Burlage (Hude)
Burlage is part of the municipality of Hüde , which in turn is part of the combined municipality of Altes Amt Lemförde , district of Diepholz .
location
The village is located in the Dümmer Nature Park . The federal road 51 , the state road 345 and the district road 28 meet at the place . West of the place lies the Dümmersee . You can reach the place if you turn east between Lemförde and Lembruch.
General
H. Gade writes in his book "Die Grafschaft Diepholz, historical-geographical-statistical description" that in 1901 there were six houses with 30 inhabitants in Burlage. The number of inhabitants has remained similar to this day, and the number of residential buildings has not changed either.
However, the village of Burlage was divided into two parts by the construction of the Osnabrück – Bremen railway line at the end of the 19th century. The St. Mary's Church and two residential buildings are now on the other side of the railway, where the so-called “Bruch” begins, which is already part of the Diepholz moorland .
history
In Burlage, apart from the half-timbered houses, there is the St. Mary's Church, which emerged from a Benedictine convent and, according to legend, was founded during the Saxon Wars , like Matthäus Merian in the 17th century writes:
"This graff factory (Diepholz) also called a Jungfrawen monastery / burlage / which is said to have got the name / that at the time of Keyser Karlen the Great / the Saxons or Saxon farmers / had their camp there / as the aforementioned Keyser a meeting kept with them. As is then also reported / that the Keyser God in honor / because of the victory received against reported Saxons / dedicated this place to a monastery "
The legend also explains that the name "Burlage" comes from "Bauernlager".
Nevertheless, one can hardly assume a Carolingian foundation. On the other hand, however, the decay of the “cellula” Burlage is lamented as early as 1140; therefore the monastery will have been founded before 1100.
The monastery became Protestant in 1538, but some “nuns” still lived there until 1672, and the main house was blown over in 1704 because it was dilapidated.
Burlage forms its own parish; this includes the surrounding villages of Lembruch, Hüde, Marl and the small villages mentioned. The municipality of Lemförde used to be part of it, but it broke away from Burlage after the founding of its own church at the end of the Middle Ages .
Most of the church itself dates from the 16th century. The former monastery chapel used as a sacristy dates back to the 14th century. Both components are so asymmetrical to each other that there was previously space for a window in the northeast corner, with the chapel in the southeast extending to the south wall of the church.
In the church, the pulpit altar from 1700 and the organ from 1717 are particularly worth seeing. In the chapel there is also a group of eleven apostle figures (excluding Judas) and a possibly associated statue of Our Lady , both of which date from the 15th century. The inventory also includes a valuable statue of Anna Selbdritt from around 1450.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ' N , 8 ° 23' E