Medingen (Bad Bevensen)
Medingen is a district of Bad Bevensen in Lower Saxony . The name originated in the 14th century when the village Zellensen was renamed .
history
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In 1541 the Protestant Duke Ernst the Confessor had the Medingen District Court built in the course of a dispute with the Medingen Monastery, which was then still a Catholic . In 1977 the state of Lower Saxony bought the old district court in Medingen and converted it into a conference center for the Gustav Stresemann Institute .
In 1855 the church was founded “in the shadow of the monastery”.
Around 1927 Reich President Paul von Hindenburg visited his daughter Annemarie Barbara Ilse Ursula Margarete Eleonore, who was married to Christian von Pentz , in Medingen.
The rail zeppelin passed through on June 19, 1931 .
The watermill in Medingen ground grain and generated electricity for the entire village. It is operated with water from the dammed Ilmenau . Medingen had electric street lighting very early on, when gas lanterns were still being lit in other places. The water mill still produces electricity today.
In the forest cemetery there is a memorial stone for Fritz Hintze from Medingen († December 26, 1943), the last commandant of the Scharnhorst .
On July 1, 1972, the municipality of Medingen was incorporated into the town of Bevensen - now Bad Bevensen.
Medingen Monastery
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The convent of the Medingen Monastery was founded in 1228 as a branch of the Wolmirstedt Cistercian monastery (north of Magdeburg). In 1336 it settled permanently in Medingen. The monastery was originally built in the brick Gothic style .
Most of the nuns were daughters of the Lüneburg patrician families who entered the convent with rich households and thus increased the monastery property. In the course of time, the monastery received rights to the Lüneburg salt works , customs, mills and shipping on the Ilmenau .
In its heyday at the beginning of the 16th century, the monastery housed over 100 nuns.
In 1524, in the course of the Reformation , the sovereign Duke Ernst I, the confessor , of Braunschweig-Lüneburg ordered the conversion to the Lutheran faith. The convention opposed this order for more than 30 years in the Medinger "Nuns War"; the abbess burned the Luther Bible in public. In 1539 Duke Ernst took possession of the monastery and had part of the monastery torn down. In 1555, after accepting the Lutheran Confession, the monastery received part of the goods back. In 1559 it was converted into a women's monastery.
In 1781 the buildings of the old monastery burned down, except for the brewery. By 1787 it was rebuilt in the late Baroque , partly also early Classicist style. The monastery consists of two elongated convent buildings, with the church in the middle.
The architect of the new building was the court architect Christian Ludwig Ziegler .
To this day the convent is headed by an abbess. Medingen Monastery is one of the heather monasteries administered by the Hanover Monastery Chamber and under their legal supervision.
Medingen monastery courtyard
The farm Klosterhof Medingen was founded in the 17th century.
July 1934 Performance of the Nuns' War in the cloister courtyard under the artistic direction of Eleon von Rommel .
The Wahler family has been running a Trakehner stud on the farm since 1960 .
On July 12, 1983, a major fire destroyed part of the stables. They were then rebuilt.
landscape
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The Hamburg-Hanover railway line divides Medingen. The state forest Rießel and arable land are on the west side, the idyllic river landscape of the Ilmenau with forest and meadows for the Trakehner is in the east.
literature
- Johann Ludolph Lyssmann: Historical news of the origins, growth and fate of the closter Meding in the Lüneburg duchy. Hall 1772 ( digitized version )
- Joachim Homeyer: 500 years of abbesses in Medingen. Becker, Uelzen 1994, ISBN 3-920079-35-3
- Joachim Homeyer: Document book of the Medingen monastery. Hahn, Hannover 2006, ISBN 978-3-7752-6033-6 .
- Hans-Cord Sarnighausen: On the Medinger monastery fire of 1781. In: Heimatkalender Uelzen 2009, pp. 65–74.
- Götz J. Pfeiffer: Tradition and Change. Works of art in Medingen as evidence of the monastery history. In: Evangelical monastery life. Studies on the history of the Protestant monasteries and monasteries in Lower Saxony. ed. v. Hans Otte , Göttingen, 2013, pp. 361–394.
- Marlies Vollmer: The families and residents of the parish Medingen: Local family book 1688-1910, supplemented by the civil servant families of the Medingen office and the conventuals of the Medingen monastery. Museum and local history association of the Uelzen district, Uelzen 2012 (= sources and representations on the history of the city and district of Uelzen 12), ISBN 978-3-929864-21-2 .
- Medingen . In: Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg ( Matthäus Merian ) on Wikisource
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b gsi-bevensen.de ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2014 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.
- ↑ Series of publications of the Stadtarchiv-Heft 20-Medingen a village in the shadow of the monastery
- ↑ historisches-bevensen.de ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2013 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.
- ↑ historisches-bevensen.de ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2015 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.
- ↑ historisches-bevensen.de ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2015 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.
- ^ 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. 237 .
- ^ Christian Ludwig Ziegler , in: Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxony architecture in the nineteenth century , ed. by Harold Hammer-Schenk and Günther Kokkelink (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ), Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989 (582 pages), ISBN 3-88746-236-X , p. 571
- ↑ Series of publications in the Stadtarchivs-Heft 11-Der Nunkrieg von Kloster Medingen
- ↑ klosterhof-medingen.de Homepage Klosterhof Medingen
- ↑ feuerwehr-hesebeck.de Protocol book Fire Brigade Hesebeck
Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 29.4 ″ N , 10 ° 33 ′ 43.1 ″ E