Asterode

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Asterode
City of Neukirchen
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 17 ″  N , 9 ° 23 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 334  (320-345)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 10.17 km²
Residents : 472  (Jun 30, 2017)
Population density : 46 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 34626
Area code : 06694

Asterode is a district of the city of Neukirchen in the Schwalm-Eder district in Hesse .

Asterode lies on the western edge of the Knüllgebirge . The Schwalm joins in the west . The village is located around 3.5 km southeast of the core town of Neukirchen. The next largest cities are Kassel (about 50 kilometers north), Marburg (about 40 kilometers west), Fulda (about 40 kilometers south-east) and Bad Hersfeld (about 25 kilometers east). The federal highway 454 runs through the village .

history

Barn from Asterode in the Hessenpark open-air museum

The village was first mentioned in documents in 1240. In 1845 the old church that was in the cemetery collapsed . Five years later it was rebuilt on a hill in the middle of the village.

In 1928 the manor districts of Forst Neukirchen and Forst Immichenhain were incorporated into Asterode. On December 31, 1971, Asterode was incorporated into Neukirchen as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

Place name

In surviving documents, Asterode was mentioned under the following names (the year it was mentioned in brackets): Astenrode (around 1240), Astinrode (1343), Astenrode (1360/1367), Asterode (1364/1367), Asterodt (1750).

Swastika in the forest

The village became the subject of national and foreign media reports from the year 2000, when larch plantings from the 1930s in the form of a swastika in a pine forest in the Brandenburg town of Zernikow sparked discussions. In this context it became public that at that time in a spruce forest in front of Asterode the number "1933" - the year Adolf Hitler came to power - and a huge swastika symbol with larches had been planted. The symbol was to be removed as early as the 1960s following complaints from American soldiers. However, the following forest work was insufficiently carried out. According to the responsible forest director a. D. Bernhard von Strenge, the swastika and number remained recognizable, which only changed after a storm in 1990.

Cultural monuments

Barn from Asterode

The stable barn from Asterode was rebuilt in Hessenpark .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Asterode, Schwalm-Eder district". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 21, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ "Facts & Figures" on the website of the city of Neukirchen (Küll) , accessed in January 2019
  3. ^ 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. 412 .
  4. ^ The time of August 12, 2004: The cross in the forest
  5. ^ The Daily Telegraph of November 30, 2000: Berlin forest swastika to go but its image may remain
  6. ↑ Spiegel-Online from July 3, 2013: Planted Nazi symbols: The swastika in the forest
  7. ↑ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung of September 12, 2006, updated on July 7, 2010: Brown forests - plantings in the shape of a swastika
  8. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of December 5, 2000: The swastika forest near Zernikow came under the saw

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