Elmarshausen

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Elmarshausen
City of Wolfhagen
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 40 ″  N , 9 ° 10 ′ 53 ″  E
Height : 233 m above sea level NHN
Postal code : 34466
Area code : 05692
View from the south of Elmarshausen and the moated castle
View from the south of Elmarshausen and the moated castle

Elmarshausen is a hamlet, but not a separate district, in the district of Wolfhagen in the northern Hessian district of Kassel .

Geographical location

The small place is about 230  m above sea level. NHN on the north bank of the Erpe in the Habichtswald nature park about 2.2 km north-northeast of Wolfhagen on Kreisstrasse  94 ( Landsberger Strasse ; Wolfhagen – Elmarshausen– Schützeberg ), which crosses the Erpe in a north-south direction. It only consists of the moated castle Elmarshausen and a manor directly to the northeast .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1123 as "Egelmareshusen". The place name then changed via "Elimareshusen" (1150) and "Eilmarshusen" (1255) to today's Elmarshausen. The name “Hiltimareshusen” is also equated with today's Elmarshausen. The settlement was in the 13th century belonged to the Lords of Helfenberg , the place and the associated court and the church patronage of the Earl of Everstein and then after the Eversteinsche succession feud from 1408 by the Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg to fiefs held. The Breitenau monastery also had property in Elmarshausen, which was also given to the von Helfenberg as a fief.

In the years from 1309 to 1403, the von Helfenbergs gradually sold the village, court and church patronage to the Lords of Gudenberg . In 1370 the von Gudenberg already owned ¾ of the place, and in 1403 Werner IV. Von Gudenberg was the sole owner of the place. Heinrich V von Gudenberg had a moated castle built there on the Erpe, which was first documented in 1442 . The castle was of strategic importance because it was only a few hundred meters east of the important trade route from Paderborn to Fritzlar .

In 1515 the bought landgräflich-Hessian Councilor and later Marshal Hermann von der Malsburg († 1557), the Gut Elmarshausen of his father Eberhard von Gudenberg . When he died in 1534 and his line of men died out with him, Landgrave Philipp I gave Malsburg a fiefdom of the Gudenberg feudal estates Elmarshausen . After Malsburg had distinguished himself as the commander of the Hessian cavalry in the battle of Lauffen on May 13, 1534 and thus helped Duke Ulrich von Württemberg, who was supported by Landgrave Philipp, to regain his duchy, he received a significant grant , which he used at least in part to expand the Elmarshausen moated castle into a palace in the style of the Weser Renaissance . His son Christoph († 1580) completed the building of the palace by 1563. Today the castle is still owned by the descendants of a branch of the von der Malsburg family .

A local church under the patronage of the Lords of Helfenberg is already known in the 13th century, and in 1350 a chapel dedicated to St. Andrew was built. In 1505 several altars are mentioned.

Schloss and Gut Elmarshausen were an independent manor district until 1928 , which was only incorporated into Wolfhagen when the manor districts in Prussia were dissolved. On March 1, 1972, Elmarshausen was named as one of four residential areas within the Wolfhagen district as an independent district, which, in contrast to the other three on the topographic map, has its own district.

The good

Gut Elmershausen - with extensive pastures and paddocks , riding arena, laboratory and medical facilities - is now mainly operated as a stud for the breeding of Trakehners and is also a training facility for prospective horse farmers . It also offers a boarding house for mares and the proper breaking in of young horses. In addition, cattle breeding, arable farming and forestry are operated.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ a b "Elmarshausen, District of Kassel". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of November 11, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ↑ Hermann von der Malsburg (MRFH 2906), in: Marburg Repertory on Translation Literature in German Early Humanism , on mrfh.de (as of August 16, 2012)
  4. ^ Website of the Elmarshausen estate

Web links

Wikivoyage: Eco path cultural history Wolfhagen  - travel guide