Wiedensahl
coat of arms | Germany map | |
---|---|---|
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ' N , 9 ° 7' E |
||
Basic data | ||
State : | Lower Saxony | |
County : | Schaumburg | |
Joint municipality : | Niedernwöhren | |
Height : | 62 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 11.7 km 2 | |
Residents: | 930 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 79 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 31719 | |
Area code : | 05726 | |
License plate : | SHG, RI | |
Community key : | 03 2 57 037 | |
Association administration address: | Main street 46 31712 Niedernwöhren |
|
Website : | ||
Mayor : | Anneliese Albrecht ( SPD ) | |
Location of the community of Wiedensahl in the district of Schaumburg | ||
Wiedensahl (flat Wiensaol ) is a patch in the Schaumburger Land and is located in Lower Saxony , north of Stadthagen . Since 1974 the community belongs to the integrated community of Niedernwöhren .
The village structure is a so-called Hagenhufendorf and stretches along its main street . Originally the village was almost exclusively dominated by agriculture , so the main street is still lined with historic farms today .
Wiedensahl became known as the birthplace of Wilhelm Busch ; the spot is still shaped by him today. The house where Wilhelm Busch was born and the old rectory are open to visitors as museum spaces. However, the continued existence of the Wilhelm-Busch-Haus was endangered in 1928 because the owner at the time, a descendant of Wilhelm Busch, was planning to renovate the interior. In order to ward off this and promote the expansion as a museum, the Heimatbund Niedersachsen organized a major fundraising campaign together with politicians and celebrities. In front of the old rectory there is a monument to Wilhelm Busch, there is a cycle path around Wiedensahl with stations on the subject of Wilhelm Busch.
history
Since around 1250, Wiedensahl has been mentioned more often in documents, mostly in the spelling widensole . Widensole means: "A depression filled with water and surrounded by willows", in short: "Willow pond". The interpretation of the name as "consecrated lake" is apparently based on a reading error.
The village of Widensole was planned as a Hagenhufendorf around 1253 . A special feature is that the courtyards were laid out on both sides of the village green with the flat pond called “dat Saol” in the middle.
In 1253 the Bishop of Minden transferred the tithe of "widensole", which the nobleman Conrad von Hamelspringe had previously fiefly , to the Loccum monastery . The “News from the free Kellnerey Hof zu Wiedensahl”, written by Arnold Spanuth, a native of Wiedensahl, around 1640 reports that “initially” there was only a goat barn and a goatherd in Wiedensahl. After that, forest by field was cleared for the Lords of Loccum and further farms were created. In 1287 the "chapel at that time" was made a parish church. The parish received half of all land of the cellar yard. According to document no. 358, the Wiedensahl chapel was separated from the Windheim church as early as 1277. A manuscript "Fundatio Ecclesiae Wiedensalianae", written in 1459 and revised in 1694, reports that in 1275 Bishop Otto von Minden donated stones and lime for the construction of a chapel and a tower in Wiedensahl.
The pastor Albert Hahn wrote in his 1898 history of the Fleckens Wiedensahl , located in the Lokkum monastery district , that there was a Germanic sanctuary, a noble farm and a castle by the pond in Wiedensahl. Already "soon" after 777 AD, the possessing nobleman had accepted the Christian faith and built a chapel. In 1275 the nave was added to the existing chapel. However, there is no evidence for these claims by Hahn, and some of them contradict the available documents. Hahn's interpretation of the name Wiedensahl as "consecrated lake" is absurd.
In the early Middle Ages the village was often the subject of disputes between the diocese of Minden , the Schaumburg family and the Loccum monastery . In 1640 the village finally fell to the Loccum monastery. Wiedensahl was hit hard by the effects of the Thirty Years' War . Towards the end of the war, Wiedensahl fell to Calenberg with the Bokeloh office. The town achieved modest prosperity in the 18th century, in particular through handicrafts.
The Loccum monastery was the landlord in Wiedensahl until it was replaced in 1841. However, jurisdiction and sovereignty changed and were at times disputed between the Counts of Schaumburg and the Counts of Hoya , the Bishop of Minden and the Guelphs .
In the Loccum monastery area, around 33 people were executed in witch trials in the 17th century . With 15 women and five men, the largest proportion of the defendants in the witch hunts are people who belong to the Wiedensahler community. The Protestant pastor Heinrich Rimphoff , 1622–1638 pastor in Wiedensahl, played a special role .
As early as the 13th century, the village with 32 courtyards (including the rectory and the monastery courtyard) had a relatively large number of sites. In the 14th century, five settlers from the submerged village of Wagenrode between Loccum and Wiedensahl were added. By dividing the yard and clearing more forest, the number of houses increased considerably, to 118 by 1750. The house numbers required for fire insurance purposes at that time were not, as in most villages, based on the size of the yard. In Wiedensahl, the houses at the southern end of the village were listed in the actual order starting on the west side of the street and then back south on the other side of the street.
