Sorsum (Hildesheim)

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Sorsum
City of Hildesheim
Sorsum coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 49 ″  N , 9 ° 52 ′ 48 ″  E
Height : 100 m
Residents : 2591  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 31139
Area code : 05121
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Location of Sorsum in Hildesheim

Sorsum is a village five kilometers west of Hildesheim and the westernmost district of the city. Sorsum used to be an independent municipality that was incorporated into Hildesheim on March 1, 1974.

history

Sorsum was mentioned for the first time in a document in 1125 under the name Sutterem . A memorial stone in the town center not far from the church commemorates the 875th anniversary in 2000. As early as 1215 the village had a water mill . It stood on the spot where the Sorsumer Mill, built in 1811, is today. In the Middle Ages , a farm yard of the Magdalenenkloster in Hildesheim was founded in Sorsum, the facility is still there today and is well worth seeing. In 1496 the place was mentioned as Sosserumb and around 1700 as Sorsumb . In 1785, 335 people lived in Sorsum. The 1895 census counted 731 residents. After the Second World War , the population increased significantly as many displaced people moved to Sorsum. When it was incorporated into Hildesheim, the place had around 2300 inhabitants. In the mid-1970s, the Protestant disabled facility Diakonie Himmelsthür moved to its new site on the northeastern edge of Sorsum, where extensive residential buildings, school rooms, workshops and a church were built. On January 1, 2001, 3106 people lived in Sorsum, compared to 2844 on December 31, 2005. On December 31, 2016, the population (main residence) of Sorsum was 2558.

politics

Sorsum is represented by a local council of nine.

Local mayor is Erika Hanenkamp (SPD)

Memorial stone
Sorsumer main street

Culture and sights

The Catholic parish church of St. Kunibert was built in the neo-Romanesque style in 1887/88 and renovated from 1979–1982, its tower is from 1908. Inside the church are mainly a relief made of sandstone from the 15th century with the Annunciation and the painted wooden ceiling from the end of the 19th century remarkable. The wooden ceiling shows the family tree of Jesus and is reminiscent of the wooden ceiling of the Michaeliskirche from the Middle Ages.

  • Parish Church of St. Kunibert

  • Parish Church of St. Kunibert

  • Relief in St Kunibert

Another attraction in Sorsum is the monastery property, the current buildings of which mostly date from the 18th century. In 1734 the representative mansion with a hipped roof was built. The ground floor is built from quarry stones, the upper floor from half-timbered. A large barn from 1786 and the octagonal pigeon tower with its tent roof are also striking on the estate . It was built in 1733 from limestone rubble.

  • Klostergut: The buildings were converted into a residential complex

  • Klostergut: The buildings were converted into a residential complex

  • Anthony's Chapel.

Several well-preserved half-timbered houses can still be seen in Sorsumer Hauptstrasse.

South of Sorsum, under the trees, is the small Antonius Chapel , which was built in 1725 with a gable roof .

Web links

Commons : Sorsum  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the city of Hildesheim as of December 31, 2019. In: hildesheim.de. Hildesheim Marketing GmbH, accessed on June 3, 2020 .
  2. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 204 .
  3. ↑ https://www.hildesheim.de/pics/verwaltung/1_1485164460/BEV_Bestand_31_12_2016.pdf
  4. ^ Kurt Dehio: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , p. 1212, Munich 1992.