Good Hessel

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The Hessel estate was a former estate in the district of Wiesenfeld in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia .

location

The estate was located approximately two kilometers west of Wiesenfeld in the west of the Eichsfeld district. Other neighboring towns are Volkerode in the south and Schwobfeld in the north. The place is located in the valley of the Hesselbach in a wooded area between the shell limestone foothills of the Rachelberg with the Sommerberg and the Goburg with the Ölberg at about 360 m altitude. The state border with Hesse runs about one kilometer to the west .

history

Desert Hessel

Settlement of the valley location is assumed for the late Middle Ages, in 1358 a villa Hesteler was named. In 1465 there was already talk of a desert, the Wettin Landgrave Wilhelm of Thuringia enfeoffed the brothers Johann, Herting and Apel von Eschwege with the desert and all accessories, as their cousins ​​had already heard. The place is mentioned in documents until the 17th century, sometimes as Oberhessel and then as Niederhessel . In the middle of the 16th century the goods of the Lords of Hanstein in Niederhessel were mentioned in letters.

At the beginning of the 17th century the desolation was in the hands of the von Eschwege and von Hanstein families as a Saxon fiefdom and came to the von Eschwege zu Aue family . It can no longer be proven today whether these were two separate places or just two settlement areas. Archaeological findings are not known.

Good Hessel

It is not known when the manor was built. It was located in the Oberhessel area, a mill existed in the Niederhessel area and was given up a long time ago. In 1936 the Schmidt family ran the estate. In 1945 the property was expropriated and divided among several settlers. At that time the estate consisted of 237 hectares of land, a manor house, workers' houses, farm buildings and a forester's house. For economic reasons, more and more people left the farm and LPG Armaments took over the business. At the end of the 1960s, nobody lived in the buildings anymore.

In the course of the border security measures, the property was demolished because of its proximity to the inner German border . Only a few old trees remain on site.

Current condition

After 1990 the heirs of the last owner got the estate back and run an ecologically operated animal husbandry there.

Origin of name

Hessel is an elliptical name by the omission or abbreviation of Heselin, Hessler and Heselare. It is derived from the hazel bush, also known locally as Hasl. The name is not only used for the place and the adjacent brook, but also for the Hessellücke and the Hesselkopf (506 m) on the Gobert .

literature

  • Thomas Wölker: Insights into the recent development of Altenstein, Greifenstein, Hessel and Keudelstein in the area of ​​the former inner-German border. In: Das Werraland 1992, Issue 4, pp. 81–86

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erhard Müller: The place names of the district of Heiligenstadt. Heilbad Heiligenstadt 1989, p. 23
  2. ↑ Carl Philipp Emil von Hanstein: Documentary history of the von Hanstein family in the Eichsfeld in Prussia (Province of Saxony) together with the document book and gender tables , Reprint, Mecke Druck und Verlag, Duderstadt 2007, p. 452
  3. ↑ Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : Die Wüstungen des Eichsfeldes: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of law and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. O. Hendel, Göttingen 1903, p. 593
  4. ↑ Volker Große, Gunter Römer: Lost cultural sites in Eichsfeld 1945 to 1989 A documentation . Eichsfeld Verlag, Heilbad Heiligenstadt, 2006, p. 221
  5. ^ Albrecht Greule: German water names book . Etymology of the names of waters and the associated area, settlement and field names, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, p. 221
  6. ↑ Erhard Müller: The place names of the district of Heiligenstadt. Heilbad Heiligenstadt 1989, p. 23

Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 20.9 "  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 41.8"  E