Horst (Burweg)

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community Burweg
Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ′ 22 "  N , 9 ° 16 ′ 53"  E
Postal code : 21709
Area code : 04144
Horst, seen from the northeast
Horst, seen from the northeast

Horst ( Low German host ) is a locality in the municipality of Burweg ( district of Stade ), which belongs to the district of Burweg .

Geography and transport links

Horst lies on a sand ridge at the confluence of the Hosterbeck in the east flowing northwest . Although Horst is on the left bank of Hosterbeck , a house on the other bank is counted as Horst, but administratively belongs to Breitenwisch . The B 73 runs to the west .

history

Population development

To Burweg:

year Residents
1791 4 fire places
1848 33 people, 6 houses
1871 26 people, 5 houses
Horsterbeck

To Breitenwisch:

year Residents
1885 3 people, 1 house

Incorporation

Horst has been part of Burweg since it was founded and has never been an independent municipality.

religion

Horst is evangelical-Lutheran and forms its own parish with the Petrus Church , which, in addition to Horst, also includes the towns of Burweg , Blumenthal , Breitenwisch , Engelschoff , Neuland , Großenwörden , Seemoor, Burg and Wasserkrug. There is a branch church in Großenwörden, where there used to be its own parish.

St. Peter Church

Culture and sights

Attractions

  • The Romanesque St. Petrus Church on the Horst was built in the course of the elder colonization by the immigrant Dutch, who were involved in the reclamation of the marshes, around 1200 from field stones with medieval baptismal font. The old bell from this period was sold to the Lüneburg Museum in 1912.
  • Cemetery with impressive old tombstones from the 17th / 18th centuries Century with ornamented and figurative representations.

Say

There is an old legend about the origins of the Horst: A giant girl who is said to have lived on the Black Mountain near Stade wanted to jump over the Oste with a plate full of sand. The plate cracked and the whole pile of sand fell into the river. The church is said to have been built on this sand mountain later.

literature

Web links

Commons : Horst an der Oste  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Barthold Scharf: Statistical-topographical collections for a more precise knowledge of all the provinces that make up the electorate Braunschweig-Lüneburg . Author, 1791 ( google.de [accessed September 5, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Friedrich W. Harseim, C. Schlüter: Statistical Manual for the Kingdom of Hanover . Schlüter, 1848 ( google.de [accessed September 5, 2019]).
  3. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Hanover and their population. Edited and compiled by the Royal Statistical Bureau from the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. In: Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Hrsg.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population. tape VIII , 1873, ZDB -ID 1467446-4 , p. 142 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Hanover. Based on materials from the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, edited by the Royal Statistical Bureau. In: Royal Statistical Bureau (Hrsg.): Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. tape IX , 1888, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 , p. 150 .
  5. ↑ HORST. Gem. Burweg, Kr. Stade. Ev. Church of St. Petri. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, p. 761, ISBN 3-422-03022-0