Lehrte

Town in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Town in Lower Saxony, Germany

Lehrte

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Location of Lehrte within Hanover district

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Coordinates: 52°22′N 09°58′E﻿ / ﻿52.367°N 9.967°E﻿ / 52.367; 9.967
Country| Germany
State| Lower Saxony
District| Hanover
Government

• Mayor (2019-24) | Frank Prüße[1] (CDU)
Area

• Total| 127 km2 (49 sq mi)
Elevation

| 62 m (203 ft)
Population

(2022-12-31)[2]

• Total| 44,823
• Density| 350/km2 (910/sq mi)
Time zone| UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)| UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes|

31275

Dialling codes| 05132
Vehicle registration| H
Website| www.lehrte.de

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.

## History

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The first documented history of the area was in 1147 and shows that, what is now known as Lehrte, was 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.

## Economy

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Lehrte lay fairly dormant until 1843, when work began on 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 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 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.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]

Since the 1920s, a large substation has existed in Ahlten, which in 1944 was the end of the experimental Lehrte-Misburg HVDC line.

## Twin towns – sister cities

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See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Lehrte is twinned with:[3]

* Mönsterås, Sweden
* Staßfurt, Germany
* Trzcianka, Poland
* Vanves, France
* Ypres, Belgium

## Notable people

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* Heinrich Bokemeyer (1679–1751), musicologist, choirmaster and composer, born in Immensen
* Kurt Hirschfeld (1902–1964), theatre director and dramaturge at the Schauspielhaus Zürich
* Werner Lampe (born 1950), swimmer and Olympic medalist
* Ursula von der Leyen (born 1958), politician (CDU)
* Reinhard Mey (born 1942), singer-songwriter
* Justus Nieschlag (born 1991), triathlete and 2020 Olympian
* Lukas Rieger (born 1999), singer-songwriter
* Gerhard Schröder (born 1944), politician (SPD) and former Chancellor of Germany
* Tatjana Steinhauer (born 1991), water polo player and German international

## Gallery

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* Water tower Lehrter Wasserturm

* Festival in the Lehrter Stadtpark (2012)

* Steam engine Dampflok 052 Lehrte 245-h

## See also

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* Metropolitan region Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg

## References

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1. ^ "Verzeichnis der direkt gewählten Bürgermeister/-innen und Landräte/Landrätinnen". Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen. April 2021.
2. ^ "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.
3. ^ "Ein Kalinchen als Geschenk aus Staßfurt". haz.de (in German). Hannoverische Allgemeine Zeitung. 10 August 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2021.

## External links

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* Media related to Lehrte at Wikimedia Commons

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Towns and municipalities in Hanover Region

* Barsinghausen
* Burgdorf
* Burgwedel
* Garbsen
* Gehrden
* Hanover
* Hemmingen
* Isernhagen
* Laatzen
* Langenhagen
* Lehrte
* Neustadt am Rübenberge
* Pattensen
* Ronnenberg
* Seelze
* Sehnde
* Springe
* Uetze
* Wedemark
* Wennigsen
* Wunstorf

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