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Gesmold is a town and former municipality, now part of Melle, in the district of Osnabrück, in
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Former municipalities in Lower Saxony Towns in Lower Saxony Melle, Germany {{LowerSaxony-geo-stub
Gesmold is a town and former municipality, now part of Melle, in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...
, Germany
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. It is placed between the Wiehengebirge and the Teutoburg Forest.
It features Gesmold Castle
Gesmold is a town and former municipality, now part of Melle, Germany, Melle, in the Osnabrück (district), district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is placed between the Wiehengebirge and the Teutoburg Forest.
It features Gesmold ...
, a Renaissance building. Another interesting place is the Church of St. Peter.
Important persons of Gesmold
* Hermann von Amelunxen (died 1580),Baron
Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knig ...
* Ludwig von Hammerstein (1702–1796), Baron
* Johann Matthias Seling (1792–1860), Professor and Priest in Osnabrück
* Mathias Schürmann, Professor, from 1828 to 1866 Priest in Gesmold
* Ludwig von Hammerstein (1832–1905), Jesuit and writer
* Wilhelm Joachim von Hammerstein (1838–1904), German politician
* Conrad Seeling, (19. Jh.) painter and builder
* Bernhard Olthaus (1862–1952), Dekan
* Hans von Hammerstein (1867–1933), German General
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In some usages the term "general officer" refers t ...
of the Infanterie
* Fritjof von Hammerstein, (1870–1944), German Generalleutnant
* August Niehaus (1880–1961), teacher and writer
* Heinrich Rahe (1892–1975), teacher and poet
* Heinrich Stühlmeyer (1907–1978), a "silent hero of the resistance" against National Socialism
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, who was deported to the concentration camp Emslandlager
Emslandlager ("Emsland camps") were a series of 15 moorland labor, punitive and POWs-camps, active from 1933 to 1945 and located in the districts of Emsland and Bentheim, Lower Saxony, Germany. The central administration was set in Papenburg whe ...
in 1940 for his support of the Catholic church and those persecuted by the Third Reich, had been employed at St. Peter's Gesmold for 47 years.''Die Macht der leisen Töne oder: Ein stiller Held aus Gesmold''. Heimatverein Gesmold (Hg.), Nr. 134, März 2010.
References
Sources
*Ludger Stühlmeyer
Ludger Stühlmeyer (born 3 October 1961 in Melle, West Germany) is a German cantor, composer, docent and musicologist.
Biography
Stühlmeyer was born to a family of cantors and made his first steps under the guidance of his father in the town chu ...
: ''Die Orgel der St. Petrus-Kirche Gesmold''. In Uwe Pape
Uwe or UWE may refer to
* Uwe (given name)
* University of the West of England, Bristol
* UML-based web engineering
* University Würzburg's Experimental miniaturized satellites for space research UWE-1 and UWE-2
* Uwe - Wreck in Blankenese
Blank ...
: ''Orgelatlas'', Berlin 1980, .
* Franz Nieweg, Klaus Rahe, Maria Winkelmann: ''Gesmold Gestern und Heute. In Bildern-Berichten-Gedichten'', Heimatverein Gesmold 1986.
* Andreas Loheide: '' Die St. Petrus Kirche Gesmold'' und ''Leitfaden Gemeindepastoral St. Petrus Gesmold'', Gesmold 1993.
* Bernard Meyer: ''Gesmold - In alten Bildern'', Heimatverein Gesmold 1995.
* Bernard Meyer: ''Gesmold - In alten und neuen Bildern'', Heimatverein Gesmold 1997.
* Irmgard und Bernard Meyer: ''St. Petrus ad vincula'', Gesmold 1998.
* Bernard Meyer: ''Gesmold - Im neuen Jahrtausend'', Heimatverein Gesmold 2001.
* Ludger Stühlmeyer: ''Die Macht der leisen Töne oder: Ein stiller Held aus Gesmold''. In: ''Dat Gessemske Blättken. Mit Berichten, Geschichten und Gedichten über Gesmolder Ereignisse aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart''. Heimatverein Gesmold 2010.
* Bernard Meyer: ''Gesmold - Im Wandel der Zeit'', Heimatverein Gesmold 2010.
* Heimatverein Gesmold Bernard Meyer und Marlies Kellenbrink: ''Dat Gessemske Blättken'', Heimatverein Gesmold 1975 - heute. Eine 16 seitige Schrift mit über 140 Ausgaben mit Themen aus Gesmold, alt und neu.
* Maria Breeck: '' Irrwege meiner Flucht'', Heimatverein Gesmold 2013.
External links
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History of Gesmold
Former municipalities in Lower Saxony Towns in Lower Saxony Melle, Germany {{LowerSaxony-geo-stub