12-452: Lehrte is a town in the district of Hanover , in Lower Saxony , Germany. It is situated approximately 17 km east of Hanover . In the 19th century Lehrte was the most important railway junction in the former Kingdom of Hanover . As of the 21st century, it has a population of 43,000. The first documented history of the area was in 1147 and shows that, what is now known as Lehrte, was
24-494: A relatively small farming village. Up to the year 1352, when the church, now known as Nikolauskirche, was built; the local farming residents attended Sunday church services in the village of Steinwedel. At this time, Lehrte lay in the historical region known as the Großen Freien which literally translates to the big free and lay far from major transit and traffic routes. Lehrte lay fairly dormant until 1843, when work began on
36-512: A town. With the railway well and truly established, industry grew within Lehrte, including clay works, a mineral fertilizer works, a cement factory, canned goods and a sugar factory in 1883 which, until 2002, dominated the centre of the town. The cement factory was created in 1881 by Hermann Manske with other limited partners and was the second factory of the cement industry in the Hanover region. In 1910
48-458: A unique legal status among the districts of Lower Saxony. It includes the city of Hanover (the state capital) which has the same privileges as a kreisfreie Stadt , a city that is not part of a district. As a consequence, the district is much larger in population than any other district of the state. Its administrative body is the regional parliament ( Regionsparlament ), headed by the regional president ( Regionspräsident ), which since 2021
60-430: Is Steffen Krach ( SPD ). The members of the regional parliament are elected once every five years and the regional president is elected also every five years in local elections. The city of Hanover was not part of the district until 2001, when the old Hanover District ( Landkreis Hannover ) and the city then known officially as District-free City of Hanover ( kreisfreie Stadt Hannover ) were merged in order to form
72-458: The Hanover–Brunswick railway , linking Lehrte with both towns. In the following year, work began on building lines to Celle (1845), Hildesheim (1846) and Berlin (1871). When work on the railway line commenced, Lehrte had 755 inhabitants; 60 years later the population had increased approximately ten times. In 1898 the area of Lehrte was granted municipal rights and formally recognised as
84-533: The 1920s, a large substation has existed in Ahlten , which in 1944 was the end of the experimental Lehrte-Misburg HVDC line. Lehrte is twinned with: Hanover (district) Hanover Region ( German : Region Hannover ) is a district in Lower Saxony , Germany . It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Heidekreis , Celle , Gifhorn , Peine , Hildesheim , Hameln-Pyrmont , Schaumburg and Nienburg . The Hanover Region district has
96-584: The cement factory was shut down. In 1911 a cattle market was established and Lehrte became one of the most important places for cattle trade and shipment in Northern Germany. In 1912, mining began on the potash reserves in the area. The Lehrter Bahnhof (Lehrte Station) in Berlin is named after Lehrte. It was opened in 1871 as the terminus of the line linking Berlin with Lehrte and Hannover , which later became Germany's most important east–west main line. Since
108-528: The city of Hanover and includes the outskirts of its metropolitan area. The Leine river enters the district in the south, runs through Hanover and leaves to the north. In the northwest is the Steinhuder Meer , a lake with an area of 32 km (12 sq mi), within the region known as the Hanoverian Moor Geest . The coat of arms was granted on May 1, 2003. The cloverleaf is from the arms of
120-1207: The city of Hanover. The lion was the heraldic animal of the Welfen family, which ruled the region from the Middle Ages until 1866. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] 52°25′12″N 9°43′12″E / 52.42000°N 9.72000°E / 52.42000; 9.72000 Hanover (region) Hanover ( German : Hannover )
132-492: The new Hanover Region district, not to be confused with the former governmental district of Hanover ( Regierungsbezirk Hannover ). During World War II , Hanover was the headquarters ( Hauptquartier ) of Military District XI ( Wehrkreis XI ), which was responsible for Braunschweig , Anhalt , and part of Hanover. It was also the garrison town for the 71st Infantry Division of the German Army . The district surrounds
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#1733086313941144-501: Was a Regierungsbezirk of the German state of Lower Saxony from 1946 until 2004. It was located in the centre and the south of the state, centered on the Lower Saxon capital of Hanover . There was a similar, equally named administrative unit within the then Prussian Province of Hanover from 1885 until the end of World War II; and before that, a 1823 established Landdrostei within
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