Boitzum

Boitzum City Jump
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 58 ″  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 39 ″  E
Height :	106  (97–121)  m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.44 km²
Residents :	173  (Jun. 30, 2018)
Population density :	71 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	31832
Area code :	05044
Location of Boitzum in Lower Saxony
The newly designed Thie in Boitzum in summer 2004

Boitzum is a district of the town of Springe and is located on the southern border of today's Hanover region. The place lies between the monasteries Wülfinghausen and Wittenburg below the Finie , a small chain of hills covered with hornbeam, hazel and thorn bushes that surrounds the place in the south and east.

In the center of the village you can see the "small round " which was later extended to the north and south. Due to its remote location, the village, which has been dominated by agriculture to this day, has been spared the settlement development that has shaped neighboring villages.

geography

The village lies between the former monasteries of Wülfinghausen and Wittenburg . on the west and north side of a small ridge , the Finie , which extends from Boitzum via Wittenburg to Sorsum and into the Wülfinger Feldmark . Its highest point is 169 m, within the Boitzumer Feldmark south of Boitzum the Finie is 146.9 m high. The center of Boitzum, the Thie, is 105 m above sea level.

The size of Boitzum has hardly changed in the last few centuries, apart from a few new buildings, which were mainly built on the eastern and northern edge of the village and within the local area after the Second World War . The development plan for the eastern edge of the village was the only one that was ever drawn up for Boitzum.

history

Boitzum was first mentioned in 1022. However, it is assumed that a settlement of the area above the line lowlands is where Boitzum, early on took place, as Stone Age finds show.

The history of Boitzum is closely linked to the development of the two monasteries Wülfinghausen and Wittenburg . The Wülfinghausen monastery was founded in 1236 and belonged to the Augustinian order. The Augustinian monastery in Wittenburg was founded in 1316. Before that, pious men lived here, inclusives, without any special religious rule. After secularization in 1580, the Wittenburg monastery became a princely chamber office; here officials were entrusted with the administration of the former monastery budget.

The extensive possessions of the Wülfinghausen monastery and the Wittenburg monastery or office now resulted in many rights holders for the monasteries as well . So there was a feudal relationship between the monasteries as feudal lords and the bonded or unfree as feudal lords. The dependent farmers were the Meier . Boitzum's location between the two monasteries meant that the Wülfinghausen and Wittenburg monasteries were lords of the Boitzum farmers. The Meier and Hörigen in Boitzum were thus subject to many of the righteous of the two monasteries due to the medieval feudal constitution.

Until 1885 Boitzum belonged to the office of Calenberg .

From the offices of Calenberg and Springe and the towns of Eldagsen , Münder and Pattensen , the Springe district was created in 1885 , which was dissolved in 1974 during the regional and administrative reform. From now on, Jump and its districts belonged to the Hanover region.

Political municipality Boitzum

Until 1964: independent municipality

Until the end of the First World War , the fate of the Boitzum community was determined by the community assembly, which was presided over by a community leader and two members of the council. In this community assembly, the citizens had different voting rights, which were probably calculated according to the size of the property. If at least a third of the votes were present, the community assembly had a quorum.

From 1920 onwards, Boitzum's fortunes were determined by a community committee consisting of six members and the community leader.

From 1934 the councilors were called community elders and were appointed by the district administrator. Also, two jurors were out of the representation and assistance of the head of community citizenship appointed. The highest local head of the NSDAP and the senior leader of the SA also took part in the municipal council meetings.

In 1935 a new municipal ordinance came into force. It determined that the mayor should be supported by two honorary councilors and that the number of councilors appointed by the NSDAP representative should be five. After the Second World War , on January 14, 1946, a community council met again for the first time, which had to discuss a new community statute. Various commissions - finance, road construction, hydraulic engineering, housing commission and a nutrition committee, which was composed of three producers and three consumers - began their work. For example, the nutrition committee had to set up a field watch to secure the harvest. A school committee was elected and a committee to oversee the Hoover school lunch . There was also a social committee, a consumer committee and a refugee council.

