Gröningen (desert)
Gröningen is a deserted medieval settlement in the north of Hameln in Lower Saxony . The settlement once west of the Schweinberg near Holtensen is one of a number of villages around Hameln that died out in the Middle Ages and modern times .
Up to five farms belonged to Gröningen during the Middle Ages. The settlement still existed around 1350, but fell into desolation at the end of the 14th century. In two undated documents it is named as Groninge and Groningen . On a map from 1760, the former location is shown under the designation "The house-places". Today, the one square kilometer Gröninger Feld testifies to the earlier settlement . It was created as a clearing island in the middle of a forest area and was previously the agricultural area of Gröningen. The settlement was centrally located in the Gröninger Feld on the course of the Krummen Beeke . This is likely a depression in a pasture near a power pole .
The Hamelin Landwehr ran as an outer protective ring around the city near the local office ; it was created around the second half of the 14th century. These systems have been preserved in places in the forest to the north and east of the Gröninger Feld . Not far from the Gröningen settlement was the Holtenser Warte , as a passage in the Landwehr line from Hameln. The forester's house Heisenküche was built in the forest southwest of the Gröninger Feld at the end of the 18th century . It was supposed to protect the northern border of the Hamelin city forest.
Web links
- Description of the Gröningen desert with a map
- Description of the hike around Hameln with Gröninger Feld and photos
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horst Knoke: Escape into the city before plundering hordes. Many small villages around Hameln are from their inhabitants in the 13th-15th centuries. Century was abandoned in Dewezet on June 7, 2010
- ↑ Entered villages and localities that formed Hameln in: Geschichte der Stadt Hameln , 1826
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 '55.6 " N , 9 ° 23' 3.1" E