Collinghorst

Collinghorst municipality Rhauderfehn Coordinates: 53 ° 9 ′ 38 ″  N , 7 ° 31 ′ 50 ″  E
Height :	5 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	2500
Incorporation :	1st January 1973
Postal code :	26817
Location of the municipality of Rhauderfehn in the district of Leer

Collinghorst ( Low German Cöllnöst, "Cnöst", Huntjedbody ) is the third largest district of the East Frisian community Rhauderfehn in the district of Leer in Lower Saxony with around 2500 inhabitants . The federal road 438 runs through the village from Ihrhove to Rhauderfehn.

history

According to Houtrouw , the name of the place comes from the Kolden or Kollen, the pagan priests of the Frisians who had their sanctuary in this place. More likely, however, is a combination of the nickname Koll with the collective suffix -ing and the term Horst , which stands for a bushy hill. Another possible explanation of the place name is a derivation of the family name Kolling . The place is first mentioned possibly in the 10th century as Udhurstun . This designation is interpreted as a combination of the old Low German dative plural of hurst with the adverb ūt (= from). In Udhurstun therefore means (for the) outside forests . Later names were to Kollingehorst in 1409 and Kollinghorst in 1438. Today's spelling has been in use since 1599.

The late Romanesque church is said to be the oldest in Overledingerland . Loopholes and chimneys characterize it as a defensive tower. In 1959 it was renewed.

In 1409 the place was taken by the chief Keno tom Brok and his ally Focko Ukena . The stone house or the old castle was a simple fortified tower that came into the possession of the von Hövel family in the 17th century . They are the descendants of Heinrich von Hövel , who, as Komtur (office) of the Order of St. John in Burgsteinfurt, negotiated with the East Frisian Count about the whereabouts of the Order's possessions in East Frisia after the Reformation . Later the castle came into the possession of the von Hövelschen descendants from the Roskam family and an economic section in the style of an East Frisian Gulf house was added. The historic building was destroyed in 1945 by the effects of the war and later demolished. It was located on the property of what would later become the Grünefeld nursery on Hauptstrasse.

The settlements of Grete, Glansdorf and Königskiel emerged in the area of ​​Collinghorst in the 17th and 18th centuries. There was also the so-called “Wispelingsboom” in Collinghorst. It was a very old linden tree in the center of the village, which probably marked a medieval thing site .

On January 1, 1973, Collinghorst was incorporated into the new municipality of Rhauderfehn.

Attractions

Trinity Church

• Ev.-luth. Dreifaltigkeitskirche , a Romanesque brick church built around 1300

Sports

The gymnastics and sports club Collinghorst eV has around 780 members, of which around 200 are organized in the Collinghorst tennis center. Every year in mid-January, the region's largest indoor tennis tournament with the “AOK Open” and the “Volksbank Westrhauderfehn Open” take place here at the beginning of July.

Personalities

• Lamberdus Ostendorp (1893–1934), SA leader and one of the victims of the so-called Röhm putsch .

literature

• Walter Reinke: Collinghorst - Glansdorf and the districts, then and now . Collinghorst 2011

Web links

• Local chronicles of the East Frisian landscape: Collinghorst, municipality of Rhauderfehn, district of Leer. (PDF; 848 kB)
• Entry by Stefan Eismann zu Collinghorst in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
• http://www.tennis-collinghorst.de/

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ortschronisten der Ostfriesischen Landschaft: Collinghorst, municipality Rhauderfehn, district Leer. (PDF; 848 kB)
2. ↑ Dettmar Coldewey: Frisia Orientalis - data on the history of the country between Ems and Jade
3. ^ 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. 262 .
4. ↑ Evangelical-Lutheran Trinity Church of Collinghorst
5. ↑ TuS Collinghorst club information. Search result under club number 407350. (No longer available online.) Lower Saxony Tennis Association, formerly in the original ; accessed on January 6, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.