1964–1974: successive merger

From 1964, small communities with less than 500 inhabitants, including Boitzum, could only receive financial allocations from the state under the Financial Equalization Act if they were members of a joint community or had delegated tasks to another community. That's why the communities Boitzum and Wittenburg joined with the community Sorsum from a public law agreement, the management of the cash and accounting transactions by the municipality Sorsum do to let. From 1966, however, there were no longer any financial allocations from the state even in the case of cash mergers, the prerequisite for this was membership of a joint municipality. So in 1965 the joint community "Finie" was founded with its seat in Holtensen. The communities Boitzum, Wittenburg , Sorsum and Holtensen belonged to it. With the formation of the integrated community, the registry office in Boitzum was also dissolved.

Until March 1, 1974, Boitzum was an independent municipality, which was headed by a local mayor or mayor. They were assisted by councilors or councilors.

1974: district

During the territorial and administrative reform of March 1, 1974, which created the district of Hanover with its current area of ​​over 2,000 km² and 20 cities and municipalities with over 200 districts, the village of Holtensen, consisting of Boitzum, Holtensen and Wülfinghausen, was created. At the head of this village is a local mayor who is appointed by a local council elected every five years.

mayor

The builders, mayors, mayors, municipal directors of Boitzum, as far as the names can be seen from old documents, were:

• Wintel, Johann Dietrich (around 1799)
• Ziegenbein, Karl (around 1840–1851)
• Giesselmann, Heinrich (1876–1886)
• Alves, Heinrich (around 1895)
• Kreipe, Eberhard (1898–1924)
• Ebeling, Karl (1925–1945)
• Prelle, Friedrich (1946–1947)
• Schaumann, Friedrich (1948)
• Kreipe, Reinhold (1948–1951)
• Schaumann, Friedrich (1951–1953)
• Ebeling, Reinhard (1953–1974)

The last mayor of the independent municipality of Boitzum was Reinhard Ebeling. Under his leadership, Boitzum continued to develop after the Second World War , while retaining its village character. In recognition of his many years of service to the common good and his work in the field of local politics, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1997.

Since the regional reform in 1974, the local councils of Boitzum and Holtensen had elected the following joint mayors:

• Heinrich Freimann senior, Holtensen (1974)
• Fritz Helmbrecht, Boitzum (1974–1981)
• Horst Stiehler, Wülfinghausen (1981–1986)
• Fritz Helmbrecht, Boitzum (1986–1991)
• Heinrich Deiters, Boitzum (1991-2001)
• Heinrich Freimann jun., Holtensen (from 2001)

Fire department in Boitzum

The first lines of the founding document of the Boitzum fire brigade, 1859

The oldest available written source, which reports on the origin of fire extinguishing in Boitzum, dates from November 25, 1859. From this it should emerge that the first official firefighters in Boitzum were the Halbmeier Conrad Ewig and Heinrich Gießelmann. The first lines read: Happened at the Royal Office of Calenberg on November 25th, 1859. The fire sworns elected by the Boitzum community, as 1st half Meier Conrad Ewig, 2nd half Meier Heinrich Gießelmann, both from Boitzum had appeared today on summons, agreed to take over of the service, and are then with the following oath:

Compulsory fire brigade 1902–1934

As a rule, all volunteer fire brigades have the same historical origins: the so-called mandatory fire brigades were set up to ensure fire protection in the community area. The Boitzum volunteer fire brigade has also developed from such a compulsory fire brigade. On September 27, 1901, the Chief President of the Prussian Province of Hanover, Count zu Stolberg, issued the “Police Ordinance Regarding Fire Extinguishing”. Then on March 5, 1902, chaired by the mayor Eberhard Kreipe, the establishment of the mandatory fire brigade was unanimously decided in a community meeting.

From 1934 - volunteer fire brigade

The compulsory fire brigade was dissolved in 1934 at the latest, and on February 10, 1934, under the chairmanship of the then mayor Karl Ebeling, the Boitzum volunteer fire brigade was founded in the restaurant of the Boitzum innkeeper Probst . 38 men, five of them over 60 years of age, signed their own handwritten signatures at the time and declared that they would join and support the establishment of the fire service.

This was preceded by the enactment of a law on fire extinguishing on December 15, 1933.

At the founding meeting on March 7, 1934, the fire brigade's statutes were then adopted and signed by seven members who formed the first command - then the leadership council.

A form from autumn 1936 shows that the Boitzum volunteer fire brigade was affiliated with the Eldagsen fire extinguishing association.

Because Boitzum did not yet have a water pipe, an extinguishing water tank was built on the Thie in 1954 for 3,454.44 DM (1766 euros) . With the construction of the water pipe in 1964, the fire water supply was ensured by hydrants, so that the fire water tank was no longer necessary.

