Borsum (Harsum)

Borsum Harsum parish
Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 27 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 20 ″  E
Height :	91 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.64 km²
Residents :	2428  (June 30, 2019)
Population density :	281 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	31177
Area code :	05127
Location of Borsum in Lower Saxony
St. Martinus Church

Aerial view of Borsum

Borsum is a village in the municipality of Harsum in the Hildesheim district in Lower Saxony . Within the large community formed in 1974, it is the second largest town and the main town of the historic parish Borsumer Kaspel .

geography

The place is about 10 km north of the low mountain range threshold in the Hildesheimer Börde , which is characterized by its black earth soils. The Borsumer Wald lies to the southwest of the village.

history

The oldest written mention of Borsum is from 799. Due to its uninterrupted political affiliation to the Hildesheim Monastery, Borsum remained unaffected by the Reformation and has a Catholic majority and corresponding customs to this day.

The Catholic parish church of St. Martinus dates from the 18th century. However, the walls of the church tower are much older. It dates from the 15th century and was once used as a defense tower.

In 1718 the Jesuit father Heinrich Ruhen was born in Borsum , who died in 1751 in an Indian attack on the Sonoita mission station . Today the largest square is named after him (Pater-Heinrich-Ruhen-Platz). A memorial of his is on this place, and a plaque commemorates him in the Borsum church. For this reason, Borsum has been sponsoring the city of Sonoita in Mexico for several years . A square in Borsum is therefore also called Sonoita square.

Economically, Borsum is characterized by agriculture, especially sugar beet cultivation. On the other hand, cattle breeding has declined and the once numerous farms are either operated as a sideline or have been functionally converted and are now used as residential or commercial space.

Incorporations

For the territorial reform in Lower Saxony , Borsum was incorporated into the municipality of Harsum on March 1, 1974.

Population development

year Residents source 1885 0930 1910 1259 1925 1360 1933 1331 1939 1366 1950 2488 1956 2120

year Residents source 1973 2107 1980 2254 1990 2205 2000 2547 2010 2531 2015 2440 2019 2428

politics

Local council

The local council of Borsum consists of 9 council members. The local council also has 3 advisory members (CDU, Alliance for Borsum !, Greens ).

• Alliance for Borsum! : 6 seats
• CDU : 2 seats
• SPD : 1 seat

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor is Josef Stuke (Alliance for Borsum!). His deputy is Elisabeth König (Alliance for Borsum!).

Sports

The TTS Borsum 1951 - a table tennis club founded in 1951 - played with its men's team from 1981 to 1995 in the 2nd Bundesliga. The descent was followed by a resurgence in 1999. In the 2000s, the club established itself in the fourth-class Regionalliga Nord. After the team was able to secure the championship in the regional league several times in the 2010s, promotion was initially foregone for organizational reasons. In the 2017/18 season, after the renewed Regionalliga Nord championship, the step into the third division north was dared. This interlude was followed by direct relegation to the Regionalliga Nord, where the team will compete in the 2019/20 season.

The youth football club JFC Kaspel, founded in 2009, also asserts itself in international tournaments. The club has 10 youth teams and numerous supporters.

In the men's area is the local football club VfL Borsum.

Economy and Infrastructure

Education, public institutions

The municipality of Harsum maintains the “Borsumer Kaspel” elementary school in Borsum . There is a Catholic day care center.

traffic

Public transport

Borsum is connected by a bus line ( Hildesheim - Adlum ) of the regional traffic Hildesheim .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Albrecht Classen (* 1956), Medievalist, Germanist and cultural historian, in 2007 he became an honorary citizen of Borsum

Sons and daughters of the church

• Heinrich Ruhen (1718–1751), Jesuit priest, he died in Sonoita
• Karl Heine-Borsum (1894–1981), teacher, poet, storyteller and playwright
• Bernhard Hollemann (1935–2020), Austrian painter and draftsman
• Heinrich Dormeier (* 1947), historian

People connected to the community

• Johann Conrad Müller (1704–1798), organ builder of the 18th century, who worked in the Hildesheim area. In 1767 he built the organ of the local St. Martinus Church
• Valentin Volk (1846 or 1849 or 1850–1909), art and church painter from Mainz, who painted in the neo-Romanesque style, he painted the walls and vaults of the local St. Martinus Church in 1898/99
• Werner Schubert-Deister (1921–1991), painter and sculptor, died in Borsum
• Hermann Schnipkoweit (1928–2018), politician (CDU), he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament and Lower Saxony Minister of Social Affairs from 1976 to 1990, lived and died in Borsum
• Ursula Ernst (* 1944), local politician (CDU), until her election to the state parliament she worked as a teacher at the Borsum elementary school
• Rosalia Stähr (* 1990), table tennis player, began her career at TTS Borsum
• Alexander Kurzbach (1991–2014), volleyball player, died in a traffic accident near Borsum

Web links

Commons : Borsum  - Collection of Images

• Borsum on harsum.de
• Borsum at the Hildesheim cultural portal Kulturium

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Community directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 30 , district of Hildesheim-Marienburg ( digitized [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on February 21, 2020]).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Municipality of Harsum budget 2020 - population. (PDF; 5.3 MB) In: Website of the municipality of Harsum. June 30, 2019, p. 5 , accessed February 21, 2020 .  
3. ^ Locations of the municipality of Harsum. In: Website of the municipality of Harsum. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .  
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.  209 .
5. ^ ^{A b c d} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Hildesheim district ( see under: No. 9 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  
6. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900 - District Hildesheim. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed February 23, 2020 .  
7. ↑ ^{a b} Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p.  167 ( digitized version ).
8. ↑ ^{a b} Local council Borsum. In: Website of the municipality of Harsum. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .