Boffzen

Boffzen is a town on the Weser River in the district of Minden wood in southern Lower Saxony ( Germany ) and seat of the Samtgemeinde Boffzen for communities Furstenberg, Lauenfoerde and Derental.

  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 partnership
  • 4.1 traffic
  • 4.2 farms
  • 5.1 Structures
  • 5.2 associations
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters
  • 6.2 Further

Geographical location

Boffzen lies on the western edge of the central mountain range Solling between the North Rhine- Westphalian towns to the north and Hoexter Beverungen in the south at the mouth of Rottmünde into the Weser.

History

Middle Ages

Boffzen was first mentioned in records under the name Boffeshus in the Corveyer traditions. There, a land grant is held in Latin. Translated it says: "It gave Adalbod for the salvation of his brother Swyricdac in Boffeshus a hoof ".

The name Boffzen is one of the patronymic place names and means "house of Bovo ". The live - type is widespread in southern Lower Saxony. Even the name Bovo is not unknown. The most famous bearer of this name is Abbot Bovo of Corvey I. ( 879-890 ). He was the Nepos the Abbot Warin I. ( Corvey ). Unfortunately, the term is ambiguous nepos. It is interesting in this context, a deserted village in the municipality Essezen. It is very probably due to a designation for a Asic / Esic. A 855 deceased comes Beffo to have been brother of this ASIC. A well-known Asig ( Esikonen ) was comes in Hessengau. This Asic / Asig was in second marriage with Ida the younger, probably a daughter of the dux Ekbert (Saxony ) married. It is therefore not unlikely that the places Boffzen and Essezen but go back to those same Asic and his brother Beffo or on the Abbot Bovo I. The similarity of names of Beffo and Bovo makes it seem plausible that a relationship existed, perhaps most appropriately by Ida the younger and Asic. This Bovo I would also nephew " nepos " of Warin.

End of the 12th century, the Knights and Ministerialengeschlecht is those mentioned by Boffessen in documents for the first time. The landlords owned farms and estates in Maygadessen at Godelheim in Bosseborn and in Hoexter. Konrad von Boffessen participated in the 5th crusade in part to the Holy Land. In the 15th century the noble family experienced the social decline. Knights were no longer in demand in an age in which firearms and the mercenary nature established. The trace of the family of Boffessen finally lost in the 18th century.

Boffzen in the media

1991 attained the place on regional prominence when two police officers were murdered in a forest car park at Boffzen.

Population Development

Policy

Parish council

The municipal election held on 11 September 2011 showed the following distribution of seats:

  • SPD: 7 seats ( ± 0)
  • CDU: 4 seats (-1)
  • GREEN: 1 seat ( 1)
  • FDP: 1 seat ( ± 0)

Partnership

  • Since June 1977, with the French town of Villers -sur -Mer in Calvados
  • With the community Nachterstedt in Saxony -Anhalt

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

By Boffzen engaged in joint state roads 549/550 from Brückfeld in Hoexter as Bahnhofstrasse in the town center. From there, the leads 549 L ( Sollingtor, Neuhäuser Road ) east to Neuhaus im Solling and the L 550 ( Radstaken ) of Fürstenberg (Weser). To the north at the junction at the old Customs House leads the L 550 east of Lüchtringen to Holzminden.

The nearest railway stations are Hoexter Town Hall on the railway line Altenbeken - Kreiensen ( KBS 403 and 355 ) and Lauenfoerde - Beverungen on the railway line Ottbergen - Northeim / Göttingen ( Solling Railway ) ( KBS 356).

Farms

1866, the company Bartling & Co. was founded in Boffzen, the year after renaming in glass factory stone width at Hoexter Schmidt & Witte, 1874 Company name changed to Noelle & von Campe Glashütte Brückfeld. 1896, the glassworks factory will be expanded and since 1934 carries the manufacturer of glass packaging to this day the name Noelle & von Campe Glashütte GmbH.

The company Neumann landscaping and sports facilities GmbH was founded in 1967 by Rainer Neumann had to file for bankruptcy in 2006 with 70 employees last.

In Boffzen is one of the seven national headquarters of the Hansa -Flex AG as well as a branch of the business area metal hoses.

Culture and sights

Structures

  • The Lutheran. Church of the Redeemer was 1730/37 built in the south of the former village on the edge of the Weser valley. The roof consists of Solling sandstone. Inside, simple baroque pulpit altar also is of about 1736 glass chandelier of 1858. Ceiling painting from the 1880s. 2002, a new organ of the company Krawinkel from Deisel was installed.
  • Glass Museum

Clubs

Personalities

Sons and daughters

  • August Knop (1903-1991), engineer, district and Reichstagsabgebordneter (NSDAP )
  • Hugo Eberhard Schomburg (1904-1987), remedial teacher, high school teacher, Quakers
  • Marlies Loges, Mayor, winner of the German Federal Cross of Merit ( October 7, 2011 )
  • Walter Knop

Further

1799 Wilhelm August Lampadius lived in the rectory ( Bachstraße ) and worked on the invention of illuminating gas.

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