Rickensdorf

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Rickensdorf
Community Bahrdorf
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 28 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 100 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 38459
Area code : 05358
Rickensdorf (Lower Saxony)
Rickensdorf

Location of Rickensdorf in Lower Saxony
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Rickensdorf is a district of the municipality of Bahrdorf in the Helmstedt district in Lower Saxony .

Location and transport links

The place is located in the east of Lower Saxony, only about three kilometers from the former inner-German border . The landscape around Rickensdorf is counted as part of the Helmstedter Holzland . Country roads lead in the northeast to Blanken , in the southeast to Mackendorf , in the south to Querenhorst and in the northwest to Papenrode . The Lapau flows past to the west of Rickensdorf . The Braunschweiger Verkehrs-GmbH bus routes run from Rickensdorf to Helmstedt and Wolfsburg .

history

In a document from 1225 the place is mentioned as Richmannesthorp. Albert von Rickmersdorf was born around 1316 , who later became Albrecht III. Bishop of the Diocese of Halberstadt became. The Bischof-Albrecht-Platz in Rickensdorf is named after him today.

In the French era , Rickensdorf belonged to the canton of Bahrdorf in the Helmstedt district , in the Oker department of the Kingdom of Westphalia . In the 19th century, today's nave was added to the church tower.

In 1949 a public library was founded. As a result of the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe from 1945–1950 , the population of Rickensdorf increased from 299 (1939) to 511 (1950), of which 215 were displaced in 1950 . On July 1, 1972 Rickensdorf was incorporated into the municipality of Bahrdorf.

Residents

year 1821 1849 1871 1905 1925 1939 1950 1956
Residents 178 200 219 274 263 299 511 476

Infrastructure

The existing facilities in Rickensdorf include a playground, a village community center , a sports field, a rifle home built in 1985/86 and the cemetery with a chapel on the road to Papenrode.

The only church in Rickensdorf, the Johannes-Baptista-Kirche, is named after John the Baptist and belongs to the Provosty Vorsfelde of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig . The bell in front of the church was made in 1920 by Ulrich & Weule, bell foundry in Apolda and Bockenem . A memorial near the church commemorates the victims of the two world wars. Catholics in Rickensdorf belong to the parish of St. Michael (Wolfsburg-Vorsfelde) with the nearby branch church Immaculate Conception of Mary (Velpke) .

Since the kiosk was closed, there are no more shops in Rickensdorf. The kindergarten, the volunteer fire brigade , the post office II ("Rickensdorf", later "Bahrdorf 4"; Lange Straße 41), the branch of Volksbank eG Velpke , the general store (Siegfried Rausch, Lange Straße 11), and the restaurant Zur Wartburg ( Lange Straße 18) were also closed.

One of the clubs based in Rickensdorf is the Rickensdorf rifle club (SV Rickensdorf for short), which was founded in 1876 and has 170 members and thus over half of the population (as of 2018). Furthermore, the village community Rickensdorf eV, founded in 2015, which continues the social activities of the disbanded volunteer fire brigade, such as the kale hike and summer barbecue, and has also taken over the former fire station as a clubhouse. The sports club SV Papenrode-Rickensdorf is active together with the neighboring village Papenrode.

Rickensdorf also owns the Waldmühle, a water mill on the Siebenspringe, which was out of operation in 1957 due to unprofitability.

Views

  • church

  • pond

  • Former inn

  • Former fire station

  • War memorial

Personalities

Sons and daughters from Rickensdorf

literature

  • Heinz Pohlendt: The district of Helmstedt. Bremen-Horn, 1957

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 271 .
  2. ↑ Rickensdorf Rifle Club
  3. ↑ Rickensdorf proclaims the new majesties. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of June 12, 2018.
  4. ↑ The village community already has 60 members. In: helmstedter-nachrichten.de, November 1, 2016, accessed on December 22, 2017
  5. ↑ http://www.waz-online.de/Wolfsburg/Velpke-Lehre/Burkhard-Poetsch-ist-Vorsitzender