Riddagshausen

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Riddagshausen
City of Braunschweig
Coat of arms of Riddagshausen
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 11 ″  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 39 ″  E
Height : 71 m
Residents : 623  (December 31, 2015)
Incorporation : 1934
Postal code : 38104
Area code : 0531
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Location of Riddagshausen in Braunschweig
View from the north-west of Riddagshausen
View from the north-west of Riddagshausen

Riddagshausen is a district of Braunschweig , the east of the center between the Nußberg and the conservation area Buchhorst is located. Riddagshausen, together with the districts of Bevenrode , Bienrode , Gliesmarode , Querum and Waggum, forms the city district 112 - Wabe-Schunter-Beberbach .

Merian engraving around 1654 by Riddagshausen
Riddagshausen around 1899

history

Around the year 1143/44, the Guelph Ministerial Ludolf von Wenden donated six Hufen land (that was about twelve hectares ) as equipment for a newly founded Cistercian monastery. After some buildings had been completed, the founding convent of monks from the Amelungsborn monastery moved here in 1145 . The new monastery was initially named "Mariazelle" after its patron saint. The monks began to reclaim the swamp basin on the edge of the honeycomb . In 1146, Duke Heinrich the Lion gave the monastery a neighboring village settlement, including land and residents, which was called "villam qui dicitus Ritdageshvsen". Thereupon the monastery changed its name and named itself after this settlement Kloster Riddagshausen.

The place name suggests that there had been a settlement here for two to three centuries. The founder and landlord of this settlement was probably a man called "Ricdagus" or "Riddagus". This name was widespread, but the ending "-husen" (-hausen) in the place name was only used in this area until the early 10th century. Later it was mostly replaced by "-roth" (-rode) in the 12th century by "-hagen".

At the beginning of the 14th century, a new settlement was established outside the monastery walls, the village "Neuhof". This is the core of today's place.

Local expansion and desertification

Several places in Riddagshausen have risen or become deserted . Morthorp , which was located on the Streitberg on the site of today's Braunschweig main cemetery, rose in Neudorf-Riddagshausen. Most of the Ottenrode (Ottonroth) desert on the Nussberg also merged into the Neustadt-Riddagshausen corridor.

Hünessen (Hunesheim) was probably from the year 500 on the site of today's Riddagshausen am Lünischteich (Hünischteich) and came to the monastery as a grangie soon after 1145 . From 1226 it was administered directly by the monastery and then became a settlement. These desolations are mentioned in the ordination of 1031 of the Magni Church.

The Kaunum desert (Kaunem, Choenhem, Caunum or Cavensheim) also became the grangie of the monastery. The place originated before 500 BC. The kaul pond at the Waldfrieden restaurant is reminiscent of the place that was roughly in this area. The place is mentioned in 1067, but under a different name. There is a reference to the Blasius pen . In 1281 the broken mast , which belonged to the sick wood of St. Leonhard , came to the Riddagshausen monastery.

Former residents of the abandoned small settlements of Ottenrode, Hünessen and Kaunum may have settled in Neuhof. Around 1605 the village had eight manure farms and two large farms . In 1683 a manor was added.

In 1822 the community "Riddagshausen-Neuhof" emerged. In 1915 plans were published for a " garden city Riddagshausen", which was to extend over an area between Gliesmarode, Mastbruch and the Schöppenstedter Tower .

From 1933

On April 1, 1934, Riddagshausen and other nearby, previously independent towns were incorporated into the city of Braunschweig. The city acquired the monastery property from the monastery and study fund through the Caspari Treaty and the Hermann Göring Foundation , established on March 31, 1935, took over the areas of the “Riddagshausen” nature reserve established in 1936 . The foundation had the “ Reichsjägerhof ” built in the Buchhorst at the “ Green Hunter ” . From 1939 she also took over the monastery property.

