Teistungenburg

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The Teistungenburg desert is located in the district of Teistungen in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia .

Access area to the former Teistungenburg monastery and today's hotel complex

location

The desert is about one kilometer north of Teistungen in the valley of the Hahle directly on the state border with Lower Saxony . The place was on an old trade route between Duderstadt in the north and Heiligenstadt and Mühlhausen in the south.

History of the settlement

The first written mention of the place Teistungenburg took place in a forged document of the monastery Lippoldsberg on the Weser for the year 1062 (1090), where the ownership claims of the monastery on the tenth of several places, including Teistungenburg, were recorded. For the period from 1137 to 1158 a comparison was made between the Lippoldsberg monastery and the knight Halmbertus over the tithe in Eistingeberg . A church with the name St. Paulus or priests appointed there were mentioned several times in documents between 1227 and 1270. Until the foundation of the monastery, the church in Teistungenburg was the original church of the archdeacon of Heiligenstadt , to which ten other churches (four of them in today's desolations) in the area belonged administratively, afterwards these places belonged to the Sedes Duderstadt.

In 1260 10 nuns from the Beuren monastery were initially settled in the village of Teistungenburg on the property of the Dukes of Braunschweig and the Teistungenburg monastery was established. In a comparison between the monasteries of Beuren and Teistungenburg, Teistungenburg received 10 silver marks from the mother monastery in order to acquire the mountain above Teistungenburg from the Quedlinburg monastery ("montem in Testingrborc"). At this time, the Quedlinburg Abbey is the feudal lord of the Mark Duderstadt and thus the area around Teistungenburg. On this hill above the village, the monastery was rebuilt from 1270 until it was finally demolished from 1963 as part of the border security measures on the inner German border . Between 1270 and 1333 numerous documents were issued in which the Teistungenburg monastery acquired numerous properties and rights in the village from various noble families.

Presumably the place fell in the 14th century, the church of St. Paul is said to have existed in 1540.

Teistungenburg Castle

A medieval castle , the so-called Teistungenburg Castle , is said to have stood on the hill above Teistungenburg, where the later Teistungenburg Monastery was built . No direct documentary evidence is known, and no archaeological evidence is to be expected due to the extensive renovation work during the construction of the monastery, its demolition and the construction of the border crossing.

The Teistungenburg is believed to have been the castle of the ducal court (farmyard) in Duderstadt. This is mentioned in a document from King Heinrich I in 929 together with the Quedlinburg , Pöhlde , Nordhausen and Grone farms as a widow's estate for his wife Mathilde. Duderstadt as the central place of the Mark Duderstadt has no usable castle site, Teistungenburg is only about 3.5 kilometers south of the estate. Bailiffs sat at the castle as vassals of the Quedlingurg monastery for the Mark Duderstadt. At the beginning of the 13th century the feudal takers were the Counts of Scharzfeld-Lutterberg and a noble family from the Mark as sub-guilds. The village of Teistungenburg was part of the castle. There was a chapel of the Apostle Peter in the castle. It is not known when the castle was abandoned or destroyed. In 1286 the Teistungenburg monastery acquired the castle hill and built its new monastery there, the monastery church was then consecrated to the two apostles Peter and Paul.

Current condition

There are no more traces of the village of Teistungenburg today. With the construction of the railway line from Leinefelde to Wulften and the establishment of the Worbis / Duderstadt border crossing (1973), the area was significantly changed and possible findings are no longer to be expected. Today the Grenzlandmuseum Eichsfeld is located there . It is not known whether the former upper and lower monastery mills were related to the village, the modern mill tower of the lower mill is still there.

In the place of the castle there are only individual parts of the monastery building such as a stable, an archway and the monastery fountain, as well as a newly built hotel complex with a pool area to the north.

Origin of name

It is difficult to derive the basic word Teistungen. One assumption is the origin of a river name Agista for Eistingen (1089) or Eistingenberg (1062). The ending -burg probably refers to the castle above the village. The spelling for Teistungenburg is very varied for the period up to the 16th century: Teistingenburgk, Testinceborch, Testingheborg, Teystingenburch, Teystingeborgh etc.

literature

  • Adolf Kegel: Teistungenburg. In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift, Vol. 52 (2008), pp. 255–259
  • Franz Boegehold: The original parish Teistungenburg. In: Die Goldene Mark, Vol. 3, 10 (1952), pp. 8-12
  • Franz Boegehold: The castle of Duderstadt. In: Goldene Mark 28 (1977), pp. 1-9
  • Anna Egler: The Cistercian convent Teistungenburg (approx. 1260–1809). In: Eichsfeld-Jahrbuch, Vol. 21 (2013), pp. 53-104
  • Thomas Müller: Teistungenburg Monastery and its history. Heiligenstadt (1997)
  • Julius Jäger (Ed.): Document book of the Teistungenburg monastery in Eichsfelde. (Vol. 1–2), Duderstadt (1878–1879)
  • Home u. Tourist office Teistungen: Teistungenburg: history, landscape, sights. Verlag Mecke Duderstadt 1997

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Godehardt: The Eichsfeldische Tenthorte Teistungen, Tastungen, Gerblingerode and Ferna in the forged founding document of the Archbishop of Mainz Ruthard (1089–1109) for the Benedictine monastery Lippoldsberg on the Weser. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte, Ed. Pedagogical District Cabinet Worbis, Eichsfelddruck Heiligenstadt, 28th year (1988), Issue 4, pp. 323-348
  2. ↑ Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : Die Wüstungen des Eichsfeldes: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of law and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. Göttingen (O. Hendel) 1903, pp. 228-236
  3. ^ Helmut Jäger: Historical and regional excursion map of Lower Saxony. Sheet of Duderstadt (scale 1: 50000). Edited by Helmut Jäger, map and explanatory booklet, Hildesheim 1964, page 27
  4. ↑ Volker Große, Gunter Römer: Lost cultural sites in Eichsfeld 1945 to 1989 A documentation . Eichsfeld Verlag, Heilbad Heiligenstadt, 2006, page 185
  5. ^ Paul Grimm and Wolfgang Timpel: The prehistoric and early historical fortifications of the Worbis district. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte special edition, Worbis 1966, pp. 19 and 64
  6. ^ Franz Boegehold: The castle of Duderstadt. In: Goldene Mark 28 (1977), pages 1-9
  7. ↑ Jürgen Udolph : onenological studies on the German problem. Walter de Gruyter Berlin 1994, p. 237
  8. ↑ Anna Egler: The Cistercian convent Teistungenburg (approx. 1260–1809). In: Eichsfeld-Jahrbuch, Vol. 21 (2013), pp. 53–54

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 52.3 "  N , 10 ° 15 ′ 32.9"  E