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Hermann Gröninger (around 1930)

Hermann Gröninger (born August 22, 1852 in Lindloh , parish of Rütenbrock ; † May 22, 1933 ibid) was an Emsland writer, local poet and pioneer of raised bog cultivation.

Hermann Heinrich Gröninger was born on August 22, 1852 in Lindloh, parish of Rütenbrock, as the son of the bog colonist Hermann Heinrich Gröninger (1810–1865) and his wife Anna Maria Gröninger, née. Ellermann (1807–1883), who married in 1837, was born. On July 18, 1876, he married Anna Maria Busemann (1856–1922) in the church of St. Maximilian in Rütenbrock. The marriage resulted in eleven children, eight sons and three girls. However, four of the sons died young. Gröninger was a Roman Catholic denomination. The Gröninger family was known locally by the nickname Turks .

In 1888, Gröninger caused a sensation when he had his house built on moor torn down and a new brick building built on the sand. Until then, the bog colonists lived in half-timbered houses that were built directly on the bog soil. Gröninger was the first to use new agricultural methods on his farm in the bog. So he drained the moor through drainage and used artificial fertilizers on pitted areas. He worked together with the Lingen moor research station and planted previously unknown plants and bushes in the moor on his farm. A park was created from these test plantings. In 1909 Gröninger gave a lecture on the history of the bog colonies on his farm. The idea arose from the audience that Gröninger could publish his lectures in book form. So Gröninger published his first book in 1910 and others appeared in the following years.

In addition, Gröninger was the founder of numerous local cooperatives , such as B. the irrigation cooperative, the reference and sales cooperative, the dairy, the savings and loan fund, the steam threshing cooperative and the drainage and mortgage cooperative. In many of these cooperatives he was a board member or leader for years.

Grave of Hermann Gröninger in the cemetery in Rütenbrock.

Gröninger died on May 22, 1933 in Lindloh and was buried in Rütenbrock. He was 80 years old. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Emsländische Heimatbund published reprints of Gröninger's books.

The Hermann-Groninger Street in Lindloh was named after him.

Works

  • From the history of Emsland peatland colonies, 1910 (reprint 1982)
  • Rütenbrock and the surrounding bog colonies together with historical records and legends about part of the Meppen district and the neighboring Holland, 1910 (reprint 1977)
  • A thousand Low German proverbs in Emsland dialect, eavesdropped on and organized by the people, 1918 (reprinted 1977 and 1981)
  • The Dutch and German misdemeanors in the Bourtanger Moor, 1919 (reprint 1982)
  • From our village. Cheerful homeland stories, 1922 (reprint 1981)
  • Journey to Bosnia and other stories, 1924
  • The secret hiding place in the moor, 1924
  • The Geldersche Maid, published posthumously in 1948 by Heinrich Blanke
  • Emsland peasant chronicle. Almost forgotten stories from the moor (reprinted 1980)
  • Gröninger's homeland stories and proverbs. Cheerful and contemplative things from the Emsland (reprint 1981)
  • From the history of Emsland bog colonies (reprint 1982)

literature

  • Horst-Heinrich Bechtluft: The moor has disappeared - Hermann Gröninger's Park stayed! , in: Yearbook of the Emsländischen Heimatbund, Volume 42, 1996, pp. 104–111.
  • Horst-Heinrich Bechtluft, Helmut Lensing and Heinz Menke: Article: Gröninger, Johann Hermann , in: Emsländische Geschichte, Volume 18, Haselünne 2011, 227–239.
  • Heinrich Blanke: Hermann Gröninger, “The sage from the moors”, in: Emsländische Moorkolonien im Kreis Meppen , Osnabrück 1938, pp. 210–213.
  • Christa Brinkers: Hermann Gröninger-Lindloh, the "sage from the moor" , in: Yearbook of the Emsländisches Heimatverein, Volume 8, 1961, pp. 113–124.
  • Karl Pardey: Article: Gröninger, Hermann , in: Biographical manual on the history of the Osnabrück region, edited by Rainer Hehemann, published by the Landschaftsverband Osnabrück e. V., Rasch Verlag Bramsche, Bramsche 1990, p. 108.
  • Sources and research on the history of the parish Rütenbrock , Volume 2, pp. 212–214, publisher: Heimatfreunde Kirchspiel Rütenbrock eV

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personal data
SURNAME Gröninger, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Emsland writer, local poet and pioneer of raised bog cultivation
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindloh , parish of Rütenbrock
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1933
Place of death Lindloh , parish of Rütenbrock