Tilly Hill

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The Tilly hill with the warrior memorial
Elevation stratification around the Tillysee - the Tillyhügel lies northeast of Wardenburg

The Tillyhügel is a hill in the area of ​​the municipality of Wardenburg in the eastern Hunte-Leda-Moorniederung. He is 11 meters above sea level. NN the highest elevation of the largely wooded ridge , which extends west and south of the Tillysee and merges into the Delmenhorster Geest . In contrast to the immediately adjacent, lower-lying, damp parcels of land, the Tillyhügel was used as Eschland for centuries . There is a warrior memorial on the summit of the Tilly hill. A nature trail has been laid out on the Tilly hill.

Name derivation

The following can be read on a notice board at the foot of the Tilly hill:

The army of the imperial general Johann t Serdaes Graf von Tilly (1559 - 1632) camped on the hill from September 2 to 23, 1623 . With 25,000 soldiers, Tilly was in pursuit of the opposing General Ernst von Mansfeld , who had taken a position in East Friesland . Through skilful negotiations and rich gifts, Count Anton Günther von Oldenburg managed to get Tilly's troops to withdraw without a fight. The Wardenburg population suffered from looting and confiscations for three weeks.

In the vernacular, this hill was called "Teepenbarg" until the memorial for the fallen of the First World War was erected in 1925, and only then did the name Tillyhügel prevail in memory of the event of the Thirty Years' War .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Agency for Nature Conservation: Profile “Eastern Leda-Hunte-Moorniederung” ( memento of the original from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfn.de
  2. ↑ Community of Wardenburg: streets and buildings provide information about Wardenburg's history ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wardenburg.de
  3. ^ Schools in Lower Saxony online eV: History atlas . Article Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′  N , 8 ° 12 ′  E