Obernfeld

This article deals with the municipality of Obernfeld in Lower Saxony, for the district of the city of Radevormwald in the Oberbergisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia see there

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 33 '  N , 10 ° 14'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Goettingen
Joint municipality :	Gieboldehausen
Height :	171 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.72 km 2
Residents:	925 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	86 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	37434
Area code :	05527
License plate :	GÖ , DUD, HMÜ, OHA
Community key :	03 1 59 025
Association administration address:	Hahlestrasse 1 37434 Gieboldehausen
Website :	www.obernfeld.de
Mayor :	Karl-Bernd Wüstefeld ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Obernfeld in the district of Göttingen

Obernfeld is a municipality in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony .

geography

Obernfeld and the Hellberge from the west

Geographical location

Obernfeld is located in the Lower Field at the Hahle . The community is part of the integrated municipality Gieboldehausen , which its administrative headquarters in the spots Gieboldehausen has.

Population development

Development of the population (from 1821) :

• 1821 - 0591
• 1939 - 0778
• 1973 - 0963
• 1986 - 0915
• 1996-1006
• 2001-1027
• 2004 - 1001
• 2010 - 0987
• 2015 - 0951

history

Obernfeld probably came into being around the year 800. At that time, the village developed in the form of a clustered village with a core. The earliest documentary mention, on the other hand, comes from the year 1184, when the abbess Agnes II of Quedlinburg bought back goods that had been lost through sale and pledging. Obernfeld was probably also one of the places that Otto II gave to Quedlinburg Abbey in 947. Almost three hundred years later , the monastery enfeoffed Landgrave Heinrich Raspe of Thuringia with these goods in 1236 and, after his death in 1247, the Brunswick dukes. In 1320 Obernfeld received the lower jurisdiction with the exception of the neck jurisdiction issued by Duke Heinrich . In 1364 Obernfeld was part of the Gieboldehausen office for the first time , with this it passed from the property of the Brunswick dukes to the rule of Kurmainz as early as 1342 . With its affiliation to the Gieboldehausen office, Obernfeld was also one of the four places of jurisdiction in the office, in which high court was held three times a year.

From the middle of the 15th century, there were increasing disputes between the community of Obernfeld and the city of Duderstadt, for example in the 1430s there was a dispute over alleged justice of the Obernfeld over the fields and forest areas of Breitenberg . This dispute culminated, among other things, in the fact that the Duderstädter, sued by the Oberfeldern in the Bernshausen court and the same, with 90 horses, broke up. By means of the Duderstadt city court, they declared the upper fields in the eight and forbade them to access their city. This dispute was settled on October 5, 1445 in Bernshausen. The result was that Obernfeld had to recognize that it had no right to drive cattle or other rights to the fields and forests of Breitenberg, as well as in the Kreuztal. It had to apologize to Duderstadt and pay one mark in penance. Only 60 years later there was another dispute when the Obernfelder felled wood in Huebental and took it away against the permission of Duderstadt, which was in the possession of the forest. Through the villages of Hilkerode , Breitenberg , Mingerode , Westerode , Tiftlingerode and Gerblingerode , the city then had the entire Huebental cut down. The Obernfelder sued the villages at the regional court in front of the Westertor, the Duderstadt protest initially remained unsuccessful. It was not until almost 80 years later, on May 12, 1576, that the Mainz court ruled that both parties should be allowed to use wood. Obernfeld's complaint that she was actually prevented from using the forest by seizures on Duderstadt was upheld by the court. Duderstadt had to pay Obernfeld a fine of 100 Rhenish guilders, half of which went to the electoral treasury, the other half to the community of Obernfeld.

By the middle of the 16th century, the majority of the population was Protestant , but returned to the Catholic faith at the beginning of the 17th century . The trigger for this reversal was the counter-reformation forced by the Jesuits . During the Thirty Years' War , the troops of Duke Christian von Braunschweig attacked the villages of the lower Eichsfeld in 1626, including Obernfeld. The village was destroyed and cremated, but after the loss of all their belongings, the Obernfelders rebuilt the church of their village three years after the destruction in 1629. The village inn was built 20 years after the end of the Thirty Years War. The village suffered further severe blows in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, when the plague raged several times , for example almost half of all Obernfeld victims of the Black Death during the plague parade of 1450. During the Seven Years' War , unlike the other local villages, the place was not burned down, but had to struggle with diseases such as typhoid fever .

With the beginning of the 19th century, the rule over Obernfeld changed frequently in the following years. From 1802 to 1806 it belonged to Prussia , from 1807 to 1813 then to the Kingdom of Westphalia and from 1816 to the Kingdom of Hanover . In 1866 it finally fell under Prussian rule again, under which it remained until the middle of the 20th century. From 1971 onwards Obernfeld was part of the Gieboldehausen community and in 1973 it became part of the Göttingen district .

politics

Municipal council

The council from Obernfeld consists of 9 councilors, including the part-time mayor.

