Lübberbruch
The Lübberbruch is a place in the East Westphalian city of Herford . At the end of the 1950s the Lübberbruch was built on, so that it has not been perceived as a square since then. The name is still common in the population.
location
The Lübberbruch is located in the Neustädter Feldmark between Mindener Straße in the east, Hansastraße in the north, Werrestraße in the west and Bruchstraße in the south.
Surname
The name can be traced back to a farm called Libbere, which was located in this area around 800 when the women's foundation and thus the city of Herford were founded. There were also the two farms Adonhusa (Odenhausen) and Herifurth (Oldenhervorde). The Lübberstrasse, the Lübbertor as one of the five Herford city gates, and the Lübbertorwall also got their names from Hof Libbere.
The part of the name Bruch shows that the Lübberbruch was originally a wetland and marsh area , but that over time it became a dry place. The broken road to the south is named after the break.
history
Place of execution
The Lübberbruch was the Herford execution site . During the witch hunts that took place in the city between 1584 and 1654, the executions on the Lübberbruch took place. In at least 55 witch trials, most of the accused were cremated and the remains buried nearby. The water samples took place beforehand in the witch's coke at the Radewiger mill in the Aa .
At the beginning of the 19th century, three executions on the Lübberbruch are documented. On May 4, 1809, a 25-year-old day laborer and musician who belonged to a band of robbers was beheaded with the sword . On August 13, 1810, a murderer was also executed with the sword.
In 1811, beheading with the ax was introduced in Prussia .
The last execution took place on the Lübberbruch on September 8, 1818. One man was sentenced to death by fire for arson that killed his father and stepmother. However, he was not burned, but executed with an ax and buried on the Lübberbruch. It was the first execution in the newly founded province of Westphalia in 1815 .
The public executions often took place in front of thousands of onlookers. They were originally intended to act as a deterrent, but have increasingly become popular amusements.
In June 1821 the execution in Herford was lifted.
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Other former uses
From 1910 to 1957 the Lübberbruch was a fairground and circus place , among other things, the Herford vision took place there. Even consumer fairs were conducted there in large tents. Because of the development of the square, these events have since been held on the Kiewiese near the Ludwig-Jahn-Stadium and the Otto-Weddigen-Bad (today H2O ).
Before the Second World War, parades of the Herford garrison took place there, after the war there was a military camp of the British armed forces with many Nissen huts .
At the current location of the city theater in 1946 there was a coal field of the Gieseler company with a barrack. The Herford scout group, which was still illegal, met in the barracks in 1946 . In another area there was a pond for extinguishing water .
Development and use
On the north-western edge of the Lübberbruch is the gymnasium built in 1911 on Hansastraße, which is used by the Herford gymnastics community .
In 1952 the cinema building for the Weltlichtspiele was opened on Bruchstrasse on the southern edge . After the cinema was closed, the Grün-Gold dance club moved into the building in 1986. Further buildings follow in the direction of Mindener Straße.
The Ravensberger Gymnasium , built in November 1957, with a new gymnasium, was moved into in April 1960. The neighboring city theater , which is also the auditorium of the grammar school, was opened in September 1961. To the north of the school yard, between the old and the new gymnasium, parallel to Hansastrasse, school sports facilities with running tracks and ball fields were created. There is a parking lot at the theater entrance at the intersection of Mindener Straße / Hansastraße, especially for visitors to the Stadttheater. There is another parking area west of the old gym at the intersection of Hansastraße / Werrestraße.
On the lawn in front of the main entrance of the Ravensberger Gymnasium stands an approximately 2.50 meter high and four meter wide bronze sculpture by the artist Günter Laurien . Two abstract figures are shown, with a standing person bending down to a seated one.
literature
- Karl Adolf Freiherr von der Horst: The knight seats of the Grafschaft Ravensberg and the Diocese of Minden, Contumax Genealogical Series, Berlin 2013, ISBN 979-3-8430-7134-5 , page 68ff: Hofgut Odenhausen, Hof Libbere
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronicle of the city of Herford with details of the three courtyards
- ↑ Jana Budek, Geschichte vor Ort, in it press article: Herford Kreisblatt, March 10, 2013, Ruth Matthes: 30 women sentenced and burned
- ^ City tour of Herford, Mathias Polster: 1818 Last execution at Lübberbruch
- ^ Neue Westfälische of December 21, 2014, Stefan Brams: The first execution took place in Herford
- ↑ Neue Westfälische of June 28, 2018, Walter Dollendorf: 150 years of Ravensberger: From agriculture school to grammar school, with a photo of the entire Lübberbruch
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 12 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 40.8" E