Louisendorf (Frankenau)

Louisendorf City of Frankenau Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 52 ″  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 36 ″  E
Height :	404  (394-414)  m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.11 km²
Residents :	131  (Jul 5, 2016)
Population density :	16 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 1971
Postal code :	35110
Area code :	06455

Louisendorf is the smallest district of Frankenau in the north Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

geography

Louisendorf is located in the Kellerwald on the edge of the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park east of Frankenau.

history

In 1687 the deserted Hammonshausen was expelled for the establishment of a colony for religious refugees ( Huguenots ) from France. The new settlement was named Louisendorf after Princess Marie Luise of Hessen-Kassel in 1700 . In September 1700 the community had already asked for a name change, as the old place name was considered pagan - probably due to the association with the Egyptian god Ammon . At first the name Sophienberg was thought of.

The settlement is laid out as a street village with 16 parcels. In the middle of the street are the school (today demolished and replaced by a small fire station) and the church opposite each other. Since the village teacher ran a small farm, the school had a barn that was not built until the beginning of the 18th century. In contrast to the other half-timbered buildings in North Hesse, a field stone construction was used here, as was customary in the French area of ​​origin of the settlers. The barn has been renovated since 2002 and now serves as a registry office.

Initially, the congregation had to walk more than an hour to the church service in the chapel of the St. Georgenberg monastery in Frankenberg. At the request of the community in July 1699, Prince Karl granted permission to build a church himself in Louisendorf. This was built from 1700 onwards by the municipality itself in the half-timbered style due to the favorable availability of construction timber and was consecrated in October 1702. French preaching was carried out in the church for around 169 years, then there was no more French-speaking pastor. The church has been preaching in German since June 1871. In 1990 the last French-speaking resident of the village died.

At 31 December 1971 Louisendorf was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse on a voluntary basis in the city Frankenau incorporated . For Louisendorf one as for the rest of the city local district with the town council and mayor set up.

religion

• Today there is still a Huguenot community in Louisendorf .
• Louisendorf and Allendorf belong to the Protestant parish of Ellershausen .

Community partnerships

Louisendorf maintains a very early and to this day very active Franco-German town twinning to Die .

literature

• Georg Dehio , Ernst Gall, Magnus Backes: Hessen ( Handbook of German Art Monuments ). 2. edit Edition. German Kunstverlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-422-00380-0 , p. 582.
• Lothar Zögner: Huguenot villages in Northern Hesse . Marburg Geographical Writings 28. Marburg / Lahn 1966
• Literature on Louisendorf in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

• Louisendorf In: Website of the city of Frankenau.
• Louisendorf, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} City profile on the website of the city of Frankenau , accessed in December 2016.
2. ^ Letter of September 15, 1700 to the Landgrave of Hesse
3. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 390 .
4. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 175 kB) §; 5. In: Website. Frankenau community, accessed March 2019 .