Adelshausen (Melsungen)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adelshausen
City of Melsungen
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 32 ″  N , 9 ° 34 ′ 15 ″  E
Height : 199 m above sea level NN
Area : 7.28 km²
Residents : 471  (2012)
Population density : 65 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st February 1971
Postal code : 34212
Area code : 05661
The Pfieffetalbrücke with an ICE1

Adelshausen is a district of Melsungen in the north Hessian Schwalm-Eder district .

geography

The village lies on the Pfieffe . The federal highway 487 runs through the village . In the west, the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg crosses the river over the Pfieffetal bridge .

history

First mention and place name

The place was first mentioned in documents as "Odolvessen" in 1209. The place name mutated over the centuries to its present form: Odolvishusen (1269), Odolpheshusen (1318), Odolfishusen (around 1360), Odelshusen (1438) and Odelshausen ( 1585).

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1575: 12 households
  • 1585: 18 households
  • 1747: 23 households
Adelshausen: Population from 1834 to 2012
year     Residents
1834
  
 262
1840
  
 266
1846
  
 278
1852
  
 241
1858
  
 239
1864
  
 260
1871
  
 261
1875
  
 272
1885
  
 309
1895
  
 279
1905
  
 310
1910
  
 343
1925
  
 341
1939
  
 300
1946
  
 407
1950
  
 414
1956
  
 361
1961
  
 374
1967
  
 350
1970
  
 357
2012
  
 471
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 1970 :; City of Melsungen

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 290 Protestant (= 99.66%), one Catholic (= 0.34%) residents
• 1961: 331 Protestant (= 88.50%), 40 Catholic (= 10.70%) residents

Incorporation

The previously independent municipality was incorporated into Melsungen as part of the regional reform in Hesse on February 1, 1971.

Fulling mill

In 1923 the Philosophical-Political Academy (PPA) , founded the year before on the initiative of the Göttingen philosopher Leonard Nelson , took over the sponsorship of the Walkemühle Landerziehungsheim , about 750 m northwest of Adelshausen an der Pfieffe, which opened in May 1924. The director was Minna Specht , who also became chairwoman of the PPA after Leonard Nelson's death in 1927. As a teacher u. a. Gustav Heckmann .

In the course of the takeover of power by the NSDAP , the Walkemühle Landerziehungsheim was expropriated in 1933 and converted into an administrative and SA leadership school for the NSDAP district of Kurhessen. From April 1933 onwards, numerous so-called protective prisoners from the Melsungen area were locked up, mistreated and tortured in the cellars of the facility . Parts of the facility were set on fire by the Nazis on April 1, 1945 when American troops were advancing.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Adelshausen, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 404 .
  3. ^ Municipal reform: mergers and integration of municipalities from January 20, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 6 , p. 248 , item 328, para. 41 ( online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 6.2 MB ]).
  4. ↑ Landerziehungsheims Walkemühle Melsungen
  5. ^ History of the fulling mill
  6. ↑ The fulling mill, at "Stolpersteine ​​Melsungen"
  7. ↑ 75 years ago: The Nazis opened a school for functionaries with a torture cellar near Melsungen (HNA, June 30, 2008) (PDF; 352 kB)
  8. ↑ www.landerziehungsheim-walkemuehle.de