Loccum

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Loccum
Community Rehburg-Loccum
Coat of arms until 1974
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 10 ″  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 49 ″  E
Height : 55 m
Area : 31 km²
Residents : 2973  (2011)
Population density : 96 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 31547
Area code : 05766

Loccum has been a district of Rehburg-Loccum in the Nienburg / Weser district in Lower Saxony (Germany) since 1974 .

In Loccum, which covers an area of ​​around 31 km², there are 2973 inhabitants (2011).

geography

Loccum is located about 50 km northwest of Hanover near the Steinhuder Sea . It is located west of the Rehburg Mountains and is traversed by the Fulde (tributary of the Steinhuder Meerbach ) in a south-north direction . The border with North Rhine-Westphalia runs along the Loccumer district around 3 km west of the town center.

history

The Gesche Koellarsweg commemorates the execution of the farmer's wife as a witch in Loccum

The origin of the name Loccum is seen in the name Lucca . There was a noble family from Lucca, builders of the Luccaburg . The origin of the name could be in Slavic, where Lucca can be interpreted as an expression for German 'meadow'. It is believed that Slavic-speaking Wends settled here in the Saxon settlement area around the 8th century .

  • Significant importance was the place because of the 1163 by monks of the Cistercian Order , founded the monastery , which developed in the following centuries one of the most important spiritual centers in northern Germany.
  • In Loccum, about 33 people were executed in witch trials between 1581 and 1661 , mostly women. The first victim of the witch hunts was Magdalene bey der Koppeln in 1628, one of the other trials was against Gesche Köllers . Most of the convicts were burned on the "Rosenbraken", a piece of land between Klosterforst and Bundesstraße 441. In Loccum tradition, the small pond on the slope above Bachteich and Fulde is known as the so-called witch's pond, where the water samples supposedly took place. On September 25, 2013, the City Council of Rehburg-Loccum passed a resolution on the socio-ethical rehabilitation of the victims of the witch trials.
  • A school was first mentioned in 1593. The monastery had set it up and housed it in the former women's chapel. The children were taught in this building until a new school was built in 1963.
  • From 1936 to 1945 there was a tank farm ( Lufttanklager Loccum ) of the Luftwaffe in Loccum-Heide , which was blown up by the British at the end of the Second World War. Remnants can still be seen today in the Loccumer Heide. The former barracks , which was used until the beginning of the 1990s, is now an industrial park. Among other things, dinosaur models are built there and are exhibited in the Münchehagen Dinosaur Park . A large part of the area still belongs to the Bundeswehr, and exercises are still regularly held there.
  • From December 1898 to the summer of 1936 Loccum was connected to the Steinhuder Meer Railway , which ran from Wunstorf to Uchte .
  • From 1921 to the early 1980s, Loccum was also connected to the network of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and Deutsche Bundesbahn ( railway line Stadthagen – Stolzenau ). The route led from Leese via Loccum and Münchehagen on towards Wiedensahl to Stadthagen . The routes and old railway embankments can still be seen in aerial photographs today. The former station building now serves as a residential building.
  • On March 19, 1955, a state church treaty for the state of Lower Saxony was signed in the Loccum monastery . ( Loccumer contract )
  • The municipality of Loccum had its own coat of arms until it was incorporated into the new town of Rehburg-Loccum on March 1, 1974 with four other municipalities.

politics

Local mayor is Dörte Zieseniss (SPD).

Culture and sights

View of Loccum Monastery
Castle hill of the Luccaburg
Loccumer windmill

Buildings

Sports

There is a youth center for children and young people . In addition, Loccum has a sports club (TSV) with the divisions soccer, table tennis and handball, a tennis club, a marching band , the Schützenverein Loccum eV 1923 with an "archery division" (archery division), and the Kyffhausen comradeship Loccum.

Regular events

Every year on the weekend before St. Martin's Day there is an autumn market on the market square with several rides. The Schützenfest takes place every two years, and a harvest festival every four years .

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

  • Loccum owns an industrial area on the site of the former barracks. In the area there is now a carpentry, a tent rental, a towing service and a workshop for dinosaur models, some of which are shipped all over the world.
  • If you drive further into the Loccumer Heide, you will find a workshop for the blind and disabled in another part of the former barracks.
  • The Evangelical Academy Loccum is the largest employer in Loccum today.
  • There are three supermarkets and two gas stations.
  • In Loccum there is a large doctor's office, two dental practices, an orthodontic practice and a pharmacy .

Public facilities

Loccum is the seat of the following institutions:

Other facilities are:

  • Loccum Volunteer Fire Brigade (founded 1909)
  • Youth center
  • sports ground

education

  • The town of Rehburg-Loccum houses the secondary school (formerly the secondary school).
  • There is a kindergarten for pre- school (Kindergarten Uhlenbusch).
  • Religious Education Institute Loccum (RPI). It offers central training and further education for teachers and church employees.

traffic

Personalities

  • Magdalene bey der Koppeln († 1628 in Loccum), first victim of the witch hunts
  • Georg Wolde (1816–1850), director of studies and poet, († 1850 in Loccum)
  • Gerhard Bunnemann (1842–1925), Lord Mayor of Bielefeld

literature

  • Jens Gundlach: Between Loccum and Volkenroda. A pilgrim book. LUTHERIAN PUBLISHING HOUSE 2005, ISBN 3-7859-0914-4
  • Hartmut Freimann: The Loccumer Evangelical instruction. Karl Witt's hermeneutical approach to Protestant instruction in theory and practice. Dissertation LIT Theologie Vol. 53, 2004, ISBN 3-8258-8103-2
  • Rehburg-Loccum / Topographische Karten Niedersachsen (1: 50,000), 7th edition, 2000, ISBN 3-89435-513-1 .
  • Konrad Droste: Loccum. A village. The monastery. The forest. Contributions to a remarkable story. Self-published by Gustav Schumacher, 1999
  • Peter Beer, "Witch Trials in the Monastery and Monastery Area Loccum", Volume 41 of the "Studies on the Church History of Lower Saxony"

Web links

Commons : Loccum  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Lockum in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates & Numbers . Website of the city of Rehburg-Loccum.
  2. ↑ Peter Beer: Witches Trials in the Monastery and Monastery Area Loccum , Studies on the Church History of Lower Saxony, Volume 41, Göttingen 2007, pp. 158–164.
  3. ^ The Loccum air tank farm
  4. ^ 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. 199 .
  5. ↑ Kreiszeitung June 5, 2013