Greetings

Greetings City of Gemünden (Wohra) Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 4 " N , 8 ° 57 ′ 4" E
Height :	267 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.83 km² [LAGIS]
Residents :	365 (Jan 15, 2009)
Population density :	95 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 1971
Postal code :	35285
Area code :	06453

Grüsen is a district of Gemünden (Wohra) in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

geography

The place is between Kellerwald and Burgwald . State road 3073 and the Schweinfe run to the east .

history

Grüsen was first mentioned in a document in 780 in the Hersfeld Monastery Register of Goods , namely with the place name Grosiun . Later the place is known as "Gruose" (1057), "Grusa" (1201) and "Grusin" (1211/16).

After the end of the lost First World War , Grüsen missed a possible direct rail connection to a planned extension of the Kellerwaldbahn towards Frankenberg; the construction work that had begun before 1914 was discontinued.

In 1927 the village belonged to the Rosenthal district court and the Frankenberg tax office . In 1933 the place had 303 inhabitants.

On December 31, 1971, the previously independent municipality of Grüsen came to the city of Gemünden an der Wohra on a voluntary basis as part of the regional reform in Hesse . For Grüsen, as for the other parts of the city, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was formed.

Jewish life

Jewish residents have been documented in the village of Grüsen since the 17th century with a total population of around 50 people until the 1940s. The Jews living in the village acted in the 19th and 20th centuries. Century with cattle and manufactured goods. Most of them did a little farming on the side. As the number of Grüsener Jews declined in the early 1930s, the existing only a few decades ago sparked community again and joined the community Gemünden again.

During the November pogroms in 1938 , the windows and doors of the synagogue building were smashed by SA and SS members. The last Jewish inhabitants were in September 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp deported .

In 1934 the Marx family set up an agricultural training center in Grüsen for young Jews willing to emigrate. The kibbutz operated by the Reich Representation of the German Jews used land that had been bought or leased by Jewish emigrants from Grüsen.

During the November pogrom, Nazis from Gemünden and Haina also attacked the young Jews of the local kibbutz. They were picked up and taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp. After a few days they were released and allowed to return to Grüsen to organize their early emigration. By 1938, more than 100 young people had been trained in Grüsen for their tasks in their immigration destination, Eretz Israel .

The former synagogue building in Grüsen was demolished in the 1950s.

Protestant church

The Protestant church is a hall building built in 1833 in the classical style with a roof turret . The U-shaped gallery is aligned with the high pulpit . Carl Jakob Ziese built an organ on the gallery opposite it from 1841–43 .

literature

Literature about greetings in the Hessian Bibliography
Search for greetings in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library

Web links

Districts. In: Internet presence. City of Gemünden on the Wohra; accessed in September 2018
Grüsen, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 30, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 390 .
↑ main statute. (PDF; 873 kB) §; 6. In: Website. City of Gemünden (Wohra), accessed February 2019 .
↑ In a publication by the Fritz Bauer Institute there is a photo of a Hachschara group in Grüsen. The accompanying caption reads: “The 20 to 30 participants in a course cultivated the fields of the local Jewish farmers; they were housed in Jakob Marx's inn. The photo in front of the residence of the Marx family was taken during a visit to the, Shaliach 'Boris Eisenstaedt (front center), an envoy from Palestine. "( Dagi Knell Food: 1938. November pogroms" What seemed inconceivable is reality " ), educational materials no. 03 of the Pedagogical Center of the Fritz Bauer Institute and the Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-932883-36-1 , p. 19 [pdf-S. 21]. Boris Eisenstaedt is better known under the name Baruch Azania (Osnia); There is an article about him in the English Wikipedia: en: Baruch Osnia . There is also an article that explains what a 'Shaliach' is: en: Shaliach (Chabad) .
↑ Grüsen (Hesse). Retrieved May 29, 2019 .

[1] 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 390 .

[2] main statute. (PDF; 873 kB) §; 6. In: Website. City of Gemünden (Wohra), accessed February 2019 .

[3] In a publication by the Fritz Bauer Institute there is a photo of a Hachschara group in Grüsen. The accompanying caption reads: “The 20 to 30 participants in a course cultivated the fields of the local Jewish farmers; they were housed in Jakob Marx's inn. The photo in front of the residence of the Marx family was taken during a visit to the, Shaliach 'Boris Eisenstaedt (front center), an envoy from Palestine. "( Dagi Knell Food: 1938. November pogroms" What seemed inconceivable is reality " ), educational materials no. 03 of the Pedagogical Center of the Fritz Bauer Institute and the Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-932883-36-1 , p. 19 [pdf-S. 21]. Boris Eisenstaedt is better known under the name Baruch Azania (Osnia); There is an article about him in the English Wikipedia: en: Baruch Osnia . There is also an article that explains what a 'Shaliach' is: en: Shaliach (Chabad) .

[4] Grüsen (Hesse). Retrieved May 29, 2019 .