Langelsheim
Langelsheim is a town in the Harz in the district of Goslar, in Lower Saxony, ( Germany ). The city is located about 7 km northwest of Goslar on the B 82
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 2.2 Population development
- 3.1 City Council
- 3.2 Ortsrat
- 3.3 Mayor
- 3.4 Coat of Arms
- 3.5 Town twinning
- 4.1 Museums
- 4.2 Music
- 4.3 Church building
- 4.4 Other Structures
- 4.5 Sports clubs
- 4.6 Sports and recreational facilities
- 4.7 Regular events
- 5.1 tourism
- 5.2 traffic
- 5.3 Formation
- 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
Geography
Geographical location
Langelsheim located on or in the Harz nature park between innermost and Granetalsperre. The river and the innermost part cased mill creek flowing through the urban area.
Geology
The city lies at the foot of resin panel plaice, which was lifted about 60 million years ago in the Cretaceous and the Tertiary over the Harz foothills (Harz North border fault ). This Mesozoic layers were steep and made some overturned. It turns the today so striking north edge of the Harz, which runs right at the edge.
Neighboring communities
Neighboring communities are the integrated municipality Lutter am Barenberg the north and west, the municipality love castle in the northeast, the county town of Goslar in the east, and the unincorporated area Harz (Landkreis Goslar ) in the south.
Boroughs
Langelsheim consists of five districts together (population in brackets):
- Astfeld ( 2264 inhabitants) with Herzog- Julius- hut
- Bredelem (508 inhabitants) with Palandsmühle
- Langelsheim ( 5290 inhabitants)
- According mountain town of Thal ( 1658 inhabitants) with Hüttschenthal
- Wolf Hagen in the resin ( 2385 inhabitants)
(As of December 31, 2011)
History
Finds from the Stone Age to the Röseckenbrink near the resin input via the Innerstetal suggest a careful inventory of early living quarters in the area of the city. The place is known since the 10th century under the name Langenizze or Long Esse. Probably too Carolingian period was to protect running on Nordharz east-west connection that lie above the heart in the urban area Kansteinburg with a 120 by 150 m large, almost square Wall System ( now called the Hindenburg ). She also served as a refuge. Today, from the former system only remnants exist because there befindlicher a quarry it has almost cleared.
The site has developed since the Middle Ages almost exclusively in a southeasterly direction. This is on a - compared to the Innerstetal - slightly increased space built St. Andrew's Church today on the northwestern suburbs. For the former the center of infra of Church Hill " Great courtyard " belonged, as part of the manor Astfeld, which flourished at the time of the Prussian Field Marshal Carl Theodor August Mackensen of Astfeld.
In the 13th century, several smelters are shown in which using the water of the innermost and Grane and the wood stocks of the forests nearby the ores of the Rammelsberg were processed to 1615 at the foot of Kansteins.
The ore processing - primarily for the recovery of lead and zinc - has been significantly expanded in the 16th century ( Herzog- Julius- hut, woman - Sophia hut, from 1913, Hans -Heinrich- hut). At times Langelsheim was next Oker with the woman Mary's hut, the focus of the smelting ores of the Rammelsberg. With the setting of the degradation of lump, of copper ores in the Rammelsberg ( Goslar ) and concentration of the Lower Harz smelting operations in Oker the operation of the woman - Sophia lodge was completed in 1941 and Herzog- Julius- cabin 1942. Langelsheim received in 1876, relatively early in a railway connection.
1951 Langelsheim received city rights.
Because of the risk of flooding in the lower reaches of the innermost Innerstetalsperre was created from 1963 to 1969.
Until the recent past quarries were operated for unterkarbonischen diabase at Junker mountain and mitteldevonischen diabase in the Great Sülteberg in and around Langelsheim. To this day, is mined at Kanstein limestone ( Oberkreidepläner ).
Today the city is an important location of establishments in the chemical industry. Tourism has significance in the districts Wolf Hagen and Lautenthal.
For the development of postal history see: Postal History of Langelsheim
Incorporations
On 1 July 1972, the surrounding villages Astfeld, Bredelem, Lautenthal (mountain city) and Wolf Hagen were incorporated in the resin as part of a municipal reform.
