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Molded
City of Melle
Gesmold coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 38 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 22 ″  E
Height : 90 m above sea level NHN
Area : 28.7 km²
Residents : 3355  (Dec. 31, 2008)
Population density : 117 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 49326
Area code : 05422
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Location of Gesmold in Melle

Gesmold is a district of Melle in Lower Saxony and is located between the Teutoburg Forest and the Wiehen Mountains . The center of the place is the Catholic Church of St. Peter to the Chains and a Femlinde .
Gesmold has good transport links with its own driveway to the federal motorway 30 ( Europastraße 30 ) (west towards Osnabrück , east towards Hanover ).

Community structure

Today's Gesmold district of Mell is made up of the following farmers:

  • Hide (southwest)
  • Dratum (southwest)
  • Gesmold (middle)
  • Üdinghausen (northwest)
  • Warringhof (northwest)
  • Wennigsen (east)

history

East view of Gesmold Castle

Already before the year 800, Romanian and Westphalian immigrants settled in small clearings in the previously undeveloped Gesmold area. They preferred sheltered slopes of the hills ( Brinke ) near the water, but avoided the lowlands. The rough terrain of the rivers Hase , Else and Uhle divided the area as a natural border.

The oldest settlement Dratum ( Drohten ) was built in the western part of the village, initially with five farms. In the east at Bomsbrink the Wennigsen ( Wanninghusen ) settlement was built with eight farms. Westberghöfen ( Westeborn ) with two courtyards was built to the west of the Loh . The loose settlement Ausbergen ( Osteburen ) with five courtyards was built on the Königsbach . The farming settlement of Üdinghausen, named after Udo , with five farms was built on the Sauerbach . The Swarmsiedlung Warringhof ( Herrenhof des Warning ) was the youngest of the settlements with initially four farms.

Around the year 1000, Franconians built a Meyerhof on the old west-eastern military road along the Wiehengebirge am Loh , which was used to supervise and protect the routes from Osnabrück via Gesmold and Melle to Herford . The settlement was named "Gesmelle", loosely translated as "Hof vor Melle". The oldest document is from the year 1160. At that time, the farmers were already in existence: Wennigsen, Westberghöfen, Dratum, Ausbergen and Üdinghausen.

In 1160 Bernhard von Gesmel received the right to build a castle from the Osnabrück bishop to ward off dangers . In the swamp area on the Else, a residential and defense tower was built on oak logs and secured with three wide trenches. Additional farmsteads were built between the 12th and 16th centuries. Around 1600 the rural self-settlement of Gesmold was complete.

On July 1, 1972 Gesmold was incorporated into the city of Melle.

Population development

The resident population of the municipality Gesmold with territorial status as of May 27, 1970:

date Residents
May 17, 1939 0670
September 13, 1950 1082
June 6, 1961 1193
May 27, 1970 1546
November 1, 2011 3315

Worth seeing

St. Peter Church
Medieval Gesmolder linden tree

St. Peter Church

A single-nave church was built in the center of the village as early as 1510. To this day, the church is surrounded by the cemetery. The patronage of the church is called Petrus ad vincula ( St. Peter to the chains ). In 1835, the then pastor Mathias Schürmann commissioned the Dendermonde architect Bruno Emanuel Quaet-Faslem to build a new church. The Roman pantheon , an ancient domed structure, served as a model . Quaet-Faslem's concept transformed the round shape into a twelve -sided classicist church.

The foundation stone was laid on September 15, 1835. The old church tower was to be preserved, but it collapsed on May 7, 1836. The new church was solemnly consecrated on the 1st Sunday of Advent of the same year . The tower, a square substructure with two octagonal upper floors, was completed in 1838.

The Femlinde

coat of arms

Early on in the village settlement stood on a hill in front of Assembly Küsterei a court lime tree under which the Burger Maybe that Burstie , was held. The judge was the Gesmold lord of the castle. The farmers, after whose information and participation he spoke, stood around him.

Lord of the castle Hermann von Amelunxen renewed the stone wreath that surrounded the linden tree and had a strong wall built with seat plates and eleven corner pillars. At the entrance to the judicial linden tree, two stone blocks, the shame or blasphemous stones, hang on a chain. It is not known that a convict was ever pilloried . Rather, it was a sign of the jurisdiction over skin and hair - neck and hand - which was striven for in the Freie Hagen .

The Burstie tradition lives on to this day. On Sunday after St. John the large church bell to the meeting who calls Mittsommerburstie . Today there is no more consultation, but one meets for a festival. The pastor receives the bureau light and the sexton receives a wheat mares (loaf of bread). The Femlinde has been a symbol of village community through the ages. It is also the symbol of the town's coat of arms.

