Glandorf, Germany

Glandorf is a municipality in the southwest of the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony. The name comes from the name Glanathorpe - settlement at the Glane - and was first mentioned in 1070.

• 2.1 Population development

• 4.1 municipal
• 4.2 Coat of Arms
• 4.3 community partnerships

• 5.1 churches
• 5.2 Structures
• 5.3 images
• 5.4 Leisure and sports infrastructure
• 5.5 Economy and Transport

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Location

Glandorf is located a few kilometers south of the Teutoburg Forest on Glaner stream in the northern marginal zone of the Westphalian Bay.

Neighboring communities

Glandorf is bordered to the east by Bad Iburg and Bad Laer. The other neighboring communities belong to Nordrhein-Westfalen: In the north, Lengerich ( district of Steinfurt ), Greven in the West and in the South Warendorf and Sass mountain (all the district of Warendorf ).

Community structure

Parts of communes:

• Averfehrden (formerly Narendorf )
• Glandorf
• Schierloh
• Schwege
• Sudendorf
• Westendorf

History

The name Glandorf is probably of Celtic origin, because Glane probably means " bright, vivid, shiny, flowing"; also was " Glan " part of the name of the Celtic god of water Glanus or Glanos. About the 6th century BC, the Celts were driven out by the Germanic tribes who settled the area then. The other view is the name researcher Hermann Jellinghaus.

" No part of the old Germany, between the Rhine and the Elbe, ie grade of the area, in which were Celtic and Slavic place names so far not been demonstrated, as has numerous names of villages that oppose safer interpretation, as the area of the Ems and its tributaries. Glandorf ...: Glanathorpe 1070 by the current flowing in the Ems Bache Glane. . It has explained the word for Celtic. But then it would not be so common: Glane in Wildeshausen and Gronau, Glanhorst, Kr Minden, Meier Glane in Barkhausen, Kr Wittlage that Glenne, Kr Lippstadt, the Glenbach Deister ".

Especially the frequency of the word " Glane ": such as Glaner bride Glanerbeek he considers the evidence of Germanic origin; an adjective " glan " means shiny, flashing, the associated verb is called glennen - shine or gliman - glan - glunum. 1872 is an ancient Germanic burial ground, individual urns with remains of bones and burns, excavated on the thunder Brink. In the Middle Ages belonged Glandorf like its neighboring municipalities Bad Iburg, Bad Laer, Glane and Remsede Gau Sutherberge or Suderberggau or Gau Süder mountains, whose name can be derived from the location south of Osning ( Teutoburg Forest). The first documentary mention of the place occurs in a charter of Louis the German December 8, 851, in the several courts in Laer and Erpen, in the deed Arpingi called, are donated to the Marie monastery in Herford: " [ ... ] in pago, quod dictur Sutherbergi, in villa quae nuncupatur Lodre [ ... ] et in pago Same date, in villa quae vocatur Arpingi. " Lodre is here today Bad Laer, which still Loder or Loer was written until the 17th century. Glandorf was until 1200 a branch of the mother parish in Laer, but had by 1400 already a second priest. When the detachment of Laer has been made, can be determined from the records of the parish archive but not seen.

The name Glandorf or Glanathorpe was first documented in 1070. According to an article in a supplement to the " Osnabrück People's Daily " on August 4, 1889, says in the document that the then owner of the helper Court in Lengerich had the right to drive thirty pigs and a boar for acorns in the Glandorfer Mark.

After the Battle of Breitenfeld of 1631 the Swedish troops occupied during the Thirty Years War, the Diocese of Osnabrück. After the Glandorfer population could no longer meet the demands of the Swedish mercenary, put this on May 5, 1636 This village on fire. The event is a sculpted stone inscription over the door of the bride in the church of St. John. Before the fire it should have come to some atrocities. In the home novella " Sweden Chronicle" in 1926, the spiritual advice Bernhard Koster told that the Swedish mercenary crucified a daughter in the courtyard of the former Mayor Schulte Werth and another choked on the hearth fire and the mayor should have instilled the Swedes drink itself.

As part of the Diocese of Osnabrück Glandorf 1803 after Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of King George III. the Electorate of Hanover struck. However, the electorate was occupied in the same year by French troops in 1807 and merged with the Kingdom of Westphalia established by Napoleon. The parish Glandorf was now called the commune or Mairie Glandorf and belonged to the Canton Greven, who was subordinate to the district of Warendorf. After the collapse of the French Empire Glandorf fell from 1814 to the Kingdom of Hanover.

In 1833 an emigration to North America began in transition. Osnabrück clergy, high school teacher and native Glandorfer Johann Wilhelm Horstmann embarked in September of the year with six other men in the Osnabrück Glandorfer Iburg office in Amsterdam, acquired in December in Putnam County land and founded the town Glandorf (Ohio ). The wives and ten other families followed the group in 1834 and 1835 nine families came from Glandorf again to do so. Thus, the wave of emigration was not yet finished, she held until the early 20th century.

On 1 July 1972, the municipalities Averfehrden, Glandorf, Remsede, Schierloh, Schwege, Sudendorf and Westendorf were incorporated ( as of September 1, 1975 Bad Laer ) in the community Laer. On 1 May 1981, the municipality of Glandorf was outsourced. With the exception of Remsede all time eingemeindeten by Laer places come to church Glandorf.

Population Development

The following overview shows the numbers of inhabitants of the municipality Glandorf in each area and state on December 31.

