Beuern (Felsberg)

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Beuern
City of Felsberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 59 ″  N , 9 ° 28 ′ 3 ″  E
Height : 250 m above sea level NN
Area : 10.47 km²
Residents : 217  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 21 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Incorporated into: Gensings
Postal code : 34587
Area code : 05662
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Beuern from above

Beuern is one of sixteen districts of the city of Felsberg in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse . The village, with the associated hamlet Sundhof , has about 200 inhabitants and the district has an area of ​​10.47 km².

geography

The small town is located 2.5 km east-southeast of Gensungen and 3.5 km east-southeast of the core town of Felsberg on the northeast slope of the Hünerberg (278 m) in the Sunderbach valley , which comes from the Beuerholz forest from the east and flows into the Eder in Gensungen . Beuerholz, which is 650 hectares in size and which Landgrave Heinrich the Eiserner transferred to the town of Felsberg and the villages of Gensungen, Beuern and Helmshausen as early as 1360, extends to the east of the village and, with its 25 kilometers of well-developed forest trails, is a popular destination for hikers and walkers. The Felsberg / Markwald wind farm with six wind turbines and a total output of 18 megawatts was built on the ridges of the Beuerholz from October 2016 to June 2017 .

Immediately north of the village, the federal road 253 runs from Felsberg to the “S 62 Melsungen” motorway junction just 1 km east of the village to the federal motorway 7 and on to Melsungen .

history

The first written mention of the place is in 1303 as Burn juxta monast. Eppenberg ("Beuern below the Eppenberg Monastery ") in a document from the Breitenau Monastery , and in 1355 the Breitenau Monastery is named as the owner of a farm at today's Sundhof. The village itself was Landgrave-Hessian and belonged to the Felsberg office .

A pleban was recorded as early as 1309. From 1585 at the latest, Beuern was a subsidiary of Gensungen. During the Thirty Years War , the village and its small chapel were largely destroyed by imperial troops in 1640. The current village church was then completed in 1690. When it was built, the remains of the destroyed chapel were included in the eastern part; there the walls around the altar area and the two recessed Romanesque windows are much thicker. The lower part of the church with its rectangular floor plan is solidly made of quarry sandstone, the upper part is made of half-timbering . On the south side there is a late Gothic double pointed arch window, next to it a late Gothic small rectangular window. Set on the western gable on the hipped roof an octagonal roof skylights with Zopfdach, the two bells houses.

Based on research into the history of art, it can be assumed that older communion chalices were stolen from the church during the Thirty Years' War and that a certain George Fokorot gave the church a silver, partly gold-plated and ornamented chalice as a replacement in 1636, which was originally used as a goblet by the Nuremberg goldsmith Christoph II. Knight was created between 1603 and 1609. This chalice was mentioned in writing for the last time in the village chronicle in 1911. It was discovered in the estate of a family in Kassel in the late summer of 2014 and was repurchased by the Protestant parish of Beuern with the support of the EKKW regional church office. The "Dorfbühne Beuern" performed a self-written piece about the history and rediscovery of the chalice in summer 2018.

Up until December 31, 1971, Beuern was an independent municipality. In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , it joined the neighboring community of Gensungen , which became part of the town of Felsberg on January 1, 1974.

Population development

  • 1585: 32 households
  • 1747: 39 households
  • 1834: 326 inhabitants
  • 1840: 340
  • 1846: 353
  • 1852: 354
  • 1864: 325
  • 1871: 315
  • 1895: 284
  • 1910: 271
  • 1925: 282
  • 1939: 247
  • 1946: 396
  • 1950: 390
  • 1956: 274
  • 1961: 241
  • 1967: 226
  • 2009: 242
  • 2014: 210

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c data and facts. In: website. City of Felsberg, accessed May 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dr. Fenge: Das Beuerholz: A contribution to the history of the Hessian market cooperatives. In: Hessenland: Journal for Hessian History and Literature , 15th year, Kassel, 1901, pp. 61–63
  3. ↑ a b "Beuern, Schwalm-Eder district". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of July 29, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).}
  4. ↑ Festive jewelry and at the same time a pious donation. A goblet from the Nuremberg goldsmith Christoph II. Knight as a chalice for the Last Supper in Beuern: Götz J. Pfeiffer, together with Alexander Schulgin . In: Schwalm Yearbook for 2017 . 2016, p. 96-101 .
  5. ↑ From HNA.de of May 29, 2015: "The Lord's Supper chalice, which is more than 400 years old, returns to Beuern"
  6. ↑ Götz J. Pfeiffer: Much theater about old art. The Dorfbühne Beuern wrote and played “On the trail of the beer cup of the communion” . In: Schwalm yearbook . 2019, p. 132-136 .

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