Hermannsburg

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Hermannsburg
community Südheide
Hermannsburg coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 49 ′ 54 ″  N , 10 ° 5 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 50 m
Area : 118.63 km²
Residents : 8061  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density : 68 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2015
Postcodes : 29320, 29303 (Miele, Rehwinkel)
Area code : 05052
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Area of ​​the former municipality of Hermannsburg in the district of Celle

Hermannsburg ( Low German Harmsborg ) is located in the northeast of Lower Saxony in the Lüneburg Heath on the western edge of the Südheide Nature Park , it is a village in the municipality of Südheide in the district of Celle .

Geographical location

Örtzepark, Peter-Paul- und Große Kreuz-Kirche

Hermannsburg itself is a basic center , the next medium-sized center , the district town of Celle , is 28 km away. Hermannsburg is 78 km northeast of the state capital Hanover and south of Hamburg, which is about 100 km away . The two main towns of the municipality of Südheide , Hermannsburg and Unterlüß , are 16.5 km apart (connecting road K17).

Hermannsburg lies on the Lüß , there in the deeper area of ​​the glacial valley of the Örtze , on the edge of the Lüßplateau , which rises towards Lutterloh and then Unterlüß , with the area of ​​the Lüßwald and its bordering heather (see Heiden und Magerrasen in the Südheide ) and also forest areas that extend as far as Hermannsburg ( Sägenförth area , Alte Celler Heerstraße , Am Hasenberg , Peter-Schütze-Weg etc.,

The Örtze flows through the Hermannsburg town center in a north-south direction, while the Weesener Bach (called Lutterbach in Hermannsburg) flowing from the direction of Lutterloh flows through the town in an east-west direction and flows into the Örtze near the Lutterhof .

Hermannsburg borders in the north on the municipality Wietzendorf , which belongs to the district of Heidekreis . In the west and south lies the area of ​​the city of Bergen , in the east there are also other districts of the community Südheide and the areas of the communities Faßberg and Eschede , which all belong to the district of Celle .

history

Historical map of the place from 1825
Hermannsburg and surroundings in the 18th century

Hermannsburg was first mentioned in writing in 1059 as "Heremannesburc" by Emperor Heinrich IV. In a document. However, it is certain that a settlement existed in its place earlier. During renovation work on St. Peter and Paul Church in 1957, a bronze crucifix was found that dates from the 10th century.

There is also evidence that Landolf, a monk from Minden, did missionary work in the Örtzetal in the 9th century . At the place where the St.-Peter-Paul-Kirche is today, a baptismal church was built between 800 and 900 AD by the Christian mission from Minden on a flottsandinsel near the Thingplatz of the Muthwidde-Gaues have been erected. Their foundations were also found in 1957.

The Lutterhof, with stairwells and old oaks

At that time there were already eight old individual farms in the neighborhood; four of them were to the west and four to the east of the Örtze . The "Lutterhof" and "Misselhorn" , both east of the Örtze, still exist today. The old "Rißmann's Hof" , called the "Behrenssche Hof" after the new owner Johann Hinrich Behrens (1730–1808) from 1756 , was also east of the Örtze. It was donated to the Hermannsburg Mission by its last owner Heinrich Wilhelm Behrens on January 30, 1854 . Behrens was trained as a missionary and sent to South Africa with his family in 1857. The farm, then called “Missionshof” , was sold to the political community of Hermannsburg by the Missionsanstalt Hermannsburg on June 15, 1967. It was demolished in order to build the secondary school here. In addition to the eight old individual farms mentioned, there were various so-called saddle farms in Oldendorf, Beckedorf, Schlüpke and Weesen that had to provide the teams for the castle.

Around the same time there was probably a castle in the area of ​​today's cemetery; the field name "Quänenburg" indicates this. The castle was supposed to protect the crossing over the Örtze from the pagan turns . There are no known written sources on the castle. Presumably it was not a stone complex, but rather a rampart with palisades that only existed for a few decades.

