Ahlshausen and Sievershausen are districts of Einbeck in the southern Leinebergland.
Ahlshausen and Sievershausen lie in a hollow and are embedded in mountain ranges on all sides. To the west is the Krieberg at 299 m above sea level and to the east is the Westerberg at 320 m above sea level.
The Sonnenberg rises between the two villages at 259 m above sea level. The first wind turbine in the district of Northeim was put into operation here in 1993. The district of Ahlshausen-Sievershausen covers an area of 1098 hectares, one third of which is forest and two thirds agricultural land.
History of the twin villages:
The founding of the church and the villages are closely linked. According to legend, it was founded by Duke Henry, later Emperor Henry I, in 914 with the construction of a chapel to mark the Duke's rescue on a bear hunt. He probably gave the land as a fief to his helpers Adolph and Siegfried, from which the both villages are said to have originated. (1) The village of Ahlshausen is documented from 1208 as Aleshusin and from 1238 as Aleshusen.
The following is a list of significant historical events:
- 1569 - 1699: Church ; Superintendency of Ahlshausen
- 1701: Great fire in Ahlshausen, which destroyed two thirds of the houses and farmsteads
- 1879: Merger of the two villages into one municipality: Ahlshausen/Sievershausen
- 1974: The villages become part of the municipality of Kreiensen
- 2013: The villages become part of the town of Einbeck
- 2014: The villages celebrated their 1100th anniversary
Culture & Sights:
- Timbered buildings: The villages have managed to preserve a large number of timber-framed buildings to this day, most of the courtyards are of Franconian construction. The church and 26 half-timbered buildings are listed as protected monuments.
- Church of St. Blasius in the district of Ahlshausen:This first hall church dates back to 1601 and was renovated in 1711. The nave is adjoined by a recessed rectangular choir. It was not given its neo-Romanesque church tower until the middle of the 19th century. One of the oldest bells in the region rings in the tower. It has an inscription in the form of Romanesque majuscules and was cast in the late 12th century. Another, larger bell dates back to 1956 and the church is a listed building. (Note: it is currently being renovated in Feb. 2024)
- Home parlor: The special task of the Ahlshausen-Sievershausen cultural association since its foundation in 1989 has been to maintain the former cold house, now a museum, and to present the cultural assets stored there.
- Local partnership: It was officially established with the market town of Petzenkirchen (Austria) in 1983 and continues today through reciprocal visits by citizens every 5 years.
- ICE line Hannover Würzburg (built 1984 - 1990): The Ahlshausen transfer station bridges 500 m of open air between the Sohlberg tunnel (length 1,729 m) and the Krieberg tunnel (length 2.994 m)
- Painter Max Beckmann (1884 - 1952) : A sign on the former vicarage indicates that Max Beckmann was a pupil at the boarding school of pastor and superintendent Diestelmann in Ahlshausen from October to December 1899. The beginning of his path to becoming an artist in Ahlshausen is documented with drawings of people and landscapes.
(Exhibition on the subject 2022 in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum Braunschweig, (2))
Nature experience:
The villages have a wide network of walkable field and forest paths. Above all, the high trails offer views of the Auetal valley in the east and the Leine valley with the Leine polder in the west. With the "Brockenblick" on the northern edge of the Feldmark, the municipality provides hikers with a covered rest area with an adjacent "sample planting" of all the trees to be found in the local forest.
Sources of the text:
(1) Ahlshausen-Sievershausen: From the beginnings of settlement until 1813; author Wolfgang Dalibor, publisher: Ortsrat und Kulturverein Ahlshausen-Sievershausen.
(2) Max wird Beckmann, Es begann in Braunschweig , publisher Thomas Döring, Thomas Richter and Andreas Uhr; exhibition in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum; pages 42 - 44.
(3) Ahlshausen-Sievershausen: Wissenswertes aus Vergsangenheit und Gegenwart, author Hans-Hermann Bretschneider, Ahlshausen March 2000.
(4) "Unser Dorf soll schöner werden" Kreiswettbewerb 2005 , publisher: Ortsrat Ahlshausen.
(5) Documents by Siegfried Diedrich, Ortsheimatpfleger, Ahlshausen-Sievershausen.
