Klingen (Sachsenhausen)

Klingen (also Clingen , Klingeren ) was a settlement immediately southeast of the built-up urban area of Sachsenhausen in the north Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

Ruins of the Klinger Church - west gable

Ruins of the Klinger Church - foundation walls

history

The place was about 300 m east of the state road L 3200 to Niederwerbe and 250 m south of the federal road 485 to Netze . A pastor in Klingen is mentioned in 1222. The only remnant of the former settlement that can still be seen today is the ruins of the Romanesque Klinger Church, a single-nave building with three wide-span bays , of which the west gable and foundation walls have been preserved up to a height of about 1.50 m.

In 1270, the council of Sachsenhausen confirmed in two separate documents issued on the same day that Ludwig von Clingen, presumably a citizen of the city, bequeathed an annual fruit pension to the infirmaria (nurse) of the Marienthal monastery in Netze to commemorate his soul and that the Werbe monastery had a corresponding foundation would have done. In 1291 a matrona Gertrud de Clingen, a citizen of Sachsenhausen, is mentioned, who until her death was to receive half of the fruit pension that Johann von Wiera gave to the Marienthal monastery that year as a personal asset. It is not known which connection existed between Gertrud and Ludwig von Clingen.

The settlement was probably gradually abandoned after the founding of nearby Sachsenhausen, when its residents gradually moved to Sachsenhausen, which was founded by Count Adolf I von Waldeck (1228–1270), was given city and market rights and fortified with city walls and towers.

Today, in addition to the church ruins, the field names Klinger Berg and Klinger Klippen and the Klingebach remind of the disappeared village.

The legend of the bell robbery from the Klingen church

The abbot of the Berich monastery wanted to give his lover, the abbess of the monastery in Werbe , a special gift. He intended to steal the three bells from the Klingen church and give them to the abbess for her monastery church. The thieves he had hired went to Klingen in a horse-drawn cart at night via Nieder-Werbe and the Rothacker. Since the path led through a swampy area, they had it marked with burning torches so that they could find their way back safely. However, a young fellow made of blades noticed the theft. Since there wasn't enough time to get help, he ran to Rothacker, set up the torches in other places and then hid in the forest. When the bell robbers drove back with their stolen goods soon afterwards and followed the torches in the dark, they got into the moor , where horses, wagons, bells and thieves sank. Even today they say in Ober-Werbe when fireflies show themselves : These are the gnomes who are looking for the bells.

51.2378 9.01825Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 16 ″ N , 9 ° 1 ′ 6 ″ E

literature

Hilmar Stoecker: The Klinger Church. In: Mein Waldeck , No. 6, of March 28, 1970, ZDB -ID 962835-6 .
Hilmar G. Stoecker: The Klinger Church (in the desert Klinge near Waldeck-Sachsenhausen). In: Sachsenhausen. 750 years of city rights. Contributions to the past and present. Magistrate of the City of Waldeck - Festival Committee 750 Years of the City of Sachsenhausen, Waldeck-Sachsenhausen 1995, pp. 25–27.
Xenia Stolzenburg: Romanesque churches in Waldeck. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-02147-1 , p. 77.

Web links

Clingen, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of September 21, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on January 24, 2016 .

Individual evidence

^ Louis Curtze : History and description of the principality of Waldeck. A manual for friends of the Fatherland. Speyer, Arolsen 1850, p. 653 .
^ Gabriele Maria Hock: The Westphalian Cistercian convents in the 13th century. Founding circumstances and early development. Münster 1994, p. 500, (Münster, Universität, Dissertation, 1994), online .
^ Gabriele Maria Hock: The Westphalian Cistercian convents in the 13th century. Founding circumstances and early development. Münster 1994, pp. 499-500, (Münster, Universität, Dissertation, 1994), online .
↑ The legend of the bell robbery from the Klingen church.

[1] Louis Curtze : History and description of the principality of Waldeck. A manual for friends of the Fatherland. Speyer, Arolsen 1850, p. 653 .

[2] Gabriele Maria Hock: The Westphalian Cistercian convents in the 13th century. Founding circumstances and early development. Münster 1994, p. 500, (Münster, Universität, Dissertation, 1994), online .

[3] Gabriele Maria Hock: The Westphalian Cistercian convents in the 13th century. Founding circumstances and early development. Münster 1994, pp. 499-500, (Münster, Universität, Dissertation, 1994), online .

[4] The legend of the bell robbery from the Klingen church.