Clus

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Clus City of Bad Gandersheim Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 10 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 29 ″  E
Residents :	119  (May 2010)
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	37581
Area code :	05382
Location of Clus in Lower Saxony
Pony stud with church and convent buildings of the former monastery

Clus is a district of Bad Gandersheim in Lower Saxony .

The residential development west of the domain did not begin until after the Second World War.

history

After the Gandersheim Monastery was dissolved in 1810, the former Clus monastery with Brunshausen became a ducal domain. In 1881, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the government of Duke Wilhelm, a memorial stone was set and an oak was planted. In 1935 a stud for breeding German Classic ponies was founded on the domain area . After the Second World War, the settlement of Clus was built west of the domain.

On March 1, 1974, Clus was incorporated into the city of Bad Gandersheim.

Clus Monastery

history

The former Clus monastery, a subsidiary of the Gandersheim monastery , was founded in 1124 by the Gandersheim abbess Agnes , niece of Emperor Henry IV , and was part of the Cluniac reform movement.

Abbot Johann Dederoth also took over the abbot dignity in Bursfelde in 1433 and was the initiator of the Bursfeld congregation . The Lower Saxon monastery of Clus is at the beginning of the great Central European monastery reform and unification movement of monastic life.

In the course of the Reformation, the monastery was closed in 1596 and the Protestant monastery Gandersheim was created. The former library is now part of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel .

Monastery church

The former monastery church Clus was built in 1127-1159 as a three-aisled basilica and is partly similar to the collegiate church in Gandersheim. In the choir, which was extended Gothic in 1485, there is a high altar that was brought here from Lübeck in 1487.

Brunshausen subcamp

During the Second World War , a satellite camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp was located in the former Brunshausen monastery in nearby Brunshausen, a district of Bad Gandersheim . The prisoners were used for the production of aircraft parts in today's Schott works. A few days before the liberation by the United States Army , 40 prisoners were driven into a wooded area near Clus and murdered there by the SS . Marguerite Duras wrote the book The Pain about this , which later became a play. This is regularly performed in memory of the victims as part of the Gandersheim Cathedral Festival on the site of the former satellite camp. In Clus a wooden cross and a memorial path commemorate the atrocity.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Goetting : The Benedictine monastery Brunshausen, the Benedictine monastery St. Marien before Gandersheim, the Benedictine monastery Clus, the Franciscan monastery Gandersheim (= Germania sacra . NF 8: The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. The diocese of Hildesheim. 2). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1974, ISBN 3-11-004314-9 , p. 11 .
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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 269 .

Web links

Wikisource: Closter Clauss in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

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