Berenbostel

Berenbostel City of Garbsen
	Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 14 " N , 9 ° 36 ′ 42" E
Height :	52 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.74 km²
Residents :	15,116 (June 30, 2018)
Population density :	2,633 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	30827
Area code :	05131
Location of Berenbostel in Lower Saxony
	Cemetery chapel in front of Berenbostel

Berenbostel is the largest district of Garbsen in the Hanover region of Lower Saxony .

geography

Berenbostel borders in the north on Osterwald and Stelingen . In the east lies the state capital Hanover and the Langenhagen district of Engelbostel . To the south is Garbsen-Mitte and to the west is Meyenfeld .

history

Berenbostel was first mentioned in a document in 1206. The name Berenbostel is derived from the place name "Bardinge Burstelle" (ugf. Farm of the farmer Barding).

The Berenbostel city cemetery was established in the 1920s .

Incorporations

For the regional reform in Lower Saxony , Berenbostel was incorporated into the city of Garbsen on March 1, 1974.

Population development

year	1885	1910	1925	1933	1939	1950	1973	2018
Residents	550	930	1,063	997	1,293	2,290	13,808	15,116
source

politics

Local council

The joint local council of Berenbostel and Stelingen consists of two councilors and nine councilors. The CDU has formed a group with the FDP.

Distribution of seats

SPD : 5 seats
Group CDU : 4 seats / FDP : - seats
Greens : 1 seat
The Independents : 1 seat

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor is Gunther Koch (CDU / FDP group). His deputies are Dieter Roggenkamp (SPD) and Hendrik Dannenbrink (CDU).

coat of arms

The design of the coat of arms of Berenbostel comes from the heraldist and author Werner Kaemling , who designed all coats of arms in the Hanover region. The approval of the coat of arms was given by the district president in Hanover on October 11, 1963.

Blazon : "In blue a red - armored and tongued , golden lion , who holds a silver hammer with a wooden black handlein the right front pawandsupportshis right rearpawon two superimposed, slightly offset, red bricks ."

Justification of the coat of arms: In the coat of arms book of the district of Hanover it says:

“The lion symbolizes Berenbostel's centuries of belonging to the sphere of influence of the Counts of Roden-Wunstorf . The hammer stands as a symbol for a very active small iron production, especially in the past. The bricks indicate Berenbostel's role as a manufacturing facility for building materials. "

flag

The municipal flag is striped blue - yellow - red and covered with the coat of arms.

religion

Stephanuskirche

St. Maria Regina Church

The Evangelical Lutheran Stephanuskirche was built in 1956 on Stephanusstraße, and the Stephanuspavillon in the center of Berenbostel also belongs to it. Your parish of the same name belongs to the City Church Association of Hanover .

The Evangelical Lutheran Silvanus parish with the church center on the street Auf dem Kronsberg also belongs to the city church association.

The bell of the Evangelical Parish Church in Neidenburg (today the Roman Catholic Church in Nidzica) in Masuria has been hanging in the bell tower of the Silvanus Church since July 17, 1998 . It weighs 180 kg and has a diameter of 65 cm. The strike note is c sharp ² . The inscription reads:

ANNO DOMINI 1633 FELIX TIKOL THE TIME HAUBTMANN IN NEIDENBURG 
GOS MICH NICKLAS SCHMIDICKE

In World War II in 1942 for smelting for cannons dismounted, landed the bell at the Hamburg Bell Cemetery . When the Silvanus congregation was established in 1967, a barrack church with a free-standing bell tower was built.

The Catholic Church of St. Maria Regina is located on Osterwalder Straße, and your daycare center is located on Böckeriethe. The first Catholic church in Berenbostel was built in 1954. After it had become too small , the foundation stone for today's church building was laid in 1971 elsewhere, but under the same patronage . The church with the free-standing church tower was completed in 1973 and has belonged to the parish of St. Raphael , based in the Auf der Horst district , since 2004 .

Culture and sights

Architectural monuments

→ See: List of architectural monuments in Berenbostel

Local recreation and regular events

The Bürgerpark in the center of the village is used for recreation and events, such as the traditional Matjesfest in June. Not far from the village is the district of Köllingsmoor, and the Auf dem Schacht area is also a destination for hikes via Stelingen to Engelbostel.
Various show events take place in the Rudolf-Harbig-Halle and the Nikolausfest along the Rote Reihe is one of the largest in the region.

music

At the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Berenbostel there is the nationally known Big Band Berenbostel and the stage band of the Gymnasium Berenbostels.

Economy and Infrastructure

Möbel Hesse on the B 6 federal road in Berenbostel

The shopping street along the Rote Reihe forms the center of the town. On the village square, the stone well reminds of the old brickworks of the place.

There is a furniture store and other specialist stores on federal road B 6 . Next to it is a restored steam train that has been converted into a restaurant.

