Lemförde

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 28 '  N , 8 ° 23'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Diepholz
Joint municipality :	Old Office Lemförde
Height :	46 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.95 km 2
Residents:	3333 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	480 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	49448
Area code :	05443
License plate :	DH, SY
Community key :	03 2 51 023
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 80 49448 Lemförde
Website :	www.lemfoerde.de
Mayoress :	Stephanie Budke-Stambusch
Location of the municipality of Lemförde in the district of Diepholz

Main street in Lemförde

Lemförde is a patch in the Altes Amt Lemförde in the district of Diepholz in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Lemförde is located in the Dümmer Nature Park not far from the Dümmer and Stemweder Mountains between Osnabrück and Bremen . The municipality is the administrative seat of the Altes Amt Lemförde , with the towns of Brockum , Hüde , Lembruch , Lemförde, Marl , Quernheim and Stemshorn .

climate

The region around Lemförde has a temperate maritime climate, influenced by wet north-westerly winds from the North Sea. On a long-term average, the air temperature in Lemförde reaches 8.5 to 9.0 ° C and about 700 mm of precipitation falls. Between May and August, an average of 20 to 25 summer days (climatological term for days on which the maximum temperature exceeds 25 ° C) can be expected.

history

The community was first mentioned in a document in 1248. In earlier times the place was called Löwenförde, Leonis forda , Lauenfurth and in later times it was renamed Lemförde in order to distinguish it from the southern Lower Saxony town of Lauenförde .

The first settlement probably belonged to the Minden-Osnabrück Castle Sturenberg, which is said to have been located south of today's Lemförder Amtshof. In the course of the expansion of their rule to the south, the Counts of Diepholz built a new castle against the diocese of Minden here in 1316, with which they could control the access to the rule Diepholz from the direction of Osnabrück. In 2016 a previous building of the castle was archaeologically proven. This was extended to the south at the beginning of the 14th century, for which the ditch was filled and up to 1.8 m of clay was applied; the castle was protected by an approximately 1.5 m thick wall that towered 2 m, which was apparently sufficient in the flat terrain. 22 larger oak posts probably supported a larger building. Possibly this castle is the castle, which was only incompletely handed down in 1248 as "Stu ... erg".

During the ongoing feud between the diocese of Minden and the rule of Diepholz in the 15th to the 16th century, Diepholz subordinated his property to the emperor and received the rule back as a fief. With this imperial immediacy, the Diepholzians claimed the title of count from 1521 - and from 1530 they carried it. Its official seat has been Lemförde Castle since 1529; the Lemförde office is divided into the Vogtei Marl and the Vogtei am Berge.

In order to secure the property you have reached, you need good transport connections: The nobles of Diepholz built the section of the route from Osnabrück to Bremen from their security bastion Lemförde in the south to Diepholz: It was the forerunner of today's B 51, which was also another Another source of income, because the route over the moor pass between Stemweder Berg and Ochsenmoor was the shortest connection from Osnabrück to Bremen, and whoever wanted to use it had to pay a toll.

In 1629, with the Treaty of Nienburg, the centuries-old dispute between the Diocese of Minden and the County of Diepholz over ownership claims on the Stemweder Berg was ended: From then on, the border between these territories ran on the ridge of the Stemweder Berg - and this border continued: it separates the District of Minden-Lübbecke from the district of Diepholz and thus also the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony.

After the Diepholz Counts died out, the County of Diepholz including Lemförde fell to the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in 1585.

Badly marked by the Thirty Years War - the castle was finally destroyed in 1642 - a conflagration on March 15, 1655 reduced the church, the rectory and numerous town houses to ashes. With the help of Duke Christian-Ludwig von Braunschweig as well as some citizens and the Landdrosten zu Diepholz Adolph Friedrich Wolzan, the new church was built in the following four years. On Sunday Reminiscere in 1659 it was inaugurated by Johann Niemann, Superintendent of Diepholz.

This church was demolished in 1889. Today's third church, built in neo-Romanesque style, was consecrated in 1890 and renovated in 1986. Today's painting corresponds to the design from the early days.

In 1671 the castle, which was destroyed in 1642, was converted into an official court of the Kingdom of Hanover; The front two-storey half-timbered building was added to the solid structure between 1779 and 1783. In 1723 the Landdrostei Lemförde became the electoral Hanoverian office of Lemförde . In 1859 the Lemförde office was dissolved and incorporated into the Diepholz office.

After the fall of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1866, the Amtshof Lemförde changed hands several times. In 1937 it was used by the Reich Labor Service for female youth; After the end of the war, deaconesses from Vandsburg in West Prussia moved into the now run-down court. In 1968 this should be torn down. The demolition failed because of the costs involved.

With the beginning of the urban redevelopment of the Lemförde area from 1990, the Amtshof was also restored. From 2016 the building will be expanded with the addition of the town hall to accommodate all the offices of the "Altes Amt Lemförde" municipality in an "Amtshof".

Since 1945, Lemförde has developed from a predominantly agricultural place to an industrial community, primarily through the settlement of industrial companies. The population rose continuously from 1,480 in 1945 (in 1937 it was 857, the increase was due to evacuees, refugees and displaced persons) to over 3,000 inhabitants.

politics

Municipal council

The municipality of Lemförde is made up of 15 councilors:

• WfL (union of CDU and FDP as well as free voters) 10 seats
• SPD 5 seats

(Status: 2016 local elections)

mayor

Stephanie Budke-Stambusch has been the mayor of Lemförde since November 2013.

