Quernheim Abbey
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Quernheim Abbey
Kirchlengern municipality
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| Height : | 90 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 1.61 km² |
| Residents : | 1653 (Jan. 1, 2007) |
| Population density : | 1,027 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1969 |
| Postal code : | 32278 |
| Area code : | 05223 |
  Location of Quernheim Abbey in Kirchlengern
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Quernheim Abbey is a district of the municipality of Kirchlengern in northeast North Rhine-Westphalia with over 1,600 inhabitants and belongs to the Herford district .
Before 1969, Quernheim Abbey formed its own parish in the Kirchlengern district . As part of the municipal regional reform on January 1, 1969, it was merged with other municipalities to form the new municipality of Kirchlengern. Quernheim Abbey has a lively town center along Stiftstrasse with various shops, medical practices and a pharmacy. The place thus also fulfills important supply functions for the smaller neighboring villages and scattered settlements.
coat of arms
Description:
In red shields, separated by a covered archway in silver flanked by two towering turrets, above two heraldic lilies, below an undershot water mill wheel in silver.
Blazon:
Red is the color of the Minden territory. Silver points to historical and territorial-neighborly relations with the county of Ravensberg , with which the territory of Minden has formed an administrative province of the Brandenburg-Prussian state since 1719, and to the fact that the community belongs to the Wittekindkreis Herford.
The covered archway, which separates the shield field into two fields, is flanked by two towering turrets and is taken from the 13th century seal of the former Quernheim monastery , whose images of the Mother of God with the child in the upper field and a holy bishop, presumably Augustine , in the lower field represent (Ludorff, architectural and art monuments of the Herford district).
The heraldic lilies in the upper field are reminiscent of the 17th century pen seal showing a heraldic lily as a monastery coat of arms.
The water wheel in the lower field is supposed to symbolize the three mills in Quernheim am Mühlenbache, which are only a few hundred meters apart, and indicate the meaning of the name Quernheim - Querne - Mühle.
One of the mills can be identified as early as 1270 (molendinum - water mill). It is not possible to determine which of the three monastery mills still in existence today, for which the old names Oberste-, Mittelste- and Niederste Stiftsmühle still exist in the vernacular today, are mentioned in the document.
Of the many mills that are located on the Mühlenbache from the sources of its three source streams to its confluence with the Werre at Alt-Schockenmühle, the three monastery mills are likely to have always been the most important, given the extensive property of the monastery and the location near the monastery. According to records from 1548, of the ten landlords listed there who owned goods in the Quernheimer Mark, the monastery owned most of the goods there.
Geographical location
The district of Stift Quernheim is located in the north of the East Westphalian municipality of Kirchlengern in the Ravensberger Land . In the west, north and east it borders on monastery farmers , in the east on Rehmerloh and in the south on Quernheim .
The closest major cities are Bielefeld, 25 km to the south, and Osnabrück, 40 km to the west .
climate
The predominant climate is the Atlantic maritime climate . The long-term mean climate data (1971-2000) for Herford , about 15 km from the air, is shown in the table below.
| month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | year |
| Temperature in ° C | 1.8 | 2.2 | 5.3 | 8.4 | 13.0 | 15.6 | 17.7 | 17.4 | 13.8 | 9.8 | 5.4 | 3.1 | 9.5 |
| Precipitation in mm | 72 | 49 | 65 | 53 | 65 | 82 | 69 | 71 | 73 | 61 | 64 | 80 | 804 |
In the long-term average (1961–1990) the region had an average of 1497 hours of sunshine per year (observation station: Herford). The long-term average of the weather data for Quernheim Abbey should not deviate significantly from the data given from Herford, since the cities are roughly the same height and in a comparable natural area.
See also: Climate in Ostwestfalen-Lippe
Buildings
Collegiate church
The collegiate church
Stiftskirche Abbey Quernheim. Memorial stone in the churchyard
Memorial plaque for the last noble ladies in the women's monastery in Quernheim
The collegiate church in Quernheim Abbey is essentially a Romanesque building from the 12th century . In the 16th century the central nave was extended to the north in the late Gothic style and re- vaulted . The collegiate church is the nucleus of Kirchlengern, a former monastery and women's monastery . The multi-part late Gothic winged altar from around 1525 is very impressive .
Mansion
Right next to the collegiate church is the abbess's house, known as the manor house, dating from 1676. It was initially built as a residence for around 30 heads of the women's monastery in Quernheim. The monastery was dissolved in 1810 in the course of secularization and initially continued as a Prussian state domain. The Prussians sold in 1832 to Commissioner Conrad Wilhelm Delius zu Minden and Delius handed the mansion over to his son-in-law, Major a. D. Wilhelm Bacmeister zu Grapenstein (1791–1874). He lived in the building until 1861 and had it extended by 6.5 m in 1837. In 1861, because of Bacmeister's financial worries, it was sold to the cigar manufacturer Steinmeister & Wellensiek , who expanded the house again and set up a cigar factory. It was used until 1971 and was about to be demolished in 1976. The Ravensberg Biological Station in the Herford district has been located in the manor house since 1993. Weddings have also been held since 1998 in a room with a historic ceiling painting.
religion
The population is predominantly Protestant.
- Evangelical Lutheran parish
- The Roman Catholic parish is the parish of St. Canisius and St. Xaverius, which is part of the Bünder-Land pastoral network
Regular events
- Winter ball of the quernheim abbey fire fighting group / monastery farmers
- Dance in May of the advertising community at the Myer Zwo restaurant in Quernheim Abbey
- Christmas market on the first Thursday and Friday in December at the collegiate church
Sports
Notable football clubs are the BV 21 Stift Quernheim and the newly founded Kloster / Stift club are now in action on the artificial turf pitch in Stift Quernheim.
Educational institutions
In Quernheim Abbey there is a primary school that is open all day and has 25 teachers and employees.
Public facilities
- Chimney
Bus transport
The district is served by a local bus line (ring line) with which you can get to Kirchlengern train station for further connections . Regional buses go to Bünde and taxi buses to Lübbecke.
Legend of a benevolent canoness
According to a legend, around 200 years ago the farmers and kötter of the Quernheim Abbey were regularly addicted to alcohol during the "great days" (carnival). In one year, the farmers and Kötter approved the beer from the monastery-owned brewery so much that they no longer had the money to support their families. The cane Hedwig Luise Beate von Korff (born on April 23, 1697, sworn on March 23, 1713, died on May 11, 1767) from the Waghorst house is said to have taken pity on the hungry and distributed rolls to the starving Kötter families. Although this charitable act is neither written down in written records nor in any chronicle, over the years it became the custom of distributing large raisin buns (so-called Hedewigte) to school children in Quernheim Abbey and the surrounding area one day after Rose Monday.
literature
- Uwe Lobbedey: The Romanesque collegiate church in Quernheim (Herford district) . In: Westphalia. 50: 200-209 (1972). (Report on the excavations in the collegiate church during the restoration in 1965.)
- Wolfgang Schuler: The church in Quernheim Abbey. ( Great Architectural Monuments , Issue 336). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1981, DNB 820815438 .
- Erich Scheiding: Quernheim Abbey yesterday and today . Self-published by the Ravensberg Foundation for Nature, 1992.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 74 .
- ↑ Herford climate data. Retrieved April 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Manske: The late Gothic winged altar in the church at Quernheim Abbey. Announcements of the Minden History Society, year 55 (1983). Pp. 33-53.
Web links
- Kirchlengern website
- Quernheim Abbey in the Westphalia Cultural Atlas
