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Bodenburg is a village in
Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...
,
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. It is located about 20 km south of
Hildesheim Hildesheim (; or ; ) is a city in Lower Saxony, in north-central Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim (district), Hildesheim, about southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of t ...
, and about 5 km from Bad Salzdetfurth. The community has a population of 1,814 (2021).


Overview

A castle with a moat and a stand-alone tower was built on the site c. 1000 AD, and the castle was soon accompanied by a village of half-timbered houses arranged in the shape of a T. The oldest document referring to Bodenburg was produced by the bishop of Hildesheim in 1142. The castle was the seat of a family of barons who supplemented their income with the salt of Salzdetfurth. In 1359 the Baron von Bodenburg became a vassal of the Duke of
Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( ; from Low German , local dialect: ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the ...
. It was mentioned in Tom Clancy's bestseller Red Storm Rising. In last century up to today the family von Cramm owned the Bodenburg castle. Thereof Gottfried von Cramm was a famous tennis player in the 1930s and 1940s playing at Wimbledon and French Open games. His tennis training ground still exists in the parc around the castle of Bodenburg.


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{{Authority control Villages in Lower Saxony Hildesheim (district) Bad Salzdetfurth