Neukirchen (Lichtenfels)

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Neukirchen
City of Lichtenfels
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 46 ″  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 7 ″  E
Height : 343 m
Residents : 456  (May 15, 2010)
Incorporation : 1st October 1971
Postal code : 35104
Area code : 06454
Aerial photo (2013)
Aerial photo (2013)

Neukirchen is a district of Lichtenfels in the Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

Geographical location

Neukirchen is located in the southwest part of the Waldeck-Frankenberg district about ten kilometers southwest of Goddelsheim , the largest village and also the administrative seat of Lichtenfels, at about 330 to 340  m above sea level. NN . The Nuhne tributary Olfe ( Ölfe ) runs to the east past the village , into which the Lohgraben flows below Neukirchen from the west . The district road  48, which leads southwest to Braunshausen and east to Sachsenberg , and the K 49, which leads northeast to Münden and northwest to Dreislar , run through it.

history

On the border with the Rengershausen district there was a village Auweshusen on the Nuhne . The local field names "Auf der Aue" and "Auf der Junkernaue" indicate this. In 1336, Count Heinrich IV. Von Waldeck pledged the Nuwenkyrchen settlement as a dowry from his daughter Elisabeth to Count Johann von Nassau-Hadamar . This was the first time that Neukirchen was mentioned in a document.

As early as 1301, Ditmar von Nuwenkyrchen was Schöffe zu Sachsenberg , a sign that the settlement existed long before the first written testimony. In the disputes between Kurköln and Waldeck, which had been going on since 1533 , the Elector of Cologne also claimed Neukirchen, among others. The residents were challenged to the Cologne court in Medebach . It was not until 1663 that Kurköln renounced its claims to the place, which also put an end to the elector's violent attempt to reintroduce the Catholic denomination.

Neukirchen was a branch of the Münden parish and was temporarily its own parish in the 18th century. Today the place ecclesiastically belongs to the parish Sachsenberg.

On October 1, 1971, Neukirchen and seven other communities formed the new city of Lichtenfels.

church

Church of Neukirchen

The church with a rectangular nave was rebuilt in 1864 by master mason Gülich from Sachsenberg in place of an older previous church that was demolished. There is no reliable information about what the church looked like before the new building. The first new church that gave the village its name must have been built before 1336, when Neukirchen was first mentioned.

Village

As the first part of today's village, what is now the upper village emerged as a cluster village . It was a pure farming village, which apparently emerged from a manor house . Little by little, the Unterdorf emerged as a street village . It housed day laborers and workers or craftsmen . The schoolhouse was built in 1785. After the Second World War , a larger school was built, which was closed in 1976.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 408 .

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