Barnstorf (Uehrde)

Barnstorf Municipality of Uehrde
Coordinates: 52 ° 5 ′ 55 "  N , 10 ° 48 ′ 33"  E
Height :	100 m
Residents :	237  (March 1, 2018)
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	38170
Area code :	05332
Location of Barnstorf in Lower Saxony
Church in Barnstorf with forecourt

Entrance from the east

Barnstorf is a district of the Lower Saxon community Uehrde in the Wolfenbüttel district .

geography

Geographical location

Barnstorf lies at the lowest point between the two connected mountain ranges Asse (with the upstream Mühlenberg near Uehrde) and the Heeseberg , the foothill of which, the Große Berg , lies directly in front of Barnstorf. The Soltau flows through this low point from north to south. The village is predominantly agricultural. At the northern edge of the village extends an area that was an extensive pond into the 18th century. The Barnstorfer salt pond lay over a salt dome , which for a long time made the extraction of salt possible. Today there is only the Barnstorfer Salt Meadow , which is home to numerous typical salt plants such as the samphire , the Andelgrass and the sand aster . The beach aster has also been the motif of the village coat of arms since 1991.

In addition to the Soltau, which flows northeast of the village, there is a second stream that flows through the village to the south and flows into the Soltau shortly after leaving the village. It has three names: in Uehrde , the main town of the municipality, it is called Westerbach , in Barnstorf it is called Harbke (also Harbkebach ; formerly in Low German Harbeeke ). The Harbkeweg is named after him. In everyday life, however, the people of Barnstorf only call the stream the "red one". The name comes from the time when the inhabitants of Harbke rotted the flax to make linen.

There is a small, swampy area between Barnstorf and Warle. The vernacular calls her "the groundless". Before the turn of the century, a well was built here for the Watenstedt sugar factory. There are many legends about this area.

Neighboring places

Watzum	Warle	In life
Uehrde		Watenstedt
Winnigstedt		Gevensleben

history

Barnstorf was first mentioned in writing in 966 in a document as "Bernsherdestorp", which means Bernhard's village. The certificate confirms the donation of an estate from Otto I. to Count Mamaco. Previously the place was owned by the Moritzkirche in Magdeburg. In 1226 the place was called Bernestorpe. Later you will also find the variants "Barnsdorp" and "Barnstorff".

The origins of the village go back longer than the first mention. Barnstorf presumably originated in the 8th century, at the time of the Frankish conquests in Saxony . At that time, the Franks opened up numerous new settlements throughout Saxony , mostly with the endings -dorf, -torf. The area around Barnstorf should have been predominantly forested before the development. In addition to Barnstorf, the neighboring village of Bistorf and the homestead (or village) of Meerdorf were also developed. Both settlements later fell desolate and are now part of the Barnstorfer Feldmark.

The salt pond was very important for Barnstorf. This pond used to be 156 acres in size, but it silted up more and more. By 1835, the salt pond had largely become meadows and pastures. What has remained is the Barnstorfer salt marsh , which is now a designated nature reserve. The Soltau brook, on which the village is located, also takes its name from the brine springs (Solt = Low German for "salt"). The brine spring was the basis for salt production in Barnstorf for a long time. The saline , which was on an island surrounded by the Soltau and is recorded on old maps as "Salzkote", was owned by the Wolfenbüttel dukes until the brine spring dried up more and more and the saline in 1743, after more than 400 years, theirs Ceased operation.

The buildings of the Princely Vorwerk still stand in Barnstorf today . Like the saltworks, the lands were owned by the dukes of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. Until 1937 the Vorwerk was a state domain , administered by a senior bailiff. Then the domain was settled. The arable land was given to farmers from other villages in the region who had to surrender their land to Salzgitter because of the construction projects on the Mittelland Canal and the " Hermann-Göring-Werke " steelworks . The new settlers had to build their courtyards a little outside the village in the style of single-storey north German hall houses, which are, however, rather atypical for the region and are still a specialty today.

After the introduction of the four-digit postcode in 1962 in the area of ​​the Deutsche Bundespost, Barnstorf initially received the postcode 3339, which was also valid in the Jerxheim area . At the end of the 1970s, Barnstorf was assigned to the Schöppenstedt district and received the postal code 3307, which was then changed to 38170 in 1993. Before the four-digit postcode was introduced, the address was "Barnstorf bei Schöningen ".

Church with tower from 1872

religion

The oldest building in Barnstorf is the church. The oldest part dates from the 12th to 13th centuries. In 1511 the church was enlarged and in 1872 a new tower was added. This tower was supposed to be the beginning of a completely new building, for which plans already existed. This did not happen for reasons of cost, but not. The old nave was preserved.

