Ringelheim

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Ringelheim
City of Salzgitter
Local coat of arms of Salzgitter-Ringelheim
Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 9 ″  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 27 ″  E
Height : 140 m
Area : 7.22 km²
Residents : 1995  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 276 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1942
Incorporated into: Watenstedt-Salzgitter
Postal code : 38259
Area code : 05341
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Location of Ringelheim in Salzgitter

Salzgitter-Ringelheim is the sixth largest of a total of 31 districts in the independent city of Salzgitter in Lower Saxony . Ringelheim is located in the extreme southwest of the urban area on the Innerste and belongs to the locality south . Ringelheim belonged to the district of Goslar until March 31, 1942 and became part of the city of Watenstedt-Salzgitter through an administrative act on April 1, 1942. On January 23, 1951, it was officially renamed Salzgitter .

history

Timeline: Ringelheim

Ringelheim arose in the pre-Franconian period at the intersection of two army and trade routes ( Braunschweig , Goslar , Hildesheim ). It had jurisdiction in the Salzgau of today's Salzgitteraner Süd. Around 940, Count Immat from the Immedinger family founded a royal virgin foundation . The lands of the monastery were named in King Otto I's protection document from 941. Count Immad then transferred his properties from the Ringelheim area in Wendhausen , Othfresen , Jerstedt , Wallmoden , Nauen , Sehlde , Gustedt , Haverlah and Vöppstedt (in the area of ​​today's Salzgitter-Bad ) to the monastery .

In 1152 the abbey was converted into a Benedictine monastery for men and subordinated to the Hildesheim diocese. In 1523, the Quedlinburg Recess ended the Hildesheim collegiate feud and also allocated Ringelheim to the Duchy of Braunschweig along with most of the former Great Abbey . As a result, Ringelheim became Protestant from 1568. The plague broke out in 1578, including in the bathhouse in Ringelheim. During the Thirty Years' War , Ringelheim was between the armies of Tilly ( Oelber on the white road ), Wallenstein ( Liebenburg ) and Christian IV of Denmark ( Wolfenbüttel ). Christian lost in the battle of Lutter am Barenberge and fled via Ringelheim to Wolfenbüttel, which he reached that same night. After the Battle of Thiede in 1641, the dukes made peace with the emperor and agreed in the Goslar accord to return the large monastery and thus Ringelheim to the duchy of Hildesheim . The monastery was returned to the Benedictines.

Ringelheim Castle

In a great fire in 1711, almost all of Ringelheim's houses were destroyed. Most of the courtyards were built after the fire; the oldest house still standing today dates from 1703/04. In the course of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 the monastery was secularized and transferred to the Prussian Field Marshal von der Schulenburg-Kehnert . He sold it in 1817 to Count Friedrich von der Betten , who converted it into a castle. In 1847 his son Adolf laid out the extensive English castle park with the branched lake system.

In 1856 Ringelheim was connected to the railway network (" Braunschweigische Südbahn " Braunschweig - Wolfenbüttel - Börßum - Salzgitter - Ringelheim (Harz) - Seesen - Kreiensen ). In 1875 a second line followed ( Hanover - Hildesheim - Derneburg - Ringelheim (Harz) - Goslar) and a station building, which, according to the Salzgitter newspaper, was demolished on May 30, 1995 in 1990.

With the railway connection, Ringelheim offered good conditions for the settlement of several small businesses, such as a canning factory (1868), a sugar factory (1870/71), an electricity company (1896) and the pharmaceutical company Schaper & Brümmer (1923); of these, only the latter still exists today (2016). The Johannes shaft , which was sunk in 1939–1941 , was closed in 1965, in 1977 the shaft was backfilled and the headframe demolished.

Ringelheim had belonged to the Goslar district since 1885 . In 1942 it was incorporated into the newly founded town of Watenstedt-Salzgitter together with other localities in the Goslar district ( Salzgitter , grid, Hohenrode and Groß Mahner) .

