Lamb

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Lamme (disambiguation) .

Lamb City of Braunschweig
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 13 ″  N , 10 ° 26 ′ 32 ″  E
Height :	80 m above sea level NN
Residents :	4960  (December 31, 2017)
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	38116
Area code :	0531
Location of Lammes in Braunschweig
St. Mary's lamb

Lamme is a place in Lower Saxony that was incorporated into Braunschweig with the municipality reform in 1974 .

Lamme is located in the west of Braunschweig, north of federal highway 1 .

history

First cartographic representation of Lamm in the official atlas of the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel ( Gottfried Mascop 1574).

The first settlement is believed to be in the time of the bell beaker culture (2800 to 2000 BC).

Some researchers date the first documentary mention to the year 780, when the Saxon prince Uodiltag and his wife Wentelsvint transferred goods to the Fulda monastery in 20 places in the Liergau , including the "Lammari" estate. The document literally says “tradiderunt” which can be translated as “transfer” but also as “deliver”. Presumably the transmitting "Noble Uodiltag" was captured in the Franconian-Saxon wars. To buy himself out, he transferred 20 villages from his property to the Franks. Thus Franconian or the Franconian friendly farmers were settled in Lamme. This historical interpretation is, however, controversial. The current spelling "Lamme" was mentioned for the first time in 1226, this is now officially the first written mention of Lamm.

In the 14th century, the construction of the Braunschweiger Landwehr and the associated raffle tower began, which represented a defensive belt around Braunschweig, with the town of Lamme itself lying outside this line of defense.

Around 1440 Lamme was combined with another ten villages in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel to form the administrative and judicial district " Amt Eich " or "Zur Eiche". The office covered the area west of the city of Braunschweig, from the Braunschweiger Landwehr to about the river Aue .

From 1519 to 1553 and from 1569 to 1671 the village was already under the authority of the city council of Braunschweig. In the 18th century, Lamme developed from a one-way village along what is now Frankenstrasse to a clustered village. In 1823 the Protestant Church of St. Mary was built in place of the previous building.

After 1945, the construction of single-family homes began mainly in the area west and south of Altlamme (Altlamme: Frankenstrasse / Neudammstrasse). In the 1960s, the northern district "Tiergarten" was created. Lamme experienced a considerable enlargement of almost double its size through the designation of south-facing areas for residential development. The residential estate “Lammer Busch West” was built from 2003 to 2008, the somewhat smaller complex “Lammer Busch East” from 2007. Several hundred families have bought a home close to the city center here. The settlement received a primary school with a kindergarten, shopping facilities and a sports field, all embedded in green spaces.

church

First mentioned in 1568 (Spanuth IS 265) as a branch of Denstorf , in 1564 the patronage was with the archdeacon , in 1764 with the duke. The official journal of Vechelde shows a church building with unmistakable Renaissance structures in Lamme. It can be assumed that a larger church already existed around 1600.

The current church was built in the 19th century, the topping-out ceremony took place on October 23, 1823. The master builder was Carl Liebau b. 1780. 1813 Chamber building inspector, Carl Liebau died on October 15, 1842 as senior building officer. The entire interior of the church was designed in a strong, dorising formal language.

During the renovation of the interior from 1964 to 1967, the entire interior was removed. Wilhelm Bornstedt , the local curator of the Braunschweig district at the time, was only able to save four classical ornaments . These parts, freed from overpainting and restored in the original colors, were handed over to the church council Barke and pastor Barbara Berg on August 7th, 1997 by the local home attendant H. P. Roppel. The ornaments then adorned the wall behind the altar, but they were removed again during the last renovation in 2006 (opening of the wall with a breakthrough).

The strong increase in the population of Lammes due to the Lammer Busch development area made it necessary to build a new church house, which was handed over to the community in 2007. The building stands on the site of the old sexton's house and is connected to the old church by a glass connecting wing.

War memorial

The three-part monument complex is located on a fenced property in Neudammstrasse. The central part of the monument has an iron cross made of stone on the top. The year 1914–1918 and the names of the fallen can be read in recessed letters: “Dedicated with gratitude to your fallen heroes. Lamme community ”. The stone on the left is for those who fell in 1939–1945 and for those missing in the community, as is the stone on the right for those who fell in 1939–1945 and for those who were missing and displaced .

Districts

• Lamb
• Zoo
• Lammer Busch West
• Lammer Busch East

Place name

Just as controversial as the dating of Lammes to around 800 is the interpretation of his name. The current name "Lamme" developed according to a theory from the name "Lammari". The word "Lammari" is therefore composed of two syllables.