Barnstorf has been evangelical-Lutheran since the Reformation. The parish has been a branch of Watenstedt since then . Although Barnstorf has always been part of the Wolfenbüttel district under municipal law, the village is under canonical law assigned to the Helmstedt provost. Barnstorf was an independent parish until 2018 and belonged to the Watenstedt parish association. Since the structural reform of the Braunschweigische Landeskirche in 2018, the parishes of the previous parish association of Watenstedt have formed the common parish " St. Stephan am Großer Bruch ". In addition to Barnstorf and Watenstedt, the previous parishes of Gevensleben and Ingeleben also belong to it . The merged parish has since been part of the Helmstedt-Süd parish association.

politics

Since the municipality reform, which came into force on March 1, 1974, Barnstorf is no longer an independent municipality. Together with the villages of Uehrde , Watzum and Warle , it forms the municipality of Uehrde within the joint municipality of Elm-Asse .

Political representation is carried out jointly for all districts by the municipal council of the municipality of Uehrde. Mayor is Rudolf Wollrab.

coat of arms

Barnstorf has had a coat of arms since 1991. In the blue and gold split shield in alternating colors, it shows a beach aster that is at home on the salt marsh. The division of the coat of arms reminds of the village of Bistorf, which was mentioned in a document from the 13th century to 1313 before it fell into desolation . The Braunschweig national colors blue and yellow (= gold) stand for centuries of belonging to the state of Braunschweig, which is also reminiscent of the coat of arms of Duke Heinrich Julius on the former domain barn. The design of the coat of arms comes from the Brunswick heraldist Arnold Rabbow.

Culture and sights

• The church of Barnstorf, partly from the 12th century, is the oldest building in the village.
• The residence of the former princely Barbican (domain) originated in the 18th century as a single-storey building from Rogenstein with hofseitigem Zwerchhaus . The large barn of the Vorwerk is one of the largest and oldest buildings in the village. On one side there is a memorial stone of the duke couple Heinrich Julius and Elisabeth from the year 1611. It documents the centuries of dominance of the Wolfenbüttel dukes as the largest landowners. Around 1800, the Kammervorwerk owned 458 acres of fields and 77 acres of meadows as well as considerable pond areas.

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  Residential and farm buildings of the former princely Vorwerk (domain), behind the old school building

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  Former barn with ducal coat of arms

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  Coat of arms of Duke Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig on the former barn

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  Oldest house in the village

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

In addition to the local farms, there are also some craft businesses in Barnstorf:

• A bakery is located in the former communal bakery from the 19th century. The bakery also supplies many neighboring villages with baked goods on working days.
• A catering company is based in Barnstorf. It is best known for the so-called "VW Currywurst", which it regularly sells in front of the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg . The company also operates mulled wine stalls at Christmas markets.
• A carpentry shop has existed as a family business since 1865, which also runs a funeral parlor based in Schöppenstedt .
• There is a restoration workshop , the owner of which refurbishes old pieces of furniture and makes one-off pieces by hand.

traffic

The Wolfenbüttel – Oschersleben railway line , which has now been closed, ran immediately to the east of the town .

Traditions and regular events

Folk festival

In Barnstorf, the residents celebrate a folk festival every summer, which is organized by the local associations. The main part is a parade through the village and the performance of choirs from the neighboring villages, which is why the folk festival is also called the singing festival for many older Barnstorf residents . Until the 1980s, the festival lasted three, now only two days. For a long time, the people of Barnstorfer celebrated their folk festival in the hall of the Zur Linde restaurant . When the restaurant was closed and the hall was converted into a residential building, the clubs initially rented a marquee that was set up on the former goose field. The old Vorwerk barn, which is privately owned, has been used as a ballroom for several years. The choirs for the folk festival are invited by the Barnstorf Men's Choir, which has existed since 1884.

New Year's Eve singing of the children

The children's New Year's Eve singing is also a tradition. Always on New Year's Eve the Barnstorf children go from door to door, ring the doorbell and, with the door closed, begin to sing the verse:

I am a little king Don't give me so little.

Don't let me stand that long, I have to go on a little house.

Happy New Year!

Then they are given candy or money.

Easter fire

The people of Barnstorf light the Easter fire on Easter Sunday on the Großer Berg east of the village. From there you have a wide view of the village and the other Easter bonfires in the area. In 2013 and 2014 the fire was lit in other places in the Barnstorfer Feldmark. But when the district of Wolfenbüttel pointed out that the old Easter bonfire site would be rededicated as a landscape protection area if it were to remain unused for a long time, the Barnstorfer organized the Easter bonfire again in its traditional location.

Other clubs

TSV Barnstorf was founded as a sports club in 1947. His footballers play for FC Süd-Elm. Other associations in the village are the volunteer fire brigade and the evangelical women's aid.

Web links

Commons : Barnstorf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Villages in the Braunschweiger Land
• Description of the village in the municipality of Elm-Asse
• Original text of the first mention in the document from 966 (fourth from last line)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Elm-Asse community ( memento from June 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 25, 2018
2. ↑ Description on www.elmsagen.de
3. ↑ Wolfgang Meibeyer: The beginnings of the settlements. In: Die Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte, Braunschweig 2000. (pp. 267-300) pp. 283 f.
4. ^ Information on the website of the Braunschweigische Landeskirche
5. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 273 .
6. ↑ Spiegel-Online report on "Bella's" VW currywurst
7. ^ Homepage of the Dube company
8. ^ Homepage of the Hoffmann company