Bodenwerder

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Holzminden
Joint municipality :	Bodenwerder pollen
Height :	76 m above sea level NHN
Area :	28.94 km 2
Residents:	5573 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	193 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	37619
Area code :	05533
License plate :	HOL
Community key :	03 2 55 003
LOCODE :	DE BWR
; City administration address :	Münchhausenplatz 1 ; 37619 Bodenwerder
Website :	bodenwerder.de
Mayor :	Friedrich-Wilhelm Schmidt ( CDU )
Location of the city of Bodenwerder in the Holzminden district

Bodenwerder with the Weser

Bodenwerder is a small town in the Holzminden district in Lower Saxony . It is the birthplace and long-term residence of the " Baron of Lies" Hieronymus Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Münchhausen and has therefore had the official name affix "Münchhausenstadt" since October 25, 2013. The city is also the seat of the joint municipality of Bodenwerder-Polle . Until the end of 2010, the city had the status of a “state-approved climatic health resort ”, and since 2011 “state-approved resort ”.

geography

location

The place is between Hameln and Holzminden on the Upper Weser . To the southeast of it lies the Vogler . The Lenne flows into the Weser at Bodenwerder .

City structure

Bodenwerder
Buchhagen
Kemnade
lens
Rühle

history

In the vicinity of the Kemnade monastery , after 960 AD, a market settlement with the name Insula ( Werder , in the original sense of an island in a river) arose on an island in the Weser opposite the Lenne estuary .

In 1245 knight Heinrich II. Von Homburg bought the settlement from the Corvey Monastery and on January 29, 1287 gave it city rights . "Consules" was first mentioned in 1284. In 1289 there was already an important bridge over the Weser, which established a connection between the main traffic routes between Hameln – Paderborn and Einbeck – Frankfurt am Main. Around 1340, through a manorial act by one of the Homburg Bodones, a systematically built complex with walls and towers was created, hence the derivation of today's city name from "Bodonis insula", "Bodo Island": "Bodenwerder". After the Homburgs died out in 1409, the city belonged to the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , and in 1521 after the Hildesheim collegiate feud to the Principality of Calenberg under Erich I.

From 1418 the town acquired extensive forest holdings in Vogler . In 1442 the family was Hake invested with ownership interests in Bodenwerder, her official or residential building was probably the day Schulenburg called Free Sattelhof . The Gothic parish church of St. Nikolai was built between 1460 and 1470 as a three-aisled hall church. In the bell tower there is still a bell from 1471. In 1542 and 1543 the Reformation was introduced. In the church there is a baptismal font from 1608. In the years 1899 and 1900 a new chancel was created in the south of the church, in 1960/62 a radical redesign of the church with inventory took place.

Merian engraving by Bodenwerder, around 1654

Statius von Münchhausen (1555–1633), a son of the rich field bishop and mercenary leader Hilmar von Münchhausen (1512–1573), had the manor house built. However, he mainly lived in the important Bevern and Leitzkau castles, which he also built . He built an official seat similar to Bodenwerder in Bolzum .

One of his descendants was Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Münchhausen , an officer in Russian service, who retired to his estate in Bodenwerder in 1750 and there told friends his imaginatively decorated hunting and soldier adventures, which against his express will by foreign authors, especially Gottfried August Citizens when "Lies" were expanded and published. From 1810 to 1813, the city and the canton of Bodenwerder belonged to the Rinteln district in the Kingdom of Westphalia .

Bodenwerder during floods of the Weser, 2011

In 1935, the city acquired the manor house of Baron Münchhausen, who died in 1797, and still uses it as the town hall today. It integrated a memorial room for the city's most famous son, which can be visited.

At that time Bodenwerder belonged to the Electorate of Hanover ( Kingdom of Hanover from 1814 ). With the annexation of Hanover in 1866, the city of Bodenwerder also became part of Prussia . In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, two men died, whose memory is preserved in a war memorial.

In 1886 a saltwater spring containing iodine was drilled.

During industrialization, inland shipping yards (including the Arminius shipyard ) and building materials industries (including the United Building Material Works Bodenwerder from 1946 , known from 1961 with the global Rigips brand ) settled there.

Religions

There are two Evangelical Lutheran parishes in Bodenwerder (Parish I and II) with the St. Nicolai Church and the St. Marien Monastery Church in Kemnade . There is also the Roman Catholic parish of St. Maria Königin . There is also a New Apostolic church congregation . There is also a free evangelical congregation called Generation Church - Church for all generations.

In the district of Buchhagen is the small, secluded Orthodox Trinity Monastery , which is still under construction . It has existed since the early 1990s and is the first German Orthodox monastery . Formally ( under canon law ) it is subordinate to the metropolis of the Bulgarian Orthodox Diocese of Western and Central Europe.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1973, the municipalities of Buchhagen, Kemnade, Linse and Rühle were incorporated.