Population Development
( From 1968 Stand as of December 31 )
Policy
City council
The City Council continues after the local elections on 11 September 2011 as follows:
- SPD: 15 seats
- CDU: 8 seats
- Wählergemeinschaft Langelsheim (WGL ): 6 seats
- FDP: 1 seat
Ortsrat
While the city council represents the entire city with its five districts, there is also a Ortsrat representing only Langelsheim a district of the same city. Distribution of seats in Ortsrat since September 2011:
- SPD: 5 seats
- WGL: 2 seats
- CDU: 2 seats
Mayor
Since 1 November 2013 Ingo Henze (SPD ) mayor. In the election on September 22, 2013, he received 51.83 percent of the votes in the first ballot. He succeeded Henning Schrader ( SPD), who was in office since November 2006.
Coat of arms
Description: The coat of arms of the city indicates on green plate over golden antlers a silver gear, topped with a silver pick and shovel. It leans with the gear, pimples and the blade on the, situated since the 13th century at the foot of Kansteins Eisenverhüttungsbetriebe. These farms were the precursors of the resultant in the 16th century ducal smelters. The deer antler is drawn to the hunting and forestry, the green color symbolizes the extensive forests. The coat of arms was approved by the Minister of the Interior in 1955.
Twinning
- Emmer- Compascuum, municipality of Emmen, The Netherlands
- Nieuw- Weerdinge, municipality of Emmen, The Netherlands
- Roswinkel, municipality of Emmen, The Netherlands
Culture and sights
Museums
- Museum of Local History
- Lower Saxony mining museum in Lautenthal
- Brewery Museum in Lautenthal
Music
Musiziert is in the Concordia choirs ( men 's, women's, and children's choir) and in the church choir of the Protestant Church. Furthermore, it is offered both modern and folk music in the music train the volunteer fire department and the music corps Hans -Heinrich Hut Langelsheim.
Church building
In Langelsheim are two church buildings. The Protestant St. Andrew's Church. Its tower is because of their impressive carved altar of the Goslar Master Jobst Heinrich Lessen from 1680 from the Romanesque period. In addition, there since 1951, the small Catholic Heart of Mary Church, now a branch church of the parish in love castle.
Other Buildings
In addition to Andrew's Church some well-preserved half-timbered houses in the village as well as the late Gothic Adelshof are to be emphasized. Two dams, the Innerstetalsperre the Granetalsperre between Langelsheim and the village Astfeld also belong to area attractions, such as the buildings of the former ore mining in the district Lautenthal still preserved.
Sports clubs
Among the sports clubs in the city include eV VfR Langelsheim, SV Emekspor Langelsheim eV (including football), the MTV Langelsheim eV (including track and field, ball sports, including the HSG Langelsheim / Astfeld ( handball) ) SC 77 Langelsheim eV and the TC Kalkrösecke eV ( tennis).
Sports and leisure facilities
- Water sports on the Innerstestausee
- Resin stadium with two football fields and athletics track
- Ball sports hall at the school center
- Outdoor pool
Regular events
- Bike adventure day
- Heinrich Steinweg Concert
- Country's youth fire brigade camp
- Rose Festival
Economy and infrastructure
Industries: Chemical industry ( especially plastic products and colors ), metal processing, commercial, tourism.
Tourism
Throughout the year for campers, the campsite ' Am Krahenberg " ( 65,000 square meters) a home. In addition to smaller pensions exists an inn with hotel operations. Other hotels are available in the districts Lautenthal and Wolf Hagen.
Traffic
For the development of the postal system in Langelsheim see: postal route Braunschweig- Göttingen.
Langelsheim is located on the main road B 82, about the direction Goslar connection to the ( four-lane ) B 6 (Hannover - Halle ( Saale) ), the federal motorway A 395 ( Brunswick- Vienenburg ) and is in the direction Seesen to the federal motorway A 7.
There are buses for public transport to Goslar and Clausthal- Zellerfeld.
Until 1976 the Langelsheim station on the railway line Neuekrug - Hahausen - Goslar Junction Innerstetal the web that led from here through the Upper Harz to Altenau. Today Langelsheim has a breakpoint at the regional trains of Göttingen and wood Minden to Bad Harzburg.
Education
School center with primary, secondary and junior high school.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Jan Assmann ( born 1938 ), an Egyptologist
- Hans -Werner Bothe ( born 1952 ), a neurosurgeon and philosopher