Witleke
Witleke was a Coming of St John in the Wesermarsch , she was lying northeast of Iffens in parish Stollhamm .
history
Courtyard of the Rastede Monastery
From 1124 to 1190 the Witlake farm - the name denotes a lake in the Wisch - was owned by the Rasteder monastery . At that time Witlake consisted of several farms in the swampy Wischen, which stood in a row over a distance of 1.7 km. Together they formed an economic unit. The area they cultivated was 180 to 200 hectares . These were not in the rulership of Rastede Monastery, but taxable with the church tithing . On the mundane level Witleke was as peasants organized this set due to the consular constitution one of 16 judges of the Gau Rüstringen . Redolphus de Wiclece has been handed down as such a judge for the year 1220 by a contract between Rüstringen and the city of Bremen .
Johanniterkommende Witleke
Over ten severe storm surges came in the period from the Julian flood in 1164 - when the Jade Gatt collapsed - to 1270 over the country. They weakened the courts significantly. For this reason the Rasteder Abbot Otto von Oldenburg sold the land. It is not known exactly when the farms were sold. In 1319 Wyckleesen appears for the first time in a comparison of Groningen as Commander of the Johanniterkommende Steinfurt . The Coming Witleke came to an end in 1378 when the Oldenburg Counts Konrad II and Christian V burned the farms. It is not known whether it was a feud or a raid. The Oldenburg found themselves trapped, however, because due to the storm surges Witleke was in an island position between Jade , Heete and Weser . Hermann Hamelmann narrates that the trapped Count Christian vowed to donate a chapel in Oldenburg to John the Baptist in order to free himself from this situation. It is likely that the rising tide might have trapped the count. The commander was then moved south, on the other side of the Heete to Inte , on the upper reaches of the ancestor , which flowed into the Weser.
See also
literature
- Egbert Koolman : Oldenburgisches Ortlexikon A – K. Ed .: Albrecht Eckhardt . Oldenburg 2010, p. 1148 f.