Holzhausen (Immenhausen)

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Holzhausen
City of Immenhausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 10 ″  N , 9 ° 32 ′ 15 ″  E
Height : 281  (270-320)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.9 km²
Residents : 1806  (April 15, 2015)
Population density : 262 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1970
Postal code : 34376
Area code : 05673
Evangelical Church of St. Johannis

Holzhausen is the eastern part of Immenhausen in the northern Hessian district of Kassel ( Germany ).

In the village , the district area extends to 6.90 sq km, has about 1,800 inhabitants .

geography

Geographical location

Holzhausen is about 11.5 km (as the crow flies ) north-northeast of the city of Kassel and 4 km east-southeast of the core city of Immenhausen on the southwest edge of the Reinhardswald . In the forest rise north of the village, which is about 270 to 320  m above sea level. NN is the Junkernkopf (approx.  453  m above sea level ) and northeast of the Gahrenberg ( 472.1  m above sea level ).

The center of Holzhausen is traversed by the Krummbach in a north-south direction, which flows a little south-south-east of the village into the Osterbach (left Fulda tributary), which passes the village a few hundred meters east in the same direction . The Thomasteich, which is irrigated and drained via a canal from the Krummbach, extends north of the town center or west of the northern part of Holzhausen, and not far to the west is the “Pfingstgemeinde pond system”.

Near the northeast of the wooden houses village are the football pitch of the village and two tennis courts and in direct north vicinity thereof are civil and firehouse . To the north of the village, in the southern foothills of the Reinhardswald, there is a Federal Border Police (BGS) shooting range, and to the northwest, the “Glück-Auf” leisure facility also extends into the Reinhardswald.

Transport links

Holzhausen is connected to the western core town of Immenhausen via the Landesstraße (L) 3233 , via the L 3239 to the southeastern Wilhelmshausen (part of the municipality of Fuldatal ) and to the north via the L 3232 , on which you can, for example, to Veckerhagen (part of the municipality of Reinhardshagen ), Gottsbüren (district of Trendelburg ) and Sababurg , with the Reinhardswald and southwards via the last-mentioned street with Rothwesten and Simmershausen (both to Fuldatal); From there you can drive in the same direction on the B 3 to Ihringshausen (to Fuldatal) and Kassel . There is also a connection to Hohenkirchen (part of the municipality of Espenau ) and south to Knickhagen (to Fuldatal) via the county road (K) 40 in the west .

A section of the road of the Weser Renaissance leads through the village of Holzhausen and not far past the village is one of the German Fairy Tale Road ("Sleeping Beauty Route"); both streets cross in the Reinhardswald.

history

The name Holzhausen was first mentioned in a document in 1020 as an oppidum "Holthusun". In 1073 the manor belonging to the village, now called "Amthof", was first mentioned. At that time it was in the possession of Count Otto von Northeim , who in turn gave it away to the newly built Hasungen Monastery . Since Holzhausen was still a fiefdom of the monastery from Wedekind von Falkenberg in the 17th century , it must have been handed over in earlier years, but an exact date has not been recorded. When another Wedekind von Falkenberg, guardian of the Hessian lieutenant colonel Christian de Wrede, died in 1627 and still owed him over 2000 thalers, the Wedekind's heirs agreed to transfer the Holzhausen estate to Christian de Wrede on October 5, 1638. It remained in his possession until 1675 before it passed to the Braunschweig Lieutenant Colonel Hans Meier. In the years 1370, 1469 and 1560 the village was struck by several war fires and in 1428 the small single-nave village church “St. Johannis ”mentioned for the first time; because it has Romanesque origins, it probably already existed at the time the village was first mentioned. In the Thirty Years' War (1618 to 1648) Holzhausen was attacked in both 1626 and 1637 and devastated considerably.

The brown coal mining , the 1611 to 1970 in the area of Holzhausen (z. B. the Gahrenberg ) was operated, was the main source of income of the inhabitants. On August 21, 1821, the Hofgeismar district was formed, to which from then on Holzhausen belonged. From 1926, when the wooden houses elementary school was built, a new settlement area arose north of the town center, which was expanded between 1950 and 1965, and after 1945 another residential area south of the town center.

On December 1, 1970 , as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the town of Immenhausen and the previously independent communities of Holzhausen and Mariendorf merged to form the expanded town of Immenhausen. This made Holzhausen a district of Immenhausen. On August 1, 1972, the Hofgeismar district, to which the village belonged, became part of the Kassel district . From 1990 onwards, numerous road construction and design measures were carried out in Holzhausens.

language

The dialect of Holzhausen was extensively studied linguistically by Hermann Soost in 1920 and Stefan Arend in 1990. The dialect of Holzhausen is still one of the Central German dialects, in the neighboring villages Wilhelmshausen and Immenhausen Low German is (was) already spoken. Holzhausen is the northernmost Hessian-speaking place. The Holzhäuser Heckethaler competition for young talent has been held in Holzhausen since 2001 .

Monuments

For the cultural monuments of the place under monument protection see the list of cultural monuments in Holzhausen .

Personalities

  • Volker Sommer (* 1954), anthropologist and professor for evolutionary anthropology at University College London (UCL)

Honorary citizen

literature

  • Heinrich Reimer: Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen. P. 246.
  • Between Gahrenberg and Sudholz. An anthology on the history of Holzhausen am Reinhardswald. Compiled and edited by Stefan Arend. Immenhausen 1988 (Working Group for Local History of the City of Immenhausen 11).
  • Stefan Arend : The phonetic system of the dialect of Holzhausen am Reinhardswald - a phonetic-phonological study to research the grammatical structure of the Lower Hessian dialects. Phil. Diss. Marburg 1990. As a book publication: Studies to research the Lower Hessian and the sound structure of the dialect of Holzhausen am Reinhardswald. Marburg 1991 (German Dialect Geography, Volume 91).
  • Stefan Arend: At the language border: the dialect of Holzhausen. In: Jahrbuch Landkreis Kassel 1999. Kassel 1999, pp. 106-108.
  • Werner Wiegand and Stefan Arend: Soldiers from Immenhausen, Holzhausen and Mariendorf in the American War of Independence 1776–1784. Immenhausen 1986 (Working Group for Local History of the City of Immenhausen 1). 2nd edition 1989.

Web links

Commons : Holzhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b City of Immenhausen : General information , accessed in February 2016.
  2. Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  3. ^ Wilhelm Lotze: History of the city of Münden and the surrounding area . Self-published, Hann. Münden 1878, p. 343 .
  4. Merger of the city of Immenhausen and the communities of Holzhausen and Mariendorf in the Hofgeismar district to form the new city of "Immenhausen" on November 30, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 50 , p. 2339 , item 2338 ( 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. 398 .