Guxhagen

Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	kassel
County :	Schwalm-Eder district
Height :	225 m above sea level NHN
Area :	26.18 km 2
Residents:	5358 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	205 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	34302
Area code :	05665
License plate :	HR, FZ, MEG, ZIG
Community key :	06 6 34 008
LOCODE :	DE GUX
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Zum Ehrenhain 2 ; 34302 Guxhagen
Website :	www.guxhagen.de
Mayor :	Edgar Slawik ( independent )
Location of the community of Guxhagen in the Schwalm-Eder district

Parts of the monastery grounds in the Breitenau , in the background the church tower and parts of the Protestant monastery church

Guxhagen is a municipality in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .

geography

location

Guxhagen is located 12.5 km (as the crow flies ) south of Kassel city center between the Frau-Holle-Land geo-nature park ( Werra Valley, Meissner, Kaufunger Wald ; northeast) and the somewhat distant Habichtswald nature park (northwest), which borders the municipality . In the village the Schwarzenbach flows into the Fulda ; in the latter opens at the western municipal border with Edermünde the Eder .

Neighboring communities

Guxhagen borders in the north-west on the city of Baunatal , in the north on the municipality Fuldabrück , in the northeast and east on the municipality Söhrewald (all three in the district of Kassel ), in the south on the municipality Körle , in the southwest on the city Felsberg , and in the west, with the Fulda and the Eder as the border, to the municipality of Edermünde (all three in the Schwalm-Eder district).

Community structure

The community of Guxhagen consists of these districts :

Grebenau
Guxhagen
Wollrode

history

Settlement of the area goes back to the Neolithic . Two pre-Christian menhirs from 1800 BC were found in Ellenberg . Discovered.

For centuries, Guxhagen was in the shadow of the Breitenau monastery . The monastery was founded in 1113 by the Hessian count Werner IV von Maden and his wife Gisela in the Breitenau . In 1119 the future abbot Drutwin and twelve other Benedictine monks from the Hirsau monastery in the Black Forest moved into the first monastery buildings in the "Breiten Aue". The heyday of the monastery probably began in the middle of the 12th century and ended at the beginning of the 14th century. At that time it owned the villages of Guxhagen, Ellenberg and Büchenwerra as well as real estate and income in almost 100 other places. Then there were grievances and the monastery lost property again. The affiliation to the Bursfeld Congregation in 1497 brought another brief boom for the monastery, which then came to an end with the introduction of the Reformation in the Landgraviate of Hesse . One year after the Homberg Synod , the monastery was dissolved in 1527. It became the chamber property of Landgrave Philipp I. The previous prior, Theobald Zabel (Cabel), became the first Protestant pastor of Breitenau, responsible for the now Protestant Guxhagen.

The place Guxhagen was first mentioned in a document of April 20, 1352 as Kukushayn (Kuckuckshain). A resident of the village of Kukushayn, Werner called Ruchfuz (crow's foot), gave a hoof in the district of Buchenwerde (Büchenwerra) with all accessories to the Breydenowe monastery (Breitenau). The spelling of the village name changed over time: Kukushayn (1352), Guckishain (1357), Guckeshain (1399), Guczhan (1415), Kuckshain (1445), Guxhaene (1500), Guxgeshagen (1525), Guxhain (1579 as well 1697) and Guxhagen (1579). On July 22, 1357, a dispute over the jurisdiction in Guxhagen and Ellenberg, which were owned by the Breitenau monastery, was settled. The landgrave and his son agreed with the abbot of the monastery that the blood jurisdiction for both places and the monastery was in the hands of the landgrave and met in Guxhagen, the abbot of the monastery kept the lower jurisdiction . This regulation was later also applied to Büchenwerra, when the place had more or less completely passed into the ownership of the Breitenau monastery.

A chapel was built in 1513 at the Oberhof. With the dissolution of the Breitenau monastery in October 1527, Guxhagen became an independent municipality. The first information about the number of inhabitants comes from the year 1579. At that time there were 74 households. A school is first mentioned in 1596.

During the Thirty Years' War in 1626, the former Breitenau monastery was plundered by troops from the general Johann t'Serclaes von Tilly . Three church bells and the library were stolen. Looting and destruction also took place in Guxhagen. From 1637 to 1640 fell Croatian rider under Isolani one. When Octavio Piccolomini's troops invaded in 1640 , only the church, the chapel and the stone buildings remained on the monastery grounds. All other buildings were burned down. The monastery buildings then served as horse stables and granaries.

In the Seven Years' War from 1756 to 1763 there was renewed destruction. Half of the Hundsforth community forest was cut down and burned down. Parts of the monastery complex and bridges were destroyed.

From 1840, paths to the neighboring towns were paved. On July 1, 1845, construction of the railway line ( Main-Weser-Bahn ) began. The Belgian engineer Frans Splingard was hired. First the construction of the tunnel (433 m) through the Stiegberg began. In 1846, 7,000 workers were employed in the construction of the railway. On September 18, 1848, the line between Guxhagen and Bebra was put into operation. The line to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe was only opened on December 19, 1849 due to the construction of the bridge in Guntershausen. At first, rail traffic only took place on one track. The second track was built in 1873/74.

