Hoof (Schauenburg)

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Hoof
Community Schauenburg
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 20 ′ 28 ″  E
Height : 359 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.65 km²
Residents : 2935  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density : 304 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 34270
Area code : 05601
Hoof; in the foreground the federal highway 44.
Hoof; in the foreground the federal highway 44.

Hoof is a district of the community of Schauenburg in the northern Hessian district of Kassel and the seat of the community administration.

geography

Hoof is located about 11 km southwest of Kassel in the Hoofer Pforte named after the place , a valley depression running with the Bauna in a south-easterly direction between the Hohen Habichtswald (up to 614.7  m above sea level ) in the north and the Langenberg (up to 557  m above sea  level ) ) in the south. It is centrally located in the community of Schauenburg between the places Breitenbach in the west and Elgershausen in the east and spreads out at the confluence of the Vorderen and Hinteren Bauna towards the Bauna .

The topography of Hoof has a steep slope with about 100 m height difference in the built-up area (310 to 410 m). About 90 m above or west of Hoof are the remnants of the Schauenburg on the 500 m high Schauenburg Castle Hill .

In addition, sections of the Baunapfad and the Hercules Trail lead through Hoof.

history

The village was first mentioned in 1315/18 as "daz nuwe hus", when the Lords of Dalwigk and von Löwenstein got into a dispute with the Landgrave of Hesse about its construction . Historical forms of the name of the village developing around this castle seat were "im Hobe" (1366) and "der Hoff" (1585 and 1747).

Gravestone of the last of Dalwigk zu Schauenburg on Wolwerskopf

The place name refers to this first settlement core of the village, the castle seat built by Kurmainz to branches of the knight families Dalwigk and Löwenstein. The Dalwigk received the castle and the court belonging to it from Kurmainz to Erbburglehen in 1332 . In 1459 the Dalwigk gave the villages of the court to the landgrave as a fief. The mansion that gave it its name has been preserved to this day in a modified form and is still used for agriculture, while the Schauenburg on the castle hill can only be seen in rudiments.

The armed conflicts between the Hessian landgraves and the Archbishops of Mainz led at times to a division of the village into a north-west Mainz part and a Hessian part further east.

Until the Reformation , Hoof was under the Fritzlar deanery , from 1872 it belonged to the Protestant Wilhelmshöhe class.

During the time of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia (1807-1813), Hoof was the administrative seat of the canton of Hoof .

The population used to live from wage labor on the large farms, barren own agriculture or work underground ( Zeche Marie , Roter Stollen in Habichtswald). Today, numerous commuters live in Hoof who work in the Volkswagen factory in Baunatal or in Kassel.

Hoofer manatee

In 1978, the discovery of an approximately 30 million year old vertebrate skeleton from the Tertiary ( palaeogene ) on a garden plot near Hoof directly next to the Kassel – Naumburg railway line caused a sensation.

This fossil , the Hoofer manatee , was on display for a short time in the town in the Schauenburghalle. It can now be seen in the Ottoneum Natural History Museum in Kassel .

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse on December 31, 1971, the municipality of Hoof was formed from the districts of Hoof, Martinhagen , Breitenbach and Elmshagen . On August 1, 1972, the municipalities of Elgershausen and Hoof were merged to form the new large municipality of Schauenburg . Districts were formed for all former communities.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Hoof was located or the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

population

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1585: 54 households
• 1747: 79 households (city and village registers of the Upper and Lower Duchy of Hesse)
Hoof: Population from 1834 to 1970
year     Residents
1834
  
 844
1840
  
 947
1846
  
 989
1852
  
 1,050
1858
  
 1,022
1864
  
 1,049
1871
  
 1.006
1875
  
 1,076
1885
  
 1,208
1895
  
 1,257
1905
  
 1,440
1910
  
 1,428
1925
  
 1,504
1939
  
 1,748
1946
  
 2,282
1950
  
 2,259
1956
  
 2,050
1961
  
 2.142
1967
  
 2,904
1970
  
 2,942
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 1020 Protestant, no Catholic and 161 Jewish residents
• 1961: 1958 Protestant, 152 Roman Catholic residents

Culture and sights

View from Wolwerskopf to the church
  • The old town center with its Hessian half-timbered houses , which only impresses with its special quality in individual cases, is located in the upper third of the slope mainly north of the main street (Korbacher Straße).
  • Noteworthy architectural monuments are the Dalwigksche Gutshaus, which is located directly on the main road, as well as the actual estate, which was bought in 1863 by Heinrich Robert Heydenreich, who died in a hunting accident the next year and has been owned by the von Kiekebusch family since 1901 . The important painter Christian Rohlfs (1849 to 1938) spent a few months as a guest in the manor house in 1886, where he painted some portraits of the family and views of the manor house.
  • Like the former church, probably from the 12th century, today's neo-Gothic church is visibly enthroned on a ledge above the village.

Economy and Infrastructure

Schauenburg-Hoof train station
  • With the exception of one large sawmill, there are no large commercial enterprises worth mentioning. Due to a construction plan that was generally viewed as somewhat unfortunate, larger shops are now only halfway to the lower-lying district of Elgershausen.

education

  • The “Regenbogen” kindergarten in Hoof consists of four groups.
  • There is a primary school for the local children in the village .

traffic

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Hoof  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Hoof, Kassel district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Geodata Center: Hoof , accessed June 2016.
  3. ^ Georg Landau: Description of the Hessengau , 2nd edition, Barthel, Halle, 1866, p. 63
  4. ↑ Habichtswald Nature Park Center
  5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Hofgeismar, Kassel and Wolfhagen (GVBl. II 330-17) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 225 , § 4 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ * April 13, 1838 on the manor Oberweimar in Thuringia , † January 19, 1864 due to a hunting accident in Hoof.