3 associations
  • 4.4 Regular events
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 5.2 Public facilities and buildings
  • 5.3 Environmental Protection

Geography

Geographical Location

Erkerode is located in the southeast of the city of Braunschweig and belongs to the district of Wolfenbüttel. The place is located in the western part of the Elm Lappwald, on the western Elmrand. The honeycomb occurs here from the Reitlingstal over into the foothills. Erkerode is the capital of the municipality Erkerode. The nearest middle centers are Helmstedt, Konigslutter and Wolfenbüttel.

Neighboring towns

* Distance information always refer to the distance to the town center.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Erkerode Erkerode ( 652 inhabitants) and Lucklum (362 inhabitants), the latter being a former medieval of the Teutonic Knights. Previously Erkerode belonged to the district of Braunschweig, after which the place or the community was part of the district of Wolfenbüttel. Erkerode belongs to Samtgemeinde Sickte and projects with its 13.34 square kilometers far into the ridge Elm. There also is the north-eastern area of the velvet municipality Sickte.

Geology

Erkerode located on the edge of the Elms, a mountain range whose emergence in the Triassic began about 200 million years ago. In a previous sea, the geologically -called Germanic Basin, lived marine animals that Terebratel. When they died, they formed a layer of lime and originated from this layer by compression of Elmkalkstein. The seabed arched over a period of 100 million years ago, caused by a 900 m thick salt deposits, to Elm on. The salt rock, which is lighter than the overlying limestone, pressed the Elm upwards.

The rocks in the Elm are limestones and were formerly broken the so-called West sticks of Erkerode. It is a special limestone, the bay or Trochitenkalk, which originated in the Upper Muschelkalk in the Trochitenkalk lineup. This limestone is locally restricted to the vicinity of Erkerode. It was created from deposits of dead sea lilies in the warm shallow water moving sea. Sea lilies ( crinoids ) are a type of Encrinus liliiformis and are not plants. There were animals that fed on plankton. These animals were fixed to a handle at the seabed and carrying at the upper end a cup-shaped body with arms. The fossilized crinoid are wheel-shaped and are called Trochiten. The crinoids were so heaped in front of the sea, that they piled on rock layer after its death itself. The church walls and numerous stone house base are made of this natural stone in Erkerode.

History

1175 the place Erkerode was first mentioned as Erikeroth. The village had a long time to aristocratic court Destedt and was since the 12th century in the possession of those of Veltheim. The village is today still dominated by farms of medieval types of hook and Streckhof. Chance finds the Dreiseithof, which is also referred to as " oriel Or type".

1868 founded the pastor Gustav dandy from Erkerode, the doctor Oswald Berkhan and the Brunswick citizen Luise Löbbecke the "idiot -Anstalt to Erkerode ". You should give sick and disabled people a home. A little later formed between Lucklum and Sickte, four kilometers from the founding place Erkerode that still nationally known " evangelical foundation Neuerkerode ". Today, it is with more than 900 employees is the largest employer in the district of Wolfenbüttel.

The former Pfarrwitwenhaus in which this institution created was later used as the village school, and since the 1980s the village community center.

1902 was the restaurant " Elmwarte " above the village on the edge of the Elms. It developed into a popular tourist restaurant, especially for citizens of Braunschweig. The locality at around 200 meters above sea level is a viewpoint from which to look far into the land of the West ( Braunschweig) and the south ( resin - Brocken ) is possible. In the 1950s and 1960s in the area between the town center and the Elmwarte and hillside to Reitlingstal was a development with weekend homes. The houses were built not only on a short break from Berlin (because of the proximity to the zone border crossing Helmstedt ), but also of Brunswick lawyers and tax consultants, who used their bungalows as a permanent residence. In addition, developed in the 1950s at the edges of the village center of detached houses expellees and resettlers from the GDR.

In the local elections of 1968, came through one of the two former mayoral candidate in an election forgery. The election was legally declared invalid and repeated in 1969.

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the neighboring community Lucklum was incorporated and Hötzum incorporated into the new church Sickte.

Explanation of the name

Old names of the place are 1175 Erikeroth, 1179 Erikeroth, 1268 Erekerode, 1343 Erkerode, 1378 and 1440 Erkerode Erkerod. The place name is a formation with the basic word -rode. The qualifier has the personal name Erik. This basis is controversial; probably from a personal name - Education with " aro " for " eagle " to be assumed. May also underlie a derived short name or full name with the second constituent " rik ". This is the personal name strain " ricja " " rich, powerful " for associate. A decision on which of the two is the correct interpretation of the place-name origin is not possible. Both persons name elements have been used frequently in the Old Saxon.

Policy

Parish council

The chosen at the Lower Saxony municipal election held on September 10, 2006 Erkerode council consisted of 11 members. The CDU set 6 elected officials, the SPD was represented by 3 people and Alliance 90/The Greens were with 2 seats on the Council. As mayor, Johann- Heinrich von Henninges (CDU ) was confirmed in office, which holds since June 1998 by the late former long-time public official Albert Nolte this office. Nolte was a total of more than 25 years mayor of the town and the municipality Erkerode.

