Grossenrode (in German: Großenrode) is a district of the town of Moringen in Northeim, Lower Saxony, Germany. It has about 330 inhabitants.[1] Nearby places include Behrensen, Elvese, Hillerse, Schnedinghausen, Thüdinghausen, and Wolbrechtshausen.
Grossenrode
Großenrode | |
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District | |
 Church of St. John (St. Johannis), Grossenrode. Built in 1730, inaugurated in 1740 | |
| Coordinates: 51°40′11″N 9°54′30″E / 51.66972°N 9.90833°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| Region | Lower Saxony |
| City | Moringen |
| Website | Moringen |
History edit
In the place where now stands Grossenrode was an ancient settlement, as evidenced by 1992 archaeological excavations, which uncovered a village with long houses and a cemetery from the Roessen period of around 4800 BC.[1]
In 978 AD, Grossenrode was first named Nywenrode and the land was owned by the Fulda monastery as part of the village of Thüdinghausen. The teacher Ludwig Wöbbeking wrote in 1924 in his Dorfchronik about Grossenrode that it "is a Hardenbergic creation, of around 1230. At that time, the area, which is now the Grosserroder Feldmark, was still a large forest. Gunther, a younger son of Hardenberg, who had no desire to enter the spiritual offices like other younger sons of noblemen, went with a number of his father's attendants; they cleared the forest as far as was necessary, and called the freed surface Rode or, as was customary, with a Latin name, Novalis."[1]
In 1389, the Hardenbergs sold the property.[2]
From the early years of the 19th century, the Hardenberg's burial grounds were located in the Grossenrode church.[2] The 1850 cholera epidemic spared the Nörten-Hardenberg region.
of Grossenrode
On 1 March 1974, Grossenrode was integrated into the city of Moringen.[3]
Notable persons edit
A prominent member of the Hardenberg family was Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, better known as Novalis.
References edit
- ^ a b c Grossenrode Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, City of Moringen website (in German)
- ^ a b Kirstin Casemir, Franziska Menzel, Uwe Ohainski: "Die Ortsnamen des Landkreises Northeim" (Name places of the Northeim county) from Jürgen Udolph (Ed.) Niedersächsisches Ortsnamensbuch. Teil V. Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89534-607-1, S. 372, 162 f. (in German)
- ^ Statistisches Bundesamt (Hrsg.): Historisches Gemeindeverzeichnis für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. (Historical church directory for the Federal Republic of Germany) Namens-, Grenz- und Schlüsselnummernänderungen bei Gemeinden, Kreisen und Regierungsbezirken vom 27. 5. 1970 bis 31. 12. 1982. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 (in German)