Hunteburg

Hunteburg is a village in the municipality of Bohmte and the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany. In Hunteburg are living about 4,000 people. Hunteburg consists of the districts Schwege, Welplage and Meyerhöfen, these three districts were up to the local government reform in 1972, the Municipality Hunteburg.

Hunteburg is located in the south of the second largest lake named Dümmer and in the north of the Wiehengebirge. The Hunte flows from the Wiehengebirge coming through Hunteburg in the Dümmer. With annual rainfall 650-700 and a mean annual air temperature of 8.4 degrees Celsius Hunteburg belongs to the maritime-influenced climate sub-continental region of the North German lowlands.

1248 for the first time the knights of Schwege was mentioned that on a same good had its headquarters. The first mention Welplages goes back to the year 1306. Hunteburg is first mentioned in a document from 1324, in which the knight Friedrich von Schwege the Osnabrück Bishop Gottfried Graf von Arnsberg suitable land for the Hunteburg. The Hunteburg castle belonged to a series of pin castles with which the bishops of Osnabrück secured the border of the Bishopric of Osnabrück 1250–1370. Little is known about the Hunteburg the plant. What is certain is that it consisted of a stone house that was surrounded by a wooden enclosure and fed by the Hunte grave system. Still preserved today is a stone arch bridge built in 1424 that is considered the oldest building in Hunteburg. 1378 the Office Hunteburg was established, which included the present-day communities Bohmte and Ostercappeln. At the end of the 14th century, Bishop Friedrich von Horn founded a chapel in 1402 from a priest from Ostercappeln saying mass. In 1492 Hunteburg was given its own parish. Shortly thereafter, the Three Kings consecrated early Gothic wooden church was built. Towards the end of the 16th century, it fell into the Hunteburg that was completely demolished in 1618.

In a report on the Church of Visitation in 1624, it is stated that Pastor Kling Hammer holds in the Church simultaneous services for both denominations. 1633 the Church of Swedish troops was set on fire. In accordance with the provisions of the Treaty of Westphalia Treaty and the decisions at the Diet of Nuremberg of 1650 people in the Bishopric of Osnabrück Perpetual surrender (Capitulatio perpetua osnabrugensis) were guaranteed the free exercise of religion. The Hunteburger Church was awarded the Catholic community and left two denominations for use. The simultaneous relationship went through on the church built in 1688. However, the evangelical Christians did not use the church but attended religious services in Dielingen and Venne.

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