Terheide

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The gold bowls from Terheide

Terheide is a residential area in the municipality of Westerholt in the integrated municipality of Holtriem in the Wittmund district in Lower Saxony . The place became known as the place where the Terheide gold bowls were found . For the first time it is referred to in 1521 as "vorwerck ter heyde" and in 1599 as "Heide". The current spelling has been in use since 1670.

During the Middle Ages there was an outwork of the Meerhusen monastery in the place , which was possibly an independent monastery before it was incorporated . It is probably one of those early-founded monasteries on the coast that Cornelius Ignatius Damen describes in his Geschiedenis van de Benediktijnenkloosters in de provincie Groningen as poor monasteries, which were quickly abandoned after their foundation. There are only indirect indications of the existence of an independent monastery. The residents of the surrounding villages of Westerholt, Nenndorf and Schweindorf had to do services on the area belonging to the farm even after the secularization . The fact that the area is marked with a monastery signature on a map by David Fabricius from 1589 speaks for the monastery hypothesis. Other (post-Reformation) sources speak of a monastery.

literature

  • Axel Heinze: Terheide . In: Josef Dolle with the collaboration of Dennis Kniehauer (Ed.): Lower Saxony Monastery Book. Directory of the monasteries, monasteries, comedians and beguinages in Lower Saxony and Bremen from the beginnings to 1810 . Part 3, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 3-89534-959-3 , p. 1410 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelius Ignatius Damen: Geschiedenis van de Benediktijnenkloosters in de provincie Groningen , ISBN 90-232-0958-3 .
  2. ↑ a b Axel Heinze: Terheide . In: Josef Dolle with the collaboration of Dennis Kniehauer (Ed.): Lower Saxony Monastery Book. Directory of the monasteries, monasteries, comedians and beguinages in Lower Saxony and Bremen from the beginnings to 1810 . Part 3, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 3-89534-959-3 , p. 1410 f.

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 2.9 "  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 57.2"  E