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municipality Hofbieber
Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 8 ″  N , 9 ° 52 ′ 27 ″  E
Height : 475 m above sea level NN
Area : 8.39 km²
Residents : 472  (Jun 30, 2017)
Population density : 56 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 36145
Area code : 06657
Kleinassen seen from the Milseburg
Kleinsassen from the Milseburg seen from

Kleinsassen is a district of the municipality of Hofbieber in the Fulda district with around 470 inhabitants. The district of Malerdorf Kleinsassen lies at the foot of the Milseburg in the Hessian Rhön and is known as an artist 's village far beyond the borders of the Fulda region.

The Milseburg

geography

Kleinsassen extends at an altitude of 450 to 500 meters in the Rhön Biosphere Reserve , about 14 kilometers east of the baroque city of Fulda in a wooded low mountain range. The place is traversed by the stream Bieber . The place is surrounded by the following mountains: Milseburg (835.2 meters), Stellberg (726.1 meters), Ziegenkopf (567 meters), Schackau-Berg (559 meters), Bieberstein (506.6 meters).

history

The area around today's town of Kleinsassen has been settled since the Stone Age, as clearly proven traces of settlement on the Milseburg , the local mountain of Kleinsassen. There the oppidum Milseburg was identified as an Iron Age settlement. Remains of Milseburg Castle can be traced back to the 11th century.

Origin of name

View from the southwest

Kleinsassen most likely originated in the late 8th century. The place was first mentioned in a document under the name Sassen in 1375 , the current place name Kleinsassen is documented for the year 1722. A church in Kleinsassen can be documented as early as 1493. A chapel had been in the village since earlier, around 1420, because soon after the preaching of the Christian faith such chapels were built in many places where previously there were Germanic places of worship. In 1783 the construction of the baroque church began, as it has been preserved to this day. Like the first church, it is consecrated to Saint Lawrence .

Administrative districts

Kleinsassen was assigned to different administrative districts over several centuries:

Incorporation

The two districts of Kleinsassen and Schackau formed a political municipality until the regional reform. On December 31, 1971, Kleinsassen was incorporated into the newly formed community of Hofbieber as part of the Hessian regional reform. The following places and hamlets belong to small residents:

  • Karhof
  • Schackenbergshof
  • Forest house
  • Gangolfshof

politics

  • Mayor: Alfred Weber (since 2016)
  • Deputy Mayor: Heiko Kremer (since 2016)

Culture and sights

Painters colony

Kreyfelt House

Since the 1850s, painters discovered Kleinsassen. Summer after summer, numerous painters and student groups from the academy cities of Dresden, Weimar, Leipzig, Munich and Düsseldorf came to the town to study nature. From the large number of artist names from the previous century, one should mention Friedrich Preller (the younger) , a Dresden landscape and marine painter. From 1881 onwards Preller, who had become an academy professor, often came to the Rhöndorf Kleinsassen with a large number of students. In 1883 he brought the Düsseldorf-born art student Julius von Kreyfelt (1863–1947) with him to the painter's village. He soon made a name for himself through his artistic work. In 1887 von Kreyfelt settled in Kleinsassen. Von Kreyfelt was one of the most productive and at the same time commercially successful Rhön painters, who developed into the central figure of the village. At the turn of the century he built a four-story painter's hotel with studios, and from 1919 to 1924 he also hosted the Milseburghütte of the Rhön Club. The location below the striking Milseburg mountain contributed to the attraction of the Rhön painter's village . Paul Klüber (1904–1944) was an important painter born in Kleinsassen .

Attractions

Since the place is still considered a painter's village in the present, there are numerous artistic offers and sights.

Education and leisure

Ludwig-Wolker-Haus of the youth organization St. Michael

Kleinsassen has also gained national fame through the Ludwig-Wolker-Haus, a youth education and leisure center run by the St. Michael youth organization . It is named after Ludwig Wolker, the founder of the Association of German Catholic Youth (BDKJ) . The Ludwig-Wolker-Haus is the first educational facility of the St. Michael Youth Association, was founded in 1959 and inaugurated by the then Bishop of Fulda , Adolf Bolte . It has been expanded and redesigned several times and today corresponds to the current standard of contemporary youth education work.

The Pfunds Museum is also of supraregional importance and presents one of the largest collections of scales and weights in Germany from all periods and countries in seven exhibition rooms.

The Milseburgradweg leads a few 100 meters past Kleinsassen.

useful information

Milseburg tunnel offered protection

In the Holy Week of the year 1945 , just before the end of the Second World War , was in bombproof Milseburg tunnel , a 400-meter-long, two locomotives pulled train of the High Command of the Armed Forces West ( OKW ) with high-ranking officers and soldiers . After the US army had already reached Fulda during its advance , the German soldiers sought protection in the Rhön when they withdrew from the western front in order to organize a counter-defense against the advancing Americans. The train consisted of command compartments, supply and sleeping cars. Billing took place in the surrounding villages. On the Maulkuppe one was radio station built that would connect to the High Command. In order to protect the train from low- flying aircraft , anti-aircraft guns were brought to the heights of Danzwiesen . During the day the train stood in the tunnel, at night it was pulled out to provide fresh air. This did not go unnoticed by the Americans, who then tried to make the tunnel portals and the railway line impassable by dropping bombs. When the telecommunications cables that had been laid were cut, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was no longer in contact with the outside world and the other units on the train . On the night of Good Friday the train left the tunnel and drove towards Vacha . On April 6, 1945, the Americans moved into Kleinsassen without any significant damage to the village.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

Personalities related to small people

literature

  • Michael Mott : A baroque gem / In Kleinsassen: An impressive testimony to Rhön craftsmanship , in: Fuldaer Zeitung, May 8, 1991, p. 14 (series: DENK-mal!).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kleinsassen, District of Fulda. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of November 7, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ "Figures, data, facts of the municipality of Hofbieber" , accessed in July 2020.
  3. ^ History of the town of Kleinsassen. Retrieved January 25, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Kleinsassen, District of Fulda. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  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. 394 .
  6. ↑ a b Local Advisory Councils for the Hofbieber community. In: website. Hofbieber municipality, accessed April 2019 .
  7. ↑ Friedrich A. Wagner: This is a mountain range for hiking. In: Die Rhön (= Merian , vol. 17 (1964), volume 4), pp. 5–10, here p. 5.
  8. ↑ Frau Pabst: Rhönlexikon: Kreyfelt. In: www.rhoen.info. Retrieved December 13, 2016 .
  9. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 520, 549 .
  10. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 566, here in particular pp. 483, 506 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (doctoral thesis at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  11. ↑ Kleinsassen dream theater
  12. ↑ Ludwig Wolker House