Dens (Nentershausen)

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Dens
municipality Nentershausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 30 ″  N , 9 ° 54 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 320 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.06 km²
Residents : 200approx.
Population density : 49 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 36214
Area code : 06627

Dens is a district of the municipality Nentershausen in the district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg in Hesse . The village has about 200 inhabitants and is located at an altitude of about 320 m, about 2.5 km northwest of the municipality's capital and about 6 km southwest of Sontra . It can be reached via the district roads K53 and K54.

Geographical location

It is situated in Sontraer hills ( natural space 357.3), an open Zechstein landscape between the wooded mottled sandstone heights of Stölzinger Mountains (357.4) in the west and the Solztrottenwaldes (357.21) in the east. Dens is located on the upper reaches of the Maßholderbach , which drains into the Werra via the Hasel , Sontra and Wehre .

history

A document from the Hessian State Archives in Marburg confirms that the place Dens was first mentioned in 1195 in the spelling “Tense”; Pope Celestine III in it confirms the possession of Dens to the Germerode monastery . Elsewhere in this document a “Superior Tense” is also mentioned; It remains uncertain whether this was an independent village of Oberden or a higher part of the town of Dens.

The medieval history of the place is initially closely linked to Rotenberg Castle . An extensive inventory of goods by a Helfericus, Castellanus in Rothenberc from 1254 lists Dens in his gift of goods to the Hersfeld daughter monastery in neighboring Breitenbach ; Helfrich von Rotenberg was still a feudal man and castle administrator of the Thuringian landgraves . In a not exactly dated document between 1302 and 1312 Dens is mentioned in connection with a donation to the Cornberg monastery . In the 14th century, Dens came into the possession of the Landgraves of Hesse ; these gave it as a fief or pledge to the lords of Berneburg and von Baumbach , who also sat at Tannenberg Castle in neighboring Nentershausen . Since the 15th century, Dens was part of the Hessian office of Sontra . At that time the Denser church was already a branch church of the Nentershausen parish.

On December 31, 1971, the previously independent town of Dens was incorporated into the municipality of Nentershausen.

Culture and sights

Village church

The Evangelical Church of Dens has been proven to stand on the foundations of a medieval St. Martin Chapel , as excavations in the summer of 1978 were able to confirm. The church building is a massive, rectangular hall structure measuring 17.50 m × 7.00 m in area. The year 1786 above the main entrance refers to a later renovation or expansion. Thanks to the excavation, the building history could be further elucidated.

Denser lake

On the eastern edge of the village, in a funnel-shaped natural depression, is the "Denser See" - an approximately 0.8 hectare natural lake with an average depth of around 13 m. A special feature of the legendary water is the occasional intense red coloration of the water, the rare phenomenon was noted in the church chronicle as early as 1604 and always interpreted as a bad omen . Through scientific research, the cause could be identified in the massive occurrence of water fleas , which change their metabolic processes under certain environmental conditions and produce an intensely red dye. The lake has been designated as a natural monument and is the reason for the traditional "Denser Lake Festival".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Dens, District of Hersfeld-Rotenburg". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of December 8, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Karl W. Schellhase: The red lake near Dens and the history of the village of Dens . In: The Werra Valley. Illustrated monthly pages . Issue 7. Print and Verlag Trautvetter, Eschwege 1935, p. 52-53 .
  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. 406 .
  4. ↑ The excavations in the church of Dens. In: Homepage of the Denser parish. Retrieved December 26, 2016 .

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