Leeden

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Leeden
City of Tecklenburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 56 ″  N , 7 ° 53 ′ 19 ″  E
Height : 96  (80-202)  m
Area : 19.65 km²
Residents : 2298  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 117 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 49545
Primaries : 05481, 05405, 05456
Former municipal coat of arms

Leeden is a place in the Tecklenburger Land region ( Steinfurt district ), which belongs to the city of Tecklenburg . At 950 years old (Leeden was first mentioned in a document in 1058), it is the oldest part of the city. Leeden is located between Münster and Osnabrück in the Teutoburg Forest a good kilometer southeast of the A1 directly on the state border with Lower Saxony with the communities of Hagen am Teutoburg Forest and Hasbergen .

The newly designed village square with its Kneipp treading pool and arm pool, boules alley, pavilion and sculpture park is a frequent place of visit for hikers and people from Leeden.

The Leden patrician and aristocratic family probably came from Leeden , who provided a mayor and two second mayors of the old town of Osnabrück in the Middle Ages . There they had their seat in Ledenhof , a stone factory with Palas and in the castle Ledenburg in Nemden .

Leeden gives the Leedener Berg its name. At 202 meters, it is the highest elevation in the northwestern part of the Teutoburg Forest and lies west of the town center.

history

On January 1, 1975, Leeden was incorporated into Tecklenburg.

Population development

date Residents
December 31, 2014 2302
December 31, 2015 2319
December 31, 2016 2298

Mayor of the former municipality of Leeden

  • 1948–1974 Florence Peters (SPD)
  • 1946–1948 Heinrich Bröckeland
  • 1946 Hermann Eismann

  • The Leeden village pond with water step

  • The collegiate church and the adjoining collegiate house (formerly: Leeden Abbey )

religion

Leeden is strongly evangelical, but there were a few Catholics in Leeden even before the Second World War. With the influx of numerous refugees from the former German eastern regions, the number of Catholics continued to rise.

St. Hedwig

The Church of St. Hedwig

After the Second World War, a Catholic service was held for the first time in the Loos School on September 15, 1946. From 1953 the services were held in the collegiate school, which was located above the former fire station.

In the summer of 1961, construction began on St. Hedwig's Church . On November 26, 1961, the auxiliary bishop Heinrich Baaken consecrated the church. Because it is made of wood, it is also called the Church of Sweden.

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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 318 .
  2. ↑ a b c Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from January 4, 2018: "Brochterbecker are the biggest"
  3. ^ Supplement to the Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung on November 5, 1970: "25 years after"
  4. ↑ Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from March 26, 2018: "Building is in good shape and is used a lot"

literature

  • Schröder, Sebastian, and all of them were part of the Augspürgischen confession . Memories and perceptions of the Reformation in Leeden Abbey in a witness report from 1630, in: Nordmünsterland. Forschungen und Funde 3 (2016), pp. 196–219.
  • Spannhoff, Christof, The everyday life of the Leeden residents 400 years ago after the Tecklenburger Accidentalien of 1611/12, in: Search for traces. Family research in the Tecklenburger Land, issue 1 (2013): Leeden. Farmers and soldiers reading, p. 7f.
  • Spannhoff, Christof, Foundations of the Tecklenburger monastery, in: Tecklenburg in the Middle Ages, ed. v. Geschichts- und Heimatverein Tecklenburg, 2nd ed., 2013, pp. 43–50.

Web links

Commons : Leeden  - collection of images, videos and audio files