County memorial

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Coordinates: 52 ° 5 '46.7 "  N , 8 ° 31' 17.4"  E

The county monument in Jöllenbeck
The county monument in Jöllenbeck (picture postcard from 1909)

The Grafschaftsdenkmal , popularly known as the Eagle Monument , is a memorial in the Bielefeld district of Jöllenbeck . It was unveiled on the afternoon of July 16, 1909 and was intended to commemorate the 300 years that the County of Ravensberg belonged to Brandenburg-Prussia and the House of Hohenzollern . The same morning the Leineweberdenkmal was unveiled in Bielefeld . The county monument is still a landmark of Jöllenbeck today .

The monument is centrally located at a traffic junction (roundabout) in Jöllenbeck. The neighboring bus stop is called Adlerdenkmal , a neighboring house used to house the Adler pharmacy .

More recently, the erection of the monument in 1909 is seen as an expression of the zeitgeist (“With God for King and Fatherland”) and “active Jöllenbeck conservatism ”.

history

Map of Minden-Ravensberg in the conditions of 1797

The Jöllenbeck farmer Gustav Meyer zu Jöllenbeck, mayor of Niederjöllenbeck, campaigned from 1897 to not sell the Tieplatz in Niederjöllenbeck - from which it is handed down that the estates here paid homage to the sovereign and that there were meetings of the state parliament - not to sell, but as one historical place of remembrance. He was in contact with his cousin, the sculptor Heinrich Wefing , on questions about the dignified design of Tieplatz . Wefing was later commissioned to design Tiestein and the county monument. With the support of the Historical Association for the County of Ravensberg , Meyer zu Jöllenbeck initiated a citizens' meeting in June 1908, at which it was decided to erect a monument to commemorate 300 years of membership in Brandenburg-Prussia. At the end of July 1908, during a site inspection with the Minden government president Francis Kruse , it was determined how the Tieplatz should be designed and that the actual memorial should be erected in the former cantor garden, where the district roads to Herford , Schildesche and Spenge met.

The construction costs were estimated at 6,000 marks . A local committee took over the further planning and on December 5, 1908, appealed to the residents of the County of Ravensberg for support and voluntary donations. District President Kruse wrote to the mayors, district administrators and bailiffs of the county and also asked to contribute to the costs. Even a former Jöllenbecker who ran a farm in German South West Africa made a donation. The community of Jöllenbeck bought the cantor garden from the parish, which was leveled as a building site. A 12.25 t granite block was placed on the one and a half meter deep foundation , on top of which the 375 kg eagle, cast in bronze . The pharmacist Carl Upmann wrote in his commemorative publication on the inauguration of the monument: "The monument is now there, simple in its design and form, effective thanks to its massive mass."

Considerable effort was put into preparing the festive opening. All of Jöllenbeck was decorated with garlands and flags. Small flags were stuck in many of the hedges and numerous shields with coats of arms ( Ravensberger rafters , Westphalian horse or Prussian eagle ) were put up. In addition to the festival book of the pharmacist Upmann, the historical book Minden-Ravensberg under the rule of the Hohenzollern was published, a commemorative publication to commemorate the three hundred years that the County of Ravensberg belonged to the Brandenburg-Prussian state of the Minden-Ravensberg Main Association for Heritage Protection and Monument Preservation. The Bielefelder Kreisbahnen put on a special timetable to bring the many visitors from Bielefeld to Jöllenbeck after the Leineweber ceremony.

Estimates of the number of visitors to the feast day on July 16, 1909 are between 15,000 and 20,000 people. In terms of the number of participants, this was the largest social event in Jöllenbeck's 800-year history. At the consecration of the monument, District Administrator Franz von Ditfurth gave a speech in which he described the development of Ravensberg over the past 300 years. After his speech, "the cheers of the thousands roared through the air," and a telegram of homage was enthusiastically sent to the emperor. It said, among other things, "To celebrate the 300-year rule of the Hohenzollern tribe over the County of Ravensberg zu Jöllenbeck, the old meeting place of the Ravensberg estates, many thousands of patriotically enthusiastic county residents renew their vow of unchangeable love and loyalty to your Imperial and Royal Majesty."

Because of the very bad weather, the further celebrations had to be postponed to July 24th, 1909, when there were also downpours. A folk festival was celebrated at Hof Upmeier zu Belzen, at which a square in Jöllenbeck was illuminated with electric light for the first time. There were historical representations, performances of the art of gymnastics by gymnastics clubs and school groups, vocal performances by the choirs and sacred music by the Jöllenbeck trombone choir . The courtyard was also the start and finish point of the historic pageant, which had been rehearsed for weeks. A total of 43 groups presented scenes from Ravensberg's past, home work and the present.

  • Historical parade on the Uphof

  • Plaque explaining the county memorial

  • The Tiestein in Jöllenbeck

  • Table explaining the Tieststein

See also

literature

  • Carl Upmann: Festschrift for the inauguration of the state monument. Erected in memory of the 300 year old. Affiliation of the County of Ravensberg to the Hohenzollern House. Jöllenbeck 1909.
  • Th. Daur: The jubilation of the County of Ravensberg in 1909. In: XXIII. Annual report of the historical association for the Grafschaft Ravensberg zu Bielefeld. Bielefeld 1909, pp. 117-124. Digital copy of Bielefeld City Archives Accessed on February 13, 2019
  • The tricentenary of the Grafschaft Ravensberg zu Bielefeld-Jöllenbeck on July 16, 1909. Special supplement to Bielefelder General-Anzeiger no. 165 of July 17, 1909, pp. 17-20. Digitized portal zeit.nrw . Accessed May 23, 2019
  • Minden-Ravensberg main association for heritage protection and monument preservation (Ed.): Minden-Ravensberg under the rule of the Hohenzollern. Festschrift commemorating the three hundred years that the County of Ravensberg belonged to the Brandenburg-Prussian state. Bielefeld 1909.
  • Thomas Strunk: Can you hear the rushing sound across the street ... Luise Rolf wrote a poem in 1909 for the inauguration of the eagle monument in Jöllenbeck. In: Der Minden-Ravensberger, Das Ostwestfalen-Jahrbuch , 81st year 2009, pp. 118–121.
  • Gisela Upmeier zu Belzen, Roland Linde, Lutz Volmer, Herbert Upmeier zu Belzen (eds.): Upmeier zu Belzen. History of a Ravensberger Sattelmeierhof. Lage 2010, ISBN 978-3-89918-029-9 , pp. 56-58.
  • Horst Ulrich Fuhrmann: Jöllenbeck. Home through the ages. Bielefeld 1991, ISBN 3-928232-02-9 , pp. 373-377.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst Ulrich Fuhrmann: Jöllenbeck. Home through the ages. Bielefeld 1991, ISBN 3-928232-02-9 , p. 373 f.
  2. ^ Carl Upmann: Festschrift for the inauguration of the state monument. Erected to commemorate the 300 year old. Affiliation of the County of Ravensberg to the Hohenzollern House. Jöllenbeck 1909, p. 26.
  3. ^ Horst Ulrich Fuhrmann: Jöllenbeck. Home through the ages. Bielefeld 1991, ISBN 3-928232-02-9 , p. 373.
  4. ^ History of the Upmeier farm in Belzen www.uphof.de . Retrieved May 23, 2019