High air

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High air
City of Bad Hersfeld
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 37 ″  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 42 ″  E
Height : 192 m
Residents : 5013  (Dec. 30, 2004)
Postal code : 36251
Area code : 06621
High Air (Hesse)
High air

Location of Hohe Luft in Hesse

The Hohe Luft is a district of Bad Hersfeld that was created in the early 1950s at the lower end of the Petersberg . The name comes from "Hoher Laufweg", the name of a hallway .

geography

The district is located southeast of the city center and is only separated from it by the Fulda and Bundesstraße 62 . On the side of the district facing away from the city, the federal motorway 4 passes. Thus, the Hohe Luft is directly at the junction Bad Hersfeld (32) of this motorway and on the federal roads 27 and 62.

The built-up area is 192  m above sea level. NN on the motorway and rises to 260  m above sea level. NN on the slopes of the Wippershainer Höhe ( 456  m above sea level ).

Population development

year 1994 2002 2004
Residents 4,754 4,704 5.013

Infrastructure and history

The first known development in the area of ​​the district came from the 14th century, when a guard tower was built above the confluence of the Haune in the Fulda , near the strategically important stone bridges over these two rivers . The field name “An der Warth” was transferred to the street name in the 1930s when a Wehrmacht barracks was built here below the Petersberg . The growing textile industry provided the barracks with the first workers' houses. After the Second World War , the US Army took over the military site under the name McPheeters Barracks . The district did not emerge until the 1950s within the boundaries of the city of Bad Hersfeld, when additional living space was needed for refugees .

The American forces withdrew in 1993. Since then, parts of the barracks have housed the Bad Hersfeld customs office . Other houses of the former barracks are used for schools (e.g. for the adult education center ). The greater part has become an industrial area .

The district has two modern churches . The Protestant Church of the Resurrection was consecrated on November 4, 1956, the Catholic St. Bonifatius Church followed in the 1960s.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elmar Nolte et al. a .: Expert opinion on the conversion of the McPheeters Barracks , hrg. Hessische Heimstätte GmbH, Kassel 1994