Besse (Edermünde)
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Besse
Municipality of Edermünde
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 19 ″ N , 9 ° 23 ′ 15 ″ E
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| Height : | 199 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 13.9 km² |
| Residents : | 3446 (Jun. 30, 2018) |
| Population density : | 248 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1974 |
| Postal code : | 34295 |
| Area code : | 05603 |
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With around 3500 inhabitants, Besse is the largest part of the municipality of Edermünde in the Schwalm-Eder district of Hesse .
Geographical location
Besse lies to the east of the Langenberge, which is part of the Habichtswälder Bergland , is in the Habichtswald Nature Park and is a maximum of 556.7 m high . In this mountain landscape, about 2.4 km west-northwest of the village church in the center of the village rises the slightly more than 460 m high Bilstein , on which a small ring wall lies. The village is located in the northwest of the municipality of Edermünde, which spreads between Baunatal in the north and Gudensberg in the south. About 2 km east-southeast of the aforementioned church is the Edermünde junction of the federal motorway 49 with the village of Holzhausen on the other side , the seat of the Edermünde municipal administration. The western Eder tributary Pilgerbach flows through Besse .
In Besse, the connecting lines between the northernmost and southernmost as well as the westernmost and easternmost point of Germany intersect, which is why, according to this calculation method, the village is the geographical center of Germany .
history
Besse was mentioned as a Passover in a donation note for the Fulda monastery as early as the 9th century , this note can be attributed to the year 817. In the 15th century the place was the seat of a court and until 1821 belonged to the Hessian office of Gudensberg , from 1821 to the Fritzlar district and from 1932 to the Fritzlar-Homberg district, renamed the Fritzlar-Homberg district in 1939 .
Territorial reform
In the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the community was with two years earlier from the places Besse on 1 January 1974 Grifte , Haldorf and Holzhausen formed, community Edermünde powerful state law to the new greater community Edermünde together . The basis for this was the border change agreement signed on December 27, 1973. At the same time, Edermünde moved to the newly formed Schwalm-Eder district.
population
Population development
Source: Historical local dictionary
| • 1575/85: | 77 house seats |
| • 1639: | 56 married, 3 widowed house seats |
| • 1735: | 103 teams |
| Besse: Population from 1650 to 2018 | ||||
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| year | Residents | |||
| 1650 | 410 | |||
| 1748 | 551 | |||
| 1834 | 975 | |||
| 1840 | 1,026 | |||
| 1846 | 1.105 | |||
| 1852 | 1,120 | |||
| 1858 | 1,089 | |||
| 1864 | 1,121 | |||
| 1871 | 1,081 | |||
| 1875 | 1,099 | |||
| 1885 | 1.166 | |||
| 1895 | 1,309 | |||
| 1905 | 1,411 | |||
| 1910 | 1,385 | |||
| 1925 | 1,600 | |||
| 1939 | 1,658 | |||
| 1946 | 2,293 | |||
| 1950 | 2,280 | |||
| 1956 | 2.114 | |||
| 1961 | 2,195 | |||
| 1967 | 2,537 | |||
| 2014 | 3,468 | |||
| 2016 | 3,219 | |||
| 2018 | 3,155 | |||
| Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968. Further sources:; Municipality of Edermünde: | ||||
Religious affiliation
Source: Historical local dictionary
| • 1861: | all residents evangelically reformed. |
| • 1885: | 1156 Protestant (= 99.14%), 10 Catholic (= 0.86%) residents |
| • 1961: | 1871 Protestant (= 85.24%), 305 Catholic (= 13.90%) inhabitants |
Gainful employment
Source: Historical local dictionary
| • 1961: | Labor force: 324 agriculture and forestry, 524 manufacturing, 123 trade and transport, 94 services and other. |
Attractions
A building worth seeing is the listed Evangelical Church . Other buildings of historical interest are the rock cellar and the tunnel-like air raid shelter, which provided shelter for up to 2000 people during the Second World War .
Personalities
- Albrecht Brede (1834–1920), music teacher in Kassel , composer of the melody of the Hessenlied , the hymn of the German state of Hesse
- Willi Rausch (1936–2015), politician, former member of the Hessian state parliament
- Karl Dietrich (politician, 1899) (1899–1941), German politician (SPD)
literature
- Association for history and village culture Besse e. V. (Ed.): Besser Geschichte (n), for the 1200th birthday of our village Besse 817–2017 . Self-published, Edermünde-Besse 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-056678-3
- Literature about Besse in the Hessian Bibliography
Web links
- History of the community of Edermünde. In: Website of the municipality of Edermünde.
- Besse (Oberbesse), Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Edermünde population structure with secondary residences. In: Internet presence. Municipality of Edermünde, archived from the original on October 28, 2018 ; accessed in October 2018 .
- ↑ 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 , §§ 20 and 27 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).
- ↑ a b c d Besse (Oberbesse), Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ Numbers, data, facts. In: Internet presence. Municipality of Edermünde, archived from the original on May 13, 2016 ; accessed in October 2018 . (2018 total secondary residences 2016)
