Burgdorf (Hanover region)

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Coat of arms of the city of Burgdorf
Burgdorf (Hanover region)
Map of Germany, position of the city of Burgdorf highlighted

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '  N , 10 ° 0'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Hanover region
Height : 55 m above sea level NHN
Area : 112.35 km 2
Residents: 30,727 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 273 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 31303
Primaries : 05136, 05085
License plate : H
Community key : 03 2 41 003

City administration address : 		Marktstrasse 55
31303 Burgdorf
Website : www.burgdorf.de
Mayor : Armin Pollehn ( CDU )
Location of the city of Burgdorf in the Hanover region
Region Hannover Niedersachsen Wedemark Burgwedel Neustadt am Rübenberge Burgdorf Uetze Lehrte Isernhagen Langenhagen Garbsen Wunstorf Seelze Barsinghausen Sehnde Hannover Gehrden Laatzen Wennigsen Ronnenberg Hemmingen Pattensen Springe Landkreis Hameln-Pyrmont Landkreis Schaumburg Landkreis Nienburg/Weser Landkreis Heidekreis Landkreis Celle Landkreis Peine Landkreis Gifhorn Landkreis Hildesheimmap
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Burgdorf ( Low German Bortbody ) is a town with around 30,000 inhabitants in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony . Until 1974 it was the seat of the Burgdorf district . Burgdorf is known for its asparagus cultivation , which has been a tradition here since 1750. The place is in a traditional horse breeding area for Hanoverians and is the location of a horse market. The largest collection of pewter figures in Germany is in municipal ownership in Burgdorf .

geography

Geographical location

Burgdorf lies between Hanover , Celle and Peine and is about 25 km away from all three cities. It borders on Uetze , Lehrte , Isernhagen and Burgwedel as well as on the district of Celle . The Burgdorfer Aue flows through the area of ​​the town of Burgdorf, which is why it is also called the Auestadt . The defining natural area is the Burgdorf-Peiner Geest with its nutrient-poor, sandy soils, a largely flat landscape with a few low hills and pine , birch and pedunculate oak forests . The urban area is enclosed by the Altwarmbüchener Moor and the Oldhorster Moor in the west and the Burgdorfer Holz in the east.

Urban structure (districts)

The districts of Burgdorf

In the vernacular there is still an informal structure of the urban area. One speaks of the west city, which is located west of the railway line, of the north city north of the Gartenstrasse and the south city south of the floodplain and the Gümme Canal. The area between these three districts is known as the city center or old town.

Street directory

history

Burgdorf around 1654 in a Merian engraving
Sign for the medieval desert of Hetelingen on the B 188
Former synagogue in Burgdorf

Burgdorf was first mentioned in a document in 1279. It belonged to the diocese of Hildesheim . During the Middle Ages , the place was surrounded by a series of smaller settlements that fell desolate . These include Eseringen, Garvesse, Hetelingen and Oensingen. After the small Hildesheim collegiate feud (1420–1422) it came to the Celle dukes in 1433 , whose area later became the administrative district of Lüneburg . In 1433, Duke Otto von der Heide had Burgdorf Castle rebuilt and moved with a rampart and double moat. The place Burgdorf was then just a village.

In the Thirty Years' War there was a battle at a heavily occupied pass near Dachtmissen. The citizens of Burgdorf defended themselves against the contributions and taxes in 1637 with a minor uprising. There were also major fires in the city in 1658 and 1809, which were repeatedly destroyed and then rebuilt.

In 1811 the Jewish community in Burgdorf built a half-timbered house as a synagogue . In 1939 she was forced to sell the building to the city. From 1941 it served the Hitler Youth as an office and was later a library. Since 2008, the building has been a cultural meeting place under the name KulturWerkStadt .

In 1935 the Catholic St. Nicholas Church was built east of the old town , which was significantly expanded and modernized in 1972.

