Hondelage

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Location of Hondelage in Braunschweig

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Hondelage is a municipality and district of Braunschweig. The municipality has the official number 113 since the local government reform on March 1, 1974, have been incorporated Hondelage in Braunschweig. It lies on the Schunter, a tributary of the Oker, and after next to Highway 2 from Hannover Berlin.

Together with the municipalities Honeycomb Schunter, Bienrode - Waggum - Bevenrode and Volkmarode forms Hondelage the municipal election district 11 The population is 3,733 (as of 2009, -218 inhabitants compared to 2003 ).

Mayor, from March 1974 mayor, today district mayor, Jörg Gille is.

History

The town was first mentioned in 1179 as Honloge, ie a high altitude, an open space in the surrounding forests. An eponymous castle was built, a noble dynasty of Honlage used to defend the area. From the castle today only few ruins on the banks of Schunter; the castle tower was once the nave of today's evangelical church of St. John was grown, to the church tower, many stones of the castle are still evident in foundations of the oldest farms in the village. North of the present town is the deserted village Heger (original name: Hegerdorp ). About 500 years ago, the artisan village was abandoned. Even today you can see the platform of the former chapel of Hegerdorp with the naked eye.

The population of Hondelage was coined in the Middle Ages with about 30 yards purely rural, although in the 16th century were added artisans and small businesses. During the Reformation, a school was established; today the place purely Protestant ( Lutheran) is marked and has a large primary school, which is a social center in the village next to the church and community sports club.

After the population had remained constant long at about 500 inhabitants, this changed by the influx of refugees after 1945 to greater than 1000. A further wave of immigration came with the movement to the suburbs and the countryside in the late 1960s and early 1970s, where the population increased to over 5,000 within a few years from about 2000. With the incorporation to Braunschweig on 1 March 1974, growth slowed again, even if the infrastructure with a number of private physicians, dentists and various shops further improved.

The motorway Brunswick East ( A2/57 ) can be reached through the neighboring towns of teaching - Wendhausen and Dibbesdorf, the motorway exit Braunschweig Airport ( A2/56 ) it goes straight. The Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport is located west-northwest of Hondelage, in the neighboring Waggum.

The present town is dominated by an active community and club life. There is a small observatory of amateur astronomers with a 50- cm reflecting telescope. In the village there is a small industrial area that has national significance because of Chimney - and the lightning protection company. It lightning protection systems have been designed and furnished for the Sheremetyevo Airport in the late 1970s and for the power stations of Timbuktu in Mali by Hondelage from.

In the shale and marl pit of Hondelage two ichthyosaurs were found in September 2011 after a skeleton of a Steneosaurus had already been discovered in the 1950s.

Religions

The historic St. John's Church has a modern interior ( Johannesweg 1). The church now belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran provost Brunswick.

The Catholic Salesian house with a chapel was consecrated in 1986 ( Heger village road 46). It was created by remodeling a former Haake -Beck brewery office. Originally a branch of the parish of St. Martin in Wendhausen, since it belongs to a church merger in 2006 to the parish of St. Mary in Querum. The community house is located next to the Chapel of the kindergarten of a non -denominational initiative of parents and the group space of the Catholic Scouts.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a red shield two diagonally crossed silver lilies rods, which are arranged on a silver star, who has six points.

It is the former family coat of arms of "by Honlage " that led it demonstrably from 1226 to its extinction in 1510. You once belonged to the village, but they sold in 1384 one half of the monastery Riddagshausen. As of 1483, they pledged the other half to the monastery and gave it in 1510 to finally complete this off. Who has the coat of arms designed, is unknown.

This coat of arms was officially selected on October 26, 1978 with a decision of the Ortsrates.