Bevergern

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Bevergern
City of Hörstel
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Bevergern
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 27 ″  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 0 ″  E
Residents : 4336  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 48477
Area code : 05459
Bevergern (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Bevergern

Location of Bevergern in North Rhine-Westphalia

The old town of Bevergern with its characteristic half-timbered houses
The old town of Bevergern with its characteristic half-timbered houses

The agricultural town of Bevergern is a district of Hörstel in the Westphalian region of Tecklenburger Land ( Steinfurt district ). In 1991 Bevergern received the gold medal in the national competition Our village should become more beautiful .

history

A place called Bevergern was first mentioned in 1123. At the beginning of the 14th century, the Counts of Tecklenburg had a castle built on a ridge to secure the southern border. The village of Bevergen developed at the foot of Bevergern Castle and received town charter from Count Nikolaus I of Tecklenburg on July 25, 1366 .

After constant disputes between Count Nikolaus II. Von Tecklenburg and the powerful neighbors Münster and Osnabrück, Bevergern fell to the Münster monastery in 1400 . From then on, the administrative headquarters were located in Bevergern Castle. Bevergern changed hands several times during the Thirty Years' War . In a major fire in 1658, the entire city was destroyed except for the church. After the bishopric of Münster came into possession of Bevergern again, the castle was finally blown up by Bishop Ferdinand II between March 6 and 15, 1680 and the official seat was relocated to Rheine . This resulted in stagnation in the development of Bevergern.

With the annexation to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1803 and after Napoleonic rule in 1816, Bevergern returned to the Tecklenburger Land with the establishment of the Tecklenburg district .

On August 30, 1923, a major fire destroyed seven houses on Herrenstrasse and Dicke-Wiewer-Gasse .

Bevergen experienced the end of World War II around Easter in 1945. On the evening of March 31, 1945, the bridges over the Dortmund-Ems Canal were blown up by the Wehrmacht after the airborne or tank alarm had been given the morning of the previous day (Good Friday) has been. On the following day (Easter Sunday), British troops advanced on Bevergern from the neighboring town of Riesenbeck, but withdrew after the loss of two tanks at Sanderskamp. On April 3, a British jeep drove up to the official building in Bevergern, and the British soldiers were then taken prisoner. On April 4, the German troops evacuated the place and took a Bevergerner with them who was to be tried by a court martial . However, he was able to regain freedom in Recke. On April 5th, Bevergern was occupied by British troops who confiscated the office building on April 14th. The administration was moved to the school. Paul Büscher was appointed the new mayor of the city by the British.

With the regional reform on January 1, 1975 Bevergern lost its political independence, but brought city rights to the new town of Hörstel . The heraldic animal of Bevergern is the beaver , which can be found in the city arms of Hörstel. The sister parish of Hörstel in the United Kingdom is Waltham Abbey ; The partner municipality of the city of Hörstel in the Netherlands is Dalfsen .

Today's district is on the long-distance cycle route of the 100 Castles Route and numerous other cycle paths. The Castellans Folk Summer, a folk festival , takes place on the Dortmund-Ems Canal every year. The Bevergerner carnival is known beyond the city limits. The Heimathaus is located in the city center; it was a gift from Anton Hilckman and was inaugurated in 1966. The cobblestones, the half-timbered houses and the alleys are characteristic of the old town of the federal gold village Bevergern. In the pavement on the village square, the foundation walls of Bevergern Castle, which was destroyed in 1680 and which has repeatedly been the starting point of disputes throughout its history, are indicated. A historical escape route, the Nonnenpättken , leads from the Gravenhorst monastery to the monastery courtyard in the center of Bevergern. One of the most striking buildings is the Saltenhof, which SA chief Viktor Lutze had built for himself in 1938 . The wet triangle is considered to be the landmark of Bevergern . This refers to the point at which the Mittelland Canal branches off from the Dortmund-Ems Canal. Furthermore, the Torfmoorsee , a large swimming lake that was excavated during the construction of the Autobahn 30 , is a popular excursion water. The Bevergerner Aa flows from Riesenbeck (known there as Flötte) through the village, and then flows into the Ems in the Rhine city ​​area under the name Hemelter Bach .

On December 11, 2018, the first stumbling block in the town of Hörstel was laid in Bevergern . Gunter Demnig set a stone for the doctor Dr. Otto Weber, who was shot in Buchenwald concentration camp on June 14, 1940 .

Mayor of the former city of Bevergern

  • 1945–1946 Paul Büscher
  • 1946–1947 Julius Ernsting
  • 1947–1948 Gustav Heescher
  • 1948–1952 Julius Reeker (center)
  • 1952–1961 Theo Stemmerich (CDU)
  • 1961–1964 Ernst-August Beyer (CDU)
  • 1964–1974 Constantin Ernsting (CDU)

Bevergerner "Karfriedagsdracht"

The tools of the Passion, the grave Christ and the mourning Madonna are carried in this order during the procession.
"Trembling of all worlds hearts" (6th stanza and partly first line of the 7th) from the Deutgen hymn book. The same melody is also used to sing "Come with repentant hearts", another of the special Bevergern Good Friday chants.

