Bornum am Elm
Bornum am Elm
City of Königslutter am Elm
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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 33 ″ N , 10 ° 45 ′ 12 ″ E | ||
Height : | 127 m above sea level NHN | |
Residents : | 860 (April 1, 2018) | |
Incorporation : | March 1, 1974 | |
Postal code : | 38154 | |
Area code : | 05353 | |
Location of Bornum am Elm in Lower Saxony |
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The Protestant Church
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Bornum am Elm is a district of Königslutter am Elm with approx. 850 inhabitants and is located on the northern edge of the Elm at 127 m above sea level. NN in the district of Helmstedt .
history
Bornum was first mentioned in a document in 1135 in connection with the construction of the collegiate church of St. Peter and Paul (so-called Kaiserdom ) in Königslutter . The name goes back to the Low German term Born, which means something like fountain, source; the ending –um is the polished shape of Bornhem, Bornheim.
The name means something like Brunnenheim and refers to the multitude of springs that feed from the nearby Elm. Originally owned by the Lutter monastery, Gut Bornum was given to various feudal lords by the Brunswick dukes in the following centuries . From 1465 to 1706, with short interruptions, the von Wendessen Lehnsmann family was the Bornumer. In 1764 Philipp von Westphalen bought the Bornum estate, the friend and secretary of Duke Ferdinand of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . His son Ludwig von Westphalen , born in Bornum, became the mentor and father-in-law of Karl Marx . After that, the estate had many changing tenants before it was taken over by more than 50 local farmers in 1845. Bornum has been part of the city of Königslutter since March 1st, 1974.
Merger with Wolfsburg
On March 14, 2013, the City Council of Königslutter am Elm unanimously decided to enter into merger negotiations with the City of Wolfsburg . In Bornum and its local council there is a tendency not to follow this path. The aim here is to leave Königslutter and move to the municipality of Cremlingen . In a new city of Wolfsburg, Bornum is on the outermost border, and Cremlingen is only a few kilometers away.
coat of arms
The many sources in Bornum are reflected in the local coat of arms as a wave-shield river divided four times in green and silver. A green linden tree floats above the waves in silver . Linden trees were characteristic in Bornum and could be found in all squares and streets. On February 15, 1962, the council of the municipality decided on the coat of arms. The President of the Braunschweig administrative district approved the coat of arms on October 12, 1962.
politics
Mayor / Mayor
Hans-Joachim Scherenhorst (SPD) is currently the local mayor of Bornum.
Local council
The Bornum local council currently consists of 9 council members. The distribution of seats since the last local election on September 11, 2016 is as follows:
Parties and constituencies |
% 2016 |
Seats 2016 |
% 2011 |
Seats 2011 |
% 2006 |
Seats 2006 |
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SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 54.95 | 5 | 55.47 | 5 | 51.98 | 5 |
CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 45.04 | 4th | 44.52 | 4th | 48.01 | 4th |
total | 100 | 9 | 100 | 9 | 100 | 9 | |
Voter turnout in% | 68.69% | 71.51% | 69.29% |
News from Uhlenbusch
At the end of the 1970s, Bornum was also the setting for the successful ZDF children's series Neues aus Uhlenbusch . "Aunt Appelboom's" shop is right next to the church. Today it is used as a residential building.
Buildings
- Christophorus Church, origin and tower base medieval, second nave 1799, spire from 1896
- Kemenate (so-called "temple"), fortified tower of the Bornum estate, first mentioned in 1403
Personalities
- Christian Hoburg , Protestant theologian, is one of the spiritual fathers of Pietism, pastor in Bornum from 1645 to 1648.
- Lorenz Heister , founder of scientific surgery in Germany and author of the first corresponding textbook in German, died in Bornum in 1758
- Philipp von Westphalen († 1792), secretary to Duke Ferdinand von Braunschweig , landlord in Bornum from 1764 to 1780
- Ludwig von Westphalen , Bornum-born mentor and father-in-law of Karl Marx
- Ernestine Christine Reiske , landlady in Bornum 1780 to 1791, philologist and Lessing friend, widow of the scholar Johann Jacob Reiske
- Otto Buchheister (1893–1966), politician ( NSDAP ), MdR
Regular events
Since 1985 the Low German theater group has regularly performed self-written pieces in an inn from January to March.
An annual single-axle plow competition has been held since 1993.
literature
- Dorfsippenbuch of the rural community Bornum near Königslutter. Copy of the family sheets . Leipzig 1995. 8 volumes, 2739 families in the period 1649–1940, according to the inventory part IV of the German Central Office for Genealogy , p. 247
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the city of Königslutter am Elm
- ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 272 .