Barfelde

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Barfelde
Barfelde coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 5 ′ 27 ″  N , 9 ° 49 ′ 28 ″  E
Height : 118 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.35 km²
Residents : 645  (Nov. 1, 2016)
Population density : 88 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Incorporated into: Despetal
Postal code : 31028
Area code : 05182
Barfelde (Lower Saxony)
Barfelde

Location of Barfelde in Lower Saxony
Evangelical St. John's Church
Evangelical St. John's Church

Barfelde is a district of the small town of Gronau (Leine) in the Hildesheim district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Barfelde is located southwest of Hildesheim and east of Gronau between the Weserbergland nature park in the west and the somewhat distant Harz in the east. Immediately northeast of the former municipality is the Hildesheim Forest , south of it the Seven Mountains .

The Despe , the Hufzitterbach, the Zitterbach and other, smaller streams run through Barfelde . The Zitterbach and the Hufzitterbach arise from the Hildesheim Forest. The Zitterbach flows into the Hufzitterbach, the latter flows into the Despe.

history

In 1013 Barfelde was first mentioned as Berivilti . By amalgamating several farm positions, Adolph Freiherr von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen created a larger estate in the middle of the 19th century, for which he acquired the knight's voice from the abandoned von Hakeschen Hof in Dassel in 1861. His son Clamor von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen sold the manor before the First World War.

A memorial with the coats of arms of Eitzum, Barfelde and Nienstedt commemorates the founding of the Despetal community in 1974.

Incorporations

The formerly independent municipality of Barfelde was incorporated into the municipality of Despetal on March 1, 1974 .

On November 1, 2016 Despetal was incorporated into the enlarged city of Gronau (Leine) . At the same time the town of Gronau was a member of the merger by the likewise on November 1, 2016 Samtgemeinden Duingen and Gronau (Leine) incurred Samtgemeinde Leinebergland .

Population development

year 1885 1910 1925 1933 1939 1950 2012 2015 2016
Residents 563 546 606 615 585 1224 654 642 645
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politics

City Councilor and Mayor

Since November 1, 2016, Barfelde has been represented at the municipal level by the City Council of Gronau (Leine).

coat of arms

The community Barfelde was the municipal coat of arms on May 17, 1938 the Provincial President of the Province of Hanover awarded. The district administrator from Alfeld presented it on July 4th of the same year.

Barfelde coat of arms
 Blazon : "A black ten-end deer antler on a gold shield ."
Foundation of the coat of arms: In the Middle Ages, the Barfelde community was home to the "de Bervelde" family, which had a stag or stag head in its seal. Based on this model, the municipality of Barfelde decided to use the coat of arms described.

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • The Protestant St. John's Church, a single-nave baroque church made of plastered quarry stone from 1738
    • with its three imposing ceiling paintings from 1738
    • the baptismal font from 1663
    • the oldest bell was cast in 1532
  • The half-timbered rectory from 1750
  • The old half-timbered school that is now privately inhabited
  • The second school with a latch construction, which is also privately inhabited
  • The sexton's house from 1857
  • Former Ackerhof 4, in Bachstrasse. 8th
  • Former Ackerhof 15, a half-timbered house from the beginning of the 18th century
  • Fire station from 1904
  • The old Despebrücke from 1680
  • The watermill, which was first mentioned in a document in 1302
  • The gatehouse of the Mathildenhall mine in Schulstrasse
  • The old bakery of the Karl Sievers bakery on Im Winkel

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Associations and groups

old fire station Barfelde

Regular events

  • Since 2013 the orienteering race Kampf am Zitterbach takes place in and around the village. The organizer has been the Altes Feuerwehrhaus Barfelde e.V. association since 2017 . V. , who also takes care of the maintenance of the old fire station after the Barfelde volunteer fire brigade moved into the new fire station in Eitzum . The Barfelde Volunteer Fire Brigade was the organizer until 2016.

traffic

Barfelde is connected to the road network via country roads with federal roads 3 and 1 .

literature

  • Ernst August Strüber (text), Martin Klauss (photos): Despetal then and now. Contributions to the history of Barfelde, Eitzum and Nienstedt . Ed .: Municipality of Despetal. Self-published / Druckhaus Köhler, Harsum 2010, ISBN 978-3-938385-44-9 (361 pages with numerous illustrations).

Web links

Commons : Barfelde (Despetal)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany . Final results according to the September 13, 1950 census. Volume  33 . W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart / Cologne August 1952, p. 33 , col. 1 ( digital version [PDF; 26.4 MB ; accessed on June 21, 2019] Alfeld district, p. 42).
  2. ↑ a b Population figures 2016. (PDF; 14 kB) In: Website Samtgemeinde Leinebergland. November 1, 2016, accessed June 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Armgaed von Reden-Dohna: The knight seats of the former principality of Hildesheim . Barton'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Göttingen 1995, p. 101 .
  4. ^ 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.  204 .
  5. ↑ Lower Saxony State Chancellery (Ed.): Law on the unification of the communities of Banteln, Betheln, Brüggen, Despetal, Rheden and the city of Gronau (Leine) as well as on the new formation of the Duingen area and the Leinebergland community, Hildesheim district . Lower Saxony Law and Ordinance Gazette (Nds. GVBl.). No.  22/2015 . Hanover December 15, 2015, p. 399-400 ( digitized [PDF; 278 kB ; accessed on June 29, 2019] pp. 17–18).
  6. ↑ a b c d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Alfeld district ( see under: No. 5 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900 - Landkreis Gronau. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. February 3, 2019, accessed June 24, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Population figures 2012. (PDF; 13 kB) In: Website Samtgemeinde Leinebergland. December 31, 2012, accessed June 24, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Population figures 2015. (PDF; 13 kB) In: Website Samtgemeinde Leinebergland. December 31, 2015, accessed June 24, 2019 .
  10. ^ A b Wilhelm Barner : Coat of arms and seal of the Alfeld district . Rebinding. Lax GmbH & Co. KG, Hildesheim 1998 ( digitized version of the text part of the first edition from 1940 [PDF; 10.0 MB ; accessed on June 10, 2019]).
  11. ↑ a b Description of the coat of arms of the Despetal / Barfelde community. (PDF; 46 kB) In: Website Samtgemeinde Gronau (Leine). Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
  12. ↑ History. In: kulturium.de. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Altes Feuerwehrhaus Barfelde e. V. In: Website company knowledge. Retrieved November 2, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Contact details of the local DRK associations. In: Website of the German Red Cross. Retrieved March 10, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Fire Brigade Association Despetal e. V. In: Website company knowledge. Retrieved November 2, 2018 .
  16. ↑ About us. In: Website MTV Barfelde von 1911 e. V. Accessed November 2, 2018 .
  17. ↑ About us. In: Despetal Reservist Comradeship website. Retrieved November 2, 2018 .
  18. ↑ About us. In: Website Schützenverein Barfelde from 1962 e. V. Accessed November 2, 2018 .
  19. ^ Association for the Promotion of Local Recreation and Home Care e. V. In: kulturium.de. Retrieved November 4, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Angelo Mertel: 6th fight on Zitterbach on September 22, 2018. In: Website old fire station Barfelde e. V. August 1, 2018, accessed November 2, 2018 .
  21. ↑ About us. In: Website old fire station Barfelde e. V. Accessed November 2, 2018 .