Benefeld

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Benefeld
City of Walsrode
Coordinates: 52 ° 54 ′ 16 ″  N , 9 ° 37 ′ 47 ″  E
Incorporation : 1968
Incorporated into: Bomlitz
Postal code : 29699
Benefeld (Lower Saxony)
Benefeld

Location of Benefeld in Lower Saxony
Center of Benefeld
Center of Benefeld

Benefeld is a district of the city of Walsrode in the Lower Saxony district of Heidekreis . 2232 inhabitants live in Benefeld; the district covers 2 km² (as of 2008). Until December 31, 2019, Benefeld was part of the Bomlitz community .

location

Housing estate on the slope of the Warnau valley

Benefeld is located in the south-western Lüneburg Heath in the natural area of ​​the Fallingbostel clay plates , which is divided by narrow valleys and to which the Heidmark roughly corresponds as a cultural area . Together with Bomlitz, 1 km to the east, Benefeld forms the bipolar core of the former Bomlitz community. The contiguous residential areas of the place extend over a flat saddle between the two largest tributaries of the Böhme , the Bomlitz on the eastern edge and the Warnau on the western edge. The settlements in the Warnautal have pronounced slopes.

Structurally, Benefeld is characterized by a clear quarter structure, which essentially goes back to various types of industrial settlements from the 1940s. At the saddle point between the Bomlitz and Warnautal valleys, a town center has started to develop. The cohesive development and today's population structure were created with the large influx of refugees and displaced persons after the Second World War .

Neighboring villages are - clockwise from the north - Jarlingen , Bommelsen , Kroge , Bomlitz , Uetzingen and Hünzingen (all belonging to the city of Walsrode).

Infrastructure

In Benefeld there is a community center where rooms are available for association work and events of cultural and social life, a larger residential complex for the elderly and the Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit.

Benefeld is away from the national traffic. The federal motorway 27 runs 9 km to the southwest, the A 7 8 km to the southeast. By Dorfmark via Visselhövede to Rotenburg (Wümme) leading national highway 440 runs north-east, 3 km away. The main axis of the village is the district road 131 ( Cordinger Straße ), which is part of an alternative road connection between Walsrode and Soltau west of the B 209 .

Until 1991, Benefeld was connected to the Bomlitz – Walsrode railway line via the Cordingen station and the Benefeld-Gleisdreieck and Kiebitzort stops , which today only handles freight traffic to Bomlitz and the Walsrode industrial park .

Attractions

The Cordinger Mill on the Warnau

The Cordinger Mühle has been in the Warnautal for around 600 years , today a picturesque mill ensemble with a miller's house, bakery and ponds. The facility, which was restored in the 1980s, is one of the most valuable historical buildings in the Heidekreis district. Today the mill is used for civil weddings of the community and rented out for celebrations.

history

The place Benefeld has grown together from several industrial settlements and labor camps and named after the Benefeld farm in the Bomlitztal (name probably in the sense of Gebeinefeld). These settlements were built after 1935, in the course of the expansion of the Bomlitz explosives industry (predecessor of today's Dow Wolff Cellulosics ), on the area of ​​the former municipality of Westerharl on the structurally favorable, groundwater-remote plateau of the Lohheide. These partly underground plants of the Eibia GmbH are largely leveled today and are now a recreational area again. In addition to the Eibia workers' camps, there was also a subcamp with around 750 women from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Benefeld for six weeks in the autumn of 1944 .

From January 1, 1947 to June 30, 1948, Benefeld had one of the six judicial tribunals of the British zone of occupation , which handled a total of around 2,300 criminal cases. After the war, the vacant living space in the industrial settlements was used by the numerous displaced persons and refugees. Over 4000 people, significantly more than in Bomlitz, lived in Benefeld at that time.

In 1952 Benefeld broke away from the municipal association with Westerharl and became an independent municipality. In 1968 Benefeld, Bomlitz, Borg (with Cordingen) and Uetzingen were merged to form a new municipality of Bomlitz . From March 1, 1974, Benefeld was one of eight localities in the Bomlitz community. The municipality of Bomlitz with its districts was incorporated into Walsrode on January 1, 2020 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lecture announcement from 2007