Buchholz (Vorwerk)

Buchholz Vorwerk municipality
Coordinates: 53 ° 9 ′ 43 "  N , 9 ° 5 ′ 53"  E
Height :	21 m above sea level NN
Residents :	650  (2014)
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	27412
Area code :	+49 4283
Location of Buchholz in Lower Saxony

Buchholz ( Low German Bookholt ) is about 30 kilometers east of Bremen . It belongs to the municipality of Vorwerk in the joint municipality of Tarmstedt in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in Lower Saxony .

history

The village is first mentioned in 1124 in a document from the Rastede monastery as Bucholthe . The settlement was then surrounded by a beech forest (so-called beech wood). The gentlemen, whom the Buchholzers had to serve, changed constantly, occupying armies plundered and murdered. Armies passing through violently recruited soldiers and dealt just as brutally with the population. On his famous Russian campaign , Napoleon made a stop in Ottersberg with his Grande Armée . He also sent his captors to Buchholz, the men hid in the forest and moor, but only a few escaped the captors.

In the 12th century Buchholz belonged to the Vogtei Ottersberg, which later became the Ottersberg office. In 1625, the Danish King Christian IV was elected as district chief of Lower Saxony. Then came the " Imperial ", which brought the Buchholzers dark times. In 1645 the Swedes came. The Buchholzers had a reasonably good time under Queen Christine of Sweden . The Swedish royal family was represented by a governor general in Stade . In the 70 years under Swedish rule, the Swedes behaved correctly. In 1859 the Ottersberg office was finally dissolved and Buchholz was added to the Zeven office.

There has been progress in the social and economic system. The Ottersberg office came to the Duchy of Bremen.

In 1806, after the collapse of Prussia , the French came under Napoleon. There were about 700 soldiers in the Ottersberg office, many of them German. The burdens on the residents from the large number of soldiers were very high. The French have redistributed the area. Buchholz came to the canton of Ottersberg together with the villages of Campe, Otterstedt , Narthauen, Benkel, Eckstever, Dipshorn , Fischerhude and Quelkhorn . For a short time the Ottersberg office came to the Kingdom of Westphalia . King Jérôme , a brother of Napoleon, ruled there . Back then, Emperor Napoleon liked to use brothers as kings for his lands in order to keep control. These brothers were not always suitable as kings, so Jérôme also preferred celebrations and festivals than state affairs. In 1810 the entire north-west became part of the Kingdom of France.

The French promoted the expansion of a road network, so the Buchholz "Great Street" was built for the first time with fortifications under the French. In 1813 the French were expelled and Buchholz came to the newly formed Kingdom of Hanover . In 1859 the Ottersberg office was dissolved and Buchholz came to the Zeven office. In 1866 the Hanoverian troops were defeated, the Kingdom of Hanover was dissolved and added to the Kingdom of Prussia. During the First World War , the Buchholzers were doing relatively well because they were able to provide for themselves as farmers. Until 1933, many Buchholzers still voted for the “ German-Hanoverian Party ” from Guelph , which shows that many Buchholzers remained Guelphs for a long time. From 1933 Adolf Hitler came to power. The Buchholzers cheered him because he supposedly brought "good times" with it.

Up until the Second World War , industries were built up in the cities, which is why many Buchholzers moved to Bremen to work in the port or in the shipyards. Other Buchholzers emigrated all over the world.

Many men from the village were drafted during the war. The Wehrmacht also took cars and horses to war. Machines and equipment became scarce. After the attack on Poland , the first prisoners of war came to Buchholz as agricultural workers. An 18 m high observation tower was built on the Holzberg in front of Buchholz, and a battery of headlights was installed on the moor. During the war some houses were destroyed or damaged by bombs. In 1944, a German hunter who had been shot down fell on the edge of the moor. In April 1945 the fighting came to Buchholz, some Wehrmacht groups had holed up in Buchholz, the artillery fired from Otterstedt, the tanks came from Quelkhorn. A captain and a corporal destroyed two British tanks 800 m from the site. As a counter-attack, the tanks damaged the entire southern front of the village. The English moved into Buchholz and the soldiers were taken prisoner. After a few months the British left Buchholz.

On March 1, 1974, Buchholz was incorporated into the municipality of Vorwerk.

Today Buchholz has about 650 inhabitants (as of 2014).

Groups and clubs

Gymnastics clubs

The gymnastics club was founded in 1913. There was gymnastics in the hall of the Kahrs inn. During the National Socialist era , the association was dissolved, re-established in 1946, and under the direction of Hinrich Willenbrock it did not have a long lifespan; the football club "Eiche Buchholz", founded in the 1970s, fared no better. There has been yoga in Buchholz since 1991.

Resident Defense

Founded on the basis of a regulation dated September 15, 1919. 33 men had joined. The equipment included 25 "K 98" carbines with 375 cartridges.

The warrior club

The war club corresponded roughly to today's rifle club and was founded in 1920. Lead bullets were shot from long-barreled carbines. He was taken over by the SA .

The fire department

Until 1941 there was a compulsory fire brigade in Buchholz , the year of which is unknown. The volunteer fire brigade , which still exists today, was founded in 1942 . A small garage annex to the historic bell tower was used as a syringe house, where the VW “Bully” at the time, with which the fire brigade was equipped until 1997, just fit in. Today the comradeship rooms and the equipment room are housed in the village community center. In 1997 the Buchholz volunteer fire brigade bought a fire fighting vehicle 16 from the Bremen professional fire service , which was replaced by a new "used fire fighting vehicle 16/12 in 2014. The Buchholz volunteer fire brigade currently has 40 active and 10 passive members (as of 2014). A new, larger fire station at the Alte Schule site in Dipshorner Strasse was created for use by the local fire brigade. Pascal Drewes has been the local fire supervisor since April 2018.

Low German theater

In 1946 the first piece was performed on the hallway of the Mahnken inn. In the 1970s the Buchholz village youth played theater. The Heimatverein Buchholz has been staging a Low German theater since 1992 .

The Buchholz homeland association

The Heimatverein was founded on June 4, 1991. It organizes lectures, parties and events for the benefit of the village and has over 150 members.

Attractions

In Buchholz there is a large ilex grove that includes around 30 trees. Buchholz borders directly on the foothills of the famous Teufelsmoor . The famous Kratte oaks stand on the picturesque Holzberg. In Buchholz itself there is a large stone oven on the site of the village community center and a historic bell tower on the main street, which is often seen as the landmark of Buchholz.

On the outskirts of Buchholz, in the direction of Otterstedt, you come to the Walle , a small stream that rises near Vorwerk and flows into the Wümme .

Web links

• Vorwerk municipality. In: Homepage of the municipality of Vorwerk. Tarmstedt municipality, accessed on March 26, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Blazek, Matthias: The Electorate of Hanover and the years of foreign rule 1803-1813, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-89821-777-4 .
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. 241 .
3. ^ Homepage of the Buchholz volunteer fire brigade.