Helsen

Helsen City of Bad Arolsen Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 26 ″ N , 9 ° 0 ′ 26 ″ E
Height :	276 m above sea level NN
Area :	13.98 km²
Residents :	1932 (December 16, 2015)
Population density :	138 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	November 1, 1970
Postal code :	34454
Area code :	05691

Helsen is the third largest district of Bad Arolsen in the north Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

geography

Helsen borders the city center Bad Arolsen in the south and lies about 45 kilometers west of Kassel at an altitude of 286 m above sea level. NHN. The Bicke flows between Helsen and Bad Arolsen . The federal highway 252 runs immediately west of the place.

The neighboring towns are: Bad Arolsen, Massenhausen , Schmillinghausen , Mengeringhausen and Wetterburg .

history

Early period until 1618

Presumably around the year 450 there were first settlements in the area of today's Helsen. "Heliso" was first mentioned in a document in 870 when a property was donated to the Corvey monastery . The noble Holthausen family had a manse in Helsen from the Corvey monastery in 1200 . The family had two crossed maces in their coat of arms, topped with a red rose. In 1234 Conrad von Holthausen sold real estate to the Aroldessen monastery . Later these goods went to Messrs. Rabe von Calenberg , who also took over the coat of arms. There is evidence of a second noble family from the year 1230, which had the addition of "von Helsen" and whose coat of arms showed a stag jumping up. The plague in 1348 claimed great victims among the population. The place fell in the course of the following 30 years through the sale of Johann von Helsen to the neighboring monastery Aroldessen.

From 1504 onwards, a new settlement with initially seven settlers from the Madfeld and Dillenburg area by the Antonites from Grünberg (Hessen) , who had taken over the Aroldessen monastery in 1492/93, led to a new upswing. Four years later the population had increased to 29 settlers. In the course of the Reformation, the Counts of Waldeck secularized the Aroldessen Monastery, and the place came back into the possession of the von Helsen. Along with the construction of a chapel , a pastor's office was set up, the owner of which also received the title of court preacher.

Middle Ages until 1885

With the Thirty Years' War , Helsen went into decline, from which it recovered only slowly. The Schützengesellschaft was founded at this time - it was first mentioned in 1626. Construction of the new Renaissance church began in 1653, and its completion was celebrated in 1687. The artistic glazing of the east window in the church was created after 1895 by the Marburg glass painting workshop KJ Schultz-Söhne.

Prince Georg Friedrich von Waldeck founded the Schützengesellschaft in 1681 and began the construction of the Charlottenthal Palace named after his wife, named after the wife of Friedrich Anton Ulrich von Waldeck from 1711 Louisenthal Palace , demolished in 1725, at the southwest end of the district. The passage of an imperial regiment fought militia units and members of the Shooting Society in 1720 with heavy losses from.

The construction of the Arolser Castle and the beginning of Arolsen’s urban development led to increased influx and full employment from 1720 onwards, but there was still no suitable environment for industrial settlements. Over the years, this increasingly led to emigration, especially of younger citizens, to Westphalia , the Rhineland , the Netherlands and North America . Nevertheless, between 1700 and 1861 the population rose from 354 to 1049.

Modern times until today

In 1885 the workers' sports club (later TUS Helsen) and in 1889 the Helsen volunteer fire brigade were founded ( fire protection was organized by the municipality up until then).

Modernism started on 1 May 1890, when the then Kaiser Wilhelm II. After the completion of the first section of the railway line Warburg Sarnau the station Arolsen with the first arrival of a railway train from Warburg officially opened. This railway line was shown around the district area of Helsen to the north and west of Arolsen in an arc, the train station so that Arolsen in the district was of Helsen. The year 1905 saw the takeover of the first Helser aqueduct, which had been privately owned shortly before, but built on a cooperative basis, by the municipality. The headwaters lay in the Katergrund and Wengekergrund . The water was particularly soft and therefore well suited for the steam locomotives of the time .

After the end of the Second World War , the population of Helsen rose to 2100 due to the admission of refugees and the town grew together structurally with the town of Arolsen, which at that time had not yet become a “bath”. The originally rural Helsen has since changed into a residential community.

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Helsen and the city of Arolsen merged on a voluntary basis on November 1, 1970. This made Helsen a district of Arolsen.

coat of arms

On June 29, 1970, the municipality of Helsen in what was then the district of Waldeck was given a coat of arms with the following blazon : In red, a stag's head turned to the right with twelve-ended antlers.