When Thie was redesigned in summer 2003, the local council tried to reactivate the fire-fighting water tank or to build a well to support the fire-fighting water supply. Both projects turned out to be unfeasible. However, an elevated water tank on the finie between Boitzum and Wittenburg was converted into an extinguishing water reservoir.

A new fire station for the Boitzum fire brigade was built by the bricklayer Hertrampf from 1964 to 1966, to whom the community bequeathed the property with the old syringe house. As early as 1947, Mr. Hertrampf had acquired the poor house from the community, which adjoined the old syringe house to the south (today "Zur Finie 4").

At the extraordinary meeting on May 3, 1974, the question of the existence of the fire brigade was raised: in a vote on the continued existence of the Boitzum volunteer fire brigade, those present came to a clear vote: 15 votes in favor and one abstention expressed the firm will the Boitzumer decided to continue to have an independent fire brigade and in the course of the regional reform not to form a merger with the fire brigades of the neighboring towns.

The youth fire brigade was also founded in 1974 .

In 1976 the fire station was rebuilt. In 1977 the first general meeting was held in the fire station. From 1989 to 1991 the fire station was further expanded; in addition to the room for fire engine and equipment, a village community room was created for meetings, training courses and celebrations, which can also be used privately by fire service members and associations.

The door bar of the old Boitzum schoolhouse

In the course of this work, the old door beam was hung in the common room, which was once installed above the front door of the old Boitzum schoolhouse, which had stood opposite the chapel. Master bricklayer Hertrampf found it in the old Boitzum poor house after he had taken it over from the community in 1947. The beam contains the following inscription carved into wood:

“O God bless the house of your servants that it may be before you forever. For you Lord established it, and with your blessing the house of your servants will be blessed for ever. 1797 " .

Fire chief and deputy

The local fire chiefs of the Boitzum Volunteer Fire Brigade: • Conrad Ewig (1934–1937) • Karl Ebeling (1937–1940) • Reinhold Kreipe (1940–1951) • Reinhard Ebeling (1952–1954) • Heinrich Deiters (1954–1965) • Heinrich Möller (1966–1974) • Georg Tidow sen. (1974–1992) • Alex Holz (1993–1994) • Werner Götting (1995–2007) • Klaus Rocks (2007–2012) • Holger Rocks (2012–2013) • Frank Littmann (2013–2018) • Achim Wilke (since 2018)

The deputies of the fire chiefs were • Karl Ebeling (1934–1937) • Reinhold Kreipe (1937–1940) • Karl Ebeling (1940–1941) • Heinrich Deiters (1941–1954) • Reinhard Ebeling (1954–1967) • Alfred Wilke (1968 –1976) • Alex Holz (1977–1992) • Werner Götting (1993–1994) • Klaus Rocks (1995–2007) • Erika Rocks (2007–2012) • Henning Martin (2012–2012) • Achim Wilke (2013–2018 ) • Christiane Wilke (since 2018)

Honorary local fire chiefs of the Boitzum volunteer fire brigade are Friedrich Schaumann and Georg Tidow senior, the fire brigade lists comrades Karl-August Gülke (formerly Boitzum, now Deitersen), Jürgen Grebenstein (Boitzum) and Albert Koller (Bennigsen) as honorary members.

Agriculture

If you look closely at the map of the Boitzum corridor from 1836/37, you can guess what the conditions in Boitzum might have looked like in the 17th and 18th centuries. This map is drawn at a scale of 1: 21331/3 (100 rods reduced to 9 inches). It shows that the individual farmers' plots lie next to each other in long narrow strips. Some of them are only 9 to 18 m wide, long and curved. The parcels had to be tilled with a fruit at the same time because they could only be reached via neighboring parcels due to an inadequate network of roads. The times for cultivating the fields and for harvesting were bindingly set in community meetings, as were the fallow and stubble grazing times . As with almost everything in the village, a strict sequence was adhered to with the fallow and stubble pasture. First the pigs, then the cattle and horses, then the geese were allowed to go into the fields. The sheep were not allowed until the 11th day after the harvest. The stubble pasture was so imperative for the cattle that no late-clearing fruits such as beets and potatoes could be grown in the fields.