Population development

Sources: The population figures from 1821 to 2000 are based on the statistical yearbook of the Department for Economics and Statistics of the city of Salzgitter. The population statistics from 2001 are based on the monthly statistical reports of the city of Salzgitter (residents with main residence) according to the population register at the end of December.

politics

Local council

coat of arms

The golden fire-breathing annelid worm can be found in Ringelheim above the portal of the former monastery and on a table in the church from around 1730. The dragon was probably chosen as a heraldic animal because of its popular name, annelid worm. The three silver wavy ribbons in the shield base point to the Innerste River, on which Ringelheim lies.

The coat of arms was introduced around 1937.

religion

Catholic Church of St. Abdon and Sennen

Evangelical Church of St. John Baptista

Church of St. John Baptista

The Evangelical Church of St. Johannes Baptista on the market square, consecrated to John the Baptist , was built as a church for the villagers as opposed to the church for the monks. In 1050 it is mentioned for the first time as the "Archdiaconate Church". It is a massive hall church with a cuboid, defensive west tower and choir in the east. The original structure was probably made of wood; the tower was only added around 1200, the Gothic choir . In 1819 a new crowning of the tower was built in the form of an eight-sided open lantern, in 1868 the small windows were replaced by larger ones. The tomb of Pastor Kirchhoff, who died in 1621, is located on the north wall. St. Johannes Baptista owns a Romanesque baptismal bowl from 1487. The interior is more recent: Except for the monolithic sandstone altar and the crucifix from 1300, it dates from 1698, the painting of the church ceiling by Count Georg von derdecke from 1883. Possibly the artist who furnished the Ringelheim churches, the same. The organ also dates from the 1880s.

Culture and sights

Ringelheim Palace and Park

grange

Baroque pigeon tower on the estate
Korngang

The farm and administration buildings of the monastery were housed on the estate, which adjoins the castle and the church to the west and connects them with the market square. Most of the buildings date from the 17th century , for example the inspector's house, the sheepfold, the horse stable (1607) and the monastery mill (1699), which housed the power station from 1898 to 1930. The pigeon tower built in 1710 with an eight-sided dome was supplemented by a school extension in 1748. Later it served as a short-term prison until the prisoner was transferred to the Liebenburg office . In 1740 the estate was expanded to include a cowshed and in 1792 another barn. Today it is privately owned.

mausoleum

The Holy House on Wallmodener Strasse

When the owner of the palace, Count Friedrich von der Betten, died on May 22nd, 1840 , his son Adolf planned to build a mausoleum northeast of the palace church. A first mausoleum did not offer enough space for subsequent generations, which is why von derdecke planned an extension, which was only implemented after his death in 1886. Several family members were buried in the 10 × 12 m building until 1907. After the castle was sold in 1938 and the count family moved to Pomerania , the mausoleum fell into disrepair and was still in the possession of the vondecke family. The ancestors were transferred to St. John's cemetery in 1976. In 1996, the citizens' association began restoring the ruins, which it was given in 1998.

Club life

There are twelve clubs in Ringelheim, including the STV Ringelheim sports club. There is also a traditional rifle club (Schützengilde Ringelheim eV from 1872) in Ringelheim. It is connected to the Spielmannszug , but it is called the Spielmannzug and celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2005. The sports facilities are located near the palace gardens, in the so-called Park Stadium.

regional customs

In Ringelheim, on Shrove Tuesday, the children of the village still use Fuiens as a prayer. Singing together is an essential part of Fuiens. The classic song in Ostfälisch is:

Fuie, fuie Faslam.
What did you know?
Apples or berries.
Lat mek not to long stahn, ek mott another Hius weier gahn.
Bet to Bremen. Bremen is a big city, everyone is giving Luie wat.

Economy and Infrastructure

Salzgitter-Ringelheim has a few shops (supermarket, retail). There are also various restaurants and a kiosk, a savings bank and two general practitioners, a dentist and a pharmacy. In addition, the Erlengrund specialist clinic, a rehabilitation center for addicted men and women, and the Judith-Heim, a home for people with mental disabilities, are located in Ringelheim .

