Erbsen is a village in the ''Flecken'' (

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Adelebsen Adelebsen is a municipality in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It consists of the localities Adelebsen, Barterode, Eberhausen, Erbsen, Güntersen, Lödingsen and Wibbecke. The Burg Adelebsen is located on a high point ...

in the

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. The village has about four hundred inhabitants. It lies some twelve kilometers west of Göttingen on the main road to Adelebsen proper.

History

The oldest known written reference to Erbsen is some time between AD 826 and 876 in the Traditiones Corbeienses, where it was called Erpeshusen. The exact date of this reference is uncertain since it is only directly known from a fifteenth-century copy. In addition, the certainty that "Erpeshusen" actually refers to Erbsen has not been established, since it has been suggested that it could be referring to an

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near

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. The name Erpessun is used in the

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around 1015 to 1036. (The fact that ''Erbsen'' is German for "pea" is purely coincidental and not connected to the community's etymology.) In the 1920s, the village expanded northward. After the Second World War, an additional expansion (Auf dem Höbel) was added between the original village area and the train tracks.

Church

The earliest known reference to a church in Erbsen is from 1446.

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: Die Pastoren der Landeskirchen Hannovers und Schaumburg-Lippes seit der Reformation, 2 Bde., Göttingen 1941/42, Bd. 1, S. 270: kerken to Erpsen, Urkunde im Freiherrlich von Adelebsenschen Archiv. Today's St. Vitus is a

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building with a medieval core with seventeenth-century renovations and expansion. In 1975, a

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was built on the village hill of Kirchberg. Both buildings are designated cultural heritage sites.

References

External links

Erbsen
on the Adelebsen Internet site
Village's unofficial Internet site
{{authority control Villages in Lower Saxony