Guntershausen (Baunatal)

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Guntershausen
City of Baunatal
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 28 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 147 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.64 km²
Residents : 959  (Nov. 30, 2019)
Population density : 263 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : September 1, 1970
Incorporated into: Buchenhagen
Postal code : 34225
Area code : 05665
The railway bridge over the Fulda
Center of Guntershausen
View of the Fulda valley from the viaduct of the Bebra – Kassel railway line near Guntershausen
Evangelical Church of Guntershausen
The Baunatal-Guntershausen train station
Old mill in the Baunatal
Schoolhouse in Guntershausen
Guntershausen as seen from the Fulda cycle path

Guntershausen is the smallest district of Baunatal in the district of Kassel in North Hesse (Germany) with 959 inhabitants (2019) spread over an area of ​​3.64 km².

location

Guntershausen is located in the southeast of Baunatal on the western left bank of the Fulda in the Habichtswald Nature Park . The Bauna flows through the place shortly before it flows into the Fulda.

history

From the early peasant culture from the 3rd millennium BC The giant stone comes from Guntershausen . The oldest surviving mention of Guntershausen can be found in the founding document of Hasungen Monastery from 1074 under the name Hunthereshusen at the time .

From the mid-19th century the place for railway junction was Main-Weser Railway Kassel - Frankfurt and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn Kassel Bebra that in the former Island Station Guntershausen and today Keilbahnhof Baunatal-Guntershausen branch. Its station building was built by Julius Eugen Ruhl in 1846 . Today it can no longer be used due to its dilapidation. The bridge over the Fulda, built in 1848, was the largest railway bridge in Germany at the time. In World War II, the seven central arches were destroyed. In 1952 it was rebuilt in its current form.

September 1, 1970, joined in the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the independent municipalities Rengershausen and Guntershausen voluntarily community Buchhagen together almost two years to both places were areas of Baunatal.

On November 5, 1973, the express trains D 453 and DC 973 collided at Guntershausen station . 14 people died and 65 others were injured.

traffic

Signal box building Baunatal-Guntershausen "Guf"

The Baunatal-Guntershausen train station is on the Kassel – Gießen – Frankfurt (Main) railway line and on the Bebra – Baunatal-Guntershausen railway line . The RegioTram Kassel stops here .

There are three motorways in the vicinity, Federal Motorway 7 , Federal Motorway 44 and Federal Motorway 49 .

The nationally important Fulda / Hessischer Radfernweg R1 , which in this section also belongs to D-Route 9, runs along the Fulda from south to north . The Ederradweg / Ederauenradweg ends after 190 km where it meets the Fulda Cycle Path on the left side of the Fulda at the Fulda bridge.

Attractions

Web links

Commons : Guntershausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Population figures November 30, 2019
  2. https://www.baunatal.de/de/rathaus-politik/ihre-stadt/statistik/allgemeine-statistiken.php
  3. Merger of the communities of Guntershausen and Rengershausen in the district of Kassel to form the new community "Buchenhagen" on August 17, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 35 , p. 1698 , point 1588 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.8 MB ]).
  4. Law on the reorganization of the districts of Hofgeismar, Kassel and Wolfhagen (GVBl. II 330-17) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 225 , § 4 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).