Altenmedingen
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Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ' N , 10 ° 36' E |
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| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | Uelzen | |
| Joint municipality : | Bevensen-Ebstorf | |
| Height : | 54 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 48.09 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 1469 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 31 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 29575 | |
| Area code : | 05807 | |
| License plate : | UE | |
| Community key : | 03 3 60 001 | |
| LOCODE : | DE 7AI | |
| Community structure: | 9 districts | |
| Association administration address: | Lindenstrasse 12 29549 Bad Bevensen |
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| Mayor : | Werner Marquard ( CDU ) | |
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Altenmedingen is a municipality on the northeastern edge of the Lüneburg Heath in the district of Uelzen , Lower Saxony . The community is part of the Bevensen-Ebstorf community .
geography
location
The municipality is located in the north of the Uelzen district, east of Bienenbüttel and north of Bad Bevensen . To the west of the village, the Elbe-Seiten-Canal touches the community.
Community structure
The municipality of Altenmedingen consists of Altenmedingen and the localities of Aljarn, Bohndorf, Bostelwiebeck, Eddelstorf , Haaßel , Reisenmoor, Secklendorf and Vorwerk . The Bavendorf train station residential area is still in the municipal area.
history
The first documented name and mention of the village of Altenmedingen comes from 1162. At that time, Heinrich the Lion awarded the provost and the cathedral chapter of Ratzeburg 27 marks from the customs of the city of Lübeck. This document was signed by 24 church princes and nobility (aristocrats), 24 ministerials and 13th among them Otto von Medinghe .
A document from 1200 testifies that a church existed in Altenmedingen very early on. It is a sales act between knight Otto II von Meding, with the consent of his wife, brothers and sons, and the church in the village of Bodendorp at the price of 10 Hamburg denarii. This is the time when the real history of the villages begins, closely linked to the von Meding family. Lyßmann, who was pastor in Altenmedingen from 1713 to 1721, described its creation in his "Historical Message of the Meding Monastery":
The lay brother Johannes from an unnamed Cistercian monastery set out with the four nuns Clementa, Floria, Anthonia and Zacharia to, following a divine command, found a new monastery somewhere. The eventful history took them via Redekestorp to Plate, where Johannes died. Through the mediation of the abbot of Rastede they came to Bohndorf (1237), where they elected their first provost Helmeke and were supported by the knights of Meding.
When Helmeke was killed on December 10, 1240 on the way from Medingen to Bohndorf by Wenden, the Knights of Medingen, as court lords, made the murderers with all their descendants serfs of the monastery. After the death of Johannes, the wife of Mr. Gebhardi jun. von Meding the four nuns and harassed their husband, who initially gave the monastery the tithe of Eddelstorf . In 1241, in addition to a considerable sum of money, he also gave them a desolate farmstead in Altenmedingen along with all the associated property.
From then on, the monastery grew rapidly through donations and purchases. The villages in the area were mentioned for the first time in deeds of donation relating to the village tithes or property rights. The knighthood had reached its heyday at that time and the noble lords often gave up their property rights to the monasteries. Still others, concerned for the salvation of their souls, bequeathed gifts to the monasteries.
One of the best-known Altenmedinger is probably the later Hamburg professor Johann Georg Büsch , born here in 1728 . a. 1788 made a contribution to poor relief.
Windmühlenberg
The Altenmedingen / Eddelstorf area and its surroundings are off the great north-south connection lines, but they have been a preferred settlement area since prehistoric times. Part of the older settlement history has been preserved on the Windmühlenberg in Altenmedingen. For a long time it was a pastime for the children to go to Windmühlenberg and dig out vases and skulls there and then smash them.
The oldest finds in this area date from the Neolithic (New Stone Age) of 3500 BC. The " royal tombs " near Haaßel are well known from this period . It is the remainder of a megalithic necropolis that once stretched from Haaßel via Niendorf I to Secklendorf . They are large stone graves with burial chambers that are enclosed by a stone setting. The stones of the boundary are boulders with a smooth side, probably glacial cut. The interior, about one meter above the level of the surroundings, was filled with earth. This is where the name Hünen Betten comes from .
