Gehlenberg

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Gehlenberg
City of Friesoythe
Coordinates: 52 ° 58 ′ 29 ″  N , 7 ° 45 ′ 47 ″  E
Height : 15 m
Area : 21 km²
Residents : 1695  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density : 81 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 26169
Area code : 04493
Gehlenberg (Lower Saxony)
Gehlenberg

Location of Gehlenberg in Lower Saxony

Gehlenberg is a village in Hümmling and belongs to the town of Friesoythe in the district of Cloppenburg . Before the Lower Saxony regional reform, which came into force on March 1, 1974, Gehlenberg was an independent municipality in the Aschendorf-Hümmling district .

Geographical location and natural space

The town of Friesoythe is located about 9 km northeast of Gehlenberg in the northwestern area of ​​the district of Cloppenburg , near the border with the district of Emsland . Landesstraße 63 (Lorup – Markhausen) runs through the local situation.

Gehlenberg lies between the Hunte-Leda valley and the Sögeler Sandgeest. Moor and Geest characterize the area around Gehlenberg.

The Meyer house is the oldest house in Gehlenberg

history

The founding of Gehlenberg on the northeastern edge of the Hümmling goes back to the colonization of the Emsland moors in the 18th century, which the Prince-Bishop of Münster ordered to secure the border against the Netherlands and to gain settlement areas. The raffle for 30 “places on the Gehlen Berg”, which took place in 1788, can be considered the actual date of foundation. The colony was named after the "gehlen mountain" on which the mill is located today. There was initially no continuous settlement activity because of trademark border disputes. This only changed in 1809, when 35 places were given to farmer sons from the neighboring villages of the Hümmling under the Duke of Arenberg. The colony was now named "Neuarenberg". The slow settlement was also due to the difficult conditions under which the new farmers had to earn a living from the soil.

On October 1, 1939, Neulorup (founded in 1826/27 by the common Lorup to secure its brand boundary) was dissolved and merged with Neuarenberg to form the new municipality of Gehlenberg.

Buildings and monuments

Catholic Church of St. Prosper

Parish Church of St. Prosper Gehlenberg

Since there was no church in the village after Gehlenberg was founded , the believers had to walk the 16 km route to attend a church service in Werlte . In 1829, Duke Prosper Ludwig and Duchess Ludmilla made it possible to build the hall church with the classicist columned portal. The population helped build the church through manual and tensioning services . A field brickworks was set up on the "Tichelberg" (= Ziegelberg), a small, clayey elevation . Here the stones and roof tiles were formed and burned using the field fire process, which were needed to build churches.

In 1831 the construction of the church built by Josef Niehaus from Haselünne was completed. In the same year the inauguration took place on November 9th. In gratitude, the Church of the was patron saints of the two, the holy Prosper and St. Ludmilla, named.

Since the church offered too little space, a circular building was added to the east in 1931.

The parish of St. Prosper Gehlenberg with the places Gehlenberg and Neuvrees has been part of the parish community "Abraham" in the Diocese of Osnabrück since July 1, 2007 .

Schücking monument

Katharina Schücking, b. bush
Schücking monument

Katharina Sibylla Schücking , b. Busch (born January 26, 1791 in Ahlen, † November 2, 1831 at the Ludmillenhof in Sögel) was a well-known poet.

Schücking grew up in Dülmen. She married the judge Paulus Modestus Schücking on October 7, 1813 . The couple had six children together and came to Meppen in 1813 and to Sögel in 1815.

As the bailiff of the Duke of Arenberg, Modestus Schücking was significantly involved in the construction of the church in what was then Neuarenberg (today Gehlenberg). His wife often came to Neuarenberg, where, according to tradition, she did a lot for the poor population, including with medication. She loved nature and is said to have wished to be buried in this forest solitude in Neuarenberg.

Katharina was interested in literature from a very early age. She wrote numerous poems at a young age, some of which were published during her lifetime. Her collected works were first published in 2005. She was friends with Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , from whom she was very much valued as a poetic and human role model and referred to as "Westphalen's poet". Her eldest son Levin (1814-1883) built on his mother's talents and became a well-known writer.

Katharina, who suffered all her life from the constraints of the image of women at the beginning of the 19th century, died at the age of 40 and was the first to find her final resting place in the cemetery of the parish church of St. Prosper.

Mühlenberg cultural center

The village community Gehlenberg e. V. and the Heimatverein Gehlenberg-Neuvrees-Neulorup e. V. have jointly built the Mühlenberg cultural center. The site includes the mill, the bakery, a local museum, the sawmill museum and various buildings.

Erddolländer windmill

Three supraregional cycle paths pit stop route, Cloppenburger cycle tour, cycle tour through Geest and Moor and the Lower Saxony Mühlenstraße lead past the cultural center.