During the Second World War , numerous Nazi forced laborers had to do forced labor on farms in Burgdorf and the surrounding area. In 1944 there was an uprising, as a result of which 31 Polish and Soviet forced laborers from Burgdorf and the surrounding area were executed on August 9, 1944 in Neuengamme concentration camp . After the war ended, the British military government built the Ohio barracks camp on the northeastern outskirts of Burgdorf. At the end of 1945 there were 1,000 former prisoners of war, forced laborers and foreigners who had become homeless. In 2017, the Burgdorf City History Working Group published the book "Im Schatten des Vergessens", which explains the history of these people based on individual fates and is now also used by teachers at Burgdorf schools  to illustrate the era of National Socialism to schoolchildren.

The district of Burgdorf , which existed until 1974, was merged against the will of the majority of the population with the district of Neustadt am Rübenberge (NRÜ), the district of Springe am Deister (SPR) and remnants of the old district of Hanover to form the new district of Hanover. As a result, Burgdorf lost its district town status and no longer belonged to the Lüneburg administrative district, but to the Hanover administrative district , which was dissolved on December 31, 2004 .

On November 1, 2001, the district of Hanover was merged with the city of Hanover to form the Hanover region , to which Burgdorf also belongs. There is a local court and a tax office in Burgdorf.

Incorporations

As a result of the Lower Saxony regional reform that came into force on April 1, 1974 , the communities of Beinhorn, Dachtmissen, Heeßel, Hülptingsen, Otze, Ramlingen-Ehlershausen, Schillerslage, Sorgensen and Weferlingsen were incorporated.

Population development

Core city Burgdorf

year 1824 1848 1890 1910 1925 1933 1939 1950 2010 2015
Residents - ¹ 2,362 square 3,386 4,465 5,252 5,955 6,452 10,942 22,014 ³ 22,409
source

¹ 283 fireplaces
² in 313 houses (town of Burgdorf with its two municipal associations)
³ according to the version history of the article

City of Burgdorf

year Residents source
1975 26,976 ¹
1977 27,687 ¹
1980 28,196 ¹
1985 28,641 ¹
1990 29,022 ¹
1995 30,275 ¹
2000 30,314 ¹
2005 30,074 ¹
2009 29,951 ¹
year Residents source
2010 29,886 ¹
2011 29,833 ¹
2012 29.094 ¹
2013 29,397 ¹
2014 29,676 ¹
2015 30,147 ¹
2016 30,320 ¹
2017 30,482 ¹
2018 30,699 ¹

¹ as of December 31st

religion

St. Paul Church

The Evangelical Lutheran church district of Burgdorf includes the parishes of St. Pankratius , St. Paulus and Martin Luther with their eponymous churches. The Burgdorf main church St. Pankratius from 1813 is located in the city center on Marktstrasse. In the southern part of the city is the modern St. Paulus Church on the Berliner Ring. The Martin Luther Church is in Ehlershausen. A number of other facilities belong to the Protestant church in Burgdorf, such as the day care centers "Fröbelweg" and "Pusteblume" (Weststadt) as well as the Paulus crèche and the cemetery of the Pankratius church.

The Catholic parish of St. Nikolaus is part of the Hanover deanery . The church of the same name on the street Im Langen Mühlenfeld belongs to it, it was built in 1935 and expanded in 1972. Furthermore, since 2006, the churches of St. Barbara in Hänigsen and St. Matthias in Uetze , of which St. Barbara was profaned and demolished in 2012 .

The regional church community in Burgdorf dates back to 1919 and has had its community center on Heinrichstrasse since 1978.

The Evangelical Free Church Jesus Community in Burgdorf, based on Schützenweg, is part of the Hannover-Walderseestrasse ( Baptists ) community, while the Elim Christian community , based on Gartenstrasse, is part of the Bund Freikirchlicher Pfingstgemeinden .

