Gleichen is a municipality (in this case, a '' Gemeinde'') in the district of Göttingen, 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 ...

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. 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 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 ...

, 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 Wendebach Reservoir (german: Wendebachstausee) is an artificial lake with a surrounding recreation park (''Erholungspark Wendebach'') in the municipalities of Gleichen and Friedland, Lower Saxony, Germany, about 8 km south of Göttingen. It ...

. Both streams are right, eastern tributaries of the Leine. Gleichen Jaegersteine2

In the center of the municipality are

Die Gleichen Die Gleichen are a pair of hills, up to 430 metres high, in the district of Landkreis Göttingen, Göttingen in South Lower Saxony in Germany. The twin hills, that were once the site of two fortifications, gave their name to the village of Gle ...

, 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 (''

Landesstraße ''Landesstraßen'' (singular: ''Landesstraße'') are roads in Germany and Austria that are, as a rule, the responsibility of the respective German or Austrian federal state. The term may therefore be translated as "state road". They are roads ...

n'') branching eastwards off the B 27 federal road. Gleichen Vogelsang UTafel

Subdivisions

Besides Reinhausen, the villages in the municipality are: * Beienrode * Benniehausen *

Bischhausen Bischhausen is a village in the Gemeinde Gleichen in southern Lower Saxony with a population of 326 (as of 1 January 2024https://www.gleichen.de/portal/seiten/doerfer-in-gleichen-wappen-der-gemeinde-gleichen-900000010-25460.html). The village i ...

Bremke Bremke is a village in the Gemeinde Gemeinde (; plural: Gemeinden) is a German word translating to "community", "town", "parish", or "municipality". Gemeinde may refer to: * An administrative division encompassing a single village, town, or cit ...

* Diemarden *

Etzenborn Etzenborn is a village in the Lower Saxony ''Gemeinde'' Gleichen, Lower Saxony, Gleichen, Germany. The agricultural village had 216 inhabitants on the last day of 2010. The village, called Eghenburnen in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ...

Gelliehausen Gelliehausen is a nucleated village just south of Benniehausen in the Gemeinde Gleichen in southern Lower Saxony with a population of 452 (as of 12 December 2005). The village is located at the foot of the twin hills called the Gleichen. The sm ...

Gross Lengden Gross Lengden is a village in the Gleichen, Lower Saxony, Gleichen in the Göttingen district of Lower Saxony, Germany, about ten kilometers east of Göttingen. It had 1,040 inhabitants as of 2005. The village lies at the foot of the hills lea ...

Ischenrode Ischenrode is a village in the Gemeinde Gleichen, Göttingen, Braunschweig Bezirk (district), Lower Saxony, Germany. Its geographical coordinates are . It lies SSE of Göttingen, in a valley called the Ischenröder Schweiz in the shadow of the R ...

* Kerstlingerode * Klein Lengden * Rittmarshausen *

Sattenhausen Sattenhausen is a village in the north-western part of the Gleichen in the Göttingen district of Lower Saxony, Germany. It had 563 residents as of the end of 2005. That number had dropped to 532 by the end of 2012 (488 of them with the main s ...

* Weißenborn *

Wöllmarshausen Wöllmarshausen is a village in the Garte valley in the municipality (''Gemeinde'') Gleichen in the district Göttingen, Germany. The nucleated village A nucleated village, or clustered settlement, is one of the main types of settlement pattern. ...

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.

Cultural resources and attractions

The Akademie Waldschloesschen lies on the L568 between Reinhausen and

. In Bremke itself, there is the Waldbühne, an outdoor stage where, since 1949, fairy tales have been presented in the form of plays.

Personalities

* Gottfried August Bürger(1747-1794), the poet lived from 1772 to 1773 in

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

External links

Official government site
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