Bockenem

Bockenem is a city in the center of the Ambergaus, which is located in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

In the core city Bockenem live about 6,000 inhabitants, with all connected parts of the city is around 10,000.

• 2.1 Origin of the name
• 2.2 Amalgamations

• 3.1 City Council
• 3.2 Town twinning

Geography

Bockenem lies in the valley between the mountain ranges of Cute Sauberge the northwest, Hainberg the east and Harplage in the southwest.

Community structure

To Bockenem today includes the villages Bönnien, Bornum, Bültum, United Ilde, Hary, Jerze, Klein Ilde, Königsdahlum, Mahlum, Cute, Ortshausen, Schlewecke, Störy, Upstedt, Volkersheim, Werder and Wohlhausen.

History

The place is in 1131 in a letter of protection of the King and later Emperor Lothar III. mentioned as vicus bokenum. In 1154 he was described in a deed of the monastery Riechenberg as Bokenhem ( Buchheim ). Henry II of Woldenberg acquired it by purchase in 1314, so he was part of the Bishopric of Hildesheim. After the Hildesheim pin feud 1523 Bockenem belonged to the Principality of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel, until 1643 it came back to the diocese of Hildesheim.

From 1569 to 1818 Bockenem was ( with a break 1679/90 ) seat of a Lutheran Generalsuperintendentur.

In the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) Bockenem was repeatedly occupied by troops passing through. 1623 appeared Christian of Brunswick, shortly after Ernst von Mansfeld. Wallenstein should have stayed at least one night in Bockenem. Tilly took the superintendency (now known as Tillyhaus ) in fitting, and prepared from there the sieges of Munden and Göttingen before, and the battle against King Christian IV at Lutter am Barenberg.

The construction of the railway line Derneburg - Seesen Bockenem received 1887 rail connection. Also in Bornum, Königsdahlum and Schlewecke breakpoints have been established for the trains. The line was shut down in 1990, however, for the people and in 1995 for freight. It is only occasionally used by a railway museum and occasionally for the carriage of goods.

Origin of the name

Old versions of the name are the 11th century Bukenem, 1131 Bokenum, 1131 Bukeneim, 1154 Bukenem, 1157 Bukeneim, before 1189 Bokenum, 1225 Bukenem, 1234 and 1240 Bukenem Bokene.

All previous declarations saw in the name a "book home ." Another interpretation according to it should be the first element to the nickname ' Bugo ', AS. ' Buccu ', ae. ' Buga, Bugga ' act. Given the numerous place names formations with " Bokin " the older explanation seems to be easier and more convincing. The vacillation between " Bok " and " Buk " is likely to be influenced High German or Low German attributable to real sources.

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the municipalities Bönnien, Bornum am Harz, Bültum, United Ilde, Hary, Jerze, Klein Ilde, Königsdahlum, Mahlum, Cute, Ortshausen, Schlewecke, Störy, Upstedt, Volkersheim, Werder and Wohlhausen were incorporated.

Policy

City ​​council

In the municipal elections of 2011, the following composition of the city council revealed:

Twinning

Bockenem maintains partnership relations with Thornbury ( South Gloucestershire ) in the United Kingdom, Günter Mountains (Saxony- Anhalt) in Germany and Zawadzkie in Poland.

Location description

In the middle of the old town of Bockenem with its half-timbered houses, the market directly, St. Pancras church and a Turmuhrenmuseum lies with the emphasis on the former Bockenemer Turmuhrenfabrik JF Weule. Their clocks and bells can be found even today in many church towers and town halls all over the world. Care for it by the Association for History in Ambergau known for his excursions with his head Sigurd Manitou - has gained over the past two decades, a certain awareness - especially in Eastern Europe and the Baltic.

Economy

Bockenem is mainly known as the site of the Meteor rubber plants. The company manufactures rubber sealing profiles for the automotive industry as well as for numerous other applications. Until 1966, consisted in Bockenem the world famous company JF Weule that produced tower clocks and bells. Today the district Bornum has long been an industrial affair village. From 1727 to 1966 this was the Wilhelmshütte. It was operated until its bankruptcy with about 600 employees and is oven and stove factory that produced the well-known Bornum oven. 1899 were founded in the Harz Bornum axis works. They have changed their production program significantly and operate under a different name. The closure of the railway line Derneburg - Seesen was for the passenger and freight transport in the 1990s for the economic development of the city of disadvantage.

Religions

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Pancras Church is located in the city center. The current church building was rebuilt in the mid 19th century after a fire, and belongs to the church district of Hildesheim country.

Today's Catholic St. Clement's church was 1974/75 built on the street Am Old Cemetery and consecrated on 15 March 1975. The church is named after Clement of Rome. The eponymous predecessor church of the 19th century had become too small and was demolished in 1975. In April 2010, the former branch church in Bornum was profaned. Since 1 September 2010, the St. Clement's church belongs to the parish of Our Lady Queen in Seesen.

A few meters south of the St. Pancras Church is located at an angle to the historic St. Alcohol chapel. A Seventh- day Adventist Church is located at Volker Heimer Stieg, and Apostolic Church on Steinmetzweg.

Other churches are located in the Bockenemer districts.

Bockenem had earlier times a Jewish community with its own synagogue. However, this synagogue in 1487 already seems no longer to have been used, in that year, the City Council Bockenem rented " the supreme Jewish house with a garden and half the synagogue " to a Tilecke Bock. Also, a separate Jewish cemetery there, this should have been part of the old city cemetery at Stone Gate, for the use of the city by the Jewish community demanded a separate fee. It is believed that the Jewish community in 1591 dissolved as a result of referral by Duke Heinrich Julius.

Personalities

• Friedrich Buchholz, Mayor of Bockenem 1827 to 1865, where he also works as a lawyer. Born on May 9, 1802 in Hildesheim ( according to other data in Aschersleben ), studied law at the Georg -August- University of Göttingen, where in 1823 (as Friedrich Jeremias David Buchholz) Dr. jur. doctorate. Meis Tertre reconstruction Bockenems after the heavy fire on April 9, 1847. Writer in 1843 published by Gerstenberg "History of Bockenem " (Reprint 1975). Died on February 6, 1865 in Bockenem in office. According to him, the central market Buchholz was named.
• In Mahlum district Henriette Schrader Breymann was born.
• In Mahlum district of the sculptor Adolf Breymann was born on June 16, 1839, he died on September 1, 1878 in Wolfenbüttel.
• On January 5, 1908, the geologist Hans -Joachim Martini was born in Bockenem, he died on October 22, 1969 in Hanover. According to him, the Professor Martini street was named in Bockenem.
• On April 15, 1809 in Bockenem the painter Ernst Deger, born, he died on January 27, 1885 in Dusseldorf
• On August 14, 1898, born in Bockenem Carl Luer († September 20, 1969 in Frankfurt am Main). He was Nazi war economy leader, deputy head of the Reich Chamber of Commerce and Nazi member of the Reichstag.
• On November 26, 1881 diplomat Friedrich Gaus was born in Mahlum, he died in 1955.
• On 3 September 1955, the Rockgitarrist-/keyboarder Hannes Arkona was born in Bockenem, a member of the Hanoverian progressive rock legend Eloy was 1979-1984 and now plays at The Public.
• Hans -Lothar Thiel (1921-2002), German physician and university professor of ophthalmology