Bodenfelde

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.

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.

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.

Uslar Uslar Bodenfelde Hardegsen Nörten-Hardenberg Katlenburg-Lindau Dassel Moringen Bad Gandersheim Northeim Kalefeld Einbeck Einbeck Northeim (district) Lower Saxony Hesse Göttingen (district) Holzminden (district) Hildesheim (district) Goslar (district) Göttingen (district) North Rhine-Westphalia gemeindefreies Gebiet Solling
The Weser-river near Bodenfelde, the town is in the background
Coat of arms
Coat of arms