Gesmold Castle

Gesmold Castle on the Else River

Gesmold Castle, initially built as a flight tower in the 13th century, was expanded into a castle in 1544. The complex had two outer castles and was surrounded by three moats. A drawbridge led over each of these to the main building. In the baroque period, a park was created around the moated castle. The river Else feeds the moat of the building standing on wooden piles.

On the tower of the castle there are four evangelist statues from the time when the castle belonged to the bishop of Osnabrück. The A 30 now runs between the town center and the castle complex to the south .

The bifurcation

Bifurcation of the rabbit (left) and Else (right)

East of the Gesmold town center is the bifurcation , a fork in the river where a second river Else branches off from the Hase , which rises in the Teutoburg Forest . The Hase flows on towards Osnabrück and joins the Ems at Meppen ; this flows into the Dollart near Emden . The Else flows into the Werre near Kirchlengern . It flows further into the Weser and flows into the North Sea at Bremerhaven .

The river name Hase is derived from the Germanic haswa (gray), continued z. B. in Anglo-Saxon hasu or old Icelandic hǫss (gray-brown), also in the popular name Chasuarii (rabbit residents), the u. a. is documented in Tacitus 34.1. According to the legend, the river name Else goes back to the name of a miller's daughter. In the course of history there have been conflicts over the distribution of the amount of water, which can now be regulated by a building. In the event of a dispute, all the water is said to have been diverted either into the rabbit or the werre. Today around a third of the incoming water is diverted from the hare at the bifurcation.

Events

  • The "Burstie" is a gathering of the inhabitants of the peasantry going back to the Middle Ages. In keeping with tradition, it still takes place regularly today.
  • The "Gesmolder Kirmes" takes place on the third weekend of September each year. It is the largest festival in Grönegau and is the highlight of the year.

Sports

Gesmold has its own sports club called SV Viktoria Gesmold . This has different departments, including a football department. Gesmold plays its home games in the "Sportpark an der Else". The first men’s team currently plays in the Weser-Ems regional league. Gesmold recently also owns a “Beach Park”.

economy

There are industrial areas right next to the A 30 exit Gesmold (exit no. 22), where many medium-sized companies are based.
There is also DPD , formerly "German parcel service", with its largest handling centers in Europe. The Spies Kunststoffe company is also based here.

Gesmolder personalities

Chapel to commemorate the Gesmolders who fell in wars
Heinrich Stühlmeyer 1968

literature

  • Ludger Stühlmeyer : The organ of the St. Petrus Church Gesmold. In: Uwe Pape : Organ Atlas. Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-921140-22-6 .
  • Franz Nieweg, Klaus Rahe, Maria Winkelmann: Gesmold yesterday and today. In pictures-reports-poems. Heimatverein Gesmold 1986.
  • Andreas Loheide: The St. Petrus Church Gesmold and guidelines for the parish pastoral care of St. Petrus Gesmold. Gesmold 1993.
  • Bernard Meyer: Gesmold - In old pictures. Heimatverein Gesmold 1995.
  • Bernard Meyer: Gesmold - In old and new pictures. Heimatverein Gesmold 1997.
  • Irmgard and Bernard Meyer: St. Petrus ad vincula. Gesmold 1998.
  • Bernard Meyer: Gesmold - In the new millennium. Heimatverein Gesmold 2001.
  • Ludger Stühlmeyer: The power of quiet tones or: A silent hero from Gesmold. In: Dat Gessemske Blättken. With reports, stories and poems about Gesmold's past and present events. Heimatverein Gesmold 2010.
  • Bernard Meyer: Gesmold - Through the ages. Heimatverein Gesmold 2010.
  • Heimatverein Gesmold Bernard Meyer and Marlies Kellenbrink: Dat Gessemske Blättken. Heimatverein Gesmold 1975 - today. A 16-page publication with over 140 issues with topics from Gesmold, old and new.
  • Maria Breeck: wrong ways of my escape. Heimatverein Gesmold 2013.

Web links

Commons : Gesmold  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Gesmold
  2. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 256 .
  3. ^ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal statistics Lower Saxony 1970. Part 2: Population and employment. Issue 5: Osnabrück District. Hanover 1973, p. 96.
  4. ↑ History of the Gesmolder Burstien (see No. 2)
  5. ↑ Erste Herren von Gesmold currently plays in the district league
  6. ↑ The power of soft tones or: A silent hero from Gesmold. Heimatverein Gesmold (Ed.), No. 134, March 2010.