Lehrte

Taught is a city in the Hanover region, 17 kilometers east of the city of Hannover in Lower Saxony.

2.1 History of the core local
2.2 History of the new town Taught
2.3 History of the districts
2.4 Population development

3.1 City Council
3.2 Mayor
3.3 Twin towns

8.1 Rail transport
8.2 Road traffic

Geography

Neighboring communities

Taught adjoins Hanover, Isernhagen, Burgdorf, Uetze and Sehnde and to the district of Peine.

Boroughs

Taught consists of the districts Ahlten ( 5,410 inhabitants on 31 Dec. 2009 ), Aligse ( 1740 ), Kolshorn ( 387 ) Röddensen (260 ), stone Wedel ( 1845 ), Immensen ( 2530 ), Arpke ( 2962 ), Hämelerwald ( 4,645 ), Sievershausen ( 2468 ) and the core city Taught ( 22,916 ).

History

History of the core local

1147 first documented Taught for centuries was a relatively insignificant farming village. Between 1147 and 1302, the exact date is not known, a chapel was founded as a subdivision of the Church in Stone fronds in place, today's St. Nicholas church. Already at that time is Taught in the historic area of settlement of the great outdoors.

With the construction of the railway line between Hanover and Brunswick from 1843 Taught gained importance ( with Lehrter station Lehrter ) was still increasing in the following years with the extension of the railway lines to Celle, Hildesheim and Berlin for the first time. At the beginning of railway construction site of 755 residents, 60 years later, about ten times had so many. 1898 was granted the city rights Taught. With the railroad industry, which came to be, so there was a pottery, fertilizers, cement, canned food and a sugar factory.

1881 founded Hermann Manske with other limited partners in Lehrterstraße field mark the cement factory Germania. She was the second factory of the cement industry in Hannover. Manske founded in 1892 the city Taught a hospital with land, which are named in his honor a street in Manskestraße. 1910, the cement factory was shut down. 1911, a livestock sales barn, and Taught became the most important livestock trading center in northern Germany. 1912 Eight Kalisch was drilled Bergmannssegen. During this time, schools and especially the high school were built, the long time has been the only one in the district of Burgdorf.

Mid-1930s was north of Taught a highway, today's Federal Highway 2, built. In the extraction of sand and gravel required for the Hohnhorstsee, which was then known as Autobahnsee and after the motorway service area at Taught named in Lehrter lake was created. The south of the motorway, the motorway service area bordered originally to the lake, but was demolished in 1987.

History of the new city Taught

Until 1974 Taught was a town in the district of Burgdorf in the district of Lüneburg. The local government reform this year the united counties Burgdorf, Neustadt am Ruebenberge, Springe am Deister (only partially ) and Hanover to a new Great Circle Hanover, who was assigned to the Region of Hannover. As part of the municipal reform joined with effect from 1 March 1974, the former city Taught and communities Ahlten, Aligse, Arpke, Hämelerwald (previously the district of Peine ), Immensen, Kolshorn, Röddensen, Sievershausen and stone fronds with the territory amendment agreement dated December 14, 1973 the "new city Taught " together. Since 1 November 2001, the former district of Hanover form including the city of Taught and the state capital of Hanover, the Hanover region. As a result of the dissolution of the district of Hanover on 31 December 2004, the membership ceased on that.

Since 1975, the city has changed its urban design. No longer needed urban industrial wastelands were re- used ( New Centre ). Former railroad crossings crossings have been replaced by non-intersecting trough structures. Industrial and commercial enterprises were already settled in the 1970s on the outskirts in the new industrial areas. The urban development for more than 30 years greatly hindered by Deutsche Bahn, very large railway brownfields are still in Lehrter core urban area (Richter village, old rail yard ). The comprehensive 2002 released with the demolition of the former sugar factory circa 115 hectares of urban areas were used for the expansion of the city park by 28 acres and for additional internal local sales areas, but which simultaneously led to a sprawl of the center. Another sub-area of the sugar factory site lies fallow for some time. In June 2009, the Council of the City Taught decided that this patch is to be used primarily for a hardware store.

