Beienrode (Königslutter)

Beienrode City of Königslutter am Elm
Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 34 ″  N , 10 ° 50 ′ 5 ″  E
Height :	97  (90-116)  m
Residents :	508  (April 1, 2018)
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	38154
Area code :	05353
Location of Beienrode in Lower Saxony
Entrance building of the manor in 1998 before the renovation

Beienrode is a district of Königslutter am Elm in the Helmstedt district in Lower Saxony, south-west of the Dorm ridge outside the city center . It is located around 30 kilometers east of Braunschweig south of the A 2 / E 30 ; exit 59 (Königslutter) is around 5 km away. Until the municipal reform in 1974, Beienrode was an independent municipality. The village has around 500 inhabitants (as of 2003).

landscape

The Lutter flows into the Schunter near Beienrode

Beienrode is mainly characterized by the embedding of the Uhrau and Schunter lowlands. The Schunter flows with a width of about six meters along the western edge of the village. In the north it meets the Uhrau and in the south-western course the Lutter flows into the Schunter in the nature reserve " Lutterlandbruch ", which is located southwest of Beienrode. The nature reserve, designated in 1981, with an area of ​​approximately 85 hectares, is a contiguous wetland area that is intended to provide a secure habitat for the plant and animal species that inhabit it.

In addition, at the southeast end of the village, the Dorm ridge rises with the highest elevation, the Fuchsberg, at 182 m above sea level. Compared to the Elm , the Dorm, which is also located in the Elm-Lappwald Nature Park , is much more species-rich. The tree with the richest occurrence is the common beech. There are hedge paths on the light south-west slope of the ridge with the railway embankment at the lower end. The dorm is also known for the Rogenstein , which was built in the farm building of the estate, the chapel, and some houses in the old village center. The so-called Kaliberg is located at the southeast end of Beienrode. Due to the visible salt deposits, the vernacular says that good weather is coming when the mountain shines clean white.

history

Beienrode was a clearing settlement and was first mentioned in a document from 980 as "Bodenrod". Emperor Otto II gave the estate in Derlingau in Old Saxony to Count Mamecho . Today, however, it cannot be confirmed without a doubt whether the Beienrode at Königslutter or the Beienrode at Flechtorf is meant. Only one place on the Schunter is mentioned, and that applies to both villages.

The old part of Beienrode, the so-called Unterdorf, lies in the valley of the Schunter and was originally a farming village on the 1000 year old manor Beienrode. The so-called Oberdorf emerged at the end of the 19th century in connection with potash mining, which was stopped again in the 1920s.

Historical affiliations

Through Emperor Lothar von Süpplingenburg the Derlingau with Beienrode came to the Guelph property and thus to Heinrich the Lion . Due to the fall of Heinrich and the associated division of the duchy, the Hasenwinkel , to which Beienrode belonged, kept moving back and forth between Braunschweig and Lüneburg as a border region . It was not until 1428 that the Hasenwinkel was permanently owned by the Lüneburgers. From 1814, after the Napoleonic Wars, the Hasenwinkel belonged to the Kingdom of Hanover . Due to the defeat of the Hanoverians, who were allied with the Austrians, the Hasenwinkel came to the Prussians in 1866 , who had triumphed in the Austro-Prussian War.

After the Second World War, Beienrode, like the entire state of Hanover, became part of the newly founded state of Lower Saxony . The recent change of political affiliation was the territorial reform of 1974. On March 1, 1974 changed Beienrode and other towns from Gifhorn to district Helmstedt . Beienrode was incorporated into the city of Königslutter am Elm .

History from 1411

The place Beienrode was influenced for centuries by the aristocratic manor. To a limited extent there was a free peasant class very late. From 1411 the Beienrode estate came into the possession of the von Veltheim family , who stayed there for 400 years. The von Veltheims' legacies were the chapel from 1433 and the redesign of the original manor, of which only the wall along Steinumer Straße remains. In 1753 the mining captain Georg Gottfried von Bülow bought the estate. Von Bülow had a brandy distillery and a potash factory built. In addition, he straightened the Schunter in order to operate a raft traffic on which he had the goods produced transported to Braunschweig . From 1763 Beienrode got its own school, which finally existed until 1966, before large-scale smaller village schools were merged.

From 1860 to 1936 the Barons Knigge were the last noble owners of the manor. In 1952 the refugee self-help organization Beienrode e. V. took over the estate and offered East Prussian parish widows and orphans a new home there. The "House of Helping Hands" has been used as a retirement home and conference center for decades. The land has been leased since 1975.

