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Calden parish
Ehrsten's coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 38 "  N , 9 ° 20 ′ 56"  E
Height : 257 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.41 km²
Residents : 673  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 124 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 34379
Area code : 05677
Ehrsten, Fürstenwalder Strasse
Ehrsten, Fürstenwalder Strasse

Ehrsten is a district of the municipality of Calden in the northern Hessian district of Kassel .

Geographical location

Ehrsten is located in the midst of typically north Hessian hilly and wooded landscape in the Nebelbeeke valley between Fürstenwald and Meimbressen at about 252  m above sea level. NHN west of the Schartenberg ( 403.9  m ) with the ruins of Schartenburg ( 389.5  m ) and north of the Hohen Dörnberg ( 578.7  m ). The formerly purely agricultural village is the second smallest district of the larger municipality.

history

The location is not far from important archaeological finds from the Neolithic Age . The Calden earthworks and numerous tombs between Ehrsten and Calden can be dated back to 5,700 years ago.

The place name itself indicates a foundation around 500 AD. Ehrsten is one of the oldest settlements in the region. The first mention of "Herste" is found in the monastery files of the Fulda and Corvey monasteries from the year 952.

Current excavations in the village center show a pit house with a weaving hut from the 10th century. The oldest still preserved half-timbered houses were built at the end of the 17th century. Part of the Ehrster Church probably dates from the middle of the 14th century. Completely rebuilt in 1778, it has been preserved as a small late Gothic hall church . A few years ago, numerous ornamental wall paintings were uncovered in the nave.

The situation as a border village between Saxon and Franconian areas of influence shaped the village's history. Ehrsten changed ownership of various rulers as well as the Paderborn and Mainz churches. In contrast to the Franconian half-timbered architecture, Ehrsten belongs to the Low German region in terms of language . With Fürstenwald and Zierenberg , it is directly on the Benrath Line , the German language border between Central German and Low German language areas. This linguistic boundary between the villages can still be experienced in part today.

Ehrsten already had its own school in 1702. Since 1967 the Ehrsten children have had to go to Calden (elementary school) and Grebenstein for lessons. Ehrsten had just over 200 inhabitants in the 18th century, but this number grew slowly to around 450 by the end of the Second World War. Due to the influx of displaced people , it rose to 670 in a few years. With the subsequent designation of new building areas in the 1950s to In the 1970s Ehrsten began to change its face, and with the decline in agricultural operations since the 1970s, the village underwent the most serious structural change in its history. Four remaining full-time businesses, a few small craft businesses and freelancers offer the few jobs on site. The ratio of 450 inhabitants to 112 households (1948) and 750 inhabitants to 260 households (2004) shows the changed living and housing conditions. Even the local local supply was meanwhile only possible through a shop operated by the citizens themselves, which was given up in 2010.

On August 1, 1972 Ehrsten was incorporated into the municipality of Calden by virtue of state law as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

politics

As in the larger community, the political balance of power has fundamentally changed since the controversial discussion about the construction of the new Kassel-Calden airport . The results of the last local council election (1999): SPD 48%, Citizens' Forum 28%, CDU 18%, FWG 5%.

coat of arms

Ehrsten's coat of arms
 Blazon : "In gold a blue crowned red lion mask with bent blue-clad arms emerging from the corners of the mouth with red palms facing the viewer."

In April 1952, the municipality of Ehrsten was granted the right to use a coat of arms by the Hessian State Ministry.

Honorary citizen

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Municipality of Calden: Facts and Figures ( Memento from June 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed in June 2016.
  2. ↑ Local advisory board meeting on January 8, 2018. Item 8. Accessed in April 2019 .
  3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Hofgeismar, Kassel and Wolfhagen (GVBl. II 330-17) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 225 , § 10 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  4. ^ 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. 399 .
  5. ↑ Granting of the right to use a coat of arms to the Ehrsten community, Hofgeismar district, Kassel administrative district on April 29, 1952 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1952 No. 19 , p. 336 , point 450 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5,7 MB ]).