Knickhagen

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Knickhagen
municipality Fuldatal
Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 47 "  N , 9 ° 33 ′ 13"  E
Height : 157 m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.41 km²
Residents : 253  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 105 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1970
Postal code : 34233
Area code : 05607
View of Knickhagen
District road south of Knickhagen
District road south of Knickhagen, near Spiegelmühle
Knickhagen cemetery and castle stable

Knickhagen is the smallest district of Fuldatal in the north Hessian district of Kassel , Germany .

Geographical location

Knickhagen is located on the southern roof of the Reinhardswald . The village is located between the Fuldataler districts of Wahnhausen in the south, Rothwesten in the west-southwest and Wilhelmshausen in the east-northeast. North Northwest of Knickhagen lies the small town of Immenhausen belonging Holzhausen and south-southeast of the village or beyond the near Fulda which to Staufenberg in Lower Saxony scoring Speele . The village is traversed by the Osterbach , a northern tributary of the Fulda. The Krummbach flows into the Osterbach a little north of Knickhagen. Not far to the northeast of it rises the Steinkopf with the Termenei nature reserve .

history

Knickhagen was first mentioned in 1458 as Gnyghagen in the property registers of the Archdiocese of Mainz . In 1458 the place was Hessian fief of Ludwig Hase. Later it was owned by Hermann Lugelin and owned by Meisenbug . In 1576 the place became fiefdom of those of Calenberg . The lower jurisdiction was exercised by that of Calenberg , who had their headquarters at Calenberg Castle in Calenberg . The blood jurisdiction , however, exercised the office Ahna from the Hessian Landgrave. In 1773 von Calenberg sold Knickhagen to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel .

The first school in town was set up in the former Obermühle in 1829, before the children had to attend school in Holzhausen . In 1836 a new schoolhouse was built opposite the first school. This was used until around 1905 and then converted into an inn. The school, built in 1904/1905, was used until the mid-1960s and then converted into a village community center.

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Fuldatal was created on January 1, 1970 through the voluntary amalgamation of the previously independent municipalities Ihringshausen, Simmershausen, Wahnhausen, Knickhagen and Wilhelmshausen. As a result, Knickhagen became a part of the large community of Fuldatal. Ihringshausen became the seat of administration.

Knickhagen Castle

Was in at the edge of the stone head in the region of present-day village cemetery the Middle Ages the castle Knickhagen . When and by whom the castle was built is not documented. It was probably built in place of a previous Carolingian castle.

Mirror mill

In 1594 a mill was built at the confluence of the Osterbach in the Fulda , which was used as an ironworks . After this ironworks was relocated to Veckerhagen , Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel had a glassworks built in the "Spiegelmühle" in 1699 , which specialized in the production of crystal glass and mirrors.

Note: There were three other mills in Knickhagen, the upper middle and lower mill. The place was formed around the upper mill. Only the lower mill still reveals its former importance.

Historical place names

Knickhagen was mentioned under the following names in documents that have been received (the year of mention in brackets):

  • Gnyghagen, (1458)
  • Gnykhagen, (1493) Rothwesten property register
  • Knickhagen, (1664) Hütteroth, Reinhardswalddörfer, p. 192.

Attractions

literature

  • Georg Landau: Description of the Hessengau, published 1866, reprinted 1974, p. 78.
  • Heinrich Reimer: Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen , 1926, p. 283.

Web links

Commons : Knickhagen (Fuldatal)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Facts and Figures In: Website of the municipality of Fuldatal, accessed in March 2016.
  2. ↑ Numbers and facts, district Knickhagen In: Website of the municipality of Fuldatal, accessed in July 2020.
  3. ↑ Merger of the municipalities Ihringshausen, Knickhagen, Simmershausen, Wahnhausen and Wilhelmshausen in the district of Kassel to form the new municipality "Fuldatal" on December 17, 1969 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 1 , p. 6 , item 11 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.0 MB ]).
  4. ^ Spiegelmühle, Kassel district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  5. ↑ Orthophoto of the mirror mill .  In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ^ Knickhagen, Kassel district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of July 29, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).