Rhumspringe

Rhumspringe is a municipality of the velvet municipality Gieboldehausen ( seat Gieboldehausen ) in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

• 2.1 Amalgamations
• 2.2 Population development

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Mayor
• 3.3 Coat of Arms

• 4.1 Rhumequelle
• 4.2 Catholic parish church of St. Sebastian

• 5.1 General
• 5.2 Harzer paper mill Rhumspringe
• 5.3 Rhume hotel (now the ballroom Calabria)
• 5.4 traffic

Geography

Geographical location

Rhumspringe is located on the northeast edge of the lower Eichsfeld or on the southern edge of the Red Mountain and is traversed in an east-west direction from the upper reaches of the Rhume whose water's edge / Ellerniederung / Giller Heimer stream valley is in Rahmem from the nature reserve Rhumeaue under protection. Not far northeast of the town there is a Rhumequelle, with a water output of up to 5000 l / s it is one of the largest karst springs in Europe.

Neighboring communities

• Rüdershausen
• Duderstadt
• Herzberg am Harz
• Wollershausen

Community structure

The municipality belongs to the Rhumspringe over one kilometers northwest hamlet on Lütge Hausen.

History

Was first mentioned in a deed Rhumspringe for the local parish church of " St. Sebastian" from the year 1250. During the following years the place quite often is cited again in documents, which was partly the abundance of fish Rhume as well as agriculture. 1263, therefore, also bought these reasons the monastery Pöhlde an estate in Rhumspringe. High reputation enjoyed the pastor Johannes de Rumesspringe, which is mentioned in 1310 and later vicar of the city of Einbeck was. Numerous documents tell of his former presence on the site. There are also reports of the noble dynasty of Rumspringe that had its headquarters in Rhumspringe. A representative of the family is called in 1321, when John de Rumespringe sen. Witness will sell like John and Ehrenfried of Esplingerode their farm in Seulingen, together with four hoofs of land to the monastery Marie Stone in Norten - Hardenberg. More responses show him in 1327 as a witness at a transmission Count Otto of Lutterberg who appropriates the monastery Teistungenburg a mill at Nesselröden. In that very monastery a Mechtild of Rumspringe is occupied as a nun while in Duderstadt number of citizens from the noble family originated and in the years 1338 and 1343 the mayor Duderstadt, with Hunold of Rumspringe, established in 1238. 1496 permit you to place the two-time import of beer from Duderstadt, which could be delivered at Pentecost and the Carnival festival.

Already at early times used to the water power of the Rhume. So is narrated that the mill of the Elector of Mainz itself could still grind grain in great drought. 1625 broke into Rhumspringe from the plague, the victims also scored the parish priest. A drawing of the pastor Flucke from uder points from which buildings among others existed then. Thus, the drawing shows a mill, a glass factory, a bridge with a customs house and a church. 1650 had Rhumspringe 170 inhabitants with 55 hearths. After the Thirty Years' War is mentioned in 1659 a community Schützenkleinod. At least since the beginning of the 15th century the village belonged to the Official Gieboldehausen. Until the mid- 19th century, the population grew significantly, there were 736 people who were distributed to 137 homes and the village associated fulling mill.

Incorporations

Since 1 January 1973 Rhumspringe together with Lütge Hausen a church that belongs to the Samtgemeinde Gieboldehausen.

Population Development

Development of the population (as of 1821) without the OT Lütge Hausen:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Rhumspringe is composed of 11 (-2 ) Councillor women and men.

• CDU: 9 seats (-3)
• SPD: 1 seat ( ± 0)
• Greens: 1 seat ( 1)

(As at municipal election on September 11, 2011)

Mayor

The honorary mayor Franz Jacobi was elected on 18 February 1999.

Coat of arms

The Coat of Arms description is: In blue a silver trout with golden fins; back in a three-pronged silver fish fork with golden stem.

Attractions

Rhumequelle

The Rhumequelle is located about 1.2 kilometers northeast of the town center and is at least since the 13th century its name to the place Rhumspringe. It is the third largest source in Germany and one of the most prolific karst springs in Central Europe. The bluish appearing Quelltopf and Auewald the area are developed for tourism by applied trails and a nearby car park. In addition to the use of hydroelectric power the Rhume for industrial purposes, some of the water of Rhumequelle is used after treatment as drinking water.