Culture and sights

Particularly worth seeing is the palm altar of the Helser church, which symbolizes the motto of the Waldecker Princely House: " Palma sub pondere crescit " (German: "The palm grows under the load"). The Helser Church was the court church of the Princely House until the middle of the 18th century.

Regular events

The most important event in Helsen is the free shooting (formerly: Schützenfest) held every four years , which last took place at Whitsun 2018. Other important festivals are the annual bridge festival as well as themed festivals in the Helser Heimatstube on old professions from the Helser area.

Sports and clubs

In addition to the Helsen sports club, the TUS Helsen, there is also the Helsen shooting club and the Helsen volunteer fire department.

economy

Heinrich Wilke founded HEWI in Helsen in 1929 - the company's administration is still based in Helsen, while production was outsourced to the Mengeringhausen district.

Personalities

Today the most famous son of the village is the surgeon August Bier (born November 24, 1861 in Helsen; † March 12, 1949 in Sauen ), who was also a senior naval surgeon in the military. For several years now, his place of birth has been awarding the Prof. Beer Plaque to people who have made a name for themselves in Helsen.

Franz Johannes Wilhelm Weskamm (born May 13, 1891 in Helsen; † August 21, 1956 in Berlin ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Berlin from 1951 to 1956 .

The Mecklenburg-Strelitz court architect and sculptor Christian Philipp Wolff was born in Helsen (* July 17, 1772; † August 27, 1820 in Berlin). Like Christian Daniel Rauch , Wolff had learned the profession of sculptor from the Waldeck court sculptor Friedrich Valentin in Helsen . He became famous because he removed the death mask of the Prussian Queen Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz in Hohenzieritz . He also made the first busts of the dead and the Temple of Louis in the palace garden there. He is the father of the sculptor Prof. Albert Wolff . (Cf. Konrad Hustaedt, Christian Philipp Wolff. Das Carolinum 26.31, 1960, 41–45.)

Trumpeter Walter Scholz (born April 15, 1938) was also born in Helsen .

literature

Robert Wetekam : Helsen in Waldeck and his families. 1652–1966, including the Arolsen clans 1652–1751. Arolsen: Waldeckischer Geschichtsverein 1968 (= Waldeckische Ortssippenbücher 11)
Literature about Helsen in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Helsen district. In: Internet presence of the city of Bad Arolsen.
Helsen, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Bad Arolsen. The versatile spa at Twistesee introduces itself. (PDF; 308 kB) In: Press kit. Stadt Bad Arolsen, p. 11 , archived from the original on October 19, 2016 ; accessed in October 2018 .
↑ Götz J. Pfeiffer: "linked to the last offshoots of the old tradition". The Marburg glass painting workshop KJ Schultz since 1850 . In: Hessian homeland . 68th volume, issue 1, p. 10-16 .
↑ Louisenthal Castle, Bad Arolsen community. Castles, palaces, mansions (as of October 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on August 13, 2020 .
↑ Merger of the city of Arolson and the municipality of Helsen in the Waldeck district to form the city of "Arolsen" on December 10, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 52 , p. 2447 , point 2465 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.8 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. 407 .
↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Helsen, Waldeck district from June 29, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 28 , p. 1406 , point 1358 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.7 MB ]).

[DF-1] Bad Arolsen. The versatile spa at Twistesee introduces itself. (PDF; 308 kB) In: Press kit. Stadt Bad Arolsen, p. 11 , archived from the original on October 19, 2016 ; accessed in October 2018 .

[2] Götz J. Pfeiffer: "linked to the last offshoots of the old tradition". The Marburg glass painting workshop KJ Schultz since 1850 . In: Hessian homeland . 68th volume, issue 1, p. 10-16 .

[3] Louisenthal Castle, Bad Arolsen community. Castles, palaces, mansions (as of October 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on August 13, 2020 .

[4] Merger of the city of Arolson and the municipality of Helsen in the Waldeck district to form the city of "Arolsen" on December 10, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 52 , p. 2447 , point 2465 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.8 MB ]).

[5] 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. 407 .

[6] Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Helsen, Waldeck district from June 29, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 28 , p. 1406 , point 1358 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.7 MB ]).