Runstedt (Helmstedt)

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Runstedt was a municipality in the Helmstedt district in Lower Saxony . It was located about three kilometers east of Wolsdorf and had to give way to open- cast lignite mining in the Helmstedt district . The Trendelbusch residential area, one kilometer southeast of the village of Runstedt, also belonged to it .

history

In the Middle Ages there was a permanent house here , which was the ancestral seat of the noble von Rundstedt family named after them .

From 1958 to 1968 the village was demolished because it was on coal to be mined. On April 1, 1960, the village of Runstedt was incorporated into the city of Helmstedt . In 1964 the film Runstedt - Village on Coal was made, in the same year the church was torn down. On October 24, 1972, the last building in Runstedt, the mill, was demolished.

In 2009 a memorial stone was inaugurated in memory of the former village. Information about Runstedt can be found today in the local history museum in Reinsdorf .

Considerations of rebuilding Runstedt at a new location north of Neu Büddenstedt or in the Wolsdorf / Frellstedt area were not implemented.

Infrastructure

church

The majority of the residents and the church were Evangelical Lutheran. The small church was in the center of the village, it was built in 1822 and had a roof turret . In 1960 the parish of Runstedt was removed from the Wolsdorf parish and expanded to include a part of the city of Helmstedt, from which the parish of St. Thomas in Helmstedt emerged in the 1960s . The last service took place in the Runstedter church on June 14, 1964, and in the same year it was demolished. The bronze bell, also from 1822, found a new place in the St. Marienberg Church in Helmstedt.

The closest Catholic churches were in Wolsdorf (since 1914) and Helmstedt.

literature

  • Hermann Kleinau: On the history of the farms in the village of Runstedt (district of Helmstedt) and their lands.
  • Anneliese Perkampus: Childhood in Runstedt. In: District book 2012 of the district of Helmstedt

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History 1970 to 1979 on the website of the district of Helmstedt , accessed on February 25, 2018
  2. ↑ Heinz Pohlendt: The district Helmstedt. Bremen-Horn 1957, p. 301

Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 39.1 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 20.3 ″  E