Loxten (Nortrup)

Loxten was a district of Nortrup until 1972 . It formed the southern part of the municipality called Nortrup-Loxten in the 19th century. With the municipality and territorial reform, Loxten was politically divided into a northern and a southern half; The latter was reassigned to Ankum .

geography

Loxten's area is approx. 5 km². It is just that the only elevation is a motte (castle), probably built in the 11th century, in the east on the new border with Ankum. The highest point is about 42 m above sea level in the south and falls to 33 m above sea level in the north.

Loxten is crossed and drained by the Kohlriedenbach in the west and by the Reitbach, formerly called Loxtener Mühlenbach. The first mill is mentioned in the 15th century.

Gut Loxten moated castle

Manor Loxten

In the second half of the 15th century, Gut Loxten was built from a peasant heritage . Rixa von Brawe probably brought this as a dowry to the marriage with Johann von Dincklage . In 1682 an inheritance from Frydag zu Buddenburg sold it to Christian Günther von Hammerstein . Shortly before his death, Christian Günther von Hammerstein began building today's listed two-story mansion in the style of the Dutch Renaissance . His widow completed the work in 1698. The estate is still owned by the Barons von Hammerstein .

A previous building was possibly the Felddieksboll , a tower hill castle , a little further away .

Churches

Ev.-luth. Dorotheenkirche (1859/60)

Sons and daughters (selection)

Adolf Freiherr von Hammerstein-Loxten (1868–1939), politician
Ernst von Hammerstein-Loxten (1827–1914), politician, lawyer, Prussian Minister of Agriculture
Hermann von Hammerstein-Loxten (1801–1876), landlord
Ludwig von Hammerstein-Loxten (1839–1927), Prussian general
Rudolf von Hammerstein (born September 30, 1735 in Loxten; † October 4, 1811 in Schenkenhorst near Erxleben), Hanoverian lieutenant general

literature

Werner Dobelmann , Nortrup-Loxten and the parish of Ankum, in: Am heimatlichen Herd - Heimatblatt 5 (1954), No. 9 (August 1954), p. 33
Werner Dobelmann, Das Rittergut Loxten, in: Am heimatlichen Herd - Heimatblatt 8 (1957), No. 1 (January 1957), p. 1 f.
Werner Dobelmann, 800 years of Nortrup 1169–1969, Nortrup 1969
Werner Dobelmann, Das Rittergut Loxten in Nortrup, in: Am heimatlichen Herd - Heimatblatt [31] (1980), No. 3 (September 1980), p. 10
Werner Dobelmann, Ernst von Hammerstein zu Loxten. First District Administrator in Bersenbrück, in: Franz Buitmann, Werner Dobelmann, Franz Hülsmann, Ernst Schulte (Red.), Bersenbrück. City in the Osnabrück region. Contributions to the anniversary year 1981 in words and pictures. 750 years of Bersenbrück - 25 years of the city, Bersenbrück 1981, p. 280 f.
Ernst Tüting: 125 years of the Dorotheen Church in Nortrup-Loxten , 1985
Rudolph vom Bruch: Knight seats in the Osnabrück region
Bernhard Struckmann: Heimat-Hefte for village and parish Ankum - edition 2002

Web links

Entry by Stefan Eismann on Loxten in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute

Footnotes

^ Fritz-Gerd Mittelstädt: Palaces and castles in the Osnabrück region (series of writings on the cultural history of the Osnabrück region ). Meinders & Elstermann, Belm 2013, ISBN 978-3-88926-030-7 , pp. 35-37.

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[1] Fritz-Gerd Mittelstädt: Palaces and castles in the Osnabrück region (series of writings on the cultural history of the Osnabrück region ). Meinders & Elstermann, Belm 2013, ISBN 978-3-88926-030-7 , pp. 35-37.