Gross Lengden is a village in the

Gleichen Gleichen is the name of two groups of castles in Germany, thus named from their resemblance to each other (german: gleich like, or resembling). Castles in Thuringia between Gotha and Erfurt The first is a group of three (hence called “die dre ...

in the

Göttingen district Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

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, about ten kilometers east of Göttingen. It had 1,040 inhabitants as of 2005. The village lies at the foot of the hills leading to the

Mackenröder Spitze The Mackenröder Spitze, at about , is the highest hill in the Göttingen Forest and lies on the boundary of the Göttingen, town and Landkreis Göttingen, district of Göttingen, in South Lower Saxony in Germany. Geography The heavily foreste ...

. The village's heart is characterized by small winding streets and well-preserved

half-timbered Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...

houses. In two years running (1996, 1997), it won prizes for improved village appearance. The earliest mention of the community is an AD 822 chronicle of the

Fulda Abbey The Abbey of Fulda (German ''Kloster Fulda'', Latin ''Abbatia Fuldensis''), from 1221 the Princely Abbey of Fulda (''Fürstabtei Fulda'') and from 1752 the Prince-Bishopric of Fulda (''Fürstbistum Fulda''), was a Order of Saint Benedict, Benedicti ...

, where it is referred to as "Lengidi" and "Lengithi.“

Government

*Mayor: Joachim Johannes Thiery

Significant people associated with Gross Lengden

* Heinrich Albert Lion (born in

Bamberg Bamberg (, , ; East Franconian: ''Bambärch'') is a town in Upper Franconia, Germany, on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main. The town dates back to the 9th century, when its name was derived from the nearby ' castle. C ...

in 1796; died in Groß Lengden in 1867), Classical philologist * Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld (1853–1933), co-founder of the Karl-May-Verlag publishing house

Sources

*Das bietet Groß Lengden: http://www.gleichen.de/gr-lengden/home.htm *Gross Lengden: http://www.gross-lengden.de/ Villages in Lower Saxony {{LowerSaxony-geo-stub