Bodenfelde is a municipality in the district of Northeim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Weser, approx. 35 km north of Kassel, and 30 km northwest of Göttingen at the southwest border of the Solling-Vogler Nature Park.
Bodenfelde | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Bodenfelde within Northeim district  | |
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| Coordinates: 51°37′N 9°34′E / 51.617°N 9.567°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Lower Saxony |
| District | Northeim |
| Subdivisions | 5 districts |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2021–26) | Nico Harenkamp[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 20 km2 (8 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 118 m (387 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 3,061 |
| • Density | 150/km2 (400/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 37194 |
| Dialling codes | 05572 |
| Vehicle registration | NOM |
| Website | www.bodenfelde.de |
History
editBodenfelde was first mentioned in a document signed by Louis the Pious in 833. In the High Middle Ages Bodenfelde was a part of the county of Dassel. Amelith, Nienover, Polier and Wahmbeck are villages nearby Bodenfelde which were incorporated in 1974.
There used to be a Jewish community in Bodenfelde. With the impending oppression of the Nazi regime, they left. Having been sold to a farmer in 1937, the wooden synagogue from 1825 survived Kristallnacht when the owner defended it from vandals. In the early twenty-first century, the half-timbered building was dismantled and exactly re-constructed in nearby Göttingen, which had a Jewish community in need of a synagogue (the local one having been destroyed during Kristallnacht.[3]
In 2008, serial killer Lydia L. a.k.a. the "Black Widow" was convicted and was sentenced to life imprisonment. From 1983 to 2000, Lydia L. insinuated herself into romantic or caretaker relationships with eight elderly men, and was convicted for the murders of the last four in order to get their money, either killing them herself or ordering their killings through her accomplice, Siegmund "Siggi" Sch., who received a 12 year sentence after the court judged him to be not completely culpable, as he had acted under the threat of death and was emotionally dependent on the main perpetrator.[4]
Notable people
edit- Otto Ernst Oppermann (1764-1851), physician and taxidermist
- Jakob Freudenthal (1839-1907), philosopher
- Gustav Henckell (1859-1942), entrepreneur
- Friedrich Wasmuth (1882-1967), Protestant pastor and head of the Birkenhof children's home in Hanover
- Albrecht Götz von Olenhusen (1935-2022), lawyer
References
edit- ^ "Stichwahlen zu Direktwahlen in Niedersachsen vom 26. September 2021" (PDF). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen. 13 October 2021.
- ^ "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.
- ^ "Brigitta Stammer". www.obermayer.us. Archived from the original on 2011-10-03.
- ^ "Mordserie: Lebenslänglich für "Schwarze Witwe"". Der Spiegel. 3 July 2008.
- Herbst, Detlev, Jüdisches Leben im Solling – Der Synagogenverband Bodenfelde-Uslar-Lippoldsberg und die Synagogengemeinschaft Lauenförde. Uslar 1997
- Hoffmann, Lutz et al., Zwischen Feld und Fabrik: Arbeiteralltag auf dem Dorf von der Jahrhundertwende bis heute; die Sozialgeschichte des Chemiewerkes Bodenfelde 1896 bis 1986. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1986
- Junge, Walter, Chronik des Fleckens Bodenfelde – Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Bodenfelde 1983
- Junge, Walter and Thomas Thiele, Flecken Bodenfelde mit seinen Ortschaften Bodenfelde, Nienhover und Wahmbeck – Vorgestern, gestern und heute. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1987
- Rock, Balzer, Die Ortsgeschichte von Bodenfelde. Buchdruckerei Klapproth, Uslar 1940
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