Flower (Hann. Münden)
Blume is a historic suburb of Hann. Münden in today's southern Lower Saxony , which lies on the northern bank of the Werra . In 1918, Blume nach Münden , as the city was called at that time, was incorporated . Starting from the historical building stock, a larger residential area developed up to the Questenberg from the 19th century , which is sometimes referred to as the Blume / Questenberg . It has around 2100 residents (as of 2012).
description
Blume is located north of the old town center of Hann. Münden and is separated from it by the Werra with the Blümer Werder . The old Werra bridge , built in the 13th century, serves as a connection .
To the northwest of Blume is the approximately 220 meter high elevation of the Questenberg . The curved track of the disused Dransfeld ramp runs there . Above the route on the mountain slope is the smaller Questenberg living area . Both areas are residential locations that predominantly consist of single and multi-family houses from the 1950s to 1980s. To the north of the former port railway to the Weser transshipment point, there are several villa-like houses from the 19th century in the Blume area. In the lower area of the Werra, a street with half-timbered houses has been preserved as a historic district .
history
The living area on Questenberg above Blume was not built on until the late 19th and 20th centuries. As a previously independent settlement, Blume has centuries of history. It was first mentioned in 1329 as Blomena , which, according to a local homeland researcher, means flooded land . The residents of the settlement owed interest to the Guelph dukes and made their payments in the Welfenschloss Münden . As a suburb outside of the city fortifications of Münden on the opposite bank of the Werra, Blume was protected by the Blümer Landwehr in the late medieval and early modern times . It demarcated the village of Blume from the Questenberg and the Blümer Berg, blocked the Göttinger Strasse at the “Zum Schwarzen Bären” bar and is still visible today as a double wall.
Blume was connected to Münden via the Alte Werra Bridge, over which an important traffic route to Göttingen ran. The Hospital St. Spiritus, first mentioned in 1327 and demolished in 1865, existed next to the Werra Bridge .
Blume shows a single-row cell structure as a riverside road along the Werra. It was destroyed in the war in 1553 by Duke Heinrich the Younger and in 1626 during the siege of Münden by Tilly in the Thirty Years' War . About half a century after the end of the war, the settlement was consolidated around 1700 and comprised 263 residents. Most of them were day laborers and craftsmen without guilds, such as dyers , tanners , linen weavers and clay pipe makers . In Blume there was a baker, a butcher and a shipbuilder. At the end of the 18th century there were 41 houses in Blume. Above Blume on the slope of the Questenberg, Andree's Berggarten was created in the early 18th century .
Because of its location directly on the Werra, Blume was always endangered by floods . Larger floods there was in the 20th century in the years 1926, 1946 and 1995. 1918 was flower to Hannoversch Munden , as the city was at that time incorporated .
The Blumer mill , also mentioned in a document for the first time in 1329, belonged to Blume and was demolished in 1964 when the B 80 was expanded. In 2011, a hydropower plant called Blumer Wehr was built at the former location of the watermill , which contributes to the local electricity supply.
Personalities
- Leo Sympher (1854–1922), born in Blume, hydraulic engineer
literature
- Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, Göttingen district, part 1, volume 5.2, 1993, edited by Urs Boeck , Peter F. Lufen and Walter Wulf, CW Niemeyer book publishers , Hameln, p. 127, ISBN 3-87585-251-6 .
Web links
- Flood photos in 1909 and 1926 with historical buildings
- Flood photo 1995
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population on December 31, 2012
- ↑ Martin Czichelski: Gemunde in the early and high Middle Ages, 2006, p. 94/95
- ^ Johann Dietrich von Pezold: Maler, Müller, Tagelöhner in: Mündener Allgemeine from June 20, 2009
- ↑ Helmut Krischmann: Snails generate electricity at Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine from August 25, 2011
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 12.4 " N , 9 ° 39 ′ 37.8" E