Westfeld
West is a municipality in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony.
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 4.1 municipal
- 4.2 Mayor
- 6.1 traffic
Geography
Geographical Location
West field is located southwest of Hildesheim between the natural parks Weser Uplands and resin. The landscape is a broad valley between the mountain ranges Hildesheimer forest (N) and the Seven Mountains (S ), west open for Leinetal.
The municipality belongs to the Samtgemeinde Sibbesse, which has its headquarters in the town of Sibbesse.
Until the local government reform in 1977, the region belonged to the district of Alfeld.
Community structure
The community of West field includes the districts of West field and Wrisbergholzen.
History
Incorporations
On March 1, 1974, the municipality Wrisbergholzen was incorporated.
Location description
West field, which is named after the church today was, historically long in the shadow of Wrisbergholzen. The first mention of West field is obtained in a Corveyer possession directory from the year 826. From the late Middle Ages to the secularisation of 1803 the Hildesheimer Michaeliskloster had vast estates here.
The small St. Catherine chapel was and is the mother church parish officially assigned in Wrisbergholzen. Both are, as are the majority of the population, since the 16th century Protestant.
Since the Hildesheim pin feud in 1523 the area was part of the territory of the Principality of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel. However, in 1643 the diocese of Hildesheim has been restored to its former extent, and the West fields were again subjects of the bishop. Although this recatholicisation the recovered territories was rich forbidden by law, but he taught at various places a new Catholic worship places and parishes.
In western field of the Hildesheim cathedral canons owned a farm; there was 1693, the first Catholic Mass in West field since the Reformation instead. Already in 1695 the survey was carried out to the parish under the patronage of the Assumption. 1698, after partly bitter sectarian disputes, on the site of the present Catholic cemetery, a small Catholic Fachwerkkirche completed. This was in 1848, after long efforts south of the main road replaced by a larger stone church in the Romanesque Revival forms.
Policy
Parish council
The municipal council of West field is composed of nine councilors.
- CDU 5 seats
- SPD 3 seats
- Green 1 seat
(As at municipal election 2006)
Mayor
The honorary mayor Herbert Zimmermann was elected on 9 September 2001.
Structures
- Ev. Chapel of St. Catherine (West Field )
- Catholic church of St. Assumption (West Field )
- Castle Wrisbergholzen with estate, built from 1740 to 1745 with the tile room of 1752, the walls of which around 800 spell tiles ( in Italian, French and Latin) are completely covered.
- Former faience factory Wrisbergholzen, built in 1736 as " Porcellain Fabrique "
- Ev. Church of St. Martin ( Wrisbergholzen ). The original pre-Romanesque church rejects her by St. Martin's patronal feast in the time of the Frankish Saxony mission. She has a remarkable baroque interior and murals. The west tower dating from around 1200 has the lower part to 2 m thick stone walls, suggesting a construction as a medieval fortified church. Inside a wooden pulpit from 1612, a baptismal font from the 16th century, an altarpiece dating from the mid 18th century and the altar from the time are noteworthy in 1700.
- The rectory opposite the St, Martin's Church was built in 1603 ( western part) and 1728 (eastern part ) expanded.
- In the main street of Wrisbergholzen whose closed building for a place the size of Wrisbergholzens is uncommon, several well-preserved half-timbered houses are decorated with carvings and murals worth seeing.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
West field is connected via county roads with the B243 to the road network. The railway line between Hanover and Göttingen (ICE ) runs through the municipality.