Wehrstedt
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Wehrstedt
City of Bad Salzdetfurth
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| Height : | 116 m above sea level NN | |
| Residents : | 1053 (Jan. 1, 2018) | |
| Incorporation : | March 1, 1974 | |
| Postal code : | 31162 | |
| Area code : | 05063 | |
Location of Wehrstedt in Lower Saxony |
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.jpg) St. Andreas Church in Wehrstedt
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Wehrstedt is a district of Bad Salzdetfurth in the Hildesheim district in Lower Saxony .
history
Name and foundation
It is believed that Saxons who came from the Lower Elbe settled in Wehrstedt during the migration period . The same applies to the other villages with the ending "-stedt", e.g. B. Upstedt, Egenstedt, Hackenstedt, Lechstedt etc. These villages are located on hills and slopes because the good pieces of land in the valleys were already settled. The word component "weir" in the name of the village is difficult to interpret. Perhaps at that time the men of the village joined together in a kind of military association. Wehrstedt belonged to the Flenithigau during the Saxon period . In the 8th century, the Franks came under Charlemagne . Instead of the Saxon district constitution , the Franconian county constitution was introduced. Royal counts from the Franconian aristocratic families exercised the office. The new counties were formed from several districts.
Documentary mention
In the early 12th century, Wehrstedt is mentioned in the documents for the first time, when the Marienrode Monastery had the Bishop of Hildesheim confirm in writing that three farms in Wehrstedt had to deliver the tithes of their earnings to the monastery and two Wehrstedt had to work on its property.
Knight Gerhard von Wehrstedt
On November 13, 1207, the people of Wehrstedt broke away from the Detfurther mother church (archdeaconate) in order to found an independent parish. The knight Gerhard von Wehrstedt had his own church built in Wehrstedt. However, this church was not entrusted to any saint patron. Today it is called Andreaskirche because it was later a fiefdom of the Andreasstift. In the 18th century, however, it was also called "Trinity". In order to compensate the pastor of Detfurth for the now missing income, the people of Wehrstedt gave him a court. The sexton of Detfurth received two acres of land, and they paid three solidi every year for the maintenance of the Detfurth church and also took care of the wax candles in the mother church.
The family of the Knights of Wehrstedt died out in 1210.
More gentlemen from Wehrstedt
In the Middle Ages there was another important man in Wehrstedt. The citizen Bruno Rode had joined the Fifth Crusade in order to recapture the Holy Places in Palestine for Christianity. But in order not to leave his wife Gertrude and their sons Hermann and Konrad penniless, he handed his estate over to the Andreasstift in Hildesheim on June 27, 1217 in order to redeem 25 marks for the family's livelihood (equivalent to 200 silver thalers).
At the beginning of the 14th century, the von Steinberg knights were enfeoffed with the von Wehrstedt estate. The end of the Middle Ages is otherwise not very productive for a chronicler from Wehrstedt. Especially the 14./15. Century gives very poor news about the place or the Wehrstedter. Only in the city accounts of the city of Hildesheim is the "Lamp of Werstede" mentioned in 1379 as a city soldier in Hildesheim services.
In the feudal book of Bishop Ernst von Hildesheim , Heinrich von Steinberg's feudal estate is confirmed in 1458. In this feudal letter a second mill near Wehrstedt is mentioned, which is said to have stood further up at the Lamme .
Penitential feud
In the Hildesheim collegiate feud (1519–1523), the Principality of Hildesheim and the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel fought for all sorts of rights and goods in the abbey area. Burchard von Steinberg auf Bodenburg stood in the ducal-Braunschweig camp and gathered the troops in the Bodenburg - Salzdetfurth area. The nearby village of Tidexen went up in flames during a revenge campaign by the murderous gangs of the penitentiary, leaving only a few alive. Today the name Tidexer Berg still preserves the memory of this catastrophe. Wehrstedt was spared because, favored by fate, it was not on the road from Hildesheim to Bodenburg. As a result of this feud, the monastery was divided into Catholic episcopal territory and secular Brunswick territories, into which the Reformation then found its way.
reformation
The last of the Steinberg family in Wehrstedt, Christoph von Steinberg († January 16, 1570), promoted the Reformation in Wehrstedt. In 1542 Christoph von Steinberg was the leader of a detachment of the Hessian troops that led the Catholic Duke Heinrich the Elder. J. von Braunschweig expelled from his country; he then became governor of Landgrave Philip of Hesse in Wolfenbüttel . As Marshal of the Elector of Saxony, he led the Saxon cavalry to Ingolstadt. After the battle of Mühlberg (1547), Duke Heinrich d. J. against Christoph von Steinberg the imperial ban . But in 1552 he got his possessions back and a year later he was compensated with 5000 thalers.
From 1523 to 1643 Wehrstedt belonged to the Duchy of Braunschweig and therefore accepted the Protestant faith. The Wehrstedt clergy had to take an exam in the new doctrine of the faith before the ducal Braunschweig reformers General Superintendent Corvinus and Bugenhagen from Wittenberg. Later visitors came to Wehrstedt to see how things were going with the new faith. That was on October 12, 1542. A record of this visit is still available, in which Christoph von Steinberg is also mentioned.
On February 5, 1572, Fritz von der Schulenburg first became the patron of the church and owner of the Edelhof. Because he had no male heirs either, Wehrstedt was declared to be Wilhelm Stopler after his “apostasy or final legal discussion in the royal court in Braunschweig […]. male heirs of Illustrissimo awarded. "
Expansion and remodeling
With Wolfhart von Stopler, the patron of the church, the expansion and redesign of the church are linked. In 1720, at the expense of Stoplers and the church, the church was "built from the ground up and happily". The bell that still strikes today bears the names of his and his wife Mette von der Liet .
In 1771 she was expelled from her property because of her financial situation, but after long trials it came back into her possession in Wehrstedt. Leopold von Stopler died as the last of his family on June 5, 1816.
Wehrstedt was incorporated into Bad Salzdetfurth on April 1, 1974.
politics
Since the local election on September 11, 2016, the local council has been composed as follows (changes compared to 2011):
Local mayor
Local mayor is Günter Raschke (SPD).
Culture and sights
- The St. Andrew's Church in the center of the village was built on the site of the previous wooden chapel from 1207. The nave with its gable roof was built in 1703. Inside, besides the baroque interior, a Romanesque baptismal font and a baptismal angel are noteworthy.
- In Wehrstedt there is a local history museum with the Heimatstube Wehrstedt (address: Am Sportplatz 8, 31162 Bad Salzdetfurth, district Wehrstedt).
Personalities
- August Friedrich Brackmann (1753–1828), General Superintendent of Hildesheim
literature
- Hans-Oiseau Kalkmann: The Lamme - Biography of a River , Verlag Gebrüder Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-8067-8746-7
Web links
- Village chronicle of the Heimatverein Wehrstedt (PDF; 2.4 MB)
- Website of the city of Bad Salzdetfurth
Individual evidence
- ↑ The city of Bad Salzdetfurth and its districts , accessed on February 12, 2018
- ^ 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. 210 .
- ^ Website of the city of Bad Salzdetfurth , accessed on October 1, 2016
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