Varmissen
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Varmissen
City of Dransfeld
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| Height : | 349 m |
| Residents : | 256 |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1973 |
| Postal code : | 37127 |
| Area code : | 05502 |
Varmissen is part of the town of Dransfeld in the district of Göttingen in southern Lower Saxony . The village is located about 2 km east of Dransfeld and 10 km west of Göttingen. In the north, Varmissen is accessed by federal highway 3 . North of the city that lies about 655 ha large nature reserve Fehr Busch - Ossenberg .
history
Varmissen was first mentioned on August 12, 1311, when Heinrich Schade renounced all rights to goods near Vermelsen that his ancestors had sold to the Mariengarten monastery . The place was once on the Dransfelder Heerstraße , a hillside path that led from Göttingen via Dransfeld to Münden . This branched out again between Olenhusen and Varmissen, so that Varmissen had been on the main route of the Heerstrasse since the 15th century at the earliest. In the second half of the 18th century, this route was replaced by the valley path through the villages. To the west of Varmissen there is a stone wheel cross, which, if it is still in its place of origin, shows the medieval course of the road at this point.
Since the early 14th century, a noble family has been run from the village. In 1319 Henricus von Mississen appeared as a witness in a document in which the Lords of Hardenberg sold a farm and land in Rosdorf to the house of the Teutonic Order in Göttingen . In 1387 Barthold von Mississen was one of the allies of Duke Otto the Quaden . From 1511 to 1531 Johann von Vermessen was provost in the Weende Monastery and Conrad von Vermessen worked as a canon in Fritzlar in 1516 .
In the middle of the 19th century Varmissen was in the sub- office of the Münden Office and had 140 inhabitants. In 1871 Varmissen had 145 residents, 28 residential buildings and 20 households, the number decreased in 1875 to 120 residents, 19 residential buildings and 23 households. On January 1, 1973, Varmissen was incorporated into the city of Dransfeld.
coat of arms
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Blazon : "In blue on a silver floor a silver cross stone, top right and left a three-leaf linden branch." |
| Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms shows the stone cross that is still at the entrance to Varmissen. The linden branches symbolize the location of the cross under a group of linden trees, which has been handed down from the earliest times. The coat of arms was approved by the Lower Saxony regional president Georg Diederichs in 1964. |
Culture and sights
church
The chapel building in Varmissen belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Martini in Dransfeld. It is made of limestone with corner blocks. The oldest part is dated to the 14th century and was originally built as a four-storey defense tower . The addition of a slightly larger and also only slightly lower rectangular nave on the north-west side of the tower probably took place only a short time later. In the upper area in the tower and in the nave the loopholes-like window slits are still preserved, which underline the defensive character of the medieval building. In contrast, larger arched windows were broken into on the ground floor in the 18th century. Another major structural change is the removal of the original vault from the nave. In 2011, the church had to be temporarily closed and renovated due to an infestation with real dry rot .
Wheel cross
Coming from the highway three, one sees at the entrance with a few Linden one as a wheel cross -trained stone cross on a bricked stone, pedestal. Its surfaces face east and west. According to legend, its origin lies in the Christianization of Boniface , who is said to have placed the stone himself in its current location. That is why it is also known as the Boniface stone. At the same time, the stone cross symbolizes the earlier course of Dransfelder Heerstraße. The cross is dated to around 1400.
Mark's Cross
Another stone cross is now in the front garden of the Göttingen Municipal Museum and is known as the Markus Cross . It was originally found in Papenbusch northwest of the town and brought to Göttingen in 1905. Inscriptions are carved on the front and back, which are only partially legible. After that, a date is given on one side of the cross, namely the day after the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist , i.e. April 26th, the year 1260. Because the century is no longer legible, the reading 1360 was discussed several times. On the other hand, besides the name Willehelm, there is also other writing that is not reliably legible and has given rise to numerous attempts at interpretation. In addition, blacksmithing tools are shown with an anvil (according to other interpretations, a hammer), hammer and tongs, which suggest the profession of Wilhelm, who may have died.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Manfred von Boetticher: Document book of the Mariengarten monastery . In: Göttingen-Grubenhagener Urkundenbuch, 2nd section . No. 123 . August Lax, Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-7848-3017-X .
- ↑ a b Dietrich Denecke : Göttingen in the network of medieval traffic routes . In: Dietrich Denecke / Helga-Maria Kühn (eds.): Göttingen history of a university town. From the beginning to the end of the Thirty Years War . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1987, ISBN 3-525-36196-3 , pp. 367 .
- ^ Wilhelm Lotze: History of the city of Münden and the surrounding area . Self-published, Hann. Münden 1878, p. 283 .
- ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Harseim, C. Schlüter: Statistical Manual for the Kingdom of Hanover . Ed .: Friedrich Wilhelm Harseim, C. Schlüter. Schlütersche Hofbuchdruckerei, Hanover 1848, p. 77 .
- ↑ http://www.stadt-dransfeld.de/stadt/geschichte/dransfeld.html
- ^ Peter Ferdinand Lufen: District of Göttingen, part 1. Altkreis Münden with the communities of Adelebsen, Bovenden and Rosdorf . In: Christiane Segers-Glocke (Hrsg.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony . tape 5.2 . CW Niemeyer, Hameln 1993, ISBN 3-87585-251-6 , p. 115 .
- ↑ Jörn Barke: Fungal attack: Chapel in Varmissen closed . Göttinger Tageblatt, online edition, from May 25, 2011. Retrieved on March 12, 2014
- ↑ DI 19, Stadt Göttingen, No. 2 , (Werner Arnold), in: www.inschriften.net (Deutsche Insschriften online), urn: nbn: de: 0238-di019g001k0000209 , accessed on March 12, 2014
