Escheberg

Escheberg City of Zierenberg Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 49 ″ N , 9 ° 15 ′ 4 ″ E
Height :	282 (270–290) m above sea level NHN
Area :	15.82 km²
Residents :	25 (2015) .
Population density :	2 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 1970
Postal code :	34289
Area code :	05606

Escheberg is a district of Zierenberg in the northern Hessian district of Kassel with about 30 inhabitants.

Geographical location

The small village of Escheberg is located in the north of the Habichtswälder Bergland just under 5 km northwest of the Zierenberg core town and about 850 m southeast of the summit of the Escheberg , which is 448.9 m above sea level. NHN highest elevation in the Malsburg Forest .

The county road 88, which leads south from the state road 3080 ( Breuna - Oberlistingen ) , leads through Escheberg , to which the county road 87 ( Laar - Oberelsungen ) connects to the east of the village .

history

The place was the ancestral seat of the lower aristocratic family von Escheberg, which existed from the 13th to the 15th century .

The former Ödinghausen manor , located in the Escheberg district, was closed in 1965 during the construction of the federal motorway 44 ( Dortmund - Kassel ).

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , Escheberg was incorporated into the city of Zierenberg on a voluntary basis on December 31, 1970 .

Townscape

K 88 in Escheberg (2019)

overview

Escheberg essentially consists of a half-timbered manor and a smaller farm yard. This is connected by a former orangery with an English-style castle park. The park is open to the public. There is also an 18-hole golf course .

Escheberg Castle

Escheberg Castle , built in Gothic style in 1530 , emerged from a half-timbered manor house. The castle is privately owned by the von der Malsburg family and cannot be visited.

During the Romantic era , in the first half of the 19th century, the castle was a cultural meeting place for numerous poets, painters and musicians. The poet Emanuel Geibel began to write the famous poem "May has come ..." on the way to the castle in 1841.

Attractions

Escheberg Castle Park

Personalities

Personalities who are / were connected to Escheberg:

Ernst Friedrich von der Malsburg (1786–1824), poet, translator and diplomat
Karl-Otto von der Malsburg (1790–1855), landowner and patron
Hans von der Malsburg (1831–1908), politician
Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), linguist and literary scholar
Jakob Grimm (1785–1863), linguist and literary scholar
Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790–1863), painter and etcher
Emanuel Geibel (1815–1884), poet
Louis Spohr (1784–1859), musician and composer
Moritz von Schwind (1804–1871), painter
August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845), writer and philosopher
Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829), writer and philosopher
Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853), writer
Friedrich Bodenstedt (1819-1892), writer
Clemens Brentano (1778–1842), writer
Achim von Arnim (1781–1831), writer
Otto von Loeben (1786–1825), poet
Franz Kugler (1808–1858), art historian and poet
Heinrich von Sybel (1817–1895) historian and politician
Ludwig Gabillon (1825–1896), actor
Heinrich Marschner (1795–1861), composer
August von der Embde (1780–1862), painter

literature

Friedrich Bodenstedt: The manor house in Eschenwalde, Jena 1872. (Fiction processing by Gut Escheberg)
Heiner Wittekind: Escheberg - meeting point for artists. In: Gerhard Selb (ed.): 1200 years Niederelsungen. Niederelsungen 1975. S. 44f.

Web links

Commons : Escheberg - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Escheberg on the website of the city of Zierenberg
Escheberg, Kassel district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Literature on Escheberg in the Hessian Bibliography
"Escheberger Musenhof"

Individual evidence

↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
^ Escheberg, Kassel district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of September 24, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
↑ 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 @1@ 2
^ Incorporation of the communities Escheberg and Hohenborn into the town of Zierenberg in the Wolfhagen district on January 5, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 3 , p. 109 , point 108 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).

[DE_BFN-Karten-1] Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

[lagis-2] Escheberg, Kassel district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of September 24, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[ST-3] 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 @1@ 2

[HMI-4] Incorporation of the communities Escheberg and Hohenborn into the town of Zierenberg in the Wolfhagen district on January 5, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 3 , p. 109 , point 108 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).