Abterode

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Abterode
community Meissner
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 37 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 11 ″  E
Height : 247 m
Area : 5.7 km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 37290
Area code : 05657
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Abterode is a district and seat of the municipality administration of the municipality Meißner in the north Hessian Werra-Meißner district .

Geographical location

The place is at the foot of the Hoher Meissner (754 m above sea ​​level ). The distance to the district town of Eschwege is 9 km. The Berka tributary Kupferbach runs along the north-western edge of the town. The state roads L 3241, L 3243 and L 3335 meet in the village.

history

Ruthard, abbot of the monastery of Fulda (1075-1096), founded the Holy Vincent, dedicated to 1076 Benedictine - provost Abbetesrode , then developed around the village Abterode. With the introduction of the Reformation in the Landgraviate of Hesse , the village became Protestant in 1527. The provost's office, whose convent had probably already been dissolved because of its diminishing importance, did not follow until 1544, when the prince abbot of Fulda, Philipp Schenk zu Schweinsberg , and his cousin Rudolf Schenk zu Schweinsberg , landgrave councilor and governor of the Werra, enfeoffed and he converted it into a parish and school and united the provost with the local parish. Thus the 14th century Church of the Dead , located not far east of the village on a hill, lost its function as a parish church; it has been in ruins since 1809. The provost church, a three-aisled pillar basilica , was demolished in 1867 due to irreparable damage and replaced by today's church from 1867 to 1868, a historicizing building in the classical tradition with Romanizing, but also Gothicizing forms.

To the east of the village is the so-called “Berg Freiheit”, where miners from the “ Grube Gustav ” copper mine, located a few kilometers to the north and operated from the 15th to the 19th century , were settled. During the secularization of the provost, this area was given to the miners on a hereditary lease and has been called "Berg Freiheit" since then.

Abterode was the seat of a judicial office in Kurhessen (from 1821) and, after the annexation of Kurhessen by Prussia , the seat of a local court from 1867 .

Abterode had a larger Jewish community with a state-approved Israelite elementary school from 1840 and a synagogue from 1870. During the National Socialist era , 47 Abterode residents of Jewish origin were deported and murdered.

On December 31, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the previously independent towns of Abterode, Alberode, Germerode, Vockerode, Weidenhausen and Wellingerode merged to form the new municipality of Meißner.

Infrastructure

leisure

In Abterode there is a leisure facility with a Kneipp water treading facility, a sports facility, a community center, a skater facility , a tennis facility , a shooting range, a bowling alley and many kilometers of signposted hiking trails .

Local supply

In Abterode, one of the first three villages in Hesse, the elimination of local shopping opportunities in the countryside is being countered with the new retail concept L Smaller for Everything . For a local sponsor, the Fulda-based company Tegut provides the concept, goods and equipment of a small grocery store, similar to the offer of a “corner shop”. The local operator supplements this core offer with further trading and service components, such as postal service, cleaning acceptance, village café, pharmacy service, banking service, etc.

Culture and sights

  • The listed Totenkirche , the former Protestant parish church, built in the 14th century, has been in ruins since 1809
  • The parish church , built in 1867/68
  • The former synagogue , built in 1870 as a free-standing neo-Romanesque building. It has a square floor plan and is covered with a hipped roof, the facades are structured by pilaster strips . The entrance risalit on the west side is equipped with a round arch portal. Inside there are remains of building time paintings, such as stars of David and plant ornaments.
  • The Jewish cemetery is located southwest of the village on the Rehberg, it was created in 1660 as a collective cemetery for five communities. The design language of the 490 mazewot (tombstones) from the 18th to 20th century is simple.
  • The Bärenstein (stone formation) and Frau-Holle-Ort
  • The visitor mine Grube Gustav , a former copper mine
  • Leisure facility with a Kneipp water treading facility and a multi-purpose sports field

Personalities

Sons and daughters

Other personalities

  • Burkard Waldis (around 1490–1556), Protestant clergyman and poet, died in Abterode

literature

Web links

Commons : Abterode  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Abterode  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The place appears in historical documents with the spelling of the name changing several times: Abbetrode (around 1000), Abbetesrode (1077), Appederode (1253) and Apterod (1262); see Abterode, Werra-Meißner-Kreis, in the Historisches Ortlexikon Hessen
  2. ↑ The first demonstrable evangelical pastor in the village was Christoph Thiele 1542–1544, but the Reformation was probably introduced at the time of pastor Nikolaus Junghans, pastor from approx. 1499 to 1537. ( https://www.lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/gsrec/current/1/sn/ol?q=Abterode )
  3. ^ Wilhelm Bach: Church statistics of the Protestant Church in the Electorate of Hesse. Kassel, 1835, p. 270
  4. ^ F. Pfister: Small handbook of regional studies of Kurhessen . Hotop, Kassel, 1840, p. 173
  5. ↑ Alfred Dreyer: Joseph Kastein, a Jewish writer (1890-1946) , The Bremen Years, In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Volume 58, Bremen 1980.
  6. ↑ Federal Archives Memorial Book. For addresses see the PDF The Murdered Jews of Abterode
  7. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 388 .
  8. ↑ a b Dehio, Georg , edited by Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen 1, administrative districts Gießen and Kassel . Deutscher Kunstverlag , 2008 ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , page 1