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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 31 ″  N , 9 ° 5 ′ 33 ″  E

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Hesse

Bifangen was a village settlement in today's district of Landau , a district of Bad Arolsen in northern Hesse Waldeck-Frankenberg . It was located east of Landau at an altitude of about 324 m not far west of the federal highway 450 and Wolfhagener Strasse, where the L 3198 road coming from Bühle in the south joins the B 450.

history

The first written mention of the place took place in December 1182, when Pope Lucius III. took the Aroldessen choir under its protection and gave it its possessions and the like. a. confirmed in villula Biwanc, which was probably a enclosed (see: Bifang ) Vorwerk on cleared land . The place gained in importance when the urban settlement of Landsberg, founded by the Counts of Waldeck at the beginning of the 13th century , was destroyed by landgrave troops in 1231 or 1232 : some of the displaced residents moved to the newly founded colony Bifangen, where they were recognized as free and they were granted considerable rights by the landlords, Count Adolf I von Waldeck and the Aroldessen monastery, e.g. B. Brewing rights and the right to elect a community leader were granted. It is not known when the settlement was abandoned. It can be assumed that the residents moved to the town of Landau, which was founded around 1290 on the orders of Count Otto I from Waldeck . In 1837 it is reported that a pile of stones and masonry, called "Kirchenköppel", were the rest of the church in the area called "Bywand".

Footnotes

1. ↑ Other variations of the place name were: Bivangen, Bivanc ( Louis Friedrich Christian Curtze: Die Ortnames des Fürstenthums Waldeck , Volume II, Speyer, Arolsen, 1850, p. 17 ), Bivang, Bivange, Вivапс, Веуапсh and Bevanch ( Heinrich Finke: Die Documents of the Diocese of Paderborn from the year 1251-1300: register , p. 1231 ).
2. ^ Heinrich Finke (edit.): The Papal Deeds of Westphalia up to 1304. Regensberg, Münster, 1888, p. 52, no. 136
3. ^ Louis Friedrich Christian Curtze: History and description of the principality of Waldeck , Speyer, Arolsen, 1850, p. 248
4. ↑ Thomas Küntzel: A deserted mountain town on the Kohlberg near Güntersberge? In: Harz-Zeitschrift , volume 57, Lukas-Verlag, Berlin, 2005, pp. 35-62 (here p. 55)
5. ^ Burchard Christian von Spilcker: About a Colonie Bivang near Landau, founded around 1240. In: Waldeckische Gemeinnützige Zeitschrift , 1st volume, Arolsen, 1837, pp. 296-300.

literature

• Wolfgang Metz: The desert of Bivangen and the freedom on clearing land , in: History sheets for Waldeck , Volume 45, Waldeckischer Geschichtsverein, Mengeringhausen, 1953, pp. 86-89.
• Heinrich Höhle: The submerged localities or Die Wüstungen in Waldeck , Bings, Korbach, 1931, pp. 40–43.
• C. Alhard von Drach (ed.), Gottfried Ganßauge (edit.): The architectural and art monuments in the government district of Cassel, new part 2: Circle of the Twiste . Elwert, Marburg, 1938, p. 261.
• Karl Bauer, Hermann Collitz: Waldeckisches dictionary with dialect samples (dictionaries, published by the Association for Low German Language Research, Volume IV), D. Soltau, Norden and Leipzig, 1902, p. 128 .

Web links

• Bifangen, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).