Farmsen (Schellerten)

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Farmsen
Municipality Schellerten
Farmsen Coat of Arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 7 ″  N , 10 ° 5 ′ 29 ″  E
Height : 93 m
Residents : 255  (Jun 30, 2012)
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 31174
Area code : 05123
Flurkreuz (1856) on the road to Kemme
Church (right) and cemetery chapel
Interior of the church

Farmsen is a village in the community of Schellerten in the Hildesheim district in Lower Saxony . The place is in the middle of the Hildesheimer Börde in the square of the villages Dinklar, Schellerten, Dingelbe and Ottbergen.

history

Farmsen was built on a military road that led from Hildesheim to Wolfenbüttel . At the beginning of the 19th century, an area north of the road from Farmsen to Dingelbe was called "Heerstraßenfeld". The first known name of the place is Vermessen , which was mentioned for the first time in a document in 1151 . In this document, Bishop Bernhard von Hildesheim confirmed property in Farmsen to a monastery in Moritzberg . Most of the area belonged to the Magdalenenkloster in Hildesheim in the 13th century and in the following period . Only after secularization did the land become the property of the Farmser farmers.

The spinning wheel in the town's coat of arms reminds of the cultivation and processing of flax , through which many people used to earn their living.

On September 3, 1367, the Battle of Dinklar took place between Farmsen and Dinklar further to the west, between a Welfen Alliance and the Hildesheim Monastery . Even today the field mark between Farmsen and Dinklar is sometimes called "Streitacker". The Reformation was introduced in Farmsen in 1556 by Duke Adolf von Holstein , but from 1643 more and more residents of the place converted to the Catholic faith again.

In 1810 there were 151 inhabitants in 21 houses in Farmsen. In the second half of the 19th century, a brick factory, which no longer exists today, was founded in Farmsen, which, together with agriculture, determined life in the village well into the 20th century. The brick factory was taken over by the city of Hildesheim in 1946 and closed in 1974.

On March 1, 1974, Farmsen was incorporated into the community of Schellerten.

Of the 255 inhabitants, 161 are Catholic, 57 Evangelical-Lutheran, 37 belong to other or no religious communities.

Attractions

  • Several field crosses in Farmsen indicate the Catholic tradition of the place. A particularly well-preserved floor cross from 1856 rises on the road to Kemme. A striking amount of text is carved into its base, including the explanation that Catholics do not worship the cross itself, but the crucified one.
  • The Catholic Church Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary was built from May to November 1936 according to the plans of the Hildesheim architect Heinrich Stübe in place of a previous church that had been dismantled and consecrated to St. Godehard and therefore dates from a time when only a few church buildings were built in Germany. The church was consecrated on November 30, 1936 by the Hildesheim bishop Joseph Godehard Machens . It is very similar to the previous building, was built of rubble and took a church tower a clad with slate roof skylights and a gabled roof . A tent roof was built over the apse in the east of the building . The stars attached there were made by the local, late master blacksmith Konrad Brunke. The church, in which services are regularly held, belongs to the parish of St. Nikolaus in Ottbergen . In the interior of the church, the baroque high altar and the 17th century baroque pulpit, which was redesigned into a raised pedestal in 1986 , are particularly striking . Also noteworthy are two late Gothic statues made of limewood from the previous church, carved around 1505. The statue on the left in front of the altar, a so-called crescent Madonna , depicts Mary, the right statue above the pulpit depicts St. Godehard. The ornate pulpit and altar were also taken over from the previous church, as was the cross on the west wall from the 18th century. The church offers a little over 100 seats.
  • The Farmser Tonkuhle not far north of the village is a recognized nature reserve that is maintained by the Hildesheim Ornithological Association.

politics

The head of the village is Susanne Lutter-Brunotte ( CDU ).

Transport links

From Mondays to Fridays and Saturdays, Farmsen is connected several times a day by bus with Hildesheim as well as with Dinklar, Bettmar and other parts of the community of Schellerten.

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  1. ↑ Hartwig Kemmerer: Travel Guide Hildesheimer Land , p. 98, Hildesheim 2003.
  2. ↑ Working group archive of the local nurses of the community Schellerten: Farmsen - from the history of the village , September 2009.
  3. ^ 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. 209 .
  4. ↑ http://www.schellerten.info/Nachrichtenarchiv/Einwohnerstatistik
  5. ^ Community Schellerten: Discovering the unknown - Churches of the community Schellerten , p. 33.Schellerten September 2010.
  6. ↑ Kurt Dehio: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , p. 465, Munich 1992.
  7. ↑ schellerten.info