Bad Oexen
Bad Oexen is located in the north of Bad Oeynhausen in the Eidinghausen district (Wöhren district) on the southern slope of the Wiehengebirge . The place became known in the middle of the 19th century for its medicinal water and is now the location of a special clinic.
Surname
The name "Oexen" developed from the name of an estate, the so-called "Oexter Hof" (or "Exter Hof"). According to tradition, the name should come from the Latin “extra” and mean something like “outside”, “far outside”. This expresses the local affiliation to a larger manorial property. In this context, the “Oexter Hof” represented the “rearmost”, “outermost” (Latin extra) courtyard. The Ovelgönne estate (today Ovelgönne moated castle in Eidinghausen ) may have been designated as the corresponding “front” courtyard .
historical development
10th to 18th centuries
The Ovelgönne estate and probably also the Oexter Hof were in the 10th century as a so-called Meierhof owned by the Abdinghof monastery in Paderborn, which was given to it by Pope Lucius III in 1183 . including patronage over the local church were confirmed. In 1353 the entire property was transferred from the prince-bishopric of Paderborn to the prince-bishopric of Minden .
From the beginning of the 15th century the Oexter Hof belonged to the von Aswede family. The first owner of the farm is documented as Jasper von Aswede, who ran the farm from 1491 to 1539. The farm is also mentioned as "Aswedehof" (then part of the parish of Volmerdingsen ). The Asweden family is mentioned in connection with various goods of the principality of Minden. The Lords of Aswede were ministerials to the Bishop of Minden. It is possible that the cathedral chapter enfeoffed them with the Oexter court.
The next verifiable owner of the farm was Herr von dem Bussche zu Hünnefeld , from when exactly is unclear. From the end of the 17th to the end of the 18th / beginning of the 19th century, the farm and its lands were leased to various individual tenants; a manager (receptor) lived on the farm and collected the lease payments. For the period from 1695 z. B. Receptor Röver is named as the manager of the farm on behalf of Bussche zu Hünnefeld. Von dem Bussche zu Hünnefeld is documented as the owner by a cadastral entry until 1752. He claimed tax exemption from the so-called contribution with which most of these farms were otherwise occupied, although he had bought this privilege. From then on one spoke of the "Free Oexter Hof". In the following years, the Haddenhausen rent master Hartog took over the farm, but lost it in 1768 through bankruptcy. The new owner, Privy Councilor von Borries from Minden, let Hartog continue to live on the farm. After von Borries' death in 1796, his widow was mentioned in a document as the owner until 1832 (according to other sources until 1838).
19th century
In the subsequent sale, the farm comprised 91 acres of arable land, 2½ acres of garden land, 9 acres of meadow and 20 acres of wood, according to the sales announcement. The buyer was Friedrich Schilling, who acquired the farm as Colon . The history of the spa began with him in the middle of the 19th century. As soon as the farmers were able to make themselves independent of their liege lords by paying a redemption sum, Colon Schilling tried to transform his property into a sophisticated farm. With the beginning of industrialization, however, the peasant livelihood dwindled more and more, so that he had to look for alternatives.
In 1845, mining captain Karl von Oeynhausen (1795–1865) discovered a thermal brine spring instead of the hoped-for rock salt store in the area of what was then the "Königliche Saline Neusalzwerk" (now Bad Oeynhausen) built on the orders of King Friedrich II . Inspired by this success, Colon Schilling sought and found healing water in 1856 at the Oexter Hof, now known as the “Oexener Hof”. Schilling built a bathhouse with a pub next to the spring. On August 16, 1858 he received the necessary license from the Royal Prussian Government, represented by District Administrator Freiherr von Schlotheim . So in the new Bad Oexen the baths began as a so-called farmers bath . Around this time, a few farm baths had already been built in the East Westphalian-Lippe region, especially on the slopes of the Wiehengebirge. Farmers' baths meant that the local population used the healing properties of healing water, while foreign guests, especially those from the aristocracy, went to the much finer Bad Oeynhausen for a cure. Colon Schilling, who lived on a large scale, soon had to sell the bathhouse and pub, and later also the farm. The buyer was the Harten family from Minden, who temporarily leased the farm to a tenant named Flores.
20th century
Bad Oexen was an independent spa until the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, Ludwig Brockmann, entrepreneur in Bad Oeynhausen, was the owner of Bad Oexen. In 1904 Friedrich Held bought the bathroom for the current owners, the Held / Brinkmeier / Schulte family. In the following years it was first used as a sanatorium and later as a sanatorium. The cooperation with the working group for the fight against cancer in North Rhine-Westphalia, which began in 1957, lays the foundation for the development of today's rehabilitation clinic for tumor patients.
Bad Oexen today
The former place name "Bad Oexen" has now been incorporated into the clinic name. Nevertheless, the place name "Oexen" or "Bad Oexen" can be found on most maps. "Oexen" is also the name of the street that leads to Bad Oexen. Today the clinic includes the area of the former farmer's bath including Oexener Hof, an adjoining farmstead that has been managed since the 16th century (“Siekmeyers Hof”) and a large clinic park with old trees.
Pond house of the Bad Oexen Clinic
swell
- Patriotic newspaper Minden, issue of May 23, 1858
- Description of the former diocese of Minden. Hölscher 1877
- The knightly seats of the Grafschaft Ravensberg and the Principality of Minden, von der Horst, Karl Adolf, Berlin, 1894
- From the history of Eidinghausen - A cultural-historical village image from Minden-Ravensberg, Wilhelm Wellpott, April 7th to August 18th, 1928
- At the Weserpforte, local supplement Bad Oeynhauser Anzeiger and Tageblatt, "Streifzüge durch Volmerdingsen", Heinrich Volcmarinc, 19./20. September 1931
- At the Weserpforte, local supplement Bad Oeynhauser Anzeiger and Tageblatt, "Um den alten Oexter Hof", Heinrich Greiwe, 16./17. November 1940
- At the Weserpforte, local supplement Bad Oeynhauser Anzeiger and Tageblatt, "Kleine Chronik um Ovelgönne", 1941
- Bad Oexen. Looking back at a former farmer's bath on the southern slope of the Wiehegebirge (manuscript). Marianne Busche, 1980
- War and Domain Chamber Minden, Sign. I / 223, State Archives Münster
Web links
- Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe: Bad Oexen spa gardens in LWL geodata culture
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 27 ″ N , 8 ° 48 ′ 27 ″ E