Dungeon

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Detail from the map of Christian Abraham Heinekens from 1806 with the dungeon in the upper right quarter.

The Dunge was a very old, no longer existing, small rural settlement in the area of ​​today's Bremen district Burglesum , district Werderland.

Surname

The word “dung” originally denoted the cellar-like storerooms and weaving chambers mentioned by Tacitus and Pliny , which were covered with dung to keep out the cold. The late medieval "dung" and the modern "fertilizer" are derived from it.

history

A villa dunge is one of the oldest officially named settlements in the Bremen rural area and was inhabited even before the dyke was built. Between the 18th and 20th centuries, the location between Lesumbrok and Burg consisted of the small and large dungeons and a farm. The Große Dunge estate was first mentioned in 1365 in the possession of a Bremen councilor and remained in the changing hands of Bremen citizens until the 20th century. The Kleine Dunge is mentioned as early as 1337 . In the 1770s the property went to Dr. theol. Johann Smidt, whose son, the later mayor Johann Smidt, made the name of the estate known and popular with its rhymed idyll, The Family Day at Dungen of 1798 in Bremen. The manor house burned down in 1885, but the estate remained in the possession of the Smidt family until 1927. The land has been divided since 1930, and in 1973 the manor house built in 1894 was demolished. The allegedly oldest farm in Werderland was located 200 m north-west of the Große Dunge. It was run by the Martens family as a meierhof since 1758 and given up in 1955. The young Polish slave laborer Walerian Wróbel worked on it in 1941 , who was executed by the National Socialists for a minor offense. In 1954 there was an attempt to set up a dairy farm, in the 1980s the project of a "cemetery on the Lesum" failed. The Dunger See nature reserve and a golf course are currently located on the land .

Johann Smidt: The family day at Dungen

From 1792 Johann Smidt had studied theology in Jena , which in those years formed a center of German idealistic philosophy and literature alongside Weimar through Schiller , Fichte , Schelling , Schlegel , Novalis and others. The “Family Day” was written in the years 1797 to 1798, when, after completing his studies, he had to choose between the preaching office, scientific teaching as a professor of philosophy and a political career. The poem is "to a certain extent a farewell to the youth", a transfiguring look back at rural family life on the summer estate of Kleine Dunge . Appreciate higher than the literary quality in hexameters pulling over 45 pages verses is the cultural and historical insight into the resident in 1782 Holiday everyday bourgeois families and children who wake up view of construction and equipment, to custom and Children's, on living and portrayed characters . Smidt gave the manuscript of the temporarily completed work to his sister on May 22, 1789; it remained unprinted until the edition edited by his son Heinrich Smidt in 1867, the detailed commentary of which also contains a history of the Dunge and family history information on Smidt's ancestors.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge: Etymological Dictionary , 22nd edition, 1989, p. 160; Duden, Etymologie , 1963, p. 122, keyword Dung .
  2. ↑ Big dungeons
  3. ↑ Former Martens farm .
  4. ↑ Christof U. Schminck-Gustavus: Das Heimweh des Walerjan Wróbel , Bremen 2007.
  5. ^ Heinrich Smidt, p. VI.

literature

  • Johann Smidt: The family day at Dungen. An idyll. Published by Heinrich Smidt, Bremen 1867.
  • Franz Buchenau : The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen , Bremen 1934, pp. 434–435.
  • Alwin Lonke: History of Dunge and Lesumbrok . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch 42, 1947, pp. 203–212.
  • Heinrich Hoops: Heimatbuch des Werderlandes Bremen, Bremen-Vegesack 1951, pp. 89–90, 257, appendix: land map from 1860.

Coordinates: 53 ° 9 ′ 15.1 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 56.7 ″  E