Population development

Population development of Bodenwerder from 1860 to 2016. Lower curve: population for the area before the incorporations; Upper curve: Population figures for the current area

1860: 1300 inhabitants
1933: 1840 inhabitants
1961: 3235 inhabitants (on the day of the census, June 6; with the later incorporated towns: 5761 inhabitants)
1970: 3464 inhabitants (on the day of the census, May 27; with the later incorporated towns: 5898 inhabitants)
1973: 5967 inhabitants (on the day of incorporation, January 1st)
1987: 6,029 inhabitants (on the day of the census, May 25)
1996: 6450 inhabitants
2002: 6308 inhabitants
2005: 6089 inhabitants
2007: 5875 inhabitants
2008: 5762 inhabitants
2009: 5646 inhabitants
2010: 5582 inhabitants
2011: 5701 inhabitants
2012: 5707 inhabitants
2013: 5621 inhabitants
2014: 5634 inhabitants
2015: 5597 inhabitants
2016: 5547 inhabitants
2017: 5562 inhabitants

politics

Municipal election 2016

%

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

46.66%

45.98%

7.36%

SPD

CDU

FDP

mayor

since 2016 Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidt (CDU)

2012–2016 Elke Perdacher (SPD)
2009–2012 Friedrich-Wilhelm Schmidt (CDU)
2006–2008 Karl-Gerhard Sievers (SPD)
1996-2006 Hartmut Schüler (CDU)
1981–1996: Karl-Gerhard Sievers (SPD)
1957– ?: Fritz Sagebiel (SPD)
1874-1885: A. Quentin
1867–1873: Cuno von Schulzen

Culture and sights

Schulenburg with Munchausen Museum

museum

Munchausen Museum in the Schulenburg

Buildings

Münchhausen Castle , a former manor house , today the town hall

Munchausen Fountain at the Munchausen Museum

Münchhausen Castle , former manor house of the von Münchhausen family estate and birthplace of Hieronymus von Münchhausen , who became known as the baron of lies

Schulenburg , a stone residential tower from around 1300 on the estate of the von Münchhausen family

Remains of the medieval city fortifications (bastion and gate tower)

Romanesque monastery church St. Marien in the Kemnade district

Defense chapel opposite the monastery church

Chapel of St. Gertrudis (Corvinus Gallery)

City Church of St. Nicolai

Bismarck Tower , a 13 m high observation tower on the Eckberg (built in 1913, inaugurated on September 21, 1913)

Regular events

Cherry blossom festival in Rühler Switzerland (April)
Awarding of the Münchhausen Prize (September)
Münchhausen game at the town hall (every first Sunday from May to October)
Münchhausen Musical (every second and fourth Sunday from May to September)
Festival of lights on the Weser with the largest fireworks display in northern Germany (second Saturday in August)
Castle park lighting in Hehlener Castle (every two years in August)
City Games Festival on the Promenade (third Sunday in August)
Open Monument Day (September)
Advent concert of the choirs in the monastery church Kemnade (December)
Sterntalermarkt (December)
KulturMühle cultural center

Excursion destinations

Bodenwerder summer toboggan run (including mini golf and billiard golf )

Indoor swimming pool at the Oberschule Bodenwerder

Dockers for the Weser fleet

Weser promenade

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Road traffic Bodenwerder is on federal roads 83 and 240 and on state road 587 as well as on the Weserradweg .

Rail traffic On October 9, 1900, the Vorwohle – Bodenwerder – Emmerthal railway was opened with the Buchhagen, Bodenwerder-Linse and Bodenwerder-Kemnade stations. Passenger traffic has been discontinued since 1982 and freight traffic since 2000.

Companies

Branch of Saint-Gobain Rigips GmbH

Public facilities

Recyclable waste collection point of the Holzminden district in Kemnade (since 1991)
The Bodenwerder volunteer fire brigade provides fire protection and general help.

education

urban kindergarten
Protestant kindergarten
Grundwerder primary school
Oberschule Bodenwerder
Münchhausenschule - special school with a focus on learning

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Louis Adolf Heinrich Knopf (1832–1919), doctor and secret medical adviser

sons and daughters of the town

Johann Bernhard Friese (1643–1726), legal scholar

Christian Heinrich Behm (1662–1740), consistorial councilor, abbot in Amelungsborn monastery

Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen (1720–1797), known as Baron Münchhausen, who through his stories of lies , e.g. B. the ride on the cannonball , became famous

Julius Scharlach (1842–1908), lawyer and colonial entrepreneur

Johannes Körting (1856–1952), engineer

Hermann August von Münchhausen (1856–1922), landowner and horse breeder

Wilhelm Beye (1881–1960), farmer, politician ( DVP ), member of the Braunschweig State Parliament 1927–1930

Ernst Katzenstein (1897–1989), lawyer

Erich Hansmann (1920–1989), German politician ( SPD ), member of the Lower Saxony state parliament 1959–1965

Willi Waike (* 1938), German politician (SPD), member of the Lower Saxony state parliament 1982–1994, Lower Saxony finance minister 1996–1998

Friedrich Buttler (* 1941), economist

Jonatan Briel (1942–1988), film director and screenwriter, founded the youth film studio Holzminden in 1962

Klaus Ritterbusch (* 1947), painter and photographer

Wolfgang-Uwe Friedrich (* 1952), President of the University of Hildesheim

Other personalities associated with the city

Jacobine von Dunten (1726–1790), wife of Baron Münchhausen
Werner Lämmerhirt (1949–2016), guitarist; lived last and died in Bodenwerder
Oliver Sauerland (* 1974), grew up in Bodenwerder and owns a record label in Hanover

literature

The landscape around Bodenwerder is the setting of Wilhelm Raabe's novel Alte Nester from 1881.
Bodenwerder . In: Matthäus Merian : Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg ( Wikisource )