Medingen (Bad Bevensen)

Medingen is a district of Bad Bevensen in Lower Saxony. The name originated in the 14th century by renaming the village Zellensen located there.

History

1541 was commissioned by the Protestant Duke Ernst " The Confessor " the district court in the course of a dispute with the Catholic convent Medingen.

1855 was the late Church Planting in the shadow of the monastery.

1927 Reich President Paul von Hindenburg his daughter Anne Marie Barbara Ursula Ilse Margaret Eleanor, who was married to Christian von Pentz, visited in Medingen.

At June 19, 1931, the passage of the Rail Zeppelin was.

The water mill in Medingen has milled cereals and generates electricity for the entire village. Medingen had thus already at the time an electric street lighting, where in other places, the gas lamps were lit. Even today, the water mill produces green electricity for the grid.

For Medinger Fritz Hintze ( † December 26, 1943 ) the last commander of the Scharnhorst is a memorial stone in the forest cemetery.

On 1 July 1972, the municipality Medingen was in the city Bevensen - now Bad Bevensen - incorporated.

In 1977, the old district court was purchased in Medingen state of Lower Saxony and converted into a conference center for the Gustav Stresemann Institute.

Monastery Medingen

1228, the Convention was (north of Magdeburg ) was founded as a branch of the Cistercian monastery Wolmirstedt. In 1336 it settled permanently in Medingen. The monastery was originally built in the style of Brick Gothic.

Most of the nuns were unmarried daughters of the Lüneburg patrician families who entered with a rich household in the convent and so made ​​up the possession of the monastery. In time, the convent received rights to the Luneburg Saline, at customs, in mills and on the boat trip on the river Ilmenau.

Beginning of the 16th century, to its heyday, the monastery housed about 100 nuns.

In 1524, during the Reformation, the sovereign Duke Ernst the Confessor, of Brunswick- Lüneburg issued the order to go to the Lutheran faith. In contrast, the Convention had resisted more than 30 years in the "Nuns war"; the Luther Bible was the abbess publicly burned. 1539 Duke Ernst drew a monastic possession and had to tear down part of the monastery. 1555, following the adoption of the Lutheran Confession, the monastery was given back a portion of the goods. In 1559 it was converted into a convent.

1781 burned the buildings of the old monastery up on the brewery. Until 1787 it was in the late Baroque mainly, partly also built early classical style again. There are two elongated convent building, with the church in the middle.

Architect of the new building was the court architect Ludwig Christian Ziegler.

To date, abbesses stand before the Convention. The monastery is one of the Medingen Lüneklöster that are managed by the monastery Hanover Chamber and under the legal supervision of the President are the same.

Cloister Medingen

In the 17th century the farm cloister Medingen was founded.

July 1934 Performance of War nuns at the monastery under the artistic direction of Eleon Rommel.

Since 1960, the family Wahler has a Trakehner stud on the farm.

On 12 July 1983, a major fire destroyed part of the stables. They were then rebuilt.

Landscape

The railway line between Hamburg, Hanover shares Medingen. The State Forestry Rießel and farmland located on the west side. The idyllic landscape of the river Ilmenau with forest and meadows for the Trakehner lies in the east.