Bahrdorf

This article deals with the community in the Helmstedt district. See also: Bahrendorf or Bardorf .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '  N , 11 ° 0'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Helmstedt
Joint municipality :	Velpke
Height :	77 m above sea level NHN
Area :	40.6 km 2
Residents:	1825 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	45 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	38459
Primaries :	05364, 05358
License plate :	HE
Community key :	03 1 54 001
Community structure:	4 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Grafhorster Strasse 6 38458 Velpke
Website :	www.velpke.de
Mayor :	Heinz-Udo Liedtke ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Bahrdorf in the Helmstedt district

Bahrdorf is a municipality in the Helmstedt district in Lower Saxony and a member municipality of the Velpke municipality .

geography

location

Bahrdorf lies between the Elm-Lappwald and Drömling nature parks .

Municipal area

The municipality is rich in sandy soils. Mixed and pine forests determine the forest appearance. Grain and sugar beet are predominantly grown, and rapeseed is also increasingly being grown. The land is defined by smaller hills. The highest hill is the Steinberg at 115 m above sea level. NN.

Community structure

The districts of the municipality are:

• Core town Bahrdorf with Blanken
• Mackendorf with clinker factory (brickworks)
• Rickensdorf
• Saalsdorf with Altena

Another place to live is Bullerbü (one kilometer from Rickensdorf).

history

In 973 the community was first mentioned as "Bardorp" when it was donated to the Bishop of Magdeburg . In the 13th century, the then bishop of Magdeburg appealed to it and demanded extradition from the de Bardorpe family of knights, who lived in Bahrdorf. When it did not meet the requirements, there was a siege by the Archbishop of Magdeburg and the feudal lord of Oebisfelde, but the Bahrdorf castle survived. The castle fell into disrepair and was converted into a ducal estate in the 18th century that still exists. Only the keep of the old castle is preserved.

For the development of the postal system in Bahrdorf, see: Braunschweig – Calvörde postal route .

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the communities Mackendorf, Rickensdorf and Saalsdorf were incorporated.

Place name, origin

Old names: 8./9. Century "Bardorf", 937 "Bardorp", mid-11th century "Barthorpa", 1209 "Bardorp", 1189 "Barthorp", 1328 "Bardorp", 1344 "Bardorpe".

The place name could go back to Wald-Dorf. It may contain baeru, baero for forest, Germanic barwa for conifer, whale. Another way of interpreting the place name is the Polish word bara for swamp. Due to the location of the place in the forest and in the floodplain of the Lapau, or the former foothills of the Drömling, the origin of the place name cannot be clearly determined.

politics

Municipal council

Local council election 2016

Turnout: 61.50%

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

50.33

34.88

5.48

4.99

4.32

CDU

SPD

EB Schaare

Green

EB Runkehl

Gains and losses

compared to 2011

 % p

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

+2.76

-4.14

-2.68

-0.24

+4.32

CDU

SPD

EB Schaare

Green

EB Runkehl

Current distribution of seats in the municipal council

   

A total of 11 seats

• SPD : 4
• Otherwise: 1
• CDU : 6

The municipal council is the local people's representative body for the municipality of Bahrdorf. Every five years, citizens decide on the allocation of the eleven seats in local elections.

mayor

The honorary mayor has been Hans-Hubertus Broistedt since 2016.

coat of arms

Split into blue and gold, inside a four-leaf oak with three acorns in mixed up colors.

Culture and sights

Church in Bahrdorf

• Evangelical Lutheran St. Stephen Church in Bahrdorf
• Domain (former moated castle)

Religions

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Stephen's Church is located in the village of Bahrdorf and belongs to the Provosty of Vorsfelde . Other churches are located in the districts of Mackendorf, Rickensdorf and Saalsdorf.

Since after the Second World War refugees and displaced persons from Catholic areas settled in Bahrdorf and the surrounding villages, the Catholic parish vicarie Bahrdorf, belonging to the Velpker Church Immaculate Conception , was founded in 1946 . In addition to Bahrdorf, she was also responsible for the villages of Mackendorf, Papenrode , Querenhorst, Rickensdorf and Saalsdorf. A Catholic church was not built in Bahrdorf; the services took place in the pastor's apartment or in the Protestant church. 1966 the parish vicarie Bahrdorf was dissolved again and came back to the parish Velpke.

traffic

Bahrdorf is east of the federal highway 244 . Bahrdorf was on the disused Helmstedt – Oebisfelde railway line in this area .

literature

• Willi Scherfise: 1000 years of Bahrdorf . Kühne, Helmstedt 1973

Web links

Commons : Bahrdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Bardorff in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 271 .
3. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 28, 2014 ; accessed on August 3, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2016 Samtgemeinde Velpke
5. ^ Peter Eppert: 75 years of St. Marien Velpke. Grafhorst 2004, p. 10 u. 12.