Bücken
Encyclopedia
Bücken is a municipality in the district of Nienburg
, in Lower Saxony
, Germany
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, Archbishop of Bremen. On Bücken’s market place stands a monument which serves as a reminder of the unusual legend surrounding its origin: a donkey is said to have indicated the site where the church was to be built.
About 1050, the original wooden structure was replaced by a relatively small stone edifice which was expanded in several stages of construction until the year 1350. With the dissolution of the Abbey and its property after the reformation, the church feel partly to ruin and remained so until its full restoration through A. Hotzen in the years 1863 - 1867. Since 1413 Bücken is a Market town
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Nienburg (district)
Nienburg is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Diepholz, Verden, Heidekreis, Hanover and Schaumburg, and by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia ....
, in Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
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History
An Abbey was established here in Bücken in the year 882 by RimbertRimbert
Saint Rimbert was archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg from 865 until his death.A monk in Turholt , he shared a missionary trip to Scandinavia with his friend Ansgar, whom he later succeeded as archbishop in Hamburg-Bremen in 865...
, Archbishop of Bremen. On Bücken’s market place stands a monument which serves as a reminder of the unusual legend surrounding its origin: a donkey is said to have indicated the site where the church was to be built.
About 1050, the original wooden structure was replaced by a relatively small stone edifice which was expanded in several stages of construction until the year 1350. With the dissolution of the Abbey and its property after the reformation, the church feel partly to ruin and remained so until its full restoration through A. Hotzen in the years 1863 - 1867. Since 1413 Bücken is a Market town
Market town
Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the medieval period, for a European settlement that has the right to host markets, distinguishing it from a village and city...
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Notable people
- Georg Dietrich LeydingGeorg Dietrich LeydingGeorg Dietrich Leyding was a German composer and organist associated with the North German school.Born in Bücken, close to Nienburg, his father was a riding master in the French lifeguards...
, 1664–1710, German composer and organist - Carl KoldeweyCarl KoldeweyCarl Christian Koldewey was a German Arctic explorer. He led both German North Polar Expeditions.-Life and career:...
, 1837–1908, German Arctic explorer - William WredeWilliam WredeGeorg Friedrich Eduard William Wrede was a German Lutheran theologian.Wrede was born at Bücken in Hannover. He became an associate professor at Breslau in 1893, and full professor in 1896. He died in office in 1906....
, 1859-1906, German Lutheran theologian