Maggots (Gudensberg)
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Maggots
City of Gudensberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 50 ″ N , 9 ° 22 ′ 36 ″ E
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| Height : | 180 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 5.7 km² |
| Residents : | 1200 (approx.) |
| Population density : | 211 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | December 31, 1971 |
| Postal code : | 34281 |
| Area code : | 05603 |
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Maden is a district of Gudensberg in the North Hessian Schwalm-Eder district .
With around 1200 inhabitants, the village is the third largest district of Gudensberg. It is considered to be one of the oldest documented locations in Hessen and is located in the center of the historic Hessengau . The numerous old half-timbered houses in the town center bear witness to a long past. Even today the place is characterized by farms that work the fertile loess soils.
Geographical location
Maden is located around 1.5 km south-southeast of the city center and directly southwest of the Mader Stein basalt knoll , where there is a local recreation area. The Ems tributary Goldbach flows through it in a north-south direction . From the village, state road 3220 leads northwest to the city center.
Surname
The place is mentioned for the first time around 800 in the " Breviarium sancti Lulli " of the monastery Hersfeld as "Mathanon". In 1046 Maden was officially referred to as "Madanum" and in 1061 as "Madena". From 1295 the place is called “major maggots” to distinguish it from the neighboring Lützelmaden .
history
In the summer and autumn of 2007, part of an important Neolithic settlement between Gudensberg and Maden was established between 5500 and 4900 BC. Excavated. In doing so, u. a. the remains of several typical longhouses , pit ovens for baking, storage pits for grain, several human burials, grain mills and broken pottery pieces were found.
At the time of Chatting , Maden was one of the main places in Chattenland. They held their things on the Mader Heide at Mader Stein .
1027 Swabian Graf was Werner von Winterthur by Konrad II. As Gaugraf used based maggots. He and his successors now called themselves Counts in Hessengau or "Counts of Maden". In 1118, Count Werner IV gave the County of Maden , which had previously been an imperial fiefdom and from which the Landgraviate of Hesse grew around 250 years later , to the Archdiocese of Mainz as a fief and received it back as such. This was to lead to considerable complications in the relationship between the archbishopric and the landgraves of Thuringia and later of Hesse, starting with the Thuringian-Hessian War of Succession after the death of Heinrich Raspe in 1247.
In 1325 it was called ... county and regional court of Hesse, which is called the court of maggots . The lower jurisdiction exercised, as a Landgrave Hessian fiefdom, an "Albert Lugelin", the gentlemen " Holzsadel " and a "Gerlach von Linne" from the 14th century .
Maggots remained the painting site of the Landgraviate of Hesse until the 17th century . In 1627 the estates there forced Landgrave Moritz the scholar to abdicate . The last state parliament on Mader Heide took place in 1654.
The Wotan stone in Maden is mentioned for the first time in 1408 .
church
In 1773/74 the late Baroque sermon church was built in place of a previous church that had been badly damaged by fire. Parts of the tower, which is equipped with three bells, date from the Middle Ages. There is a community room in the tower, which is separated from the nave by a room divider.
societies
Five clubs are active in the village, including the TSV Maden sports club and the amateur play group "Die Wotansteiner", which has been in existence for almost 20 years.
Web links
- Maggots on the website of the city of Gudensberg
- "Maggots (large maggots), Schwalm-Eder district". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Literature on maggots in the Hessian Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ "maggots (United maggots), Schwalm-Eder-Kreis". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 26, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ^ Location on the website of the city of Gudensberg , accessed in January 2016
- ↑ Maden Church ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Church Maden in the church district Fritzlar ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
