Bettmar (Vechelde)

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Bettmar
Vechelde municipality
Bettmar coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 29 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 39 ″  E
Height : 83 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.59 km²
Residents : 993  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 151 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 38159
Area code : 05302
Bettmar (Lower Saxony)
Bettmar

Location of Bettmar in Lower Saxony
Location of Bettmar in the municipality of Vechelde
Location of Bettmar in the municipality of Vechelde

Bettmar is a district of the municipality of Vechelde in the Peine district in Lower Saxony . It is not to be confused with Bettmar , also from Lower Saxony , which is only 23 kilometers away and is part of the community of Schellerten in the Hildesheim district .

geography

Geographical location

Bettmar is located on the Bundesstrasse 1 (former Reichsstrasse 1 ) between Braunschweig (12 km) and Hildesheim (29 km). The municipal reference point is Vechelde (3 km) and the district town of Peine (12 km) is in the immediate vicinity. The next train station is Vechelde on the Hanover – Brunswick – Magdeburg – Berlin line .

The village is located in the Peiner lowland bay ( Leine - Oker ). The Feldmark is poorly structured at 77 to 85 meters above sea level. The western border is formed by the Pisserbach floodplain, which rises south of Bodenstedt and flows into the Fuhse after a few kilometers , as well as the Großer Holz , in the north and east it meets the field marks of Sierße and Vechelde without natural borders , and extends in the south up to the Uhlen ( small wood ).

Neighboring places

Schmedenstedt (Peine) Sir Choose
Münstedt ( Ilsede ) Neighboring communities Vechelde
Gross Lafferde (Ilsede) Liedingen Kochingen

history

Place name

The final syllable "-mar" goes back to the Old High German word mari and means "swampy area". Later, the village was given the addition “before the Lange Wisch” (= meadow) or “bei der Lange Wisch”, probably to distinguish it from the other village of the same name. In 1146 the place name Bethmare was written, in the 13th century also Betmare / Betmere, and the current spelling has been used since the 17th century.

Local history

Bettmar is mentioned in writing for the first time in the founding document of the Godehardikloster in Hildesheim from March 11, 1146. Bettmar was then in Ostfalengau and belonged to the County of Peine. Due to the disputes between the heirs of Heinrich the Lion and the Bishop of Hildesheim , the county of Peine was divided. The eastern part remained a Guelph area until modern times and became a half-court . Bettmar became a border town to the Hildesheim Monastery and belonged to the Wolfenbüttel line of the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg .

Bettmar was the seat of a bailiff that belonged to the Wolfenbüttel residence office until 1807. During the Napoleonic period, the canton of Bettmar belonged to the Oker department . In 1814, Bettmar became the seat of a district court and remained so until 1825 when Vechelde became the new location. Bettmar lost its administrative importance in the Duchy of Braunschweig , which it held for almost 600 years.

When the district of Braunschweig was split up during the Lower Saxony regional and administrative reform in 1974 , Bettmar and the western part came to the district of Peine . On March 1, 1974, the village also lost its independence and is now part of the municipality of Vechelde .

Half course Bettmar

After the Peine Castle was destroyed by the Guelphs in 1192, the part of the County of Peine located after Braunschweig - the Gogericht an der Pisser or Bettmar District Court - came under the dependency of the Guelphs. From now on, this area was administered jointly by the Bishops of Hildesheim and the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg as the highest exempt counts. The Bettmar Regional Court continued the tradition of the old Count's Court in Peine. Three different courts met in Bettmar: the free court, the regional court and the Vogtding. The court days took place in the week after Michaelmas .

Governors in Bettmar

(The names have been known since the 16th century, they were assigned subordinates and counts )

  1. Claus Brödersen (Brodersenn), around 1550
  2. Christopherus Kühfus, until 1582
  3. Heinrich Weyberg (Weiberg), 1582 to before 1626
  4. Heinrich Heine, before 1634
  5. Jürgen Voigtländer, around 1634 to before 1663
  6. Julius Eberhard Voigtländer (son of 5th), before 1663–1679
  7. Johann Georg Eickhart
  8. NN. Hassel
  9. Johann Georg Bodinus, 1686–1694
  10. Werner Andreas Frankenfeld, 1694-1720
  11. August Ulrich Balcke, 1720–1752
  12. Jacob Christoph Balcke (son of 11th),? –1767
  13. Johann Friedrich Weise, 1767–1777
  14. NN. Bertram, 1777-1797
  15. Ernst Christian Greve, 1797–1807

District Court of Bettmar

In 1814, the lower state administration in the Duchy of Braunschweig was reorganized. The focus was on the judiciary, whereby the duchy was divided into reporting circles, with the district courts at the head. They were also given general administration, which was in the hands of the respective district administrator. Bettmar became the seat of such a district court and thus remained the center of attention for 27 villages.

