Beesten
Beeston is a town in the southern district of Emsland and belongs to Samtgemeinde Freren.
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 4.1 Church of St. Servatius
- 5.1 traffic
Geography
The municipality is located in the southern Emsland Beesten at the Great Aa, about 16 kilometers south-east of Lingen and 23 kilometers northwest of Ibbenbueren.
Neighboring municipalities are Freren in the northeast, Schapen the southeast, Lünne the south and west and brasses in the Northeast.
History
Beesten belonged in the Middle Ages to the County of Tecklenburg. After the defeat of Tecklenburg counts in the Smalcald War Beesten 1548 became part of the County of Lingen. Under King Frederick I Beesten 1702 became a part of Prussia. After the French occupation under Napoleon arrived Beesten 1815 to the Kingdom of Hanover.
Namensherleitung and history
The village Beesten were affiliated with the farming communities throng things and tallow - Wilsten. As the oldest farms in the Beesten Schultenhof in Wilsten, Beestermöller ( = owner of a watermill, Beester Möller), Meyer, Burrichter and Hamann apply in crowd things. A barn of the farmer Hamann said in earlier times Tennschüre ( tithe barn ). Here, the inherent serfs had to pay ( tithe ) of their duties.
Beesten (old: Biastun, later Bestene ). Namensherleitung not released. The first mention was made in the year 890 in the lifting tab of the monastery becoming. The place belonged to Venkigau. Among other Waldric delivered 24 bushels of corn and 18 pence, later Daghvelp 24 bushels of grain, the full army Schilling and a quarter. Beesten had to suffer from the frequent change of rule in the County Lingen especially. After the Thirty Years War, the County of Lingen was for many years under Dutch / oranischer rule. Thus, the teaching in the school was granted in 1800 in the Dutch language. It was not until 1850-1860 the use of Dutch was unusual, and the Dutch textbooks were replaced by German.
From Beesten some Tödden came. The Tödden were traveling merchants and peddlers, which developed after the Thirty Years' War, with the heyday in the 18th century, from Holland goers and their goods, and later offered first in the Netherlands in the Nordic and Baltic countries. The Töddenhandel brought the home communities some prosperity, which still bear witness to the Töddenhäuser with their often elaborate gables. So is still a beautiful old Töddenhaus in the center of Beeston. Of the Tödden the normal Hollandgänger are to be distinguished, the hired themselves out as a grass mower, turf cutters and laborers in large numbers in the Netherlands. The highlight of the Holland canal was in the second half of the 18th century.
Crowd things. The determination word has the meaning: hairy, furry, scratchy, rough; from indogerm. - skar, sker over indogerm. - skars, see Germanic skarzon, mittelhochdtsch. Scherren, althochdtsch. scerran, altsächs. skerran; designate a place of worship of goddess or hero in an animal form, and hence refers to a place of worship. Example: Scharrelmann, Scharbeutz, Wilhelmshaven. The basic word -ingen is a place name suffix of prehistoric origins and goes on a colonizing clan or, more generally, on a settlement back.
When tallow - Wilsten, Wilsten (old: Willeshadi, Willeshedi 1000; Willsetthen after 1200 and Willsethen ) Derivation of the proper name Willo. Tallow (old: Tallage 1231 ). Wilsten first mentioned around 1000 in BECOMING land register as part of the Venkigaus.
Spin-offs
On March 1, 1974, a field with about 100 inhabitants at that time was sold to the neighboring community Lünne.
Population Development
When analyzing the number of inhabitants a strong decrease of the population from 1800 to 1900 falls on. This decrease is caused by a large wave of emigration to America.
Policy
Parish council
The council belong to 11 women and men council. The last municipal election on 11 September 2011 took 10 seats for the CDU and 1 seat for a single applicant.
The next local elections will take place in 2016.
Coat of arms
Blazon: "In a gold chevron, from the lower edge of four grid as defined oblique red bar, two right and two left to go to the sides of the shield, in the right Obereck a sechsspeichiges, red wheel "
Attractions
Church of St. Servatius
The parish Beesten was formed in 1200 after the unification of the place Beesten and the peasantry bevy things and tallow - Wilsten. The initially small Romanesque church in east -west orientation was increased significantly after a Gotisierung before 1500 in the first half of the 16th century in eastern and south direction. Bear testimony of two stellar vaults, a choir with polygonal arches and Gothic windows with Fischblasenmaßwerk.
After a temporary closure of the Saint Servatius church dedicated ( prohibition of the exercise of the Catholic religion in the field of county Lingen from 1674) took reformed inhabitants of the church building. From 1825 the Catholics were allowed to share the church. During the constant output to 1857 simultaneous time of the high altar was made in the Empire style. It houses relics of Saint Simplicius and the companions of Saint Ursula.
Since the continuing growth, almost exclusively Catholic population in the small church hardly had enough space, the old tower were demolished from the Middle Ages, the church was enlarged by another vault in West direction and built a new 50 -meter-high spire in 1874. In the 1930s, the church had to be enlarged once more: at the partially north wall of the church, another choir vestry and two annexes were grown.
- West side of the church
- East of the church
- High altar
- Organ
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
West of the church the main road runs north through Freren 70 and is the 214th Nearest Motorway 7 km south from junction Rheine -Nord on the A 30 Here and in Lingen are also the nearest railway stations. Previously Beesten also had its own railway station on the long disused railway line between Rheine and Quakenbruck. The old station building is still. Nearest airport is about 65 km away Münster Osnabrück International Airport.