Dorfmark

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The village Dorfmark is now part of Bad Fallingbostel district Heidekreis in Lower Saxony. The place is known as the Heidmark land in the Lüneburg Heath.

Dorfmark forms, with 3,206 inhabitants, about 22 % of the total population, and with an area of ​​15.48 km ² total of 24 % of the urban area of the town of Bad Fallingbostel.

The Bohemian flows through the village of Mark and opens between testicular Hagen and Rethem in the Aller.

History

The first written mention of the village was around 968 Marks ( Thor Marcon). 1927/28, the place with the farming communities west village, fishing village, the village of Mark ( district ) and Winkelhausen was merged. Dorfmark heard in the municipal reform, which took effect on March 1, 1974 in force to Bad Fallingbostel. Before Dorfmark was self-employed.

Tumuli of the older Bronze Age are the most striking witness earlier settlement. Between the village and Mark Vierde is located at Brock the grave conditioning "1000 - year old lime tree ." It was only discovered in 1972 as a result of hurricane damage. In the 1981 excavations carried out three aligned east-west inhumations and a reasonably intact stone ring was exposed. In the northern grave the body shadow of a child is identified. As free gifts were found a bronze pin and a small ceramic vessel.

Origin of the name

In addition to Thor Marcon old names of the place are Dorpmarkete (1304-1324), dorpmarke (1330-1352), Dorpmarke ( 1360 ) and dorpmarke ( 1397 ). Dorfmark is a Low German name, the " dorp " and "mark", or " frontier, border area " contains. Among them is usually the village hall to understand, so the space is a village around and belongs to the village.

Economy

An important economic factor in the place is next to the craft and agricultural tourism. The Dorfmark tourism eV both for tourism in the village of Mark, as well as for the tourist marketing of the core city of Bad Fallingbostel responsible. In the industrial area is one of Europe's biggest used car centers to find: ALD Car Leasing D GmbH sold there each year approximately 10,000 lease returns.

Traffic

Dorfmark is just off the motorway A7 exit 46 from the exit the highway after Rotenburg ( Wümme) begins 440 leads. Through the village runs in a north -south direction from Soltau to Bad Fallingbostel the road L 163 and crosses the B 440 in place. Dorfmark also has a railway station on the heath train from Hanover to Soltau.

Events

  • Wine Festival: Is organized by the volunteer fire department and takes place every year during the Pentecost weekend.
  • Marksmen: beginning of July, the two-day village marker shooting festival held annually
  • Beach party: since 1928 the beach festival is celebrated every second week of August. It attracts thousands of spectators brought from a wide radius.
  • Krämer market: end of September, every year the flea market, a large street flea market with the framework program, in the center instead.
  • Christmas Market: Since recently, will be held on the third weekend of Advent, by a group of dedicated artists of the region and the Foundation " parish Dorfmark " a Christmas market.
  • Various activities of the parish Dorfmark Foundation.
  • Various activities of the Homeland Association parish Dorfmark.
  • Annual meeting of the Federation of German God-realization ( Luden Dorffer ). Holds the religious- ethnic ideological community, with protests, every spring for Easter their annual meeting in Dorfmark from.

Attractions

  • Evangelical St. Martin's Church
  • Chapel Wense
  • Marketplace
  • Well " Grefel Dojen " at the marketplace
  • Bommühle
  • Citizens Park ( In the civil Park can be found from the red list even plants. )
  • Fish breeding ponds

Personalities

  • Friedrich Missler (* 1858 in the village of Mark † 1922 in Bremen) is a wealthy and charitable Bremen merchant
  • Erich von Manstein (born Fritz Erich von Lewinski, * November 24, 1887 in Berlin, † June 10, 1973 in Irschenhausen / Isar valley, buried in Dorfmark )
  • Hans -Joachim Walde (1942-2013), Athlete. Bronze medalist in the decathlon at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, silver medalist in the decathlon at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.
  • Lilo Wanders (actually Ernie Reinhard; * 1955), actor and drag artist, spent his childhood in the village of Mark
  • Frank Ordenewitz (born 1965 ), football player
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