Ilsede

Template:Infobox German place Ilsede (Template:IPA) is a municipality in the district of Peine, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Fuhse, approx. 7 km south of Peine, and 20 km west of Braunschweig.

Ilsede in its present borders was formed in 2015 by merging the municipality of Lahstedt and the former municipality of Ilsede.

Contents

1 History

2 Municipal subdivisions

3 Personalities

4 References

5 External links

History

In the area of the municipality of Ilsede are the most accessible burial mounds in the southwest area of the Bülten wood. They are just a few steps away from the path that leads from Groß Bülten to Rosenthal. A small forest path leads directly to the old grave field. Although mighty trees have grown on the burial mounds in the meantime, the graves are still clearly visible.

At the edge of the forest, an erratic boulder with the inscription "Grave field of the Bronze Age, approx. 1000 BC" marks the historic cemetery. The site is one of the protected archaeological cultural monuments in the district of Peine, located in the Heers (the neighbouring, northwest forest section) and in Gräwig (northeast of the village of Klein Ilsede).

During the witch persecutions, from 1564 to 1621, 22 people from the Ilsede municipality were subjected to witch trials, 17 of them from Gadenstedt (nine were burned and four died under torture).Template:Citation needed Three people from Groß Ilsede were burned and a woman from Lafferde died under torture. The fate of a girl from Lahstedt is unknown.

The start of operations at the Ilseder Hütte ironworks in 1858 began a new, industrial chapter in the history of the Ilsede region. Until then, the communities in this area had been purely rural. From then on, iron ore mining and blast furnace operations shaped the world of work and the economy. Nevertheless, agriculture remained an important economic factor. According to local accounts, the raw-material mining and the Ilseder Hütte were among the predecessor companies of today's Salzgitter AG and TUI AG.Template:Citation needed

The municipality of Ilsede has existed as a local authority since February 1, 1971. Even before the regional reform in Lower Saxony, the municipalities of Bülten, Groß Bülten, Groß Ilsede, Klein Ilsede, Ölsburg and Solschen merged through their own initiative to form the newly created unitary community of Ilsede. The communities that had been independent up to this point were largely regarded as belonging together, due to the many similarities regarding iron ore mining and the Ilseder Hütte, even before the merger.

In 2006 Ilsede hosted the cultural festival Day of the Brunswick Landscape.

On July 10, 2014, the members of both municipal councils decided on the merger of the municipalities of Ilsede and Lahstedt, which had already been considered in 1971 but was not realized at the time. Ilsede was also chosen as the name of the new municipality. Since January 1, 2015, the new community of Ilsede includes the areas and districts of the former communities of Ilsede and Lahstedt. Adenstedt, Gadenstedt, Groß Lafferde, Münstedt and Oberg have been part of the municipality of Ilsede since then. As a result of the merger, the municipal area increased from 28.45 km2 (as of 2014) to 72.09 km2, and the population rose from 11,366 (as of September 30, 2014) to 21,308 (as of January 1, 2015).

Municipal subdivisions

Adenstedt

Bülten

Gadenstedt

Groß Bülten

Groß Ilsede

Groß Lafferde

Klein Ilsede

Münstedt

Oberg

Ölsburg

Solschen

Personalities

Erkanbald (before 982–1021), Abbot of Fulda and Archbishop of Mainz, probably born in Ölsburg

Joachim Vinzelberg, pastor in Münstedt (1654) and hymn writer

Ernst Christoph Böttcher (1697–1766), merchant, founder of the royal school teacher seminar and patron, was born in Groß Lafferde

Johann Peter Hundeniker (1751–1836), educator and ducal Brunswick school board member, born in Groß Lafferde

Julius Hundeniker (1784–1854), Lutheran clergyman and novelist, born in Groß Lafferde

Wilhelm Theodor Hundeniker (1786–1828), educator and philologist, born in Groß Lafferde

Fritz Behrens (1836–1920), industrialist and philanthropist, born in Groß Lafferde

Friedrich Cramm (1874–1942), farmer, politician (DVP) and Member of the Reichstag, born in Groß Lafferde

Wilhelm Kleemann (1885–1956), educator, politician (SPD) and senator in Bremen, born in Groß Lafferde

Paul Steegemann (1894–1956), publisher, born in Groß Lafferde

Bruno Brandes (1910–1985), politician (CDU)

Wilhelm Baumgarten (1913–1996), politician (SPD), born in Groß Lafferde

Will Brandes (1928–1990), pop singer, born in Münstedt

Gerhard Ahrens (* 1932), football player, born in Oberg

Dieter Warzecha (1934–2005), artist, lived and worked in Groß Ilsede

Klaus G. Troitzsch (* 1946), sociologist, born in Oberg

Hartmut Möllring (* 1951), politician (CDU), born in Groß Ilsede

Annette Sabban (1953–2019), language and translation scientist, born in Klein Bülten

Uwe Schrader (* 1954), director and professor of artistic film at the University of Hildesheim, was born in Groß Bülten

Erwin Skamrahl (* 1958), athlete and Olympic athlete, born in Oberg

Personalities related to the city

Friedrich Brandis (1775–1854), Lutheran theologian, consistorial councilor and general superintendent

Luise Rosendorf (1821–1890), cookbook author

Ewald Hecker (entrepreneur) (1879–1954), chairman of the Ilseder Hütte supervisory board and SS brigade leader

Wolfgang Marzahn (1911–1988), Lutheran theologian and author

Rosemarie Tinius (* 1945), businesswoman, teacher in Ilsede (1970–1994), politician (SPD)

Caren Miosga (* 1969), TV presenter for ARD Tagesthemen since 2007, grew up in Groß Ilsede

Herma Auguste Wittstock (* 1977), performance artist, grew up in Ölsburg

References

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