Vahlberg

Vahlberg is a municipality in the district of Wolfenbüttel ( Lower Saxony). She is a member municipality of the velvet municipality Schoeppenstedt.

Three villages with the name Vahlberg be due to the Aces, a mountain range in the district of Wolfenbüttel. Of these small Vahlberg ( Osteren - Vahlberg, Lüttgen Vahlberg ) the youngest. The namesakes are large Vahlberg and Mönchevahlberg, the latter does not, however, belongs to the municipality Vahlberg, but the adjacent municipality Dettum. Third and smallest hamlet of Vahlberg is Berklingen, which lies between small Vahlberg and Schoeppenstedt. ' Fal ', the origin of the place name, means " earthy ".

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History

Written records of large Vahlberg from the year 1093 has proven to be fake. Historically certain, however, is the news about Vahlberg from the 13th century, when already differentiated between big and small Vahlberg. Great Vahlberg is 1237-1248 as " de medio Valeberke " documented before. From the forestry and agriculture in the past at the Aces village benefited the vassals of the Duke of Brunswick, the Aegidienkloster the City of Brunswick and the ducal Foundation of the Cistercians in Riddagshausen. The tithe was initially owned by the Bishop of Halberstadt, subsequently decreed about him ducal vassal as the counts of Wohldenberg. The later manor in Great Vahlberg the Lords of Weferling farming until 1601.

Incorporations

The three municipalities Berklingen, large and small Vahlberg Vahlberg were merged on 1 March 1974 Vahlberg community.

Great Vahlberg

Due to the strategic location on the edge of aces and because of the good soil the land around Great Vahlberg was settled very early. A nearby parcel called " Potwiese ", which could indicate the presence of urns. It took place on Gallows Hill next to shards dating from the 7th century, a buckle and a belt fitting from the Merovingian time.

Fal / Val, so earthy, it must have been when the village was first mentioned in 1242. At the time, were the lords of Weferling on this spot, which served them for 500 years as Vorwerk. The monastery Bursfelde sold the St Blaise in Brunswick in 1281 two hooves in the United Vahlberg. In a forged document to read the place name " In Valeberge ". In the years 1237-1248 keeps popping up on the spelling of " de medio Valeberke ," wrote one in 1281 " in medio Valeberghe " 1299 " Middelstenvaleberghe " 1315 " in middelsten Valberghe " and 1348 " Groten Valeberghe ".

In 1776 the Duchy of Brunswick Privy Egmond Albrecht Georg von Munchausen bought from Hessian Oldendorf the fief, as reported by Rembert Baron von Munchausen, a direct descendant of that receding. And he is also related to the legendary Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen ( 1720-1797 ). In this Baron, who served as Braunschweigischer officer, well known go back the imaginative tall tales, which reaped as " Wonderful trips to both land and sea " worldwide fame in the literature. Then there was the poet Borries von Munchausen (died 1945) and a number of people from this family at the former Brunswick yard. Still lives in the family Munchausen from the white line the manor, which has shaped the development of the small town. But as in all agriculturally oriented villages, this compound is sustainable declined. In addition to the Well, there are five deserted farms - after the Second World War, there were still twelve. Verena Baroness von Munchhausen is today (2004) Deputy Mayor in the council.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church United Vahlbergs is a medieval building with Romanesque donjon tower, in which two grave vaults of the families of Weferlingen and Munchausen are. The parish church was first mentioned in 1237. The single nave with three-quarter end was built in 1737 on Romanesque foundations; Renovations in 1950 were no longer able to save the old mosaic floor, which had exhibited Saracenic motifs. Inside the church, the grave stones of Charles of Weferlingen (1594 ), Ulrich Weferlingen find ( 1611) and his wife Catherine of Blankenburg. Is the relief of a bearded man holding with both hands a stone above his head, it's probably pagan origin Above the pointed arches. In the United Vahlberg incidentally one of the last patronages of Lower Saxony is alive. For more than 225 years of Munchausen practice the patronage; So they pay for church construction projects and other things. Who raises his head, sees the " Prieche ". In it, the church sat the Squire or sit still. The magnificent manor park with exotic trees is the conservation area today. In " Beautiful Bush ", a grove near the village, is the memorial of the von Munchausen, ranging from which a line of sight far into the country.

Since 1945 the number of Catholics had greatly increased in the room Schoeppenstedt, 1950, the United Pfarrvikarie Vahlberg was established and inaugurated in 1951 in an existing building, the existing to 1997 Church Our Lady of Peace.

Small Vahlberg

1344 first mentioned as Osteren - Vahlberg 1367 and received the name Lüttgen - Vahlberg. The noble court small Vahlberg is an ancient fief of the Schwartz Kopp 's family. These include the small villages Vahlberg and Wetzleben. The village was next to the church very early on a school that occupied the property rule. For Edelhof included not only the land a fishing, hunting, and the sheep. In the vicinity of aces Alabaster was broken on the slopes, which was burned to the plaster. The medieval tower of the church and the newer ships are not flush with each other and without ground-level interconnection. Of interest is the tomb of the family of Schwartzkopf.

If today approaches the place, one in the north of Gallows Hill and located in the south Meescheberg falls on. On the Gallows Hill is an oak tree and on the Meescheberg was until recently a lime tree, which, however, was snapped by a storm. It is ever a grave mound, among whom there are princely graves. The oldest burial under the gallows dates from the late 3rd millennium BC, tombs were more ( 1600-1000 BC) created in the Middle Bronze Age and the early Middle Ages. The chieftain's grave is estimated to be the 7th century.

In 1907, examined the archaeologist F. Fuhse the gallows and put 1908 a detailed report. The history of the mountain ( we see of his recent importance as a place of execution once from ) is explicable: originally there was only a small, three Neolithic tombs landscaped hill. Later, after Merovingian burials, the hill was filled to its present height. The old skeleton grave was provided with a series of offerings that are unfortunately missing.

Policy

Parish council

The council, which was elected on 11 September 2011, broken down as follows:

• SPD 6 seats
• Green 1 seat
• Parteilos 2 seats

(As at municipal election on September 11, 2011)