Wedelingerode
Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 40 ″ N , 10 ° 28 ′ 40 ″ E
Wedelingerode is a deserted area in the Feldmark of the village of Gielde in the municipality of Schladen-Werla in the Wolfenbüttel district , Lower Saxony .
geography
The desert is about 1.3 kilometers northwest of Gielde around Kather's pond , a body of water that still exists today in the middle of the Gielder Feldmark.
history
Place name
The following forms of name are mentioned for Wedelingerode, among others:
- 1174-1195: Widerincheroth
- 1178: Wideriggeroth
- 1273: Wedelingerothe
- 1312: Wederingerode
- 1380: Wedlingherode
- 1768: the Weddelingerodt (field name)
The village is a clearing site with the ending -ingerode . The basic word Wedder , which was shifted to a Weddel- due to assimilation processes that can be observed more frequently in the case of -ingerode -names , is derived from a personal name Widuheri . In Old Saxon widu- means “wood” and heri means something like “army, crowd, people”.
Local history
On the basis of surface finds, the beginning of settlement in the Carolingian period can be assumed; the place is mentioned for the last time in 1380 and fell into desolation in the following years.
literature
- Kirstin Casemir: The place names of the Wolfenbüttel district and the city of Salzgitter. 2003, pp. 191-193