Boffzen

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Boffzen
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Coordinates: 51 ° 45 '  N , 9 ° 24'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Holzminden
Joint municipality : Boffzen
Height : 121 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.04 km 2
Residents: 2718 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 338 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 37691
Area code : 05271
License plate : HOL
Community key : 03 2 55 004
LOCODE : DE BFF
Association administration address: Heinrich-Ohm-Strasse 21
37691 Boffzen
Website : www.boffzen.de
Mayoress : Gudrun Raßmann ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Boffzen in the Holzminden district
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Boffzen is a municipality on the Weser in the Holzminden district in southern Lower Saxony ( Germany ) and the seat of the Boffzen municipality of the same name for the municipalities of Fürstenberg , Lauenförde and Derental .

Geographical location

Boffzen is located on the western edge of the Solling low mountain range east of the Weser between the North Rhine-Westphalian towns of Höxter in the north and Beverungen in the south. The Rottmünde flows into the Weser in Boffzen.

history

middle Ages

Boffzen was first mentioned in a document under the name Boffeshus in the Corveyer traditions . A land donation is recorded there in Latin. Translated it says: "It gave Adalbod a hoof for the salvation of his brother Swyricdac in Boffeshus ".

The name Boffzen is one of the patronymic place names and means "settlement of Boffi". The -hausen type is a common educational element of early medieval settlement names in the Low German language area. The name Boffi is not unknown. The most famous bearer of this name is Abbot Bovo I von Corvey (879-890). He was the nepos of Abbot Warin I (Corvey) . Unfortunately, the term nepos is ambiguous. In this context, a deserted area in Essezen is interesting. It is very likely based on a name for an Asic / Esic. A comes Beffo who died around 855 is said to have been the brother of this Asic. A well-known Asig (Esikonen) was comes in Hessengau . This Asic / Asig was married to Ida the Younger, probably a daughter of dux Ekbert (Saxony) , in his second marriage . It is therefore not unlikely that the places Boffzen and Essezen go back to the same Asic and his brother Beffo or to the abbot Bovo I. The similarity of names between Beffo and Bovo makes it plausible that they were related, most likely through Ida the Younger and Asic. Bovo I would also be Warin's nephew “nepos”.

The von Boffessen family of knights and ministers was first mentioned in documents at the end of the 12th century. The landlords owned farms and lands in Maygadessen near Godelheim , in Bosseborn and in Höxter . Konrad von Boffessen took part in the 5th crusade to the Holy Land. In the 15th century, the aristocratic family experienced social decline. Knights were no longer in demand at a time when firearms and the mercenary system were becoming established. The trace of the von Boffessen family is finally lost in the 18th century.

In the Middle Ages there was a Weser island opposite Boffzen, mentioned in 1375.

Boffzen in literature

Boffzen with its Landwehr tower together with the porcelain manufacturer Fürstenberg the Handlungsort in 1898 published historical narrative Hastenbeck of Wilhelm Raabe .

Boffzen in the media

In 1991 the place gained national fame when two police officers were murdered in a forest parking lot near Boffzen .

Population development

1821 1848 1871 1910 1925 1933 1939 1996 2006 2011 2017
Residents 920 1136 1368 2082 1893 1830 1969 3193 2917 2701 2737

politics

2011 municipal election
Turnout: 52.71% (2006: 58.27%)
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
50.64%
35.90%
8.13%
5.33%
Gains and losses
compared to 2006
 % p
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   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
-2.87  % p
-4.81  % p.p.
+ 8.13  % p.p.
-0.45  % p

Municipal council

The local election on September 11, 2011 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

  • SPD : 7 seats (± 0)
  • CDU : 4 seats (-1)
  • GREEN : 1 seat (+1)
  • FDP : 1 seat (± 0)

Local elections 2016:

  • SPD: 6
  • CDU: 5th
  • FDP: 1
  • UWGB: 1

mayor

1981–1986 Horst Adler (FDP)

  • 1986-2006: Marlies Loges (SPD)
  • 2006–2016: Horst Menzel (SPD)
  • 2016–2020: Christian Perl (CDU)
  • since 2020: Gudrun Raßmann (SPD)

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Boffzen
 Blazon : “Split by a silver (white) wavy thread of red and blue. In front two silver (white), gold (yellow) inseminated roses and two golden (yellow) bars, behind three golden (yellow) ears, covered with a silver (white) wine glass adorned with seven green knobs. "
Justification of the coat of arms: The colors of the coat of arms remind of the former affiliation to the Corvey monastery . The roses come from the coat of arms of the local lords of Boffessen. The wavy thread symbolizes the Weser , the ears of wheat stand for agriculture and the wine glass for the decades-long local glass industry.

Banner Boffzen.svg 00Banner: "The banner is blue-yellow-red striped lengthways with the coat of arms above the middle."
Flag Boffzen.svg 00Hoisted flag: "The flag has blue, yellow and red stripes with the coat of arms in the middle."

partnership

  • Since June 1977 with the French community of Villers-sur-Mer in the Calvados department
  • With the community of Nachterstedt in Saxony-Anhalt

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The common national roads 549/550 lead through Boffzen from Brückfeld near Höxter as Bahnhofstrasse to the town center. From there the L 549 (Sollingtor, Neuhäuser Straße) leads east to Neuhaus im Solling and the L 550 (Radstaken) to Fürstenberg (Weser) . To the north of the junction at the old customs house, the L 550 leads east from Lüchtringen to Holzminden .

The Boffzen stop was on the now closed Holzminden – Scherfede railway . The nearest train stations are Höxter Rathaus on the Altenbeken – Kreiensen railway line ( KBS 403 and 355) and Lauenförde-Beverungen on the Ottbergen – Northeim / Göttingen ( Sollingbahn ) railway line (KBS 356).

Establishments

Glassworks Noelle + von Campe (headquarters)

In 1866, the Bartling & Co. glassworks was founded in Boffzen, which has been renamed Noelle + von Campe Glashütte since it was renamed in 1874 . Today the company with around 450 employees produces glass packaging for the food industry.

The former Georgshütte was opened as a further glass factory in 1872 and closed in 1989.

The other medium-sized companies in Boffzen include one of the seven national main branches of Hansa-Flex AG with a branch of the metal hoses division.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Church of the Redeemer and war memorial in Boffzen

societies

  • 1857 Foundation of the men's choir from 1857
  • 1873 Founding of the comradeship of former soldiers
  • 1898 Founding of the Boffzen volunteer fire brigade as the successor to a compulsory fire brigade.
  • 1908 Foundation of the sports club FC 08 Boffzen e. V.

Personalities

Sons and daughters

Another

In 1799 Wilhelm August Lampadius lived in the rectory (Bachstrasse) and worked on the invention of luminous gas .

Web links

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

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. ^ Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann: Altdeutsches Namenbuch, 1983, p. 508
  3. ↑ https://wahlen.kdgoe.de/historie/2016kw/Daten/255403_000049/0002550040000_Gremium.html
  4. ↑ http://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_hoexter/boffzen/boffzen/20972997_Horst-Menze-gibt-Amt-als-Buergermeister-auf.html
  5. ↑ Main statute of the municipality of Boffzen
  6. ^ Flag of the municipality of Boffzen
  7. ↑ Hansa-Flex website: Branches | Domestic , last accessed on October 9, 2010.