Levers

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lever
Wabern municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 8 ″  N , 9 ° 22 ′ 55 ″  E
Height : 176  (170–212)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.81 km²
Residents : 480  (June 30, 2014)
Population density : 126 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 34590
Area code : 05681

Lever is a district of the municipality of Wabern in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .

geography

The village is located southeast of the core town of Wabern an der Efze , which flows into the Schwalm about 2 km further north-northwest . The federal road 254 , the state road 3149 and the district road  26 meet in the village .

history

Village church

The village "Hebilide" was first mentioned in a document on January 5th, 775 in the Sancti Lulli breviary , a property register of the Hersfeld monastery .

A multitude of secular and spiritual lords had property rights in levers. These included the monasteries and monasteries of Hersfeld, Fulda , Spieskappel , Fritzlar , Haina and Germerode , the Counts of Reichenbach , the Lords of Züschen , von Grifte and von Holzheim as well as the Landgraves of Hesse and Hesse-Kassel and various ministries of the same. From 1141 to 1613 at the latest, the lords of Hebel , who died out in the male line in 1520, or the lords of Falkenberg descended from them, were the dominant lords in the village and in neighboring Heldershausen (today the desert ), even if they owned the village from the Hessian landgraves held in fief or as pledge.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, Hebel was the meeting place for the landgraviate court on the Efze and the court on the Schwalm.

The inhabitants of the village earned their living not only in agriculture , but also in mining and iron processing. Already in 1567 there was an iron hammer in the neighboring Mardorf , and the iron ore mining in the "Lever pit" and the "Mardorf pit" was already mentioned in 1697 by Johann Just Winkelmann and in 1767 by Franz Ludwig Cancrin .

Jacob Pflüger from Hebel had a somewhat unusual job: he retired in 1797 as the last heron keeper for the Kassel Landgraves with a monthly pension of two talers from the Landgrave's hunting coffers.

Territorial reform

On December 31, 1971, the previously independent town of Hebel was incorporated into the municipality of Wabern as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

Population development

Towards the end of the 16th century there were 31 house seats in the village, but the attacks of the Thirty Years' War from 1618 and the plague in 1625 resulted in a drastic decline in the number of inhabitants: in 1639 there were only 9 married, 1 single and 3 widowed House seat. By the middle of the 18th century, the village had grown again to 56 houses or houses. In 1885 there were 481 residents in the village, in 1925 only 444, and in 1939 again 459. There was a small minority of the Jewish faith among the villagers who belonged to the Jewish community in neighboring Falkenberg : in 1835 there were 10 people, in 1861 21, in 1905 24 and 1924 17. If they could not escape abroad in time, they were killed during the Nazi era . The influx of bombed out and displaced persons after the end of the Second World War resulted in an increase in the number of inhabitants to 813 in 1950, before the emigration to the cities led to a decline again. By 1961 there were only 608 inhabitants, and the number has not changed significantly since then.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landmark areas on the website of the municipality of Wabern , accessed in February 2016
  2. ^ "Inhabitants and households" on the website of the municipality of Wabern , accessed in August 2015
  3. ↑ Lever, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 15, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. ^ Julius Pistor:  Winckelmann, Johann Just . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 363 f.
  5. ^ Johann Just Winkelmann: Thorough and true description of the principalities of Hesse and Hersfeld. (Reprint of the edition by Brauer, Bremen, 1697, and by Jeremias Estienne, Kassel, 1754.) Verlag Börner, Meiningen 1995, ISBN 978-3-930675-03-6 . In addition: Franz Ludwig Cancrin: Description of the most excellent mines in Hesse, in the Waldekk, on the Haarz, in the Mansfeld, in Chursachsen, and in the Saalfeld. Frankfurt 1767.
  6. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 392 .
  7. ↑ Falkenberg with lever (Wabern municipality, Schwalm-Eder district) on alemannia-judaica.de