Falkenhagen (Lügde)

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Falkenhagen
City of Lügde
Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 24 ″  N , 9 ° 18 ′ 17 ″  E
Height : 216 m above sea level NN
Area : 5.7 km²
Residents : 383  (December 31, 2008)
Population density : 67 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1970
Postal code : 32676
Area code : 05283
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Location of Falkenhagen in Lügde

Falkenhagen is one of the ten districts of the city of Lügde in the Lippe district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The place is at an altitude of 383  m above sea level. NN around 7 km southeast of the core city of Lügde. Its area is 5,698 km².

history

In 1231 a church was first mentioned for Falkenhagen. The Falkenhagen monastery was established there in 1247 , the first monastery on Lippe soil. It was founded by Count Volkwin IV. Von Schwalenberg and developed into the spiritual center of the area. The women's convent lived according to the Cistercian rule without having been incorporated into the order . In 1407 the monastery was destroyed in the Everstein feud and then fell desolate for a few years . In 1432 the Order of the Cross took over the ruined monastery, which was rebuilt from 1442 onwards. The most important prior in Falkenhagen is Heinrich von Bochholt , who was in office from 1457 to 1495. During his tenure, he led the monastery to economic and spiritual prosperity. In 1518, 89 monks lived in the self-sufficient monastery, which included numerous farm buildings. From 1522 on, the Lords of the Cross began to repopulate the former desert villages that belonged to their area. After the Reformation began, the decline of the convent began, which was repealed in 1596. The abolished monastery was shared by the Prince Diocese of Paderborn and the Count of Lippe. In 1603 Jesuits took over the Paderborn share in Falkenhagen. From 1609 they succeeded in partially recatholizing the neighboring towns that had been Protestant until then. This made some villages half Catholic, a unique event in Protestant Lippe.

After the division of the monastery, the former monastery church became the main church of the ev.-ref. Parish, while the Jesuits for the cath. Congregation built its own church in 1695. Both churches are today the spiritual center of the two parishes.

The community Falkenhagen was newly formed on September 1, 1921 from areas of the communities Rischenau and Sabbenhausen and from the area of ​​the Falkenhagen dairy.

The previously independent municipality was incorporated into the municipal reform on January 1, 1970.

Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld

In 1631 the Jesuit Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld lived in the monastery, who is now considered the most important Catholic hymn poet of the 17th century. With his work Cautio Criminalis, Spee turned against the witch hunt in his time.

  • Contemporary painting

  • Plaque

Attractions

Of the former monastery complex, only the late Gothic monastery church with part of the cloister as well as the refectory and the former dormitory , which was built in 1509 and which now houses the rectory and which is considered to be the oldest half-timbered house in Lippe, are preserved today . The former prior building from 1581, probably built by Hessian builders in the late Gothic style, has been the parsonage of the Catholic community since 1929 and was extensively renovated from 1997 to 1999. The catholic church, which was built in 1695 in a simple baroque style, is also worth seeing .

Infrastructure

In Falkenhagen there is an Evangelical Reformed and a Catholic church, to which the surrounding villages are assigned. Since August 1, 2013 the parish chair of the cath. Church vacant. In the village you will find a restaurant with a grocery store, a municipal kindergarten, a leisure home and several businesses.

Son of the community

  • Karl Lohmeyer (1868–1956), high school professor and local researcher in Cuxhaven

literature

  • Wilhelm Hunecke: Lilienthal Abbey and the Falkenhagen community: Festschrift to celebrate the completion of the restoration and the 400th anniversary of the former Falkenhagen abbey church, 650 years after the abbey was founded. Detmold 1897 ( Münster University Library )
  • Willy Gerking: 300 years of St. Michael Church in Falkenhagen. Festschrift for the 300th anniversary of the Catholic parish church of St. Michael. With a contribution by Jürgen Wieggrebe. Falkenhagen 1995.
  • Willy Gerking (Ed.): 750 years of Falkenhagen Monastery. Festschrift for the 750th anniversary and the 500th anniversary of the consecration. Leopoldshöhe 1997.
  • Heinrich Festing: Monastery and Catholic parish Falkenhagen. Paderborn 2005.
  • Willy Gerking: Falkenhagen. The new village on the Klosterberg and its older past . Detmold 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Willy Gerking: The villages of the large community of Lügde. In: Heimatland Lippe. from August 1984, 2009, pp. 279f.
  2. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster (Westphalia) 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 .
  3. ↑ Main statute of the city of Lügde (PDF; 340 kB) from May 28, 2014
  4. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, DNB  456219528 , p. 106 .
  5. ↑ a b City of Lügde - districts