Hottenrode Church

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The patronage church of Hottenrode

The church in Hottenrode is a patronage church (without building load) on the border triangle of Hesse , Lower Saxony and Thuringia . It is located in the area of ​​the deserted village of Hottenrode between the villages of Niedergandern and Hohengandern and can be reached via the L567. The church belongs to the Lower Saxony parish of Niedergandern, which is 800 meters away. The Leine runs around 600 meters to the east . The inner German border ran about 200 m south-east along the Hottenbach in the valley floor, which the road to Hohengandern passes through, and from there it ran in a straight line in a north-easterly direction to the Leine to Besenhausen .

history

The church, which is surrounded by fields today and has its own churchyard , belonged to a village that later fell into desolation . It was under the simultaneous patronage of the von Bodenhausen families (based in the neighboring town of Niedergandern, among others) and von Kerstlingerode. After Christoph von Kerstlingerodes' death, his part of Hottenrode fell to the Hanstein family on the Besenhausen manor in 1641 . In 1718 there was a dispute between the Bodenhausens and Hansteins over Hottenrode. With the border recess of October 21, 1743, the church belonged to the Hanover region . The patronage of the church later fell to the Besenhauser 'Hansteins.

After a manor chapel was built in Niedergandern at the end of the 18th century, the parish Niedergandern-Hottenrode used this chapel, and the Hottenrode church was and is mainly used for funerals ( funeral sermons ). The cemetery around the church takes in the deceased from Niedergandern and Besenhausen.

Every year on Ascension Day, the central church service for all surrounding parishes takes place in the church of Hottenrode . Today it belongs to the Niedergandern-Hottenrode parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover .

A well-preserved tombstone of Johann Dietrich von Hanstein from 1611 with an ancestral sample of originally 16 coats of arms is worth seeing .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The building maintenance of the church is subject to the parish. The patronage is managed as a real Compatronat of the manor owners of Niedergandern and Besenhausen
  2. ↑ according to Carl Philipp von Hanstein, documented history of the von Hanstein family in the Eichsfeld in Prussia (Province of Saxony) together with a document book and gender tables . First part, JJ Bohne'sche Buchhandlung, Kassel 1856, p. 173 ff.
  3. ↑ according to Information on the Evangelical Church Community of Hottenrode on the website of the Evangelical Church of Hanover
  4. ↑ according to the inscription catalog: Landkreis Göttingen at Deutsche Insschriften Online

Web links

Commons : Hottenrode (church)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 57.7 "  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 34.6"  E