Foreman (Bodenfelde)

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Memorial stone on the outskirts for the mirror factory from the time the town was founded

Polier is a locality in the Bodenfelder locality of Nienover in the Northeim district (Lower Saxony). After the Amelith mirror glass works was founded in Amelith , a polishing works was built next to it in 1777. The grinding mill for glass polishing, expanded by Ernst Jacob Eckard since 1779 , was operated with water from the Reiherbach . The workers settled here, so that Polier emerged as an industrial settlement. In a phase of economic difficulties around 1850, some people from Polier and the surrounding area emigrated to North America. On Lake Michigan , Friedrich Carl Ludwig Koch gave a newly founded settlement the name Amelith because of its family ties to the local mirror glass factory. The parish church of the new settlement was St. John's Church, which is now called St. John Church and belongs to Frankenlust Township in Bay County . After the glassworks closed in 1926, the people in Solling worked as forest workers , so that foreman became a workers' settlement. Today, working people resident here are mostly commuters to the surrounding cities.

Until the end of 2010, Polier was a state-approved resort .

literature

  • Wolfgang Schäfer (Ed.): The huts and the castle. Pictures, reports and documents from the Solling villages of Amelith, Nienover and Polier . Mitzkat Verlag, Holzminden 2000. ISBN 3-931656-26-8

Individual evidence

  1. Main statutes of the area Bodenfelde. Retrieved January 22, 2019 .
  2. ^ Friedrich Carl Ludwig Koch: The German Colonies near the Saginaw River, 1851, p. 17
  3. Waldemar H. Lohrmann: Historical overview of the Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Congregation UAC in Amelith, Michigan, 1927, p. 4

Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′  N , 9 ° 32 ′  E