Bokensdorf

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Bokensdorf
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Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '  N , 10 ° 43'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Gifhorn
Joint municipality : Boldecker Land
Height : 72 m above sea level NHN
Area : 14.49 km 2
Residents: 1298 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 90 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 38556
Area code : 05366
License plate : GF
Community key : 03 1 51 004
Association administration address: Eichenweg 1
38554 Weyhausen
Mayoress : Jennifer Georg ( FWB )
Location of the municipality of Bokensdorf in the Gifhorn district
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Bokensdorf is a municipality in the Gifhorn district in Lower Saxony . It belongs to the Boldecker Land joint community , which has its administrative headquarters in Weyhausen .

geography

Bokensdorf lies between the Südheide and Drömling nature parks . To the west of the village is the Deerenmoor wetland .

history

Bokensdorf was first mentioned in 1468 in a letter of will (sovereign confirmation) from Duke Otto II the Victorious of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. The duke confirms the foundation of two memories (soul masses) and gives the church a meadow for the benefit of the pastor, which the Schulze zu Bokensdorf ("Bokelstorpe") has for an annual interest. Later you can find Bokensdorf in 1495 in a document with the name "Vakesdorf" and 1535 under "Backendorf".

The landscape around Bokensdorf, like the entire Lüneburg Heath, was dominated by oak and birch forests for over 2000 years. These mixed forests were cleared to obtain arable and pasture land as well as construction and firewood. Bokensdorf is one of the "-dorf" settlements whose time of origin is difficult to determine. The main periods of origin are seen from the 7th century AD onwards.

Coin finds from the time of Henry the Lion (approx. 1130–1195) are documented in Bokensdorf . These coins were probably ferry coins. These are grave goods for non-Christians that were found in a cemetery about 1.5 km south of the village. It is possible that Wends were still living in Bokensdorf at that time , because "ferry money" was considered unchristian.

The original form of settlement, a Wendish round , can easily be reconstructed in today's Altdorf on the "Bauernberg". Bokensdorf originally only had a semicircular shape of four farms, which could be reached from Jembke and Stellfelde via an old military road.

In addition to the four previous farms, five so-called Vollköthner farms were probably built around 1300. It is almost unique in Lower Saxony that these farm owners who later settled down were treated on an equal footing with the traditional arable farmers. The twelve house numbers in the Bauernberg testify to the almost 500-year-old structure of the place with nine large and two smaller Brincksitzer courtyards, the school and the inn.

Only in 1859 did a change take place. With the so-called transfer fee, the farmers in Lower Saxony could buy themselves freely from the feudal lordship of the princes. For Bokensdorfer this meant the exemption from services and duties to which the Counts of Wolfsburg Castle and the Dukes in Lüneburg were obliged.

Since this "peasant liberation", the peasants have now been able to use their working time on their own fields. There were also advantages from the land consolidation carried out during this period . Attractive, large arable land was created that could be cultivated economically. The Bokensdorfers were no longer poor. They gradually gave up their old gable-end houses and from 1900 built eaves-facing buildings facing the village center at that time. The farmers who were not entitled to inheritance also benefited from the new wealth. As a grower , they received land on the way to the mill in Jembke, the "Mühlenweg". They operated small businesses there, e.g. B. Butcher in winter, bricklayer in summer.

The buildings that were erected during this period, like the buildings on the Bauernberg, are of the “peasant style”, a variant of Art Nouveau . In some houses you can still find the tile mosaic patterns typical of that time.

After the Second World War , the population in Bokensdorf doubled as a result of people being displaced from eastern Germany. Many stayed in the place. The Lönsweg - with the uniformly aligned houses and the large gardens at the back - is typical of the architectural style of the 1950s.

As a result of the political situation in the 1960s, many West Berliners bought land “in the West”. This is how the “Berliner Ring” came about. Because of its proximity to the Volkswagen city of Wolfsburg , many VW employees moved to Bokensdorf in the 1980s and 1990s and built their own homes there in the north and northeast. One street is reminiscent of a long-time mayor and was named "Willy-Müller-Ring".

In the east, a weekend house area was created on former gravel quarrying sites for local recreation. The residents have organized themselves into three associations.

Life in Bokensdorf is shaped by the volunteer fire brigade , the rifle club, the hunters and the sports club with the fields of football, tennis, gymnastics and, more recently, karate. The rural women’s association Jembke, Barwedel, Bokensdorf invites you to many events. The Wolfsburg Golf Club has found its home south of the village.

The municipality of Bokensdorf is part of the Boldecker Land municipality, which operates a day-care center in the village. The primary school children are taught in Jembke, the secondary and secondary school is located in Weyhausen. School buses go to all schools, including the Fallersleben grammar school. Bokensdorf is in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Georg, Jembke, and the Catholic parish of St. Christophorus , Wolfsburg.

Origin of the place name

Old names of the place are 1468 Bokelstorpe, 1495 Vakestorf, 1535 Bakenstorp 1566 Bockensdorff and 1612 Bockemstorf. The base word is Low German - dorp "village, settlement". So the "settlement of a Bok", whereby the personal name could belong to the clan around Boko, Buk (k) o, the pet form of Burghard.

politics

Municipal council

After the local elections in 2016 , the distribution of seats in the council of the municipality of Bokensdorf is as follows (as of November 2016):

Mayor

Jennifer Georg (FWB) has been the honorary mayor since April 17, 2018

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms of Bokensdorf was adopted on July 8, 1993 by the municipal council.

Coat of arms of Bokensdorf
Blazon : "In gold under a red chevron, a red ring open at the top."
Justification of the coat of arms: The open ring symbolizes the original circular character of the two original town centers of Bokensdorf and the medieval desert of the submerged town of Derne . The union of both cores to form a community is made clear by the roof (rafters) above the circular symbol. The colors red and gold (yellow) were taken over from the former Guelph ancestral coat of arms, as the community area belonged to Guelph lands for centuries from 1357 at the latest.

education

The place has a kindergarten. Officially responsible schools are: Elementary School Jembke , Oberschule Weyhausen , IGS Sassenburg or the Humboldt-Gymnasium in Gifhorn .

traffic

The federal highway 248 ( Wolfsburg - Salzwedel ) can be reached via the K 101 district road . This leads east, as an extension of the federal motorway 39 , through the municipality of Jembke in 3 km distance past Bokensdorf. The Weyhausen motorway junction to the A 39 can be reached by taking the K 28 district road via the 188 (Wolfsburg– Hanover ) road 7 km away.

A bus line of the Verkehrsgesellschaft Landkreis Gifhorn (VLG) serves the place. It leads from Sassenburg (district of Stüde / Bernsteinsee ) via Weyhausen and directly to Gifhorn . In Weyhausen there is an option to change to Wolfsburg .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

People connected to the community

  • Gabi Decker (* 1956), cabaret artist, presenter and singer, grew up in Bokensdorf

Web links

Commons : Bokensdorf  - Collection of Images

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. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 28, 2014 ; accessed on August 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Allocation of seats in the Bokensdorf municipal council - website. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
  4. Jennifer Georg new mayor. In: waz-online.de . April 18, 2018, accessed April 18, 2018.
  5. a b Bokensdorf member community. In: Internet site of the Boldecker Land community. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .