Stiddien

Stiddien City of Braunschweig
Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 34 ″  N , 10 ° 27 ′ 27 ″  E
Height :	94 m above sea level NN
Residents :	215  (December 31, 2015)
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	38122
Area code :	0531
Location of Stiddien in Braunschweig
Stiddien, village church

Stiddien is the smallest village in the city of Braunschweig in Lower Saxony . It has the statistical district number 58 and together with the neighboring villages Timmerlah and Geitelde forms the district 222 - Timmerlah-Geitelde-Stiddien .

Location and history

Stiddien is a clustered village in the southwest of the Braunschweig urban area. A ring-shaped village street surrounds the town center with a church, cemetery, three large farms and a few houses, whose agricultural past can still be seen today. Some spur roads made it possible for Stiddien to grow beyond the original ring. The place is in the lowlands between Geitelde and Timmerlah. Originally there were wet bog meadows and swamp forest here. Remnants of it have been preserved in the protected Stiddier Forest , the "Ellernbruch", about one kilometer west of the village.

There are different details about the first documentary mention of Stiddien. The year 1172 is often mentioned when "Stidegem" is listed in the annals of the Steterburg monastery . In the literature, however, the year 1153 ("Stidiem") is also given. The spellings “Striedegem” (1182), “Stedium” or “Stideum” (1187), “Stidingen” and “Stedehem” are also proven. The spelling “Stiddien” has been in use since 1394. The old Low German words “stidi” (place) and “hem” (home) are in the place name.

Around 1500 the Alfelder Heerstraße ran through Stiddien. The military and trade route led from Braunschweig to Alfeld near Hildesheim, where it met the Hanover - Frankfurt am Main route . In the 16th and 17th centuries, traffic eased in favor of Frankfurter Strasse, which led through the salt town of Salzgitter . In the 18th century the old Heerstraße was almost completely deserted.

Agriculture was the main occupation in Stiddien for centuries. A large part of the arable land belonged to Steterburg Monastery . Grain and flax had been grown since the 14th century, and there was also pasture farming. With the neighbors, especially with the clustered village of Groß Gleidingen , there were always disputes over pastures. After 1700 the damp lowland was drained through the Fuhse Canal . Peat was also to be transported to Braunschweig on the narrow canal, but this was not done because of the insufficient water depth and the associated silting of the canal. However, the quality of the arable land improved due to the water regulation and the income of the Stiddier farmers increased. During the siege of Braunschweig in the Seven Years' War in October 1761 , the village became a deployment area: French troops briefly took up positions between Broitzem and Stiddien. From around 1860, sugar beet cultivation dominated and provided prosperity. Three large courtyards with mansions still characterize the village image today. The small cemetery in the center of the village has long been dominated by the elaborate grave monuments of the great farmers.

Stiddien was always very small, which earned him the nickname "Fünfhausen". In 1663 there were 35 inhabitants, in 1802 there were 105, 1847 117, 1933 179, 1967 295 and 1998 243 inhabitants. In 1802 a description of Stiddien reads: “Daughter of Geitelde [...] with church and school, which the consistory occupied. 3 farms, 6 Kothöfe, 1 Brinkitzerstelle, 12 fire places and 105 residents. "

During the Second World War , the nearby Beddingen train station was expanded by the National Socialists at high pressure, as it was in close proximity to the then Reichswerke Hermann Göring . On the western outskirts of Stiddien, near the railway tracks, a camp was built in which 78 forced laborers were housed. The camp's post office existed from December 1940 to April 1942. The camp was postmarked as “Accommodation Camp” or “Housing Camp”. The buildings were demolished after the war, only the former guard barrack, which was converted into a residential building, remained. About 100 meters away there is a bunker that has also been preserved. Stiddien was spared from bombing raids, but the train station and the large flak command post between Stiddien and Geitelde were massively bombed. For a long time there were still many bomb craters in the area.

