Vinnen
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Vinnen
Lähden municipality
Coordinates: 52 ° 46 ′ 30 ″ N , 7 ° 41 ′ 11 ″ E
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| Height : | 30 m | |
| Residents : | 650 | |
| Incorporation : | 1st February 1971 | |
| Postal code : | 49774 | |
| Area code : | 05432 | |
Location of Vinnen in Lower Saxony |
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Vinnen is a village with about 650 inhabitants and belongs to the municipality of Lähden in the district of Emsland in western Lower Saxony .
Geographical location
The village lies between the rivers Mittelradde and Südradde , which in turn flow into the Hase . The following villages border on Vinnen:
- Ahmsen , Herßum (both municipality of Lähden )
- Wieste ( Werlte municipality )
- Wachtum , Elbergen (City of Löningen )
History and politics
Vinnen is mentioned for the first time in a deed of donation from Emperor Otto the Great from the 10th century as the property of Corvey in Agradingau .
The landmark of Vinnen is the St. Antonius Church. It was built from 1853 to 1858 by the architect Josef Niehaus from Haselünne . The baptismal font of the Bentheim type and an old missal that was written especially for Vinnen date from the period from 1430 to 1450. It is a "Promptuarium" in which only those parts were included that were required in the place, because masses were not celebrated every day. The book illuminations, especially an elaborate crucifixion scene, and the unusual score, which provide an indication of the sacred music of the time, are to be emphasized. The baroque altar, created around 1760 by the sculptor Johann Heinrich König (1705–1784) from Münster , comes from the abolished Franciscan monastery in Aschendorf . In the tower hang three bells from the Otto bell foundry from 1948 with the tones: a '- e' - d '' and a weight of one ton.
The previous church was built in 1523. Before that, according to oral tradition, there was a monastery in Vinnen. The name of a street still suggests this today, but documented evidence of the existence of this monastery has not yet been provided.
After Vinnen was Protestant for a short time in the 16th century, it became Catholic in 1614, but was not given the status of an independent parish again, but was subordinated to the municipality of Holte . Although a priest who fled French persecution worked in Vinnen in 1795, there was a permanent clergyman only from 1847 onwards. Vinnen became legally independent in 1921.
The ancestors of Wilhelm Anton Riedemann and the noble family Riedemann , which he founded, come from Vinnen.
Until the arrival of machines and tractors in agriculture at the beginning of the 20th century, there were mainly rural units for livelihood in addition to craft trades. Few peasants had a larger number of hiring men . As in the case of court heirs, the positions as hiring workers were inherited, these fixed communities are called "Wehrs" in Vinnen.
In the 19th century, as in the rest of the country, young men and entire families who were not entitled to inheritance left the place as emigrants and went to the USA or, in particular, in the years 1869–1871 to Rudolfstal in Bosnia (today Bosanski Aleksandrovac ).
On February 1, 1971, Vinnen was assigned to the municipality of Lähden as part of the municipality reform , which in turn belongs to the integrated municipality of Herzlake . This was done against the will of the majority of the citizens, who traditionally feel that they belong to Löningen . A majority vote in a referendum with over 90% opposition to a merger with Lähden was ignored. Even today, Vinnen still has the same phone code as Löningen (05432), while all other Lähden districts fall into the 05964 area code.
In recent decades, the CDU has always received at least a two-thirds majority in elections. In fact, other parties play no role.
Education and culture
The last school in Vinnen (the "Catholic elementary and elementary school") was closed in 1994. Up to this point in time, classes 1 to 4 were taught in two classrooms, so that two school years each received one lesson. Since the closure, the Vinner children have attended primary and secondary school in Holte-Lastrup, while secondary school and high school in Löningen are attended.
The village community center is the cultural center of Vinnen. Concerts by the local music club and performances by the Low German theater group take place here. The everyday language of a large part of the population is still Low German . Standard German is used in the written language.
Vinnen is over 90% Catholic; the St. Antonius parish and thus the Catholic Church as a whole play a decisive role in public life. The KLJB is the only youth organization, women are organized in the Catholic Women's Community of Germany (KFD). Men (and since the decision of the General Assembly 2019 also women) are members of the shooting club Vinnen von 1855 eV The shooting club is the largest club in Vinnen, and the annual shooting festival on the first weekend in June is usually the largest social event. The parish of Vinnen is part of a parish association with the villages of Wachtum, Ahmsen, Lahn, Holte-Lastrup and Lähden, which are looked after by a pastor and three Franciscan priests.
The local football club is a game association, the SpG Ahmsen-Vinnen. The Waldbühne Ahmsen is partly on the property of Vinner Bauern. Some Vinners are members of the amateur theater crowd on this stage.
There are no educational or cultural offers in Vinnen from the municipality, the municipality of Lähden or the integrated municipality of Herzlake.
Economy and Social
Vinnen is traditionally strongly influenced by agriculture. The structural change does not stop at this village either, so that many farms are not continued by the next generation. There are no sufficiently large companies based in Vinnen that employ a significant number of people, so that employees work in Löningen, Werlte , Meppen or Haselünne . This fact leads to an increased exodus of qualified young people who see no prospects in the surrounding small centers and feel socially restricted. The resulting shrinking process is partially reversed by the influx of people from the Ruhr area , who prefer the rural idyll to retirement in the big cities.
Vinnen does not offer the usual services; there are no doctors and midwives, no restaurants, no fire brigade, no undertaker. There is no municipal economic development for Vinnen. But there are still the old networks of "defense". From this a system of mutual assistance has developed that contains fixed rights and obligations. For example, it is clearly regulated who is responsible for the house decorations at a wedding reception, who serves the food, who drives the bridal wagon, who carries a coffin or who prepares which part of the village for church processions. This principle of self-help and mutual support is lived on today by the generations who have never worked as farmers or hirers themselves.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The village of Vinnen on heimatverein-suedhuemmling.de (accessed January 21, 2017)
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular p. 545 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 502 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (PhD thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).
- ^ 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. 257 .