Bevergern is one of the few places in Westphalia where an old form of the Good Friday procession has been preserved. After the liturgy in the afternoon, the procession starts moving. Nowadays it leads along the city moat and roughly along the former course of the city wall. He used to walk through the Karfreitagsgässchen, a narrow passage between the houses in the old town, which, however , was removed as part of the old town's renovation . In addition to the tools of suffering , a grave Christ and a mourning Madonna are also carried. Men and women go with the procession separately from each other, so that instruments of suffering / grave Christ / mourning Madonna are between them in the middle of the procession. The procession stops at five stations , each time a sentence of the " Sorrowful Rosary " is said. The “Karfriedagsdracht” ends in the parish church with the song “ Christ's mother stood in pain ”.

As a special feature, old songs from the time of the Münster Hochstift will be sung during the Bevergern Good Friday procession , which have long been forgotten elsewhere. Three of the four special songs come from the hymn book "New Catholic Hymnbook for the Instruction and Edification of Christians" by Osnabrück Cathedral Vicar Rudolph Deutgen, first published in 1781 and in 1792 in the (then Prince) Diocese of Münster . These are "Come with a repentant heart" , " Walk with Jesus, let him die" and "Tremble, the hearts of all the worlds" . Johann Conrad Hemmis (born probably 1727 in Eikeloh ; 1744 second organist at the cathedral in Osnabrück; from 1756 up to his Death there in 1786, cathedral conductor).

The song " Come with a penitent heart " was still part of the " Catholic hymn book for the Diocese of Hildesheim " (printed and published by J. Kornacker, Hildesheim 1893) under the number 94 / S. 81. It also got there from the hymn book of Deutgen, which the last prince-bishop had made into the diocesan hymn book of the local diocese in 1787. The melody is not identical to that from Bevergern; A Ph. List 1818 is given as the originator for the Hildesheim variant .

Otto Dunkelberg wrote a chorale arrangement of " Come with a heart full of remorse " .

Personalities

The “Haus Hilckman” in the old town of Bevergern; Today it houses the home of the town
  • Josef Hagemann (1875–1950), the son of a hireling, Christian trade unionist, member of the Reichstag and Landtag of the Center Party
  • Albert Freude (1877–1956), Roman Catholic pastor of St. Marien Bevergern and long-time dean of the Ibbenbüren dean's office; Honorary citizen of the former city of Bevergern
  • Anton Hilckman ( 1900-1970 ), folklorist and comparative cultural scientist, survivor of the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp
  • Viktor Lutze (1890–1943), free corps fighter and as successor to Ernst Röhm's Chief of Staff of the SA.
  • Joseph Wewel (1907–1978), Roman Catholic clergyman, worked in the financial administration of the Catholic Church in West Germany and as a diocesan pilgrimage director and apostolic visitor
  • Ottilie Baranowski (* 1925), librarian and Low German author

literature

  • Author collective: Bevergern. History and stories about an old city . City administration Bevergern, Bevergern 1966.
  • Reinhard Niehoff, Klaus H. Peters, Georg Pistorius: Hörstel: photographic impressions. Bevergern, Dreierwalde, Hörstel, Riesenbeck . Lammert, Hörstel-Riesenbeck 1992.
  • Ottilie Baranowski, Walter Kinast: Päörtkes, Püttkes, Pädtkes: gates, fountains, ways. Bevergern . Published by the Heimatverein Bevergern. Ibbenbürener Vereindruckerei, Ibbenbüren 1989, ISBN 3-921290-39-2 .
  • Westphalian city atlas . Volume: V; 1 part volume. On behalf of the Historical Commission for Westphalia and with the support of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe, ed. by Heinz Stoob and Wilfried Ehbrecht. City map Bevergern, author: Hartmut Klein. Dortmund-Altenbeken 1996, ISBN 3-89115-138-1 .

Web links

Commons : Bevergern  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Numbers, data, facts. Website of the city of Hörstel, accessed on May 24, 2020.
  2. In Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from July 21, 2018: "Celebration on Jacobi Day with New Year's Eve"
  3. http://www.lwl.org/westfaelische-geschichte/portal/Internet/urkunden_datenbank/suche/vollansicht_archiv.php?id=269 LWL - history and documents of the city of Bevergern
  4. ^ Memories of the major fire in August 1923 . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung . August 12, 1981, p. 14 .
  5. In Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung of March 27, 1975: "Easter" fest "in Bevergern thirty years ago ..."
  6. ^ 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. 318 .
  7. In Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from December 12, 2018: "Honor for murdered Dr. Otto Weber"
  8. ^ Supplement to the Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from November 5, 1970: "25 years after"
  9. https://archiv.ivz-aktuell.de/index4.php?id=27503&pageno=25 Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung on September 14, 1998: "Karl Dierkes remembers the first days of the Bevergerner local union"; accessed on July 29, 2018
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