Sehnde

Infobox German Location
Art = Stadt
Name = Sehnde
Wappen = Wappen Sehnde.pnglat_deg = 52 |lat_min = 18 |lat_sec = 58
lon_deg = 9 |lon_min = 57 |lon_sec = 51
Lageplan =
Lageplanbeschreibung =
Bundesland = Lower Saxony
Landkreis = Hanover (district)
Höhe = 53
Fläche = 103.44
Einwohner = 22622
Stand = 2006-06-30
PLZ = 31319
PLZ-alt = 3163
Vorwahl = 0 51 38
0 51 32 (Ilten)
Kfz = H
Gemeindeschlüssel = 03 2 41 016
Gliederung = 15 districts
Straße = Nordstr. 21
Website = [http://www.sehnde.de/ www.sehnde.de]
Bürgermeister = Carl Jürgen Lehrke
Partei = CDU

Sehnde is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located approx. 15 kilometres southeast of Hanover.

History

Sehnde was formed in 1974 by combining fifteen autonomous villages which belonged to three different districts: Bilm, Bolzum, Dolgen, Evern, Gretenberg, Haimar, Hoever, Ilten, Klein Lobke, Müllingen, Rethmar, Sehnde, Wassel, Wehmingen, and Wirringen. Sehnde received its town charter in 1997.

The whole area was agricultural for centuries, until large salt and potash deposits were discovered at the end of the 19th century. Several potash mines were dug, the first at Gustavshall in Hohenfels in 1896. During the 20th century, Sehnde and Ilten were the chief beneficiaries of the mines, until the last one was closed in 1995. Since the 1950s, most of the area has been transformed into dormitory villages, while jobs have concentrated in Hannover. In 2005, small one-family houses dominate large parts of Sehnde and its villages.

Culture

The former potash mine Hohenfels in Wehmingen houses the national German tramway museum, the Hannoversches Straßenbahn-Museum.

External links

* [http://www.sehnde.de/ Stadt Sehnde]