The establishment of the place in the 10th century consisted of the fact that an estimated ten Kötnerei as well as several small farmers and craftsmen were settled between the church and the castle . At the same time, a political and a church congregation was formed. All this together became the place Hermannsburg.

The Billunger dynasty ruled the region until it died out in 1106. The Guelphs then ruled the country, whose rule lasted until 1866, with brief interruptions due to French occupations during the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) and the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia (1807-1813). From 1866 Hermannsburg belonged to the Prussian province of Hanover. In the course of the Prussian district reform, the place was assigned to the district of Celle .

On April 14, 1667, a great fire broke out in Hermannsburg. 28 houses were destroyed, including the school and the sexton's house.

On May 9, 1802, Hermannsburg suffered another fire disaster. According to the "Hanoverian advertisements" of May 31, 1802, the following burned down: the office building with its outbuildings, 13 residential buildings and 21 outbuildings. The "extraordinary violence" of the fire made many impoverished; most of them saved little or nothing.

In 1973 Hermannsburg celebrated its millennium on the occasion of the millennial anniversary of the death of Hermann Billung (March 27, 973) .

Politics and administration

Incorporations

In the course of municipal reform in Lower Saxony in 1973 was unified community Hermannsburg formed. On January 1, 1973 the following localities were incorporated and lost their independence:

  • Baven , the second largest village, it is located in the north of the municipality and is directly connected to the center,
  • Oldendorf , located in the south, 3 km from the core area of ​​the municipality,
  • Beckedorf , is located in the southwest, 2 km away,
  • Bonstorf , with the associated districts of Barmbostel and Hetendorf is located in the northwest, 4 km away,
  • Weesen (then with more than 400 inhabitants) is located in the east of the municipality and is 2 km away,
  • and parts of the municipalities of Müden (Örtze) with around 50 inhabitants at that time.
  • The old town of Hermannsburg itself, it comprised more than half of the entire population.

Since January 1, 2015, Hermannsburg and neighboring Unterlüß have formed the new Südheide community in the Celle district.

The local council of the village of Hermannsburg consists of seven local council members. The local mayor is Hans-Jürgen Rosenbrock (SPD).

Axel Flader was the last mayor until the incorporation in Südheide. He was then elected the new mayor of the community of Südheide.

coat of arms

Blazon : A three-part blue flag on a golden round shield, hanging from a black crossbar. On the crossbar is a globe with a black church cross on it.

The three-part "church flag" is to be seen as a symbol of the Holy Trinity. The globe with the church cross is intended to illustrate the importance of the place as the center of a worldwide mission.

Community partnerships

Blason ville for Auterive (Haute-Garonne) .svg Since 1976, the Hermannsburg Christian-Gymnasium and the Christian-Realschule have maintained an annual student exchange program with the French community of Auterive , which in 1979 led to an official partnership between Hermannsburg and Auterive.

religion

Hermannsburg Mission Festival with Louis Harms (H. Barmführ 1908)

The Evangelical Lutheran pastor Ludwig Harms is of particular importance to Hermannsburg . In 1849 he founded the mission seminar , a training center for missionaries , from which the Hermannsburg Mission (today: Ev.-Lutheran Mission in Lower Saxony ) developed with activities particularly in the African region (focus on southern Africa and Ethiopia ). As a representative of the revival movement , he also had a lasting impact on the local church life. This had the consequences is that out of concern for the pushing back of the Lutheran Confession by the reformed Prussian royal family in 1878, the Evangelical Lutheran Grand Cross parish was formed, dedicated to other Lutheran congregations to an independent altkonfessionell merged Lutheran church body - the Hanoverian Evangelical Lutheran Free Church , a predecessor of today's Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church . Since 1846 Epiphany ( Three Kings Day every year on January 6) at irregular intervals, and since 1851 once each to Johannis (June 24), is organizing the mission festival, already up came to the about 6,000 people. To this day, mission festivals are celebrated in the park of the mission seminary on the weekend around June 24th.

