Knutbühren

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Knut Bühren in the city of Göttingen

Knut Bühren is a village in southern Lower Saxony and westernmost municipality of Göttingen. Knut Bühren together with United Ellershausen and Hetjershausen a village within the meaning of the Lower Saxony Municipal Code.

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Geography

Location

Knut Bühren located in Leinebergland in the northern part of the Dransfelder plateaus west of the Göttingen line trench at an altitude of 290 m above sea level. Sea level up to 315 m above sea level. NN in a landscape trough. Here arises the flute ditch which then flows eastwards through the Börltal in Leinetal and ends in Göttingen on Levi 's Park in the Grone. The wooded 363 m above sea level. NN high Knut Berg falls to the northeast to the village from gentle, also north of the village close to wooded hills. The village and the immediate surrounding gardens are on all sides surrounded by the nature reserve Leinetal.

Local structure

Knut Bühren after Deppoldshausen the second smallest district of the city of Göttingen. The district covers an area of ​​397.5 hectares, equivalent to 3.4% of the floor area of the entire city. The ground plan of the place has changed little in contrast to most other locations in the area since the 18th century. In the village no new areas have been created in the aftermath of the Second World War. The longest street in the village is running in a north-south direction lime tree avenue along which string together in elongated plots. This plot structure corresponds to the basic form of the original system of a series of village in the clearing period. From the avenue of lime trees branch Ossenfelder the short road to the west and the even shorter dead-end street from the monastery to the east. The former Tieplatz located on the northern end of the village, the chapel on the east by the monastery gate.

History

The village was probably first mentioned in a document in the first half of the 12th century. Since the place name " Boer " was also just 11 km away Bühren, but the assignment of many documents is not secure and can only be inferred on the basis of possession continuities. To distinguish Knut Bühren was also known as " Luttekenburen " (small Bühren, 1380 ) or " Old Buern " ( 1566) referred to, for the first time in 1399 as " Knut Buren ." As of 1448 counted Knut Bühren to the former Office Harste, which was disbanded on 1 July 1823. The place was, among other villages of the former Office for 1743 incurred jurisdiction of the Court Leinebergland. On January 1, 1973, the city was incorporated into the city of Göttingen. He is still dominated by agriculture. The end of 2012 had 140 people here their principal residence.

Religion

In Knut Bühren formerly existed a chapel congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran church Ellie Hausen. It was repealed July 1, 1974, incorporated their church members in the Lutheran church Hetjershausen. Of the inhabitants Knut Bührens 70 percent Protestant, and 5.7 percent are Catholic.

Culture and sights

• In the immediate vicinity Knut Bührens several tumuli have been partially preserved still visible in the woods.
• As natural monuments are in place Thie Knut Bühren ( since October 2, 1980) and an oak tree on a plot east of the avenue of lime trees reported ( since 2 January 1983).

Chapel of St. Catherine

The building of the Chapel of St. Catherine to have been demolished in 1828 and replaced by a new building. However, this result can refer only to the small nave, the square in plan west tower is medieval. The pointed arch entrance is on the south side of the tower. Also, the nave has on each side two simple pointed arch windows for the first third of the 19th century a very early example of neo-Gothic design. Both the tower and the attached in the same width ship are built of big lime and only for the West corners of the tower and for the window and door jambs red sandstone was used.