Altenesch

Altenesch Lemwerder municipality Coordinates: 53 ° 7 ′ 51 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 8 ″  E
Postal code :	27809
Area code :	0421
Location of Altenesch in Lower Saxony
St. Gallus in Altenesch-Süderbrook (2016)

Altenesch is a village in the municipality of Lemwerder in the Wesermarsch district in Lower Saxony . The place is located south of the core town of Lemwerder on the L 875 road . The Weser flows to the east, and the Ochtum flows into the Weser to the southeast . The B 212 runs to the west and the L 885 to the northwest.

history

The village is best known for the Battle of Altenesch , in which the Stedinger farmers were defeated by an army of the Archbishop of Bremen and the Counts of Oldenburg in 1234 . St. Gallus Church stands on the battlefield today . In addition, the St. Veit monument and the Thingstätte Stedingsehre commemorate this.

Until November 15, 1972, the entire municipality of Lemwerder was called "Altenesch".

See also

• Nobiskuhle
• St. Gallus Church (Altenesch)
• St. Vitus Monument
• Stedingen (municipality)

literature

• Bernd Ulrich Hucker : The problem of rule and freedom in the regional communities and aristocratic rule of the Middle Ages in the Niederweser area ; Münster (Westphalia) 1978
• Michaela Carl, Tobias Schmidt (Ed.): Stedinger Chronik. Annals of the parish Altenesch 1807–1846 by Pastor Gerhard Steinfeld . Stedinger Verlag, Lemwerder 1999, ISBN 3-927697-21-4 .

Web links

Commons : Altenesch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Heimatverein Altenesch eV