Wüstenfelde (Schleswig-Holstein)

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Memorial stone for Menno Simons on the site of the former place Wüstenfelde

Wüstenfelde is the name of an earlier settlement not far from Bad Oldesloe and the Trave in Holstein . The settlement emerged as the estate village of the Schadehorn farm on the Wüstenfeld paddock on the Poggenbek, which flows into the Trave, where Anabaptists persecuted from the nearby Fresenburg estate were allowed to settle under the protection of the lord Bartholomäus von Ahlefeld from 1543 . The majority were exiles from Flanders , where persecution was particularly severe. Even Menno Simons found a home here 1554th About five kilometers from the village of Wüstenfelde, following the Poggenbek on the way to Bad Oldesloe, there is still the cottage that Menno Simons used as a printing works and is now used as a museum of religious history ( Mennokate ). The village itself was devastated in the Thirty Years War and not rebuilt. Most residents are followed by Altona and Gluckstadt resettled where the Evangelical Free Church of Mennonites was tolerated. Some also went to Lübeck in 1627 , where there was also a Flemish Mennonite community (though not openly tolerated).

Little is known of the village and the local Mennonite community, which is also due to the fact that a large part of the files belonging to the Ahlefeldt family were destroyed during the war. A letter from the Lübeck council from 1554 indicates that there could have been a Mennonite church in Wüstenfelde. It is known that in the spring of 1556 a synod of North German-Dutch and South German Anabaptists took place in Wüstenfelde.

In 1906 a memorial stone for Menno Simons was erected on the site of the former location. In 1934, Russian Mennonite immigrants named a village after Wüstenfelde in the Fernheim colony in the Chaco of Paraguay .

Wüstenfelde is the literary subject of the novel Die Rose von Wüstenfelde by the north German writer Ernst Behrends .

literature

  • Robert Dollinger: History of the Mennonites in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Lübeck. Neumünster 1930, 129 ff.
  • Ernst F. Goverts: The noble estate Fresenburg and the Mennonites. In: Journal of the Central Office for Family History in Lower Saxony, Hamburg 1925.

Web links

Commons : Wüstenfelde (Schleswig-Holstein)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Dollinger: History of the Mennonites in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Lübeck . Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1930, p. 129 .
  2. ↑ press. (No longer available online.) Mennokate Museum, archived from the original on October 13, 2014 ; accessed on October 21, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mennokate.de
  3. ^ Robert Dollinger: History of the Mennonites in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Lübeck . Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1930, p. 195 .
  4. ↑ Clarence Baumann: Nonviolence as a hallmark of the community . In: Hans-Jürgen Goertz (Ed.): The Mennonites . Evangelisches Verlagswerk, Stuttgart 1971, p. 129 .
  5. ↑ Ernst Behrends: The rose of Wüstenfelde . Hohenstaufen, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-8056-2207-4 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 50 ′ 31.6 ″  N , 10 ° 24 ′ 38.9 ″  E