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City of Braunschweig
Coat of arms of Querum
Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 31 ″  N , 10 ° 33 ′ 38 ″  E
Height : 77 m
Residents : 6277  (December 31, 2015)
Incorporation : 1934
Postal code : 38108
Area code : 0531
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Location of Querum in Braunschweig
St. Mary's Church

Querum is a district in the northeast of Braunschweig in Lower Saxony with around 6,000 inhabitants. It is located near the Wabe brook and the Schunter river in the city district 112 - Wabe-Schunter-Beberbach . To the east of Querum, in the Schunter lowland, lies the Borwall , a restored castle hill of a medieval tower hill castle .

Querum 1899

history

The settlement of Querum was first mentioned in 1148 (as “Querenhem”); the origin of their name cannot be clearly determined. Since the old Germanic hand mill was called “Quirn” or “Quern”, the original village name “Quernhem” could be interpreted as “Mühlenheim” or “Mühlendorf”. In 1934 Querum was incorporated into Braunschweig. There was probably one or more watermills in the settlement on the Schunter . Querum emerged from two settlement centers, one of which is mentioned in a document in 1307 as "Monnekenquernem". The name "Monneken" (monks) indicates that it belonged to an abbey . This monastery had acquired five Hufen (30 acres ) of land from Duke Heinrich the Lion in 1161 . The second settlement "Dorpquernem" is mentioned in 1324 as "villa deserta", ie abandoned or devastated village. Between 1318 and 1324 these areas also became the property of the monastery. They were settled again in the 14th century.

Motif from the Querum oak forest,
painting by Pascha Johann Friedrich Weitsch , 1792.

There have been two devastating fire disasters in Querum. It burned down completely in 1493 and almost completely in 1736. Querum was incorporated into the city of Braunschweig in 1934, the Querumer Forst area only in 1974.

Everikesbutli desert

The Everikesbutli desert, mentioned in the dedication certificate of the Magni Church from 1031, lay, according to Bornstedt, in the area of ​​today's district north of the Schunter at the crossing of the railway line with the Wöhrdenweg. The origin of the place is estimated between 500 and 800. A watermill could have belonged to the village. The settlement fell in the 14th century.

Economy and Infrastructure

education

Querum has several childcare facilities:

  • Querum municipal day-care center
  • St. Marien day care center
  • Crèche "Wood mice in the wilderness"

schools

  • Querum primary school
  • Integrated comprehensive school Querum

Parishes

Ev.-luth. Parish of St. Luke

On November 11, 1962, the St. Luke Church was ceremoniously consecrated after construction began in 1960. It is named after Luke (Evangelist) . The entire complex at Eichhahnweg 27 (church, parish hall and sexton's apartment) was awarded the Peter Joseph Krahe Prize , the architecture prize of the city of Braunschweig, for the architectural style that was unique at the time . Thus the builder of the old village church from 1863/64 (behind the church 3) is the namesake for the price of the St. Lukas church.

Catholic parish of St. Marien

The St. Marien Church was built in 1962/63 (Köterei 3). Your parish of the same name belongs to the deanery of Braunschweig in the diocese of Hildesheim . As early as 1940, a Catholic emergency church was established in Querum by converting a secular building; it was replaced by today's St. Mary's Church due to its dilapidation. Since 2006 the parish of St. Marien has also included the Catholic churches in Hondelage and Wendhausen . Next to the church is the St. Marien Catholic day care center.

Evangelical Free Church Querum

The Evangelical Free Church in Querum is located at Westfalenplatz 8 and is part of the Free Church Federation of God's Congregation .

Sports

The Querum rifle club is particularly successful in archery . The club currently belongs to the 1st Bundesliga archery and was able to win the German team championship in 2012 and 2013.

Personalities

coat of arms

Coat of arms Braunschweig-Querum.svg

The coat of arms is split vertically in two halves and shows an equally divided mill wheel in the colors gold-green on a green-gold field.

The mill wheel “of course” reproduces the part of the name “Quern”. The division of the shield symbolizes the two early settlement areas from which Querum arose. The gold was taken over from the coat of arms of the Riddagshausen monastery to show the close relationship that lasted for several centuries. The green stands for both the deserted village “Dorpquernem” and the important sheep farming in this area.

Arnold Rabbow designed the coat of arms and it was adopted on August 29, 1980 by the local authorities and associations.

literature

  • Rolf Siebert: Querum - The story of a Brunswick village. Dieselmann Druck, Bielefeld, ISBN 3-00-002274-0 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population statistics (Querum + Querumer Forst) on braunschweig.de
  2. ^ A b Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch. Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , p. 24.
  3. ↑ Chronicle of Querum on querum-bs.de
  4. ↑ Incorporation (PDF; 859 kB) on braunschweig.de
  5. ^ Wilhelm Bornstedt : On the document from 1031: The reasons for the entry of the 11th parish villages of St. Magni and their location in today's townscape. A settlement geography; in: Church council to Magni: St. Magni 1031–1981. Braunschweig 1981. p. 21.