The first and last district administrator in Bettmar was Carl Friedrich Pini, 1814–1825. On October 1, 1825, the district court was relocated to Vechelde. Bettmar lost its administrative importance for the places west of Braunschweig.

Post connection

Bettmar had had a post office since 1814 and the district court had been relocated there. When it was moved to Velchelde in 1825, the post office was also suspended. The consignments then had to be posted in Vechelde. Since 1815 there have only been handwritten place notes on letters without a date. For more on postal history, see the Braunschweig-Hildesheim postal route .

Population development

year Residents source
1843 843
1877 823
1890 889
1910 871
1939 852
1950 1540
1956 1295
year Residents source
1961 1107
1970 964
2010 917
September 30, 2014 935
Oct. 31, 2017 970
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politics

Local council

The local council of Bettmar consists of three councilors and four councilors. The local council also has two advisory members (SPD / Greens).

year SPD CDU total was standing
2016 4th 3 7 seats Local election on September 11, 2016
2011 4th 3 7 seats Local election on September 11, 2011
2006 5 2 7 seats Local election on September 10, 2006

Local mayor

The local mayor is Lothar Kothe (SPD).

coat of arms

Coat of arms Bettmar (Vechelde) (ngw.nl) .jpg

Bettmar's coat of arms shows an upright sword in alternating colors in the middle of the red and gold split shield. The two-part shield symbolizes the location of Bettmar as a border town between the territories of the bishops of Hildesheim and the Duchy of Braunschweig. The sword stands for the exercise of the cross-border function of the judiciary. The colors red and gold reflect both the traditional ducal-Brunswick colors and the colors of the Hildesheim monastery.

The coat of arms was approved by the local council on September 11, 1991, the design comes from Arnold Rabbow.

church

Bettmar village church

The village church of Bettmar is on the outskirts of the village, whose oldest building it is. A pastor in Bettmar is mentioned as early as 1301. The founding date of the church, which was redesigned in 1679 and 1766, also dates back to this time. The Lutheran Reformation was supported by Duke Ernst "the Confessor" and entered Bettmar before 1542.

Most of the population of Bettmar today belongs to the Protestant church, whose pastoral office is in Bettmar and from which the - otherwise independent - parish of Sierße is also supplied. Bettmar belongs to the Vechelde provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig . The Catholic residents belong to the parish of Vechelde within the diocese of Hildesheim .

school

As early as 1750, a school house was mentioned in Bettmar, which had to be replaced by a new one in 1807, which in turn had to give way to a new building in 1893. In the 1980s, the Bettmarer School lost its independence and became a branch of the Albert Schweitzer Primary School Vechelde. The last headmaster in Bettmar was Alfred Böhm from 1961 to 1982.

Sons and daughters of the place

curiosity

After Bettmar was incorporated into the municipality of Vechelde as part of the municipality reform in 1974, some street names in the village had to be changed.

The previous “Dorfstrasse” should also be given a new name. When looking at the oak tree on this street - a natural monument - the Bettmaraner called the street “Eichen-Dorfstraße”. In the town hall in Vechelde, however, they knew that the spelling of the name could not be correct. In memory of the poet, they simply wrote “ Eichendorffstrasse ” and had the corresponding signs put up.

literature

  • Wilhelm Bornstedt : Chronicle of the community Vechelde 973–1973. 2 vols., Vechelde 1973.
  • Heinrich Munk, Gerold Mertens, Bodo Minderlein: Bettmar on the Long Meadow. Braunschweig 1996.

Web links

Commons : Bettmar  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures . In: Website of the municipality of Vechelde. December 31, 2018, accessed March 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 267 .
  3. ^ Karl Andree : Geographie des Welthandels , 3rd volume, Julius Maier, Stuttgart 1877, p. 751.
  4. ^ Municipal directory Germany 1900, Duchy of Braunschweig, Braunschweig district. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. 2014, accessed May 19, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Population figures . In: Website of the municipality of Vechelde. September 30, 2014, archived from the original on October 15, 2014 ; accessed on May 19, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Population figures . In: Website of the municipality of Vechelde. August 31, 2017, archived from the original on September 25, 2017 ; accessed on May 19, 2018 .
  7. ↑ a b The local council of Bettmar. In: Council information system of the municipality of Vechelde. Retrieved May 19, 2018 .
  8. ^ Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch. Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , p. 149.
  9. ↑ Bettmar's coat of arms. In: ngw.nl. Retrieved May 19, 2018.