The New Apostolic congregation Burgdorf belongs to the church district Hanover North . It was founded in 1906 and has a church on Wallgartenstrasse.

The Jehovah's Witnesses are represented with a meeting in Burgdorf.

Other churches are located in districts that are incorporated into Burgdorf.

politics

City Council

Since the local elections on September 11, 2016, the Burgdorf City Council has been composed as follows:

SPD CDU Green AfD Free Burgdorfer * WGS ** FDP The left total
12 seats 9 seats 4 seats 2 seats 3 seats 2 seats 2 seats 1 seat 36 seats

* Free voter community for Burgdorf

** Burgdorf independent voter community

The AfD was only able to occupy two of the four seats that it would have been entitled to according to the election results in the council because no more candidates had been nominated.

In 2017 two Christian Democrats and a representative of the left left their parliamentary groups and jointly founded the “Free Burgdorfer” parliamentary group.

mayor

Mayor of the city of Burgdorf is Armin Pollehn (CDU). His deputies are Matthias Paul (SPD) and Simone Heller (Greens).

On November 1, 2019, the retiring former mayor Alfred Baxmann (SPD) was replaced by Armin Pollehn (CDU), who was elected future mayor in a runoff election against Matthias Paul on June 16, 2019.

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms of Burgdorf comes from the heraldic painter Carl Wenzel from Hanover. Wenzel created several coats of arms in the Hanover district, for example for the places Ahlten , Bilm and Dolgen .

  • The approval of the coat of arms was given on September 5, 1940 by the President of the Province of Hanover .
  • The city of Burgdorf, newly formed by law on March 1, 1974, took over the coat of arms of the previous city of Burgdorf, which was approved by the district president in Hanover on May 8, 1974.
Burgdorf coat of arms
 Blazon : "In silver on a green shield base, two green deciduous trees with brown trunks and branches ( oaks )next to each other, in front of which a golden lion rests."
Reasons for the coat of arms: The origin of the coat of arms of the city cannot be determined. Since it is not known why and by whom it was awarded, no justification can be given for the coat of arms. It has also seen significant changes over the centuries. According to the oldest known representations from the 16th century, the heraldic animal can also be a leopard . Later the coat of arms showed two fir trees instead of the deciduous trees . Since 1940 the coat of arms has been shown again with the deciduous trees (oaks).

Colors, flag

The colors of the city, and consequently those of the city flag: "The colors of the city are 'green' and 'yellow'."

seal

The seal is designed as follows: "The official seal contains the coat of arms and the inscription 'Stadt Burgdorf'."

  • The coat of arms, colors and seals of the city of Burgdorf are set out in Section 2 (1), (2) and (3) of the main statutes.

Coats of arms of the districts

"On suitable occasions of a solemn and other representative kind, the previous coats of arms and flags of the districts may be shown in the villages in addition to the city arms and the city flag."

  • Section 2 (5) of the main statute regulates the use of the previous emblems of the incorporated localities.

Town twinning

  • SwitzerlandSwitzerland Burgdorf BE , Canton of Bern (Switzerland), since 1968
  • GermanyGermany Calbe (Saale) , Saxony-Anhalt (Germany), since November 17, 1990

The partnership with the Dutch city of Rheden was ended by mutual agreement.

Partnerships of the districts

Furthermore, there have been partnerships since 1990 between the district of Ramlingen-Ehlershausen and Kleinmühlingen (municipality of Bördeland ) in Saxony-Anhalt and between Otze and Großmühlingen , also part of the municipality of Bördeland.

