Altmünden
Altmünden is a district of the city of Hann in the Lower Saxony district of Göttingen . Münden . With 484 inhabitants (as of 2012) it is the smallest district in terms of population. In the area of Altmünden there was the desolate settlement of Gimundi , which is considered a forerunner settlement of the Mündens mentioned for the first time in 1180.
Geographical location
The village of Altmünden is to the left of the Weser in the Upper Weser Valley and is embedded between the Reinhardswald in the west and the Bramwald on the other side of the river in the east. It spreads north of Neumünden on a narrow strip between the Weser and the eastern slope of the Reinhardswald. The federal highways 3 and 80 , which run east of the village together over the Mündener Weserbrücke towards the Gimte across the river, lead through it.
description
The existing buildings in Altmünden developed from the end of the 19th century. There are numerous allotment gardens on the Weser . There are industrial settlements to the north.
history
The district of Altmünden is located at the point where the deserted settlement Gimundi , also known as Gemundin , was. It was around the year 800 by the Minden Bishop Erkan Bert the monastery of Fulda given. In 1019, Gemundin was mentioned in a border description by Heinrich II when he gave the forest district of the Reinhardswald to the Paderborn bishop Meinwerk . In 1049, Emperor Heinrich III. in Gimundin, which is first mentioned in 1273 as Oldenmunden. The picture of the settlement has not survived, but it is likely to have been scattered farms. Within the settlement stood the St. Laurentius Church , the older part of which was built between 1000 and 1200 and which was expanded in the 13th century. In 1304 the settlement belonged to the Hilwartshausen monastery , in whose documents it was mentioned in 1322 with a stone building there. In 1408 Altmünden had 52 farms according to the Hilwartshausen monastery. In 1534 Altmünden still had around 35 farms. The settlement largely disappeared over time. As early as the 1560s and 1570s, a map of the settlement only shows the church. City views of Münden and maps from the 18th to 19th centuries no longer show any closed buildings, but only individual buildings. The only structural remains are the St. Laurentius church ruins, which were demolished in the Thirty Years War and the remains of which were archaeologically examined in the 1990s. From the 17th century, the former location of Altmünden was used as a garden area.
Belonging to Altmünden, but built on Hessian soil, stood the Altmünden glassworks , which Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel had built in 1594 for his court in Kassel . It was the first glassworks in Hessen to produce white glass instead of the green forest glass that had been common up until then . Since the end of production in 1818, the glassworks tenant's residential building has served as a Hessian forester's house.
literature
- Klaus Grote : The Church of St. Laurentius in Altmünden , undated, Duderstadt
- Dug - found - salvaged. Archaeological search for traces on the Werra, Fulda and Weser. , Ed. On behalf of the city of Hann. Münden by Johann Dietrich von Pezold, Hann. Münden, 1998
- Johann Dietrich Pezold: Altmünden - once "Gemundi" In: History on the three rivers. A glimpse into the past of the city of Hann. Münden on the Werra, Fulda and Weser. Hann. Münden, 2003, pp. 33-34
Web links
- Poacher's pit (Altmünden), district of Kassel. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Historical data for Altmünden ( Memento from March 13, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population (Hann. Münden, districts). December 31, 2012
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 19.9 " N , 9 ° 38 ′ 35.7" E