Kerstenhausen

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Kerstenhausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 50 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 195 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.32 km²
Residents : 490  (Jul. 2018)
Population density : 92 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Incorporated into: Small glis
Postal code : 34582
Area code : 05682
Kerstenhausen and the Schwalmpforte
Kerstenhausen and the Schwalmpforte

Kerstenhausen is a district of Borken in the Schwalm-Eder district .

The Schwalm flows past the southern outskirts of the village just before it breaks through the Schwalmpforte into the Schwalmaue near Borken. Kerstenhausen is cut up by Bundesstraße 3 . In the east is the junction Borken to the federal highway 49 .

history

The first documentary mention of the place comes from the year 1044 as "Christinehysen" in a document issued in the Gandersheim Abbey , which is now in the Lucerne State Archives .

Evangelical village church

In 1344 the Margarethenkirche belonging to the neighboring village of Kleinkerstenhausen was first mentioned in a document. Kleinkerstenhausen was on today's road from Arnsbach to Kerstenhausen. Over the centuries it shrank to a single courtyard and was last mentioned in 1578; the residents moved to (Groß-) Kerstenhausen. The Margarethenkirche fell into disrepair, and as a result the church in (Groß-) Kerstenhausen was expanded to make room for the larger community. The new church building in 1742 and a reconstruction of the church interior in 1864 are documented.

Kerstenhausen and the Schwalmpforte, view from the southwest

Until the opening of the Marburg-Kassel railway line in 1850, there was an important post office in Kerstenhausen , as the place was on one of the oldest German postal routes. The “Cassel-Frankfurter-Straße” was an important north-south connection as early as the Middle Ages. The road from Fritzlar to Kerstenhausen, today part of the federal highway 3, was built 1803-1804; it was below the Hundsburg tumuli and grave urns found. From 1807 to 1814 Kerstenhausen belonged to the Kingdom of Westphalia , and the French government ordered the establishment of further “post relays” on the Kassel-Frankfurt route. After the Congress of Vienna , the Posthof in Kerstenhausen was taken over by the Thurn-und-Taxis-Post . With the start of rail traffic on the Main-Weser-Bahn , the commercial and postal connection on Frankfurter Strasse lost its importance.

On December 31, 1971, the previously independent community was incorporated into the neighboring community of Kleinenglis. This came to Borken on January 1, 1974.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kerstenhausen, Borken community. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of September 8, 2011). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ City information - population figures. (No longer available online.) In: Website. City of Borken (Hessen), archived from the original on July 23, 2018 ; accessed in July 2018 .
  3. ↑ Georg Landau: "Contributions to Hessian Local History", in: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies , eighth volume, Kassel, 1860 (pp. 96–97)
  4. ^ 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. 392 and 393 .

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