Venhaus
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Venhaus
Spelle municipality
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 27 " N , 7 ° 26 ′ 52" E
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| Height : | 33 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 10 km² | |
| Residents : | 518 (Dec. 31, 2013) | |
| Population density : | 52 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1971 | |
| Postal code : | 48480 | |
| Area code : | 05977 | |
Location of Venhaus in Lower Saxony |
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 Catholic Church of St. Vitus
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Venhaus is a district of the municipality of Spelle in the south of the Emsland district in Lower Saxony . Adjacent to the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the south, Venhaus extends over an area of around 10 km². The Speller Aa flows through Venhaus. In the west, the federal road 70 runs through the municipality to the north. The Dortmund-Ems Canal with its port and the Venhaus lock runs across the main road . In the northeast, the place borders on the municipality of Spelle.
Townscape
The appearance of Venhaus, the actual center of which is located on the Speller Aa, is primarily shaped by the elaborately redesigned castle park in 2001/2002. With the drawbridge, the moats, the church and the sacristy, the complex forms the center of the Venhauser sights. This also includes the Sandtel grain distillery, which is more than two hundred years old, the old sawmill at the “Bermuda Triangle” and the “Gut Venhaus”. Overall, Venhaus is more of a rural nature, even if several purely residential areas have been developed in the village for several years.
- It is a secluded place from the world with an eventful and not unromantic history behind it. The name means moor house. The wastelands of yore have long been cultivated, and the moor is only reminiscent of the neighborhood of Moorlage near Listrup.
history
Venhaus (old: Venehus = settlement in the moor) can look back on more than 830 years of village history, although the place itself is probably older than the first documents (1177 as "Hof Venehus") vouch for. For a long time in the possession of the St. Mauritz Monastery (run as domus Hemelrici ) in Münster , the farm was expanded into a castle with a surrounding moated castle in the fifteenth century by the new owners, the von Langen family .
During the Thirty Years War , Venhaus Castle was destroyed twice (1623 by Tilly's troops , 1648 by the Swedish army) and a short time later it was rebuilt by the new owners, the Barons of Ripperda . After the property changed hands again, a chapel was built on the castle for the first time in 1674, which served the purpose of offering persecuted Catholics a safe place to pray. Up until the 19th century, Venhaus Castle fell into disrepair, which led to all of the buildings except today's church and the sacristy being demolished.
On January 1, 1971, Venhaus was incorporated into the municipality of Spelle.
Development of the population
| population | 1880 | 1900 | 1925 | 1933 | 1939 | 1950 | 1961 | 1970 | 2013 |
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| Venhaus | 205 | 257 | 296 | 311 | 339 | 464 | 492 | 770 | 518 |
economy
Venhaus is predominantly agricultural, but it is also the location of the Portlandstrasse industrial area, as well as several medium-sized and smaller businesses. The infrastructure is influenced by Bundesstrasse 70 and the Dortmund-Ems Canal , which run in the southwest of the town. The A 30 runs between Rheine and Venhaus along the inland canal.
Hoeke and Kingdom
Even if Venhaus seems small, it has been divided into several Hoeke for decades:
- “Hook un Strate”: the center of Venhaus around the church
- "Burenhook": the settlement areas south and southeast of the town center
- "Achter der Aa": all settlements directly bordering Spelle north of the Venhauser Aa
The origins of the name "Kingdom of Venhaus" can no longer be precisely proven, but can be traced back to the local KLJB . The designation of the small place as a kingdom can indicate that the place had its own castle, which in the opinion of the people of course needed a king.
The initial irony in the movement is now almost completely gone, the population continues to affectionately refer to their place as a “kingdom” and has practiced this custom for several generations (including printing T-shirts, “redesigning” official place name signs and taking every opportunity to to underpin this "royal claim"), which led to the fact that the place is known beyond the local borders as the "Kingdom of Venhaus".
Personalities
- August Sandtel (1911–1992), Roman Catholic clergyman and provost in Bremen from 1961 to 1981
- Wolfgang Schütte (* 1974), former soccer player
literature
- Helmut H. Boyer: Venhaus: History and Life of a Small Place. A chronicle of the 800th anniversary . 1977
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geodata Center - Venhaus
- ↑ Bojer, Reinhard: Emsländische Heimatkunde im Nationalozialismus: Heimatkundliches from Emsland daily newspapers 1933-1945, Vol. 1, Books on Demand GmbH, February 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2453-2 , p. 232.
- ↑ a b c Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 255 .