Bueckelte

"Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a small village without streets and pubs, with only an ancient church without a pastor, and a school with 20 schoolchildren and a gray-bearded schoolmaster. If someone from outside the village wanted to visit here, he had to shout from the river bank: "Haol ower!", and if he was lucky, one of the inhabitants of the nearest farm would hear him, so that they could take him to the other side of the river in a boat."
This fairytale-like description comes from the teacher Joseph Hugenberg and gives an impression of the farming community of Bueckelte at the beginning of the 20th century. Bueckelte was a dead, remote village with a dozen thatched wooden houses, about 5 km southwest of Haseluenne at the mouth of the Haverbeck stream into the river Hase. The connection with the city and the parish church in Bokeloh has always been well maintained by fords and ferry crossings. In this way, the inhabitants of the village did not have to make long detours through the valley. The first wooden bridge was built in 1756 near the "Hudener Faehr" and later in 1907 just before Bokeloh. The middle of the Hudener Bridge could be raised so that boats ("Hasepuenten") could pass. Farmers from Oldenburg and Lengerich also came here to load the boats with grain. With the arrival of the railway line between Meppen-Halsehuenne, traffic on the river decreased. In 1937, the precious Hudener Bridge was replaced by a concrete bridge 2 km upstream. For this reason, the Bueckelter ferry stopped its services on the Backsmann estate. The village of Bueckelte already existed in the year 850 under the name "Boclithi". The same name was used in the 10th century for the villages that belonged to Bokeloh. According to Hermann Abels, Boclithi means "Slope covered with beech trees".
Because it was a 7 km long, impassable road through the valley to get to the church, Bueckelte built her own church in 1505. Legend has it that the remains of a ruined Johanniter settlement in Klosterholte were used as building material. The church in Bueckelte is an almost 500-year-old, late Gothic building. The 1963 murals in the choir of the church date back to the time of its construction and have made the church a famous architectural monument that is visited by many tourists. Not only the interior of the church, but also the surroundings of this ancient building show an ancient existence of ecclesiasticism and everyday life.

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