Buer (Melle)

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Buer
City of Melle
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 46 ″  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 112  (80–220)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 24 km²
Residents : 4759  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 198 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 49328
Area code : 05427
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Location of Buer in Melle

Buer [buːɐ̯] is a district of Melle in the district of Osnabrück , Lower Saxony in the eastern Wiehen Mountains with the places Barkhausen, Buer, Bulsten, Holzhausen, Hustädte, Markendorf, Löhlingdorf, Meesdorf , Sehlingdorf, Tittingdorf, Wehringdorf and Wetter.

history

During the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus (27 BC to 14 AD), Germanic tribes like the Cheruscans lived in the area around Buer. The Romans tried unsuccessfully at that time to push the borders of their empire from the Rhine to the Elbe. In this context, thirty kilometers from Buer, allied Teutons defeated three Roman legions during the Varus Battle .

During the migration period up to around 700 the pagan Saxon tribe spread in the area around Melle and practiced agriculture . They called the area Graingau (today Grönegau).

The Saxon Wars of Charlemagne took place from 772 to after 800, and as a result the Saxons were incorporated into the Franconian Empire and Christianized . During this move, the Franks founded a church in Melle, among other places, and large areas of the forest were cleared. Dominant Meierhöfe were built on the grounds of today's Buer and at seven other nearby settlement areas .

The place name Buer was first mentioned in documents as Bure in 1209 .

During the Middle Ages, Buer was often the plaything of spiritual and secular feuds and border disputes. At that time the place was already developing into a fortified church.

Around 1550, the Buer parish fully committed itself to the evangelical cause, and around fifty years later saw a significant increase in population. During the Thirty Years War , the place was spared military conflicts, but it often had to endure military camps and requisitions. It was not until 1671 that the writing of a church register began.

In connection with the worldwide poor harvests recorded from 1815 onwards, a wave of heuerlings (day laborers) and small farmers began to emigrate to the USA. From the second half of the 19th century onwards, hereditary farmers and wealthier Buer citizens also set off for America on this train. Around 3,600 people left their old homeland by 1900.

From 1818 the old cemetery in the fortified church next to the church was no longer occupied, as a new one had been built outside. In 1852 the Gothic church was demolished. The new Romanesque building was consecrated in 1855. From 1820 to 1973 Buer was the seat of the evangelical superintendent for the Melle and Wittlage districts.

The joint municipality of Buer had existed since 1852 and was repealed as part of the regional and administrative reform of July 1, 1972. Since then, Buer has been one of the districts of the city of Melle.

In 1866 Prussia annexed the defeated Kingdom of Hanover . Buer became Prussian until the Free State of Prussia was dissolved by the Allies on February 25, 1947.

politics

The local council of Buer has 15 seats. Distribution of seats in the local elections on Sep 11 2016, (CDU 6), (SPD 5), (UWG 2), (FDP 1), (Greens 1).

Local Mayor: Dieter Finke-Gröne (CDU)

Attractions

  • Historic churchyard castle with archway
  • Neo-Romanesque, from 1852 to 1855 according to plans by the Osnabrück master builder Wilhelm Richard, the Protestant Martini Church was built , with the church tower, called a “pencil” due to its shape, with a bell ringing consisting of 8 bells
  • Klimaturm Friedenshöhe
  • Restored watermill on the Wiechert farm
  • Over 500-year-old judicial linden tree on the Hilgensele. The traditional “Good Monday”, a public discussion with the local council, takes place here every year.
  • Jewish Cemetery
  • Syringe house "On peat"
  • Green lake
  • Meesdorf Red Stake
  • Carillon on the old tower clock factory in Korfhage

  • Bueraner "pencil"

  • Ev. Church (seen from the church castle from the south-east)

  • Buer: townscape with church tower

  • Court linden tree

  • Jewish Cemetery

Clubs and their events

The historically oldest club in Buer is the Schützengesellschaft Buer von 1550 eV

To preserve the Bueraner Kirchburg, the Förderkreis Buer eV was founded in November 1987.

The home and embellishment association Buer eV was founded in 1883. In addition to maintaining the hiking trails and maintaining the educational forest trail on Steffenweg in the Huntetal, the activities include lectures and exhibitions in the Osnabrücker Tor home building at Kirchhofsburg.

The tractor and historical agricultural machinery Grönegau-Buer eV regularly organizes trips and performance comparisons.

In the ev.-luth. Martinikirche church concerts have been held for several years. They are organized and hosted by the church musician Matthias Breitenkamp, ​​the founder and initiator of the Martinimusik series .

The network Jugendhaus Buer eV was founded on May 3rd, 2000. The primary goal of this initiative, which was initiated primarily by young people, is the promotion and implementation of self-organized and open youth work in Buer, through cooperation with the local providers of organized youth work and the schools.

