Lindenhof (Hatzfeld)

Lindenhof City of Hatzfeld (Eder) Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 21 ″  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 2 ″  E
Height :	407 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	120  (Jan 1, 2008)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1971
Postal code :	35116
Area code :	06467
Lindenhof 2008

Lindenhof is a hamlet in the town of Hatzfeld with 120 inhabitants (as of January 2008) in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

geography

The place is about three kilometers from the core town, embedded in the wooded area of ​​the Hatzfeld Forest in Northern Hesse at an altitude of about 400 m. In the immediate vicinity is at 674 m above sea level. NN the bagpipe .

history

In 1693 the first citizen of Hatzfeld, Christoph Eckhardt, moved into his property here. Presumably the "colony" is much older. In 1712 six households were counted. A school was established in a private house in 1892. 77 inhabitants were counted in 1895. At the beginning of the First World War there were 21 residential buildings, some of them in the remote hamlet of Hof Roda . In the 1930s, it was connected to the public water supply and the power grid.

Lindenhöfer Church

Origin of the place name

The name is derived from the " linen ", which was woven in the past, and not, as might be assumed, from the linden tree in the center of the village.

church

In 1990 planning began for its own church. An old high barn was converted into a church. It was inaugurated in 1992. The Lindenhöfer painter Ernst Peter Rade created the stained glass window in the chancel. In its kind it is a unique half - timbered church , probably the smallest in Hessen . In a survey carried out by Hessischer Rundfunk in April 2011, the church was voted the second most beautiful in Hesse.

Attractions

In Lindenhof there is a wild bird care station of the Naturschutzbund Deutschland . In 1991/1992 the smallest half-timbered church in Hesse was inaugurated in Lindenhof .

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  View towards Hatzfeld

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  View towards the bagpipe

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  Roda Farm

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  Interior of the church

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  Altar of the church

literature

• H. Reimer: Historical local lexicon for Kurhessen. Elwert, Marburg 1974, ISBN 3-7708-0509-7 , p. 304

Web links

• Internet presence of the city of Hatzfeld (Eder)
• Lindenhof, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Literature about Lindenhof in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Literature of the Nabu Waldeck-Frankenberg