Previous honorary mayors:

• 2006–2013: Wilhelm Rümke (CDU)
• since 2013: Stephanie Budke-Stambusch

coat of arms

Blazon : "In red, a blue armored, blue-tongued golden lion walking on green ground." When the Counts of Diepholz built their castle in the local area in 1316, it was named Burg Leuenvorde after the lion in its sign . In the period that followed, a castle town developed around their residence, which later became the official seat. Since there are no local seals from an earlier period, it is assumed that the seal tour took place at the latest with the granting of privileges in 1611. The origin of the lion refers to the Counts of Diepholz, but its tinging corresponds to the Guelph lion.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Official courtyard with a fountain decorated for Easter

Lemförde Church

• Amtshof, former administrative seat of the Counts of Diepholz. The knight's hall on the ground floor is used today for events and marriages; The branch office of the integrated community administration with social welfare office, public order office and residents' registration office is located on the upper floor. There is a restaurant in the basement. The existing administrative courtyard has been expanded with a town hall extension since 2016.
• Former Jewish synagogue: In 1817, the relatively large Jewish community in Lemförde (around 50 people in 1821, the area had a total of around 700 inhabitants) acquired the building from the citizen Friedrich Kämper and set up their prayer house there. On November 10, 1938, SA members broke into the building, threw the furniture on the street and burned it. From 1943 there was no longer any official Jewish synagogue community in Lemförde. The house is now inhabited by private individuals.
• Former town hall and school: built in 1818, used as a school until 1933, today privately owned

• Former officers' house from the French occupation in Hauptstrasse, today a shop and apartment, privately owned

• Remains of the medieval castle wall with dungeon
• Gasthof "Zum Deutschen Haus", today a Greek restaurant, one of the oldest still existing inns in Lemförde, next to it the building of the old lion pharmacy, which has been in existence for 300 years
• "Doktorhaus" in Doktorstrasse - originally a house from the 17th century with a baroque-style door from this period (the house was demolished in recent years and rebuilt in the previous style.)
• "Customs house" at the Marler Pforte, today the seat of an insurance company

Art in public space

There are two works of art by the sculptor Karl-Heinz Friedrich in the Lemförder townscape . He designed them in the 1980s from bronze or from bronze and granite :

• in front of the Sparkasse the bronze sculpture Haubentaucher (1981)
• on the Raiffeisen car park a granite fountain with a bronze sculpture of a great egret (1984)

Personalities

• Louis Kugelmann (born February 19, 1828 in Lemförde; † January 9, 1902 in Hanover ), doctor and social democrat.
• Wolfgang Rüther-Kindel (* 1956 in Lemförde), flight mechanic and aircraft designer.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The federal highway 51 (Bremen - Osnabrück) runs west of the municipality .

The Lemförder Bahnhof ⊙ on the Wanne-Eickel – Hamburg railway line is in the Stemshorn district . On May 15, 1873, the passenger and coal traffic was started, the station developed supra-local importance in passenger and postal traffic, in addition, some companies had their own siding . A new station building was opened on December 9, 1983, and the old station was demolished in 1986. Today the regional express line RE 9 ( Osnabrück - Bremen - Bremerhaven ) runs here .

The station building has been owned by the Lemförde district since 2016.

Established businesses

BASF Polyurethanes site

• BASF Polyurethanes GmbH, formerly Elastogran GmbH, BASF Group : World market leader in the field of polyurethanes (plastics), supplier to automobile manufacturers with around 1,400 employees in Lemförde
• Lemförder Orchideenzucht: cultivation and sale of orchids to private customers and wholesale markets
• ZF Lemförder GmbH

education

On November 4, 2011, the district council of the Diepholz district decided to name the Lemförde secondary school after Walter von Sanden-Guja and his wife Edith . Since then the school has been called Von Sanden Oberschule Lemförde .

literature

• Ludger von Husen, Horst Meyer (ed.): Flecken Lemförde. A community between Dümmer and Stemweder Berg. 1248-1998. (Ed .: Flecken Lemförde), Diepholz 1998, 377 p. With numerous. Fig.
• Nancy Kratochwill-Gertich, Antje C. Naujoks: Lemförde. In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Volume 1 and 2 (1668 pp.), Göttingen 2005, pp. 973-981.
• Hans-Cord Sarnighausen: To the office building from 1707 to 1859 in Lemförde . In: Between Hunte and Weser , Issue 63, Diepholz Nov. 2011, pp. 8–9; ders .: Local lawyers from 1707 to 1859 in Lemförde near Diepholz . In: Genealogy, German journal for family history . Verlag Degener, issue 4/2012, pp. 326–344.
• Gunter Becker: Thematic tourism, applied to the Dümmer region: A concept for the tourist development of rural areas . Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86624-033-3
• Lewenfort in the Topographia Westphaliae ( Matthäus Merian ) on Wikisource
• Leuenfurt in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian) on Wikisource

Web links

Commons : Lemförde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the joint municipality
• Brief history of the Lemförder Castle
• Wolfgang Braun: Reconstruction drawing of the Lemförder Castle
• Website of the Dumber Region
• History and stories of Stemweder Berg and Dümmer See

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. ^ Archeology in Germany , 04/2016, p. 47.
3. ^ Archeology in Germany , 04/2016, p. 47.
4. ↑ Wilhelm Görges (ed.): Patriotic stories and memorabilia of the past . Meinecke, Braunschweig 1844, p. 243 .
5. ^ Archeology in Germany , 04/2016, p. 47.
6. ↑ Klemens Stadler: German coat of arms Federal Republic of Germany . The municipal coats of arms of the federal states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. tape 5 . Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1970, p. 55 .
7. ^ Samtgemeinde "Altes Amt Lemförde": History of the Amtshof  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Railway line / station (PDF)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on lemfoerde.de  
9. ↑ Naming of the Von Sanden High School Lemförde (PDF; 227 kB)