Hehlen
Hehlen is a municipality in the district of Minden wood in Lower Saxony and belongs to Samtgemeinde ground Werder Polle.
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Mayor
- 5.1 traffic
- 5.2 Established businesses
- 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 6.2 personalities Hehlens
Geography
The municipality is located on the Weser below ground Werder and between Hameln and Minden wood.
Community structure
- Hehlen ( with Ovelgönne )
- District High
- District Brökeln
- District Daspe
Coat of arms of the district Brökeln
Neighboring communities
Hehlen bordered to the north by the municipality of Emmerthal of the district of Hamelin- Pyrmont, on the northeast by Heyen (now connected by a bridge ), to the east by Werder floor, on the south by Pegestorf and to the west by Ottenstein.
History
In the 9th century Hehlen was first mentioned as a Heli. In the 12th century it was called Helen.
When the homburgischen feudatories were extinct in 1409 and then in 1558 as the Duke of Brunswick vassals in the form of the Lords of Frenke, the fief was transferred to the still seated, older " white " strain of Schulenburg. One of the first men of this branch of the Weser was Fritz von der Schulenburg. He took it as an imperial mercenary captain in the service of Duke Henry the Younger of Brunswick- Lüneburg money and reputation. His wife Ilse of Saldern who lived separated from him since 1574 had, 1579-84 built the towers flanked by water castle Hehlen. With the palace to the emergence of a number of great noble palaces of the Weser Renaissance, the most magnificent, the Hämelschenburg, Bevern Castle and Castle Schwöbber began pose.
Castle Hehlen was a pure representational no military purpose. It is a four-winged building with constant angular stair towers in the courtyard and drawbridge over the water-filled ditch. In the courtyard (private, no tour ) are mounted on two round -arched portals, a double portrait of the client couple and their alliance coat of arms, in the east of the courtyard there is an epitaph of the builders.
1886-1888 changes were made inside. The moated castle Hehlen remained until 1956 owned by the (since 1728) Imperial Count von der Schulenburg, Count Johann -Heinrich then sold it to the Hanover Housing Association. The equipment arrived on the free antiques market, some of the images in the State Museum Hannover, the collection of books in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel. The castle acquired in 1958 Walter Koch ( 1911-1998 ), the owner of Machwitz coffee, whose family it still belongs. In one of the farm buildings, a café is operated.
1596 one of the oldest paper mills, was built in the Upper Weser region by Ilse of Saldern, wife of Fritz von der Schulenburg in Hehlen.
1807, the court in Hehlen was dissolved.
1900 Hehlen has been connected by the railway line Emmerthal - Vorwohle private Vorwohle - Emmerthaler Railway Company (VEE ) on the railway network. 1905 is founded on the outskirts a limestone and marl work.
1920 following the establishment of the Brunswick Lederwerke Heller & Cahen for the production of Vachetteleder.
End of 1939, the Jewish family Alex and Bertha Bach had to leave their factory and millinery business and residential building in the main street. A sale to the Hehlener manufacturers Asmus failed at the instigation of Mayor Theodor Kreibaum, both local Nazi group leader at Brunswick Department of the Interior. He described the factory owners as too " pro-Jewish " and Bach had his property to sell lesser value to the community and fled to Bolivia.
1996 lived 2,250 citizens in the community.
For the development of the postal system in Hehlen see: postal route Brunswick- wood Minden and postal history of Hehlen.
Incorporations
On 1 January 1973, communities Brökeln, Daspe and High were incorporated.
Policy
Parish council
Turnout: 62.22 %
The council is made after the local elections on September 11, 2011 consist of:
- SPD: 7 seats
- Wählergemeinschaft Hehlen (WG ): 4 seats
Mayor
Harald Jacob ( SPD)
Culture and sights
- Water Castle Hehlen, built in 1579
- Immanuel Church in Hehlen, built in 1699
- Church High in Hehlen - High, built in 1252
- Jewish cemetery with grave stones 21 obtained from the years 1828 to 1907
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
By Hehlen leads the federal highway 83 and connects the village to the north Hameln and Minden wood in the south. In the south of the highway 240 begins on the Weser toward Eschershausen. In the village there is a small bridge ( former ferry ) on the Weser River to Daspe and Southwest leads the provincial road 586 by Ottenstein and south more streets in the small towns and Ovelgönne Brökeln
Hehlen is located on the river Weser, the Piper of Hamelin to Hann. Munden leads.
The village lies on the today both in passenger as disused and freight railway Emmerthal - Vorwohle the Vorwohle - Emmerthaler Public Transportation GmbH ( VEV ) - until 1967: Vorwohle - Emmerthaler Railway Company ( VEE) - that of Emmerthal about Hehlen, Bodenwerder lens and Eschershausen led until after Vorwohle where connection was to the railway timber Minden- Kreiensen. The former reception hall of the station Hehlen now houses a restaurant.
By bus Hehlen is tied to wood Minden, soil Werder and Hameln.
Established businesses
1893 Raiffeisenbank Hehlen eG was founded in 2000 and merged with Volksbank eG Weser Uplands.
In 1919, the founding of Brunswick Lederwerke J. and E. Heller, today Heller- Leder GmbH & Co. KG (annual sales of about 35 million euros ). 1990 supplemented by the subsidiary HELCOR LEATHER -tec GmbH. The company is one of the few large employers in the area. The tannery is perceived by specific odors.
At the exit direction Hameln is a large lime plant founded by Heinrich Reitemeyer 1905 Portland cement, lime, marl and stone Werke GmbH, Hehlen / Weser, whose owner was until 1943 the North German Cement Association Ltd. ( NCV ), based in Berlin- Wilmersdorf and thereafter from the Dipl. -Ing. Blankmann was taken from Hehlen. From 1949, the takeover of the quarry by the Lower Saxony cement plants and a name change to lime, marl and stone Werke GmbH. 2004 Acquisition by the Dipl.- Berging. Andreas Goedecke and renamed Kalkwerk Hehlen GmbH.
In 1978, the company civil engineering Timmermann was founded. More companies are established in 1928, Asmus GmbH, a manufacturer of cleaning and maintenance products, today operates under AsKü Building Cleaning Service GmbH.
On October 17, 2005 & Co. KG and bioenergy was taken Hehlen GmbH & Co. KG, a biogas plant with an electrical output of 1000 kW in operation in Hehlen led by Natural Gas Hehlen GmbH. This makes it one of the larger bioenergy plants in Germany. In addition to the electrical power that is fed into the public power grid, the CHP plant also supplies the company Heller- Leder GmbH & Co. KG with process heat.
The 1947 founded Hanning Elektro-Werke GmbH & Co. KG, a manufacturer of electric drives for a variety of industries, had until 2006 a production site in Hehlen.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Ahaz Friedrich von der Schulenburg - Hehlen (1647-1701), Privy Council, diplomat, Hofrichter
- Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke (1752-1809), German Lutheran theologian, scholar and church historian
- Wilhelm August Lampadius (1772-1842), chemist, chemists, metallurgical engineers, university teachers
- Heinrich Wilhelm Waldeyer (1836-1921), anatomist, professor, member of the Prussian House of Lords
- Hans Eduard sea bass (1894-1957), Oberlandeskirchenrat, politician, member of parliament proclaimed Brunswick
- Pauline Cool (1898-1972), teacher, politician (CDU ), a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, member of the appointees of Lower Saxony state parliament and member of the appointees Hanoverian Landtag.
- Karl Joachim Ebeling ( born 1949 ), physicist and president of the University of Ulm
Personalities Hehlens
- Emil Heller (1891-1964), entrepreneur, received on 23 May 1964, the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class