The elected at the municipal election Lower Saxony, and in September 2011 the Council of the municipality is composed of 9 members. The SPD is 5, the CDU 3 and Alliance 90/The Greens 1 seat carrier. On November 16, 2011, Dr. Claus Harmsen (SPD ) was elected by the Council by absolute majority to the mayor. In January 2013, Mayor Claus Harmsen announced his resignation for personal reasons. The election resulted in an absolute majority for the appointment of Dr. Heinrich Füchtjohann as the new mayor of the municipality Erkerode. Ulrike Wöhler ( also SPD council group ) was elected first deputy mayor. The General Administration representative of the Mayor is Councillor Sonja Saalfeld (SPD).

Coat of arms

In 1985, the municipality Erkerode a coat of arms. It shows a heraldic ammonites in right field, which refers to the former limestone quarries on the edge of the Elms (such as the " West sticks "). The waterwheel in the heraldic left field reminiscent of once existing water mills on the honeycomb, which flows through the town. The cross in the lower field symbolizes the Coming of the Teutonic Knights in the community part Lucklum.

Culture and sights

From once several water mills along the honeycomb today is still in operation. The Water Mill is a station at the Lower Saxony Mill Road. It can be visited on Whit Monday at the "German Mill Day ". The system is operated by mill club Erkerode entertain eV.

The local curator for the villages Erkerode and Lucklum maintains a website on the history of the community.

Own hard currency

At the annual German Mill Day Whit Monday there will be a mill hard on the farm of the water mill on the Evessener road. At this event, the Euro can be exchanged for the replacement currency " Elmtaler ". These are small wooden coins with the image of a mill wheel. The Elmtaler can be shared, a maximum of up to a quarter, 25 cents accordingly.

Structures

The St. Peter's Church was built in the 14th century and was built in Romanesque style. It is equipped with an organ of the organ builder Johann Christoph Zuber beer out of the year in 1747.

Clubs

  • Sports Club Red / White Lucklum Erkerode eV: The sports club, founded in 1949 has several tennis courts and football pitches.
  • Men's Choir: In the summer of 1866, after excitation by Pastor Gustav Stutzer by a solid foundation for the establishment of the male voice choir. As the number of active singer was continuously declining, the club went a choral society in 1993 with the men's choir United Denkte one.
  • Friends of the volunteer fire department Erkerode / Lucklum to support the local fire department
  • Civic Association of the municipality Erkerode / Lucklum: Association for the organization of events such as country fairs, founded in April 2010.

Regular events

  • Street festival in the southern part of Erkerode by the residents of four streets
  • Osterfeuer annually on the evening of Holy Saturday at the "West sticks " near the Elmrand
  • Christmas market of young firefighters on 1 Advent in the village on the banks of the honeycomb.
  • Living Advent the parish Erkerode - Lucklum
  • Maypole, construction on 1 May 2006 for the first time since 1938. Popularly, the tree is called asparagus.
  • Mill Festival, every year on Whit Monday on the grounds of the Watermill

Economy and infrastructure

In the water mill on the honeycomb the " SOWIWAS energy ( sun, wind and water ) GmbH" their headquarters, the energy generated from renewable sources. End of March 2009 the only restaurant was closed in place with picnic area with a large hall, in September 2011, the village shop due to poor economy. The town has a carpentry shop and a hairdresser. In May 2011, originated in the former fire station on the honeycomb a meeting place for all residents under the Low German name " Klönstuv ".

Traffic

Erkerode is located by its position in the Natural Park Elm Lappwald away from major traffic routes. Tied to the site by a county road about a kilometer to the west of the town extending national road 625 and the 7 km east of the town extending L 290 L 625 The crosses around 8 km the motorway 39

Public facilities and buildings

  • Day nursery
  • Dorfgemeinschaftshaus Erkerode, former school Erkerode, now used privately owned until 2012 by local clubs and local private polling station
  • Dorfgemeinschaftshaus Lucklum, former school Lucklum, now used as a clubhouse by the " sports club Rot-Weiss Lucklum / Erkerode of 1949 " and the polling station in the district Lucklum
  • Fire service and civil defense: 1876 Fire Brigade Erkerode was founded, which is a local fire brigade in the " volunteer fire Samtgemeinde Sickte " since the territorial and administrative reform on 1 March 1974. On 8 May 1999, the youth fire brigade was founded in 2002, merged the local fire departments and Lucklum Erkerode.
  • Kindergarten Erkerode, local private polling station since 2013
  • Klönstuv to the honeycomb, Erkerode, a former fire station, built in 1954, today's Sunday daily Ausflugslokal

Conservation

Since the late 1980s, there has Erkerode in the amphibian conservation group Reitlingstal that cares about the survival of toads, frogs and salamanders. In spring and autumn, the group accompanied the migrations of amphibians in the Reitlingstal.

Personalities

  • Gustav Stutzer (1839-1921), pastor in Erkerode, founder of the Evangelical Foundation in Erkerode and Neuerkerode
  • Michael cartload ( born May 16, 1957), Local politicians of Alliance 90/The Greens and member of the Federal Assembly in 2009
  • Claus Harmsen ( born October 31, 1947), German lawyer, an accredited journalist in the Bundestag, former mayor of Erkerode, no longer resident in Erkerode
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