Regional Church of Hanover

St. Peter Paul Church before the renovation in 1956
St. Peter Paul Church
10th century bronze crucifix (replica)
Inside the St. Peter Paul Church
Hammer organ from 1963

The first wooden mission church , probably built around 850, burned down in 955 during the invasions of the Wende . A new church in Romanesque style was built by the Saxon Duke Hermann Billung around the year 970 . The new building took place a little further south of the old church, as was discovered during excavation work on the basis of a thick layer of burned wood. The foundation walls of this building consisted of approximately 1 m thick dry stone walls made of lawn iron stone blocks in two-shell construction, which indicates a Dutch master builder . The church had an almost square chancel with internal dimensions 4.4 x 5.6 m and a rectangular nave with an internal width of 6.5 m. The chancel was separated from the nave by a 1 m wide wall, something that has not been found in any other old village church.

Presumably in the 15th century this church also burned down. It was replaced in 1450 by a Gothic- style church , which was used in this form until 1956.

Because of its poor structural condition and the increased number of parishioners, it was decided to generously expand the church building. Initially, it was planned to enlarge the original structure by lengthening the nave and adding side aisles, but the roof vault collapsed during the construction work, so that finally a completely new church was built, for which only the previous roof structure and the old apse were reused . The side aisles, each subdivided six times, and the steeple designed as a roof turret give the church an unmistakable appearance. Of the six bells, the smallest and oldest comes from the pre-Reformation period (1495). Another bell, the largest, is from 1681, the other four bells are from 1949. The interior is shaped by the vaulted ribs, which are based on the Gothic predecessor church, and the abundance of light created by the large windows. The oldest inventory items are the wooden baptismal font and a colored chandelier, also made of wood, both from the 18th century. The rest of the furnishings, altar, pulpit, organ and the 26 brass candlesticks attached to the nave, give a typical impression of the church art of the 1950s.

When the church was redesigned between 1956 and 1959, its old foundation walls were found. An old bronze crucifix (representation of the crucified Christ) 12 cm in size, a work in the Romanesque style from the 10th century, which is unique of its kind in the Lüneburg Heath, was also discovered. A true-to-original copy of this valuable crucifix is ​​exhibited in the prayer corner in the rear left part of the nave.

The large organ, with 3 manuals and pedal and 33 registers, was built in 1963 by Emil Hammer Orgelbau .

I main work
1. Quintadena 16 ′
2. Principal 08th'
3. Coupling flute 08th'
4th octave 04 ′
5. Reed flute 04 ′
6th Nasat 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th octave 02 ′
8th. mixture 05-7 times
9. Trumpet 08th'
II Rückpositiv
10. Dumped 8th'
11. Principal 4 ′
12. Pointed 4 ′
13. Forest flute 2 ′
14th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Sharp 4-fold
16. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
III breastwork
17th Singing dumped 8th'
18th Flute 4 ′
19th Gemshorn 2 ′
20th octave 1'
21st Terzian 2-fold
22nd cymbal 3-fold
23. Vox humana 8th'
Tremulant
pedal
24. Sub bass 16 ′
25th Gedacktpommer 16 ′
26th Dumped 0 8th'
27. Principal 08th'
28. Metal flute 04 ′
29 Night horn 02 ′
30th mixture 04-fold
31. trombone 16 ′
32. Trumpet 08th'
33. oboe 04 ′
  • Coupling : BW / HW; RP / HW; HW / P; RP / P
  • Slider chests with mechanical action mechanism and electrical control mechanism

There is also a small choir organ , built by the organ builder Ott , with a manual and 3 stops.

With around 4700 parishioners, the St. Peter and Paul parish is the largest Lutheran parish in town today. She belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover .

Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church

Great cruciform church
Great cruciform church
Interior of the Great Cross Church with organ and cantilevered wooden ceiling

The Evangelical Lutheran Large Cross Church Community belongs to the Lower Saxony-West church district of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church ( SELK ) and was established in the 19th century. After the defeat of the Guelphs against Prussia in 1866, the Prussian king tried to expand the Evangelical Union with its agendas between Reformed and Lutherans to include the Kingdom of Hanover. Here, too, the state intervened in the order of worship, constitution and teaching of the church. The pastor of the St. Peter Paul Church , Pastor Theodor Harms , brother of Ludwig Harms , protested against this, who was then removed from office by the Hanover Lutheran regional church and had to leave the rectory. On February 13, 1878, many decided to leave the regional church and founded the Great Cross Church Congregation . A large church was planned from the outset in order to have enough space for visitors to the mission feasts. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on September 28, 1878. There is space for around 1000 visitors in the church. The nave has no supporting columns and is therefore probably the largest self-supporting wooden nave in Europe. The 52 m high church tower can be seen from afar. The church is a listed building. Today the lively parish has around 2200 parishioners who are looked after by two pastors. There is a large singing choir and a trombone choir with many winds under the direction of a cantor.

The organ

The organ was originally built in 1967 by the Berlin organ building workshop Karl Schuke for a church in Essen . When this church was about to be closed, the Great Cross Community in Hermannsburg acquired the organ. In 2008 it was installed by the organ building workshop Karl Schuke, added a register and re-voiced. The organ now has 31 registers, coupling: I / P; II / P; II / I and Cymbelstern.

Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Gedacktpommer 16 ′
2. Principal 08th'
3. Reed flute 08th'
4th Octave 04 ′
5. Night horn 04 ′
6th Nassat 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Forest flute 02 ′
8th. mixture 4–6 times 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Dulcian 16 ′
10. Trumpet 08th'
Positive C-g 3
11. Viol flute 8th'
12. Dumped 8th'
13. Principal 4 ′
14th Beaked flute 4 ′
15th Octave 2 ′
16. Sesquialtera 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Pointed flute 1'
19th Sharp 4x 1 ′
20th Krummhorn 8th'
21st shelf 4 ′
pedal
22nd Principal 16 ′
23. Sub bass 16 ′
24. Octave 08th'
25th Gemshorn 08th'
26th Pipe whistle 04 ′
27. Peasant flute 01'
28. mixture 05-fold 2 ′
29 trombone 16 ′
30th Trumpet 08th'
31. shawm 04 ′
  • Coupling : I / P; II / P; II / I
  • Cymbelstern


The motto of the community is: "Without a cross, no crown".

Small cruciform church

Small cruciform church with a new apse
Interior with altar of the Small Cross Church
The organ by an unknown builder

The Evangelical Lutheran Small Cross Community also belongs to the Lower Saxony West church district of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church . The small cross parish arose out of disputes about the succession in the parish office of the large cross parish. On February 14, 1886, the first service was celebrated in the Small Cross Congregation. On April 16, the Große Kreuzkirchengemeinde separated from the Hanoverian Evangelical-Lutheran Free Church , a predecessor of the SELK . Thus, for a short time, the two cross parishes belonged to different Lutheran church bodies. Construction began on August 1, 1886, and the topping-out ceremony was held on October 6 and 7, 1886. On March 30, 1887, the Small Cross Church was consecrated by Pastor Friedrich Wolff. The church cost 15,000 marks, which were raised exclusively through donations. From 1916 to 1929 Theodor Werner was pastor of the Small Cross Congregation. In 2011/12, the apse , which was originally planned but not implemented for financial reasons, was added to the church building.

After the merger of different old denominational Lutheran churches , both Lutheran cross parishes belong to the SELK and are formative in Hermannsburg.

Catholic Church of the Resurrection

Catholic Church

The Catholic Resurrection Church was built in 1975/76 according to plans by Josef Fehlig opposite the cemetery (Hustedtstraße 12), executed in prefabricated construction with a free-standing tower. It belongs to the parish of Atonement Church of the Precious Blood in Bergen .

