Schliestedt

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Schliestedt
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 6 ″  N , 10 ° 48 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 125 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 295  (December 1, 2016)
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 38170
Area code : 05332
East edge of Schliestedt, Schöppenstedt in the background
East edge of Schliestedt, Schöppenstedt in the background

Schliestedt is a district of the town of Schöppenstedt in the Lower Saxony district of Wolfenbüttel in Germany .

The town's landmark is the Schliestedt Castle , built in 1760 , which is one of the most important Rococo buildings in the Braunschweig region .

Geographical location

Schliestedt lies between the ridges of Elm in the north and the Asse in the southwest in the fertile Schöppenstedter Mulde. In the north, in front of the Elm and Eitzum , Schliestedt borders on the Burgtal forest . Fossil -rich Jurassic rock emerges on the surrounding hills .

history

Schliestedt as a Merian engraving around 1654

Through several finds of Neolithic tools and ceramics as well as excavations , an early Neolithic settlement through the culture of the band ceramists and other Neolithic cultures in the vicinity of the place could be proven.

The time when the place was founded is unknown. The first settlement probably arose in the 8th century when a Franconian fortification was built north of today's town. Ramps and ravines in the forest between Eitzum and Schliestedt, the "Burgtal", have been preserved from the complex to this day. The place was first mentioned in a document in 996 as Slistide . The aristocratic estates of the place belonged to the resident noble family von Schliestedt until the sale in 1562 , who were first mentioned in 1147 with Luidolfus de Slistide . The aristocratic family died out around 1613, but the title "von Schliestedt" was re-awarded in 1736 to the landowner and minister of Duke Karl I of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel Heinrich Bernhard Schrader.

church

After the castle with the associated chapel fell into disrepair around 1317, a new parish church was built at its current location in the village with significant participation from the community. It is not known when this happened. The year MCCCCC (1500) on the south side of the tower indicates a possible extension of the church building, but says nothing about the actual age of the church. Due to the Romanesque construction of the older nave, it can be concluded that it was built much earlier than 1500. The tower burned down by arson in 1783 and had to be replaced. The current spire was built in 1887 based on the original, burnt-out spire, according to which the tower had previously had a curved hood. The walled up entrance to a grave vault with a renaissance tower has been preserved in the church. The grave vault had the Schliestedter landlord and governor at the court of Duke Friedrich Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel Anton von der Streithorst for his wife Dorothea, born in 1617. erect from Bibow. The inscription in the essay and the oval cartouche with the coats of arms of those von der Streithorst and those von Bibow provide information about this. The actual addition to the grave vault in the south of the church was demolished in the early 1930s.

Castle and chateau

Schliestedt Castle

In place of the dilapidated fortifications north of today's town, a moated castle was later built in the town, which can be seen on a Merian engraving from 1654. Various noble manor owners changed the castle again and again according to building findings, until in the 18th century the landowner Heinrich Bernhard Schrader von Schliestedt had a rococo castle built on the foundation walls of the old moated castle according to the plans of the engineer Martin Peltier de Belfort . The minister of Duke Carl I. Heinrich Bernhard Schrader von Schliestedt procul negotiis, ie "far from the hustle and bustle", as you can read above the entrance to the castle building, withdrew here, who was very busy in Wolfenbüttel and later in Braunschweig. From the gable of the rococo-style central risalite, the former lord of the castle still looks at the guests entering.

In the course of time, various noble families exercised the lordship in Schliestedt and decisively determined the life of the inhabitants of the village: those of Schliestedt (around 1147–1562), those of Streithorst (1562–1663 or 1748), those of Badendorff ( 1663–1733), Lowisen von der Planitz, widowed von Badendorff (1734–1741), Heinrich Bernhard Schrader von Schliestedt (1748–1777), von Bülow (1777–1846), von Schwicheldt, and von Adelebsen (1846– 1929).

Textile manufacturing

Heinrich Bernhard Schrader von Schliestedt had a new rectory and the former “large factory house” built in Schliestedt with over 40 looms for a silk spinning mill.

On the eastern edge of the village there was once a mulberry plantation to provide food for the silkworms . The silkworm breeding failed after a few years, but the textile factories (there was still the "small factory house" at that time) produced in 1765 with around 250 people "blue-striped bed linen, white fodder linen, linen wall, diced bed linen and beaded drills for tablecloths". From the middle of the 18th century to around the middle of the 19th century, flax cultivation, linen spinning and weaving gave many day laborers and linen weavers and their families bread and work. In addition, many Schliestedter worked as servants on the manor during this time.

The rectory and the building of the "large factory house" still exist today, but only as residential buildings.

20th century

In 1929 the Baroness von Adelebsen , née von Schwicheldt , sold the property to the state, which leased it until 1936. In 1938 the estate was transferred to the Braunschweiger Siedlungsgesellschaft, which in 1939 had the land divided up and twelve SS farmers' settlements established. At that time, Schliestedt was to become an SS model settlement.

Towards the end of the Second World War, the castle housed the Braunschweig State Music School due to the air raids on Braunschweig.It was acquired in 1945 by Baron von Looz-Corswarem , a well-known history painter, and sold to the Wolfenbüttel district by his wife in 1950 after his death. In July 1950, the old people's home founded by the Red Cross in Bad Harzburg was relocated to Schliestedt Castle and in April 1952 the Schliestedt district elderly home came into the possession of the Wolfenbüttel district, which transferred it to a care company in January 1996. The castle was extensively renovated under the new owner and celebrated its 250th birthday in 2010. The stucco work by Giuseppe Buzzi and the paintings by Gregor Winck as well as the rococo-decorated central risalit on the outer facade are worth seeing in the mirror hall of the palace.

Until 1964 there was a village school in Schliestedt . After that, all school children attended the central school in Schöppenstedt. The former school building is now used as living space and village community center.

On March 1, 1974, Schliestedt was incorporated into the town of Schöppenstedt.

today

The economy now consists mainly of agriculture and the local, privately run senior citizens' and elderly care home, which is housed in Schliestedter Castle and the surrounding buildings. Schliestedt has its own sports club, the Schliestedt / Eitzum volunteer fire brigade and the Schliestedt Castle Riding School with dressage and jumping training up to class S.

  • Schliestedt, northwest edge of the place

  • Schliestedter Church

  • Schliestedter rectory

  • Former village school

  • Schliestedter Castle Park

Personalities

literature

  • Uwe Kramer: History and stories of Schliestedt , Schliestedt 1996.
  • Karl Schattenberg: On the history of Schliestedt and Warle , 1903.

Web links

Commons : Schliestedt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Schliestett in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Samtgemeinde Elm-Asse: Population figures and area sizes ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 27, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elm-asse.de
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 272 .