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • The townscape of Burgdorf is characterized by historical half-timbered buildings, some of which are significant , which were extensively and faithfully restored towards the end of the 20th century, including above all Burgdorf Castle from 1643, which stands on the site of the castrum burgtorfe mentioned in the 13th century .
  • In 1805 the remarkable, originally classical town hall was built, which received a gable roof in 1950 and a carillon in 1996 . The building of the city museum dates from 1658.
  • This, like some other houses at the fire end, was spared the great fire of 1809.
  • The St. Pankratius Church , on the other hand, had to be built from scratch , which was completed in 1814 in classicist form.
  • The grave of the composer and poet Philipp Spitta is located in the Magdalenenfriedhof with chapel from 1868 .
  • The remains of Heeßel Castle, surrounded by ramparts, are located south of the Heeßel district in a protected landscape area .
  • The Otzer Chapel with its wooden bell tower was built in 1350.
  • In the Ramlinger district stands the small half-timbered chapel from 1698, which replaced the old building after the previous chapel was destroyed in the Thirty Years War.
  • The oldest farmhouse in Schillerslage dates from 1767. It stands on the formerly known Sprengelschen Posthof - formerly a customs station - from 1784.
  • The Sorgens post mill dates from the 17th century. Today it is owned by the city of Burgdorf, has been restored and is preserved as a monument .

  • Location of the core city in the city of Burgdorf

  • historical town hall

  • Houses on Markstrasse

  • City Museum Schmiedestrasse

  • Landratsvilla (Town Hall II)

  • city ​​Park

  • Sorgenser post mill

Architectural monuments

language

Burgdorf was historically part of the East Westphalian language area. The Standard German has the Low German language but almost completely replaced there. Today the Burgdorf colloquial language, together with that of the entire area around Hanover, has the reputation of being particularly close to the standard language. However, there are still some regional peculiarities, some of which can be explained by a Low German substrate .

The / l / is often vocalized in the final syllable so that “mal” sounds like “ma” or “such” like “epidemic”. / g / is often lenized to / x / or / ç / so that “said” sounds like “gentle”. The short / ɪ / coincides with the short / ʏ / (“büdde” instead of “please” and “Kürche” instead of “church”). Also typical are the use of “ebent” instead of “even”, the internal German weakening of the consonants (“Leude” instead of “people”) and the tmesis of adverbs (“I can't do anything for that” instead of “I can't do anything for that”).

music

The probably best-known Burgdorf band - measured in terms of media success - was probably the High Life Skiffle Group , later High Life Music Group , which was founded in 1974 and achieved notable successes with “Hey hey Marlene” and “Ich fahr mit der Lambretta”. The pop singer Lukas Rieger was a student at the Burgdorf high school .

Sports

The city is home to the handball club TSV Hannover-Burgdorf , which has played in the handball Bundesliga since 2009 . The soccer club SV Ramlingen / Ehlershausen won the Lower Saxony championship in 2006 and is currently playing in the Lower Saxony state league , i.e. in the sixth highest division. Heesseler SV from the district of Heeßel and the footballers from TSV Burgdorf also play in the same league .

There is an 18-hole golf course in the district of Ehlershausen and a swing golf course in the district of Otze . In the district of Ehlershausen there is the Großes Moor glider airfield, whose gliding club LSV Burgdorf has been represented in the 1st Bundesliga since the 2011 season. The glider club is most successful in cross-country flight in Lower Saxony.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

In Hülptingsen , to the east of the city center, there is an important industrial area in Burgdorf.

traffic

Burgdorf is on the A 37 federal motorway to Hanover , which merges into the B 3 federal road north of Burgdorf in the direction of Celle . To the north, the B 188 bypasses the city, while the B 443 runs through Burgdorf in a north-south direction. Until 2006 the B 188 ran through the city center.