Culture and sights

Hermannsburg belongs to the Low German language area and the North Low Saxon-Low German dialect group. Since the end of the Second World War , however, the High German language has largely prevailed and replaced Low German. Low German only plays a greater role as a colloquial language among the older residents. Since the 1990s, Low German has also been increasingly taught in schools.

Outside area of ​​the local history museum
Here rebuilt former house from Baven
  • The Heimatmuseum Hermannsburg has been looked after by the Heimatmuseum des Heimatbund Hermannsburg eV support group since 2000, which was founded due to the threatened closure of the museum. The local history museum has an annual changing exhibition. Several historical objects have been rebuilt on the museum grounds : a beehive , a historic clay oven (from Diesten), a double store from the 17th and 18th centuries (from Beckedorf), a meeting place with a paved village square and a store from the 17th century (out of shyness). A former homestead from the village of Baven was dismantled there and rebuilt on the museum grounds. ( Farmers who did their work on the farm and were allowed to live in the house for a low rent, or sometimes rent-free, were referred to as "houselands" ).
  • Opposite the Heimatmuseum is the Ludwig-Harms-Haus, a meeting center with an exhibition, cafe, bookshop and one-world shop. In addition to the permanent exhibition "Candace - Mission possible", which gives an insight into the current work of Ev.-luth. Missionswerk in Lower Saxony and a review of the mission ship Candace, there are regularly changing exhibitions on artistic and cultural topics.
"Völker-Villa" by Otto Haesler (1909)
  • Tourist attractions are the extensive heather areas of the Südheide nature park with the nature reserve Heideflächen middle Lüßplateau (Tiefental)
  • The Örtze with its original valley with paddle tours
  • Watermill (Luttermühle) with an overshot water wheel near the mouth of the Weesener Bach in the Örtze, in operation as a sawmill since 1757
  • St. Peter and Paul Church
  • Great cruciform church
  • Small cruciform church.
  • Ludwig Harms House , formerly the Old Mission House
  • Neolithic burial mound field as a reconstruction
  • Historical clay oven in a side street near the Örtze, according to the inscription on the bar, it was set up around 1630
  • “Globe fountain” made of black marble (weight: 2 ½ t) in front of the old mission house - ceremoniously unveiled on June 19, 2009. The costs of 73,000 euros were almost entirely covered by donations. The forecourt was also redesigned for 60,000 euros.
  • “Völker-Villa”, an English-style house built by architect Otto Haesler in 1909, with an upper floor in half-timbered construction . The name is reminiscent of the Völker family who ran the “Völkers Hotel” in town at the time.

  • In Tiefental during the heather bloom

  • The Örtze

  • Historical oven, according to the bar inscription from around 1630

  • "Globe fountain" in front of the old mission house

Associations and associations

There are around 60 registered associations in Hermannsburg. Among them are some like the men's choir (1888), the volunteer fire brigade (1893) and the TuS Hermannsburg (1904), which are more than 100 years old.

Regular events

Every three years, on the third weekend in August, the International Trachtenfest takes place in Hermannsburg. Various traditional costume and music groups from Germany, but also from other European countries, perform here. In 2014 the 12th traditional costume festival was celebrated with groups from Italy, Latvia and Switzerland, but also from the Black Forest, the Ammerland, the Elbmarsch and Bremen. The festival is organized by the "Vergneugten Harmsbergern" , a division of the Hermannsburg Heimatbund.

  • International costume festival

  • Children's group on the water stage (2008)

  • Costumes Schaumburg-Lippe (2008)

  • Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Newcastle Scotland. (2011)

  • Le Point d'Alençon France (2011)

  • Dance group "Talsu Kurschi" Latvia (2014)

  • "Cheerful Harmsberger" (2014)

Since 1851, the Hermannsburg Mission has celebrated the traditional Hermannsburg Mission Festival every summer with guests from the partner and supporting churches of the Mission.

The Hermannsburg Shooting Festival takes place regularly on the first weekend in August.

