Grasleben

Grasleben is a municipality in the district of Helmstedt in Lower Saxony ( Germany ). The church is a member congregation of the Grasleben Samtgemeinde Grasleben.

Geography

The community is located 13 kilometers north Grasleben the county town of Helmstedt in the Natural Park Elm Lappwald. The eastern boundary of the municipality to the city Oebisfelde - Weferlingen is also the county boundary to the district Borde and border with Saxony -Anhalt. Until the German reunification in 1990, she was also part of the Inner German border. To Grasleben part of the district Heidwinkel.

History

The first mention grass life is demonstrated in 1150 in a goods and dispensing directory of the monastery of St. Ludgeri before Helmstedt. The history of grass life was greatly influenced by the proximity to the monastery Mariental to the possession of grass life was long.

Policy

The council is composed of Grasleben 13 council members:

CDU 5 seats
SPD 5 seats
Green 2 seats (for lack of applicants no seat occupied )
Grass Haderslev Group 1 seats

(As at municipal election September 11, 2011 ).

From the council were elected:

For honorary mayor Veronika Koch ( CDU)
The volunteer community director Gero Janze ( Samtgemeinde mayor)

(As inaugural Council meeting November 2011)

Economy and infrastructure

Economy

Up to the 1990s, the Allerthal -Werke AG in Grasleben produced rubber goods. Later, the company headquarters was moved to Cologne. In Grasleben the active rock salt mine Brunswick- Lüneburg is the company esco for the production of food, thawing and industrial salts.

In 2006, a biogas plant was built in the immediate vicinity of the mine. The esco work is purchaser of the heat generated by the installation. Currently, there are considerations for further biogas plants to supply more companies, large institutions or even residential areas with the generated heat. Furthermore, quartz sand is in Grasleben dismantled and the company Sport -Thieme, a large sporting goods shippers with offices in other European countries, has its headquarters in Grass life.

Traffic

Grasleben is connected by the county road 50 and 56, and with the state road 651. The Highway 2 is only 6 kilometers south, driveway Helmstedt -West. Grasleben is located on the busy exclusively by freight trains railway Helmstedt - Oebisfelde.

Religions

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mary in 1830 is located on Church Street, it is the northernmost church in the deanery of Helmstedt. For the church and the left hand side of the church nursery " Adventure Land " belongs to the Magdeburg road.

The Catholic Church of St. Norbert from 1961 is located at the Helmstedt road. Today, the church belongs to the parish of St. Ludgeri in Helmstedt. For the church and the kindergarten located next to the church belongs.

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