Gleichen, Lower Saxony

Municipality in Lower Saxony, Germany

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Coat of arms

Location of Gleichen within Göttingen district

(2021–26) Dirk Otter^[1] (SPD)Area

• Total128.93 km² (49.78 sq mi)Elevation

185 m (607 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total8,807 • Density68/km² (180/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

37130

Dialling codes05592, 05508, 0551Vehicle registrationGÖWebsitewww.gleichen.de

Gleichen is a municipality (in this case, a Gemeinde) in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Named after the two castles, Neuen-Gleichen and Alten-Gleichen on the twin peaks in the Gemeinde, it is situated about 10 km southeast of Göttingen, from which the peaks are visible. Its seat is Reinhausen.

Location

The municipality of Gleichen is located southeast of Göttingen, west-southwest of Duderstadt and north-northwest of Heilbad Heiligenstadt. The River Garte flows through several of the villages in the municipality, as does the small Wendebach stream, which is impounded by the Wendebach Reservoir. Both streams are right, eastern tributaries of the Leine.

In the center of the municipality are Die Gleichen, a pair of hills 430 m high, that rise between Appenrode, Bettenrode and Gelliehausen. Both hills were once crowned by castles, whose ruins may still be seen.

The villages in the municipality may be accessed on state roads (Landesstraßen) branching eastwards off the B 27 federal road.

Subdivisions

Besides Reinhausen, the villages in the municipality are:

Political situation

Currently, the community council of twenty-five (including the mayor) has eleven SPD, six CDU, five Greens, two BsP, and one SWG members.^[3]

Cultural resources and attractions

The Akademie Waldschloesschen lies on the L568 between Reinhausen and Bremke.^[4] In Bremke itself, there is the Waldbühne, an outdoor stage where, since 1949, fairy tales have been presented in the form of plays.^[5]^[6]

Personalities

Gottfried August Bürger(1747-1794), the poet lived from 1772 to 1773 in Gelliehausen and 1774 to 1784 in Wöllmarshausen and worked from 1772 to 1784 as court elderly in the Amtshaus in Gelliehausen
Werner Schröder (1916-2010), jurist, judge at the Bundessozialgericht in Kassel
Klaus-Peter Bruns (1913-2011) German farmer and politician (SPD).

References

^ "Direktwahlen in Niedersachsen vom 12. September 2021" (PDF). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen. 13 October 2021.
^ "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.
^ http://www.gleichen.de/pics/medien/1_1363246134/Gemeinderat.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ "Home". waldschloesschen.org.
^ "Informationsseite". Archived from the original on 2014-03-22. Retrieved 2014-03-22.
^ "Home". waldbuehne-bremke.de.