Süpplingenburg

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Helmstedt
Joint municipality :	North Elm
Height :	114 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.3 km 2
Residents:	641 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	45 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	38376
Area code :	05355
License plate :	HE
Community key :	03 1 54 022
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Steinweg 15 ; 38373 Süpplingen
Website :	www.samtgemeinde-nord-elm.de
Mayor :	Dieter Eckner
Location of the community of Süpplingenburg in the Helmstedt district

Süpplingenburg is a municipality in the Helmstedt district in Lower Saxony . It is a member community of the combined community of Nord-Elm and borders directly on the community of Süpplingen .

description

In the east of the village is the "sand pond". The standing water was originally created with three islands. When the water supply dried up in the early 1990s, two islands were removed. In order to let the water level rise again, a spring was exposed. The pond still has little water. A rhododendron park has been created around the pond, which is in bloom at the end of May / beginning of June. On Sand Pond is the megalithic grave Süpplingenburg that in 1976 between Süpplingenburg and Emmerstedt was discovered and in 1982 to its present location translocated was.

history

As the place name suggests, Süpplingenburg emerged from a castle complex. This originated in the 10th century in the swampy Schunter lowland. The builders were probably the Counts of Haldensleben . By marriage, the castle fell to Count Gebhard, the father of Lothar III. , known as Lothar von Süpplingenburg. He was King (1125–1137) and Emperor (1133–1137) of the Holy Roman Empire . The moated castle Süpplingenburg was considered to be his ancestral home. From around 800 to 1200 there was the settlement of Grubenhaussiedlung am Petersteich a few hundred meters south of the castle, which is believed to have an economic connection to the castle complex and which later fell into desolation .

Castle

St. Johannis Church on the former castle grounds of Castle Süpplingenburg

The castle Süpplingenburg was as Marsh Castle built on an island in the Schunter. The square complex was 70 × 70 m in size and was surrounded by walls, moats and ramparts. The main castle had a bower and a residential building. The St. John's Church with a cloister , a Romanesque structure at its core , stood on the castle grounds . To the north there was a bailey with a farm yard. An old north-south trade route, the “Salzweg”, passed near the castle. From the 11th century it was crossed here by the east-west trade route from Braunschweig to Magdeburg. From the 16th century onwards, several stately and farm buildings in half-timbered construction were added to the outer wall . Around 1875, except for the church, all the castle buildings and the fortification walls were demolished and the moat was filled in. Today the site is hardly recognizable as an earlier castle, but its remains are in the ground, as was discovered during excavations in the 1960s and 1970s. An impression of the magnificent buildings that were in this area at the time of Lothar III. emerged that mediates in Königslutter built Collegiate Church of St. Peter and Paul ( Kaiserdom Königslutter ), which is also the grave lay Lothar of Süpplingenburg.

Johanniter comers

Süpplingenburg around 1650 as an engraving by Merian

After the dissolution of the Knights Templar in 1312 by Pope Clement V , the convent buildings of St. John's Church on the castle grounds were handed over to the Order of St. John in 1357. They remained in his possession until 1820 as a commandery. The origins of Süpplingenburg Castle as Johanniter - Kommende go back to the year 1130, when Lothar III. laid the foundation stone for the collegiate church of St. Johannis here at his ancestral home , which was completed in 1140. The collegiate monastery and the castle came into the possession of the Knights Templar around 1173 under Heinrich the Lion . The Commandery Süpplingenburg in the Ballei Brandenburg was for a long time the headquarters of the last Preceptor of the German Lands, Friedrich von Alvensleben .

Sand pond

religion

66% of the population of Süpplingenburg are Protestant, 4% Catholic. The Protestant parish belongs to the Königslutter provost of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church in Braunschweig . The few Catholics belong to the parish of St. Ludgeri in Helmstedt in the Wolfsburg-Helmstedt deanery of the Hildesheim diocese ; the next branch church is St. Bonifatius (Süpplingen) .

literature

Hans Adolf Schultz : Castles and palaces of the Braunschweiger Land. Braunschweig 1980, ISBN 3-87884-012-8 .
Ernst Andreas Friedrich : The former Süpplingenburg. P. 61–63, In: If stones could talk. Volume IV, Landbuch-Verlag, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-7842-0558-5 .

Web links

Commons : Süpplingenburg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Supplingenburg in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian) - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-NI-1] State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).

[2] sus database