Bengerode

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Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 24 "  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 36"  E

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Bengerode is the deserted village of potters village between Fredelsloh and Grubenhagen Castle in southern Lower Saxony . In the High Middle Ages , Bengerode was an important production facility for pottery . Today the area is a ground monument . It belongs to the town of Moringen and is used as pasture. The finds from the Bengerode desert are shown in Fredelsloh in the Museum Keramik.um and in the Klett pottery .

history

The existence of the place was first documented in 1138, when Archbishop Adalbert II of Mainz left the tithe in Beiggerode and other places to the Augustinian monastery of Fredelsloh, founded a few years earlier . Pottery originated on clay soil in the 12th century and existed for at least two centuries. The potters had learned to burn their clay at high temperatures in such a way that the vessels became watertight and served as a substitute for glass. Glass was very expensive back then. That is why the pottery from Bengerode was sold to Scandinavia and Russia.

During this period the houses Dassel , Everstein and a few others dominated the surrounding trade routes. Therefore, the pottery produced here preferably reached north-east Europe via their trade and relatives. The Hildesheim collegiate feud of 1519 is assumed to be a possible reason for the devastation of Bengerode . However, it is stated that at least for the neighboring Fredelsloh the monastery feud ran without further consequences, in the documents there are no references to this. Devastation caused by the feud took place in Uslar and Dassel , that is, in the more remote area of ​​Bengerode. This makes it more likely that the abandonment of Bengerode was related to the merging of monastic and urban property, which was more common in the (old) districts of Osterode and Northeim at the time.

Today's pottery in Fredelsloh is in the tradition of this desert.

Modern robbery excavation

In autumn 2011, the Bengerode ground monument was partially destroyed by robbery excavations . The material stolen by the thieves is de facto worthless on the art market because it does not have a state certificate. Since not only was the treasure shelf violated, but the original find situation was destroyed at the same time, irreparable damage to the cultural heritage has occurred.

The 7th robbery excavation took place in 2015.

literature

  • Petra Lönne with the collaboration of Johannes Klett-Drechsel and Sonja M.-A. König: The medieval pottery desert Bengerode near Fredelsloh, district Northeim. In: Mamoun Fansa , Frank Both, Henning Haßmann (editor): Archeology | Land | Lower Saxony. 400,000 years of history. State Museum for Nature and Humans, Oldenburg 2004 = licensed edition for the Scientific Book Society. Page 264–266.
  • Sonja König: "Holla, Potelgen koepen Potelgen!" In: Archeology in Lower Saxony , 2004, pp. 124–127

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erhard Kühlhorn: The medieval devastation in southern Lower Saxony . tape 1 : A - E. Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-89534-131-2 , p. 138-148 .
  2. ^ Kirstin Casemir, Franziska Menzel, Uwe Ohainski: The place names of the district of Northeim . In: Jürgen Udolph (Hrsg.): Lower Saxony Place Name Book (NOB) . Part V. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89534-607-1 , p. 47 f .
  3. ↑ Horst Gramatzki: The Fredelsloh Abbey from its foundation to the expiration of its convent, 2001, p. 88
  4. ^ Karl Lechte: History of the city of Hardegsen . Hardegsen 1968, p. 224 .
  5. ^ DerStandard.at: Medieval excavation site plundered by robbery graves November 2nd, 2011 12:21 pm