Niedermöllrich

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Niedermöllrich
Wabern municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 1 ″  N , 9 ° 21 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 165 m
Area : 6.57 km²
Residents : 700  (Jun 30, 2014)
Population density : 107 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1972
Postal code : 34590
Area code : 05683
Evangelical Church in Niedermöllrich

Niedermöllrich is a district of the municipality of Wabern in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .

Geographical location

The village is located in northern Hesse northeast of Wabern an der Eder . To the west is the Oberstes Holz forest area . The federal road 254 and the state road 3426 meet in the village .

history

The village was first mentioned in a document as "Millere in pago Hassorum" in 1209 in a property register of the St. Petri peninsula in Fritzlar . From 1225 the Teutonic Order had possession in Niedermöllrich (1272 referred to as "inferior Mildrike"). In 1330, the lords of Röhrenfurth are declared owners of a Freihof and Gut zu Nieder-Möllrich.

From the middle of the 13th century to the 19th century, gold was panned from the Eder at Niedermöllrich .

During the Seven Years' War from July 23 to 27, 1762 about 70,000 troops of Duke Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel camped in the field between Niedervorschütz and Niedermöllrich. Their army camp extended roughly along today's B 254 over the entire route between the two places. This army had previously defeated the French in the battles near Wilhelmsthal (June 24, 1762) and near Lutterberg and Knickhagen (July 23, 1762) and thus finally displaced them from the territory of the then Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel .

On April 1, 1972, the previously independent village of Niedermöllrich was incorporated into the municipality of Wabern.

Former iron ore mine

Entrance to the iron ore mine Niedermöllrich (2020)

A little more than half a kilometer west of the village center is at 51 ° 7 '  N , 9 ° 21'  E , almost directly on the Eder, the tunnel entrance to a former iron ore mine. The mine is mentioned in 1867 as "Holzhäuser Grube III" and was obviously owned by the iron foundry, which had been operating in Holzhausen near Homberg since 1737 . At that time, however, nothing was funded in Niedermöllrich; First of all, the owners wanted to secure the ore deposits there. Only the self-sufficiency efforts of the Nazi regime led to the fact that the plant was expanded and iron ore was actually extracted from the slope from 1939 to 1943 , without this being economically successful. The tunnel, which is more than a kilometer long, later served as a refuge in the event of an air raid alarm and after the end of the war as an adventure playground for the children of the village until it was closed and blocked for safety reasons. It was not until 2009 that a short section of the tunnel was secured so that it can be safely accessed again. A gate with the inscription “Glück auf!” Closes the tunnel, but is opened for visitors on special occasions.

Personalities

Birthplace of MdL Ludwig Schneider in Niedermöllrich

literature

Web links

Commons : Niedermöllrich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landmark areas on the website of the municipality of Wabern , accessed in February 2016
  2. ^ "Inhabitants and households" on the website of the municipality of Wabern , accessed in August 2015
  3. ↑ Eduard Edwin Becker, Jürgen Rainer Wolf:  Documents of the Riedesel family v. Eisenbach  (= Repertories Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt ) inventory B 13; Page 3; Deeds 8: 1330 October 10 (PDF; 1.29 MB). In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), status: August 2006, accessed on September 18, 2016.
  4. ^ 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. 392 .
  5. ↑ Niedermöllrich iron mine
  6. ↑ Photo of the tunnel entrance
  7. ↑ HNA, August 10, 2010: "A mine lives on"