Liesborn

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Liesborn
Wadersloh municipality
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Liesborn
Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 35 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 22 ″  E
Height : 78 m above sea level NN
Area : 43.01 km²
Residents : 3720  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density : 86 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 59329
Area code : 02523
Liesborn (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Liesborn

Location of Liesborn in North Rhine-Westphalia
Liesborn Abbey with church
Liesborn Abbey with church

Liesborn is a place in the municipality of Wadersloh in the southeastern part of the Warendorf district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located about 7 km northwest of Lippstadt . The municipality, which was independent until the municipal reform in 1975, now has around 3,750 inhabitants. The Bad Waldliesborn spa , which today is part of the city of Lippstadt, borders in the eastern neighborhood . The closest town in the Warendorf district is Beckum .

Liesborn, first mentioned in a document around 972, is known for the Liesborn monastery and its abbey church . The Benedictine monastery , which was dissolved in 1803 , now houses the Liesborn Abbey Museum , the district museum of the Warendorf district, which is characterized above all by a cross-regional crucifix collection . After the former altar of the monastery church is master of Liesborn with his provisional names named.

In the Museum Abtei Liesborn concerts ( chamber music ) take place annually in May / June , which are now known nationwide.

geography

Districts and farmers

  • Goettingen
  • Stake
  • Hentrup
  • Liesborn (The Village)
  • Osthusen
  • Suderlage
  • Winkelhorst
  • Böntrup

history

(compiled including the historical overview panels of the Liesborn Abbey without claim to completeness)

The area around Liesborn was settled as early as the Stone Age, as evidenced by stone tool finds and burial mounds near Nölke east of the Glenne. Before the turn of the ages , the Germanic people of the Brukterer lived in the Münsterland, around the turn of the ages the little Hellweg on the Lippe in Göttingen was a "Roman road". A large Roman camp (approx. 10 hectares) is believed to have existed in the vicinity of Haus Heerfeld for the period up to 9 AD .

There were probably many courtyards in the area before 784, and the Liesborn baptistery with its large baptismal district probably already existed. There is evidence of a battle between Saxony and Franconia on the Lippe in Suderlage 784. A women's monastery was founded around 799, probably by Charlemagne and Pope Leo III. Roswindis became the first abbess around 800, later known as St. Roswitha von Liesborn. At that time, a Simeons relic and a Holy Cross relic came to Liesborn. In the 10th century the Liesborn Gospels and the first Simeons shrine were donated.

Liesborn was first mentioned in a document in 1019 (Emperor Heinrich II). Today's church tower was built over the grave of St. Roswitha around 1100. Troops of the later emperor Lothar von Supplinburg devastated the monastery buildings in 1121. Ten years later, the women's convent was converted into a Benedictine monastery. The Liesborn altar and lecture cross was donated around 1150. A fire destroyed the monastery and church in 1353, and reconstruction of the church began five years later. The high altar and the four side altars could be consecrated in 1465.

In 1465 there was also a connection to the Bursfeld congregation. The Liesborn Tower Monstrance was donated around 1480. 1480–1484 created the “Master of Liesborn” the “Liesborn Altar”. Chronicler Bernhard Witte wrote the "Historia Westphaliae" from 1490–1520. The order for a Doxale ( rood screen , gallery) has been handed down from 1505 . The general chapter of the Bursfeld congregation met for the first time in Liesborn in 1556.

Large parts of the abbey were built in 1724–1751. Liesborn celebrated the 1000th anniversary of the town in 1783 with 3000 guests. In the course of secularization, the Liesborn monastery was closed in 1803. The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. then gave the abbey church to the Liesborn parish in 1820. Demolition work on large parts of the abbey began in 1821.

The Liesborn office (Herzfeld, Diestedde, Wadersloh, Liesborn) was founded in 1841, and three years later it was divided into the Liesborn and Wadersloh offices. The Liesborn train station was opened in 1898. In 1900 brine springs were found in Waldliesborn during mutation drilling . In 1912 the Liesborn hospital was completed. The two offices were reunited in 1931 under the name "Liesborn-Wadersloh". In 1965 the anniversary celebration “500 years of the Liesborner Altar” was celebrated. The abbey buildings have been used as the district home museum since 1966.

On January 1, 1975, the new municipality of Wadersloh was formed from the previous municipalities of Wadersloh, Diestedde and Liesborn, separating from Bad Waldliesborn.

As part of the Regionale 2004, the museum was expanded.

Development of the population

development year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents
1804 2011 1855 2525 1910 2961 2016 3806
1818 2069 1858 2503 1915 3213
1842 2503 1861 2578 1961 3586
1843 2473 1864 2518 1970 3705
1846 2421 1867 2475 1974 3419
1852 2520 1871 2475 2012 3743
Population with Bad Waldliesborn: 5260 in 1961, 5983 in 1970 and 6202 in 1974.
From 2012 to December 31 of that year.

Witch trials

In 1565, witch trials against the three women Aleke, Anna and Katharina took place at Stromberg Castle in Liesborn . They have been charged with sorcery, caught and tortured. One of the accused died under torture and the others were acquitted. It was one of the earliest cases of witch hunts in the Münsterland .

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : “The golden tower of the Liesborn Abbey Church in red, with a gate, nine windows in a ratio of 3: 3: 3 and a cross on the pointed roof, all black, accompanied by silver-clad saints facing the tower with a halo, sacred vessels in their hands and Shoes, all golden. "

Sons and daughters of the place

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Community Wadersloh: data, facts and further information
  2. ^ 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. 312 .
  3. ↑ Bernhard Niehues: On the history of the belief in witches and the witch trials mainly in the former prince-bishopric of Münster. Coppenrath, Münster 1875, p. 49 ( Münster State Library ).