page_title: Heeßel
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Heeßel / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Wallkrone der Burg Heeßel
context_page_description: Heeßel is a borough of Burgdorf in the district of Hanover in Lower Saxony. The village has got a population of approximately 1000 citizens and is located on the former B 188. It is about 2 kilometres west of the centre of Burgdorf and 3 kilometres east of Beinhorn.
context_section_description: According to Thietmar von Merseburg, in 983 the greats of the Saxons met with Heinrich dem Zänker at the Burg Heeßel after they have had a fight. Once again in 990 here met important personalities of the Saxons to determine the borders of the Bishoprics Minden (Enger) and Hildesheim (Eastphalia). As of today the first documented mention of the village is 1360 in the Lüneburger Lehnsregister of the dukes Otto II. of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Wilhelm of Lüneburg. Around the year 1800 Heeßel contained about 150 inhabitants. The village's population soared after the end of World War II in 1945, when the number of inhabitants doubled by the immigration of displaced persons. 1974 Heeßel was integrated in the town of Burgdorf and lost its sovereignty this way .
caption: Wall of the Burg Heeßel, wooded now
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