Hundsdorf (Bad Wildungen)

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Hundsdorf
City of Bad Wildungen
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 55 ″  N , 9 ° 2 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 455 m above sea level NN
Residents : 273  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Incorporation : July 1, 1971
Postal code : 34537
Area code : 05621

Hundsdorf is a district of the city of Bad Wildungen in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg . The village is dominated by agriculture and many farms are still used today.

Geographical location

Hundsdorf is located on federal highway 253 in the central part of the Kellerwald and the Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park in Northern Hesse . The Urff , which rises about 2 km to the west, flows through the village, which is surrounded by forests . The Wilde , which gives Bad Wildungen its name and is still called Wölfte in its upper reaches, rises near the village and flows north of Hundsdorf. Immediately to the east of the village rises the 523 m high Silberberg .

history

Theories that Hundsdorf only emerged in the 16th century and that the name Hundsdorf comes from the lorries - dogs - used in mining are incorrect. The place is mentioned in writing for the first time in a document from the Haina monastery from the period from 1197 to 1200, in which the local nobleman Bertram von Hundesdorp appears as a witness in an arbitration hearing. In the years 1250 and 1267, other members of this family, who also had allodial property in Dodenhausen , are mentioned in the Haina Monastery register of properties: in 1250 they are Heinrich von Hundesdorf, Reinfried von Hundesdorph's son Heinrich and Hartmann von Hundsdorf. In 1267 it was Heinrich von Hundesdorf and his brother Ditmar. The poor condition of the Haina monastery archive, which was lamented as early as 1269, and its later dispersal explain the current lack of documentary evidence of the history of the village up to the 16th century. The name Hundsdorf was last found in Haina documents on January 21, 1269. The economic basis of the settlement was agriculture, but especially forest and timber .

The documentary tradition does not resume until the 16th century. In 1535 the church is named as a branch church of the parish Heddingen ( Hüddingen ), first documented in 1209 . As in the nearby, newly founded Berg Freiheit , copper mining was also carried out at Hundsdorf ; Some silver as well as fool's gold and white-veined red jasper , the famous cellar forest agate , were found and mined. In 1565, Count Samuel von Waldeck -Wildungen pledged the “tenth copper” from the “An der Lamper” mine and in 1569 the interest from the “Johannesgeschoß” in Hundsdorf. A smelter , mentioned for the first time in 1592, was set up to process the ore extracted . In the extensive forests in the area, wood was felled and processed for mining. In many charcoal kilns was charcoal made, probably in the ironworks in neighboring Armsfeld was used.

When, during the Second World War, due to the shortage of fuel, the motor drive by means of wood gasification became necessary, the production of the necessary charcoal was resumed in Hundsdorf. On the road to Bad Wildungen, charcoal was produced in three brick piles with a height of around 2 m and a diameter of 6 m. As the demand for charcoal for the automotive drive in the late 1940s to tilt left, which was charcoal set, and the buildings were demolished in the 1950s. Today the remains of two kilns can still be seen at the site. On the occasion of the 3rd Hessian State Horticultural Show held in Bad Wildungen in 2006 , a replica of a coal pile was built in the center of the village, directly on federal road 253 , to draw attention to the long forestry and charcoal burner tradition of the place; it opened on May 21, 2006.

The Hundsdorfer Mühle (Hetscholds-Mühle) south of the village on the Urff burned down in 1786 and was later rebuilt further south in the direction of Armsfeld.

The affiliation of the place to the county or (from 1712) to the principality of Waldeck was u. a. underlined by the stately hunter's house mentioned in 1660. The forest and game- rich surroundings brought the Counts of Waldeck and their guests here repeatedly. For this reason , Prince Friedrich Anton Ulrich von Waldeck-Pyrmont had a small hunting lodge , the Jägersburg , built between Hundsdorf and Odershausen in 1718 . After gradual deterioration, it was sold by Prince Georg Viktor for demolition in 1857 , which was completed in 1862.

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent municipality of Hundsdorf was integrated into the city of Bad Wildungen on July 1, 1971 on a voluntary basis as a district .

Population development

  • 1738: 21 houses
  • 1770: 177 inhabitants
  • 1846: 298
  • 1933: 280
  • 1939: 268
  • 1946: 331
  • 1961: 294
  • 1970: 320
  • 1990: 337
  • 2000: 327
  • 2010: 307

Culture and sights

church

The church in Hundsdorf

The current church was built in the years 1900–1902 in neo-Gothic style. The previous one was built in 1585 "on the Rain" between the street "Zum Krautgarten" and the Armsfelder Straße. It was made of wood, with a wooden tower. Towards the end of the 18th century it was described as "old and small", later described as dilapidated and demolished at the end of the 19th century. The big bell was confiscated and melted down during World War II and could only be replaced in 1952, so that two steel bells have been hanging in the tower since then. In 1966 the church was renovated, with a false ceiling installed for better heating, a wooden floor laid in the rows of seats and two electric ovens installed. The old organ in need of repair was replaced by a harmonium . In 1973 an electric bell system was installed. In the 1980s, two paintings of the apostles Peter and Paul were created in the interior. Another renovation took place in 1997–1999. Parts of the roof and the outer walls have been renewed, throats and sandstone cornice provided with a copper cladding, the intermediate cover 1966 is removed, the infected by putrefactive arched ceiling in the chancel renewed, incorporating a seat heater and the cleaning of the inner walls renovated and painted. In 2002 the entrance area was redesigned to be handicapped accessible .

school

The school was built in 1837, replacing the old school building "Auf dem Rain", built in 1748/49, and remaining in use as a school until 1969. In 1924 a district advanced training school was set up in the school building. From 1967, only the primary school in the village was continued, and in 1969, teaching was completely discontinued. The school building was later sold.

In 1980 the village community center was built on the property next to the former school building . In its basement there is accommodation for the fire brigade .

societies

  • The oldest club in town is the men's choir "MGV Hundsdorf", founded in 1880 .
  • The "Freiwillige Feuerwehr Hundsdorf" was officially founded in 1935.
  • Two associations deal with the annual organization of the fair and the Oktoberfest, the "Kirmesburschen Hundsdorf" founded in 1997 and the "Kirmesfreunde Hundsdorf" founded in 2001.
  • The sports club "SV Hundsdorf" offers gymnastics for young and old, a Sunday running meeting for beginners and advanced with jogging and Nordic walking , a climbing group that carries out an annual climbing tour in the high mountains and also maintains a climbing wall , and a line founded in 2008 Dance group. The once active soccer department no longer has any teams in competition.
  • In the "Walddörfer Reit- und Fahrverein" (forest villages riding and driving association) riders and horse lovers from Hundsdorf and the surrounding area are organized. A fox hunt takes place every year in October .

Web links

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

References and comments

  1. ↑ City of Bad Wildungen in figures , accessed on February 8, 2019
  2. ↑ It is doubtful whether the "Hundisburg" mentioned in 1360 and 1390 can be associated with Hundsdorf. This is probably the Hundsburg, about 12 km further east .
  3. ↑ Not until 1851 is there a systematic local history that is kept locally. In that year the village teacher at that time created a so-called main book (chronicle) for the Hundsdorf school. In 1882, at the behest of the royal Prussian provincial school college in Kassel, the school and community chronicles were created, which the respective teachers continued until the school closed in 1969.
  4. ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 28 , p. 1117 , item 988; Para. 20. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 5.0 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. 408 .