Ford Model T at the Oldtimer-Treffen 2010

Once a year, at the beginning of May, the big Hermannsburg classic car meeting takes place in Örtzepark. It is organized together with the International Museum Day.

The TuS Hermannsburg's Südheide fun run takes place regularly in spring (April / May). Every year in summer there is a themed concert by the students and teachers of the Christian Gymnasium in the school's auditorium.

From 2005 to 2011 a large knight tournament took place on the last weekend in May . In 2009 there was a fight for the title of German Knighthood Champion .

From 2012 to 2017, based on the Scottish Highland Games, the International Hermannsburg Hei (de) land Games took place in Hermannsburg.

Architectural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

For a long time, the economic life of Hermannsburg was shaped by agriculture . In the 17th century the timber rafting was added, which transported wood rafts to Bremen via so-called binding points on the Örtze and then via the Aller . In 1563 the "Große Krug" (Völkers Gasthof, later Völkers Hotel) was mentioned for the first time, which from 1610 to 1728 had the brewing license ( Brewing Justice Concession ). This was demolished in 2007. With the influx of refugees after 1945 and the incorporation in 1973, the population increased considerably from 2,193 in 1910 to around 8,500 at the beginning of the 21st century. There are two industrial parks on the southwest edge of Hermannsburg. Many holidaymakers come, especially when the heather is in bloom. The largest hotel in town is part of the Best Western hotel cooperation .

traffic

In 1543 a trade route was first mentioned in a chronicle that touched the town of Hermannsburg. It led from the Rhineland via Hanover-Langenhagen , Steinförde , Winsen (Aller) , Bergen , Hermannsburg, Lüneburg and further north. There was an imperial post office in Hermannsburg. Until 1866, Hermannsburg received mail once a week by messenger from Bergen. This is where the so-called post relay was located. Then until 1875 the post route then led to the train station in Eschede . The Harburg-Lehrte railway line has stopped here since 1847. When the road to Unterlüß was completed in 1875 , the stagecoach drove to this station. On April 22, 1910, the stagecoach was stopped. Since that day there was a separate railway connection. Important for the further development of this connection was to the opened on April 22, 1910 Beckedorf-Munster railway (about Hermannsburg), with the same time a connection to the city of Celle and the state capital Hanover was made possible. The small train from Celle via Beckedorf and Bergen to Soltau ( Celle – Soltau railway line ) has existed since 1902. Passenger traffic has since been discontinued, with the exception of a few nostalgic trips in summer. In the past, freight trains drove through here almost every day to deliver coke for the heating systems of the Bundeswehr barracks and the city of Munster.

Today, state road 240, coming from Celle, leads through the village of Beckedorf, into the center of Hermannsburg, through Baven and northwards to Müden (Örtze) . The state road 281 runs from the direction of Bergen to the village of Beckedorf and continues from there to Eschede .

Public facilities

The town hall from 1991 - new forecourt in 2013

The administration of the community is located in the core town on the market square, in a town hall built in 1990 . This is also where the local police station and the municipal archive are located. There is also a library , a tourist office and the local history museum, which are housed in the new building from 1983 in "Harmsstraße 3".

education

At general education schools there is a primary school and a secondary school in the core town .

Originally an orientation level was attached to the secondary school . However, by resolution of the Lower Saxony state government, all orientation levels were dissolved at the end of the 2003/2004 school year.

In addition, there is the Christian school with a secondary school and a grammar school . As early as 1817, Pastor Hartwig Christian Harms founded a private school in Hermannsburg, where his own ten children and an additional ten foreign children were taught. After his death, his son Ludwig Harms took over the management of the school from 1848 to 1860. This had become much too small over the years.

