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Garbsen

Field	Value
type	Stadt
name	Garbsen
image_photo	02130003 - Garbsen - Am Rathaus - 2005.JPG
image_caption	Town hall
image_coa	Wappen Garbsen.svg
coordinates
image_plan	Garbsen in H.svg
state	Niedersachsen
district	Hanover
elevation	50
area	79.49
postal_code	30823, 30826, 30827
area_code	05131, 05137, 0511, 05031, 05032
licence	H
Gemeindeschlüssel	03 2 41 005
divisions	13 districts
website	www.garbsen.de
mayor	Claudio Provenzano
leader_term	2021–26
party	SPD

Garbsen () is a town in the district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Leine, approximately 11 km northwest of Hanover. The name Garbsen can be traced back to 1223. Today's 13 city districts have partly developed independently until the city of Garbsen was formed within its current boundaries during the regional reform in 1974.

In the course of industrialization and especially after the Second World War, the population of Garbsen and its predecessor municipalities increased significantly. In 1963, the current district Auf der Horst was created as a residential and working class district for up to 10,000 residents. Originally planned by the state capital Hannover, Auf der Horst became an important factor for the independent urban development of Garbsen in the following years.

In the first decades of the post-war period, Garbsen was primarily a classic commuter town for numerous workers in Hanover's industrial enterprises such as VW Nutzfahrzeuge, Continental or VARTA, today Johnson Controls. Since then Garbsen has experienced a significant change in the economic structure. Predominantly medium-size enterprises from different industries were created or settled, the number of the jobs more than doubled itself.

With the Production Technology Center (PZH) and the Underwater Technology Center, Garbsen is home to significant parts of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Leibniz University of Hannover. By the winter semester 2019/2020, the entire Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is to be united on the Garbsen campus, which is currently under construction.

Geography

Garbsen belongs to the Weser-Aller-Flachland natural area and is situated between the lowlands of the river Leine and the Otternhagener Moor. The differences in altitude are only a few metres.

Division of the town

The town consists of 13 districts:

Altgarbsen
Auf der Horst
Berenbostel
Frielingen
Garbsen-Mitte
Havelse
Heitlingen
Horst
Meyenfeld
Osterwald Oberende
Osterwald Unterende
Schloss Ricklingen
Stelingen

Geology

The soils in the city area are predominantly sandy or boggy (Moorgeest), with the exception of the loamy-clayey soils in the area of the Leine floodplain. The sandy to gravelly deposits are fluviatile formations of the last cold period, the Weichsel cold period, e.g. in the area of Altgarbsen and Havelse, as well as elsewhere, such as Frielingen and Meyenfeld, meltwater deposits partly with overlaying ground moraine of the Saale cold period (Drenthe stage). Furthermore, fine to medium sand dunes can be found in the area of Garbsen Switzerland and Ricklingen Castle. These dunes can also be found at the "Hexenturm" in the neighbouring Hinüberschen Garten and at the Glockenberg in the monastery forest of Marienwerder.

The sand was mined in several places in (old) Garbsen in the time beginning before the First World War until 1970 and was burned to lime sand bricks in the Garbsen hard stone works (Kiebitzmoor, "Garbsen", "Niedersachsen", "Hansa" and "Hannover"). Thus Garbsen's hills disappeared, and today only street names remind us of them (among them Osterberg, Mühlenberg, Streitberg, Pottberg). Sand and gravel for construction purposes were extracted in the pit of today's Blue Lake.

Near-surface clays and claystones of the Lower Cretaceous can be found in the area of the Berenbostel district. In the area of Berenbostel the marly claystones of marine origin belong to the formation of the Barremium and the Aptium, further north to Stelingen, Osterwald and Heitlingen the claystones belong to the formation of the Hauterivium. Since the middle of the 19th century the clays were also mined and used for brick production (Hannoversche Ziegelei at the Kastendamm: today Schwarzer See and Berenbosteler See, Flemmingsche Ziegelei in the field "Im Kolke": today backfilled (contaminated site) and built over as the Garbsen-Ost industrial area).

Twin towns – sister cities

Garbsen is twinned with:

ENG Bassetlaw, England, United Kingdom
USA Farmers Branch, United States
FRA Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France
GER Schönebeck, Germany
POL Września, Poland

Notable people

Volker Finke (born 1948), football player, teacher and football coach, 16 years for SC Freiburg
Frank Pagelsdorf (born 1958), former football player and football coach
Erdoğan Atalay (born 1966), actor in Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei

References

(13 October 2021). "Stichwahlen zu Direktwahlen in Niedersachsen vom 26. September 2021". [[Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen]].
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"Städtepartnerschaften". Garbsen.

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