Fürstenberg (Weser)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 44 '  N , 9 ° 24'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Holzminden
Joint municipality :	Boffzen
Height :	201 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.26 km 2
Residents:	1014 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	311 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	37699
Area code :	05271
License plate :	HOL
Community key :	03 2 55 014
Association administration address:	Heinrich-Ohm-Strasse 21 37691 Boffzen
Website :	www.gemeinde-fuerstenberg.de
Mayor :	Michael Weber ( SPD )
Location of the community of Fürstenberg in the Holzminden district

Fürstenberg is a municipality in the Holzminden district in the south of Lower Saxony ( Germany ). The community is located on the Weser and on the western edge of the Solling near Höxter and Holzminden . Fürstenberg is a state-approved excursion destination . The Porcelain Manufactory Fürstenberg , founded in 1747, is the third oldest porcelain manufacture in Germany.

history

In 1747, Duke Carl I ordered the establishment of a porcelain factory. This probably also led to the establishment of a postal expedition on the Braunschweig – Holzminden postal route .

From 1807 to 1813 the canton of Fürstenberg existed in the Einbeck district ( Department of the Leine , Kingdom of Westphalia ) and was formed by the Royal Decree of December 24, 1807.

In the middle of the village is Hussmannplatz with a bronze horse, which was created by the artist Albert Hinrich Hussmann (* 1874 Lüdingworth near Cuxhaven - † 1946 Fürstenberg), who fled Berlin . It was flown out at the time of the Berlin Airlift ; for this the legs were sawed off.

During the Cold War , an ammunition and fuel depot (Forward Storage Site) for the Belgian I. Corps from Cologne-Weiden (also for the 43rd Artillery Battalion in Brakel ) was built between Fürstenberg and Boffzen . It existed until 1994.

1996 lived 1338 inhabitants in the municipality.

Until the end of 2010, Fürstenberg was a state-approved resort .

Place name

Old names of the place are around 1350 Vorstenberch, 1369-1370 Vorstenberg, 1399 Forstinberg, 1410 Furstenberge, 1446 Forstenbergk and 1495 Forstenberg. The place name is an education with the basic word "‑berg". The appellative “vörste” (“prince”) is a plausible term because this word often appears in the names of castles and palaces. “Fürst” would be a convincing interpretation, but there is another possible interpretation through the word “First” (“Gable, upper edge”). The prominent position of Fürstenberg on the Kathagenberg would support this interpretation. Ultimately, both interpretations are possible.

politics

Municipal council

Municipal election 2016

Turnout: 55.15%

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75.26%

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11.71%

SPD

FDP

Green

After the local elections on September 11, 2016, the municipal council consists of:

• SPD : 8 seats (75.26%)
• FDP : 1 seat (13.03%)
• GREEN : 1 seat (11.71%)

mayor

Marina Zimmermann took over the mayor's office from Uwe König (SPD) on June 5, 2014. Her successor is Michael Weber (SPD).

coat of arms

	Blazon : "On a blue background a golden (yellow) lion, red armored and tongued next to a silver (white) vase over two golden (yellow) wavy strips."
	Reasons for the coat of arms: The coat of arms reminds of the former affiliation to the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel with the colors blue and gold and the lion . The corrugated strips symbolize the Weser and the vase stands for the porcelain industry that has existed in the town for decades.

flag

00Hoisted flag: "The flag is blue-yellow-blue in a ratio of 2: 9: 2 with horizontal stripes with the coat of arms in the middle."

