Holzhausen (Homberg)

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Holzhausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 34 ″  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 30 ″  E
Height : 192–211 m above sea level NN
Area : 5.88 km²
Residents : 731
Population density : 124 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st February 1971
Postal code : 34576
Area code : 05681

Holzhausen is a district of Homberg (Efze) in the north Hessian Schwalm-Eder district .

Geographical location

The place is located in northern Hesse about 1.5 km southeast of the old town of Homberg, but has long grown together with the core city. The place is located on the northern foothills of the Knüllgebirge . The Efze flows through the village . The federal highway 323 runs past Holzhausen in the northeast. In the south on the edge of the village is the site of a former ironworks .

history

Holzhausen was first mentioned in a document around 800, when the monasteries Fulda and Hersfeld had property in the village. Up until modern times, a large number of secular and spiritual lords in the village had property and income rights. These included the monasteries and monasteries of Fulda, Hersfeld, Spieskappel , Fritzlar , Homberg and Eppenberg , the lords of Holzheim , Falkenberg , Löwenstein-Westerburg , Wildungen , Felsberg , Bischofferode , Baumbach , Elben and others. a., as well as the Landgraves of Hesse and Hesse-Kassel and various ministers of the same.

A local pastor ( pleban ) is mentioned for the first time in 1244. The Catholic priest Hermann Ciriacus became the first Protestant pastor in Holzhausen after Landgrave Philipp introduced the Reformation in Hesse in 1526; he preached until 1557. From 1890 to 1892 the neo-Gothic church was built.

The village, like all of Northern Hesse, suffered considerable damage in the Thirty Years' War , which was also reflected in the development of the population. In the years 1575 and 1585 there were 30 house seats in the village and 20 "teams" before the Thirty Years' War, but by 1639 there were only 9 married and 4 widowed house seats. In the 18th century, the population began to increase rapidly, which was largely due to the settlement of the iron industry: in 1747 there were already 46 houses. After that, things continued to improve. From 348 inhabitants in 1748 the number rose to 652 in 1834 and to 800 in 1925. After the Second World War, the population peaked at 1,136 in 1950 due to the influx of displaced persons, but then fell again due to gradual emigration. By 1961 there were only 941 inhabitants, and when around 180 jobs disappeared with the closure of the ironworks in 1967, this also led to a sharp decline in the village population.

On February 1, 1971, Holzhausen was incorporated as part of the regional reform in Hesse as a district of the city of Homberg, Kassel district, today Homberg (Efze) .

The ironworks

The village was dominated by agriculture well into the 18th century, but the smelting of brown iron ore mined near Mardorf in Holzhausen has been proven as early as the 17th century , and in 1737 the iron foundry was relocated from Mardorf to Holzhausen. The stove plates from Holzhausen are best known, some of which can be seen today in the Homberg local history museum . In 1873, the Warsteiner Mine and Huts Association, which was founded in that year, took over the iron foundry, but stopped the charcoal- powered blast furnace in Holzhausen as early as 1881 due to inefficiency. The ironworks employed around 160 people up to the First World War , but did not get out of economic difficulties after the war. In the last years of the Second World War , aircraft engines from the Kassel Henschel works were assembled on the factory premises . After the Second World War, operations were resumed in 1946/47; Enamelled bathtubs , coal stoves, sewer castings and drinking bowls were now manufactured . At the beginning of the 1960s, a total of around 250 people were employed in the foundry, the enamelling factory, the workshops and the assembly plant, but Warsteiner Eisenwerke AG ceased operations as early as 1967 and gave notice to the 180 remaining employees in Holzhausen. The site is now owned by a company that manufactures fittings there. The buildings of the old ironworks were demolished in the mid-1990s to make way for a new assembly hall.

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  1. ↑ a b Holzhausen. In: website. City of Homberg (Efze), accessed May 2019 .
  2. ^ Municipal reform: mergers and integration of municipalities from January 20, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 6 , p. 248 , item 328, paragraph 55 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.2 MB ]).
  3. ^ 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. 391 .
  4. ^ The stock corporation Warsteiner Gruben- und Hüttenverein was founded in 1873 and renamed in 1885 to Aktiengesellschaft Warsteiner Gruben- und Hüttenwerke. In 1925 the Herzogliche Eisen- und Emaillierwerke AG in Primkenau near Glogau in Lower Silesia was taken over and, at the same time, the name was changed to Warsteiner and Herzoglich Schleswig-Holsteinische Eisenwerk AG. After the Silesian operations were lost as a result of World War II, the company was renamed Warsteiner Eisenwerke AG again in 1948 . Due to financial difficulties, the company had to cease operations in 1967 and apply for a settlement ; it was liquidated in 1969 .
  5. ^ The ironworks in Holzhausen, near Homberg (Efze) - an internet picture book