Gleichen, Lower Saxony

Peers is a unit municipality in the district of Göttingen in southern Lower Saxony. Administrative seat is clean living.

In the name of the town likes the uprising in the community part Gelliehausen mountain pair was the same sponsor.

  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 Coat of Arms
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 4.2 theater
  • 4.3 Natural Monuments
  • 4.4 Education

Geography

Geographical location

The community of peers is located southeast of Göttingen, west-southwest of Duderstadt and north-northwest of Heiligenstadt. The larger, western part of the municipality lies in the natural area Reinhäuser forest. Several districts are traversed by the garde and, for example Reinhausen from small Wendebach ( with the Wendebach reservoir), both right and eastern tributaries of the leash.

In the center of the municipality are the same, a 430 m high mountain pair that rises between Appenrode, Bettenrode and Gelliehausen. Both mountains were once crowned by castles, ruins of which still exist.

To reach the districts of the municipality, for example, about the same from the B 27 eastward branching state roads.

Community structure

The community was created by the municipal reform in 1973 and has 16 districts; Administrative headquarters are Reinhausen:

  • Beienrode
  • Benniehausen ( with new peers, Wittmarshof, Eichenkrug and parts of the district United Lengdens with Niedeck and Bright Mountain )
  • Bischhausen
  • Bremke ( with Appenrode, Sennickerode, Old peers, Mountain Ash and the district Elbickerode with Vogelsang )
  • Diemarden
  • Etzenborn
  • Gelliehausen
  • Great Lengden
  • Ischenrode
  • Kerstlingerode
  • Small Lengden ( with stone mill and spinning Gartetal )
  • Reinhausen ( with Bettenrode and the forest lodge )
  • Rittmarshausen ( with parts of the district Kerstlingerodes )
  • Rich Hausen ( with Himmigerode, Tönjesmühle and the district Riekenrode )
  • Weissenborn ( with Charlottenburg)
  • Wöllmarshausen

History

In the Middle Ages, the Court Old peers has been established, a patrimonial, which was subordinated to the Lords of Uslar equals who there had the Supreme Court. Among the localities included Gelliehausen, Benniehausen, Wöllmarshausen, Bremke, as well as the goods Sennickerode, Appenrode, Elbickerode and Volgelsang. Just as the Official New peer was lifted on 4 July 1825 verleibte to the Court Old peers, in the course of the Hanoverian justice reform, in 1852 the Office Reinhausen one. The court Ancient peers possessed 1848 1988 inhabitants, 324 residential buildings, as well as an area of ​​0,432 km2. The community of peers exists since January 1, 1973. On this day the towns Beienrode, Benniehausen, Bischhausen, Bremke, Diemarden, Etzenborn, Gelliehausen, United Lengden, Ischenrode, Kerstlingerode, Small Lengden, clean living, Rittmarshausen, Satte Hausen, Weissenborn and Wöllmarshausen were merged to form the new municipality.

Policy

Parish council

The local elections in 2001, 2006 and 2011 led to the following results:

Mayor

The full-time mayor Heinz -Jürgen Proch was elected in September 1996. In the municipal election of 2006 came on 24 September 2006 on the ballot. Heinz -Jürgen Proch (SPD ) prevailed with 52.27 % against 47.73 % for Werner Wille (CDU ) and thus remains until 2014 in office.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality of peers in silver shows two green hills, studded with blue pointed roof on the right flank with a square crenellated red tower, on the left with a red round tower.

Culture and sights

Structures

  • The historic student tavern mother Jütte in the district Bremke

Theater

In the Brothers Grimm fairy tale forest stage Bremke Festival for Children are listed each year. Performance period is from mid -May to mid-September. The forest stage was built in 1949 by the villagers.

Natural Monuments

South of the Academy Waldschlösschenbrücke located in the forest of Hurkutstein, which was explained together with the standing on it oak in 1936 as a natural monument. There was the documentary narrated Klause the former Benedictine monastery Reinhausen. The monk Henry Hufnagel, built around 1385, the chapel " to the Holy Sepulchre " and lived there as a hermit.

Education

Near Reinhausen is the Academy Waldschlösschenbrücke.

Personalities

  • Gottfried August Bürger (1747-1794), the poet lived from 1772 to 1773 in Gelliehausen and 1774-1784 in Wöllmarshausen and worked from 1772 to 1784 as a steward in the office building in Gelliehausen.
  • Werner Schröder ( judge) ( 1916-2010 ), Judge of the Federal Social Court in Kassel
  • Burghard von Lüpke ( b. 1939 ), the forest scientists headed from 1973 to 1991, the Forestry Office Reinhausen.
  • Klaus -Peter Bruns (born 28 November 1913 in Krefeld, † 12 May, 2011 Göttingen ) is a German farmer and politician ( SPD).
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