Dittenrode
Dittenrode is a deserted medieval settlement near Räbke in the Helmstedt district in southeastern Lower Saxony .
The settlement was located southwest of Räbke in a flat valley on the edge of the Elm forest . The parcel on which the settlement was located is called Rehdalsgrund-Wittensberg. This is possibly due to the fact that the land belonged to a Witte family and was close to the elevation of the Elm.
The time when the settlement was built is not known. According to tradition, a man by the name of Tietmar cleared the forest on the spot and built his farm at a spring. Through his descendants, the individual farm developed into a settlement with around 40 Kotsassen farms , which bore the name Tietmarode in his memory. Dittenrode was also called Thietmerrothe (1137), Dietmerode (1311 and 1346), Ditvorde apud Werberge (1311) and Detmerode (1345).
In 1137 the Lorenzkloster zu Schöningen in Dittenrode was wealthy, in 1311 the villa Dittenrode together with the tenth Halberstadt fief of the lords of Wenden (or von Dalem). In 1345 the lords of Wenden sold Dittenrode, Bransroderfeld and Räbke, which it appears to have been a fief of the noble lords of Hadmersleben , to the lords of Warberg , but they owned part of their property in Räbke to the Marienthal monastery , initially for 6 years gave away.
The forest was pushed back by the agriculture of the residents, so that the spring dried up in summer. Probably due to a lack of water, the residents left the village between 1345 and 1461, which fell into desolation. They moved to Räbke.
literature
- Förderverein Räbker Chronik: (Ed.): Räbke. A village on the edge of Elmes. Helmstedt 2005, pp. 57-58.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paul Jonas Meier: The architectural and art monuments of the Duchy of Braunschweig. 1857, pp. 244, 245 and 258.
Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 5 ″ N , 10 ° 52 ′ 15 ″ E