Pattensen ( German: [ˈpatn̩zn̩] ) is a town in the district of Hanover , in Lower Saxony , Germany . It is situated approximately 12 km (7 mi) south of Hanover .
17-588: Pattensen is located in the historic landscape Calenberg Land between the Leine and the Deister hills. The area is dominated by agriculture, many residents commute to work in Hanover or Hildesheim . The town of Pattensen has the following 8 boroughs (or Stadtteile ), some of which were previously independent villages: Hüpede, Jeinsen, Koldingen, Oerie, Pattensen-Mitte, Reden, Schulenburg and Vardegötzen as well as
34-656: Is Hanover and the line of the A 2 motorway towards Wunstorf . Its name is not derived from the hill known as the Kalenberg on the Deister. The region includes the Calenberg Loess Börde ( Calenburger Lössbörde ) which was formed during and after the Weichselian glaciation . Strong north winds deposited the loess soil in layers between 0.2 –2 m thick, the upper layers of which became loam . The area
51-628: Is heavily dominated by arable farming as a result of its fertile soils. The elevations of the Marienberg, crowned by Schloss Marienburg (135 m AMSL), Süllberg (199 m), Benther Berg (173 m), Gehrdener Berg (154 m) and Stemmer Berg (122 m) dominate the otherwise gently rolling hills. Under the Calenberg Land lie natural resources which were already being used in the Middle Ages . There are coal deposits in
68-519: Is located in Pattensen. The town is home to numerous small and medium-sized companies. Pattensen is twinned with: Calenberg Land 52°19′0″N 9°36′0″E / 52.31667°N 9.60000°E / 52.31667; 9.60000 The Calenberg Land ( German : Calenberger Land ) is a historic landscape southwest of Hanover in Germany , roughly formed by the countryside between
85-495: The Leine and the Deister hills. The name of this region comes from the Principality of Calenberg ruled the area during the Middle Ages with its seat at Calenberg Castle near Pattensen . Today Calenberg Land covers a geographical area of about 20 x 30 km. It lies on the left bank of the river Leine and is bordered to the west by the hills of the Deister , Kleiner Deister and Osterwald . Its northern boundary
102-592: The Regierungsbezirke and their governments in Lower Saxony in 2004 it became part of Hanover Region . Since the 19th century there has been an economic boom in the Calenberg Land as a result of more intensive use of its geological and agricultural resources, such as potash mining and intensive sugar beet farming by cement factories and sugar refineries respectively. Marienburg Castle (Hanover) Too Many Requests If you report this error to
119-533: The Thirty Years War , the forces of Tilly invaded and captured the castle of Calenberg after a three-week siege. The general ruled the whole of the Calenberg Land with the exception of Hanover. Not until 1633 was the castle recaptured. Calenberg Land was incorporated into the Landdrostei , later Regierungsbezirk of Hanover in 1823 together with Hoya and Diepholz . After the dissolution of
136-591: The 13th century the House of Welf gained the upper hand in Calenberg Land, although it was not called that. They bought out the counts and their estates or defeated their feudal masters in the shape of the bishops of Hildesheim and Minden. In the 13th century the Welfs built, south of Hanover in the vicinity of the Leine the water castle of Calenberg . Out of that emerged the Welf sub-principality of Calenberg. In this way
153-520: The Deister, potash salts, which were mined at Ronnenberg and Benthe, sandstone and limestone in the Deister and Kleine Deister, clay for baking bricks and sand and gravel in the river terraces of the Leine. The towns of the Calenberg Land developed in the Middle Ages as the ruling classes conferred self-administration and market rights . All of them remained farming towns, in which many of
170-613: The city belonged to the Principality of Lüneburg . The city was of strategic military importance, so that it was heavily fortified and enlarged as a result. In the area of the present town of Pattensen, also the Calenberg Castle and the Koldingen Castle were built in these times. In 1433, Pattensen became part of the Principality of Calenberg . During the Reformation the city was the seat of an archdeacon under
187-580: The inhabitants continued to work on the land. Whilst today the majority of population of the Calenberg Land commutes into Hanover, Hanover's citizens use the region as their local recreation area. The present-day geographical region of Calenberg Land roughly corresponds to the Germanic area of Marstemgau which was ruled by the House of Billung in the Early Middle Ages . In the 12th century various fiefdoms emerged ruled by noble families from
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#1732772218760204-564: The land ruled by the Principality of Calenberg emerged, which was formerly much larger than the Calenberg Land is today. In the 15th century it stretched as far north as Nienburg/Weser and as far southwest as Hamelin . In 1495 the Principality of Calenberg was united with the Principality of Göttingen to become the Principality of Calenberg-Göttingen . In 1519, during the Hildesheim Feud ( Hildesheimer Stiftsfehde ), there
221-666: The leadership of the superintendent Antonius Corvinus . At that time the city was often the venue for church synods and state parliament meetings. During the centuries, Pattensen was repeatedly destroyed and plundered as a result of armed conflicts like the War of the Lüneburg Succession (end of 14th century), the Hildesheim Diocesan Feud (1519-1523) or the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). The city
238-403: The region who were enfeoffed by the bishops of Minden and Hildesheim . These were the counts of Wölpe ( Nienburg/Weser ), of Roden ( Wunstorf ), of Schaumburg , of Schwalenberg ( Barsinghausen ), of Spiegelberg ( Lauenstein ) and of Hallermund ( Springe ). At that time the counts founded a number of abbeys including: Mariensee, Marienwerder, Barsinghausen, Wennigsen and Wülfinghausen. In
255-481: The two hamlets Thiedenwiese und Lauenstadt. Pattensen was first mentioned in a document in 986, nevertheless, the first people probably settled in the old town between the 6th and 8th century. In the 13th century, Graf Ludolf II. von Hallermund built the Pattensen Castle to monitor the important trade routes that crossed the city in north–south and west–east directions. From the middle of the 13th century,
272-509: Was also destroyed multiple times in several devastating fires, the largest ones in 1655 and 1733. From 1806 to 1813 the city was under French rule and belonged to the Kingdom of Westphalia . In 1866, the Prussian army occupied the region. In 1974 the surrounding villages were incorporated and today's town of Pattensen was founded. The letter processing center for the greater Hanover area
289-532: Was serious devastation in the region. A map published in 1590 depicts almost all the settlements in the Calenberg Land as burning. In 1542 the area became Lutheran thanks to the work of the widowed duchess, Elisabeth of Brandenburg (1510–1558), and Anton Corvinus carried out the Reformation at her request. An attempt to re-catholicise the area by Eric II, Duke of Calenberg during the Schmalkaldic War failed due to popular resistance. In 1625, during
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