Helsa

Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	kassel
County :	kassel
Height :	427 m above sea level NHN
Area :	25.77 km 2
Residents:	5674 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	220 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	34298
Primaries :	05602, 05604, 05605
License plate :	KS, HOG, WOH
Community key :	06 6 33 012
LOCODE :	DE HLA
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Berliner Strasse 20 ; 34298 Helsa
Website :	www.gemeinde-helsa.de
Mayor :	Tilo Küthe ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Helsa in the Kassel district

Helsa is a municipality in the northern Hessian district of Kassel .

geography

location

The center of Helsa is about 15 km (as the crow flies ) southeast of Kassel's city center in the Frau-Holle-Land geo-nature park (Werra Valley, Meissner, Kaufunger Wald) . Nestled between the up to 643.4 m above sea level. NN high mountains of Kaufunger Wald in the east and Söhre in the west, it is located at the confluence of the Wedemann brook in the Losse .

Neighboring communities

Helsa borders in the north on the community-free area of the Kaufunger Wald estate , in the east on the town of Großalmerode , in the south on the town of Hessisch Lichtenau (all three in the Werra-Meißner district ) and in the west on the communities of Söhrewald and Kaufungen (both in the Kassel district ).

structure

The municipality of Helsa consists of the districts of Eschenstruth (together with the Waldhof settlement), Helsa, St. Ottilien and Wickenrode .

history

The core town of Helsa was probably created when the Kaufungen Monastery was founded in 1017 by Empress Kunigunde . In 1058 "Helsen" was first mentioned in a document. A pastor was mentioned for the first time in 1432. Landgrave Karl settled 55 Huguenots in his own colony in 1699. Close relationships were established with the Kaufungen monastery at the time, as the monastery had the lower jurisdiction in the place and appointed the community leaders (the so-called collegiate graves).

Church building

On December 1, 1970 , as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the communities of Helsa and Wickenrode voluntarily merged to form the community of Helsa-Wickenrode . With the merger, Wickenrode moved from the district of Witzenhausen to the district of Kassel . This was August 1, 1972 Eschenstruth and St. Ottilien powerful state law to church today Helsa together .

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 25 seats SPD : 13 GLH : 3 CDU : 9	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	53.0	13	55.3	14th	56.3	17th	62.9	20th
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	34.0	9	29.0	7th	34.0	11	30.4	9
	GLH	Green list Helsa	13.0	3	15.7	4th	9.6	3	6.7	2
	total		100.0	25th	100.0	25th	100.0	31	100.0	31
	Voter turnout in%		48.9		45.8		44.9		51.3

Partnerships

The municipality of Helsa maintains partnership relationships with

Krimpen aan de Lek , Netherlands
Trèbes , France

coat of arms

Blazon : In front of a blue flank, in it a silver ash tree at the gap, in red above a silver glass sign a silver bell, topped with a blue cock. Each part of the municipality is represented by a symbol. The ash stands for Eschenstruth; the church bell represents Helsa, based on a dispute over it in the 17th century ; the Gallic rooster is the symbol of the Huguenot settlers who settled in St. Ottilien; the glassmaker's mark is the symbol of the glassmaker from Wickenrode.

Attractions

Evangelical town church
Losse in Helsa
Historic mill wheel in Helsa
Fountain in Leipziger Strasse
Berlin street

Sights include the Nikolaikirche with its old fortified tower and some half-timbered houses in the center of the Helsa district, some of which date from the 17th century.

The excursion destinations near Helsa include the Michelskopfseen on the Michelskopf and the Bielstein Church on the Bielstein , which are each a few kilometers west of the community in the Stiftswald Kaufungen and in the geo-nature park Frau-Holle-Land .

In the old town center of Helsa there is a former grain mill (called Mittelmühle or Probstsche Mühle), which was restored and rebuilt in 1988 and is now used as an electricity-generating water-powered power plant.

Since June 24th 2010 there is a "Music, Radio and Cinema Museum" in the district of Eschenstruth . A cross-section through a century of technology history is presented on 200 m², divided into three subject areas: mechanical musical instruments (e.g. music boxes, barrel organs, orchestrions), audio furniture from the 1950s to 1970s and 100 years of Kassel's cinema history. Guided tours are possible all year round by appointment.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

In Helsa the company Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Esterer GmbH & Co. Fahrzeugaufbauten und Anlagen KG , a nationwide leading manufacturer of road tankers and the world's leading manufacturer of vehicles for airfield refueling.

traffic

The federal highway 7 runs in a north-south direction through the municipality, and in the core town Helsa the federal highway 451 branches off from the B 7 to the east.

The bus line 210 commutes every 60 minutes between Helsa train station and Witzenhausen-Carmshausen train station during rush hour .

The Lossetalbahn from Kassel to Hessisch Lichtenau stops at Helsa train station and in Helsa-Eschenstruth. From there you can take line 4 to downtown Kassel or continue towards Hessisch Lichtenau.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Johann Adam Vogt (born February 14, 1773 in Kassel ; † May 14, 1845 in Helsa), Grebe (mayor, mayor) in Helsa. Author of a Helsa chronicle from 1701 - 1845 and of diaries (almanacs).
Carl Rohde (born June 28, 1806 in Helsa; † March 15, 1873 in Kassel) painter and lithographer
Wilhelm Keil (born July 24, 1870 † April 5, 1968 in Ludwigsburg), politician ( SPD ), MdR , MdL ( Württemberg , Württemberg-Hohenzollern ), Württembergischer labor and Food Minister
Karl Ziegler (born November 26, 1898 - † August 11, 1973 in Mülheim an der Ruhr), chemist, Nobel Prize winner (1963)

Personalities who have worked in Helsa

Johann Lewalter (1862–1935), collector of folk songs and local writer, promoter of tourism
Eve Rotthoff (* 1939), member of the Hessian state parliament (CDU)

Web links

Commons : Helsa - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Helsa - travel guide

Wikivoyage: Helsa industrial and cultural history eco path - travel guide

Website of the Helsa municipality
Helsa, district of Kassel. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Link catalog on Helsa at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
↑ 1353 the place name also appeared as "Helse" ( Helsa, district of Kassel. Historical local lexicon for Hesse. (Status: July 29, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).)
↑ Eberhard Michael Iba: In the footsteps of the Brothers Grimm from Hanau to Bremen. Fairy tales, sagas, stories . Pustet, Regensburg 1978, ISBN 3-7917-0536-9 , pp. 111 .
↑ Merger of the communities Helsa in the district of Kassel and Wickenrode in the district of Witzenhausen to form the new community "Helsa-Wickenrode" in the district of Kassel on November 13, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 48 , p. 2254 , point 2251 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5,6 MB ]).
↑ 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 , § 2 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 401 .
^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .

^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011

^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-HE-1] Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).

[2] 1353 the place name also appeared as "Helse" ( Helsa, district of Kassel. Historical local lexicon for Hesse. (Status: July 29, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).)

[3] Eberhard Michael Iba: In the footsteps of the Brothers Grimm from Hanau to Bremen. Fairy tales, sagas, stories . Pustet, Regensburg 1978, ISBN 3-7917-0536-9 , pp. 111 .

[4] Merger of the communities Helsa in the district of Kassel and Wickenrode in the district of Witzenhausen to form the new community "Helsa-Wickenrode" in the district of Kassel on November 13, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 48 , p. 2254 , point 2251 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5,6 MB ]).

[5] 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 , § 2 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).

[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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 401 .

[7] Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .

[8] Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011

[9] Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006