Bielefeld recess – Wikipedia
Under the Bielefeld recess is generally understood the regulation of border and confession disputes between the Rheda rule and the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück on March 27, 1565.
In the literature, the establishment of the regional spread of the Reformation in the county of Ravensberg on October 24, 1609 is also partly referred to as Bielefeld recess on October 24, 1609. [first]
Count Konrad von Tecklenburg joined the Reformation in 1527 and also introduced it to the Rheda rule. German trade fairs were held there from 1529. In 1549 Franz von Waldeck, the Bishop of Osnabrück, initiated counter -reformation measures.
One of the disputes between the parties was the dominance in the parish of Gütersloh. Among other things, the rather controversial to determine the denomination and use the pastor. Konrad was very interested in having an evangelical pastor in the parish of Gütersloh, also because the two monasteries Herzebrock and Clarholz with their parishes meant a strong counterweight to his power. On the other hand, control over the parish of Gütersloh was important for the Bishop of Osnabrück in order to limit efforts by the Tecklenburg to expand their territorial sphere of influence.
After Konrad died in 1557, the rule in Rheda was exercised by his daughter Anna von Tecklenburg-Schwerin. As early as 1553, Johann II of Hoya had become Prince -Bishop of Osnabrück. The claims were represented unchanged by both parties. Border curve often led to bloody clashes between Rhedic and Osnabrück mercenaries.
On March 27, 1565, Count Wilhelm von Ravensberg was mediated the dispute by a recess closed in Bielefeld. The contract was supplemented by the Wiedenbrück contract in the summer of the same year, which regulated the exact course of the border. The borders were marked by border stones.
As a result, the recess as a secular episode brought a political division of the parish of Gütersloh. The Kirchdorf itself and the Bauerchafts Blankenhagen, Nordhorn, Pavenstädt and Sundern finally came under the rule of the Tecklenburg counts, the farmers Avenwedde, Kattenstroth and Spexard remained under the territorial force of the Prince -Bishop of Osnabrück.
As a spiritual episode, it was regulated in the recess that the ecclesiastical rights of rule remained completely at the Prince -Bishopric of Osnabrück, whereby the Osnabrück bishop was still able to determine the denomination in the parish of Gütersloh and regulate the parish occupation. The occupation law was subsequently actually exercised by the St. Aegidius college pencil in Wiedenbrück. The latter belonged to the Reckenberg office and thus to an exclave of the prince -bishopric. The parish office was occupied with Catholic canon. [2]
In the evaluation of the recess and its consequences, it should be taken into account that the spiritual points of view of the parties may not have played as big as the appearance. Franz von Waldeck had already anchored Reformation approaches in the diocese of Osnabrück and Hermann Bonnus as his representative had already reformed Wiedenbrück in 1543. At the time of the recess, the city was largely Lutheran.
The regulation did not lead to a recatholization of the parish. The fair was read in German and the sacrament was distributed to the believers in both forms. The pastors also lived with a woman and had children. However, the open dispute with the Osnabrück side by the official introduction of a Lutheran worship regulations was shy away, the pastors laved politically between the interests of the Bishop of Osnabrück and the Count of Tecklenburg for many years.
- ↑ Sources on the history of church teaching in the Evangelical Church of Germany between 1530 and 1600, part: Sources on the history of Catechism lessons, Johann Michael Reu (ed.), Gütersloh 1904-35, Neukitung 1976, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York, ISBN 978-3-487-06120-7
- ↑ Rheda and her residence city’s rule: From the beginning to the end of the old empire , Hermann Schaub, Verlag F regional history, 2006 – 260 pages
- Eckhard Möller: With the Hagen recess of 1655, the simultaneous begins at the Gütersloh church . In: Kreis Gütersloh (ed.): Home Yearbook district of Gütersloh . 2006.
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