Klein Lengden

51.49694444444410.005277777778203Koordinaten: 51 ° 29 ' 49 "N, 10 ° 0' 19" E

Small Lengden as part of the community likes

Small Lengden is a municipality in the district of Göttingen peers with 1,380 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2009). Historical significance of small Lengden by the start of operations of the first paper mill in the 18th century.

  • 6.1 Church
  • 6.2 Historical spinning
  • 6.3 Lengder Castle
  • 6.4 Sports
  • 7.1 Commercial
  • 7.2 traffic

Geographical Location

The village lies on the southern edge of the Göttingen Forest, part of the leash highlands, in Gartetal on Lengder stream, a tributary to the south of the town flowing from east to west garde, which in turn flows into the lead. To the northwest lies the Westerberg ( 340.2 m) and in the northeast the Lengderburg ( 383.5 m) with the Lengder castle. To the east lies the holy mountain (about 262 m). Northeast joins the district at large Lengden, southeast Benniehausen, in the south Reinhausen, in the west of the district Diemarden and to the northwest Göttingen- Geismar.

Geology

Due to the slope between Göttingen and forest garde, is the ground for the most part from Pseudogley and Luvisols.

History

The timing of the local foundation is unknown, as in most places in the region. The first written mention of a place or Lengithi Lengidi is ascribed to the year 822 and is found in the Codex Eberhardi the monastery of Fulda. First indications of the two places of the name Lengden find themselves in a the year 1022 ascribed certificate. The nucleus of local development is located in the present-day village core in the area of ​​church and below the church along the valley Lengder reason. In this area some farm buildings have been preserved with half-timbered buildings, mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries. After the Second World War, the town in the north, east and west has been extended to new areas where single-family homes were built. Other village expansion followed with the construction of a commercial area in the east and another residential area in the northeast.

Small Lengden was a station of the Göttingen light railway, also called Gartetalbahn that connected with Duderstadt Göttingen until 1957.

On 1 January 1973 Small Lengden was incorporated peers in the new church.

Policy

The community of peers created in the course of municipal reform in 1973.

Ortsrat

The Ortsrat consists of seven council women and councilors.

  • Small Lengder Wählergemeinschaft: 3 seats
  • SPD: 2 seats
  • CDU: 2 seats

(As at municipal election on September 11, 2011)

Mayor

Mayor of small Lengden is Klaus -Werner Hanelt.

District elections 2006

The district council elections in 2006 there were the following results:

Place name

The place name Lengden is in its original form " Lengithi ", ie as part of Weende to the place name with the suffix "- işi ", which are mostly due to old field-names. The first word component is related to the word "long " together. The suffix "- işi " is used with-d, - both with -th- and, the -i -to -e- toned. Lengden was first mentioned in 822 in records of the monastery of Fulda as Lengidi or Lengithi documented. The term Lengede finds himself in a Deed of 952 Otto I for the monastery Pöhlde.

It was only in the 16th century, the name is contracted to " Lengde ", the final- n occurs in the tradition only since the 18th century. In the newer vernacular forms also disappears the -d, so that the name " Lengenbach " is. In a letter dated 30 January 1783 by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach to Christian Gottlob Heyne small Lengden is referred to in the Low German form as Lütgen - Lengenbach. Because even the adjacent place large Lengden had the same name, had to be made between two places using a spare. These additions could be chosen in different ways: By specifying the direction in " Westerlengede " (1118-1137, forgery of the 13th century, as opposed to " Osterlengede " ) or in the Latin form " in Occidentali Lengethe " ( 1168, forgery of 13. century ), by specifying the altitude of " Inferior Lengede " ( 1298, as opposed to " Superior Lengede " ), or by specifying the size in Latin ( "Minor Lengede " in 1339 in the document book of the city of Göttingen, in contrast, " Maior Lengede " ) low German ( " Lutteken Lengede " 1419 ) or high German ( " Klain Lenghede " 1428 ). " Say of Lower Saxony and Fairy Tales: From the lips of the people collected " In the book of 1855, the place is repeatedly referred to as small - Lengden. On September 18, 1937, the term small Lengden was written by the Reich and Prussian Ministry of the Interior.

Culture and sights

Church

In the village there is the church of St. John the Baptist, a municipality in the district of Göttingen church of the diocese of Hildesheim, Göttingen of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover. The medieval fortified tower in the West is built of sandstone rubble masonry and not plastered, the east subsequent construction is a white- plastered, aisled hall building and dates from the Baroque period.

Historic mill

Coming from Benniehausen before the entrance to the facility Historical spinning Gartetal, which began as a grain mill in the 16th century is located. In 1774 it was extended to the first paper mill in Europe. The preparation of printed matter was invented by Justus Claproth that is used by Müller Johann Engelhard Schmid for the first time. In the course of industrialization, the plant in 1847 to a spinning mill was. Since 1982, the plant is a museum with the machines as exhibits, as well as an exhibition of wool and their processing.

Lengder castle

The Lengder Castle (also known as Lengdener Castle ) is a probably early Iron Age ramparts on the approximately 1 km north of small Lengden altitude mountain spur Lengderburg ( 383.5 m). The long, narrow ridge is closed off by two ramparts section, of which the inner, Western Wall is about 60 m long. Both walls are relatively strong in the fall and also otherwise kleingliedrig moving terrain difficult to detect. By test excavations was found in 1965 that the outer wall has a two-phase system with a burnt layer over the first layer. In addition, inside the former fortification pottery sherds were recovered, indicating at least on a temporary settlement in the recent pre-Roman Iron Age. Perhaps here was already in the Stone Age a fortification.

Sports

The gymnastics and sports club TSV Klein Lengden, with its own sports ground on the northern edge of the district, is mainly active in football, but also offers volleyball, aerobics, gymnastics and Nordic walking.

Economy and infrastructure

Trade

On the eastern edge of Small Lengden the industrial park peace width is reported, a model project for sustainable business.

Traffic

Small Lengden is connected via the L569 at Göttingen- Geismar and Benniehausen and the L574 to large Lengden. A compound according to Diemarden is about 21 K Since closure of Göttingen small train small Lengden is no longer tied to a railway network. A bus connection is made by connecting to the local bus route Duderstadt -Göttingen in southern Lower Saxony Transport Association.

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