Bodenfelde

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 38 '  N , 9 ° 33'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Northeim
Height :	118 m above sea level NHN
Area :	19.86 km 2
Residents:	3039 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	153 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	37194
Area code :	05572
License plate :	NOM, EIN, GAN
Community key :	03 1 55 002
Community structure:	3 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Amelither Strasse 23 37194 Bodenfelde
Website :	www.bodenfelde.de
Mayor :	Mirko von Pietrowski ( independent )
Location of the municipality of Bodenfelde in the Northeim district

Bodenfelde is a municipality and a patch in the Northeim district in Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

geography

View from the south of the harbor and ev. Church

location

Bodenfelde is located on the southern edge of the Solling-Vogler Nature Park in the Upper Weser Valley . The place is located between the low mountain range Solling in the north and the Reinhardswald in the south. Bodenfelde is located directly northeast of an elongated meander of the Weser , into which the Reiherbach flowing in a north-south direction through the village flows.

Bodenfelde is between 105 and 145  m above sea level. NN and is surrounded by wooded mountains of the Weserbergland . To the west rises the Kahlberg ( 224.7  m ) and to the southeast behind the Feldberg ( 217.4  m ) the Kiffing ridge near the north Hessian village of Lippoldsberg . The highest mountains near Bodenfelde are the Kaltewarte ( 340.7  m ) to the northeast of the village and the Hilmersberg ( 361.8  m ) to the north . With an area of around 20 km², Bodenfelde is the smallest municipality in the Northeim district in terms of area.

Community structure

Bodenfelde consists of the following localities :

	Bodenfelde (core town)
	Nienover , north of Bodenfelde in the valley of the Reiherbach in Solling, consisting of the localities of Nienover, Amelith and Polier
	Wahmbeck , west of Bodenfelde in the Weser valley

history

Middle Ages, modern times

The first documented mention of Bodenfelde, which can be precisely dated, comes from a document issued by Emperor Ludwig the Pious on June 8, 833. The place name is spelled Budinisvelt there . Three mentions in the traditions of the Corvey Monastery , the Traditiones Corbeienses , from around 822 to 826 cannot be precisely dated and are only preserved in a copy from the 15th century.

The first mentions refer to brine springs near Bodenfelde, to which rights were transferred to the Corvey Monastery. Corvey sold this to the Lippoldsberg monastery in 1278 . At the time of the County of Dassel , Bodenfelde was a border town on the Upper Weser in the southwest. The counts had therefore set up a customs post here. Together with Bodenfeld's Wahmbeck district , it was sold to the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel in 1270 .

When Bodenfelde was awarded city rights in 1437, Otto II withdrew the salt rights of the monastery. Soon afterwards, the place lost its town charter, as it was now classified as a town in order to strengthen the market charter. The brine springs were used for salt production from the early Middle Ages until 1680.

For centuries, the forests and valleys around Bodenfelde served as locations for forest glassworks , such as the early forest glassworks in Kreickgrund and the later forest glassworks in Reiherbachtal . In 1776 the mirror glass works Amelith was built , which created two new locations near Bodenfelde with Amelith and Polier. For a long time, the livelihood structure of the place was not only characterized by agriculture, but also by salt extraction, and shipping on the Weser also played a role. In the Thirty Years' War which was Saline destroyed. In the 19th and 20th centuries consisted synagogue Bodenfelde that in 2006 to Göttingen translocated was.

In 1896 a factory for the production of charcoal and wood vinegar was established . It later traded under the name Holzverkohlungwerk Bodenfelde . In 1926 the glass blowing was stopped. During the Second World War , Bodenfelde was largely saved from destruction. During this time, forced labor was used in the charring factory . The factory produced carbon black for making tires. With a population of 2072 people in 1944, around 350 forced laborers worked in the charring plant; these were composed mainly of Eastern workers , Dutch, Italians and French.

On March 1, 1974, the municipalities of Wahmbeck, Nienover (with the localities of Nienover, Amelith and Polier) and Bodenfelde were combined to form a single municipality of Flecken Bodenfelde.

Until the end of 2010, Bodenfelde was a state-approved resort .

Place names

The old names of the place are 822–826 Budinifelde, 822–876, 833 Budinisvelt, 10th century Budinoveldun, 976–979 Budinueldun, 980 Budineveldon, after 1078 Budineveld and before 1158 Budeneueld. “Budina-” goes back to “bhudh-” and is related to the meaning field “water”. Possible meanings are "inflate", "swell", "mud puddle", "puddle", "puddle", "throw bubbles", "foam", "roar", "boil", "wave break", "surf".

Bodenfelde in the media

In January 2001, a taxi driver was found stabbed to death in a closet in his home. The perpetrator was a woman.

