Battenfeld

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Battenfeld
Municipality Allendorf (Eder)
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 30 ″  E
Height : 294  (294-306)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 12.92 km²
Residents : 972  (May 9, 2011)
Population density : 75 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st February 1971
Postal code : 35108
Area code : 06452
Church tower of the Protestant church in Battenfeld

Battenfeld is a district of the municipality of Allendorf (Eder) in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

Geographical location

Battenfeld is located directly southwest of the center of Allendorf at the confluence of the Nitzelbach and the Eder . Bundesstrasse 236 and Bundesstrasse 253 run past the village . The state road  3382 and the district road  119 lead through it. In Battenfeld there is a stop on the Bad Berleburg – Allendorf railway line . Since 1981 this has only been served by individual Kurhessenbahn special trains.

history

The place was first mentioned in 778, when battles took place here in the course of Charlemagne's Saxon Wars . The church is a Romanesque cruciform basilica from the 12th / 13th centuries. Century. Two yokes in the nave and the crossing with groin vaults and a dome-like vault in the choir have been preserved .

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Battenfeld in 1830:

"Battenfeld (L. Bez. Battenberg) evangel. Parish village; lies on the Eder and at the foot of the hill on which Battenberg is located. There are 81 houses and 561 inhabitants, who are Protestant with the exception of 60 Jews. Jews from Battenberg, Rennertehausen, Berghofen and Allendorf belong to the local synagogue. 3 cattle markets are held annually; there are also several potash boilers here. - The area became famous because of the defeat the Saxons suffered here in 778. Most call the place of this defeat Liesi or Lihesi (Leisa), and the neighboring river Adarnia or Aderna (Eder). Only one mentions Baddenfeldum Adernam juxta fluvium . But Battenfeld and Leisa are so close together that this defeat could be named after both the one and the other place. Through the Counts of Battenberg, Battenfeld came to Mainz in 1228 through purchase, which Archbishopric also kept the same in the division found in 1291 with Count Hermann von Battenberg. The following places belonged to the church area in the 15th century: Rennertehausen, Dodenau with 4 villages, Bermertshausen (in Wittgenstein area), Allendorf, Leisa, Reddighausen, and the following that no longer exist: Rygene , Brunely , Veldenberge , Wadenfelt et Eyllenhusen , Duntzelnhusen , Heyne , Aldershusen , Letter . "

Territorial reform

On February 1, 1971, was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse until then independent municipality Battenfeld in the community Allendorf (Eder) (former spelling Allendorf Eder ) voluntarily incorporated . For Battenfeld, as for the other incorporated municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was formed.

Jews in Battenfeld

Battenfeld was the center of Jewish life in the area until the rise of National Socialism . In 1830 there were around 60 Jews living in Battenfeld. The local synagogue was the meeting point for the Jewish community in the Upper Edertal, which had around 170 members. Many Jews emigrated or were taken to concentration camps during the Third Reich . Some, such as the brothers Theodor and Joseph Löwenstein, managed to emigrate to the USA. During the November pogroms of 1938 the synagogue was destroyed and the cemetery desecrated. Today there are no more Jews living in Battenfeld. In the old Jewish cemetery and in the local history museum in Battenfeld you can still see some things that are left over from this time. The former house of the Landgraves of Darmstadt, which was later bought by Jews and lived in for a long time, is still called the "Judenhaus" by older citizens.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Battenfeld was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

Population development

• 1502: 007 men
• 1577: 038 house seats
• 1712: 063 households
• 1791: 389 inhabitants
• 1800: 393 inhabitants
• 1806: 402 inhabitants, 68 houses
• 1829: 561 inhabitants, 51 houses
Battenfeld: Population from 1791 to 2011
year     Residents
1791
  
 389
1800
  
 393
1806
  
 402
1829
  
 561
1834
  
 561
1840
  
 590
1846
  
 648
1852
  
 557
1858
  
 621
1864
  
 577
1871
  
 531
1875
  
 529
1885
  
 515
1895
  
 512
1905
  
 462
1910
  
 470
1925
  
 546
1939
  
 528
1946
  
 828
1950
  
 848
1956
  
 743
1961
  
 729
1967
  
 714
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 972
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 501 Protestant (= 89.30%), 60 Jewish (= 10.70%) residents
• 1885: 668 Protestant (= 95.34%), 2 Catholic (= 0.39%), 22 Jewish (= 4.27%) residents
• 1961: 668 Protestant (= 91.63%), 61 Catholic (= 8.37%) residents

politics

The local mayor and chairman of the five-person local advisory board is Werner Koch from the BLO (Citizens List Localities) (as of 2016).

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

See list of cultural monuments in Allendorf.Battenfeld .

societies

  • Men's Choir Battenfeld eV 1878
  • Sports community (SG) 1920 Battenfeld eV
  • Battenfeld Volunteer Fire Brigade
  • Kyffhäuser Comradeship Battenfeld / Eder eV
  • Women's choir Battenfeld 1946 eV
  • Commercial association shopping center Battenfeld eV

Regular events

On the first weekend in October (Saturday and Sunday) the stuff and livestock market takes place.

The Battenfeld Oktoberfest takes place on the penultimate weekend in September (Saturday).

Personalities

  • Conrad Arnold (1774–1840), liberal Hessian politician and former member of the 2nd Chamber of the State Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Mayor of Battenfeld until 1837
  • Theodor Löwenstein (1902–1985), landscape gardener, emigrated to the USA in 1931, 1st President of the German Jewish Club in Los Angeles, laid out the garden of the Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades in 1941/42

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Battenfeld, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 17, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt August 1830, OCLC 312528126 , p. 22 ( online at google books ).
  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 , point 328, paragraph 30 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.2 MB ]).
  4. ^ 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. 390 .
  5. ↑ Local Advisory Boards. In: website. Allendorf (Eder) community, accessed February 2019 .
  6. ^ Francis Nenik / Sebastian Stumpf: Seven Palms. The Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles . Spector Books, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-95905-180-4 , pp. 117-119 .
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  9. ↑ The affiliation of the Battenberg office based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hessen : Hessen-Marburg 1567–1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604–1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567–1866 .
  10. ↑ a b Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 27 ff ., § 40 point 6e) ( online at google books ).
  11. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  236 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  12. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  182 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  13. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  194 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  14. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  15. ↑ Local councils of the community of Allendorf (Eder)
  16. ^ Francis Nenik / Sebastian Stumpf: Seven Palms. The Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles . Spector Books, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-95905-180-4 , pp. 117-156 .