Epterode

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Epterode
City of Großalmerode
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 42 ″  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 474 m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.5 km²
Residents : 373  (2015)
Population density : 149 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 37247
Area code : 05604
Church in Epterode
Church in Epterode

Epterode is a district of the town of Großalmerode in the Werra-Meißner district of Hesse .

geography

location

Epterode is located in the geo-nature park Frau-Holle-Land (Werratal.Meißner.Kaufunger Wald) 1.4 km south of the core town of Großalmerode and 7.2 km northeast of the core town of Hessisch Lichtenau . It is located between the Hohekopf ( 539.4  m ) in the east and the nearby Hirschberg ( 643.4  m ) in the west; About 5 km southeast of the mountain range Hoher Meißner ( 753.6  m ) rises . Southwest of the village in the direction of Rommerode are the Exbergseen , west of the hamlet Faulbach .

geology

The place lies in a 300 m thick tertiary area, the formation of which is the result of tectonic disturbances and faults caused by volcanic activity. At the Bühlchen , 4.5 km to the east , one finds the porcelain jasper , which occurs only in a few locations worldwide .

Natural resources

Red sandstone , basalt , porcelain jasper , sand , clay , washing earth , lignite and alum ore deposits .

history

The first documentary mention is Everharderot 1182. The place name is occupied with Epterodte 1459 and Epterode 1717. According to written records, part of the district (4 courtyards with 4 hooves) belonged to Hasungen Monastery until 1182 , which owned these goods with Landgrave Ludwig III. of Thuringia for goods in Salzaha Bad Langensalza , probably today's district of Ufhoven . These goods are likely to have come to the Landgraviate of Hesse after the Thuringian War of Succession and the establishment of the Hessian territorial state in 1264 . 1305 the place is mentioned as Eberharderode with Rotemanrode, today Rommerode . Then the knights Friedrich and Hermann von Spangenberg from the Treffurter dynasty acquired goods in the named places from Siffriede and Bertram von Hundelshausen von Eberhard, citizens of the Lords of Spangenberg in the city of Spangenberg , which they immediately transferred to those of Hundelshausen as fiefs. Since 1355 those of the mountains were entrusted by the Landgrave with part of the Querenberg forest , in 1391 those of Hundelshausen with half of Epterode. In 1413, Landgrave Ludwig I granted half of the village of Ebterodte with the Querenberg to those von Hundelshausen. In 1428, Landgrave Ludwig I transferred half of the place with the Querenberg to the brothers Bernd and Bruno von dem Berge as a fiefdom, the other half was held by the von Hundelshausen with court as a Hessian fief from 1458. After those from the mountains died out in 1623, half of them went to the Vogtei Rückerode , the other half remained in the Hessian fiefdom of the von Hundelshausen until about the middle of the 19th century.

The village was under the authority of Lichtenau in 1569 and from 1575 to 1585, from 1585 to 1817 to the authority of Ludwigstein / Witzenhausen (1807-1813 in the canton of Kaufungen ), from 1817 to 1821 to the authority of Großalmerode and from 1821 to 1974 it belongs to the district of Witzenhausen , and from 1974 Werra -Meißner circle . In 1970 the council decided to merge with Großalmerode.

The village had the right to brew its own beer, a brewing law regulating the amount to be brewed and the allocation of hops, yeast and malt.

The church was built in 1733 under pastor JLB Cannengießer, but it is probably not the first, because on a stone slab in the church you can find the inscription: “1596 KS”.

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse was until then independent municipality Epterode on a voluntary basis on December 31, 1970 incorporated .

Economy and Infrastructure

For over 800 years clay, sand and coal have been the main sources of income for the residents. So potters, alum boilers, crucible makers and forest glass makers settled and produced here. Due to the sterile altitude, agriculture and animal husbandry played only a subordinate role. Today there are still a few factories in Epterode that manufacture refractory materials (crucibles) and others that manufacture tailor's chalk.

school

There is documentary evidence of a school as early as 1633, because Nikolaus Heyse was a teacher in Epterode up to that time, and then a teacher in Laudenbach and Hausen until 1667 . Presumably there was a first school house in Oberdorf (today Dorfstrasse 37). In August 1913 the foundation stone of the new school was laid on the former hut area of ​​an alum factory on the Repsch. The inauguration ceremony took place on April 15, 1915. For many years there was an eight-grade elementary school with one teacher and at times 90 to 105 students. There were always less lessons and frequent substitute hours by teachers from Großalmerode , especially during and after the world wars. There was a decline in enrollment after the year 1949. The school resolution took place in late 1965 with the promotion of pupils from 5 January 1966 Mittelpunktschule Rommerode and after the summer holidays 1970 School Großalmerode instead. At this time, the last school building on the Repsch was also torn down.

Personalities

  • Johannes Becker (1726–1804), organist and church musician, shaped church music in the Electorate of Hesse-Kassel
  • Klaus Zaczyk (* 1945), soccer player and coach, trained SV Epterode

literature

  • Krummel, Ämter, p. 75.
  • Küther, historical local dictionary of the district of Witzenhausen, p. 34.
  • Magistrate of the City of Großalmerode on the occasion of the 825th anniversary celebration in 2007 (ed.); Hermann Nobel (author): Chronicle Epterode - From Euerharderot to Epterode - 825 years of Epterode; ISBN 978-3-00-022051-7
  • School chronicle Epterode from 1885 to 1966; Hermann Nobel (author, self-published publisher), 2013, 105 pp., 104 ills.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Epterode, Werra-Meißner-Kreis". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 15, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Epterode on the website of the city of Großalmerode , accessed in February 2016
  3. ↑ Incorporation of the Epterode community into the city of Großalmerode, Witzenhausen district on January 7, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 4 , p. 142 , point 183 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).

Web links

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