Sehnde is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
in
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 ...
,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. It is located approximately 15 kilometres southeast of
Hanover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...
.
History
Sehnde was formed in 1974 by combining fifteen autonomous villages which belonged to three different districts:
Bilm,
Bolzum,
Dolgen,
Evern,
Gretenberg,
Haimar,
Höver,
Ilten
Sehnde is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located approximately 15 kilometres southeast of Hanover.
History
Sehnde was formed in 1974 by combining fifteen autonomous villages which belonged to three different districts: Bilm, Bolzum, Do ...
,
Klein Lobke,
Müllingen,
Rethmar, Sehnde,
Wassel
Sehnde is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located approximately 15 kilometres southeast of Hanover.
History
Sehnde was formed in 1974 by combining fifteen autonomous villages which belonged to three different districts: Bilm, Bolzum, Do ...
,
Wehmingen, and
Wirringen. Sehnde received its town charter in 1997.
The whole area was
agricultural
Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating Plant, plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of Sedentism, sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of Domestication, domesticated species created food ...
for centuries, until large
salt
Salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in the form of a natural crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quantitie ...
and
potash
Potash () includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form. deposits were discovered at the end of the 19th century. Several potash
mines were dug, the first at
Gustavshall in
Hohenfels in 1896. During the 20th century, Sehnde and Ilten were the chief beneficiaries of the mines, until the last one was closed in 1995. Since the 1950s, most of the area has been transformed into dormitory villages, while jobs have concentrated in
Hannover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German States of Germany, state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germa ...
. In 2005, small one-family houses dominate large parts of Sehnde and its villages.
Culture
The former potash mine Hohenfels in Wehmingen houses the national German
tramway museum, the
Hannoversches Straßenbahn-Museum.
References
External links
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Hanover Region
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