The sports club Spiel und Sport 1927 Buer eV was founded in 1927. It is by far the largest club in town. Popular sports are practiced in over 10 different departments. The club's own sports facility on Stuckenberg is supplemented by two public grass pitches and a two-field sports hall. At the Grönen Holz sports field there is a grass field next to the club's own beach volleyball field and the Beckerskamp sports hall. The club also has a tennis facility (4 Rotgrant courts) on the so-called Leimbrocks Holz. All grass pitches have floodlight systems.

economy

Buer, which was once shaped by agriculture, also became an important business location relatively early on. In this context, the now internationally known company Eduard Korfhage & Sons was established in the 19th century , which had specialized in the construction of tower clocks and carillon.

Important local companies:

  • Refratechnik Ceramics GmbH (formerly BURTON-Werke): Manufacture of refractory bricks, especially for blast furnace construction
  • NEUERO Farm- u. Fördertechnik GmbH: Manufacture of silos and storage technology for agriculture
  • NTF Korfhage Maschinenbau GmbH
  • SAT Silo- und Anlagentechnik GmbH
  • Gustav Wilms Ohg
  • Jochen Bahr GmbH electrical heating and plumbing
  • GG Buildings & Land Service GmbH
  • Meyer Holzverarbeitung GmbH
  • Sawmill Heinrich Bulthaup GmbH
  • Heidenreich Metallverarbeitung GmbH
  • Elfo-Möbel GmbH
  • Klaus Klockenbrink KG
  • Roofing Böttcher GmbH
  • Bracksieker Draht GmbH
  • Möbelwerkstatt Stratmann and Degener GbR
  • Vegetable farm Biewener KG

Agriculture is now almost marginalized as an economic factor. According to cattle counts, there were more riding horses in Buer than dairy cows in 2007.

Public facilities

Fritz-Kamping-Haus Buer gGmbH - Protestant retirement center, founded in 1903

Personalities

  • Friedrich (Fritz) W. Kamping (1857–1922), owner of the meat products factory FW Kamping founded in 1865 by his father Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Kamping; KuK purveyor to the court; great patron of Buers
  • Karl-Hermann Hensiek (1914–1981), highly decorated SS-Hauptsturmführer in the notorious 3rd SS Panzer Division “Totenkopf” , brick factory owner, Burton GmbH Melle, today Refratechnik , Barkhausen near Buer
  • Ilse Losa (1913-2006), German-Portuguese (Yiddish) writer
  • Peter Neubäcker (* 1953), musician and inventor
  • Christine Eichel (* 1959), journalist

List of community leaders / local mayors

  • until 1910: community leader Heinrich August Weymann
  • until 2001 local mayor Werner Wessler (SPD)
  • 2001 to 2011 Mayor Georg Harms (CDU)
  • 2011 to 2016 Mayor Wilhelm Hunting (SPD)
  • since 2016 mayor Dieter Finke-Gröne (CDU)

Population numbers

  • 1821: 1077
  • 1900: 1085
  • 1939: 1156
  • 1950: 2008
  • 1961: 1724
  • 1969: 1767
  • 1970: 1820
  • 2007: 5058
  • 2011: 5573
  • 2017: 4759

literature

  • Burchardt Hahn: Company history of the tower clock factory Ed. Korfhage & Sons Melle-Buer . In: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chronometrie (Hg.): Jahresschrift , ISSN  1617-0113 , Vol. 39 (2000), pp. 88-96.
  • Monika Fiegert: The schools of Melle and Buer in the bishopric of Osnabrück from the Peace of Westphalia to secularization. A regional history of the lower school system in the process of confessionalization . Association for History and Regional Studies of Osnabrück, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-9800335-8-9 .
  • Hartmut Langenberg: The development of the farms and villages in the parish of Buer. A brief history of the settlements of the farmers and the parish . Heimatverein Melle-Buer, Melle-Buer 2010.

supporting documents

  1. ^ Friedrich Philippi : Osnabrücker Urkundenbuch , Vol. 2: The documents of the years 1201-1250 . Osnabrück 1896, p. 25, certificate no.35.
  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. 256 .
  3. ^ Burchardt Hahn: Company history of the tower clock factory Ed. Korfhage & Sons Melle-Buer . In: Annual journal of the German Society for Chronometrie, vol. 39 (2000), pp. 88–96.
  4. ↑ Yerger, Mark C. / Arrondo, Ignacio (2015): Totenkopf: The Structure, Development and Personalities of the 3.SS-Panzer-Division Volume 1 (English) Hardcover - December 3, 2015. Publisher: Helion Limited, 2015 , 536 p., Here: p. 327.
  5. ↑ On August 25, 1948, the denazification committee of the Melle district downgraded KH Hensiek from III to IV (without restrictions) as a NS follower. In this context, it was important that "the Hensiek'sche company was one of the few in which the workforce consistently did not belong to the party". (See Denazification Decision, Main Denazification Committee of the Melle District, October 25, 1948.)

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