Langholt (District of Leer)

Langholt municipality Rhauderfehn Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 50 "  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 35"  E
Height :	2 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.83 km²
Residents :	992  (1970)
Population density :	101 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1973
Postal code :	26817
Area code :	04952
Location of the municipality of Rhauderfehn in the district of Leer

Langholt is a village in the district of Leer ( East Friesland ) in Lower Saxony . Until 1973 the place was an independent municipality. With the Lower Saxony community reform, however, the place was divided and separated along the Langholter-Burlager Tiefs. The eastern part was added to the municipality of Ostrhauderfehn , the western part to the municipality of Rhauderfehn .

history

Langholt was first mentioned in a document in 1319. The origin of this place goes back to the Order of St. John , who founded the commander of the same name there to reclaim the moor. The monastery itself was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War . It was located around the site of today's supermarket near the Langholter Tief, where the Willms monastery is still located today, and the Stumpe / Junker cloister was also located until the beginning of the 20th century. After the Thirty Years' War , the Protestant Gerd Krammer / Kramer and his family from Werlte , who fought against the re-Catholicization of the Hümmlings in the course of the Counter-Reformation and thus left his home, are named as the tenant of the Johanniterkommende . His descendants remained in the possession of the monastery courtyards to the present, which were later further divided among the descendants. The monastery church lasted until 1690. In the 18th century, as in the neighboring Burlage, Catholic settler families settled in Langholt through the Order of St. John, especially in the western part of the community. Until the Napoleonic era at the beginning of the 19th century, the residents of Langholt remained tenants of the Order of St. John. Thereafter, the monastery chamber of Hanover administered the former order property . Langholt has been an independent parish again since 1899, and since 1901 it has also had its own church, the Trinity Church .

Web links

• Langholt's website with links to genealogy etc.

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 262 .