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Walle

Walle is a surname of British and German origin, which is a variant of the surname Wall. Wall in turn is a topographic name, which meant a person who lived by a defensive or stone-built wall. The name Walle may refer to:

  • Armando Walle (born 1978), American politician
  • August Walle-Hansen (1877–1964), Norwegian businessman
  • Brianna Walle (born 1984), American cyclist
  • Hans Jørgen Walle-Hansen (1912–2012), Norwegian businessman
  • Margot Walle (1921–1990), Norwegian pair skater
Walle (Winsen)

Walle is a village within the Lower Saxon borough of Winsen (Aller) in Celle district on the Lüneburg Heath in Germany.

Walle lies on a country road between Winsen (Aller) and Bergen on the southern perimeter of the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony. A forest lane gives it access to the B3 federal road between Celle and Bergen. The little village with under 1,000 inhabitants is situated on a small elevation about above Winsen (Aller).

Walle is divided into an older part 'below' on the country road and a more recent settlement 'above'. It grew up around a brickworks that has since been closed and whose clay pit became the Achimsee lake which is now in private ownership. For that reason the village is also called Die Ziegelei ("The Brickworks"). The older part of the settlement, referred to locally as Das Dorf ("The Village"), consists of old farmhouses, a kindergarten and a sports club.

Instead of political parties, Walle has a village council . The commitment of members of its various clubs and societies as well as all other villagers however enables the small community to continue to develop despite its shrinking public funding. In addition there is a large shooting and sports club as well as a marching band with about 30 members. Also worth mentioning are the Bruderbaum ("Brother's Tree"), which stands in the forest east of the village and is surrounded by many a heathland legend, and the internationally renowned stud farm, the Amselhof.

Usage examples of "walle".

Most had been made in a room of vivid blue walls and brown floor, a few in a green walled room.

The display panel now showed a row of beds in a large room walled in iron bars.

He visualized the warm, rolling hills of Phoenicis III, dotted with pastoral Algun villages, and the great walled city-states of the Taknon, covering hundreds of square miles and set in the midst of the Algun landscape.

But it beat him down, walled him off, and left him clinging only to the basic circuits necessary to the form of his transor.

The world had tightened around them, but beyond the walled wood still stood the great grey caves of man-rock.

Half the fields are burnt, and what folks are left are walled up inside their holdfasts.

Evil King Harren had walled himself up inside, so Aegon unleashed his dragons and turned the castle into a pyre.

It had once been a gateway, that much was obvious, but at some time the old outer gate had been walled shut to leave this gloomy tunnel that was now stacked with barrels.

These are on the very brink of the mesa, and have been built in recesses in the crowning ledge of sandstone of such size that they could conveniently be walled up on the outside, the outer surface of rude walls being continuous with the precipitous rock face of the mesa.

More than half of its circumference was originally walled in, but at the present time the old masonry is indicated only by an interrupted row of large foundation stones and fallen masonry.

These outlined inclosures appear never to have been walled to any considerable height.

This has subjected it in part to the same influences that had at an earlier date produced the carefully walled fortress pueblos of the valleys, where the defensive efficiency was due to well planned and constructed buildings.

This is still a general custom, and the end of the first terrace is usually walled up and roofed, and is called tupubi.

In such instances the broken-out recesses in the upper rocks have been walled up on the outside, roughly lined with masonry within, and roofed over in the usual manner.

The first of the latter shows the use of a discarded metate, or mealing stone, and the second of a gourd that has been walled into the coping.