On 25 May 2009 the city was awarded by the Federal Government, entitled " City of Diversity".

History of the districts

Sievershausen

Population Development

Policy

City Council

The City Council consists of 40 councilors and the mayor. The Council is divided as follows:

Taught, as already from 2006 to 2009, by a council coalition of the SPD and the Greens ruled from 2011.

Mayor

Klaus Sidortschuk of the SPD became the mayor elected in the municipal elections on September 11, 2011 and occupied the same position since November 1 of 2011.

Twin Cities

Sister Cities of the City Taught are Staßfurt, Mönsterås in Sweden, Trzcianka (formerly Schönlanke ) in Poland, Vanves in France and Ypres in Belgium.

There are also church partnerships in the departments of Valle and Cauca in Colombia and to Borna in Saxony and Johannesburg in South Africa.

Culture and sights

The cultural center of the city is the Kurt Hirschfeld forum in which events of the theater for Lower Saxony ( former national stage Hanover) and held by touring companies. The Forum connected with the City Library and City Archives.

In half-timbered house in the city park readings, concerts, cabarets and the like take place. Since 1984 takes place in Lehrter city park once a year, the Music Festival Blues Taught in place, in which not only local bands and international musicians. Artistic exhibitions can be visited Old Locksmith in the grounds of the former sugar factory and in the church of St. Nicholas in the gallery.

A cinema ( The Other Cinema ) offers cinema as part of a youth work.

Also located in the oldest and largest Taught mechanical interlocking of Northern Germany, the interlocking Lpf is now a museum.

The water tower is the chosen of Lehrter citizens landmark of the city. It was built in 1912 by the company Robert Grastorf GmbH of Hanover, measure from the floor to the top of the roof ( without weather vane ) 44.57 meters and holds 250 cubic meters of water. In the spring of 2003, the tower was out of service. In a joint project of the City works with the group of local history of the city marketing association Lehrterstraße water tower received a outdoor lighting.

To the east of the city can be found in Thönser break the lagoons of the former sugar factory. Their total area is 38 hectares. The closure of the sugar factory in 1998 which has become superfluous biological treatment plant has been transformed into a biotope since its decommissioning. The poor development with paths owed rest mainly favors the species richness of birds. So more than 260 bird species have been here by ornithologists to 2008 counted. The lagoons are in the possession of the Foundation farmland care. The escaping through evaporation and seepage water will be tracked by deep groundwater and existing, newly connected outfall.

Fixed in the new city park

Lagoons of the former sugar factory

Economy

Traditionally, agriculture is a strong industry. Therefore Taught since 1883 was the seat of the Lehrter Zucker AG, which has risen by fusion of about 1990 in the northern sugar AG. In Lehrterstraße downtown was a large sugar factory, which was closed in late 1998 following its concentration in the sugar industry. On a part of the site of the former sugar factory was the " mall sugar factory " opened on 23 November 2005, another part was the expansion of the city parks.

Also, in Taught there is a diversification in agriculture. In addition to conventional farming alternative farming practices are increasingly represented an example of this is the Good Adolphshof. New sources of income for farmers lies in the extraction of renewable energy.

From 1910 to 1994 was the salt mine Bergmannssegen Hugo, of which began flooding in 1998. The preserved the block headframe.

Due to its central location at the intersection of federal highways 2 and 7 Taught has increasing importance as a transport hub and logistics center. So, in Taught among other envelope bearing the discounter Aldi Nord, the food group Rewe Group, the tire dealer Delticom, the hardware store Hornbach, forwarding Hellmann and the parcel service DPD. The production of industrial bakery bread shepherd takes place especially in a bread factory in Taught. The factory was completed in October 1999 and serves approximately 250 stores.

Taught is the site of a THW local branch. Here are a technical train as well as the special interest groups " infrastructure " and " Leadership and Communication " home.

Education

In the city Taught there are eleven elementary schools, seven of them in villages. As secondary schools exist a main, a real as well as a comprehensive school. The school is the oldest in the former district of Burgdorf. There are also two special schools ( learning disabilities / Sprachheilschule ).

