Betzigerode
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Betzigerode
Bad Zwesten municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 17 ″ N , 9 ° 11 ′ 20 ″ E
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| Height : | 230 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 3.89 km² |
| Residents : | 196 (March 18, 2014) |
| Population density : | 50 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | December 31, 1971 |
| Postal code : | 34596 |
| Area code : | 05626 |
Betzigerode is a district of the Bad Zwesten community in the Schwalm-Eder district of Hesse in Germany .
location
It is located about two kilometers northeast of the core town of Bad Zwesten west of the federal highway 3 in the valley of the Scherengraben stream , which comes down from Wenzigerode from the northwest and flows 200 meters north of the federal highway 3 into the Lohrbach , which in turn flows 500 m south of the B 3 between Bad Zwesten and Kerstenhausen flows into the Schwalm . The place has about 200 inhabitants. The district road K 74 from the B 3 leads through the village to Wenzigerode and on to Bad Wildungen .
history
In 1296, Betzigerode was first mentioned as a property of the Lords of Löwenstein-Westerburg . Heinrich von Löwenstein-Romrod, whose castle was in the vicinity of Zwestern, received the place in 1523 and built a manor there. The workers necessary to work it were settled along the Scherengraben.
In 1661 the estate and village of Betzigerode were owned by the aristocratic Hund family , then in 1686 half were inherited from Dalwigk and half to Major Johann Christian Eckhard called Schmidt, who had married an heir, Hund. In 1713, Landgrave Karl bought the Betzigerode estate from the Lords of Sobiewolsky and left it to his son Maximilian . In 1723 the estate was bought by the widow of the former landgrave chancellor Nikolaus Wilhelm Goddaeus (1646–1719), Amalie Elisabeth b. d'Orville (1676-1752). She had the Betzigerode manor house rebuilt, expanding a room intended for church services and building a small bell tower. After its completion, in 1733 she donated a church bell and valuable communion implements. A sermon was held every 14 days. By marriage and inheritance, the estate came to Ernst Ludwig von Heßberg (1737–1796), retired Hesse-Kassel captain , who in 1773, on the occasion of his marriage to his heir Marie Wilhelmine Goddaeus (1749–1788), a small half-timbered chapel on the east edge of the estate was built with bell towers, on the upper floor of which the forester's apartment was set up.
In 1960 Eitel Reinhard von Heßberg sold the estate to the "Hessische Heimat" settlement company, which set up resettlers' farms there.
The former manor house on the former estate above the village, a two-story, plastered half-timbered building , is privately owned and not open to the public. An English park with old trees extends to the west and south of the manor house.
In the course of the municipal reform, Betzigerode was incorporated into Zwesten on December 31, 1971.
church
Since the chapel on the manor had become very dilapidated, on February 9, 1964 a parish church was inaugurated in the then modern style without right-angled corners on Ziergartenstrasse. The church bell and the sacrament implements from the old chapel were moved to the new church a few years later. The church has had a new altar and baptismal font since 2006 and a new pulpit since 2009.
literature
- Werner Ide: From Adorf to Zwesten. Bernecker, Melsungen, 1972, pp. 36-37
- Gerd Fenner: The inheritance of the von Hessberg family in Betzigerode. In: Hessische Heimat, Marburg, Volume 52 (1/2002), pp. 29–31
Web links
- Betzigerode on the website of the Bad Zwesten community
- "Betzigerode, Schwalm-Eder district". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Literature about Betzigerode in the Hessian Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Betzigerode, Schwalm-Eder District". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 26, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ Bad Zwesten in figures on the municipality's website ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 2016
- ↑ Ide, p. 36
- ^ 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. 392 .
- ↑ The church in Betzigerode
