Wienhausen

Wienhausen ( Low German Wienhusen ) is a municipality in the district of Celle in Lower Saxony. Since August 12, 2011 Vienna Hausen leads officially called the " monastic community ".

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 3.3 Town twinning
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 4.2 Regular events
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 6.1 freeman
  • 6.2 personalities who have lived in the city or live

Geography

Geographical Location

Wienhausen located southeast of Celle on the Aller. The municipality is the administrative seat of the velvet municipality Flotwedel in the state of Lower Saxony, with the municipalities of disintegration, Eicklingen, cross Lingen and Wienhausen. The municipality borders the municipalities Wienhausen Nienhagen, Ahnsbeck, Lachendorf and Hohne.

Community structure

For the community of six districts include the following:

  • Wienhausen
  • Bockelskamp with Flack Horst
  • Oppershausen ( Opper Husen )
  • Offensen ( Uffenhusen )
  • Schwachhausen ( Swachhusen )
  • North Castle ( O'erborch )

History

The first written record of the village was in 1052 as Huginhusen. Here also the location at the former confluence of Aller and Oker Mundsburg of Bishop Bernward could have lain in 998. While it is also the place weary adopted today confluence of Aller and Oker for the castle, but Bernward had privately in the near Schepenbank Else and in Wath according to Horst Gädtke land. Also ran here in Wienhausen the important ways of Witt rings and Hankensbuettel forth together.

Duke Otto I the child gave his aunt Agnes of Landsberg a house, "Domus Ottonis " ( Otto's house ) called, together with lands and forests in the Celler urban area in records in 1243 with the authority to be able to leave it to the Wienhausen.

1715 Landscape Artists George Louis Charbonnier was hired at the hunting lodge in Vienna Hausen.

On April 12, 1945 Vienna Hausen was liberated by the 335th and 333rd Regiment of the 84th U.S. Infantry Division. Only a few days earlier, arrived between the 6th and April 8th, 1945 KZ - transport trains with the aim Bergen-Belsen and Neuengamme by Wienhausen. One of the trains was hit during an allied bombing of Celle on April 8, 1945. Below they occurred the tragic events that were received as a massacre of Celle in the story. Proven held one of the trains ( probably the second ) on the former railway line Celle - Gifhorn in Vienna Hausen. In the grip of deceased prisoners were buried and there are indications that even survivors were murdered. In May 1947, the bodies were exhumed and buried in the forest cemetery in Celle.

Incorporations

On 1 January 1973, communities Bockelskamp, North Castle, Offensen and Oppershausen were incorporated.

Policy

Parish council

The Council of the City of Vienna Hausen is made up of 15 council women and councilors.

Last local elections on 11 September 2011

Coat of arms

Blazon: " in silver on green sign foot, in a silver brook, a red church with stepped gables, three Gothic windows and pointed roofed side stair towers. The sign foot and the portal site are covered with a golden plate, in a rotbewehrter blue lion, between its forepaws a red heart floats ( coat of arms of the district of Celle). The stepped gable is beseitet of two green oak leaves. "

Twinning

Since July 1985, a partnership with the community Portbail from France.

Culture and sights

Structures

  • Cistercian monastery of Nienhagen to Vienna Hausen 1231 laying was initiated by the daughter of Henry the Lion, Agnes of Landsberg, daughter of Konrad II von Landsberg, with Gothic chests and cabinets and the famous tapestries. In Wienhausen monastery the oldest known eyeglass frames and the Vienna Homes Songbook were found.
  • The monastery with St. Mary's Church and the standing isolated wooden belfry, an interesting architecture.
  • Directly at the monastery pond is the old water mill ( first documented mention in 1351 ), which drives a power-generating generator today.
  • Before that is the root of the Blasek - oak, the gift of the Emperor Henry III. around 1052 to commemorate the Bishop of Hildesheim: Huginhusen = Wienhausen.
  • In the district Oppershausen Mary Magdalene Chapel, built in 1657 stands.

Bell tower of St. Mary

Blasek Oak 1987

Mary Magdalene Chapel in Oppershausen

Regular events

  • Carpet exhibition in the convent from May 31 to October 3
  • Regular services at the Evangelical Lutheran Church
  • Regular church services in the Free Protestant community
  • Christmas market in the village square in front of the old town hall in December of each year

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

  • Wienhausen is very close to the highway 214

Personalities

Freeman

Helmut Siuts (1994, years of maintenance and promotion of choral music, honor choir conductor of the Vienna Men's Choral Association Hausen )

Personalities who have lived in the town or live

  • Hans Jürgen Baden, (* 1911, † 1986), Protestant theologian, honorary professor and writer, pastor until 1951 in Vienna Hausen
  • Hanna Fueß, home to writer ( 1951-1972 in Damenstift Wienhausen )
  • Frieder Gadesmann, (* 1943), Protestant theologian and educationalist ( 1949-1965 in the district Bockelskamp )
  • Karl- Heinrich Lang woodpecker (* 1950, † 2011), lawyer and member of parliament (CDU )
Langlingen Bernward of Hildesheim Wienhausen Abbey Jagdschloss Municipal council September 11 Conrad II, Margrave of Lusatia Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor Matthias Blazek Adelheidsdorf Beedenbostel Bergen, Lower Saxony Eldingen Eschede Hermannsburg Lohheide Nienhagen, Lower Saxony Wathlingen Winsen an der Aller
480318
de