Culture and sights

Buildings

View from Brunsberg to Fürstenberg and the Weser

Fürstenberg Castle

Christ Church

• The Fürstenberg Castle of the Renaissance , formerly part of the porcelain factory Fürstenberg , now houses the Museum Schloss Furstenberg as a porcelain museum.
• Alte Mühle , a structure originally built as a windmill from 1744 onwards, which from 1747 became the laboratory of the Fürstenberg porcelain manufactory.
• Old kiln as a structure built for firing porcelain and one of the first operating facilities of the Fürstenberg porcelain manufactory.
• Long row as a building complex of six terraced houses from the mid-18th century for employees of the Fürstenberg porcelain factory.
• The Christ Church is centrally located in the village. The building was built in 1899 and is based on the Romanesque style. Your Evangelical Lutheran congregation belongs to the Holzminden-Bodenwerder parish .

societies

The Fürstenberg men's gymnastics club, founded on December 10, 1888, is the largest club in the community with around 480 members. The members are divided between the football , gymnastics , volleyball and taekwon-do departments . The club also offers rehabilitation sports for non-members . Several events are organized in the calendar year.

Regular events

The "Allersheimer Summer Cup" takes place every year. This is a multi-day preparatory tournament for men's soccer teams from the region. MTV Fürstenberg has been the organizer since 2006. A partnership with the Allersheim brewery has existed since 2014 . Until 2013, the tournament was called the "Fürstenberg Cup", named after the name sponsor at that time, the Fürstenberg porcelain manufacturer .

Since 2014 the rock festival “Solling Jump” has been taking place annually on the grounds of the old school yard and the adjoining medieval village with around 500 visitors. The open air is organized by the Fürstenberg youth and culture association.

traffic

The Lower Saxony state road 550 runs through the village north via Boffzen to Holzminden and south via Meinbrexen to Lauenförde . There is a connection to Derental via Kreisstraße 53 or via a junction of the L 550 at Meinbrexen . There is a connection east to Neuhaus im Solling via the L 549 branching off in Boffzen .

Personalities

• Johann Georg von Langen (1699–1776), master forestry and chief hunter
• Pascha Johann Friedrich Weitsch (1723–1803), porcelain painter at the manufactory
• Johann Christian Ruhl (1764–1842), modeler at the porcelain factory
• Karl Heinrich Schwarzkopf (1763–1846), modeller at the porcelain factory
• Ernst Hampe (1795–1880), pharmacist and bryologist (moss expert)
• Arthur Ulrichs (1838–1927), chief forester and local researcher
• Ernst Max Roloff (1867–1935), philologist, pedagogue, lexiographer (lexicon of pedagogy)
• Robert Roloff (1886–1953), porcelain painter, politician ( SPD ), member of the Braunschweigische Landtag (1924–1933), mayor of Braunlage (1927–1932), mayor of Fürstenberg (1945–1946) and municipal director (1947–1949)
• Ernst Nölting (1901–1967), civil servant, politician ( SPD ), member of the appointed Hanover state parliament
• Eberhard Tacke (1910–1977), geographer and historian, from 1937 as a scientist at the Lower Saxony Institute for Regional Studies and Regional Development at the University of Göttingen, 1953–1974 editor of the magazine Neues Archiv für Niedersachsen .
• Karl-August Busche (1935–2014), sports functionary, first DFB honorary award winner in 1998, 22 years old (1980–2002) president of the sports club

Web links

Commons : Fürstenberg  - Collection of Images

Wikisource: Fürstenberg in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian)

• Fürstenberg community
• Short film on RTL Regional

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ↑ Royal Decree, which ordered the division of the kingdom into eight departments . List of the departments, districts, cantons and communes of the kingdom. In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Ed.): Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Vol. I (1807) No. 6 . S. 144 ff . ( PDF 4.9MB [accessed April 12, 2013]).
3. ↑ http://www.bronze-shop.com/kuenstler/Albert+Heinrich+Hussmann
4. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on July 29, 2016 ; accessed on August 4, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Torsten Wegener: New mayor for Fürstenberg. In: Neue Westfälische (online). Newspaper publisher Neue Westfälische GmbH & Co. KG, December 4, 2015, accessed on December 10, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Main statutes of the community of Fürstenberg (Weser)
7. ↑ Flag of the community of Fürstenberg (Weser)
8. ↑ Information on the Christ Church in Fürstenberg
9. ↑ mtv-fürstenberg.de , MTV - functionaries PDF
10. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.