Old wing of the Christian School Hermannsburg

On April 24, 1903, the foundation stone for today's Christian school was laid. Prince Christian of Hanover (1885–1901), a son of Ernst August, Crown Prince of Hanover and Duke of Cumberland (1845–1923), bequeathed Prince Christian's aunt Mary (1849–1904), who died at the age of 16 , Princess of Hanover, daughter of Georg V (1819–1878), King of Hanover , gave the Hermannsburg Missionsanstalt a donation of 20,000 marks, earmarked for the construction of a new boys' school. On April 14, 1904, the Christian School, initially with 94 pupils, was inaugurated by the Missionsanstalt (today Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Lower Saxony (ELM)). In 1931 the boys 'school was combined with the girls' higher school and continued to be run as a coeducation . The high school for girls was a Protestant private school founded in 1893 by the Hermannsburg mission director Georg Haccius . On April 1, 1940, the district of Celle took over the Christian school as a district middle school. At the instigation of the mission director Claus August Elfers, it returned on April 14, 1948 as a private, combined middle and high school to the sponsorship of the mission institution. In 1950, 16 school-leaving certificates were issued for the first time at the Christianschule grammar school. In 1956 it lost its private school character and was taken over again by the district of Celle as a school authority and made a public school. The Christian-Gymnasium entitled since 25 July 2007 European School . Since March 15, 2010 it has also been a school without racism - school with courage .

There are no other educational institutions in the municipality outside of the core town.

For the adults one is Heimvolkshochschule present. The Evangelical Education Center in Hermannsburg , formerly the Lower Saxony Lutheran HeimVolkshochschule Hermannsburg , is the oldest Evangelical HeimVHS in Germany. It was founded in 1919 by the Hermannsburg mission director Georg Haccius . The idea for this came from Denmark. Such institutions have existed here since around 1844. In addition to Haccius, the first director of the school, Ernst Möller, a theologian by nature, played a key role in the establishment of the home adult education center. Today the educational institution is a folk high school recognized and sponsored by the state of Lower Saxony. As when it was founded, the house offers, among other things, a five-month “winter course” from November to March for personal development for young adults. Today the course is called “Moving Times” and in 2008 it was recognized as a selected location in the Land of Ideas in the national competition.

Site plan of the Albert Schweitzer family factory

The Heidehäuser of the Albert-Schweitzer -Familienwerk eV with a curative educational facility for adults with mental disabilities and a youth welfare facility are located in the village. There is also a youth residential community as a stationary youth welfare facility. Girls and boys from the age of 14 and young adults who require educational assistance live here. Children and adolescents who continuously need a caregiver due to psychological and social impairments are accepted.

Young people with personal and social learning and performance weaknesses are offered the opportunity of qualified professional training. The training takes place in cooperation with the employment agency, youth welfare offices and / or rehabilitation agencies. Work is also carried out here with young people and adolescents who have committed criminal offenses from the district and the city of Celle.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

Ludwig Harms, founder of the Hermannsburg Mission

Hermannsburg originals

Monument to Timm 'Willem

Wilhelm Timme, called Timm 'Willem (born November 15, 1871 in Bergen ; † July 14, 1946), night watchman and, after the death of Klingel-Buhr , from 1927 to 1946, at the same time community servant and crier . The crier drove to very specific places in the town and announced the official announcements, such as club meetings, offers or requests for sale, auctions, cinema screenings and exhibitions. Timm 'Willem was placed in front of the Hermannsburg town hall. A path was also named after him. It is always mistakenly assumed that he was the last crier in Hermannsburg and even in the district of Celle . But that was Heinrich Lange, who was still a crier in Hermannsburg from 1946 to 1958.

