Melgershausen

Melgershausen City of Felsberg Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 33 "  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 26"  E
Height :	262  (254-278)  m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.6 km²
Residents :	358  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	37 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1972
Incorporated into:	Gensings
Postal code :	34587
Area code :	05662

Melgershausen is a district of Felsberg in the north Hessian Schwalm-Eder district .

Geographical location

Melgershausen is located in the extreme west of the Fulda-Werra-Bergland natural area , on the border with the Knüll-Hochland natural area with the Knüllgebirge in the south-southwest . It is located about 5 km (as the crow flies ) east-northeast of the Felsberg core town. The Brückenbach flows through the village, the water of which reaches the Schießbach (or Stelterbach ), which flows westwards towards the Eder , through the Helterbach (also called Helderbach ) flowing north-west ; northeast of the village rises the north-east flowing Freitagsbach , which flows into the Fulda near Lobenhausen . To the north rises the Quillerkopf (approx.  345  m ), to the northeast the Kesselkopf ( Kessel ; 368.1  m ), southwest the Heiligenberg ( 393.3  m ) with the Heiligenburg Castle and northwest the Mönchskopf ( 302.7  m ).

history

The place was first mentioned in the year 1151 as Medelhereshusen , in the property registers of the Hasungen monastery . From the year 1360 the village belongs to the office Felsberg . During the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) the place and church were completely destroyed in 1640. Today's half-timbered church was built between 1727 and 1729 .

On April 1, 1972, the village was assigned to the municipality of Gensungen as part of the regional reform in Hesse . In a further stage of this reform this came with its districts to Felsberg. Melgershausen has been a part of Felsberg since January 1st, 1974.

Sälzer Weg

An old trade route , the Sälzer Weg (salt route), ran through the town. This is the route used to transport the salt extracted from the Werra from Bad Sooden-Allendorf along the high trails via Hessisch Lichtenau , Melsungen , Melgershausen and Gensungen to the Rhine . Today's Brückenbachweg as an extension of the motorway and the Alte Straße past the Charterhouse Eppenberg to Gensungen run along the former Sälze Weg .

traffic

State road  3222 ( Altenbrunslar –Melgershausen– Melsungen ) leads through Melgershausen , from which district road  143 branches off in the village in a south-south-west direction to Heßlar . About 1 km to the west of the location extends in the north-south direction, the Bundesautobahn 7 with the at about 143 K Bundesstrasse 253 lying junction Melsungen .

literature

• Georg Landau (†): Description of the Hessengau. (= Description of the German Gaue , Volume 2.) 2nd edition, Halle (Saale), Barthel, 1866, p. 90. ( reprinted: Historische Edition Carl, Vellmar 1999, ISBN 3-9806580-2-3 .)
• Heinrich Reimer (edit.): Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck , Volume 14.) Elwert, Marburg 1926, p. 325. ( as reprint : Elwert, Marburg 1974, ISBN 3-7708-0509-7 .)
• Literature about Melgershausen in the Hessian Bibliography
• Search for Melgershausen in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Search for Melgershausen in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library

Web links

• Melgershausen district. In: Internet presence of the city of Felsberg.
• Melgershausen, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} data and facts. In: website. City of Felsberg, accessed May 2019 . 
2. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 405 .