Mouse Tower (Holzerode)

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The Mäuseturm , located in the fields southwest of Holzerode in the Göttingen district , is the ruin of the former church in the desert of Moseborn.

geography

Scenic location of the desert of Moseborn (center)

The mouse tower stands at a height of 293  m above sea level. NN about 1.5 kilometers southwest of Holzerode. The southern summit of the Lippberge rises 700 meters west of the tower, 900 meters south of the Hünstollen . The tower stands in the gently sloping, mostly damp field and pasture corridor, which is also suggested by the field name "Bruchwiesen" southwest of the tower. In the Middle Ages, the village of Moseborn was at the crossroads of two paths, some of which have left traces as ravines .

Building description

Steeple

The tower measures 6.20 by 5.65 meters in plan and is about 13 meters high at the gables. A larger piece of wall has broken out on the ground floor so that access or a passage to a possible wooden outbuilding or even a nave cannot be proven. The first floor of the tower was closed off by a cross vault , above there were four upper floors, which were separated by wooden beam ceilings. The few narrow window slits and the massive construction show the mouse tower as a typical rural fortified church without a nave. The masonry has a careful ashlar corner, window frames, eaves cornice and sloping gable made of sandstone, the masonry surfaces are made of hewn limestone except for irregularly placed sandstone blocks.

history

The Moseborn settlement was first mentioned in the middle of the 13th century as Mosebornen , in 1397 and 1400 a Johannes (de) Moseborne is mentioned in writing. The chapel "des hilgen cruces to Moseborn" is documented from 1425. The place was probably desolate in the late Middle Ages, in the Plessian Lehnsbuch it was referred to as a desolation in 1568. The church ruins are recorded on the map of the Kurhannoverschen Landaufnahme created in 1785 as the Mauseberger Thurm former church . Today the ruin is owned by the Lower Saxony Forest Administration , an archaeological investigation and documentation took place in 1991/92. The ruins were structurally secured, the eaves cornice and the sloping gable were supplemented with stones recovered on site.

Surname

The older written mentions refer to the place as Moseborn (e) . A change of the name in Meiseborn can only be found in the Hessian land register from 1569–74 and only then again on the map of the Kurhannoverschen Landesaufnahme. The name form Mäusethurm appears for the first time in 1831 on the topographical map of the Eichsfeld. The name is composed of the Middle Low German mos "Sumpfland, Moos, Moor" and the basic word -born "source".

Web links

Commons : Mäuseturm (Holzerode)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lower Saxony Land Surveying Office: Topographic map 1: 25,000
  2. ↑ a b c d Peter Ferdinand Lufen: District of Göttingen, part 2. Altkreis Duderstadt with the communities Friedland and Gleichen and the joint communities Gieboldehausen and Radolfshausen . In: Christiane Segers-Glocke (Hrsg.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony . tape 5.3 . CW Niemeyer, Hameln 1997, ISBN 3-8271-8257-3 , p. 212 f .
  3. ↑ a b c d Kirstin Casemir, Uwe Ohainski, Jürgen Udolph: The place names of the district of Göttingen . In: Jürgen Udolph (Hrsg.): Lower Saxony Place Name Book (NOB) . Part IV. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89534-494-X , p. 285 f .
  4. ↑ Peter Aufgebauer : the mouse tower near Holzerode. Ebergötzen municipal administration, accessed on July 10, 2010 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 14.7 "  N , 10 ° 2 ′ 56.8"  E