Beiseförth

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Beiseförth
Malsfeld municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 48 ″  N , 9 ° 32 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 189  (175-235)  m
Area : 5.11 km²
Residents : 1256  (December 31, 2012)
Population density : 246 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1974
Postal code : 34323
Area code : 05664
The Fulda cable car

Beiseförth is a district of the municipality of Malsfeld in the north Hessian Schwalm-Eder district .

Geographical location

Beiseförth is located at the confluence of the Beise with the Fulda .

history

In 1348 the village was first mentioned as Beysenvorte . The place name ending -furth suggests that it was founded much earlier. In a book with the title “Ancestors wanted - Paradise found” by Ralf Beise, the author mentions the following on page 16: “However, after careful research recently, it was found that a file from 1319 contains information about the local tithe and the von der Rockemühle, which the herds "(one suspects it should be called, gentlemen)" ceded from Leimbach to the gentlemen of Falkenberg ". The author also states that the endings -förth, -vorte and -furt refer to places that were created in the period up to 800.

Until about 140 years ago, the Fulda was used by ships in this area that connected Kassel and Hersfeld . In 1849, however, the railway took over the transport of people and goods with the construction of the Kassel-Bebra line.

The vast majority of the population were farmers who also operated linen weaving. The loom, however, replaced this activity. After the linen weaving, the inhabitants earned their living with basket weaving . The good goods from Beiseförth were known and sought after. According to Ralf Beise in his book, there were 718 inhabitants in 1855, 38 of whom were basket makers, 6 traders but only one linen weaver. The local basket-making museum, the only one in Hesse, still bears witness to this branch of the basket weavers industry. In the days of modern industry, most people moved or worked in Kassel.

On September 12, 1951, a man named Ralf Beise visited the sleepy village. He was looking for his ancestors here. But apart from the name from Beiseförth, the village had nothing to do with his last name. However, what he found and later described in a book was a paradise for him. He was the one who saw a potential here that no one had seen before. Beiseförth as a place to relax for everyone. Due to his creative power, tourism grew rapidly here. Above all , he was able to win over those looking for relaxation from the Ruhr area and his hometown of Bremen . Contemporary witnesses report that in the early 1960s there were around 15 restaurants and guest rooms in almost every house. In addition, there was or is still available: a separate swimming pond and campsite. There were two mini golf courses, even a separate spring (Wildsberg spring) just outside the village. Today only the simple construction still shows that spa guests once enjoyed the water here.

The main attraction of the concept was that no hotels etc. were built, but that every resident was somehow involved. Beiseförth even had its own furniture store called "Häde". In the best years around 70,000 people visited this pristine village every year, according to contemporary witnesses. You can still see the traces of this small economic miracle today, especially if you look at the roofs of the houses, which were mostly converted for guest rooms. Today only one of the restaurants is left, "The Golden Lion", which has enjoyed an excellent reputation since 2018. Another Italian restaurant made a name for itself a few decades ago near the Golden Lion and now lives from numerous regular guests from the region.

The charm of the village is still in the air today and you can still find peace and relaxation here.

On 1 January 1974 in the wake of were municipal reform in Hesse municipalities Malsfeld (with the districts Elfershausen and Dagobertshausen) Beiseförth, Mosheim (by virtue of state law county Fritzlar-Homberg ), Ostheim and Sipperhausen (county Fritzlar-Homberg) for new large community Malsfeld together . At the same time, Malsfeld moved to the newly established Schwalm-Eder district. Malsfeld was designated as the seat of the municipal administration. Local districts were set up for all formerly independent communities .

religion

The Protestant parish of Malsfeld is responsible for the parishes of Malsfeld and Beiseförth. The church was built in 1820 in the typical Lower Hessian Reformed style.

Attractions

  • Presumably in 1952, some men took days of laborious work on the edge of the forest in the direction of Niederbeisheim, shortly before the exit from the village and before the bridge on the left, the "Märchenmühle", a small village on the brook with characters from the Grimm brothers' fairy tales . This village is illuminated at night.
  • The Beiseförther basket maker museum, the only one of its kind in Hessen.
  • South of Beiseförth, on the district of Morschen, lies the Fulda cable car , Germany's first bicycle cable car.

economy

Beiseförth is the seat of Dr. Schumacher GmbH, a chemical company founded in 1978 specializing in the development and production of disinfectants, hygiene and care products and cosmetic products.

traffic

Street

District road 31 and state road 3126 meet in Beiseförth, federal road 83 runs across the Fulda . The Fulda cycle path runs through the village and the Beisetal-Mühlen cycle path begins here.

rail

The Malsfeld-Beiseförth station is located in the east of the village on the Bebra-Baunatal-Guntershausen railway line . The associated station building was built in 1847/48, presumably based on a design by Julius Eugen Ruhl .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beiseförth, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Beiseförth on the website of the municipality of Malsfeld
  3. ↑ Ralf Beise: Ancestors wanted - paradise found . Ed .: Ralf Beise. Schneider and Weber, Kassel 1962, p. 86 .
  4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts Fritzlar-Homberg, Melsungen and Ziegenhain (GVBl. II 330-22) of September 28, 1973 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1973 No. 25 , p. 356 , §§ 13 and 27 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).
  5. ^ 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. 405 .
  6. ↑ http://www.malsfeld.net/tourismus-wirtschaft/m%C3%A4rchenm%C3%BChle/ and http://www.lokalo24.de/lokales/schwalm-eder-kreis/heimat-nachrichten/diese- plant-already-cult-maerchenmuehle-beisefoerth-excited-for-decades-8505819.html
  7. ↑ The building documents were burned in the Second World War: Siegfried Lohr : Plans and buildings by the Kassel master builder Julius Eugen Ruhl 1796–1871. A contribution to the building history of Kassel and Kurhessen in the 19th century . Masch. Diss. Darmstadt [1982], pp. 340f.

literature

Web links

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