Rennelberg

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Map of the siege of the city of Braunschweig in 1605 : The "Rennelberg" is drawn at the 11 o'clock position.
The Rennelberg around 1899. Shown include: Rennelbergstrasse , including the Kreuzkloster , which was destroyed in the Second World War , and marked with no. 10 at the end of the street , the Braunschweig penal institution .
The cross monastery

The Rennelberg is an elevation in the western ring area in Braunschweig . The 76 meter high elevation is located northwest of the old town on Celler Strasse . The history of the Rennelberg is closely linked to the Kreuzkloster , which was consecrated here in 1230 . Since the Braunschweig correctional facility is now located on the Rennelberg , the name Rennelberg has also become a metonymic expression for this prison. Rennelbergstrasse was named after him.

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The Rennelberg was named after the Rennel , a stream that has now dried up. The Rennel had its source on the mountain and originally flowed eastwards between the new town and the old town and flowed into the Oker . With the construction of the city ​​fortifications of Braunschweig around 1200, its course was shortened and led into the western flood ditch in front of the Petritor .

The name Rennel is probably derived from the old Low German word rennil (brook, trickle) and can still be traced back to East Frisian Low German today. Blume concludes from the linguistic history of the word that it originated around 750 and was probably no longer known in Braunschweig from 1200 onwards. Accordingly, the mountain was translated into Latin u. a. also translated as "mons cursorum" (mentioned around 1400), which roughly means Läuferberg. The name was also derived from horse racing. The later Latin name "mons sanctae crucis" refers to the cross monastery.

The Rennelberg was often mentioned in documents about the monastery, for example in 1241 as in Renneleberch , 1314 upme Rennelberghe , 1329 Rennelberg and 1358 tho the Rennelberge .

history

The Kreuzkloster on the Rennelberg was consecrated in 1230, in 1532 as a Protestant monastery for virgins and demolished in 1545. It was rebuilt in 1571 and completely destroyed in the Second World War , during the heaviest bomb attack on Braunschweig on October 15, 1944 .

Rennelberg
Braunschweig around 1400
Location of the Rennelberg on a map of the city of Braunschweig around 1400.

One of the few suburbs of Braunschweig, the Rennelbergvorstadt, was built near the Kreuzkloster in the Middle Ages . In this settlement outside the city fortifications, craftsmen settled, for example potters who processed clay from the surrounding area. From 1702 to 1707 the Rennelbergvorstadt was torn down, which had to give way to the new larger city fortifications.

In 1885, the district and remand prison (today's Braunschweig correctional facility ), which had been built from 1884 to 1885, was put into operation. Until then, prisoners were housed in the Aegidienkloster , which no longer met the requirements of the time.

Vernacular

The Rennelbergstrasse leading to the Braunschweig JVA is popularly known - although only a few hundred meters long - as the “longest street in Braunschweig”, as many who walk along it often take years to come out again. In other words: People who drive into Rennelbergstraße drive through to the prison and come and see. After their conviction, they may only be free again after years and thus back.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pretrial detention center (aerial photo) on braunschweig.de
  2. ^ JVA Braunschweig, Lower Saxony ( Memento from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on 1a-jva.de
  3. ↑ Jürgen Hodemacher : Braunschweigs streets - their names and their stories. Volume 2: Okergraben and Stadtring , Cremlingen 1996, ISBN 3-927060-12-7 , p. 249.


Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 7.3 "  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 33.4"  E