Hardensetten
Hardensetten is the largest district in the Bad Laer municipality in Lower Saxony . It has 783 inhabitants (as of 2006; later statistics are missing) .
history
Hardensetten in the southwest of Bad Laer on the border with Glandorf , was first mentioned in 1188 as Harenseten . The Hardensettener Kreuzweg is known beyond the borders of the municipality .
Origin of name
The parish priest Heinrich Schockmann (1937–1953 pastor of the parish) carried out research into the meaning of the place name. The final syllable Setten or Satten was a term still in use in the 20th century for a clay bowl into which milk was poured for creaming. This cream that settled could later be processed into butter. A sedimentation therefore, also settling is the meaning of glass sets . The prefix har denotes a dry sandbank, which corresponds to the geological features of Hardensetten.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Osnabrück newspaper from February 19, 2015
Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ' N , 8 ° 4' E