Hünkelshäuptchen

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Hünkelshäuptchen is a farm group in Gersfeld in the Hessian district of Fulda .

Geographical location

Hünkelshäuptchen is located in the Rhön Biosphere Reserve and the Hessian Rhön Nature Park . It is located about 2 km north of the Gersfeld core town and 500 north-northeast of the Gersfeld district of Schachen (Schachen 65-73) at about 630  m above sea level. NHN . The farmsteads are named after the Hünkelshäuptchen ( 655  m ), which is in front of the Eubeberg (approx.  820  m ) to the south; The courtyards and the surrounding houses are built directly on the southern slope of the elevation; the Wasserkuppe ( 950  m ) rises beyond the Eubeberg .

history

In 1830 there were four houses, five families, 33 souls in the court , of which 24 were Protestants and nine Catholics. In 1895 Hünkelshäuptchen had three houses with 21 residents. Today it belongs to the district of Schachen, which has around 300 residents; it consists mainly of farms and homesteads with attached barns .

The organ maker Georg Limpert lived at the Hünkelshäuptchen from 1775 to 1851 , who presumably made rotary and fair organs. Then the organ builders Johann and Nikolaus Richter and Peter Limpert are named as organ builders in Hükelshäuptchen.

The Eubeberg-Hünkelshäuptchen nature reserve , with its mixed forest as well as grassland, wetlands and poor grassland, is a cultural landscape worth preserving in the maintenance zone B of the Rhön biosphere reserve.

literature

  • Heinrich Reimer: Historical local lexicon for Kurhessen , publications of the Historical Commission for Kurhessen 14, p. 254 (1926)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Fischer : 100 Years of the Bund Deutscher Orgelbaumeister 1891–1991 , commemorative publication with a lexical directory of German organ building workshops, Orgelbau-Fachverlag, 1991, ISBN 3-92184818-0 , page 242
  2. ^ Gottfried Rehm : Life in the Rhön: Contributions to the history and folklore of our homeland , Rhön-Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-93179632-9 , p. 186
  3. ↑ Procedure for a conflict resolution process in the field of sport nature conservation , document of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, p. 30, on bfn.de (PDF; 326 kB)

Coordinates: 50 ° 28 '  N , 9 ° 55'  E