In 2007/08 the case of Bodenfelde's “black widow” caused a sensation. Between 1994 and 2000, a former prostitute had made four pensioners between the ages of 71 and 84, whom she met through personals and of whom she had married, defenseless with tranquilizers and then had them suffocated by an accomplice who was 14 years her junior Acquiring assets. In the summer of 2008 she was sentenced to life imprisonment for quadruple murder , stating the severity of the guilt she was serving in the prison for women in Vechta . The accomplice, whose confession led to the uncovering of the crimes on August 27, 2007, was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment in the Rosdorf correctional facility because he was psychologically dependent on the woman and therefore reduced culpable for triple murder and manslaughter in one case served.

Parish hall of the free church

On November 21, 2010, the bodies of a 13-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl were found in a forest in the village. A 26-year-old man from Uslar was arrested two days later and confessed to killing both on November 15 and 20, 2010. The regional court in Göttingen sentenced him to life imprisonment on June 27, 2011 as a double murderer, including one for sexual motives and one insidious to cover up the previous murder; Placement in a psychiatric hospital and subsequent preventive detention , when the legal process was exhausted, the judgment became final in January 2012.

religion

The Bodenfelde Free Church is a member of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches .

politics

Municipal election 2016

Turnout: 51.85%

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39.79%

31.22%

23.59%

5.39%

SPD

CDU

GB

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Remarks:

^d single applicant Frank Strautmann

Municipal council

The municipal elections on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following distribution of seats in the municipal council :

Party / list	Seats
SPD	6th
CDU	4th
New Bodenfelde group	3
Individual applicants	1

mayor

In the election for mayor on May 25, 2014, Mirko von Pietrowski ( independent ) prevailed with 82.8% of the votes against competitor Stefan Fiege (SPD) with 17.2% of the votes. The turnout was 68.5%.

Community partnerships

A community partnership existed with the community of Spital am Pyhrn in Austria from 1977 to 2018. After more than 40 years, Spital terminated the partnership.

coat of arms

A memory of the time under the Counts of Dassel has been preserved in Bodenfeld's coat of arms. The coat of arms of the counts showed eight-ended deer antlers , while the Bodenfelder coat of arms contains a four-ended stag pole.

Economy and Infrastructure

Charcoal factory proFagus
On the right the wood is delivered and stored. Processing takes place on the left in the buildings

Gier cable ferry on the Weser near Bodenfelde-Wahmbeck

Industry

Charcoal has been industrially produced in Bodenfelde since 1896 . The company proFagus employs around 150 people (as of 2019) and is the market leader for barbecue charcoal in Germany. It also sells the by-products of smoke aromas, acetic acid and tar from charring.

traffic

Bodenfelde is connected to Ottbergen - Paderborn and Northeim by the Solling Railway and to Göttingen via the Oberweserbahn . The place was connected to the railway network in 1878.

The local port is served by passenger ships. In addition, the place is on the Weserradweg and Weserberglandweg .

school

The Heinrich Roth comprehensive school is located in the village.

Culture and sights

Regular events

The historic Schüttenhoff festival is celebrated in Bodenfelde every five to six years . The second weekend in November is the annual fair. Living history events take place in the Nienover district in the summer months .

Buildings and monuments

Evangelical Christ Church

The Christ Church, whose Protestant congregation belongs to the parish of Leine-Solling , was built between 1853 and 1855 in the neo-Romanesque style. Your tower has been preserved from the Middle Ages. Since the place is located on the Weser cycle path as well as on the Solling-Vogler mountain bike region , it was named a cycle path church in 2013 . The church's organ and baptismal font were installed in 1856 shortly after the nave was built. In 1888, lightning destroyed the spire, which was replaced by a new, tapered roof in neo-Gothic style.

There is also a local museum and a mansion from the early 20th century. Another cultural monument is the Jewish cemetery .

The architectural monuments of the municipality of Bodenfelde are listed in the list of architectural monuments in Bodenfelde .

