Burghasungen

Burghasungen City of Zierenberg Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 24 ″  N , 9 ° 16 ′ 37 ″  E
Height :	417  (370-450)  m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.33 km²
Residents :	930  (2015) .
Population density :	215 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st February 1971
Postal code :	34289
Area code :	05606

The village of Burghasungen is a south-south-west part of Zierenberg in the northern Hessian district of Kassel . The district has a little over 900 inhabitants.

Geographical location

Burghasungen with Burghasunger Berg viewed from the Bärenberg tower

Burghasungen is located 15.5 km west of the city center of Kassel in the Habichtswald Nature Park between the Habichtswald district of Ehlen in the east, the Zierenberg district of Oelshausen in the southwest and the Wolfhagen district of Wenigenhasungen in the west-northwest. The village lies on the western flank of the 479.7  m above sea level. NN high Burghasunger Berg (also called Hasunger Berg ) and is one of the communities in the upper Warm Valley.

From the Burghasunger Berg, on which Hasungen Monastery once stood, the view opens up to the Hohen Habichtswald , the Dörnberg and the Wolfhager Land with the Weidelsburg .

history

Burghasungen, 1850

Ruins of Hasungen Monastery

The history of Burghasungen is closely linked to Hasungen Monastery , in whose founding document the place was first mentioned in 1074. But in the Vita Haimeradi , the biography of holy Heimerad , who took over the maintenance of a small chapel on the Burghasunger Berg in 1016, there are already references to residents who the saint asked for permission to manage the chapel. In the 11th century the Benedictine monastery was founded over Heimerad's grave. The monastery existed until the Reformation, which was introduced in Hesse-Kassel by Philip the Magnanimous in 1527 . Until then, the monastery was a place of pilgrimage to the Heimerad, venerated as a saint. After the Reformation, the monastery fell into ruin and was plundered several times during the Thirty Years' War . Before a new church was consecrated in 1800, the Burghasunger used the last remaining monastery church. In 1876 lightning struck the still preserved monastery tower and destroyed it. Since then there are only a few remains of stone, from which a wall was reconstructed from the outline of the west side of the tower.

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , Burghasungen was incorporated into the city of Zierenberg on February 1, 1971 .

Culture and sights

Burghasungen has a local history museum built on the old fire station on the history of the village and the Hasungen monastery, as well as an open-air stage Bergbühne Burghasungen on the western flank of the Burghasunger Berg. The remains of the monastery ruins and the Protestant village church from 1800 with a historic tombstone, the tomb of Siegfried von Eppstein, 25th abbot of Fulda monastery (1058-1060) and archbishop of Mainz (1060-1084) are worth seeing .

Economy and Infrastructure

Public facilities

Burghasungen has, among other things, a village community center with a library and a kindergarten.

traffic

Burghasungen is located about 500 m northwest of the Zierenberg junction of the federal motorway 44 ( Dortmund - Kassel ) which passes through the village in north-south direction and which has a connection there to the federal road 251 ( Brilon- Kassel) running south . From the B 251, the county road  99 leads north-north-west through the village.

Web links

Commons : Burghasungen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Burghasungen in Merian's Topographia Hassiae  - Sources and full texts

• Burghasungen district on the website of the city of Zierenberg.
• Burghasungen. Local history, information. In: www.burghasungen.de. Private website 
• Burghasungen, Kassel district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Literature about Burghasungen in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ^ Burghasungen, District of Kassel. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of July 29, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
2. ↑ City of Zierenberg: Population figures of the city ​​districts ( Memento of the original from February 29, 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 February 2016  
3. ^ 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. 411 .
4. ^ Municipal reform: mergers and integration of municipalities from January 20, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 6 , p. 248 , para. 2 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.2 MB ]).
5. ↑ Bergbühne Burghasungen on bergbuehne-burghasungen.de