Companies

The oldest company in the village that still exists today (2019) is Schaper & Brümmer , which specializes in the manufacture of herbal medicines . It was founded in 1923 by Erich Schaper and Albert Brümmer and is now in the third generation of the family. In 2013, the company generated total sales of around € 30 million and employs around 200 people.

traffic

Tracks 1 and 2 (as of 2007)

Although the Salzgitter-Ringelheim station has not had a station building since 1990, it is still the most important station in the area of ​​the city of Salzgitter. It is located at the intersection of the Hildesheim – Goslar and Braunschweig – Seesen lines and thus has direct regional connections. Salzgitter-Ringelheim also has bus connections to Baddeckestedt , Salzgitter-Bad and Seesen.

literature

  • Jörg Leuschner, Reinhard Försterling, Renate Vanis, Christine Kellner-Depner, Walter Wimmer, Dirk Schaper: Ringelheim . Ed .: Archives of the City of Salzgitter - Editing: Jörg Leuschner, Reinhard Försterling, Gabriele Sagroske, Bettina Walter and Sigrid Lux ​​(=  contributions to the city's history . Volume 29 ). Salzgitter 2015.
  • Salzgitter City Archives (ed.): South locality . Contributions to the history of the city, Volume 4, Salzgitter 1989.
  • Joachim Salzwedel: The former monastery church in Salzgitter-Ringelheim (= large architectural monuments , issue 260), 15 p. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag 1971
  • Monika Tontsch; Dirk Nothoff (photos): St. Abdon and Sennen Salzgitter-Ringelheim (= art guide No. 2184), 1st edition, 19 pages Regensburg: Schnell and Steiner, 1995
  • Hansjürgen Classen: The hydrogeological conditions of the Innerste Mulde. With special consideration of the iron ore mining near Ringelheim . University of Bonn, dissertation dated December 19, 1957
  • Åse: How Ringelheim could have got its name. A fable by the Ringelheim sculptor Åse, pictures by Klaus Bliesener. Sehlde: Illustration & Papierdesign 2006 [portfolio edition on handmade paper]
  • Literature about Ringelheim in the catalog of the DNB
  • Johann Carl Fürchtegott Schlegel: Church and Reformation History of Northern Germany and the Hanoverian States, Volume 1, Helwing, 1828, p. 99
  • Ludwig Bechstein: Deutsches Sagenbuch, Leipzig 1853, p. 470

Sources and web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ringelheim (Chronik 2015), pages 52–56
  2. ^ Mining in Salzgitter . The history of mining and the life of miners from the beginning to the present. In: Office for History, Culture and Homeland Preservation of the City of Salzgitter, Editing: Heinrich Korthöber, Jörg Leuschner, Reinhard Försterling and Sigrid Lux ​​(eds.): Contributions to city history . tape 13 . Appelhans, Salzgitter 1997, ISBN 3-930292-05-X , p. 224-225 .
  3. ^ Department for economics and statistics: Statistical yearbook of the city of Salzgitter. City of Salzgitter, accessed on February 22, 2020 (total number of eligible residents (main and secondary residence) © City of Salzgitter).
  4. ^ Department for Economics and Statistics: Monthly Statistical Reports of the City of Salzgitter. City of Salzgitter, accessed on February 22, 2020 (Population at the location of the main residence © City of Salzgitter).
  5. ^ Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch . Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , p. 36 .
  6. ↑ Dirk Schaper: Civic Association Ringelheim Civic Association Ringelheim Mausoleum
  7. ^ Bürgerblatt Salzgitter-Ringelheim: Bürgerblatt 3/2002 of the Citizenship Ringelheim and Freundeskreis eV
  8. ↑ Schaper & Brümmer: Facts and Figures , accessed on February 23, 2020
  9. ↑ Ringelheim (Chronik 2015), pages 442–444, 460