Burgdorf lies with the train stations Burgdorf , Ehlershausen and Otze on the Lehrte – Celle railway line . The Hanover S-Bahn trains stopping there complement each other at half-hourly intervals between Celle and Hanover as part of the Hanover metropolitan area . Burgdorf is also a hub for RegioBus Hanover bus routes .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

People connected to the city

literature

  • Working group City History Burgdorf: In the Shadow of Oblivion: Prisoners of War, Forced Laborers and Homeless Foreigners in Burgdorf 1939 - 1950 . Wehrhahn Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86525-807-6 .
  • Reinhard Scheelje, Heinz Neumann: History of the city of Burgdorf and its districts from the beginning to the beginning of the 20th century . Animal Verlag, Burgdorf 1992.
  • Heinz Neumann, Dieter Heun: Contemporary history booklets of the city of Burgdorf (1870-1984) . Ed .: City of Burgdorf. 5 volumes. Burgdorf 2008.
  • Dieter Heun: When the diplomats met in Burgdorf - The palace on the Aue at the center of important events . Ed .: Transport and Beautification Association of the City of Burgdorf. Burgdorf 2011.
  • Dieter Heun: The street names in Burgdorf - origin, meaning, history . Ed .: Transport and Beautification Association of the City of Burgdorf. Burgdorf 2011.
  • Dieter Heun, Heidi Rust: Come with me! An entertaining journey through the history of Burgdorf . Ed .: Transport and Beautification Association of the City of Burgdorf. Burgdorf 2012.
  • Dieter Heun, Heidi Rust: Burgdorf crime scene - spectacular and curious things from Burgdorf's criminal history . Ed .: Transport and Beautification Association of the City of Burgdorf. Burgdorf 2013.
  • Dieter Heun, Heidi Rust: Frédéric, mon amour - Burgdorf in the French era . Ed .: Transport and Beautification Association of the City of Burgdorf. Burgdorf 2014.
  • Dieter Heun, Heidi Rust: Do you actually know ...? - Story (s) from Burgdorf - 50 large and small secrets from our city . Ed .: Friends of the Burgdorf City Museum. Burgdorf 2017.
  • In the shadow of oblivion - prisoners of war, forced laborers and homeless foreigners in Burgdorf 1939–1950 . In: Arbeitskreis Stadtgeschichte Burgdorf (Ed.): Series of publications by the Ahlem Memorial - special edition . Wehrhahn Verlag, Hanover 2017.
  • Dieter Heun, Heidi Rust: Shadows on the soul - Burgdorf contemporary witnesses report on war, flight and displacement . Ed .: Friends of the Burgdorf City Museum. Burgdorf 2018.
  • Dieter Heun, Heidi Rust, Tobias Teuber: Bombs on Burgdorf . Ed .: Friends of the Burgdorf City Museum. Burgdorf 2020.
  • Matthias Blazek : 50 years of riding and driving association St. Georg Burgdorf e. V. 1959-2009 . Burgdorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-027790-0 .
  • Verena and Volker Stahnke (text): Burgdorf City Park . In: Wissenschaftsladen Hannover e. V. in cooperation with the state capital Hanover and the Hanover region / Silke Beck, Susanne Wildermann, Birgit Roos, Burkhard Wetekam (ed.): 12 green treasures. Discovery tours for children in the city and region of Hanover . For children between 5 and 12 years. Transfer-Medien Verlag, Hannover 2013, ISBN 978-3-9814315-5-1 , p. 88-95 (Digitalisat: Contents and publisher message ( Memento of 5 May 2015, Internet Archive ) [accessed on 28 June 2019]).

Web links

Commons : Burgdorf  - Collection of Images
Wikisource: Burgtorff in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

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  4. ↑ "Ohio" - Burgdorf faces its past , market mirror from September 7, 2012 (accessed on February 2, 2020)
  5. ^ Burgdorfer lay down wreath in the concentration camp , Hannoversche Allgemeine dated August 12, 2014 (accessed on February 2, 2020)
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  7. ↑ City history should shake up BBS students , Schaumburger Nachrichten of March 12, 2018 (accessed on February 2, 2020)
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  20. ↑ Joachim Dege: CDU level with the SPD. In: Website Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . September 15, 2016, accessed November 24, 2016 .
  21. Jump up : New majority in the council. In: Website Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. October 23, 2017. Retrieved June 29, 2018 .
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