societies

• Shooting club
• SC Bodenfelde
• FC Weser ( football , merger of SC Bodenfelde, TSV Lippoldsberg and TSV Wahmbeck )
• DLRG Bodenfelde

sons and daughters of the town

• Jakob Freudenthal (1839–1907), historian of philosophy
• Gustav Henckell (1859–1942), canning manufacturer
• Friedrich Wasmuth (1882–1967), Protestant pastor and head of the Birkenhof reformatory in Hanover

literature

• Detlev Herbst: Jewish life in Solling - the Synagogue Association Bodenfelde-Uslar-Lippoldsberg and the Synagogue Community Lauenförde . Uslar 1997
• Lutz Hoffmann u. a .: Between the field and the factory: Everyday workers in the village from the turn of the century until today; the social history of the Bodenfelde chemical plant from 1896 to 1986 . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1986. ISBN 3-923478-23-2
• Walter Junge: Chronicle of the area Bodenfelde - from the beginnings to the present . Bodenfelde 1983
• Walter Junge, Thomas Thiele: Flecken Bodenfelde with its villages Bodenfelde, Nienhover and Wahmbeck - the day before yesterday, yesterday and today . Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1987. ISBN 3-89264-164-1
• Klaus Kunze : Ortssippenbuch Bodenfelde , The Inhabitants from 1585–1950. Heikun-Verlag, Uslar 2012. ISBN 978-3-933334-23-7 .
• Balzer Rock: The local history of Bodenfelde . Klapproth printing house, Uslar 1940

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Bodenfelde  - travel guide

• Website of the Bodenfelde community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} main statute of the area Bodenfelde. Retrieved January 22, 2019 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Flecken Bodenfelde: Localities . Retrieved March 23, 2011.
4. ^ Kirstin Casemir, Franziska Menzel, Uwe Ohainski: The place names of the district of Northeim . In: Jürgen Udolph (Hrsg.): Lower Saxony Place Name Book (NOB) . Part V. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89534-607-1 , p. 60 ff .
5. ↑ Hans-Heinz Emons , Hans-Henning Walter: Alte Salinen in Mitteleuropa, 1988, p. 120
6. ^ Walter Junge: Bodenfelde, in: Glastechnischeberichte, Volume 48, 1975, p. 19
7. ↑ The importance of the cemetery and the synagogue in Bodenfelde
8. ↑ Lutz Hoffmann, Uwe Neumann, Wolfgang Schäfer: Between field and factory, Verlag Die Werkstatt , 1986, p. 23
9. ↑ Volker Zimmermann [Ed.], Suffering prevented forgetting: Forced laborers in Göttingen and their medical care in the university clinics, Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen, 2007. ISBN 3-8353-0152-7 . P. 149.
10. ↑ Lower Saxony State Parliament, 16th electoral period, printed matter 16/3359: Small question “What is the significance of predicates such as 'state-approved climatic health resort' especially for heather tourism and the tourism industry in Lower Saxony?" (PDF; 102 kB) . Retrieved March 22, 2011.
11. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on August 17, 2014 ; accessed on August 3, 2019 . 
12. ↑ CLAUDIA WITTKE-GAIDA: 3600 inhabitants, seven brutal violent crimes in 16 years. Horror lives in Bodenfelde: the murder village. November 24, 2010, accessed on January 22, 2019 (German). 
13. ↑ Black Widow: Buyers of their house do not have to pay any damages. April 15, 2014, accessed January 22, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Press release No. 14/09 from January 19, 2009. Retrieved January 22, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Series of murders: Life sentence for "Black Widow" . In: Spiegel Online . July 3, 2008 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 22, 2019]).
16. ↑ Jürgen Dahlkamp, ​​Michael Fröhlingsdorf: Crime: The Black Widow . In: Der Spiegel . January 28, 2008 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 22, 2019]).
17. ↑ Teenage murder in Bodenfelde: Lifelong for double murderer Jan O. In: Spiegel Online . June 27, 2011 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 22, 2019]).
18. ↑ Press release No. 13/12 from January 23, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2019 . 
19. ^ ^{A b} Lower Saxony municipal elections 2016 - Municipal council elections in the Northeim district: All figures and results. In: Website Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine (HNA). September 11, 2016, accessed November 10, 2019 . 
20. ↑ Jürgen Dumnitz: Austrian community Spital terminates the partnership with Bodenfelde. In: Website Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine (HNA). March 9, 2018, accessed November 10, 2019 . 
21. ↑ Michael Caspar: Charcoal manufacturer wants to grow in the area of ​​smoke aromas. Bodenfelder proFagus GmbH wants to grow in the area of ​​smoke aromas. The company is the market leader in high-quality, environmentally friendly barbecue charcoal. In: Göttinger Tageblatt . July 18, 2019, accessed on July 19, 2019 (article in the print edition of July 19, 2019, page 7.). 
22. ↑ AU Belz: proFagus. In: profagus.de. Retrieved July 19, 2019 . 
23. ↑ Double award for Christ Church
24. ↑ Christ Church on radwegekirchen.de, accessed on July 19, 2018
25. ^ Klaus Kunze: 1904 Jacob Freudenthals Enlightenment. Retrieved January 22, 2019 . 
26. ↑ Klaus Kunze: 1856 The opposing brothers - the industrialist and the social revolutionary. Retrieved January 22, 2019 .