Ahlshausen-Sievershausen

The Twin village of Ahlshausen-Sievershausen is located at 180-190 m above sea level on the extreme southeastern edge of the city of Einbeck. Currently (February 2024), both villages are considered to be a single municipality. 437 inhabitants (of which 360 in Ahlshausen and 77 in Sievershausen, as of January 02.01.2024, 173) in 138 farms and houses (35 in Ahlshausen and XNUMX in Sievershausen). 

Ahlshausen and Sievershausen are located in a hollow and are embedded in mountain ranges on all sidesTo the west lies the Krieberg, at 299 m above sea level, and to the east is the Westerberg, at 320 m above sea level. Between the two villages rises the Sonnenberg, at 259 m above sea level. The first wind turbine in the Northeim district was commissioned here in 1993. The Ahlshausen-Sievershausen municipal area covers 1098 hectares, one-third forest and two-thirds agricultural land.

History of the twin town:
The Foundation The church and the villages are closely connected. According to legend, the foundation was made by Duke Henry, later Emperor Henry I, in the year 914 with the construction of a chapel on the occasion of the rescue of the Duke during a bear hunt. He probably gave the land to his helpers Adolph and Siegfried as a fief, from which the both villages were created (1) The place Ahlshausen is documented from the year 1208 as Aleshusin and from the year 1238 as Aleshusen busy.

Significant historical events are listed below:

• 1569 - 1699: Church; Superintendent of Ahlshausen
• 1701: Great fire in Ahlshausen, which destroyed two-thirds of the houses and farmsteads
• 1879: Merger of both villages into one municipality: Ahlshausen/Sievershausen
• 1974: The villages become part of the municipality of Kreiensen
• 2013: The villages become part of the city of Einbeck
• 2014:  The villages celebrated their 1100th anniversary

Culture & Sights:

• Half-timbered buildings: The villages have managed to preserve a large number of half-timbered buildings to this day, and the farm buildings are largely in the Franconian style. The church and 26 half-timbered buildings are listed as historical monuments.
• Church of St. Blasius in the district of Ahlshausen:This first hall church dates back to 1601. It was renovated in 1711. A recessed rectangular chancel adjoins the nave. It only received its neo-Romanesque church tower in the mid-19th century. One of the oldest bells in the region rings in the tower. It bears an inscription in Romanesque majuscules and was cast in the late 12th century. Another, larger bell dates from 1956. The church is a listed building. (Note: It is currently under reconstruction as of February 2024.)
• Local history room: The special task of the Ahlshausen-Sievershausen Cultural Association since its foundation in 1989 has been to maintain the former cold storage facility, now a museum, and to present the cultural assets kept there.
• Local partnership: It was officially founded in 1983 with the market town of Petzenkirchen (Austria) and continues today through mutual visits by citizens at intervals of 5 years.
• ICE route Hanover Würzburg (Construction 1984 – 1990): The Ahlshausen transfer point bridges the 500 m open air between the Sohlberg Tunnel (length 1.729 m) and the Krieberg Tunnel (length 2.994 m)

Personality:

• Painter Max Beckmann (1884 - 1952) : A sign at the former rectory indicates that Max Beckmann was there from October to December 1899 He was a student at the boarding school of Pastor and Superintendent Diestelmann in Ahlshausen. His beginnings on the path to becoming an artist in Ahlshausen are documented by drawings of people and landscapes.
  (Exhibition on the topic 2022 at the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum Braunschweig, (2))

Nature experience:
The villages have a wide Network of walkable field and forest pathsAbove all, the high trails offer views of the Auetal valley in the east and the Leinetal valley with the Leinepolder in the west. “Brocken View” At the northern edge of the field, the municipality provides hikers with a covered rest area, with an adjacent “sample planting” of all the trees found in the local forest.

Sources of the text:
(1) Ahlshausen-Sievershausen: From the beginnings of settlement until 1813; author Wolfgang Dalibor, editor Local Council and Cultural Association Ahlshausen-Sievershausen.
(2) Max becomes Beckmann, It began in Braunschweig, edited by Thomas Döring, Thomas Richter and Andreas Uhr; exhibition at the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum; pages 42-44.
(3) Ahlshausen-Sievershausen: Interesting facts from the past and present, author Hans-Hermann Bretschneider, Ahlshausen March 2000.
(4) “Our village should become more beautiful” district competition 2005, published by the Ahlshausen local council.
(5) Documents from Siegfried Diedrich, local heritage officer, Ahlshausen-Sievershausen.