Königshagen

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Königshagen
municipality Edertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 32 "  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 51"  E
Height : 312  (298–327)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.38 km²
Residents : 204  (December 15, 2015)
Population density : 32 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 34549
Area code : 05623
View of Königshagen
View of Königshagen

Königshagen is a district of the municipality of Edertal in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in northern Hesse . The village has about 200 inhabitants and is located at an altitude of about 300 m in the valley of the 6.5 km long Mölcherbach , which flows into the Eder near Bergheim .

history

"Kuningeshagen" is mentioned for the first time in 1209 in a property register of the Fritzlarer Petersstift : the collegiate school owned two fiefdoms in Königshagen.

There is an indication of a local noble family from 1295, when a document from the Hardehausen Monastery mentions a mill on the Elbe (beyond the Long Forest ) that belonged to the Lady of Cunyngeshagen. In a list of mayors of Niederwildungen Dietrich von Kunigeshain (1311) and Theodericus de Kunigeshain (1322) are mentioned, and in 1418 a certain Arnd von Konigishan in Mehlen is mentioned again. The noble court should have stood on the northern edge of today's village; Both the field name “Auf den Höfe” and the medieval ceramic shards found year after year while plowing in the fields there, which date from 1250 to the 15th century, indicate this. The former tithe barn "bey den Höfe", which was still listed in a tax list in 1851, should, however, be assigned to the Counts of Waldeck and Bergheim.

The village belonged to the county or the principality of Waldeck until 1919 . When Waldeck was divided in 1486, Königshagen and the neighboring Böhne came to the Eisenberg region, while Bergheim fell into the Wildung region. From 1692 the village, together with Bergheim and Wellen , was part of the Paragium Waldeck-Bergheim , newly created by Count Christian Ludwig for his son from his second marriage, Josias (1696–1763). Prince of Waldeck-Pyrmont was ruled under the suzerainty of the ruling line of the house.

Before the Reformation introduced in Waldeck in 1526 , Königshagen belonged to the Bergheim parish. After that, the village had its own parish until 1636, but due to insufficient income in the small and relatively poor village, it was then merged with the parish in Böhne, which was then also the seat of the pastor. In 1915 Königshagen came to the Bergheim parish together with Giflitz .

The Thirty Years' War did not spare Königshagen, and of the 32 houses mentioned in 1620 there were only twelve left in 1650. In the Seven Years' War , too , the people of Königshagen suffered great hardship from looting and the forced delivery of cattle and crops. In 1759 the troops of Prince Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel moved from Naumburg via Böhne and Königshagen to Wildungen. On July 27, 1760, the French marched towards Kassel via Königshagen and Naumburg .

The village has always been relatively poor. In addition to agriculture, linen weaving was an important activity in the village, but it was also not very profitable. In 1857 the community representatives refused a linen weaver journeyman's request to settle in the village, pointing out that there were already 17 or 18 linen weaver masters in the village, "where most of them have to pay daily wages due to a lack of yarn and therefore their children go begging".

On December 31, 1971, Königshagen was incorporated into the municipality of Edertal as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

Culture and sights

The village church with its fortified tower from the 14th or 15th century and the ten hundredweight late Gothic baptismal font as well as some old half-timbered houses such as the “Shepherd's House” are worth seeing .

The church

church

The townscape is dominated by the mighty church tower built from rubble stones . It dates from the 14th or 15th century, is the oldest building in the village and was originally a defense tower . The old nave, which presumably dates from the 16th century, was replaced by a rectangular sandstone building in the Biedermeier style with double-coupled arched windows in the years 1846–1848 due to its disrepair . The architect was the Waldeck construction inspector Wilhelm Brass, according to whose plans the churches in Hemfurth (1846/47) and Wellen (1846/49) were built. Most of the sandstone blocks for the construction were brought in from Züschen and Heimarshausen with teams of horses and oxen. The interior fittings and equipment of the church mostly date from the time of this new building. The organ was purchased when the church was rebuilt and comes from the Korbach organ builder Vogt. An imposing 90 meter long wall made of stone blocks supports the church standing on a slope.

The late Gothic font from the 15th century is a sight. When the old nave was torn down, the ten hundredweight stone had been removed; it was then used by a farmer as a cattle trough. In 1926/27 he was brought to the Wildunger Heimatmuseum. Since 1995 it has been on permanent loan from the museum in the village church of Königshagen. It has an outer diameter of one meter. The carved baptismal font is round, while the outside is octagonal. Three of the eight fields are decorated with very high relief sculptures: a griffin, a deer and a lion. One of the coats of arms on the baptismal font shows the eight-pointed star of the Counts of Waldeck, who exercised patronage over the Königshagen church and probably also donated the baptismal font.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Königshagen, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 17, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Population figures on the website of the municipality of Edertal , accessed in February 2016.
  3. ↑ For the meaning of the part of the name "hagen" see Hag .
  4. ↑ For the counts in Bergheim, the people of Königshagen had to do manual and tensioning services free of charge in the dairy and in the palace gardens. For example, 21 Köthner (owners of small cottages with only a small amount of land) had to work in the count's garden, one day a week from April 1st to Jacobi (July 25th) and from October 1st to Martini (November 11th).
  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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 408 .

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