Bleckmar
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Bleckmar
City of Bergen
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| Height : | 68 (67-71) m |
| Residents : | 579 |
| Incorporation : | 1st February 1971 |
| Postal code : | 29303 |
| Area code : | 05051 |
Bleckmar is a village in the Lower Saxony city of Bergen in the northern district of Celle in the Lüneburg Heath .
geography
The place is about three kilometers north of Bergen on the federal highway 3 . The districts Bleckmar and Dageförde now belong to the village of Bleckmar. The Meiße flows through Bleckmar in a north-south direction.
history
Bleckmar was first mentioned in a document in 866 under the name Blecmeri. The farming village developed from originally two farms. In 1820 there were 150 inhabitants. That number rose to over 300 people in 1900.
Street names were only introduced in Bleckmar in 2001 after the majority of residents voted in favor of them in a poll.
On February 1, 1971 Bleckmar was incorporated into the city of Bergen.
The rural village
About five kilometers northwest of Bleckmar is the highest elevation of the Südheide and one of the highest elevations of the Lüneburg Heath, the Falkenberg with 150 m above sea level . Due to the winds falling from the hills, loess dust was blown in the vicinity of Bleckmar up to two meters thick. Extensive floating sand islands were formed east of the town. This created one of the most fertile soils in the southern heath. These areas were used for arable farming in the past. The fact that this area was settled many thousands of years ago is proven, for example, by the grave finds near Bleckmar "Wittenberg" and Wardböhmen from the Older Bronze Age (1800–1100 BC) or the seven stone houses located about 10 km to the south-west , which are from the Neolithic date. Many old farms are still preserved, some of which were first mentioned in the 14th century . Today the buildings are listed . In 1550 a water mill was built on the Meiße . It operated as a flour mill until 1973 .
In 1910 the remainder of the Celle – Soltau railway line , which until then ended in Bergen , was extended to Soltau and put into operation on April 23, 1910. From then on the railway line also ran through Bleckmar. The place received a train station. Passenger traffic was stopped in 1977. Since then, the route has only been used for military and freight traffic.
- Old farms in Bleckmar
Brammers Hof, a four-column half-timbered building , first mentioned in 1381
Lenschen Hof, first mentioned in 1520, new building in 1864
Gehrken Hof, first mentioned in 1550, probably belonged to the Billunger Gut
Ahrns Hof, first mentioned in 1563, Hof family belonged to the founders of the St. Johannis parish in 1878
Kuhlmanns Hof, hall house in four-column construction, first mentioned in 1563, probably part of the Billunger estate
Tietjen Hof, mentioned for the first time in 1563, is the only two-column house in Bleckmar that has been preserved
Mieren Hof, first mentioned in 1587, turned by 180 ° during the renovation in 1914, oldest farm in the village
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The center of the old village is the "Worth" , a square lined with oak trees. Originally the location of the “Klötzenhof”, which was granted the rights of a noble-free (exempt from taxes) property that was eligible for parliament . In the late Middle Ages it was the seat of the Billunger and fiefdoms of the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . The estate was first mentioned in 866.
politics
Since 1971 Bleckmar is a locality of the city of Bergen . Bleckmar is represented by the local council and the local mayor. The local council has, among other things, decision-making powers for the public institutions in the locality, is responsible for promoting the maintenance of the local image and club life and must be heard by the city of Bergen on all matters relating to the locality. It consists of five elected representatives, members of the Bergen municipal council from Bleckmar and the mayor of the city of Bergen.
The local council elects the local mayor , the incumbent is Gerhard Evers.
Culture and sights
St. John's Church
On December 5, 1878, the St. Johannis parish was founded. In 1879 a church and a rectory in half-timbered construction with a community room were built. The rectory was extensively renovated in 1936. In 1979 a new church building with a separate bell tower was built next to the rectory. The old church building was dismantled and dismantled. The congregations of the St. Johannes Church and the Small Cross Church in Hermannsburg have been amalgamated since 2010. They belong to the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church ( SELK ).
Missionary work
The Missionswerk Lutherische Kirchenmission (Bleckmarer Mission) eV with its seat in Bleckmar has existed since 1892 . The Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK) is the bearer of this mission. In 1896 a house for the mission was built next to the rectory. In the same year the second son of Ahrns Hof was sent to Africa as the first missionary of the Bleckmar Mission. One has been active in South Africa since the beginning . But now Botswana , Brazil , Belgium and Germany also belong to the field of work. Missionary training is no longer carried out here today. Since 2009 the house has been accommodating pilgrims and hikers who are on their way through the Lüneburg Heath on the new Jakobusweg . This mission work is led by the current mission director Roger Zieger. His predecessor Markus Nietzke moved to the parish of the local St. Johannis parish. The LKM has sent missionaries to South Africa, Botswana, Brazil, Australia and Germany. There was also a separate seminar in which missionaries were trained until 1984.
Others
- In the small farming village of Dageförde you will find half-timbered farmhouses with rich beam decorations and stairwells from the 18th century.
Architectural monuments
Farmhouse in Dageförde
Staircase in Dageförde, from the 18th century
literature
- Alfred Keseberg u. a .: Commemorative publication of the Bleckmar community for its 1,100 year celebration of Bleckmar in 1966
- Elke von Meding: Ene mene inkwell !, living stories from a school and its village Bleckmar, 50 years of childhood story told in Bleckmar, 2010 local councilor Bleckmar
- Markus Nietzke: A mission house in Bleckmar !? Home calendar. Yearbook for the Lüneburg Heath 2007.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 223 .
- ↑ Description of the stops on the Bleckmarer Rundweg
- ↑ Information on the Lower Saxony municipal constitution
- ↑ Jakobusweg Lüneburg Heath
- ↑ Volker Stolle, Mission. In: Klän / da Silva (ed.), Lutheran and independent. An introduction to the history of independent Evangelical Lutheran churches. Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8469-0106-9 , p. 58
- ↑ Homepage of the Lutheran Church Mission - Bleckmarer Mission e. V.
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