In 1871, 750 French prisoners of war were imprisoned in the Breitenau monastery during the Franco-Prussian War . From 1874 to 1949 there was a correctional and rural poor institution, i.e. a workhouse, on the site.

In 1883/84 the Fulda bridge was built between the districts of Guxhagen. Until the Fulda Bridge was built, there was a ferry service and a ford connecting the two districts. In 1890 the community received its first pharmacy. The construction of the water pipeline began around 1900. In 1914 a new mill was built near the Breitenau monastery, which from 1916/17 onwards generated electricity with two turbines and up until the 1920s supplied the other part of Guxhagen with electricity in addition to the Breitenau.

From 1935 to 1937 the construction of the Reichsautobahn , today's federal autobahn 7 , took place; Guxhagen did not receive an official motorway junction until December 20, 1973. When the first American tanks approached in the early morning of March 31, 1945, German pioneers blew up the motorway bridge over the Fulda and also the Fulda bridge in Guxhagen. In Guxhagen, first a temporary footbridge and later a wooden temporary bridge were built over the Fulda, which was only replaced by a new bridge at the end of 1953.

The Breitenau Memorial commemorates the former concentration camp (1933–1934) and the Breitenau labor education camp (1940–1945). It is located in the former tithe barn of the monastery on the site of today's psychiatric hospital. Around every fifth of the total of over 8,000 prisoners in the Breitenau concentration camp was deported to SS concentration camps. Finally, on the night of March 29, 1945 (Maundy Thursday / Good Friday) - one day before American troops marched in - 28 prisoners were taken by a firing squad on Fuldaberg, not far from the camp in Breitenau Gestapo Kassel murdered.

In 1964/65 the central school was built, which was converted into an integrated comprehensive school in 1971 . The first kindergarten was also built in 1971/72. Guxhagen received a large sports hall in 1985. With the construction of the bypass road in 1980/82, a new bridge was built over the Fulda, south of the monastery, and a road to the Guxhagener Friedhof, which connects the places Grifte, Guxhagen and Körle. In 1990 the section from the cemetery to the Stiegberg was completed. The ICE express railway line ( Hanover – Fulda ) was built between 1986 and 1991 to the west between Guxhagen and Wollrode.

Incorporations

On February 1, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the previously independent municipalities of Albshausen, Büchenwerra, Ellenberg and Wollrode were incorporated on a voluntary basis as districts of Guxhagen. On March 1, 1971 Grebenau was added.

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016 A total of 31 seats SPD : 13 Greens : 3 CDU : 5th GL : 10	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	42.7	13	45.2	14th	48.0	15th	57.9	18th
	GL-FWG	Community list Guxhagen / Free Voters	32.3	10	22.1	7th	23.6	7th	22.5	7th
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	14.4	5	18.5	6th	20.9	7th	12.5	4th
	GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	10.6	3	14.2	4th	7.5	2	7.1	2
	total		100.0	31	100.0	31	100.0	31	100.0	31
	Voter turnout in%		60.9		61.7		57.2		64.0

mayor

The first directly elected mayor of Guxhagen was Winfried Becker (SPD) from 1994 to 2003 . After his tenure, Becker became the first district member of the Schwalm-Eder district. Since March 2015 he has been the district administrator of the Schwalm-Eder district.

Becker was followed by Edgar Slawik, who was not party to any party, was first elected on March 30, 2003 and was confirmed in office on November 2, 2008 and November 9, 2014.

Culinary

In Guxhagen, as in the surrounding region, the North Hessian cuisine is at home. Bacon cakes and especially the meat and sausage products such as Ahle Wurst , Weckewerk and blood and liver sausage count among others. a. For this. Some of these are still produced today during private house slaughter. The slaughter meals that are offered in the community are also typical .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Guxhagen is on federal highway 83 and federal highway 7 (Kassel - Bad Hersfeld ).

The community belongs to the North Hessian Transport Association , which among other things offers a collective call taxi system within the larger community. The station on the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn is served by the RegioTram Kassel and local trains of the cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft .

The following cycle paths lead through the municipality :

The Hessian Radfernweg R1 (Fulda-Radweg) leads over 250 km from the heights of the Rhön along the Fulda to Bad Karlshafen on the Weser .
The D-Route 9 (Weser-Romantic Road) leads from the North Sea via Bremen, Kassel, Fulda and the Taubertal to Füssen in Allgäu (1197 km).
The 180 km long Ederauenradweg begins in the Rothaargebirge in North Rhine-Westphalia and is called Ederauenweg here. The largest part leads through Hesse and is then called the Eder cycle path . It follows the course of the Eder to its confluence with the Fulda near Guxhagen.

education

The community has a primary and a comprehensive school. The community library is located in Guxhagen and Ellenberg.

Sons and daughters of the church

Justus Wilhelm Karl Glinzer (1802–1878), painter and lithographer
Friedrich Paulus (1890–1957), Field Marshal General
Christoph Weber (1883–1958), librarian

literature

Municipality of Guxhagen (ed.): Guxhagen and the Söhre. Text: Jörg Adrian Huber, photos: Rolf Wagner. Wartberg, Gudensberg 1992.
Community of Guxhagen (ed.): 650 years of Guxhagen, 125 years of the choral society. Festschrift. 2002.
Literature about Guxhagen in the Hessian Bibliography