The Altenmedinger small graves of the Windmühlenberg, which are barely the length of a burial and are framed with split stones, have been preserved from the same period. The dating of these graves for the Stone Age was possible because, on the one hand, the north-south direction and, on the other hand, the burial vessels and other ceramic remains prove this. It turned out that two different groups buried their dead in parallel or one after the other on the Windmühlenberg and must have certainly lived nearby: deep-engraving ceramists and cord ceramists .
Since remains of vessels from both groups were found on the same burial site, it can be assumed with some certainty that both groups lived peacefully side by side here.
Some barrows in the Feldmark (for example Reisenmoor) originate from the subsequent Bronze Age . Some stone spearheads and a small stone ax, which were still in use in the Bronze Age, have been found in the southern Feldmark Altenmedingen.
A settlement layer stretches over the Eddelstorf village area, the remains from the time between 500 and 600 BC. And confirms a continuous settlement. The Ripdorf period, 300 to 150 BC, is particularly strong. Chr., Represented. There are extensive ceramic finds from this period.
By 600 AD at the latest, the Windmühlenberg in Altenmedingen must have been given up as a settlement and the village of Altenmedingen must have been built in its current location. The oldest graves are dated to the Merovingian period from 650 AD , according to their brooches . All graves are west-east graves, which can be seen as an expression of a basic Christian attitude.
Incorporations
On July 1, 1972, the communities Aljarn, Bohndorf, Bostelwiebeck, Eddelstorf, Secklendorf and Vorwerk were incorporated.
Population development
- 1961: 1821 inhabitants (without the later incorporations 692 inhabitants)
- 1970: 1609 inhabitants (excluding the later incorporations 648 inhabitants)
- 2002: 1634 inhabitants
- 2003: 1630 inhabitants
- 2005: 1573 inhabitants
- 2011: 1541 inhabitants
- 2017: 1489 inhabitants
Place name
Former place names of Altenmedingen were in 1162 Altenmedingen and 1162 Medinge. The name was created in 1336 by renaming the village Zellensen located there. When the monastery in Zellensen an der Ilmenau was founded, this place was named after the Medingen family. Most likely from the Middle Low German "mede, mäde, mädland" for "meadow", formed with "ing". The name therefore probably stands for "meadow place".
politics
Municipal council
The council of the municipality of Altenmedingen consists of eleven councilors.
| CDU | SPD | Green | FDP | WG NO A39 | FWG | total | |
| 2016 | 4 (40.6%) | 2 (16.0%) | 1 (8.0%) | 1 (12.4%) | 1 (7.6%) | 2 (15.4%) | 11 seats |
Last local election on September 11, 2016
Mayor / Administration
Mayor is Werner Marquard (CDU). The municipal administration is located at Hauptstraße 1 A, 29575 Altenmedingen.
Architectural monuments
- The building history of the St. Mauritius Church in Altenmedingen goes back to the 12th century. The choir of today's brick church dates from the 14th century. In 1869 the church received a neo-Romanesque west tower. It contains a remarkable carved altar.
Personalities
- Johann Georg Büsch (1728–1800), educator and publicist, born in Altenmedingen
- Christian von Seebach (1793–1865), forester, born in Reisenmoor
- Wilhelm Seedorf (1881–1984), agricultural economist, born in Bostelwiebeck
literature
- Eberhard Behnke: The families and residents of the parish Altenmedingen: Local family book 1713-1920 for the places Aljarn, Altenmedingen, Bohndorf, Bostelwiebeck, Eddelstorf, Haaßel and Vorwerk. Uelzen: Museum and Heimatverein des Kreis Uelzen 2014 (= sources and representations on the history of the city and district Uelzen 14), ISBN 978-3-929864-27-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ↑ a b c Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 236 .
- ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 7, 2015 ; accessed on August 2, 2019 .
- ^ Result of local elections 2016
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