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Hüffert (formerly: Huffra , Huffe ) is an urban area of the East Westphalian Hanseatic city of Warburg in the Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia . In Carolingian times it was the seat of the original parish of St. Peter and the seat of a Gogericht .
Surname
Adolf Gottlob explained the name as an abbreviation for "Huferott", the cleared hooves (= approx. 12 ha). Nikolaus Rodenkirchen traced it back to the shape of a hill, reminiscent of a hip (Middle High German huf , plural also hüffen ).
Location and importance
The area is located west of the historic city center of Warburg. It includes the plateau and the south slopes of the valley of the Diemel advanced, 222 m high hill, which rises about 60 m above the Diemel. Today it is a residential area characterized by single-family houses from the 1950s to 1980s. It is also the location of the Warburg Clinic , the school center, the Hüffertgymnasium , the vocational school, the technical school for social education, the Hüffertkampfbahn and the forest swimming pool. With events in the pedagogical center, the nearby town hall and the Hüffert chapel, which was profaned in 2009, the place has also developed into a cultural center of the region since the 1980s.
history
Excavation findings show early settlement and the earlier existence of a hall church 17.70 m long and 8.30 m wide from the Carolingian era (9th – 10th centuries) in the area of a Bittkreuz east of the hill plateau . It is assumed that this is the Peterskirche mentioned in 1287. Because around 1017/18 there was already a St. Andrew's Church, consecrated to the Apostle Andreas , the brother of the Apostle Peter , which was a separate church of Count Dodikos Castle on the opposite Wartberg . The location on the hill, the dating and the patronage indicate that this was the original parish of the entire region before urbanization. Such Peterskirchen from the 8th – 10th centuries Century we can also find at Fulda , Erfurt , Eisenach , Hersfeld and Bonn . The Hüffertberg was also the location of a Gogericht that was still occupied in 1341.
In 1287, the Paderborn bishop Otto von Rietberg ordered the amalgamation of the Peterspfarre with the Warburg-Altstädter parish after he had transferred their former parish church St. Mariä in vinea to the Dominican order , but allowed the old towners to build a new church. After the inauguration of the new old town church of St. Mariä visitationem , the St. Peter's Church was raised again to an independent parish church and incorporated into a St. Peter's Hospital located near the St. Peter's Church in front of the "Westerhagen" , whose provisional authorities were to exercise the right of patronage over the church. At the beginning of the 14th century this hospital was a commander of the Order of St. John and was connected to the commander in Wiesenfeld until 1327 . Thereafter, the church and hospital were excluded from the jurisdiction of the archdeacon and administered by two provisional agents. The church was expanded several times and, in addition to the main altar , had an altar of the Holy Spirit , an altar of the apostles Phillippus and James , an altar of the Magi and an altar of Jodokus . Below the Hüffertberg, in the Niederhüffert, there was also a St. John's chapel dedicated to the Evangelist Johannes . Residents of Hüffert were in the Middle Ages as minority citizens before the law worse than the citizens within the walls of Warburg, but were nonetheless shot charge . They earned their living as Meier Castle game, Badstübner or in the nearby clay pit.
During the Thirty Years' War Warburg was besieged in 1621 and 1622 by the troops of Duke Christian von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . On January 1, 1622, 17 houses, the Johannismühle and the infirmary were destroyed. At the beginning of March the Warburg area was recaptured by league troops under the command of Johann Jakob von Bronckhorst-Batenburg and the city was occupied. In order to take cover from the enemy in future attacks, his Colonel Otto von Blankhart had all the trees and hedges around the city cut down in 1622 and the remaining buildings of the Hüffert, including the Peterskirche and the hospital, demolished. The Hüffert residents were not accepted into the city, but had to look for accommodation in the wider area. A reconstruction of the Hüffert did not initially take place due to the population losses caused by the war. At the beginning of the 20th century, the areas were used exclusively for horticultural and agricultural purposes.
It was not until 1920 that new development and urban development took place. A new St. Petri Hospital (1923–26), a secondary girls' school for the poor school sisters , a youth hostel and a few single-family houses were built along the historic Stiepenweg starting at the Sacktor and the Hüffertstraße, which is at right angles to it . From 1950, there was then a further planned development and opening up as the most important residential area in the city of Warburg. The residential areas were expanded several times in the following decades.
Literature and Sources
- Adolf Gottlob : History of the City of Warburg , Münster 1936
- Anton Doms: Hunters, Farmers, Citizens, From Prehistory to the High Middle Ages in the Warburg urban area , in: The City of Warburg 1036–1986, ed. by Franz Mürmann, Warburg 1986
- Nikolaus Rodenkirchen: District of Warburg , in: Architectural and art monuments of Westphalia, Vol. 44, Münster 1939
- Westphalian document book , Vol. 4, No. 1943, to Warburg, May 21, 1287
- Heiko Bewermeyer: The Warburger Petristiege , Warburg 2017.
Remarks
- ↑ Jürgen Martin: The 'Ulmer Wundarznei'. Introduction - Text - Glossary on a monument to German specialist prose from the 15th century. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1991 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 52), ISBN 3-88479-801-4 (also medical dissertation Würzburg 1990), p. 140.
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 6.2 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 16.8 ″ E