Gehrden (Brakel)

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Gehrden
City of Brakel
Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 22 ″  N , 9 ° 7 ′ 17 ″  E
Height : 168 m
Area : 15.71 km²
Residents : 939  (December 31, 2015)
Population density : 60 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 33034
Area code : 05648
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Location of Gehrden in Brakel

The titular town of Gehrden is a village in the town of Brakel in the Höxter district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

geography

City coat of arms Gehrden

Gehrden is 26 km as the crow flies south-east of Paderborn and 10 km as the crow flies south of the core town of Brakel in the Oberwälder Land belonging to the Upper Weserbergland east of the Eggekamm 170-180 m above sea level in a spacious, sheltered and fertile loess-covered hollow of the Öse in the middle of a hilly, moving on the Hilltop heights of wooded farmland. To the east of the village, the Nethe flows through the Gehrdener Flur, while Ostwestfalenstrasse runs parallel .

Neighboring places

The neighboring towns of Gehrden are:

Nearby cities: Brakel approx. 10 km, Bad Driburg approx. 14 km, Borgentreich approx. 16 km, Warburg approx. 20 km, Höxter approx. 30 km,

history

Capitals and cities of the Principality of Paderborn until 1802/03 (as of 1789):
Paderborn , Warburg , Brakel , Borgentreich | Beverungen , Borgholz , Bredenborn , Büren , Driburg , Dringenberg , Gehrden , Calenberg , Kleinenberg , Lichtenau , Lippspringe , Lügde , Nieheim , Peckelsheim , Salzkotten , Steinheim , Vörden , Willebadessen , Wünnenberg
Romanesque parish church from 1182

The place was first mentioned in 868 as "Nortgardinum et Suithgardinum" and at that time consisted of the two settlements Nordgehrden and Südgehrden, now desolate that rose too parishes and neighboring pin Heerse tenth subject were. The Benedictine convent founded by the Church of Heerse in Iburg near Driburg in 1134 was relocated from Oesede to Gehrden by Bishop Bernhard I of Paderborn around 1136 ; According to another document, the relocation did not take place until 1142. From then on, the surrounding villages and farms are relocated under the protection of the mighty monastery walls.

The door with rich iron fittings in the north portal of the church dates from around 1200. The Romanesque monastery church , completed in 1180, is the only remaining building from this time, as the monastery buildings were replaced by more modern buildings in the 17th century. The church is one of the few cruciform churches in Germany and one of the oldest monastery bells in Westphalia rings in its tower .

In 1319 Gehrden received city rights. The urban settlement leaned against the north side of the monastery, the main street ran in a west-east direction. Apart from a few traces of the city fortifications, nothing was left of the city fortifications as early as 1803.

In 1456 Gehrden was the meeting place for the Paderborn estates .

Until the dissolution of the diocese of Paderborn , the city jurisdiction was under the Rent Office Dringenberg in Oberamt Dringenberg .

In 1810, the monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization and partially demolished and converted into a castle by Count Bocholtz-Asseburg zu Niesen , the master of ceremonies of Jérôme Bonaparte . The building then changed hands several times and from 1965 was owned by the family recreation center of the Archdiocese of Paderborn. Today, after remodeling and renovation in 2007/2008, it houses a hotel.

Napoleon formed the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807 and divided it into departments . The capital became Kassel. Gehrden received a Mairie (canton mayor). In addition to the town of Gehrden, the canton included the villages of Auenhausen , Fölsen , Frohnhausen , Hampenhausen , Massenhausen, Natingen , Niesen , Rheder , Schmechten and Siddessen . With the establishment of the circle Warburg 1816 Gehrden administrative headquarters of was Office Gehrden , which in 1856 with the Office Dringenberg to -Gehrden penetration Mining Authority was incorporated.

In 1832 the Deanery Gehrden was established, which existed until 1976. With the dissolution of the Warburg district and the Dringenberg-Gehrden office by the Sauerland / Paderborn law with effect from January 1, 1975, Gehrden was incorporated into the town of Brakel and retained the status of a titular town .

Gehrden has 939 inhabitants (as of December 2015).

Historical population figures

year Residents
1818 (Dec. 31) 745
1858 (Dec. 31) 958
1871 (Dec. 31) 796
1895 (Dec. 31) 752
1950 (Dec. 31) 1032
1961 (June 6) 821
1970 (May 27) 918
1974 (June 30) 915
1985 (Dec. 31) 1084
2015 (Dec. 31) 939

Awards

  • State Silver Village 1995
  • Landesgolddorf 1997
  • Federal Gold Village 1998
  • State-approved resort in 2006

Historical events

Two earthquakes in the middle of the 18th century shook the Paderborn Monastery . We owe the fact that these two earthquakes are remembered, among other things, to the entries in the church book of Gehrden by Vicar (Sacellan) P. Gregorius Waldeyer, OSB. As pastor of Gehrden, he reported about the second great quake on January 18, 1966, saying that the strong shock lasted about an Our Father long.  

The earthquake of February 19, 1756, which, like the one that followed, did not cause any major damage or cost human life, was interpreted as a premonition for the Seven Years' War , which brought great misery and suffering throughout the bishopric. The second quake was interpreted as a call to penance, because it also brought the end of a six-month drought after a very good harvest year. Prince-Bishop Wilhelm Anton von der Asseburg called nationwide for thanksgiving services for February 8, 1766.

At that time it was not known that the cause of earthquakes is the plate formation in the earth's crust. And that the tectonic structure of the Egge Mountains is actually an earthquake-prone zone, either. Fortunately, Ostwestfalen-Lippe is one of the areas with few earthquakes.

Economy and Infrastructure

Gehrden is an agricultural village. Nevertheless, a few craft businesses have settled in the industrial area east of Gehrden.

tourism

The holiday village and castle in Gehrden account for the majority of overnight stays in the entire Brakel urban area. Since 2006 Gehrden has also been a state-approved resort. The family recreation center in the castle filed for bankruptcy in 2011. After conversion and renovation in 2007/2008 it is now a hotel.

Attractions

Former town hall of Gehrden from 1733

Personalities

  • Georg Joseph Bessen (1781–1838), high school teacher in Paderborn, author of the history of the Diocese of Paderborn
  • Josef Menke (1899–1975), buyer of the Charlottenhof estate, former member of the German Bundestag
  • Heinrich Happe (1886–1970), District Administrator of the Warburg district, born in Gehrden

literature

  • Pöppel, Diether: Gehrden: Benedictine monastery / castle - church - "city" through the centuries ; Bonifatius-Druckerei, Paderborn 1988.

Web links

Commons : Gehrden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 323 .
  2. ↑ http://www.brakel.de/Stadt/Portrait/Ortschaften/Gehrden
  3. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Rade: Reactions to the earthquakes of 1756 and 1767 in the Hochstift Paderborn and in the neighboring countries. In: Die Warte 175–2017, pp. 8–14
  4. ↑ http://www.nw-news.de/lokale_news/paderborn/paderborn/4454218_Schloss_Gehrden_ist_pleite.html
  5. ↑ schloss-gehrden.de. History ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schloss-gehrden.de
  6. ↑ Twelve Apostles Linden in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 31, 2017
  7. ↑ Nekrolog Georg Joseph Bessen