Borg (Walsrode)

Borg City of Walsrode Coordinates: 52 ° 53 ′ 17 "  N , 9 ° 37 ′ 17"  E
Incorporation :	July 1, 1968
Incorporated into:	Bomlitz
Postal code :	29699
Location of Borg in Lower Saxony
The Cordinger mill on the Warnau near Borg

Borg / Cordingen is a district of the town of Walsrode in the Heidekreis district in Lower Saxony . 627 inhabitants live in the village on an area of ​​8 km².

geography

location

The cluster village of Borg is located 4 km southwest of Bomlitz . The hamlet of Cordingen with the settlements of Warnautal , Karbödel and Cordingen-Kolonie belong to the place . All districts are lined up along the spring-rich right, western side of the lower Warnau valley .

history

Borg is first mentioned in 1413 as a place on the Warnau. Further spellings of the name, which goes back to the nearby Hünenburg , are Borch or Borgh . Cordingen, mentioned in 1410 as Cordinghe , is an old Gogerichtsort (lower, hereditary jurisdiction).

In 1968 the communities of Benefeld, Bomlitz , Borg and Uetzingen merged to form the large community of Bomlitz. From the municipality reform, which came into force on March 1, 1974, until December 31, 2019, Borg / Cordingen was one of eight suburbs of the Bomlitz municipality .

Infrastructure

education

In the former Cording school there is the Borg movement crèche as a public facility for small children.

societies

There are two rifle clubs, Borg-Cordingen and Kolonie Hünzigen-Cordingen. The Luftsportverein Walsrode has its glider airfield on the site of Borg.

traffic

Borg is away from major traffic routes. The federal highway 27 runs five kilometers to the southwest and the A7 seven kilometers to the southeast. Of Bad Fallingbostel about Walsrode and Rethem to Nienburg / Weser leading national highway 209 runs south, 3 km away.

The former Cordingen station belonging to Borg on the former Bremervörde – Walsrode railway served from 1915 as a branch for the Wolff & Co. factory railway , which is now part of the Bomlitz – Walsrode railway (goods traffic only).

Attractions

The Cordinger mill with a pond

The Weltvogelpark is located in the Borg area on the border with Walsrode. With an area of ​​240,000 m², it is one of the largest bird parks in the world. You can see around 4000 birds from over 650 species from all continents and every climate zone in the world.

In the narrow Warnautal near Benefeld is the Cordinger Mühle , a 600 year old watermill with a mill yard and pond systems. The facility, which was restored in the 1980s, is one of the most valuable historical buildings in the Heidekreis district. Today the mill is used as a wedding room by the registry office and is rented out for celebrations.

The Lohheide burial mound is located on the Borg archaeological hiking trail in a heather area that rises around 15 meters from the Warnau valley. The preserved burial ground comprises a group of ten hills and dates from the Bronze Age (1500 to 1200 BC). At the confluence of the Warnau in the Böhme , the ramparts of the early medieval Hünenburg can be found, the so-called Borger Castle (8th to 9th centuries). According to legend, it is associated with the founding of the Walsrode monastery . The foundation walls of the Walsrode monastery are said to have been created from the stones of the Borger castle.

Personalities

From 1945 to 1950 the German writer Arno Schmidt lived with his wife Alice in the Mühlenhof in Cordingen. In his story Schwarze Spiegel (1951), the first-person narrator wanders through the deserted place after the Third World War, which destroyed almost everyone. In the wood colony in Cordingen, he supplies himself with wood for a house that he builds near the village. Cordingen is also mentioned in Brand's Haide and From the Life of a Faun .

Web links

• Borg on the website of the city of Walsrode

Remarks

1. ^ Friedhelm Rathjen : Bargfeld and the world. An Arno Schmidt picture atlas, Edition ReJoice, Scheeßel 2010, p. 42; ISBN 978-3-00-032782-7 .
2. ^ Arno Schmidt: Brand's Haide. Two stories , Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1951 (first edition of the stories Brand's Haide and Schwarze Spiegel ).