Gross Lengden is a village in the

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in the

Göttingen district Göttingen (, ; ; ) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. According to the 2022 German census, t ...

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, about ten kilometers east of Göttingen. It had 1,040 inhabitants as of 2005. The village lies at the foot of the hills leading to the

Mackenröder Spitze The Mackenröder Spitze, at about , is the highest hill in the Göttingen Forest and lies on the boundary of the Göttingen, town and Landkreis Göttingen, district of Göttingen, in South Lower Saxony in Germany. Geography The heavily foreste ...

. The village's heart is characterized by small winding streets and well-preserved

half-timbered Timber framing () and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy Beam (structure), timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and Woodworking joints, joined timbers with joints secure ...

houses. In two years running (1996, 1997), it won prizes for improved village appearance. The earliest mention of the community is an AD 822 chronicle of the

Fulda Abbey The Abbey of Fulda (; ), from 1221 the Princely Abbey of Fulda () and from 1752 the Prince-Bishopric of Fulda (), was a Benedictine abbey and ecclesiastical principality centered on Fulda, in the present-day German state of Hesse. The monastery ...

, where it is referred to as "Lengidi" and "Lengithi.“

Government

*Mayor: Joachim Johannes Thiery

Significant people associated with Gross Lengden

* Heinrich Albert Lion (born in

Bamberg Bamberg (, , ; East Franconian German, East Franconian: ''Bambärch'') is a town in Upper Franconia district in Bavaria, Germany, on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main (river), Main. Bamberg had 79,000 inhabitants in ...

in 1796; died in Groß Lengden in 1867), Classical philologist * Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld (1853–1933), co-founder of the Karl-May-Verlag publishing house

Sources

*Das bietet Groß Lengden: http://www.gleichen.de/gr-lengden/home.htm *Gross Lengden: http://www.gross-lengden.de/ Villages in Lower Saxony {{LowerSaxony-geo-stub