At the former orientation stage Taught South in 2001 started the first time the health prevention project " Lehrter model ".

Energy

In the district Ahlten located since the 1920s, a large substation. From this substation in 1944, the construction of a pilot plant for high voltage direct current transmission by Misburg.

Traffic

Rail transport

Taught already developed in the mid -19th century into an important railway junction of the Royal Hanoverian State Railways and was a typical so-called railway town. 1843, the railway line between Hanover and Peine Taught was built, which was extended extended in the following years to Braunschweig and with side lines of Taught to Celle (1845 ) and Hildesheim (1846 ). In 1844 also the reception building of the railway station in the classical style, designed by Eduard Ferdinand Schwarz.

The Berlin- Lehrter railway was built by the Magdeburg- Halberstadt Railway Company ( MHE ) and consistently opened in 1871. She stood in competition with the existing railway line via Magdeburg and Braunschweig. End of the line was in Berlin Lehrterstraße station, which was demolished in 1958. The present near this point new Berlin Hauptbahnhof is reminiscent with the suffix " Lehrter station " still working on it. From Taught conducted further distances over Celle to Hamburg to Hildesheim and Hannover.

The railway line to Hildesheim, who shared the southern city core into a western and an eastern half, was turned over in 1990 and reconnected east of Taught to the route network. This she gave a long desired traffic congestion in the downtown core. The old railway embankment was redesigned as inner-city green space. The typical Taught at railroad crossings were thus disappeared in the core city.

In 1998, the high-speed line from Hanover was opened on Taught at the old Berlin- Lehrter railroad along on Meinersen Gifhorn, Wolfsburg, Oebisfelde, Stendal and Spandau in Berlin. Taught today is pure transport station, as the ICE and IC by driving towards Berlin and the IC towards Leipzig.

For the transport Taught is a major hub in the Greater Hannover Transport ( GVH ) with connection to the S -Bahn Hannover. Among other things, hold or rail links in different categories to / from Bielefeld, Braunschweig, Celle, Hanover, Hildesheim, Rheine and Wolfsburg Taught.

The former rail yard at the intersection of north-south and east-west freight lines was reduced by half his assets after decommissioning 1960-1964. Its remains are to be converted into a container station, where freight cars no longer need be ranked. The device is intended to carry the designation " Megahub Taught ". The planned start of construction is of 2012.

In the district Ahlten a Bahnstromumformerwerk is with substation.

Road

Taught is at the leading of Dortmund Hannover, Braunschweig and Magdeburg to Berlin Autobahn 2 and is characterized by three connection points ( Taught, Taught East, Taught - Hämelerwald ) attached.

About seven kilometers west of Taught leading from North to South Federal Highway 7 from Hamburg to Hannover then continues to Hildesheim, Göttingen, Kassel and Ulm and crosses the A 2 in motorway junction Hannover-Ost, which is located in the district Ahlten on Lehrter city. Taught is connected to the A 7 via a further connection point (Hannover -Anderten ).

By Taught runs in a north -south direction the federal highway 443 This leads to the north over Burgdorf to Federal Highway 37 and Federal Highway 3 to Celle and to the south over Sehnde in Pattensen the main road 6 B 443 crosses south of Taught the federal highway 65 from Hanover to Peine.

For the efforts to improve the bicycle infrastructure, for example by transforming a former railway line into a cycle path, the Commune was honored in 2009 with the title " Lower Saxony's most bicycle-friendly community ."

Religions

To Matthäusgemeinde part of the same church on the market square of 1876 as well as the older Nicholas Church at Easter Road. The modern church of St. Mark, On the thistle Born and named after St. Mark the Evangelist, was built in 1961-63 by the same church. Both communities are part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Burgdorf.

The Catholic St. Bernward 's Church is located on the field road, it was built in 1894/95 and 1935/36, significantly expanded. Their eponymous parish belongs to the deanery in the diocese of Hildesheim Hannover to her also includes a branch church in Ahlten.

