Wehrda (Haunetal)

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Wehrda
community Haunetal
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 23 "  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 48"  E
Height : 256 m
Area : 16.45 km²
Residents : 609
Population density : 37 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 36166
Area code : 06673

Wehrda is a part of the market town of Haunetal and is located between Bad Hersfeld and Fulda in the southern part of the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district . The next major road is Bundesstraße 27 , which runs below Wehrdas in the Haunetal.

history

The first written mention of the Fulda castle Wehrda ("castrum Werdowe") took place in 1303. In that year the Fulda abbot Heinrich V sold the castle, as he had once bought it himself, for 150 pounds of Fulda pfennigs to the knight Johannes von Beenhausen . In 1308 there was talk of a Wehrda-Neukirchen office in Fulda, which in the following centuries was pledged to various families of the Buchon nobility . Pledges were u. a. the families von Trubenbach, von Buchenau, von Haune, von Hattenbach and von der Tann. Even the abbot of Hersfeld had the castle mortgaged for a short time. The castle was besieged in 1351 during a military conflict.

Castle hill from the southwest

0.7 km north-northeast of the center of Wehrda are the remains of the Altwehrda castle ruins in the arable land. The castle of the Knights of Trubenbach (now called: Trümbach) stood here. The small village of "Trubenbach" also stood here, which after its devastation in the late Middle Ages became part of the village boundary of Wehrda. The von Trubenbach family is first mentioned in the tradition in 1133 as the Fuldaer Ministeriale ("Warmund de Druonbach").

Along with Rhina, Wehrda belonged to the so-called "Jewish villages", since after the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) numerous Jews were settled by the landlords to compensate for the population losses suffered in the war and to secure their income. The local Jewish cemetery , which is about a kilometer east of the center of the village, was first occupied in 1853. Before that, the Jewish community buried their dead in the Burghaun cemetery .

From 1947 to 1952, Wehrda was the headquarters of the Hessian teaching and research institute for grassland management and forage production. Today this facility is continued as a private enterprise for grain propagation and seed trade.

On December 31, 1971, the place that was then part of the Hünfeld district was incorporated into the Haunetal community.

The village became better known as the setting for the story The Sunday on which I became world champion by F. C. Delius . He also describes it in his novel My Year as a Murderer .

There are three castles in the village : the “Red Castle”, the “Yellow Castle” and the “Hohenwehrda Castle” , which is now a rural education center.

  • Red lock

  • Yellow lock

  • Hohenwehrda Castle

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Wehrda (Haunetal)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wehrda on the website of the Haunetal municipality , accessed in August 2015
  2. ↑ "Burg Alt-Wehrda, District of Hersfeld-Rotenburg". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ^ Thomas Wiegand: Cultural monuments in Hessen. District of Hersfeld Rotenburg. Volume I . Alheim to Kirchheim. Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. Vieweg + Teubner, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 978-3-528-06247-7 , pp. 369 .
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 399 .