Dankelshausen

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Dankelshausen
Scheden municipality
Coat of arms of Dankelshausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 7 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 26"  E
Residents : 260
Incorporation : 1st January 1973
Postal code : 37127
Area code : 05546
Dankelshausen (Lower Saxony)
Dankelshausen

Location of Dankelshausen in Lower Saxony

Dankelshausen is a village in southern Lower Saxony and part of the municipality of Scheden , which is part of the Dransfeld municipality in the Lower Saxony district of Göttingen . Dankelshausen has about 260 inhabitants.

geography

Dankelshausen from the west-south-west

Geographical location

Dankelshausen is located in the Münden Nature Park on the eastern slope of the Bramwald in the Schede valley , which passes the town to the east.

The highest point of the district is on the slope of the Klagesberg at an altitude of 334  m above sea level. NN .

Neighboring places

Neighboring places are Scheden in the southeast and Bühren in the northwest. Without a direct road connection, Mielenhausen in the southwest and Gut Wellersen in the northeast are neighboring.

history

The first written mention of the place Dancolueshusen is in a document from 1309. In older literature, 1332 was also given as the year of the first documentary mention or mentions of Tanckwardishusen or Danquardeshusen from the 12th or 13th century were counted as part of Dankelshausen, which are now assigned to the Dankwardeshusen desert near Wiebrechtshausen . Dankelshausen was a parish village by the beginning of the 14th century at the latest, because a plebanus (priest) is mentioned in both documents from this time . In addition to the town itself, Ober- and Niederscheden, Mielenhausen and Wellersen also belonged to the parish. Since the Middle Ages, the manor, noble court and church patronage were in the hands of the Lords of Stockhausen , who also owned an estate with 83 hectares of land here. The local social structure was shaped by day laborers from the manor and small farmers. The district area of ​​the entire village was about 240 hectares.

On December 1, 1910, the place had 226 inhabitants. The population in 1925 was 229, by 1933 it had increased to 272 inhabitants and decreased again to 259 by 1939. In 1927 Dankelshausen belonged to the court and tax office of the then district town of Münden, the post office was in Oberscheden. In 1932 the wellersen manor district, which had been independent until then, was incorporated into Dankelshausen. On January 1, 1973, Dankelshausen was incorporated into Scheden.

Origin of the place name

Old names of Dankelshausen are 1309 Engelfridus plebanus in Dancolueshusen, 1332 Johannis in Dankolueshoßen plebanorum, 1347 Dankolvishusen, 1350 rector ecclesie in Dankelueshusen and 1397 Dankelshusen. It is a formation with the basic word -hūsen for -hausen. The defining word contains the strongly inflected two-part personal name stem Thankulf, Dankolf. It consists of the first element Thank-, Dank-, too Old Saxon thank "Dank", and the second element -ulf, -olf, which belongs to the personal name stem wulfa, to Old Saxon wulf "Wolf".

religion

The majority of the residents and the only church in town belong to the Münden parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover . The von Stockhausen family has patronage over the parish of St. Matthew's Church. Today the church is merged with the Markuskirche in Scheden and the Johanneskapelle in Mielenhausen to form the parish of Scheden-Dankelshausen.

Jewish Cemetery

Jewish residents had lived in Dankelshausen since around 1765, when Colonel von Stockhausen took in three Jewish families and obtained letters of protection for them. Around 1770 the Jewish cemetery was set up east of the village , and a small synagogue was probably also built at this time , which in 1845 fell into disrepair. According to other sources, the first burial took place in the cemetery in 1797. In 1843 the synagogue community of Dankelshausen-Oberscheden-Mielenhausen was officially formed, which was dissolved by the Landdrostei Hildesheim in early 1878 . The Dransfeld synagogue community took over the valuable Torah , the rest of the property and the cemetery, where the last burial took place in 1881 and, according to other sources, in 1891. The cemetery was repaired in the early 1960s. At the Jewish cemetery in Dankelshausen, 28 gravestones still remain.

politics

Former municipal coat of arms

coat of arms

The design of the coat of arms of the former community of Dankelshausen was decided in 1970. The basic color is silver, in the lower part there is a green hill as an indication of the location on the Bramwald. A silver spring gushes out of it, symbolizing the water supply through deep drilling since 1967. The continuous black cross on the hill shows its importance as a parish site, the assignment of the cross arms with three golden clover stems stands for the affiliated parishes. The middle of the cross is covered by a silver shield showing the coat of arms of the Lords of Stockhausen.

Culture and sights

Parish Church of St. Matthew

St. Matthew Church

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dankelshausen is dedicated to the Evangelist Matthew . The quarry stone masonry of the west tower, which is only structured by narrow loopholes, is medieval, it is dated to the first half of the 13th century. The envy head attached to the tower is unusual . In the basement of the tower is the burial place of the Lords of Stockhausen, who have the patronage of the pastoral office of the church to this day. The bells hanging in the tower were made in 1610 by Hans Reuter from Göttingen and in 1737 by Arnold Geyer from Nordhausen. The rectangular nave hall, built in 1781, is also made of quarry stone masonry, the structure at the corners and window walls are made of red sandstone as stone frames. The ship has five window axes, the entrances are in the middle axis. The interior has a flat ceiling with a three-part ceiling structure with stucco elements, the hall is structured by a three-sided gallery. The white pulpit altar wall dates from the time the church was built. Behind it there is a large-format curtain painting on the east wall.

Personalities

  • Theodor Krohne (* 1846 in Dankelshausen; † 1925), businessman and local politician
  • Otto Hugo Sartorius (born April 22, 1864 - † February 6, 1947), Protestant theologian, pastor in Dankelshausen 1917–1934

literature

  • Joachim von Stockhausen: Dankelshausen - Wellersen between Göttingen and Hann. Münden. A foray into the history of the village and the family. Disserta Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-95425-796-6 .

Web links

Commons : Dankelshausen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geodata Center , accessed on November 14, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c Geolife.de Navigator of the State Office for Geoinformation and Land Surveying Lower Saxony (LGLN), accessed on March 12, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c Kirstin Casemir, Uwe Ohainski, Jürgen Udolph : The place names of the district of Göttingen . In: Jürgen Udolph (Hrsg.): Lower Saxony Place Name Book (NOB) . Part IV. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89534-494-X , p. 90 f .
  4. ↑ a b c d e Peter Ferdinand Lufen: District of Göttingen, part 1. Altkreis Münden with the communities of Adelebsen, Bovenden and Rosdorf . In: Christiane Segers-Glocke (Hrsg.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony . tape 5.2 . CW Niemeyer, Hameln 1993, ISBN 3-87585-251-6 , p. 250-251 .
  5. ↑ a b c History and coat of arms of Dankelshausen. Scheden parish, accessed on February 18, 2015 .
  6. ^ Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Kingdom of Prussia - Province of Hanover, district of Hildesheim, district of Münden. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. Ulrich Schubert, accessed on January 7, 2014 .
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Münden district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ^ 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. 213 .
  9. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on January 26, 2016 ; accessed on August 3, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b c d Scheden-Dankelshausen. Münden church district, accessed on November 14, 2012 .
  11. ↑ a b c Gisela Schucht: Dankelshausen. In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Volume 1, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 , pp. 443-447.
  12. ↑ a b c Dankelshausen. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. here: Lower Saxony