Hombressen

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Hombressen
City of Hofgeismar
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 34 ″  N , 9 ° 27 ′ 19 ″  E
Height : 197 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 1647
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 34369
Area code : 05671
Church tower in Hombressen

Hombressen is a village in the Kassel district in northern Hesse ( Germany ). With 1,647 inhabitants (as of 2015) it is the largest village district of Hofgeismar .

Geographical location

Hombressen is located on the western edge of the Reinhardswald about 5 km (as the crow flies ) east of Hofgeismar and is traversed in an east-west direction by the Lempe , into which Giesbach, Soode and Reinbecke flow in the village downstream ; The original place has developed like a scissor along these streams. Beberbeck is to the north-northeast , Carlsdorf to the west , Udenhausen to the south-south- east and the community-free Reinhardswald estate to the east .

history

Hombressen is first mentioned in a document around 1200 as Humpretissen , on the "Königsstraße" from Kassel to Helmarshausen. The place arises from 1455 as a village of the Grebenstein district . The Protestant village church was rebuilt from 1718, the tower of the church was only completed in 1753.

On December 31, 1970 Hombressen was incorporated into the city of Hofgeismar.

Hombressen won the “Dollste Village 2017” in the 2017 HR competition.

Attractions

Sights in Hombressen include: a .:

  • Church that was built from 1718 to 1753.
  • Peace oak that was planted in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War.
  • Strufus cross in the Reinhardswald, which reminds of the legend of a poacher.
  • Bird park.

For the listed cultural monuments of the place see the list of cultural monuments in Hombressen .

Honorary citizen

literature

  • Friedrich Bleibaum (Ed.): District Hofgeismar (= Handbook of the Heimatbund for Kurhessen, Waldeck and Oberhessen , Vol. 3). Bernecker, Melsungen 1966, pp. 144 ff.
  • Hombressen - a village in the Reinhardswald . In: Alt-Hofgeismar - Pictures from a Past Time 1870–1925 , edited and explained by Helmut Burmeister and Klaus-Peter Lange, Hofgeismar 1979, p. 58 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hofgeismar → Facts and Figures → Inhabitants ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Main and secondary residences) , as of June 30, 2015, accessed on November 30, 2016, at hofgeismar.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hofgeismar.de
  2. ^ 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. 398 .
  3. ↑ hessenschau.de, Frankfurt, Germany: Video: Hombressen is the "Dollste Village 2017" | hessenschau.de | TV show. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 13, 2017 ; accessed on June 12, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hessenschau.de

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