	CDU	total
2011	9	9 seats
2016	9	9 seats

(Status: local elections on September 11, 2011 and 2016)

mayor

The honorary mayor has been Karl-Bernd Wüstefeld ( CDU ) since 2011 .

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: In blue over a red silver foot, a striding, red-tongued and red-armored golden lion with a raised right front paw; in the base of the shield a silver finial pointed at the 4 ends.

Culture and sights

Obernfeld local history museum

The history of Obernfeld's local history museum goes back to 1937, when the main teacher at the time, Franz Kurth (1902–1995), began collecting disused agricultural and household appliances. The collection, which soon assumed considerable proportions, was initially stored in the basement of the Obernfeld school, where it was open to school children and interested visitors. In 1984 the collection was moved to the new premises when two municipal apartments became vacant. At the same time one began to work on the individual pieces scientifically and to think of an exhibition concept, whereby one wanted to present the collection to the general public. The construction of a new building, which was built between 1990 and 1991, proves that it was not possible to outsource all the exhibits. The larger agricultural implements have now found their new place here and could be integrated into the overall concept of the exhibition. Today the folkloric collection is presented to the visitors on almost 500 m², who are confronted with an extensive inventory of materials on the house and farm services of the village. This includes topics such as: storage, nutrition, dairy farming, living, laundry care, as well as historical clothing. The presentation on the areas of cattle, tillage and grain harvesting is a special feature of the museum and, due to its broad scope, forms the largest agricultural exhibition in southern Lower Saxony .

Catholic Parish Church of St. Blaise

Church of St. Blaise

The main feature of the Obernfeld parish church is the stylistic unevenness of the building, which has undergone multiple changes in the past. On the one hand, the nave , built in 1629 with a length of 14 m and a width of 7.5 m, was raised by two meters and vaulted in 1721. Furthermore, the structure of the church consists of the transept from 1914 and the tower of the Gothic previous church, which can be dated to the year 1448. The upper part of the 50 m high tower again dates from 1662. At the south entrance of the church there is a copy of the figure of Christ made in 1738 by the Hildesheim sculptor Johannes Süßemann . The ribbed vault from the baroque period is in a Gothic form, which illustrates the typical insistence on this style in the lower area . Between 1912 and 1914 the nave was extended, extending it to a length of 16 m and a width of 13 m. A room in front was attached on both sides, which was provided with two roofs across the main nave roof and a central roof turret. The Hildesheim building officer Herzig and the Hanoverian provincial curator Siebern were responsible for this. Inside the upstream rooms, a wooden beam ceiling was installed on which letters of the creed can be seen. The separation from the main nave was made by belt arches on double pillars. Local carvers made the baroque furnishings for the church. The Duderstädter Ernst Merten created the main and side altars with protruding and recessed architectural parts from 1728 to 1733 . The pulpit was built by Jakob Schwedhelm in 1759 with a rich rococo councilor , while the baptismal font was built in 1771 and the confessionals in 1785. Both came from Master Hellwig from Duderstadt. The colored glass windows from 1914 were made by Hubert Henning from Hanover, who also worked at the St. Cyriakus Church in Duderstadt .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Obernfeld is on Bundesstrasse 247 ( Northeim - Duderstadt ). Obernfeld had a train stop on the Leinefelde – Wulften line, which has now been closed .

Personalities

• Karl Wüstefeld (1857–1937) Rector, organist and local history researcher, born in Obernfeld
• Franz Kurth (1902–1995), honorary citizen of the community of Obernfeld, main teacher, organist and local history researcher, born in Bernshausen
• Alois Ehbrecht (1925–2016), holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon, honorary citizen of Obernfeld, mayor of Obernfeld from 1970–1991, graduate construction engineer / entrepreneur
• Thomas Ehbrecht , member of the state parliament, entrepreneur and politician

literature

• Franz Kurth: History of the village of Obernfeld . Mecke, Duderstadt, 1975.

Web links

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

• Website of the municipality of Obernfeld
• Website of the joint community

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. ↑ Christoph Lerch: Duderstädter Chronik from the prehistory to the year 1973 . Mecke Verlag, Duderstadt 1979, p. 65 .
3. ^ Franz Wüstefeld: 800 years of Obernfeld . In: Eichsfelder Heimatstimmen . tape 10 . Mecke, Duderstadt 1986, p. 447 .
4. ↑ Obernfeld municipal election 2011
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 8, 2017 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.