The figures are extrapolations of the State Office for Statistics and communication technology Niedersachsen based on the census of 25 May 1987.

The figures from 1961 (June 6 ) and 1970 (May 27 ) is the census results including places that belong to Glandorf since 1 May 1981.

Religions

Glandorf is traditionally a Catholic community. Religious affiliation of the taxpayers is spread over about 400 Protestant and Catholic about 2900. Are considered to be non-denominational about 280 inhabitants.

Policy

Parish council

The council currently has 18 members from three parties or groups. In addition, the mayor comes as a voting Chairman of the Council.

The following table shows the local election results since 1996.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality Glandorf has the shape of a shield in silver and red. The same colors used the Diocese of Osnabrück, to the Glandorf heard for centuries. In the upper part of the emblem is a red cross on a silver base, which is modeled on the church banner, and an attribute of John the Baptist represents the patron saints of the Catholic Church in Glandorf.

In the lower part of the half of the shield you see a silver-colored branch, three fan-shaped leaves, a Linden, an oak and a clover sprout from the. One branch is supposed to be a symbol that even people of very different nature live together, get along together as brothers and a whole may form.

Community partnerships

• Glandorf (Ohio ), USA
• Lichtenberg, in the municipality of Feldberg Lakes district Mecklenburg Lake District Mecklenburg -Vorpommern

Urban structure

The center of the village is the Thieplatz. Here lay the open village well in the past. In October 2010, by the artist Elisabeth Lumme redesigned fountain on the more than 100 years old cistern was inaugurated under the Thieplatz. The historic building was preserved largely in the transformation. With the renovation of the historic water storage, however, were not all Glandorfer agree. At the Thie the almost completely preserved castle cemetery, in which vicinity are several old half-timbered houses borders.

At the B 475 in the district Averfehrden the largest erratic boulder in the Osnabrück area is located. Originally contiguous stone was found about 300 meters northeast of the site. When exposing the stone broke a wedge-shaped fragment, called David, while the rest is called Goliath.

Churches

In the village of Glandorf is the Catholic parish church of St. John, which is first mentioned in 1275. The oldest parts of the castle cemetery also date from this period. Thought there was an older church elsewhere. A possible site may have been " history Glandorfs " by Bernhard Koster on the Urlage in Westendorf, according to the unpublished manuscript.

Another Catholic Church, the parish church of St. Mary, in the district is Schwege. It was built on the initiative of the teacher Mathias Niehaus, who laid out an addition to Calvary Calvary, the Garden of Olives and the tomb of Christ after a vow. In 1863 the first chapel was built with matching small tower at this point. In the same year Mathias Niehaus died, his work was but continued. In 1865 followed the Vikarienhaus and 1866 the church was enlarged without permission. Only the small tower from which they claimed jokingly that he would be drawn in the rain under the church roof was replaced only after the First World War by a larger tower.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Christ manger is in place Glandorf near the Theresienwiese - house. It was originally designed by Karl Siebold from Bethel near Bielefeld as makeshift church to serve a congregation as a temporary. They should be portable and easy to dismantle and again. Their lifespan was originally set at 30 to 40 years. The wooden church was first built in 1912 in Holsen Broach at frets. After nearly 40 years, the dilapidated building to be demolished there, but instead she was bought by the Protestant community in 1952 and built in Glandorf on a stone foundation again. Here, the rotted wood had to be removed and the church may be shortened by two longitudinal segments from 450 to 300 seats.

Structures

A gallery windmill by Dutch-style is the symbol of Glandorf. She was taken into operation in 1840 and until 1960 in the service. Since 2000, the interior of the mill is used as a registry office room.

The Theresa House is the former hospital and was called at the time Theresa Hospital. Today there is a facility of Caritas for the chronically addicted people in the building.

Another attraction is the 750-year- old Mersch mill, which belongs to the family Dallmöller. Your still valid today, water and storage rights stem from the period around 1235th The water mill was modernized in 1989 and now provides environmentally friendly electricity from hydropower. The water supply to the Glaner and Remseder Bach.

In addition, the military storage on the farm Högemann is worth seeing with its local history museum. The two-storey, massive memory, which has long been used as a prison is surrounded by a moat and dates from the early Middle Ages.

Pictures

Portal of St. John

A windmill is the symbol

Manger of Christ

St, Mary's in Schwege

The former Theresa Hospital

The largest boulder in the Osnabrück

Inscription on the so-called bride door of St. John's

Leisure and sports infrastructure

The community Glandorf is connected via different routes to the higher local cycle network. However, the most ambitious Recreational municipality is the municipal Hallengartenbad with its existing range of all-weather sports club SC Glandorf eV has 13 departments, three sports courts, 2 sports halls for the match and training operation. On the Dinkelhof the resident farmer operates a combined disc and Swingolfanlage.

Economy and Transport

Glandorf has retained a rural- rural character despite its commercial and industrial enterprises.

The federal highways 475 ( west-east direction) and 51 (north -south ) intersect in the community town of Glandorf.

There are hourly traffic a bus clock of the Transport Community of Glandorf Osnabrück in Osnabrück. Furthermore, there are bus services from Glandorf to Bad Rothenfelde, Warendorf, Greven, Münster.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• William Erpenbeck ( born June 20, 1892 in Glandorf, † February 26, 1971 ibid ), politicians ( center, CDU)