Bottendorf (Burgwald)

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Bottendorf
Community Burgwald
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 43 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 46"  E
Height : 301 m above sea level NHN
Area : 16.16 km²  [LAGIS]
Residents : 2094
Population density : 130 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1974
Postal code : 35099
Area code : 06451

Bottendorf is a district of the Burgwald community in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in northern Hesse .

Geographical location

Protestant church

Bottendorf is located in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district , about 4 km south of the former district town of Frankenberg (Eder) and about 30 km north of the university town of Marburg , on the north-western edge of the Burgwald , the largest contiguous forest area in Hesse .

The Burgwald river Nemphe flows through Bottendorf and flows into the Eder in Frankenberg .

history

Franconian fortified farming settlement "Boppindorf"

The first origins of the settlement date back to the years 725–775 AD. During these years, the Frankish kings in the Nemphetal gave fortified farmers arable land for settlement. These fortified farming settlements served to secure the Franconian northern border against Westphalia , which was then part of Saxony.

The middle of the seven new settlements represented Bottendorf with the Meierhof, chapel and parish. According to some historians, the name Bottendorf is derived from the village founder "Dorf des Boppo". Boppo was a name that was widely used in the Middle Ages. It was first mentioned in 1233 under the name Boppindorf.

In the north were Odersdorf (village of Odrad = the rich advice), Wickersdorf (village of Wighardt = the strong in battle) and Hadubrandsdorf (Hadu = fight and brandt = sword). To the south, up the Nemphah, were Wolkersdorf (village of the people = lord of the people), Helmersdorf (village of Helmholdt) and Nonnendorf, whose name probably goes back to the nunneries that were later founded there by the Wetter monastery . Around 1350, with the exception of Wolkersdorf, the remaining Franconian settlements were given up and the residents moved to Bottendorf.

Wolkersdorf Castle and Domain

Wolkersdorf Castle, 1625
Margarethe von der Saale

Another origin of today's Bottendorf is the Wolkersdorf founded in 1250 by the von Helfenberg family south of Bottendorf. The center of this settlement, which was soon expanded to include a church with a Romanesque defense tower and Romanesque nave, was a water- protected tower castle . As early as 1260 there was a parish that belonged to the deanery of Kesterburg ( Christenberg ).

In 1414, after the death of Rudolph V von Helfenberg, the Landgraves of Hesse became the sole owners of Wolkersdorf Castle . In 1479, Landgrave Heinrich III, "the rich" , began the almost complete new construction of a fortified hunting lodge, which was intended mainly to exercise the sovereign prerogative of the " high hunt ". It consisted of the core castle with two parallel four-storey residential wings and a surrounding wall with round corner towers. A bailey completed the ensemble. The architect was the landgrave's court architect Hans Jakob von Ettlingen .

The Wolkersdorf hunting lodge became historically significant through the second marriage of Landgrave Philip I (called "the Magnanimous") in March 1540. Philipp tried to keep his bigamy , on which he himself had issued the death penalty , a secret from the public by his second wife Margarethe von der Saale hid for two years in Wolkersdorf Castle, where they had their first son Philipp.

The landgraves combined their land holdings into one domain. The day laborers employed there, some of whom were of Polish origin, settled in Bottendorf.

In the years from 1811 to 1813, Jérôme Bonaparte , Napoléon Bonaparte's youngest brother, who resided in Kassel as his governor and king of Westphalia from 1806 to 1813 , sold Wolkersdorf Castle for demolition. Today only remnants of the wall and the Wolkersdorfer ponds remind of the former palace complex.

War suffering

In the Star Wars (1371-1373), the Thirty Years 'War (1618-1648) and again in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), the residents of Bottendorf, like the entire Frankenberger Land, suffered from the frequent passage of soldiers. The chronicle of the Bottendorfer farmer Johann Daniel Geitz (1733–1802) reports in remarkable detail about the billeting , requisitions and looting of the years 1757 to 1763 during the Seven Years' War.

