Radolfshausen

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The Samtgemeinde Radolfshausen has been created in 1973 at the municipal reorganization in Lower Saxony. It is located in the district of Göttingen and had in June 2005 7690 inhabitants. The administrative headquarters of the velvet municipality is in the municipality Ebergötzen.

The member communities

A place Radolfshausen there are no more, the Municipality has the following member communities:

• Ebergötzen ( 1,891 inhabitants ) and the district Holzerode ( 697 )
• Landolfshausen ( 1242 ) with the districts Falk Hagen (169) Mackenrode (284 ) and Potzwenden (48 )
• Seeburg ( 1653 ) with the district of Bern Hausen ( 591 )
• Seulingen ( 1470 )
• Waake ( 1434 ) with the district Bösinghausen (404).

History

The Samtgemeinde Radolfshausen was founded in the spring of 1973. The name is derived here from the former District Radolfshausen from whose official residence, later Forest House Radolfshausen, is in Ebergötzen at the mouth of the white water creek in the floodplain. It is a baroque timber-framed building from 1711. During the early 14th century, the noblemen of Plesse with possession were well off in the space of the later Office Radolfshausen, so they moved in 1317 proved a half the tithes of the field Mark Falk Hagen. After the Lords of Plesse 1571, the Office came to Grubenhagensche line of the Welf dynasty, in 1577 they sold it to the rural county of Hesse. In the late 16th century, however, the Landgrave of Hesse could not prevent the Office is in the hands of the Guelphs, after the extinction of the pit Hagen line, to the Duke of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel, fell; 1866 went up the area into Prussia. Through constant change in ownership of the denominational grouping of the population has been divided. To date, these differences can be traced, then the calibration field is predominantly Catholic, the former Göttingisch - Grubenhagensche area Lutheran and reformed the former Hessian enclaves.

However, the settlement of the area stretches back to the Middle Ages, which can be seen in the late Romanesque, late Gothic residential tower from the 13th to the 14th century. He formed the core of the former moated castle, which including wall and moat, between the white water stream and the floodplain was. The size was approximately 75 times 100 meters of habitable space is estimated to be 45 times 60 m. Excavations have discovered beyond a stone ax, which is dated to the Neolithic period and suggests a previous settlement. In addition, the date first written mention of towns and districts of the velvet municipality to 840 in March 1998, the association founded " Old Office Radolfshausen ", whose goals are, inter alia, to protect the buildings and structures on the former site of the State Forestry Office. Above all, it is crucial to preserve the historical elements of the cultural landscape, as well as a historical vaulted cellar and a carriage house was found next to the residential tower. Protect value also are the numerous head Linden and botanical features, among which you will find a black walnut, which is with its ordinary thickness of more than one meter, the thickest black walnut in Lower Saxony, Hesse and North Rhine -Westphalia.

Policy

Samtgemeinderat

The Samtgemeinderat is made up of 20 council women and councilors.

• SPD: 9 seats
• CDU: 8 seats
• Green: 3 seats

(As at municipal election on September 11, 2011)

Coat of arms

Blazon: Split of gold and red over a growing from the lower edge of plate, silver -backed, sechsspeichigen oberhalben red wheel in confused colors, a red front wall anchors, rear a resist sighted blue reinforced golden lion. Coat of reasoning: The former Göttingen district belonging to municipalities and districts have had in the past century, a member of the Office Radolfshausen. For they are the symbols of the wall anchor and the lion, which are borrowed from the run up in the middle of the 19th century official coat of arms of the Office Radolfhausen. The wheel has arranged in the sign for the eichsfeldischen municipalities and districts to achieve their affiliation to the old Archbishopric of Mainz. The wheel shown growing from the sign foot and cut in half and divided by the gap are two meanings to reason: Once the division of the Eichsfeld should be documented after 1945, on the other hand interpret the confusing colors in the wheel on the two from this area of the velvet municipality associated communities down. The coat of arms was approved on 15 October 1980 by Samtgemeinderat the Samtgemeinde Radolfshausen and approved by order of the district of Göttingen on February 2. " Quoted from the description of the coat of arms Samtgemeinde Radolfshausen.