literature

  • Artur Behr: The Lutterhof near Hermannsburg - A farm through the ages. Hermannsburg 2005, ISBN 3-937301-38-0 .
  • Achim Gercke: Hermannsburg. The story of a parish. Berlin 1965.
  • History of the Hanoverian Evangelical-Lutheran Free Church. ed. from the Pastors' Convention. Printed and published by Otto Romberger, Celle 1924.
  • Georg Gremels: The Hermannsburg Mission and the Third Reich. Between fascist seduction and Lutheran perseverance. Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-8972-6 .
  • Hans Otto Harms: Hermannsburg in medieval files. In: Annual journal for home care and research "Immenkorf 1986".
  • Annually published brochures Immenkorf , published by Heimatbund Hermannsburg eV Author: Brochures 1986–1995: Walter Ottermann / August Theis, brochures 1996–2002: August Theis, brochures 2004–2010: Peter Vogel, Gerhard Lange, jun., Brochures from 2011 to today : Gerhard Lange
  • Reinhart Müller (ed.): From the heath into the world. The origin and effects of the revival in Hermannsburg. Papers from Louis Harms Symposia 1978 to 1986. Erlangen 1988, ISBN 3-87214-227-5 .
  • Hartmut Rißmann: Baven - a village chronicle. Hermannsburg 1995.
  • Gunther Schendel: The Hermannsburg Missionary Institution and National Socialism. LIT-Verlag, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-0627-9 .
  • Diverse: A thousand years of Hermannsburg. Edited on the occasion of the thousand year anniversary of the death of Hermann Billung, Hermannsburg 1973.

Web links

Commons : Hermannsburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Google Maps ).
  2. ^ NSG Weesener Bach
  3. ↑ Ludwig Harms recounts 1865 (p. 10): “One of these monks who came from Ostfalen, as our chronicle tells, and who had been converted to Christianity by Liudger, was called Landolf.” Cf. also Schmidt, William, Landolf: der Warrior with the Bloody Cross - story from the time of Emperor Otto the Great (936–937), Hermannsburg 1910.
  4. ^ Behr: The Lutterhof near Hermannsburg.
  5. ↑ Cf. Matthias Blazek: 100 years of organized fire extinguishing in Baven 1907–2007 . Hermannsburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-019848-9 , p. 9 ff .; Hans-Heinrich Siegmann: Larger fires within the parish of Hermannsburg. In: Chronicle of the volunteer fire brigade Hermannsburg. (Festschrift for the 100th anniversary in 1993), p. 76.
  6. ^ 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. 223 and 224 .
  7. ↑ Law on the new formation of the community Südheide, district of Celle, of May 15, 2014. In: Niedersächsisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt 5321 of May 28, 2014, Lower Saxony State Chancellery, Hanover 2014, p. 142.
  8. ↑ Local councilor Herrmansburg ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 213.165.68.250
  9. ↑ Main statutes of the Hermannsburg community ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hermannsburg.de
  10. ↑ organ Information Peter and Paul Church
  11. ↑ Organ information Great Cross Church ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.orgel-information.de
  12. ↑ Andrea Grünhagen: Awakening and denominational awareness: The example of Hermannsburg in the 19th century. ISBN 3-643-10600-9 .
  13. ↑ The organ of the Small Cross Church
  14. ↑ NSG heathland middle Lüß plateau.
  15. ↑ Mission director Egmont Harms invited respected citizens of Hermannsburg to his apartment in the new mission house on May 1, 1893, and the volunteer fire brigade was founded here. The board was composed as follows: Mission director Egmont Harms (president), missionary Theodor Bodenstab (1st captain), master carpenter Heinrich Tiedke (lieutenant), Georg Rieth, Wilhelm Grünhagen, Heinrich Thies, Wilhelm Lange.
  16. ↑ Südheide Volkslauf ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tus-hermannsburg.de
  17. ^ Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Peter Waldemar Prince of Hanover in thepeerage.com
  18. ↑ www.welfen.de
  19. ↑ www.christian-realschule.de
  20. ↑ Presented under Archive Link ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hvhs-hermannsburg.de
  21. ↑ Ich-Findung , RTL Nord, broadcast on January 14, 2011.
  22. ↑ moving times - Young people can find their way in life by taking a break. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.land-der-ideen.de
  23. ↑ Albert-Schweitzer-Familienwerk ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.familienwerk.info
  24. ↑ Source: Archive of the Hermannsburg Mission
  25. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz:  HARMS, Ludwig (Louis). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 545-553.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  26. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz:  Haccius, George. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 420-421.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )