Bornum am Elm

Bornum am Elm City of Königslutter am Elm
	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
	The Protestant Church

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
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

Chestnut next to the Christopherus Church, location of the episode "Uhlenbusch is upside down"

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

Commons : Bornum am Elm - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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 .

[1] Website of the city of Königslutter am Elm

[2] 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 .