Herberhausen

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Herberhausen in the city of Göttingen

Herberhausen is an eastern district of the university town of Göttingen.

Location

Herberhausen lies to the east of the city center of Göttingen in the Valley of Lutter in the western center of the Göttingen Forest. This encloses the district of the village and the other districts Göttingen Nicholas Berg and Roringen on all sides except the Luttertal which opens northwest Herber Stockhausen into Leinetal. The distance between the Church of Herberhausen and the old town hall of Göttingen is in a straight line approximately 3.5 km. The average altitude of the village is about 240 m above sea level. NN.

Default traffic Herberhausen is served by an access road to the highway 27 and the Herzberger Landstrasse, the north-west of the village together in Luttertal at the " bone crusher ", also Herberhausen can be reached by bus number 10.

Name

Until the 14th century, the name form Herborgehusen or hostel Husen has been handed down for Herberhausen. Only at the end of the 14th century, the abbreviated form of the name Herber Husen prevails. After the 16th century increasingly immerse documents with the High German form of the name on -hausen. It is one of the very numerous in the Lower Saxony town of Hausen- space locations. The first component is, as usual these places, a person's name, here is the feminine name Her ( i) castle (a). In the Low German variety of the district of Göttingen was the place Helperhûsen or Helpĕrshūsën.

History

Herberhausen is first mentioned in 1293 in a document in writing, the village is for sure though considerably older. It probably belonged largely to the possession of the Esikonen and came to products originating from the family of the Counts of Reinhausen Bishop Udo to the bishopric of Hildesheim. End of the 14th century was Herberhausen to city village of Göttingen, because in 1372 mortgaged the Lords of Gladebeck as ministry officials of the Bishop of Hildesheim the Göttingen alderman Klingebil with court bailiff, interest, services, etc. to Herberhausen, and in 1376 received the City of Göttingen these rights bestowed as an eternal fief by the Hildesheim Bishop himself. After a significant population increase during the 19th century expanded after the Second World War, the built-up area of ​​the village and the infrastructure. On April 1, 1963 Herberhausen was incorporated at his own request by the city of Göttingen.

Attractions

Church

The Church of St. Cosmas and Damian is built of limestone rubble and relatively large for comparable villages. The west tower was built in the Middle Ages, probably in the period around 1300. The ship was probably built in the core in the 15th century, in the 18th century at least the roof and the window and door design has been changed, the church was remodeled as a church hall. In the 19th century saw the construction of a sacristy before the nave was 1958/59 expanded to the north.

Thieplatz

The triangular Thieplatz of the village opposite the church. Made of lime - rubble a round extending wall has been erected, which allows the plant a slightly raised, flat place on a slope. The buildings around the Thieplatz around conveys an almost undisturbed image of village half-timbered buildings from the time around 1800.

Ripple marks

In the forestry quarry about 1 km east of Herberhausen the seabed from the period of 240 million years ago is revealed. Here then there was the Muschelkalk Sea, a marginal sea of Tethys. You can see the on the seabed caused by flow effects ripple marks. The quarry is officially closed, there are tours offered by the City Forestry Office or the Geoscience Centre of the University.

Leisure

Herberhausen is suitable due to its location as a recreational destination for walks and hikes. On the territory of the district there is a hill potato stone, which has been designated a natural monument. There is also in the district, country houses and a village tavern.

Statistics

Population ( 2009): in 1698, of which 1574 with main residence

Area of the district: 1523 ha (mainly forest )