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City of Bad Wildungen
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 35 ″  N , 9 ° 7 ′ 40 ″  E
Height : 231–311 m above sea level NN
Residents : 2328  (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation : 1940
Postal code : 34537
Area code : 05621
Bad Wildungen - Excerpt from the Topographia Hassiae by Matthäus Merian 1655; Alt-Wildungen with Friedrichstein Castle on the left, Nieder-Wildungen with the town church on the right

Altwildungen is the second largest district in terms of population in the city of Bad Wildungen in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg . The place had town charter since 1362 and was incorporated into the town of Bad Wildungen in 1940.

Geographical location

Altwildungen is located directly northeast of the core city, separated from it by the wild . The district roads 37 and 40 meet in the village . The federal road 485 leads east around Altwildungen.

history

Friedrichstein Castle
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The place was first mentioned when the predecessor of today 's Friedrichstein Palace was built on the Schlossberg around 1200 . After 1300 the place separated from the castle, and today's Altwildungen was created, which was included in the circle of towns in the County of Waldeck in 1362 with the granting of town charter .

Nicolai Church

The Evangelical Church of Alt-Wildungen was inaugurated in May 1732 after eleven years of construction. The architect of the church, which was built at the behest of Prince Friedrich Anton Ulrich von Waldeck and Pyrmont, was his court architect Julius Ludwig Rothweil . In 1908 the church was named Nicolai Church - as a tribute to the pastor, court preacher and prince educator Philipp Nicolai (1556–1608), who wrote the hymn " Wake up, call us the voice ", who died in 1608 .

The church of the former Johanniter-Kommende Wildungen , in which Nicolai had preached and which had been used by the Reitzenhagen parish up to this point , was demolished in the same year. The Coming of St. John had emerged in 1402 from the 1358 to 1369 established St. John's Hospital below the castle mountain on the left bank of the Wild and was in 1532, after the introduction of the Reformation in the county of Waldeck , secularized . Practically nothing of the church or the other buildings of the Coming House has survived today. Today the Riesendamm, which connects Alt-Wildungen with the city center, runs across the site of the former hospital.

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Hermann Brand (1857–1929), German businessman and politician (DDP)

literature

Web links

Commons : Altwildungen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City of Bad Wildungen in figures , accessed on February 8, 2019