Laisa

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Laisa
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 44 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 48 ″  E
Height : 369 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.63 km²
Residents : 568  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 74 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : February 1, 1972
Postal code : 35088
Area code : 06452

Laisa is a district of Battenberg (Eder) in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg . The place is in the Ederbergland on the B 253 .

history

The village was first mentioned in 778 as "Lihesi" in connection with a battle between the Franks and Saxons . According to a legend, the Franconian army gathered a day's march far south near Bottenhorn on the Bottenhorn plateau before they went to battle on Heerstraße (old road running on Perf / Dautphe watershed). This battle took place in the immediate vicinity of Laisa.

Further evidence is known for the year 1226, when the village was owned by the Counts of Battenberg . In 1291 ownership changed to the diocese of Mainz . The church was first mentioned in a document in 1296. In 1464 Laisa came to the Landgraviate of Hesse . In 1624, the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , which became the Grand Duchy of Hessen in 1806 , became the new owner of the place.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Laisa in 1830:

"Leisa (L. Bez. Battenberg) evangel. Branch village; is 3 ⁄ 4 St. from Battenberg, has 1 church, 53 houses and 332 inhabitants, who are Protestant except for 1 Catholics. - Leisa became famous for the defeat the Saxons suffered in the area in 778. Most writers name the place of defeat Liesi or Lihesi (Leisa) and the neighboring river Adarnia or Aderna (Eder). Only one mentions Baddenfeldum , Adernam juxta fluvium . But these two places are so close together that one could appropriately be set for the other as the place of defeat. Leisa came with other places, in 1291, to the archbishopric of Mainz, and probably by pledge, in 1464, to the landgrave Heinrich III. The chapel received an indulgence in 1296 to support it, but it was also used to repair the church in Bromskirchen. "

In 1838 the first iron ore mine was opened here; it remained in operation until 1880. In 1866 Laisa and the entire Hessian hinterland became Prussian . In 1868 a fire destroyed almost the entire village. In 1921 it received a power supply. In 1926 a water pipe was built. In 1932 the place was assigned to the Battenberg office .

Territorial reform

On February 1, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the previously independent municipality of Laisa was incorporated into the city of Battenberg on a voluntary basis.For Laisa, as well as for all formerly independent municipalities and the core municipality, a local district with a local advisory board and mayor was set up.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Laisa was located or the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

Population development

• 1577: 039 house seats
• 1629: 032 households
• 1712: 046 households
• 1791: 271 inhabitants
• 1800: 274 inhabitants
• 1806: 280 inhabitants, 51 houses
• 1829: 332 inhabitants, 53 houses
Laisa: Population from 1791 to 2015
year     Residents
1791
  
 271
1800
  
 274
1806
  
 280
1829
  
 332
1834
  
 355
1840
  
 367
1846
  
 440
1852
  
 424
1858
  
 436
1864
  
 421
1871
  
 380
1875
  
 436
1885
  
 390
1895
  
 391
1905
  
 374
1910
  
 363
1925
  
 395
1939
  
 399
1946
  
 558
1950
  
 513
1956
  
 507
1961
  
 507
1967
  
 541
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 564
2015
  
 568
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 331 Protestant (= 99.70%), one Catholic (= 0.30%) residents
• 1885: 390 Protestant (= 100%) residents
• 1961: 445 Protestant (= 87.77%), 50 Catholic (= 9.86%) residents

Culture and sights

Village church

Village church, view and tower cross (before 1910)

Ferdinand Luthmer wrote about the village church:

“The village church of Leisa, 12 km northeast of Biedenkopf, 2.5 km south of Battenberg, is likely to link its origin to an indulgence granted in 1296, even if the primitive shape of the ship does not allow a more precise definition. According to the inscription, the choir was built in 1723. The nave is divided into three naves of equal height by two round pillars that are very close to the side walls and have a simple cantilever cornice, with ribless, roughly bricked vaults, the bones of which converge like a dome at the apex. Only one of the original small arched windows has survived in the north wall. To the west, the nave is adjoined by a flat-roofed, narrow room with three loopholes in the west wall. The choir arch is ogival and not structured. Above him a square, slated roof turret with a helmet converted into an octagon; on the ridge of the choir roof an iron spike with a so-called cross, heart and sun. "

- Ferdinand Luthmer : The architectural and art monuments of the Biedenkopf, Dill, Ober-Westerwald and Westerburg Keller districts, Frankfurt am Main 1910, p. 46f

Rückersfest

Women in so-called Protestant Marburg costume at the Rückersfestzug 2013
Young men in traditional costume at the 2013 Rückersfestzug

Every seven years at Easter, the Rückersfest is celebrated in the village. One of the highlights is the big pageant, with many villagers in local costume walking through the town. The tradition of the Rückersfest can be traced back to 1842, but is probably much older. The symbol of the festival is the Rückersfigur, an almost three-meter-long wooden figure of a plowing farmer with a farmhand behind a team of five horses. During the Rückerssteck, which always takes place on March 9, the Rückers is brought out again for the first time in seven years and attached to the roof ridge of the Old Town Hall - today's museum of local history - where it remains for 40 days to draw attention to the Rückersfest on Easter weekend.

That for the 11th-13th The Rückersfest planned for April 2020 was canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and moved to Easter 2021.

literature

Web links

Commons : Laisa  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Laisa, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Population figures . In: website. City of Battenberg, accessed March 2020 .
  3. ↑ In documents that have survived, the place was mentioned under the following names (the year it was mentioned in brackets): "Lihesi" (778), "Lichisin" (802/817), "Liêse" (831/850), "lesen "(1290 ), "Lyse" (1291), "Lysen / Leysen" (1296), "Leysen" (1577), "Leussa" (1712), "Leysen" (1708/10) and "Leisa" (19th / early 20th Century) ( Laisa, Waldeck-Frankenberg district, in the historical local dictionary of Hesse ).
  4. ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt August 1830, OCLC 312528126 , p. 162 ( online at google books ).
  5. ↑ Brand to Laisa. In: Starkenburger Provinzial-Anzeiger - Dieburger Kreisblatt, No. 66/1868.
  6. ^ Municipal reform: mergers and integration of municipalities from January 20, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 6 , p. 248 , item 328, para. 29 ( online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 6.2 MB ]).
  7. ↑ main statute. (DOCX; 26 kB) §; 5. In: Website. Municipality of Battenberg (Eder), accessed in March 2019 .
  8. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  10. ↑ The affiliation of the Battenberg office based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hessen : Hessen-Marburg 1567–1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604–1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567–1866 .
  11. ↑ a b Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 27 ff ., § 40 point 6e) ( online at google books ).
  12. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  237 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  13. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  182 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  14. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  195 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  15. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  16. ↑ Ferdinand Luthmer : The architectural and art monuments of the administrative district of Wiesbaden . Ed .: District Association of the Wiesbaden District. IV. Volume: The architectural and art monuments of the districts of Biedenkopf, Dill, Ober-Westerwald and Westerburg . Commission publisher by Heinrich Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1910, p.  46 f . ( (online) ).
  17. ↑ Rückers - what is it?
  18. ↑ Because of Corona: Rückersfest in Laisa canceled and moved to Easter 2021