Hamelspringe

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Hamelspringe
Hamelspringe coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 46 ″  N , 9 ° 24 ′ 19 ″  E
Height : 158 m
Residents : 1000  (Apr 14, 2008)
Incorporation : 1st January 1973
Postal code : 31848
Area code : 05042
Hamelspringe (Lower Saxony)
Hamelspringe

Location of Hamelspringe in Lower Saxony
View of the place from the memorial
View of the place from the memorial

Hamelspringe is a district of the town of Bad Münder am Deister in Lower Saxony . The place has around 1000 inhabitants.

history

In 1180 the knight Conradus de Hamelspring is named as a witness in a document from Bishop Arno von Minden . This is the first time that the place name Hamelspringe appears in a document.

Hamel source in the village

The name of the village has nothing to do with the animal mutton , but means "place where the river Hamel rises". The name of the river Hamel in turn comes from the Germanic word “ ham ”, which means “thigh, angle, hollow of the knee, curvature”, so the Hamel is actually a “Winkelbach”, ie. H. a stream with many bends.

The Hamel spring is a natural monument and has its origin in the source area below the former quarry of today's owl escape. It arises from individual, small watercourses that seep away on the way into the valley and continue to flow underground. For this underground path of about 500 meters, the water needs about 17 hours before it emerges as a source in the place. The amount of water escaping averages 224 cubic meters per hour, with the maximum output being 1768 cubic meters per hour.

The municipality of Hamelspringe was incorporated into the town of Bad Münder am Deister on January 1, 1973. In the last census before the incorporation, Hamelspringe had 988 (June 6, 1961) and 1004 inhabitants (May 27, 1970).

politics

Local mayor is Joachim Behnke (non-party).

coat of arms

The Hamelspringe coat of arms was found in 1947 only with the inscription "Hamelspring". Earlier evidence is missing; the exact circumstances of the find are not mentioned by Schiffling. The coat of arms shows, divided by a stepped red wall ornament, on a silver background a vertical blue wavy band and above it a growing, black, red-tongued and armored bear, holding a piston cross in its lower paw. If one tries to interpret this obviously modern coat of arms, the wavy ribbon should represent the Hamelspringe and the wall ornament the former castle of Hamelspringe and the bear could symbolize the former lords of Hamelspringe.

societies

TSV Hamelspringe eV from 1910 is the largest club in town.

literature

  • Helmut Schiffling: Chronicle Hamelspringe. Published on the occasion of the 800th anniversary celebration in May 1980 . Bad Münder 1980

Web links

Commons : Hamelspringe  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schiffling, Chronik Hamelspringe p. 27.
  2. ↑ So the now refuted folk etymology in Schiffling, Chronik Hamelspringe, p. 7.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Udolph : Did the Hamelin emigrants move to Moravia ?, The Pied Piper Legend from a Name-Based Point of View , in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 69 (1997) pp. 125-183, here p. 157 with an interpretation of the place name Hamelspringe.
  4. ↑ The English word ham "thigh, ham" is also derived from the same Germanic word, cf. the etymology at Etymoline . The underlying Indo-European root is * konemo- "shin", from which z. B. also ancient Greek κνήμη ( knēmē ) "lower leg", cf. there at Etymonline.
  5. ↑ Web presence of NDR1 with interpretation of the place name Hameln and the river name Hamel by Jürgen Udolph.
  6. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 202 .
  7. ↑ NDZ.de: " Joachim Behnke is the new local mayor in Hamelspringe "
  8. ↑ Schiffling: Chronik Hamelspringe , p. 9.