Kneitlingen

Kneitlingen is a municipality in the district of Wolfenbüttel ( Lower Saxony). It consists of the districts Ampleben, Bansleben, Eilum and Kneitlingen that lie between Elm and aces. Kneitlingen is a member municipality of the velvet municipality Schoeppenstedt and known as the birthplace of the medieval prankster Till Eulenspiegel.

  • 2.1 municipal
  • 3.1 The Romanesque church
  • 3.2 Eulenspiegel's own village

History

1135, Emperor Lothar its cathedral in Königslutter eight hooves country in Kneitlingen; 1141 comes Kneitlingen before Cletlinge. A family of Kneitlingen had until 1350, land in the village. The last bearer of the name was a Prussian colonel and died in 1739 in Nuremberg. In addition to the old families of the Braunschweig State of Ampleben of Warle, Veltheim, of rows and of Uetze who temporarily owned land in Kneitlingen, the family of Kalm was since 1454 until the separation in 1843 continuously in the feudal possession of arable farm with four hooves hold. The village Kneitlingen came after it was the second wife of Duke Heinrich Julius, Elizabeth, a sister of the Danish king Christian IV, owned, 1627 at the von Cramm - Sambleben who were also since court men of the village and the patronage of the Kneitlinger Church occupied.

In contrast to the neighboring Ampleben there was never in Kneitlingen a manor. Instead, since ancient times marked the three arable farms and five Halbspännerhöfe the village image. These old houses, partly under monument protection and the well built by the villagers with great passion and love greenery, Kneitlingen give a very special atmosphere. Also, folklore and legends have dealt with Kneitlingen. In the pond in front of the Eulenspiegelhof there is the Hake man pulling reckless children in depth. Opposite, in the garden of Behr 's Court to have seen spin Virgin " Meerkats " even 120 years ago, dancing around a fire pit. It should also have been in the village a shepherd who could banish women with the evil eye on the fences. The Nicholas singing of children on December 6, has survived to this day - not least because Saint Nicholas is the patron of Kneitlinger church. Since 1877, the volunteer fire department is regularly ready for deletion. A Schützengesellschaft there since 1893. Kneitlingen is considering a merger with Vahlberg.

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the municipalities Ampleben, Bansleben and Eilum were incorporated.

Policy

Parish council

The council, which was elected on 10 September 2006 is made up as follows:

  • CDU 4 seats
  • SPD 4 seats
  • Green 1 seat

(As at municipal election held on September 10, 2006 )

Culture and sights

The Romanesque church

The Church in Kneitlingen was founded by the Knights Templar and is dedicated to Saint Nicholas. It was mentioned for the first time in 1141. With an almost square hall building and a retracted choir round it is the only village church in the district of Wolfenbüttel with extant semi-circular apse and small Romanesque windows. Is clearly visible on the northern outer wall of the nave of the old original entrance. The vaulted ceiling in the chancel and nave are burred. In the choir - square is a round-arched trefoil niche. In the apse there are three old, small arched windows; the larger windows in the nave and choir Quadrangle are new. In the south wall of the tower is provided with a Latin cross on a half- sheet cover of a children's coffin, which was walled in 1860. The east wall of the tower was to install an organ, broken. From the pulpit, a carpenter had created in Räbke, various figures and Corinthian columns have come to the Patriotic Museum in Braunschweig. On the north side of the tower a figure Till Eulenspiegel was said to be to look for a description of the village in 1753, the "finite but due to great damage and start to see the eager men of war, to prevent hazards and damage that has been done away " is. Back in the possession of the church a baptismal font of 78 cm height and round in shape, from the church in Frellstedt or Räbke is coming, from the year 1584. The foot is a bead which panel cornice, richly profiled.

Eulenspiegel's own village

In Kneitlingen is Till Eulenspiegel, the wicked and famous son of the town, of course, frequently encountered. On the northern edge of the village there is a Eulenspiegel Linde, which was placed under protection in 1975. On the way to Eulenspiegelhof, a medieval castle, you will encounter on a barn wall on the information box of the parish. A Eulenspiegel - portrait indicates the more or less famous monument at the church. In the 1930s, it has created on behalf of the Prime Minister Dietrich Klagges the sculptor Theo Schmidt- Reindahl. EA Roloffsen, first chairman of the Eulenspiegel Circle of Friends, who has reinterpreted the Kneitlinger for "racially pure" SA man in his book Perpetual Eulenspiegel, saw in the work a " handsome, engaging, true-hearted, young farmers, germanic in facial expression and attitude ". During the war, the monument was not erected as planned, but this was made ​​up in 1947. The Teuton was denazified.

See the district Ampleben

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