Peace of mind

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Peace of mind
community Wesertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 35 ″  N , 9 ° 32 ′ 8 ″  E
Height : 117 m above sea level NHN
Area : 1.1 km²
Residents : 120 approx.
Population density : 109 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st February 1971
Incorporated into: Upper Weser
Postal code : 34399
Area code : 05572
View over the Weser on conscience rest
View over the Weser on conscience rest
View from the Weser ferry at Gewissenruh

Gewissenruh is a district of the Wesertal community in the Kassel district in northern Hesse .

Geographical location

The village of Gewissenruh is located in the far north of northern Hesse between the southern foothills of the Solling in southern Lower Saxony in the north and the northern roof of the Hessian Reinhardswald in the south. It is located on the left or western bank of the Weser , which forms the border with Lower Saxony here, on the opposite bank extends the Lower Saxon Bodenfelde , east of Gewissenruh lies Lippoldsberg , behind which the Kiffing ridge rises to the southeast , and to the west is Wahmbeck ( Part of the municipality of Bodenfelde).

Gieselwerder , a main administrative location of the Wesertal municipality, is 3.5 km south, Bad Karlshafen 6 km north-west, the small town Uslar around 8 km north-east, Hann. Münden 25 km and Kassel 36 km south.

Gewissenruh is around 40 m above the local Weser level. The mountains near the village include the Kuhläger Kopf ( 290.5  m ) in the Reinhardswald and beyond or north of the Weser the Kahlberg ( 224.7  m ) in the Solling.

history

Gewissenruh was founded in 1722 as a "colony" for Waldensian religious refugees from France by Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel , as was the nearby village of Gottstreu . The landgrave personally chose the religiously influenced names of both places.

The colonies were laid out as street villages with 12 parcels. The new settlers lived from agriculture and forest work. Until 1825 French was spoken in church services and in school lessons. French inscriptions on house beams and French family names still bear witness to the past of the places popularly known as French villages.

Since February 1, 1971, the formerly independent municipality was part of the newly created municipality of Oberweser as part of the municipal regional reform, which merged with Wahlsburg to form the Wesertal municipality on January 1, 2020 .

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories or administrative units that were subject to the rest of the conscience:

Culture and sights

For the listed cultural monuments of the place see the list of cultural monuments in Gewissenruh .

  • Inscriptions in God faithful and conscience rest remind of the French ancestry.

  • Village street in Gewissenruh

Economy and Infrastructure

Agriculture and forestry hardly play a role in Gewissenruh, just like in other places in the region, and there are no noteworthy industrial companies.

tourism

There is a tourist infrastructure. The place is a state-approved resort . Gewissenruh lies on the Weser Cycle Path. Reinhardswald and Wesertal offer good hiking and riding opportunities, for example through the Franzosenwiesen . Accommodation is available in inns, trail riding stations and pensions in the village. In the neighborhood there are outdoor and indoor swimming pools, campsites and places with old half-timbered houses, such as B. Uslar or Höxter . The mill square and the castles or castle ruins Sababurg (with wildlife park), Trendel , Bram and Krukenburg are worth seeing .

traffic

The federal highway 80 runs on the outskirts . At Gieselwerder there is a bridge over the Weser; In the immediate vicinity there are two yaw ferries across the Weser to the places Wahmbeck and Lippoldsberg . At Hann. Münden and Göttingen are the next motorway exits on the A 7 and at Warburg the A 44 .

Regional train stations are located in Hann. Münden, Hofgeismar and Bodenfelde; ICE / IC trains stop in Kassel, Göttingen and Warburg.

Airports of national importance are located near Hanover and Paderborn .

Honorary citizen

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The location on the Oberweser municipality's website , accessed in August 2016.
  2. ^ 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. 398 .
  3. ↑ Gewissenruh, district of Kassel. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of November 17, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  5. ↑ 77th meeting of the specialist committee for health resorts, recreation places and healing wells in Hesse on November 17, 2011 . In: State pointer for the state of Hesse . No. 7 , 2012, ISSN  0724-7885 , p. 221 .

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