For Evangelical Free Church congregation John ( Baptist ), the Municipal House belongs to the Köhler Heath, evangelical free church Ecclesia belongs to the Union of Pentecostal Churches and is located at the Garden Street. The New Apostolic congregation has a church at the Everner road. The country Ecclesial communion Taught in 1986 joined the Community in Burgdorf.

Other congregations are located in the eingemeindeten Taught to villages.

The Muslim community has a mosque in the old village.

Old village church of St. Nicholas

Catholic church of St. Bernward

New Apostolic Church

Selimiye Camii

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

Bokemeyer Heinrich (1679-1751), theologian, poet and composer
Grete Sehlmeyer (1891-1967), politician ( FDP Liberal Federation )
Otto Heineke (1893-1980), conservationists, art historian, teacher and farmer
Wilhelm Hagemann (1899-1973), chess player and composer
Heinrich Schmidt (1902-1960), politician ( NSDAP)
Otto Kloppmann (1902 -? ), SS Master Sergeant and as Kriminalsekretar Head of the Political Department in the concentration camps of Majdanek and Dachau
Kurt Hirschfeld (1902-1964), director of the Zurich Schauspielhaus
Bernhard Mühlhan (1905-1972), politician ( FDP)
Kurt Weiler ( 1921), one of the most important animation directors of the GDR
William Behre (1923-2007), head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew's community (26 years), local historian, recipient of the Order of Merit
Rolf Baehre (1928-2005), Civil
Heinrich Schmidt ( born 1928 ), historian and archivist
Schiwy Günther (1932-2008), writer and publishing editor
Michael Stolze (* 1944), politician ( SPD)
Jochen Bölsche (* 1945), journalist and author
Hiltrud Hensen ( b. 1948 ), third wife of Gerhard Schröder and patron of various charities
Rolf Garske (1952-1996), publisher and organizer in the field of artistic dance
Werner Freer (1954 ), Lieutenant General of the Army of the Bundeswehr
Bernd wood Nagel ( b. 1957 ), legal scholars
Carsten Hübner (born 1969 ), politician ( PDS)
Dirk Strauch ( b. 1972 ), poet, translator and publisher, who performs under the pseudonym Wren
Linda Heins (born 1978 ), opera singer

Personalities who are associated with the city

Hermann Manske (1839-1918), established the Portland Cement Factory Germania and donated the Lehrter hospital
Friedrich Schulze- Langendorf (1886-1970), politician ( NSDAP), died in Taught.
Alfred Schlemm (1894-1986), an officer during the First and Second World Wars, lived in the postwar period up to his death on the Schlemm's Good in Ahlten.
August Tünnermann (1896-1982), politician (KPD ), 1946 Vice- President of the appointed Hanoverian Landtag, died in Taught.
Bogislaw von Bonin (1908-1980), officer and journalist, died in Taught.
Fritz Linde (1917-1967), politician ( FDP) and a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, passed away in Taught.
Helmut Schmezko (1939-2013), politician (SPD ), honorary mayor of Taught.
Reinhard Mey ( born 1942 ), musician, one of the former residents Ahltens.
Gerhard Schröder ( born 1944 ), politician ( SPD), former Prime Minister of Lower Saxony and former Chancellor, lived during his marriage with Hiltrud Hensen 1984-1997 in Immensen. The marriage took place in Taught and divorced there.
Werner lamp ( born 1952 ), winner of national and international swimming competitions and Olympic athlete, lives in Arpke.
Ursula von der Leyen (born 1958 ), politician (CDU ), current Federal Minister of Defence, visited the High School Taught.
Ronald M. Schernikau (1960-1991), writer, grew up in Taught, attended high school Taught.
Hans -Joachim Deneke - Jöhrens (* 1961), politician (CDU ), a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament and the City Council in Taught.
Hubertus Heil (born 1972 ), politician, SPD General Secretary from 2005 to 2009, grew up in Lehrterstraße village Hämelerwald.
Tatjana Steinhauer (* 1991), water polo national team and EM participant, grew up in Taught.

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