Riddagshausen was attacked by British bombers on September 23, 1943, during World War II . The buildings of the monastery were damaged and many of the residents of the workers' houses, which belonged to the monastery property, were killed. After the end of the war, the Hermann Göring Foundation was renamed the Jägerhof Foundation and finally dissolved in 1955.

Recent history

The city of Braunschweig came back into the possession of the monastery and the nature reserve Riddagshausen. From 1969 to 1980, Karl Friedrich Osthoff ran the estate, which was then taken over by Volkswagen AG . This had new buildings built and set up the VAG Marketing Management Institute GmbH on the monastery grounds, including the old building fabric.

For the preservation of the old buildings and the beautification of the townscape, the “Riddagshausen Citizenship with Friends Circle e. V. “a. It was initially headed by the entrepreneur Richard Borek and later by Henning Borek. Through private initiatives, many old farmhouses that were moved here from the surrounding area and the monastery church, which was threatened with collapse, were renovated between 1968 and 1980. In addition, a Cistercian museum could be set up in the archway of the monastery. The houses include the Warbsenhaus from 1588, the Lewe House, houses from Bergfeld and Hohnebostel as well as the Parsau House, which was connected to the Wendeburg House by intermediate buildings.

In September 1979, the Remlinger post mill was inaugurated, which had been moved to the Lünischhöhe and which now bears the name of the last Brunswick Duchess Victoria Luise .

  • Building in Riddagshausen

  • Farmhouse

  • Farmhouse

  • Farmhouse

  • Gateway to the domain

  • Former train station "Grüner Jäger"

Riddagshausen nature reserve ponds

Riddagshausen lakes

The Cistercian monks began to drain the area early on and created large fish ponds, which were the basis for the extensive water landscape in Riddagshausen. Eleven of the former 28 fish ponds still exist. The Kreuzteich, the Mittelteich and the Schapenbruchich are the largest of them. There is a rich flora and fauna here. Many rare birds and bats can be found in these areas.

The preservation of these ponds is thanks to some personalities from the city of Braunschweig and from Riddagshausen, for example Johann Heinrich Blasius, Gerhard Schridde and the Nehrkorn family from the Riddagshausen monastery, but especially the Braunschweig doctor Otto Willke, who ensured that it was declared a nature reserve in 1936 . In 1965 it was classified as a European reserve.


Personalities

coat of arms

Coat of arms Braunschweig-Riddagshausen.png

The coat of arms is divided horizontally. The upper part shows three golden cattails on a green field above a wavy line. The lower third is red and white shaft.

The bulrushes symbolize the role of the place as a local recreation area with the Riddagshausen ponds and the “green lung” of the city of Braunschweig. The red and white checkerboard pattern in the base of the shield was derived from the Cistercian bar on the monastery coat of arms.

Arnold Rabbow designed the coat of arms and it was adopted on July 9, 1980 at a residents' meeting.

Web links

Commons : Riddagshausen  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population statistics on braunschweig.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Riddagshausen on braunschweig.de
  3. ^ Wilhelm Bornstedt : On the document from 1031. The reasons for the entry of the 11th parish villages of St. Magni and their location in today's townscape. A settlement geography. In: Church council to Magni (ed.): St. Magni 1031–1981. Braunschweig 1981, p. 20 ff.
  4. ^ A b Ernst Gäbler: The Riddagshausen Office in Braunschweig. Hildesheim 1928.
  5. ↑ a b Otto Hahne : Old individual farms in the urban area of ​​Braunschweig. in: Fritz Timme (Ed.): Research on Braunschweigische history and linguistics. Braunschweig 1954.
  6. ^ Wilhelm Bornstedt: 17 sunken villages under the streets of the city of Braunschweig from 1031. Braunschweig 1981.
  7. ↑ Incorporation (PDF; 859 kB) on braunschweig.de
  8. ↑ Photo of the post mill on norbert-maas.com
  9. ↑ Viktoria Luise on braunschweiger-zeitung.de
  10. ^ Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch. Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , p. 25.