The two settlements grow together

When the state domain Wolkersdorf was dissolved in 1912, Bottendorf and Wolkersdorf were combined to form today's Bottendorf. The local day laborers received new building land and the two settlements grew together. During this period, a wide range of craftsmen was formed.

After the Second World War, Bottendorf grew to its present size, not least because of the settlement of people who had lost their home in the turmoil of the war.

Incorporation

On January 1, 1974, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the previously independent municipality of Bottendorf was incorporated into the municipality of Burgwald, which was newly founded in 1971, by virtue of state law . For Bottendorf, as for the other formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was formed.

Culture

Regular events

The annual Heimatfest, which takes place on the large Bottendorfer fairground and culminates in a rich parade, is organized alternately by one of the local clubs.

The nickname "Worscht Mäuler"

Many villages and towns in the old district of Frankenberg and their inhabitants have one or more nicknames that allude to local characteristics and are still in use today.

The Bottendorfers are generally referred to as the “Worscht-Mäulern” . As Pastor Gustav Hammann describes in Bottendorfer Brief No. 26, published in 1972, this nickname goes back to the insatiable hunger of the poor Bottendorfer population for sausages . For the most part as day laborers on the nearby Wolkersdorf domain, as servants and maidservants in the surrounding farming villages and in the wood forest, the Bottendorf residents had only limited fare at home. Only the wealthier families in the village could afford to slaughter a pig . This explains why the Bottendorfers, when they worked abroad, always reached for the sausage on offer first.

There is an anecdote that an innkeeper, when asked about the way to Bottendorf, replied: “To Bottendorf? Quite simple, boy, always follow the worktop trays! "

Although the nickname goes back to the poverty of the former inhabitants of the village, the Bottendorfers wear it today not without a certain pride. People are proud of the local sausage specialties and everyone from Bottendorf will say that the North Hessian “ red sausage ” is nowhere as good as in Bottendorf.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Bottendorf, the largest district of the municipality of Burgwald in terms of population, is the Hessian forest office Burgwald, which looks after several district foresters. Some medium-sized companies based in the village, including wood and metal construction and plastics technology, offer jobs in Bottendorf. Many residents also work in industrial companies in nearby Frankenberg (Eder) and in Allendorf (Eder) and Battenberg (Eder) .

Bottendorf is classified as a small center according to the regional spatial plan due to its good infrastructure.

Bottendorf is also the headquarters of the Burgwald Region Development Group.

Personalities

  • Johann Daniel Geitz (born February 16, 1733 in Bottendorf; † August 17, 1802 there), farmer and author of the "Bottendorfer Chronik" for the years 1757 to 1763
  • Georg Maus (born June 5, 1888 in Bottendorf; † February 16, 1945 in Hochstadt near Lichtenfels), German educator, member of the Confessing Church and Christian resistance fighter against National Socialism

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the history of the same see Wolkersdorf: Castle south of Bottendorf (Burgwald) south of Frankenberg / Eder. In: Burgenlexikon. May 22, 2014, accessed November 2018 .
  2. ^ Wolkersdorf Castle - castles and palaces in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Archived from the original on 20100611 ; accessed in November 2018 .
  3. ↑ Reinhard Gutbier: The landgrave's court architect Hans Jakob von Ettlingen. A study of the manorial defense and residential building of the late 15th century. 2 Vols. Darmstadt, Marburg 1973, here Vol. 1, pp. 99-105.
  4. ^ Gustav Hammann (ed.): The Bottendorfer Chronicle of Johann Daniel Geitz: The Seven Years War of 1756-1763 in the Frankenberger Land. Bottendorfer letter 35, evang.-luth. Bottendorf rectory, April 1974
  5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Frankenberg and Waldeck (GVBl. II 330-23) of October 4, 1973 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1973 No. 25 , p. 359 , § 10 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).
  6. ^ 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. 390 .
  7. ↑ Local law. In: website. Burgwald municipality, accessed February 2019 .

literature

  • Gustav Hammann (ed.): The Bottendorfer Chronicle of Johann Daniel Geitz: The Seven Years War from 1756–1763 in the Frankenberger Land. Bottendorfer letter 35, evang.-luth. Bottendorf rectory, April 1974

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