The first syllable "Lam" is a faded word for swamp, morass, mud. In fact, there is still boggy ground in the valley between today's Lamme and the district of Tiergarten and the Chancellor's field. The lack of drainage of this swamp turned it into a shallow lake in the rainy months. The French word "Lame" (pronounced "Lam") is also referred to in the literature. It once meant “thin plate, thin slice”, and secondly “wave” and “lake”. The second syllable "Mari" is considerably younger, around 2000 years old. It can be assumed that pre-Germanic peoples who encountered this "Lam" found residents there who told them the word "Lam" but no longer knew the meaning of the word themselves. The new immigrants gave this place “Lam” the addition “Mari”. The word "Mari" occurs in Old German in the modified form "meri". It means as much as "swamp". Henceforth it became the “Lam-Mari”.

There are a large number of parishes in this area that end in “mar”. In the case of the neighboring town of “ Bettmar ”, it can be assumed that the syllable “mar” meant the same moor.

Residents

In 1871 Lamme had 318 inhabitants, in 1902 329 inhabitants and in 1933 393 inhabitants. The population increased particularly in the 1930s due to homestead settlement. At the beginning of the Second World War, 480 inhabitants were counted. After 1945 there was an increase in population to 879 residents due to so-called displaced persons. In 1991 Lamme had 1527 inhabitants. Due to the new development areas "Lammer Busch West" and "Lammer Busch Ost", which were developed from 2001 and expanded in the following years, the population grew to over 4,600.

Local public transport

Lamme is connected to the Braunschweig city center by bus lines 411 and 418 operated by Braunschweiger Verkehrs-GmbH . There is also a so-called reserve area for the urban railway network being developed in the region, which has been put on hold for the time being due to objections from citizens.

Public life

There is a lively public life in Lamme. In addition to the Lamme volunteer fire brigade (with youth fire brigade ), many Lammers are active in local associations.

societies

• The sports club TSV Germania Lamme offers a wide range of sports from men's, women's and youth football, badminton, table tennis, volleyball, basketball, parent and child gymnastics, health sports / rehabilitation sports for children, fitness and judo.
• The shooting club “Wilhelm Tell” in the village community center has around 100 members. Shooting with air rifles, air pistols and sports bows are part of the offer.
• In 2012 the Lammari Cantat choir (Latin: "Lamme singt") celebrated its 25th anniversary. He cultivates secular and spiritual, serious and cheerful, old and new songs. Many church services in the course of the year (Easter Vigil, Thanksgiving Day, Eternity Sunday, Christmas Eve) are traditionally organized musically by the choir.
• The Lammer Open Air Friends have been organizing the Lammer Open Air Music Festival every year since 1999.
• The "Lamme Liest!" supports the local library and organizes u. a. Author readings
• The Löwenfans Lamme are a fan club of the Eintracht Braunschweig football club .

Public facilities

The ev.-luth. Church “St. Marien ”with the church house inaugurated in 2007 is located in the old village center.

The primary school in Lamme opened in the new building area at the beginning of the 2005/2006 school year. It was planned in two classes with the first to fourth classes. Even before completion, however, the need to expand the building was determined due to the unusually high number of children in Lamme. The expansion of the school by another four classrooms was completed in summer 2006. In 2009 a gymnasium was completed on the school premises, which is used by both the school and the local sports clubs.

Lamme has three day-care centers: The Lamme municipal day-care center on Frankenstrasse looks after three groups with 25 children each. The Evangelical Lutheran day-care center “St. Marien” is located in the same building as the Lammer Heide elementary school. It was opened in August 2005 and looks after four groups. At the beginning of 2013 the DRK day care center "Wilde Wiese" was opened. She looks after up to 15 children aged 0 to 3 years in the day nursery and offers 50 places in kindergarten for children aged 3 years up to school enrollment.

In November 2010, a child and youth center was opened under the auspices of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a diagonal golden oak leaf and a golden cross, which adorns the upper corner, on a blue shield. The oak leaf symbolizes the protected oaks of Lammer Holz . It also stands for the former judicial and administrative district with the name Eich. The cross stands for the close connection of the place to church and charitable institutions such as the Blasiusstift , the Thomas and Marienhospital and the St. Crucis Cross Monastery .

The colors blue and yellow correspond to those of the former district of Braunschweig , to which Lamme belonged before its incorporation. The coat of arms was designed by Arnold Rabbow and confirmed by the Watenbüttel local council on June 4, 1980.

Web links

Commons : Lamme  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website from Lammers for Lammers at lamme.de
• Lamme on braunschweig.de
• Literature about Lamme in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Population statistics on braunschweig.de, accessed on July 29, 2018
2. ^ Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch. Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , pp. 20/21.