Catholic parish church of St. Sebastian

The parish church of St. Sebastian was built in 1976-77 and is the successor to the church formerly 1812/1822 and 1976 constructed worn worship of Rhumspringe, which was also dedicated to Saint Sebastian. Design author was the architect John Reuter from Kassel, the inauguration took place on 20 August 1977 Hildesheim Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen. It has a main room with its polygonal shape, an affiliated community center as well as a free-standing bell tower, the tower interior is used as a seven meter high favor chapel. The development of the Church has with these features on similarities with other churches of the lower Eichsfeld. It emphasizes the unity of the church and the community center through the roof of the church square, the hexagonal space is spanned by a wood-paneled pyramid roof, which has a height of 12 m and rises just above the chancel. This is also highlighted by a stage again. It is striking in the Church a bronze processional cross, whose narrow corpus is based in its standing form of earlier, Romanesque crucifixes. On the back of the cross has five Malachite, which remind us of the five wounds of Christ. A contrast to the surrounding space constitutes the Baroque altar from the old church, which was originally a side altar of the monastery Wöltingerode, acquired in 1850 and was remodeled by subsequent additions to a high altar. New side curtain boards with acanthus ornament and a proclamation image instead of the faded emblem Marie came to the altar in the following years. Along the gable slopes of the Church are beyond, in adaptation to the altar, window areas with economical color in dark red, dark blue and gray, which are connected by a skylight.

Economy and infrastructure

Generally

Until a few years, the tax revenue ensured by the paper mill and the Rhume hotel that the budget of Rhumspringe in contrast to the many surrounding communities had no deficit. Among other things, with the help of these tax benefits, the former from Herzberg am Harz was expanded next railway Bleicherode East Herzberg at an attractive bicycle and hiking trail. This route was later continued in the direction Hilkerode so that opportunities for long bicycle and hiking tours exist in the resin or to Duderstadt.

Harzer paper mill Rhumspringe

Already in 1828 a woolen goods factory was founded by the manufacturer Duderstädter Ludwig August Hertwig at the site of today's paper mill near the Rhumequelle. This factory used the water power of the Rhume for their spinning and fulling and put Kamelotstoffe and very serious flannels on handlooms ago.

The woolen goods factory existed until 1871. Duderstädter The banker CF Hertwig as lender of woolen goods factory took over as the whole property and built on the vast terrain using the existing building a leather paper and leather cardboard factory.

On 9 August 1872, the Rhumspringer paper mill mentioned company was registered in the Commercial Register. In addition to the water power of the Rhume a steam power plant with 500 hp was rebuilt. 1873 about 400 tons of leather paper and paperboard were produced with forty workers already.

In 1928, the paper mill about 200 employees and a production capacity of about 4500 tonnes of paper and cardboard. The administration was at the time still in Duderstadt.

Concentration processes in the paper industry as well as price declines for paper products introduced in 1952 through a settlement request to bankruptcy. One of the main creditor, Walter Gerstenmaier from Stuttgart, took over with a trust company the work. Then the new paper mill Harz GmbH was founded in February 1954, the processed mainly waste paper. In 1955, as another shareholder Carl -Heinrich Sievers from Bremen in the company. It was produced in the Harz paper mill so-called bogus; the number of employees was approximately 60 people.

In the course of the year the management changed hands several times; last owner of the paper mill was the ALBA AG. Mid-2003, insolvency proceedings have been initiated as a result of globalization and ongoing concentration processes again in the episode presented the Harz paper mill ceased operation. Paper machines and other technical inventory were partially dismantled and sold. Since then, the privately owned industrial and office buildings are empty, and it will search for an investor who establishes a new industry on the grounds of the former paper mill.

Rhume hotel (now the ballroom Calabria)

On 13 May 1964, the Rhume hotel has been passed with an opening ceremony of its determination. The construction of the hotel at the time cost more than 1 million DM in the following decades many church and private functions found in addition to the hotel accommodation in Rhume hotel instead.

Despite some touristy interesting possibility Rhume the hotel was its operation only difficult to maintain in recent years and had to be closed from its private owner in 2006 ultimately for financial reasons. In 2012, the municipality has Rhumspringe, which had acquired the site with the buildings a few weeks earlier, was sold to a local restaurateur and chef again.

Traffic

Rhumspringe is via various highways with State Road 27, which connected to the road network from Göttingen to Herzberg am Harz, and the federal highway 247 Northeim to Duderstadt. In addition Rhumspringe had a station on the railway line Bleicherode - Herzberg. This, however, is now closed.

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Sons and daughters of the town

• Engelbert Eberhard ( born March 23, 1893 in Rhumspringe, † October 20, 1958 ), Dr., Augustinian friar, Provincial of the Augustinian Order from 1929 to 1947, Prior General of the Augustinian Order 1953-1958

Associated with Rhumspringe personalities

• Gleitze Franz (1869 - 1958), local poet, author of the famous poem " The Rhumesprung "