After the war the place grew. In 1967 it had 295 inhabitants. Refugees from the east built settlement houses, later the so-called settlement was built on the edge of the village, two side streets, mainly built up with single-family houses. Until March 1, 1974, the village was part of the Wolfenbüttel district as its northernmost municipality and had its own honorary mayor. Through the Lower Saxony regional reform , Stiddien was incorporated into Braunschweig along with 21 other localities.

The village church

The Evangelical Lutheran church was built around 1142, and in 1220 it was first mentioned in the inventory of the Steterburg monastery . In 1302, after some dispute, the Braunschweig Order of St. John took over the patronage rights for the Stiddier Church from the Steterburger Stift in exchange for the church in Vechelde . In 1660 Stiddien zu Geitelde was parished.

Before the Reformation , the Romanesque fortified church was expanded on the east side. A piscina can still be seen behind the altar wall. The priest's holy water once stood in this bulge. In 1714/16, when agriculture experienced an upswing, the natural stone building was again extensively renovated and expanded. The entrance, which was originally on the tower side, was relocated to the north side and the arched windows were added. The church received a baroque pulpit altar with two passion angels. A gallery with an organ was installed on the opposite narrow side. The two bronze altar candlesticks also date from this period. Later the church building was neglected, moisture penetrated. In 1759 a preacher complained that if he sat behind the pulpit altar wall, his health would suffer. In the 19th century, one of the wealthy farming families donated a colored stained glass window for the east gable.

The building was not completely renovated until the 1950s. The facade, which had been plastered in the meantime, was exposed again and the organ received a power connection so that the bellows no longer had to be kicked. After 2000, the building made of sandstone, limestone and Braunschweig roe stone was renovated and drained again and the green-beige painting on the altar wall from the 1970s was removed. The baroque coloring from the early 18th century was restored using traces of paint. Terracotta tones, beige and brown now dominate the interior of the church. With about 70 seats, the church is one of the smallest in Braunschweig. The service takes place once a month today. The Protestant parish together with the parishes in Geitelde and Leiferde form the Geitelde Parish Association , which is part of the Vechelde Provost . The Catholics in the village belong to the Thiede-Steterburg parish as they did over 800 years ago.

An information board at the cemetery on the way to the church gives a brief outline of the village's history and shows an overview plan. The small war memorial next to the volunteer fire brigade bears the inscription "To commemorate the fallen, to remind the youth."

Infrastructure

Stiddien has become a pure commuter village. "No kindergarten, no elementary school, no supermarket, only a moderate bus connection" - this is how the Braunschweiger Zeitung described the place in 2004 and drew the conclusion "infrastructure equal to zero". The small village school, built in 1849, in which all village children were taught together in one class until the 1950s, has long been closed. Today the building is used by the parish. The children in grades 1 to 4 attend primary school in nearby Timmerlah. The inn with dance hall and small shop, once the center of village life, could only last until the late 1970s. The post office was given up in 1976, and later Telekom also removed the only payphone, now there is only one mailbox. The village will not grow in the future either because no building land has been designated. The fertile arable soils are too valuable. Since 1991 Stiddien has been connected to the central city drainage system in Braunschweig. Since the closure of the road between Geitelde and Broitzem, traffic has almost doubled through the previously quiet village. In addition, in the spring of 2010 a cycle path was built between Broitzem and Stiddien, which frees the road from obstacles caused by cyclists and thus not only enables more flowing traffic, but also makes cycling safer.

village life

The nearby Teufelsspring spring inspires creative sculptures.

Stiddien is considered an attractive, socially stable district. The city's social atlas (published in 2000) shows one of the lowest crime rates of all Braunschweig city districts. Despite or perhaps because of its small size, many clubs are active in the village. In addition to the volunteer fire brigade founded in 1874, there is the table tennis club "TTC-Rot Weiß" (founded in 1967), two riding clubs, the church singing group, the women's group, the mothers group, a hobby club, several bowling clubs and the "Teufelsspring party community". According to the "Braunschweiger Zeitung", a designer can claim to be the owner of the largest private bonsai garden in Lower Saxony.