Mill

The Gehlenberger windmill is one of the Erdholländer windmills (ground sailors). Erddolländer offer the possibility that the wings can be climbed for maintenance from the ground. It was built in 1840. The windmill still has the old grinder from 1840. It has been owned by the Heimatverein Gehlenberg-Neuvrees-Neulorup e. V.

Bakehouse

The former Schute bakery was built in 1927 as a bakery with a separate apartment for the baker. Here the grain ground in the mill was processed into black bread. The renovation started in 2008. With the support of the Gehlenberg-Neuvrees-Neulorup e. V. and the village community Gehlenberg e. V. the old stone oven was completely renewed. A baking room, a lounge and a new toilet facility (with handicapped accessible toilets) were built. A local museum was set up on the upper floor.

The sawmill

The former Schute sawmill was also renovated. Today there is a technology museum (sawmill museum) with fully functional saws, from horizontal gates from 1905 to full gates from 1941. The exhibition also includes functional agricultural equipment from threshing machines to pointed mills, from grain mills to potato harvesters . The craft is also represented from the carpentry workshop to the turnery to the forge.

terrain

In 2011 the area with the bakery and sawmill was acquired by the city of Friesoythe and leased to the local history association and the village community on a long-term basis. On the occasion of the 225th anniversary of Gehlenberg in 2013, an old half-timbered school, a Göpel, a Klutenhütte, a hermit's house (Brush Ollig), a carriage shed and a ring oven for firing clay bricks including a drying shed were built outside.

Well-tended grounds with a coat of arms made of hedge plants.

  • Lounge in the bakery

  • Stone oven

  • Bakehouse

  • Shoemaker's workshop

  • Horizontal gate from 1905 in the sawmill museum

  • The grounds of the Mühlenberg cultural center

  • Replica of a ring furnace for burning mud bricks

  • Mühlenberg Gehlenberg cultural center

Sports

The Gehlenberg-Neuvrees sports club has a modern sports facility with a grandstand, clubhouse and grill house. The sports hall was also extensively renovated, mostly in-house, and equipped with a grandstand and additional rooms on the upper floor.

In addition to football, which is represented by four men's, one women's, eleven youth and one girls' teams, the club offers cross-age football, among other things, table tennis, volleyball, dodgeball, Nordic walking and sports badges. In an active children's gymnastics department there are several groups in cooperation with the elementary school and daycare center. Health courses such as gymnastics, back fitness, cardiofit are also offered by the sports club. Other clubs focus on tennis, shooting sports and table football.

Economy and Infrastructure

Industrial area, commercial area, construction area, climate-friendly energy generation through wind energy, biogas and photovoltaic systems, basic supply through consumer markets and other shops, healthy medium-sized economy with mainly construction and ancillary trades and meat processing.

education

In Gehlenberg there is a St. Monika daycare center with a day nursery and the Catholic elementary school with all-day courses.

Tatemeer nature reserve

Great Tate Sea Nature Reserve (May 2018)

The district of Cloppenburg has acquired 49 hectares in the area of ​​the Tatemeeres with the financial contribution of the state of Lower Saxony and the EU. The acquired areas were partly left to nature, partly leased to interested farmers for extensive grassland use. The intensification of use has created new habitats for wild plants and animals and existing habitats have been preserved and further developed.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 275 .
  2. ^ City of Friesoythe: Population. Retrieved April 24, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Geographical location Gehlenberg. Retrieved April 29, 2018 .
  4. ↑ gehlenberg.de: History of Gehlenberg. Retrieved April 29, 2018 .
  5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Aschendorf-Hümmling district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ^ Friesoythe-Gehlenberg - St. Prosper and Ludmilla Church. Accessed May 30, 2018 (German).
  7. ^ Catholic parish of St. Prosper Gehlenberg: 1831 - 1931 150 years of St. Prosper Gehlenberg . Ed .: Catholic parish of St. Prosper Gehlenberg. Apprenticeship workshops, Johannesburg youth home, Surwold 1981, p. 35-41 .
  8. ↑ Desel, Jutta and Gödden, Walter: Katharina Busch-Schücking (1791–1831) works and letters . In: Literature Commission for Westphalia (Ed.): Series of texts Volume 3 . tape 15 . Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89528-498-X .
  9. ^ Mühlenberg cultural center in Gehlenberg. Retrieved April 29, 2018 .
  10. ^ SV Gehlenberg-Neuvrees eV Retrieved on May 30, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Overview of the Gehlenberg associations. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Homepage of the St. Monika day care center. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Daily overview of the Gehlenberg primary school. Accessed May 30, 2018 (German).
  14. ↑ Tatemeer nature reserve. Retrieved April 29, 2018 .