Sickte
Sickte is a municipality in the district of Wolfenbüttel ( Lower Saxony). She is a member congregation and as the administrative seat of the velvet municipality Sickte.
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 4.1 The court Linde
Geography
Neighboring communities
Starting in the north- west clockwise adjacent to Sickte the independent city of Braunschweig, Cremlingen Veltheim ( Ohe ) Erkerode, Evessen, Dettum and the county town of Wolfenbüttel.
Community structure
The municipality consists of the villages Sickte Apelnstedt, Hötzum, Sickte (1999 to merge the districts of Upper and Niedersickte ) and Volzum. The village belongs to the district of Neuerkerode Sickte.
Niedersickte
Gradually evolved from Niedersickte a farming village whose farms are medium German Dreiseit and hook courtyards with house forms the bay The desolate house type.
The manor was founded in 1638 by the merger of several courtyards. It is not proposed by the continuous gender, tenants and owners stories will pitched since a Dr. Heinrich Schrader, Chancellor of August of this year, 1636 and land rights, and the latter was used so that the farmers forced to Fron rehearsed the uprising. But this is to mention important to understand why some Sickter until very recently into the " mansion " did not have much in mind. The manor house was built around 1710 the brunswick - wolfenbüttelsche privy and later Chancellor of Urban Dietrich Liidecke by the state architect Hermann basket. After several changes of ownership, it came to Veltheim. It was last used as Barbican, until it was dissolved in 1957 and sold in part. In 1982, founded a sponsor organization that operates the receipt of beautifully proportioned baroque building with the Knights' Hall. With its characteristic arcades openings he shows a close connection between sophisticated manor architecture with traditional rural building methods and modern European styles. Today it is the seat of the velvet municipality administration.
Obersickte
Also Obersickte has steadily developed as a farming village with 210 inhabitants in 1751, The Church of St. Peter has a Gothic tower in a rectangular shape with a gable roof. ; and then has a newer nave. Leaving Obersickte towards Schoeppenstedt, so you should not miss to see the farm on the right side of the road: the running around the building in the open square gallery is in the construction of local farms a frequently photographed feature. In the garden is the square of very old court Linde (the " Kalandslinde "). 1944 all the buildings have been declared a national monument. This includes a house of the 19th century, a barn and two stables with continuous wooden gallery in the courtyard. This farm has been built in Thuringia and Lower Saxony style. He is also called the Frankish four-sided and it is documented in 1566 in Erbregister.
Neuerkerode
A rather unusual community in the district of Wolfenbüttel is known in the region, the district Neuerkerode 2.49 km ², a whole village for people with intellectual disabilities, which dates back to 1868, founded "idiot -Anstalt to Erkerode ". In addition to the residential groups with approximately 750 residents the Protestant Foundation Neuerkerode has a specialized school for support workers. With 980 employees, the Foundation is the largest employer in the district of Wolfenbüttel.
Some buildings in today's complex between Sickte and Erkerode ( Wabehaus, Bergmann's paper mill girls house on the army mountains, Pfarrwitwenhaus Erkerode, the later " boys home " ) had long before the foundation of the " Neuerkeröder institutions " their meaning. Neuerkerode has mature trees and a trout stream which runs through the grounds.
History
The district Sickte shows a remarkably long, narrow strip shape with heights of 82-190 m. Already in the year 888 we find a mention of this place as " Kikthi ". So confused this name looks like, he is one of the oldest names layer. The settlement, as such, will be even older, because in two places are remains from the Late Stone Age and Iron Age were uncovered. 1042 you wrote Sicudi, 1060 Xikthi and Xicthe, 1200 Tsikthe, 1264 Zickede until one 1315, the division undertook in the lower and upper - Tzicte. Both villages were part of the Bailiwick Evessen.
Back in the 15th century consisted in Sickte a water mill, which was first mentioned in 1453. By 2005, at the railway station road was a flour mill in operation, which was demolished in 2011. On the vacated premises another shopping center has been erected, which opened in 2013.
Incorporations
On March 1, 1974, the municipalities Apelnstedt, Hötzum, Niedersickte, Obersickte and Volzum were incorporated into the new municipality Sickte.
Policy
Parish council
Due to the local elections of 11 September 2011, the seats are distributed in the council Sickte as follows:
- CDU: 6
- SPD: 5
- Green: 4
- UWG: 2
Coat of arms
On the crest of a straightening vane and a lime leaf can be seen. These two symbols stand for the directional Linde, was spoken under the law for many years.
Culture and sights
The court Linde
In a report of the Ducal District Office Riddagshausen of 2 August 1831, the " high praiseworthy state tax - Collegium hieselbst " is communicated: "Most August 1, 1831, in the morning around 2:00 clock to top Sickte the house and the barn of Kothsaßen and carpenter's Conrad Rabke ... totally cremated ..... ". His successor, Henry Heronimus Peggau has, then bought the farmstead with the associated Hofländerei on 13 July 1832. The village street was at that time across the current court from southwest to northeast and led to Linden Square ( Kalandlinde tumulus ). With the planning of a compound according Cremlingen also the course of the old village street was changed in the so-called East Village, which led to a complete new installation and 1850 the construction of the two stable buildings including barn allowed.
With the construction of the new road to the enlarged Peggau'sche garden, and the Linde site was included. In Recess of Obersickte is set: The owner of the farm No. 8 is committed to providing. .. Old linden tree stand out and to whom it may the same such only with the consent of the local authority, or the Ducal. Remove District Directorate in Braunschweig. About this Linde says the official circuit description of the district Braunschweig: " In 1386 there was a Obersickte the Cyriakus pin attributable in Braunschweig court of execution, the court of justice to have been in the so-called Kalandslinde in the southeastern part of the village ." The open court facility in Sickte is certainly before the creation of the Duchy of Braunschweig, ie, before 1235, been available. On June 21, 1217, Count Konrad von Wernigerode held a Count Court at Gicchenthe ( Sickte ). Here, Emperor Otto IV, the nobles and Hermann Otto von Harbke the Harbke castle with all the accessories to Lehn.
Personalities
The writer Julius Hundeiker (1784-1854) was a pastor in Apelnstedt and Volzum when he wrote his novels. The doctor Julius Bockemüller lived and practiced in Sickte. He was sentenced by the People's Court and executed in 1943. According to him, the Dr. Bockemüller ring was named. Lived and worked in the district Apelnstedt the artist Karl Schaper ( 1920-2008 ). German Bank Board and politician Ludwig Roland - gap (1855-1917) was born in Niedersickte.