Areas that are not parceled out can also be seen on the map. These areas, the mean, were the main forage areas for the cattle and were shared. It was precisely regulated and an inalienable property of the farm in question how many cattle everyone was allowed to graze here. But these pastures were not enough to feed the cattle, which is why the aforementioned grazing of the fallow and stubble areas was so important.

The boundaries between the Boitzumer and the Wittenburger Finie never seem to have been precisely defined in the past, and neither did the Hud and pasture law. In 1767, a dispute over the right to hud and grazing with the Wittenburg domain is on record, which was finally settled in 1831. It was not until 1838 to 1840 that the Finie was divided by a comparison between Boitzum and Wittenburg. Boitzum ceded 168 acres of her Finie as a severance payment to the Wittenburg office. The farmers in Boitzum received parcels of land from the Finie as compensation for their hud and pasture rights.

In 1840 a coupling was carried out in Boitzum, ie a redistribution and amalgamation of the disrupted fields. Everyone could now reach their field or meadow directly, everyone had the opportunity to drain their field and meadow as required. Everyone could determine the crop rotation at their own discretion and also include late-clearing root crops such as potatoes and beets in the crop rotation. The many border furrows fell away, and higher yields were achieved through better cultivation. A detailed description of the procedure and a definition of the rights of use are recorded in a recess. This recess is still occasionally used today in legal disputes to clarify the facts.

At the end of the Second World War there were 9 full-time farms in Boitzum with farm sizes ranging from 11 ha to 41 ha. In addition to intensive arable farming , which until the first years after the Second World War was practiced almost exclusively with horses, all farms had dairy cows and pigs. In addition to 3 tractors, there were around 28 work horses, 90 dairy cows, a total of 180 cattle, 130 pigs and 30 goats in Boitzum and of course chickens, geese and ducks. The field work was mechanized more and more in the following years, so that soon no more horses could be seen in the field. The tractor, with it modern farm implements, from 1958 the beet harvester and finally from 1959 also the combine harvester determined the picture of arable farming. In 1950 there were around 20 full-time employees and more than 30 part-time employees (usually women), today the work is done by the two remaining full-time farms.

Due to the abandonment of many agricultural operations, parcels of land are merged into larger fields through leasing and swapping, so that management can be carried out more efficiently.

Population development

Around 1800 there were 35 houses and farms (fireplaces) with 240 inhabitants in Boitzum . The farms and properties can still be seen today, as they probably existed in the Middle Ages. A census carried out in 1896 showed Boitzum 170 inhabitants. There were four Halbmeier , three Großköthner , three Kleinköthner , nine co- farmers , twelve cultivators , 14 housewives . The main occupation of the inhabitants was agriculture and livestock . In addition, there were two carpenters , a shoemaker , a bricklayer as well as quarry, road and forest workers , house butchers and, in earlier years, linen weavers .

While the number of inhabitants had steadily decreased up to the Second World War , the influx of refugees from the former German eastern regions led to a doubling of the population. In 1947, of the 328 inhabitants, 145 were local residents and 183 were `` relocated '', as it was called in technical terms. In the following years, many families moved from Boitzum, so that the number of residents fell below 200 after 1971. In 1999 there were 55 houses with 200 inhabitants.

In 2016 the population was 175.

religion

The chapel community Boitzum has been part of the Wittenburg parish since 1590 . Until then, the chapel communities Boitzum and Sorsum were parish off to Elze . Only when Wittenburg wanted to have its own pastor, but it turned out to be too small for its own parish, Boitzum and Sorsum came to the parish of Wittenburg. It was also determined that the Kirchweg from Boitzum to Wittenburg Church, as far as it leads through the land of the Wittenburg domain, must have a width of 16 feet = 4.67 m. This path had grown over decades because it was seldom used, but it has been cleared again since 1997 and walked on.

Since 1590 there were four pastors in Wittenburg until 1618 the parish Wittenburg was combined with the parish Wülfinghausen. From now on both parishes stood side by side on an equal footing and had a common pastor, who was presented alternately by the sovereign patronage (the later regional church) and by the monastery chamber.

