Grandenborn

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Grandenborn
community Ringgau
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 58 ″  N , 10 ° 2 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 411  (403-435)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 12.34 km²
Residents : 377  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density : 31 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 37296
Area code : 05659
View of Grandenborn from the north-west.
View of Grandenborn from the north-west.

Grandenborn is a district of the Ringgau community in the Werra-Meißner district in Hesse .

Geographical location

The place lies on the plateau of the Ringgau . At some distance, federal highway 7 runs north-east and federal highway 400 to the west . The village pond is in the middle of the village. The two-part nature conservation and FFH area “ Boyneburg and Schickeberg bei Breitau ” lies to the west of the town and encompasses the town in an arc .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1270. At that time there were still Niedergrandenborn and Obergrandenborn . It was not until later that today's place Grandenborn emerged. He took over the demarcations of several desert areas in his own, which is therefore the largest in the old district of Eschwege today. The soils of the Ringgauer Muschelkalktafel southwest of the Netraer-Iftaer Graben are, however, of only low fertility. Grandenborn is the closest place to Boyneburg , only from here the castle, which is otherwise surrounded by steep slopes, was accessible for logistical purposes. If the possessions and rights of the Hersfeld Monastery in Grandenborn can still be proven up to the 16th century , those of Boyneburg-Bischhausen and Laudenbach evidently took advantage of the weakness of the monastery resulting from the occupation by Hesse and Hessen-Kassel and brought it to bear the entire place including all rulership rights into your own hands. At the end of the 16th century , Grandenborn , which belonged to the Boyneburg court , consisted of 60 courtyards, before the Thirty Years War it consisted of 82. However, the plague raging in the Werra area in 1626 killed 187 villagers, death and flight reduced the number of occupied courtyards to 15 bis by 1639 In 1681 the number of residents had recovered to the number of 64 occupied farms.

Half of the property of the von Boyneburg-Bischhausen and Laudenbach belonged to the "von Bemmelberg" who split off from this family and migrated to Swabia in the 16th century (the descendants of Konrad von Boyneburg, who gained fame and money in imperial service ). Due to lack of money and a lack of interest, they transferred their share of Grandenborn - including the dairy farm above Weite Gasse - to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel . The landgrave's property was administered by the landgrave's office in Bischhausen , founded in 1654 , while the village itself was still part of the Boyneburg court.

In the district of Grandenborn there was also a courtyard of the von Boyneburg-Hohenstein (presumably on the "Alberod"), which however was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War and not rebuilt. Grandenborn has belonged to the Eschwege district since 1821 . The church patronage was originally held by the Hersfeld Monastery, but in the 16th century it was snatched from the monastery by the von Boyneburg-Bischhausen and Laudenbach family and taken into their own hands. The nearby family seat of the von Boyneburg family , the Boyneburg of the same name , is now a castle ruin .

On December 31, 1971, the previously independent place was incorporated into the new municipality of Ringgau.

Population development

year Residents
1925 561
1933 542
1939 506
1961 481
1970 502

church

The Protestant Church.

The oldest part of Grandenborn's Protestant church is the Romanesque defense tower from the 12th century, the corners of which are stiffened by strong ashlar masonry . The soaring tower originally had two-part acoustic arcades in the upper third on all four sides , which had the task of allowing the sound of the bells to reach the outside unhindered in all directions. In 1798 the tower was closed with an attached hood , which determines the current appearance.

The attached ship was built in 1840 in the classical style based on the designs of the master builder Anton Jakob Spangenberg. It has a similar shape to the church in Netra , which was also built according to Spangenberg's plans. The interior has the clear conception of a Protestant preaching room from the 19th century. In it, the rows of seats rise in stages to enable a view of the pulpit in the central axis of the ship. The equipment comes from the time it was built as well as in 1840 by the organ builder from Dittus Großburschla created organ .

The church is a protected cultural monument for artistic, historical and urban planning reasons .

The Protestant community of Grand Born belongs with the neighboring communities Altefeld , Netra and Renda the parish Netra the church district Eschwege the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck .

"Trojan horse"

The "horse" standing above Grandenborn has become a kind of identification mark of the place and the Ringgau landscape. Originally it was built as an elevated tank that was supposed to provide the grazing cattle with water. As part of the Green Plan , which subsidized measures to improve the agricultural structure, the concentration on the dairy industry was promoted in the 1960s. In order to transport the required water to the animals on the pastures, a water pipe network was built in the Grandenbörner Flur through which water was pumped to the storage facility on the hill “Auf den Büchen” at a height of 452  m . Towards the end of the 1980s, agricultural use changed and the water supply was no longer needed. The "horse", however, stayed and in 2012 received its distinctive bodies.

Leisure and Tourism

Poppy flower

Poppy Blossom and "Trojan Horse".

The poppy cultivation began in Grandenborn in 2017. The stony and shallow soils on the Muschelkalk plateau of the Ringgau had proven suitable for the growth of the poppy. As in the "Mohndorf" Germerode am Hohen Meißner , which is just 25 kilometers away , only low-morphine opium poppies are sown. The fields of around five hectares are freely accessible and can be visited on the designated, thatched paths. The routes of the poppy footpaths change every year as the poppy requires a constant change of fields. During the heyday, those responsible for the steadily growing number of visitors put together a program with a lot of effort and commitment, which offers guided tours, covered wagon rides and various events.

A website of the Geo-Naturpark Frau-Holle-Land provides information on the status of the poppy blossom and shows the current photos.

Premium hiking trail

The P13 circular route, certified as a premium hiking trail by the German Hiking Institute, runs through the village and over the Ringgau plateau. The trail, which was prepared and marked in 2012 in cooperation with the Frau-Holle-Land Geo-Naturpark and the local hiking club, is 17 km, with some ascents and descents between 338  m and 513  m and is classified as a medium-difficult tour. The circular route is characterized by an alternation of field, forest and meadow landscapes and crosses the nature reserve and Natura 2000 area “ Boyneburg and Schickeberg near Breitau ”.

"Most beautiful hr4 hiking location 2012"

In 2012 the radio station hr4 of the Hessischer Rundfunk had invited to hiking days. The broadcaster selected Grandenborn and three other locations from applications from many municipalities. The aim was to get as many hikers as possible on a circular route on a September weekend. With more than 1,500 hikers, Grandenborn secured the title “Most beautiful hr4 hiking location 2012” and won 5,000 euros.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Grandenborn, Werra-Meißner district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of February 8, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on February 16, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Grandenborn. In: geodatenzentrum.de. Accessed February 2016 .
  3. ↑ Dr. Lerch: Grandenborn is an old village. In: Werra-Rundschau. 63 (year 11 = 1958) in the Eschwege town archive, Gonnermann estate.
  4. ↑ Thomas Diehl: Aristocratic rule in the Werra area. The Boyneburg court in the process of laying the foundations for early modern statehood (late 16th to early 18th century). Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse, Darmstadt and Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88443-314-0 ( sources and research on Hessian history 159 ).
  5. ↑ Thomas Diehl: Aristocratic rule in the Werra area. The Boyneburg court in the process of laying the foundations for early modern statehood (late 16th to early 18th century). Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse, Darmstadt and Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88443-314-0 (= sources and research on Hessian history 159 ).
  6. ↑ Ludwig Zimmermann: Der Ökonomische Staat Landgraf Wilhelms IV. Marburg 1934 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse XVII. 2), p. 79.
  7. ^ 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. 388 .
  8. ^ Peer Zietz et al .: Werra-Meissner-Kreis . In: State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Hessen . tape 1 : Eschwege old district. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 3-528-06240-1 , p. 309 f . (Peer Zietz in collaboration with Thomas Wiegand. With essays by Theodor Leyhe and Karl Heinz Rostalski).
  9. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments - Hesse . 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1966, p. 324 (edited by Magnus Backes).
  10. ↑ Information board of the hiking club "P13 - Boyneburg - Ringgau".
  11. ↑ 20,000 visitors to the poppy blossom in Germerode and Grandenborn. In: Werra-Rundschau . July 13, 2019 ( werra-rundschau.de ); accessed on September 9, 2019.
  12. ^ Poppy blossom in the Frau-Holle-Land Geo-Nature Park ; accessed on September 9, 2019.
  13. ↑ Directions for the premium trail P 13 on the website of the Geo-Naturpark Frau-Holle-Land; accessed on September 9, 2019.
  14. ↑ HR4: Hesse's most beautiful hiking location ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

Web links

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