Klein Lengden is a village in the

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in the

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, about eight to ten kilometers south-east of Göttingen. According to the 2010 census, it has about 1363 inhabitants. The village lies in the

Garte The Garte is a small tributary to the Leine River in Lower Saxony, Germany. The Garte is a long stream that rises to the east of Weißenborn at an elevation of . Towns that it runs through or by include Beienrode, Kerstlingerode, Rittmarshaus ...

valley, south of the forested hills of Lengderburg (384 meters a.s.l.) with its Lengdener Burg (castle) and Westerberg (340 meters a.s.l.) and is otherwise surrounded by farm fields. The nearest neighboring villages are Gross Lengden to the east and Diemarden to the west-south-west, each of which is about two kilometers distant. Just outside the village, on L569, the road to

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, is the Historische Spinnerei Gartetal (historical spinning works of the Garte Valley). In the late 16th century, a flour mill was erected on the site. In the middle of the following century, a paper mill was added. The

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led to the conversion to a spinnery for flannel and woolen yarn.

History

The earliest known record of the town was as ''Lengithi'' or ''Lengidi'' in A.D. 822 in the

Fulda monastery The Abbey of Fulda (; ), from 1221 the Princely Abbey of Fulda () and from 1752 the Prince-Bishopric of Fulda (), was a Order of Saint Benedict, Benedictine abbey and Hochstift, ecclesiastical principality centered on Fulda, in the present-day Ger ...

's ''Codex Eberhardi''. During most of the years in which the Garte Valley Railway operated, Klein Lengden was one of the stations, closing in 1957, two years before the disbandment of the line, which ran between

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and

Duderstadt Duderstadt () is a city in southern Lower Saxony, Germany, located in the district of Göttingen. It is the centre and the capital of the northern part of the Eichsfeld ("Untereichsfeld"). It was once the private wealth of the Roman Catholic ar ...

Government

*Mayor: Klaus-Werner Hanelt

Sources

*Das bietet Klein Lengden: http://www.gleichen.de/kl-lengden/home.htm

References

Villages in Lower Saxony {{Göttingen-geo-stub