Before reunification, Beienrode was only a few kilometers away from the inner German border , near the Helmstedt border crossing, and thus belonged to the structurally weak so-called “ zone edge area ”. Today it is a rural commuter town with a little more than 500 inhabitants that has lost its own administration and a number of other facilities as a result of the incorporation.

Potash mining

Kuxschein from the Beienrode trade union from October 26, 1923

With the mining of potash from 1900 to 1926, Beienrode experienced its greatest economic boom. With the discovery of artificial fertilizers at the end of the 19th century, potash salt gained a new high status as an important component. Until the end of the First World War , only deposits in the German Reich were known and there was a real boom in potash salt. In 1892 a deposit was found in Beienrode and so the potash mine was built under the leadership of the Beienrode trade union. The population of Beienrode more than doubled during this time and 845 people were employed at the time of heyday. As a result of the worldwide discoveries of potash after the First World War, the mine in Beienrode had to close, among other things. The mine was kept operational as a reserve shaft until 1966, then the winding towers were blown up and the shafts and tunnels that were not filled with overburden were flooded with water. Most of the mining facilities have been demolished over time. What remained are the old water tower on the shaft site, the administration building, next to it the operator's residence and the three officials' houses on Schachtweg, the Steiger apartment buildings on Bergmannstraße, the director's villa on Hauptstraße and the former laboratory on Schwarzen Weg.

Two of the shafts, which were located in a nature reserve on the outskirts, were filled in in 2009.

Facilities

chapel

Castle (today "House of Helping Hands")

Beienrode has a Protestant parish that is traditionally closely linked to the diaconal nursing home for the elderly, the “House of Helping Hands”. This facility was founded in 1949 as an aid organization for Protestant refugees from East Prussia . The initiative for this came from the theologian Hans Joachim Iwand and his wife Ilse Iwand. The building is a former manor from the 18th century, which today offers space for four modern living groups for a total of 60 residents. It is also a conference center for leisure time, seminars, training and concert events.

After a thorough renovation in 2001, the house is owned by a GmbH. Co-partners are the Evangelical Foundation Neuerkerode and the Foundation Maria-Stehmann-Haus in Braunschweig . In the immediate vicinity of the house there is an extensive old manor park, which borders the nature reserve of the Schunterauen and the ridge of the Dorm. The Knigges' hereditary burial is located in the park, which is dominated by old trees. In 2014, the second festival of the series of events "Jazz im Park" took place in the Gutspark, an event of the Braunschweigische Landschaft and the Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz Foundation that takes place annually in a different park in the Braunschweig area .

In the 1980s, the Schunterauen were also regularly the scene of the “Festival of Peace Services” organized by groups from the West German peace movement at Whitsun . From there, impulses for joint action alliances and cross-border peace initiatives emanated.

coat of arms

The village of Beienrode belonged to the district of Gifhorn as an independent municipality until it was incorporated into the city of Königslutter am Elm . Therefore, in the upper right part of the coat of arms, you can see the blue Lüneburg lion (the district of Gifhorn was ducal-Lüneburg sovereignty for centuries ) with red hearts on a golden background. In the left part of the coat of arms , a crumpled golden tree trunk with two drooping linden leaves hovers over a golden wavy bar, which represents the river Schunter . The tree trunk is the changed color of the shield of the once influential von Veltheim family . The lower right field is divided three times in blue and gold and again a modified part of the gender coat of arms of the Barons von Knigge . On December 27, 1968, the local council approved the coat of arms. The District President of the administrative district of Lueneburg approved it on March 11, 1969th

Personalities

• André Gelpke (* 1947), photographer
• Klaus Geyer (1940–2003), pastor, convicted in 1998 of manslaughter of his wife
• Else von Sperber (1881–1977), politician
• Johann August von Veltheim (1754–1829), German officer in British service

literature

• Wilhelm Bornstedt : Beienrode am Dorm near Königslutter and Beienrode am Wohld near Flechtdorf and the certificate from Kaiser Otto II from the year 980. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch, 61 (1980), pp. 117-134.
• City of Königslutter (ed.): Chronicle of the municipality of Beienrode. Königslutter 1980.

Web links

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

• Official website of Beienrode
• Beienrode, a village in the Braunschweig region

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the city of Königslutter am Elm
2. ^ 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. 272 .
3. ↑ gaerten-parks.de
4. ↑ Jazz im Park 2014 , accessed on August 26, 2018