According to a report in the Braunschweiger Zeitung dated September 9, 2007, a local history museum is to be built in the von Damme house, a listed half-timbered house.

In the Feldmark, on the railway line to the Salzgitter steelworks, there is the football field , where larger village festivals are celebrated. On the south-eastern edge of the village is the "Stiddier Europaplatz" with a boulder bearing the inscription "Germany for Europe - 4 May 1984". There are some benches next to it.

In the surrounding area, the Stiddier fire brigade owned the largest party tent for years, which is why other clubs or communities like to borrow it for parties. As a festive highlight, the (regionally largest) Easter bonfire takes place every year at Easter and in late summer the TTC hiking day and the church's community festival take place.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a golden horse head within a stylized green roof shape (tip) on a golden shield background.

The horse's head symbolizes the animal as a loyal companion when working in the fields and as a riding animal, as the settlement has been strongly agricultural since ancient times and numerous horses were used. An above-average number of horses are kept in Stiddien. For years, the place claimed to have the highest number of Arab horses per head of the population in Lower Saxony. The roof shape stands for the part (Stedehem, -heim) of the old place name. The colors green and gold symbolize the grain and beet fields and thus also the agriculture.

Arnold Rabbow designed the coat of arms and it was adopted on February 20, 1980 by the Timmerlah local council, to which Stiddien was one of the time.

Web links

Commons : Stiddien  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the village of Stiddien on stiddien.de
• Stiddien on braunschweig.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population statistics on braunschweig.de
2. ↑ Limits of the city districts (valid from November 1, 2011). (PDF; 184.10 kB) City of Braunschweig , November 1, 2011, accessed on August 25, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Stiddien: The "Ellernbruch". at robert.cyty.com, accessed December 26, 2009.
4. ↑ Erika Bosse (home nurse ): Article from 2004 on newsclick.de, accessed on December 26, 2009.
5. ↑ On the display board with a short local history at the entrance to the cemetery or in the village portrait on braunschweig.de, accessed on December 26, 2009.
6. ^ Hermann Oesterley: Historical-geographical dictionary of the German Middle Ages. Gotha 1883. Richard Andree: Braunschweiger Volkskunde. Braunschweig 1901, p. 64.
7. ↑ EFJ Koch: History of the dynasty, the office, the city, castle and fortress Peina in Lower Saxony. Peine 1850, p. 67.
8. ↑ Hans Lippelt: 200 years of dispute over a velvet shop. In: Heimatbote des Landkreis Braunschweig 1967. pp. 95 ff, reports on the dispute over a paddock, which was put on record in 1548 and could only be resolved in 1761 by dividing the area.
9. ^ C. Renouard: History of the war in Hanover, Hesse and Westphalia from 1757 to 1763. Cassel 1864, p. 439 ff.
10. ↑ G. Hassel et al. K. Bege: Geographical-statistical description of the principalities of Wolfenbüttel and Blankenburg. Braunschweig 1802, p. 402 f.
11. ↑ http://m.braunschweig.de/leben/stadtportraet/stadtteile/timmerlah/Timmerlah_Pastoren_Situation_im_BS-Land_1945.html , accessed in December 2015
12. ↑ Nathalie Krupps (ed.): Parishes in the Middle Ages. Göttingen 2007, p. 314.
13. ↑ G. Hassel, K. Bege: Geo-statistical description of the principalities of Wolfenbüttel and Blankenburg. Braunschweig 1802, p. 402.
14. ↑ Report on newsclick.de, accessed on December 26, 2009.
15. ↑ ^{a b} Report 2004 on newsclick.de, accessed on December 26, 2009.
16. ↑ Information on braunschweig.de
17. ↑ Report on newsclick.de, accessed on December 26 of 2009.
18. ^ Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch. Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , p. 27.