Armsfeld

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Armsfeld
City of Bad Wildungen
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 6 "  N , 9 ° 3 ′ 48"  E
Height : 371 m
Residents : 279  (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 34537
Area code : 05621

Armsfeld is a district of Bad Wildungen in the southeastern part of the north Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

geography

The place is located on the upper reaches of the Urff in the Kellerwald in a wooded area about 8 km south of the core town of Bad Wildungen. The entire district is part of the Kellerwald-Edersee nature park ; The Kellerwaldsteig runs on the eastern edge of the village .

history

In the 12th century, the place is mentioned for the first time as an "inconspicuous" property of the "Junkers of Ermbrechtisfelde" (little is known about this noble family).

The lush beech and oak forests , but especially valuable raw materials such as lead and iron, were the driving force behind a pre-industrial mining and iron industry. In 1253, it is said, the Ludowinger Ministeriale Conrad von Ermbrechtisfelde and his partner transferred all of their possessions, including a third of the village, to the Haina monastery for a lifelong pension “for the sake of their soul” . In 1254, the monastery also acquired the other two thirds through a donation from Ludwig and Volknand von Zwehren and through exchange from Messrs Heinrich and Eckehardt von Ermbrechtisfelde. In May 1281, at the request of the monastery, Count Otto I von Waldeck exempted the village from all services and taxes to the county.

Border disputes between the Landgraviate of Hesse and the Landgraviate of Waldeck, which concerned the use of mineral resources, almost led to the destruction of the village in 1510 by the landgrave's troops under Eberhard Schenck zu Schweinsberg and Hermann Schütze.

After the Reformation had been introduced in the Landgraviate of Hesse and in the County of Waldeck in 1526 , further disputes arose, as Armsfeld had been a monastery parish of the Haina Monastery, which had now been dissolved and now belonged to the Landgraviate of Hesse as a state hospital, on the other but also belonged to the Archpriest Church Bergheim and thus ecclesiastically to Waldeck since 1502 . When Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel converted to Calvinism in 1605 , the conflicts came to a head, as the Armsfeld pastor was paid by Hessen-Kassel, but, like all Waldeck pastors, he was forbidden from following the church reforms introduced in Hessen-Kassel. The dispute about which church authority had to provide and take care of the pastor and according to which teaching the Lord's Supper was to be celebrated was occasionally even carried out with violence.

In the 19th century, the Armsfelder acquired the derisive nickname “Armsfelder Dickwätze”, due to the increasing number of well-fed pigs that were able to eat their fill in the vast beech and oak forests.

The flourishing of the iron industry in the Ruhr area led to a gradual migration of people from around 1840 onwards. A number of arms fields also emigrated to America in the second half of the 19th century , so that the high of 441 inhabitants reached in 1840 has never been reached again since then.

As part of the contractual nature conservation, the local farmers have been involved in the maintenance of the landscape in the Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park since 1992 .

Armsfeld became part of Bad Wildungen as part of the regional reform in Hesse on December 31, 1971.

The half-timbered church

Half-timbered church

The listed Evangelical Church of Armsfeld , built in 1587 and expanded around 1650 to include a bell tower and an anteroom, is one of the three oldest half-timbered churches in Hesse. The church was restored in 2007. Inside there is an L-shaped gallery. The baroque altar comes from Lelbach . The organ was built in 1732 by the organ builder Daniel Mütze and was last restored in 2011 by the Rotenburg organ builder Dieter Noeske .

Personalities

The philosopher Christoph Scheibler was born in Armsfeld on December 6, 1589 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Armsfeld  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City of Bad Wildungen in figures , accessed on February 8, 2019
  2. ^ 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. 408 .
  3. ↑ Georg Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , Hessen I, administrative districts Gießen and Kassel, founded on the Day of Monument Preservation 1900, continued by Ernst Gall, edited by Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others, 2008, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , page 30f.