Vallstedt

 village, quarter (urban subdivision)

Vallstedt is part of the village Vechelde in Peine in Lower Saxony.

One photo 2 by F.-K. Becker. Vallstedt is a great worker-peasant village at the intersection of two country roads. Documentary mention in the 1080th In the year 1493, the village of the Braunschweigern in their feuds with the Duke burned.

In vergangnenen decades, the city has begun to develop to the west and east by modern own homes, residential and terraced houses to expand. The village is close beisammenliegenden small Central Streckhöfen and larger farms from three Since Truss and brick Truss. The church (Roman tower) has been renewed several times.

Statement on Arms: 1953 by fellow G. Ernst designed 1979 officially approved. The Linde landmark rural life with all its 9 leaves endsprechend the 9 letter to the local name. The strength of their roots symbolizes the firm attachment to the native soil. The life of the sun and plow stand for hard work and the rural character of the place. The daily bread is guaranteed, if God's blessing spend their sun. The Bärenklaue from the arms of those "Velestede" (in the 18th century extinct), the historical tradition from the early days of the village stress. The colors gold, silver, red, green and black give the arms liveliness.

An exact date for the emergence unsereres village is the absence of any documents do not specify. Archaeologists found in the construction of the wastewater treatment plant 1952 in Salzgitter - Lebenstedt remains of mammoth hunters from the Paleolithic around 70,000 years ago. For the younger Stone Age (4000-2000) BC. In the southern field cord of Vallstedt some stone tools found, they are now in the National Museum Brunswick. The Nordharzvorland since the Neolithic Age never fully siedlungsleer. (Niquet p.18 uS29a.aO). ZT For> Monitoring the village Vallstedt as part of the country's history <Alfred Behm 1980.
Repro Photo 3 by O. Becker. Stone tool from the younger Stone Age (4000-2000 BC) found, among other tools, in the "stupid breakthrough" in derNähe the village, which is on a
small stone-age settlement. Located in the country Brunswick Museum.
Figure 2 Photo by F-K Becker. 1080 was Vallstedt for the first time mentioned in the settlement but it finds in the local area 2.bis 4th Century older.