Six bus routes of the Greater Hanover transport service serve 27 stops in Berenbostel, supplemented by 2 night bus routes at night.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

Henry Meyer-Brockmann (1912–1968), draftsman, illustrator, press illustrator and caricaturist
Oskar Becker (* 1927), teacher, senior teacher, philosopher, writer and novelist
Dieter Wallraff (1942–1995), politician (SPD) and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament

People connected to the place

Karl Hapke (1876–1955), painter and professor, who was best known as the “painter of old Hanover”. a. asylum in Berenbostel after the Second World War
Pauline Bubenzer, b. Fisher (1878–1964), actress who appeared under the stage name Paula Nicolai , wife of Franz Bubenzer , she died in Berenbostel
Rudolf Harbig (1913-1944), track and field athlete who was particularly successful as a middle-distance runner, a sports hall in Berenbostel was named after him
Rolf Irle (* 1935), ethnomusicologist and collector with a focus on non-European musical instruments, honorary citizen of the University of Hildesheim, until his retirement in 1994 he was deputy principal of the secondary school in Berenbostel
Fritz Baltruweit (* 1955), Evangelical Lutheran pastor and songwriter, was pastor at the Stephanus parish in Berenbostel from 1984 to 1992
Uwe Sternbeck (* 1962), politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) and from 2004 to 2019 mayor of Neustadt am Rübenberge, he grew up a. a. in Berenbostel
Erdoğan Atalay (* 1966), actor, he grew up in Berenbostel
Stefan Birkner (* 1973), politician (FDP) and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, he attended the orientation level and the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Berenbostel

Web links

Commons : Berenbostel - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Community directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 24 , district of Neustadt am Rübenberge ( digitized [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on December 10, 2019]).
↑ ^a ^b Garbsen - at a glance. (PDF; 25.2 MB) In: Website City of Garbsen. June 30, 2018, pp. 10-11 , accessed April 17, 2019 ( see p. 6 ).
^ 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. 197 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Neustadt am Rübenberge ( see under: No. 4 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). Accessed September 2018
↑ Ulrich Schubert: Municipal directory Germany 1900 - District Neustadt am Rübenberge. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. February 3, 2019, accessed December 10, 2019 .
^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Official municipality directory 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. 30 , col. 2 , District Neustadt am Rübenberge, p. 39 ( digital copy [PDF; 26.4 MB ; accessed on December 10, 2019]).
↑ Garbsen - at a glance. (PDF; 25.2 MB) In: Website City of Garbsen. June 30, 2018, pp. 16-17 , accessed April 17, 2019 ( see p. 9 ).
↑ ^a ^b Local councilor Berenbostel. In: Website City of Garbsen. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
↑ Various book titles by the author Werner Kaemling. In: Website ZVAB. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
^ Coat of arms designs by Werner Kaemling. In: Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Hanover district (ed.): Wappenbuch Landkreis Hannover . Self-published, Hanover 1985, p. 124-125 .
↑ Neidenburg home letter . No. 111 , p. 18-19 .
↑ History of the cath. Parish. In: Website Catholic parish of St. Raphael in Garbsen. Retrieved October 4, 2017 .

[destatis1973-1] Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Community directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 24 , district of Neustadt am Rübenberge ( digitized [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on December 10, 2019]).

[Einw.-2] Garbsen - at a glance. (PDF; 25.2 MB) In: Website City of Garbsen. June 30, 2018, pp. 10-11 , accessed April 17, 2019 ( see p. 6 ).

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982-3] 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. 197 .

[Rademacher-4] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Neustadt am Rübenberge ( see under: No. 4 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). Accessed September 2018

[gemeindeverzeichnis-5] Ulrich Schubert: Municipal directory Germany 1900 - District Neustadt am Rübenberge. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. February 3, 2019, accessed December 10, 2019 .

[destatis1950-6] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Official municipality directory 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. 30 , col. 2 , District Neustadt am Rübenberge, p. 39 ( digital copy [PDF; 26.4 MB ; accessed on December 10, 2019]).

[Rat-7] Garbsen - at a glance. (PDF; 25.2 MB) In: Website City of Garbsen. June 30, 2018, pp. 16-17 , accessed April 17, 2019 ( see p. 9 ).

[Ortsrat-8] Local councilor Berenbostel. In: Website City of Garbsen. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .

[ZVAB-9] Various book titles by the author Werner Kaemling. In: Website ZVAB. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .

[Kaemling-10] Coat of arms designs by Werner Kaemling. In: Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved August 9, 2017.

[Wappen-11] Hanover district (ed.): Wappenbuch Landkreis Hannover . Self-published, Hanover 1985, p. 124-125 .

[Heimatbrief-12] Neidenburg home letter . No. 111 , p. 18-19 .

[Kirche-13] History of the cath. Parish. In: Website Catholic parish of St. Raphael in Garbsen. Retrieved October 4, 2017 .