The first four pastors of the Wittenburg parish were:

• 1. Konrad Rybach (1590–1591)
• 2. Jeo Heren (1592–1599)
• 3. Johann Gravelius (1599–1604)
• 4. Johannes Franck (1604-1618)

The pastors for both parishes:

• 5. Jürgen Schefferhof (1618–1642)
• 6. Henning Baring (1642–1681)
• 7. Johann Martin Ketschau (1681–1717)
• 8. Johann Ludolph Ebeling (1717–1728)
• 9. Ludwig Johann Beeken (1728–1734)
• 10. Peter David Dangers (1735–1763)
• 11. Christian David Dangers (1763-1802)
• 12. Friedrich Burchard Benecke (1803-1818)
• 13. Christoph Friedrich Westphal (1819-1821)
• 14. Christian Ernst Friedrich Bauer (1821–1825)
• 15. Georg Friedrich Ludwig Firnhaber (1826–1843)
• 16. Hermann Stölting (1843–1850)
• 17. Georg Justus Heinrich Julius Bauer (1851–1877)
• 18. Ernst August Niemack (1877-1889)
• 19. Johannes Heinrich Julius Stoffregen (1890–1903)
• 20. Heinrich Jantzen Junker (1904–1911)
• 21. Oswald Adolf Ludwig Philipp Meyer (1912–1924)
• 22. Lütje Georg Hermann Eckhoff (1925–1933)
• 23. Theodor Karl Hermann Herbst (1933–1969)

After a short vacancy in which both parishes were looked after by Pastor von Meding from Eldagsen, Pastor Schäperkötter from Hemmingen and Pastor Ujma from Rössing, the following followed:

• 24. Johanna Goetsch (1971–1986)
• 25. Hans-Christian Müller (1987-2001)
• 26. Anselm Stuckenberg (since 2001)

In 1796, thought was given to whether the Wittenburg parish should be dissolved, probably because the church was in a bad structural condition, so that it wanted to be demolished. Sorsum should be affiliated with Wülfingen and Wittenburg Boitzum. Then an enlargement of the Boitzum chapel would have been necessary. This plan failed because the Wittenburgers insisted on their valid and documented right to be able to hold services in the church in Wittenburg, and because the chapel board in Boitzum demanded that the expansion and all future repairs should be carried out by the treasury.

In 2009, the Wittenburg parishes with their chapel parishes Boitzum and Sorsum and the Wülfinghausen- Holtensen parish joined forces to form the Klosterdörfer working group, thus formally securing the close cooperation that has now existed for centuries.

politics

The districts of Boitzum and Holtensen , the latter district also includes Wülfinghausen, have since had a joint local council.

Heinrich Freimann (CDU) is the local mayor.

coat of arms

"The most beautiful coat of arms in the world is the plow in the field"

The coat of arms was approved on January 15, 1949 by the Lower Saxony Minister of the Interior.

Blazon : "In blue under an upright silver rafter, a silver ploughshare."

The rafter is taken from the coat of arms of the noblemen of Adenoys, to whose possessions Boitzum belonged until 1325. The ploughshare symbolizes the flourishing local agriculture.

At the same time there is another version of the coat of arms, which the Boitzumers understand as their own and which is also shown in the flag that is hoisted on the Thie on special occasions.

Culture and sights

• In the summer of 1896, the 25th anniversary of the end of the Franco-Prussian War was celebrated in Boitzum with a peace anniversary festival. An oak tree was planted for this occasion and had to be felled again in 1964. On March 11, 1997 - Boitzum is 975 years old this year - another oak was planted on the Thie, the center of the village. The Thie was redesigned in summer 2003 as part of the village renewal program subsidized by EU funds.

The Boitzum Chapel after the exterior renovation in 2008

• No precise information is available about the first laying of the foundation stone for the Boitzum Chapel. In the list of goods drawn up by the Wittenburg Monastery from 1462 to 1478, there is talk of an outbuilding of the Wittenburg Monastery at the churchyard in Boitzum. So there was certainly a chapel here at that time. The chapel accounts go back to 1643.

Today's chapel was rebuilt in 1748 by the carpenter Knust and cost 439 thalers. The half-timbered building with a three-sided choir closure has a quarry stone substructure and is clad on the south and west sides with vertical dark formwork. The western end of the ridge is crowned by a square roof turret, a bell tower that leads into the octagon at the top. The bell tower is clad in slate and has two rectangular sound holes. The weather vane bears the year 1883. That year the chapel was thoroughly renovated. In the course of the most recent renovation measures, all windows were renewed, in 2008 the roof was re-covered, the wooden cladding on the west side renewed, the half-timbering on the north side exposed and repaired.

