The aim: to publish the more than 1,200 monuments in Salzgitter on the internet platform www.denkmalatlas.niedersachsen.de (opens in a new tab)in cooperation with the Lower Monument Protection Authority of the city of Salzgitter.
In Lower Saxony, just over 100,000 architectural and artistic monuments and around 25,000 archaeological monuments are currently listed in the database of the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (NLD). The aim of the "Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen" project is to check and update this data and make it accessible to the public. The project is funded by the Lower Saxony state government's Digitization Master Plan and will run until 2023. A first part of the monuments has been searchable online since the beginning of 2020. Almost 40,000 data records are currently published there.
Most recently, the architectural monuments of the Hannover region (with the exception of the city of Hannover) have now been fully activated in the monument atlas. This includes the municipalities of Barsinghausen, Burgdorf, Garbsen, Laatzen, Langenhagen, Lehrte, Ronnenberg, Seelze, Springe, Wedemark, the Hanover region, Wunstorf and Neustadt am Rübenberge with around 4,500 objects.
The employees of the Lower Saxony State Office for the Preservation of Monuments are now starting to process the database entries for the architectural and artistic monuments in the city of Salzgitter. This is being done in close coordination with the Lower Monument Protection Authority of the city of Salzgitter and the local authorities. A first "round table" took place on May 2, 2022. In order to provide up-to-date data, project staff will visit all monuments on site. Photographic images are also produced in compliance with the legal framework. The person responsible, Dr. Ulrich Knufinke (NLD), estimates that this work will take around three months.
After that, the city's architectural monuments will be available online for all interested parties to research.
Michael Tacke, City Councillor for Building, Urban Planning and the Environment, welcomes this revision and updating of the directory. "Citizens will then be able to obtain comprehensive information online about the more than 1,200 monuments in Salzgitter's 31 districts." He would like to thank the Lower Saxony State Office for the Preservation of Monuments for this work.
Christina Krafczyk, President of the NLD, explained the long-term orientation of the project when the "Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen" was launched: "By putting the list of cultural monuments online, the Lower Saxony State Office for the Preservation of Monuments is fulfilling its task of recording, researching, evaluating and communicating the state's cultural monuments in a contemporary way. The public dissemination of the register represents an important contribution to the preservation and further development of Lower Saxony's unique, identity-forming cultural landscapes for future generations."