In particular, the families with little land ownership often practiced a craft. In 1843, 73 “traders” were registered with the collegiate court. In 1780 the shoemakers in the village even received a guild letter from the government; this was the only guild in the Loccum Abbey District. When granting distilling and brewing rights or concessions for doctors, pharmacies or restaurants, it was always crucial that there was hardly any competition with existing facilities in Calenberg (especially Loccum Abbey), as the customers were predominantly from Westphalian and Bückeburg foreign countries. This central peripheral location to Prussia and Schaumburg-Lippe was also beneficial for the annual fair in Wiedensahl, which has been permitted since 1824.
Until the community reform in 1974, Wiedensahl belonged to the Nienburg district .
politics
Municipal council
The council of the Wiedensahl community consists of 9 councilors.
SPD | CDU | WWW | total | |
2016 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 seats |
(Status: local election on September 11, 2016)
Mayoress and municipal director
Mayor is Anneliese Albrecht (SPD). The local council has appointed councilor Ralph Dunger (SPD) as the community director.
Culture and sights
Museums
- Wilhelm Busch birthplace
- Museum in the old rectory
- Folding rule museum
music
The handbell choir is known far beyond the municipal boundaries and also performs concert tours, for example to the USA in 2003 and 2013, to South Africa in 2006 and to Taiwan and Hong Kong in 2015. With 77 handbells (C2 - C8) and 61 tone sticks with a total range of six octaves, the Wiedensahl handbell choir is one of the largest in Europe. The ensemble has won two prizes at the German Orchestra Competition (Hildesheim 2012, Ulm 2016).
Buildings
- St. Nicolai Church with cemetery
Regular events
- In 2013 the 225th parish shooting festival took place in July.
- The Martini market (popularly: marriage market) takes place every 2nd Thursday in November. Around 300 feeders expect around 30,000 visitors to the largest one-day market far and wide. The stalls are set up as a promenade to the right and left of the main street of the long village.
Economy and Infrastructure
The B 441 runs from Uchte to Wunstorf and on to Hanover through the districts of Loccum and Münchehagen in the north of the town of Rehburg-Loccum . The public transport is served by the Schaumburger Verkehrs-Gesellschaft . In addition, the “Dial-a-bus Niedernwöhren” system can be used from Monday to Friday.
Passenger traffic on the Stadthagen – Stolzenau railway ended in 1961; Freight trains ran through Wiedensahl until 1969. As a reminiscence, there is still Bahnhofstrasse today .
Personalities
- Heinrich Rimphoff (* 1599 in Wiedensahl; † 1655) was consistorial councilor in the Duchy of Verden and witch hunter .
- Gesche Köllers (also Gese Köllars), related Weimars from Wiedensahl, executed by the sword in a witch trial in Loccum Monastery on June 2, 1660.
- Wilhelm Busch (* 1832 in Wiedensahl, † 1908 in Mechtshausen )
- Werner Zwingmann (* 1946), civil servant and veterinarian
literature
- Wilhelm von Hodenberg (ed.): Calenberger document book. Third department: Archives of Loccum Abbey. Issue 1 up to the year 1300. Hanover 1858-
- Matthias Blazek: The history of the Wiedensahl local fire department 1909–2009. Oesselmann, Wiedensahl 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-024676-0 .
- Adolf Ronnenberg: “Consecrated lake” or “willow pond”? The meaning of the name "Wiedensahl". In: home country. Issue 3, September 2009, pp. 87-89.
- Wilhelm Busch: Wiedensahl. (also) In: Rolf Hochhuth (Hrsg.): Wilhelm Busch, Complete Works and a selection of the sketches and paintings in two volumes. Volume 2 Whatever is popular is also allowed. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1959, pp. 887-892.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ↑ The Wilhelm Busch House in Danger , short message in the Vossiische Zeitung of February 3, 1928, p. 10.
- ↑ August Lübben: Middle Low German Dictionary . Bremen 1880.
- ↑ Blohm, Richard, Die Hagenhufendörfer in Schaumburg-Lippe , Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg iO 1943.
- ↑ von Hodenberg, p. 118, Urk. 171.
- ^ In the parish archive of Wiedensahl.
- ↑ von Hodenberg, p. 231, document 358.
- ^ In the parish archive of Wiedensahl
- ↑ Peter Beer: Witch trials in the monastery and monastery area Loccum (= studies on the church history of Lower Saxony, volume 41) Göttingen 2007; Pp. 158-164