The chapel is located in the middle of the small Boitzum cemetery, which is owned by the chapel community, and - unlike most other cemeteries that are under municipal administration - is managed by the chapel board. A new cemetery was designated on the southern edge of the village when it was linked in 1840, but it is still not needed today. The cemetery around the chapel has 150 berths.

school

The former Boitzum schoolhouse

The first report on a school in Boitzum is given by Pastor Baring, who was pastor in the parishes of Wittenburg and Wülfinghausen from 1642 to 1681. He reports that at that time a schoolmaster Ernst Wöhlen was teaching in Boitzum.

In Boitzum, there was some chapel service associated with teaching. The organist service and also the sexton service in Wittenburg, Boitzum and Sorsum, however, had to be carried out by the teacher from Sorsum at the time. For this Boitzum had to deliver 4–5 Himten grain.

The first school house in Boitzum was built in 1797 opposite the chapel on a plot of land that today belongs to "Am Thie 20". It was then sold at the end of the 19th century to finance the new schoolhouse and demolished by the new owner.

From 1878 to 1968 the Boitzum children were taught in the new school house, in which the respective teacher also had an apartment, stable and utility rooms. This new school had to be financed by the Boitzum community alone. Calculations from 1877 and 1878 show who had to make what contribution to the new building:

Total issues 10,107 Reichsmarks :

• Monastery reception in Wennigsen for wood (6 oak trees)
• Master mason Christian Thiele zu Eldagsen (quarry stones delivered)
• Friedrich Struhs in Sorsum for sand
• Chr. Mensing in Bredenbeck for stone (sandstone, for foundations, stair landing, kitchen floor)
• H. Alves in Osterwald for lime
• Friedrich Jordan in Boitzum for straw
• Friedrich Gübel in Boitzum for straw
• C. Deike in Boitzum for straw
• Conrad Tiedau (community servant) for earth blocks (5700 pieces baked by hand)
• Roofing Schrader in Eldagsen
• Smithy Koch in Boitzum (gate and door fittings, reel, cellar grate, 2 pairs of hanging irons)
• Heinrich Ziegenbein in Boitzum (blue to white, stove black)
• Vesperman in Weenzen for Gyps
• Factory manager Rennemann in Sorsum
• Heinrich Meyer in Boitzum (4 rod long outlet canal drainage dug from Keller)
• Master bricklayer lack in Sorsum (bricklaying)
• Brickworks owner Nagel in Alferde
• Carpenter Hüper in Boitzum (windows, doors, stairs)
• Master locksmith Krüger in Elze (front door lock)
• C. Deike in Boitzum for ash (including surcharge for lime mortar)
• Georg von Cölln in Hanover (stove for the classroom)
• Freight for oven pp (Mehle station)
• Carpenter Rokahr in Holtensen (drawings, planning and construction)
• Plumber Luther in Elze (gutters)
• C. Pape in Gronau for wood (spruce wood from the Harz Mountains loosened on a rope)
• Weibke Rechtsvoigt as accounting officer (from Eldagsen)

Income 2293 Reichsmark:

• After the purchase contracts concluded before the royal district court in Calenberg, RMk 2235, - was paid for the old school
• The amount of waste wood sold was raised (auctioned) RMk 58, -

The remaining costs were 7814 Reichsmarks.

The school board was responsible for the school. This was usually identical to the chapel board. The school board also included the respective job holder of the school. Until 1918 the respective pastor was the chairman of the school board.

Before the First World War 40–45 children went to school in Boitzum; in the period between the two wars it was 15–25. When the school started teaching again in 1945 as the first in the district of Springe, many children from bombed-out families from the Rhineland and also from the Eldagsen Middle School, which had not yet returned to teaching, were among the students, in 1946 the refugee children from the east joined them, so that the number of students now grew to 60–70 who were taught by a single teacher.

The number of pupils then fell to 55 in 1950, to 36 in 1952, and to 25 in 1955. The reason was the migration of many refugee families from Boitzum. Also, more and more students attended the middle school in Eldagsen, especially since the school fees had been dropped. In 1962 only the 1st to 6th school year were schooled in Boitzum (number of students 26), the 7th to 8th school year were retrained to Eldagsen. From Easter 1964 there were 24 pupils in Boitzum in the 1st to 4th school year.

The Boitzum children were actually supposed to go to school in Sorsum as early as 1956, when the teacher Springer retired. However, the parents refused to send their children to another village and threatened a school strike. Thereupon Mr. Lipkow was ordered by telephone from Feggendorf to Boitzum and began his lessons on August 15, 1956.

