Bokensdorf
Bokensdorf is a municipality in the district of Gifhorn in Lower Saxony. It is one of the velvet municipality Boldecker on land, which has its administrative headquarters in Weyhausen.
- 3.1 Coat of Arms
Geography
Bokensdorf lies between the Southern Heath Nature Park and Drömling. West of the town is the nature reserve Deerenmoor.
History
Bokensdorf was first mentioned in 1468 in a letter will ( sovereign confirmation) of the Duke Otto II the Victorious of Brunswick-Luneburg. The Duke confirmed in the foundation of two memoirs ( Seelmessen ) and gives the church for it to benefit the pastor a meadow that the Schulze Bokensdorf ( " Bokelstorpe " ) holds for an annual interest rate. Later we find Bokensdorf 1495 in a document called " Vakesdorf " and 1535 "Back village".
The landscape around Bokensdorf was the entire Lüneburg Heath marked as over 2000 years mainly through oak and birch forests. These mixed forests were cleared to gain arable and pasture land, and construction and firewood. Bokensdorf belongs to the " village " settlements, the origin of time is difficult to determine. The main development time Rodeperioden be viewed from the 7th century AD.
Proved in Bokensdorf coins from the time of Henry the Lion (about 1130-1195 AD). These coins were probably Fährmünzen. These are grave goods for non-Christians who were found in a cemetery about 1.5 km south of the town. Possibly lived at that time still turning Slavic origin in Bokensdorf, because " the fare thereof " was considered un-Christian.
The original settlement, a Wendish Rundling can be easily reconstructed in today Altdorf on " Bauernberg ". Bokensdorf had originally probably only a half-round form of four arable farms which were accessible from Jembke and manipulated field over an old military road.
Probably around 1300 emerged in addition to the four existing arable farms five so-called Vollköthner yards. It is almost unique in Lower Saxony that these later settled farm owner were assimilated into the traditional farmers. The twelve house numbers in Bauernberg witness the nearly 500 -year-old situation with nine large and two smaller Brincksitzer - yards, the school and the host economy.
Only in the year 1859, a change took place. With the so-called peel the farmers in Lower Saxony could buy free of the seigniory of the princes. For Bokensdorfer this meant the liberation of services and taxes to which they were obliged to Count from Wolfsburg Castle and the Dukes in Lüneburg.
Since this " emancipation " could now exploit the peasants their working on their own fields. Benefits were also from the survey conducted in this time land clearing. It emerged attractive, large areas of arable land that could be economically processed. The Bokensdorfer were no longer poor. They have gradually abandoned by their old gabled houses, built in 1900 traufständige building at that village the center.
The not entitled to inherit farmers benefited from the new wealth. As farmers, they received surfaces on the way to the mill after Jembke, the " Miihlenweg ". They operated there small businesses, such as Butcher in the winter, masons in the summer.
The buildings that were built during this period are, just like the building assigned to the "peasant style ", a version of Art Nouveau at the farmer's mountain. Attentive visitors will find in some homes still typical for this time tile mosaic pattern.
After the Second World War, the population doubled in Bokensdorf by refugees from the eastern areas of Germany. Many remained in place. The Lönsweg - with the uniform as the ruler aligned houses and the rear large gardens - is typical of the architectural style of the 1950s.
Due to the political situation in the 1960s, bought a lot of West Berlin land " in the West". Thus arose the " Berliner Ring ". Because of the proximity to the Volkswagen Wolfsburg moved into the 1980s and 1990s, many VW employees after Bokensdorf and erected there in the north and northeast homes. A road is reminiscent of a long-standing mayor and was " Willy Müller- ring " named.
To the east was a recreation of serving weekend home area of former gravel extraction sites. Local residents have organized themselves into three clubs.
Life in Bokensdorf is characterized by very active volunteer fire department, the gun club, the hunting and the sport club with the fields of football, tennis, gymnastics and more recently Karate. The Country Women's Association Jembke, Barwedel, Bokensdorf invites too many events. South of the town the golf club Wolfsburg has found its home.
The municipality belongs to the Bokensdorf Samtgemeinde Boldecker country that operates a daycare in town. Primary school children are taught in Jembke, the elementary and secondary school is located in Weyhausen. At all schools, even Gymnasium Faller life, driving school buses.
Bokensdorf lies in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. George, Jembke and the Catholic parish of St. Christopher, Wolfsburg. Good shopping facilities exist in the 3 or 4 km distant places and Jembke Weyhausen and of course in Wolfsburg, 10 km away. Around Bokensdorf doctors from various fields have settled.
Bokensdorf has evolved from a formerly dominated by agriculture farming village to an attractive and quiet residential area, offers everything necessary to live in the neighborhood, walked.
Origin of the name
Old names of the place are 1468 Bokelstorpe 1495 Vakestorf 1535 Bakenstorp Bockensdorff 1566 and 1612 Bockemstorf. In the base word of course is down German - dorp ' village, settlement ". So the "settlement of a Bok ", which could include the persons name to the clan to Boko, Buk (k ) o, the diminutive of Burghard.
Policy
The municipal council of Bokensdorf consists of nine council members, including part-time mayor.
(As of January 2011)
Coat of arms
Blazon: "In gold under a red rafters an open-top red ring. "
The open ring symbolizes the original Rundling character of the two original town centers of Bokensdorf and the medieval deserted village of the lost village Derne. The union of the two cores to a community is illustrated by the roof (rafters ) above the Rundling icon. The colors red and gold (yellow) were taken over by the former Guelph Ancestral Arms, as the municipality no later than 1357 belonged to the Guelph lands for centuries. The coat of arms was adopted by the City Council on July 8, 1993.
Education
The village has a kindergarten. The pupils enrolled in primary school in Jembke, the elementary and secondary school in Weyhausen, the gymnasium in Wolfsburg Faller life or comprehensive schools in Wolfsburg and Sass castle.
Traffic
About the county road K 101 to reach the national road 248 ( Wolfsburg - Salzwedel ). This leads east, as an extension of the federal highway 39, through the community Jembke 3 km to Bokensdorf over. The motorway A39 Weyhausen to be reached by the district road K 28 via the federal highway 188 ( Wolfsburg -Hannover ), 7 km away.
Rail connection: Wolfsburg Hauptbahnhof ( 14 km): ICE connection Hannover - Berlin; Station Wolfsburg - Fallersleben (11 km): Berlin, Hannover, Braunschweig; Station Triangle ( Sass Castle ) (15 km): Braunschweig, Gifhorn, Uelzen, Hamburg
Bus: VLG - Transport Company Gifhorn; Line 172: Stüde Bernsteinsee - Grußendorf - Bokensdorf Cemetery - Bokensdorf Town Hall - Weyhausen - Wolfsburg - Faller life; Line 174: Bokensdorf Cemetery - Bokensdorf Town Hall - Weyhausen; Line 170: change in Weyhausen Gifhorn - Wolfsburg
Sons and daughters of the town
- Gabi Decker, a German cabaret artist, presenter and singer.
- Heinrich Schulze (1886-1953), German civil servant