Balhorn

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Balhorn
Bad Emstal municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 22 "  N , 9 ° 14 ′ 10"  E
Height : 323 m above sea level NHN
Area : 10.93 km²
Residents : 1713  (Dec. 31, 2010)
Population density : 157 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 34308
Area code : 05625
View from the Hessencourrier cycle path to Balhorn, on the right the Isthaberg

Balhorn is the oldest part of the municipality Bad Emstal in the district of Kassel , Hesse .

geography

Balhorn is located in the north Hessian mountain landscape in the Ostwaldecker Randsenken , about 16 km west of Kassel , 8 km southwest of Wolfhagen .

Direct neighboring towns (by road) are:

  • Altenstädt in the west
  • Istha in the north
  • Martinhagen in the northeast
  • Sand (largest district and seat of the municipal administration of Bad Emstal) in the south-southeast
  • Elbenberg in the southwest

To the place, which is about 320 m above sea level. NN, there are the following larger elevations

  • Wattenberg at 516 m above sea level. NN in the northeast
  • Remmenhausener head at 427.6 m above sea level. NN in the east
  • Erzeberg at 436.7 m above sea level. NN in the southeast
  • Wartberg at 430.8 m above sea level NN in the southwest

Balhorn is located on the Spolebach , immediately south of the watershed between Eder and Diemel , which runs between Balhorn and Istha to the north.

history

In 774 Balhorn was first mentioned as villa Balahorna in the Sancti Lulli breviary of the Hersfeld monastery . The place is probably much older, however, finds and urn graves from the Bronze Age suggest a long history of settlement. In 1340 Landgrave Heinrich II made Balhorn the place of the court; the judicial district included Balhorn, Merxhausen, Riede, Sand and Offenhausen and the later desolate settlements of Almundeshusen, Emserberg , Fischbach, Mutslar, Reinboldeshusen, Hohenfeld, Wagenhusen, Gelnrod, Swallinghusen, Berningshusen and Ramershusen. From 1357 at the latest, the place belonged to the Hessian office of Gudensberg . The church patronage was up to the Reformation in the Hasungen Abbey , then at the Hessian Landgrave .

With the opening of the Kassel-Naumburg Railway in 1904, Balhorn received its own station . In the 1960s, a village community center and the outdoor pool on the Distelberg were built.

On December 31, 1971, Balhorn was incorporated into the municipality of Emstal.

Churches

Evangelical parish church

A first church is mentioned as early as 1342. The tower of the fortified church dates back to 1488 and is built in the Gothic style, it received the current baroque tower dome in 1724. The Gothic substructure of the gatehouse and the court table with the village linden come from the time it was built . The old nave was torn down in 1742, and a baroque hall building with a west-facing apse was built by 1748 . The two side aisles of the church were built between 1893 and 1895 with the help of Gustav Schönermark . The new glazing was created by the KJ Schultz Söhne workshop in Marburg.

Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church

The church of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK) was built in 1921 and consecrated on the 3rd Advent in 1921. As early as 1874, there was a building at this location that was used by the community. Balhorn is one of the main places of the Protestant Althessian Church .

Due to the contacts of parishioners to the old Lutheran parish of Reinswalde ( Niederlausitz ), after the Second World War , those expelled from Reinswalde moved to Balhorn, who found a new home there and integrated into the community.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Balhorn, District of Kassel". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of April 6, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Population development on the website of the municipality of Bad Emstal ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bad-emstal.de
  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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 411 .
  4. ↑ Götz J. Pfeiffer: "linked to the last offshoots of the old tradition". The Marburg glass painting workshop KJ Schultz since 1850 . In: Hessian homeland . 68th volume, issue 1, p. 10-16 .
  5. ↑ Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church Balhorn
  6. ↑ Homepage of Mr. Steinke on the history of Reinswalde

Web links

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