Möllenbeck (Rinteln)

Möllenbeck City of Rinteln Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 52 ″  N , 9 ° 2 ′ 17 ″  E
Residents :	1325  (December 31, 2017)
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	31737
Area code :	05751
Location of Möllenbeck in Lower Saxony
Möllenbeck Monastery , view from the southwest

Möllenbeck with its district Hessendorf is a district of Rinteln in the district of Schaumburg in Lower Saxony .

geography

The village is located about five kilometers southwest of the city center and is also a border village with North Rhine-Westphalia . Surrounding places are Stemmen , Elfenborn , Krankenhagen and the main town Rinteln. There are also three ponds, including the Lippische Teich, in Möllenbeck and in the adjacent forest area, the Weserbergland Schaumburg-Hameln nature park .

history

The village was created in 896 when a canoness monastery , the Möllenbeck Monastery , was established there. The place flourished in the 13th century and got a town-like character. Due to the proximity to Rinteln, however, the liquidation of Möllenbeck began. The village was not rebuilt until the 17th century. When the county of Schaumburg was divided in 1647/1648, the place became part of the Landgraviate of Hesse.

From the first construction period of the monastery in the early 10th century, the two Ottonian round towers can be seen from afar. The other parts of the building date, through reconstruction, from the period between 1479 and 1505. The Kanonissen-Stift was dissolved in 1441 by the Minden prince-bishop Albrecht von Hoya , the monastery was given to the Augustinian canons of the Windesheim congregation in the same year . The introduction of the Reformation allowed Möllenbeck Abbey to continue as an Evangelical Lutheran monastery after 1570 . When the Grafschaft Schaumburg was divided , Möllenbeck fell to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel . Landgravine Amalie converted the monastery property into a state domain in 1649 , the proceeds of which were partly intended for the upkeep of the University of Rinteln . As a result, the convent, which in the end only consisted of three canons, lost its livelihood. This ended the monastic life in Möllenbeck. A formal (legal) dissolution of the Convention does not appear to have taken place. The church remained state-owned as a place of worship, initially for Lutheran and from 1675 for Reformed worship. Since then, the monastery buildings have been mainly used for agriculture. In 1807 the collegiate church was handed over to the Protestant Reformed parish of Möllenbeck. Today the monastery houses the facilities of the Möllenbeck parish (parish hall, winter church).

The district of Hessendorf was laid out as a row settlement on Möllenbeck domain land from 1667. Farmers from the Lipperland were recruited to settle here. Until 1969, Hessendorf was an independent municipality with the Ellerburg dairy.

politics

Local mayor is Thorsten Frühmark ( CDU ).

societies

Sports

The sports club Schwalbe Möllenbeck von 1920 eV offers football, table tennis, gymnastics, gymnastics and hiking.

music

• Music train of the voluntary fire brigade Möllenbeck.
• Male Choir (MGV) Polyhymnia.

Public facilities

education

The primary school Rinteln Süd has a branch in Möllenbeck. Secondary schools are available in Rinteln.

security and order

• The Rinteln Police Department is responsible for public safety and order.
• Fire protection and general help are provided by the Möllenbeck volunteer fire department .

Religions

• With the arrival of new settlers from Lippe to Hessendorf, the Landgraviate of Hesse introduced the Reformed worship service in 1675. Today around 900 parishioners belong to the Evangelical Reformed parish of Möllenbeck.
• The Catholic faithful belong to the parish of St. Sturmius in Rinteln.

natural reserve

There are three nature reserves in the Möllenbeck district:

• HA 219 Kameslandschaft
• HA 215 Mühlenberg
• HA 132 Ostenuther Kiesteiche

See also

• Möllenbeck burial mound

Events

The “Irish Folk Festival” takes place annually on the monastery grounds. Other regular events include the sunflower festival, "Möllenbeck rocks!" (Youth concert) and various Christian festivals.

Web links

Wikisource: Möllenbeck in the Topographia Westphaliae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Möllenbeck on the website of the city of Rinteln
• Möllenbeck and Hessendorf. Historical local walk on rinteln.de
• History of the Möllenbeck domain

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures on the website of the city of Rinteln ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Willy Leson: Heide, Harz and Weserbergland. Landscape, history, culture . JP Bachem, Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-7616-0530-7 , p. 175.
3. ^ Dieter Brosius : Möllenbeck. In: Josef Dolle with the collaboration of Dennis Kniehauer (Ed.): Lower Saxony Monastery Book. Directory of the monasteries, monasteries, comedians and beguinages in Lower Saxony and Bremen from the beginnings to 1810 . Part 3, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-89534-959-1 , pp. 1059-1065.
4. ↑ "Ostenuther Kiesteiche" nature reserve. on the website of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation