Grossropperhausen

Grossropperhausen community Frielendorf Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 24 ″  N , 9 ° 22 ′ 9 ″  E
Height :	344  (325-390)  m
Area :	14.16 km²
Residents :	718  (December 31, 2017)
Population density :	51 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	34621
Area code :	05684

Großropperhausen is a district of the municipality of Frielendorf in the Schwalm-Eder district in North Hesse .

Geographical location

Großropperhausen is located in the northern part of the Knüllgebirge , commonly known as Knüll , about 5 km southeast of the Frielendorf core town and about 11 km south of Homberg . The Efze tributary Ohebach flows through it . The location extends from 325 to 390  m above sea level. NN .

history

The village was first mentioned in 1232 as Raporgehusen. The remains of the medieval, probably by the Lords of Heimbach built castle Ropperhausen still exist. On the south-eastern edge of the village, in the middle of an estate, there is the Großropperhausen Castle , a manor house built in 1832 by the Lords of Baumbach . The area includes the frog grove, Gerlachshain, Glashütte, Hilpertshain, Ringsmühle, Rungerode and Solnhausen as well as the Samtholz house, a gravel works and the Waldhof.

On January 1, 1974, in the course of the regional reform in Hesse, the two large municipalities of Frielendorf and Grenzebach (which had formed on January 31, 1971 from the municipalities of Leimsfeld, Ober Grenzebach and Schönborn) with the previously independent municipalities of Allendorf, Großropperhausen, Leuderode, were joined by state law , Spieskappel and Verna to turn new major community Frielendorf together . The seat of the municipal administration became Frielendorf. Local districts were created for all formerly independent communities .

religion

Evangelical community

The two Evangelical Reformed communities Großropperhausen and Lenderscheid form a parish . Next to the baroque church , which was built between 1726 and 1728, is the rectory . The church tower rises in the middle of the building as a two-step octagonal dome roof turret . In the church, on the southern gallery, there is the patronage box of the von Baumbach family; A separate staircase leads to this box, which can be reached via the south portal with the name of "Hans Ludwig von Baumbach". The ground plan of the east-facing church is an elongated octagon . There is a cemetery on the north-eastern edge of the village.

Jewish community

On the outskirts (Am Sterckelsberg) is the Jewish cemetery with an area of ​​10.32 acres. Around 1835 a synagogue was built as a two-story half-timbered house with a hipped roof. To the left of the entrance was a prayer room with an almost square floor plan, facing east and with a gallery on one side. On the right on the first floor there was a classroom, on the upper floor there was a teacher's apartment. The building was later sold to a non-Jewish family, converted and is now used as a residential building.

traffic

The buses of lines 472, 473 and 493 of the North Hessian Transport Association (NVV) ensure local public transport .

The state roads  3152 and 3158 and the district road  124 meet in the village .

Others

• The bakeries are still used on a weekly basis today.
• In Großropperhausen there is an outdoor pool heated with solar energy .
• The place has a public primary school .
• Numerous half-timbered houses are particularly worth seeing .
• There is a basalt quarry of the Stormarn works in Frielendorf with the so-called French quarry .

literature

• Otto-Karl Engelbrecht, Marie-Luise von Baumbach and others: Großropperhausen 1232–1982. Character and change of a village. Edited by the community of Frielendorf and the Großropperhausen local council. Homberg / Efze, 1982.
• Literature about Großropperhausen in the Hessian Bibliography
• Search for Großropperhausen in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library

Web links

• Districts & local councils. In: Internet presence of the municipality of Frielendorf.
• Großropperhausen, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Großropperhausen, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 10, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
2. ↑ Numbers and facts. In: Internet presence. Frielendorf community, archived from the original on March 23, 2018 ; accessed on October 8, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts Fritzlar-Homberg, Melsungen and Ziegenhain (GVBl. II 330-22) of September 28, 1973 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1973 No. 25 , p. 356 , § 8 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).
4. ^ 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. 411-413 .
5. ↑ Großropperhausen . Evangelical Church District Ziegenhain / Dean's Office. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved September 28, 2013.
6. ^ Jewish cemetery in Großropperhausen . Community council of the community of Frielendorf. Retrieved September 28, 2013.
7. ^ Jewish cemeteries in the Schwalm-Eder district (HR) . Alemannia Judaica - Working group for research into the history of the Jews in southern Germany and neighboring areas. Retrieved September 28, 2013.
8. ↑ Großropperhausen (municipality of Frielendorf, Schwalm-Eder district) - Jewish history / synagogue . Alemannia Judaica - Working group for research into the history of the Jews in southern Germany and neighboring areas. Retrieved September 28, 2013.
9. ↑ Bickhardt takes over Steinbruch HNA on November 30, 2010