Also 25 years earlier, in 1931, the community council and the school and chapel board of Boitzum had already successfully objected to the government in Hanover, Department for Church and School System, that the school position should be dismantled by means of an emergency ordinance and the Children should be sent to school in Sorsum.

The town of Eldagsen and the communities of Adensen, Alferde, Boitzum, Hallerburg, Holtensen, Sorsum, Wittenburg and Wülfingen founded the school association Hallermundt in 1962, based in Eldagsen. In the schools of the municipalities it was no longer possible to teach all grades because the number of students had risen steadily and the 9th grade had been introduced. In 1965 the foundation stone was laid for the “Hallermundt” school, which was attended by pupils in the 5th to 9th grade. In the schools of the municipalities, lessons were only held for the 1st to 4th grade in the future. A certificate was built into the foundation stone along with other documents and coins.

No applicant responded to an advertisement from the school in Boitzum in May 1968. The municipal councils of Boitzum and von Holtensen therefore decided and regulated this in a public law agreement that the 16 school children from Boitzum (1st to 4th school year) should be taught in Holtensen after the 1968 summer vacation. Here the Holtensen community had built a school with a small gym . The school in Holtensen, which has been in the single-digit range for a year, would then become double-digit with 66 students. By order of the district president on January 10, 1969, the elementary school in Boitzum was officially closed. In May, a buyer was found, and so the schoolhouse was then sold by the community on June 4, 1969 for DM 40,000. The disco "PONDEROSA-Tanzbar bei Mimi" was now for the next 5 years in the rooms of the old Boitzum school house.

The names of the school teachers from Boitzum since 1793:

• NN gardener (1793–1808)
• Gottlieb Arneke (1808-1814)
• Heinrich August Bodensiek (1815–1833)
• N. Hengstmann (1833–1846), was transferred to Alferde.

After a three-year vacancy, the following followed:

• Friedrich Wilhelm Germs (1850-1856), a son of the teacher Germs in Sorsum. He was deposed from office in 1856.
• AH Reßmeyer (1856–1863), was transferred to Lüdersen.
• Friedrich Wickbold (1863-1910) was a teacher in Boitzum for 47 years, and his son
• Otto Wickbold (1910–1948) then 38 years. Together, father and son worked as teachers in Boitzum for 85 years and are rightly regarded as the “educators of Boitzum”, like the successor in office
• Paul Springer (1948–1956) wrote in the school chronicle. He retired because of a serious heart condition and became a teacher in Boitzum
• Leo Lipkow (1956-1968). After 12 successful years of service in Boitzum, the school's last teacher retired in 1968 and the school was closed.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : “Boitzum” in the article List of Architectural Monuments in Springe

Economy and Infrastructure

The bus lines of the Greater Hanover Transport (GVH) ensure the connection to the S-Bahn stations in Bennigsen and Springe . There are direct bus connections to Springe. The closest federal road is the B 3, approx. 4 km away. It is approx. 25 km to the A 7 junction Laatzen and approx. 33 km to the A 2 junction Lauenau. Hanover Airport is approx. 50 km away.

literature

• Ingo Hempelmann: From the history of the village Boitzum. (written 1997 on the occasion of the 975th anniversary in Boitzum)
• Simone Hempelmann: From the history of the Boitzum volunteer fire department. (written in 2004 on the occasion of the anniversary celebration of 70 years of the volunteer fire brigade and 30 years of the Boitzum youth fire brigade)

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• Georgsplatz: Copy of purchase contract June 4, 1969 v. AG Elze
• Archive of the parish Wülfinghausen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Official municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Final results after the census of September 13, 1950 (=  Statistics of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 33 ). W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Cologne 1952, p. 32 ( digital version [PDF; 27.1 MB ]).
2. ^ Districts of the city of Springe. In: Website of the city of Springe. June 30, 2018, accessed May 6, 2019 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ 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. 203 .
5. ↑ Simone Hempelmann: From the history of the volunteer fire brigade Boitzum. (written in 2004 on the occasion of the anniversary celebration of 70 years of the volunteer fire brigade and 30 years of the Boitzum youth fire brigade)
6. ^ Local councilor Holtensen
7. ↑ Source: Wappenbuch des Landkreis Hannover, page 428 ff .; Published by the district of Hanover itself in January 1985 on the occasion of its 100th anniversary