Nordshausen

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Nordshausen
district of Kassel
Location of Nordshausen in Kassel
Coordinates 51 ° 16 '50 "  N , 9 ° 25' 36"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 16 '50 "  N , 9 ° 25' 36"  E.
height 220  m above sea level NHN
surface 2.44 km² (15/23)
Residents 2082 (Dec. 31, 2019) (23/23)
Population density 853 inhabitants / km² (21/23)
Proportion of foreigners 8.4% (Dec. 31, 2019) (19/23)
Incorporation Jun 1, 1936
Start-up 1074
Post Code 34132
prefix 0561
Website District info Nordshausen
politics
Mayor Christian Knauf ( SPD )
Allocation of seats (local advisory board)
5
1
1
2
5 1 1 2 
A total of 9 seats
Source: Kassel Statistical Atlas
Nordshausen seen from above

Nordshausen is a district of Kassel .

history

Finds of pebble slate implements in three fields near Nordshausen indicate human settlement in the Stone Age. The place was first mentioned in 1076 in a document from Hasungen Monastery . In 1257, Count Adalbert von Schauenburg founded the Cistercian convent in Nordshausen . In the course of the Reformation it was abolished in 1526. Landgrave Philipp awarded the property to the University of Marburg . The monastery church and tithe barn have been preserved to this day. The Nordshaus monastery church is considered the oldest church in Kassel. In the middle of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century, Nordshausen gained short-term importance as a spa by opening up a healing spring.

The choral society was founded in 1887, the sports club in 1890. In 1903 Nordshausen was connected to the Kassel-Naumburg small railway , followed by electrification in 1914. The volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1926. Nordshausen was incorporated into Kassel in 1936 together with Harleshausen , Niederzwehren , Oberzwehren , Waldau and Wolfsanger . In 1952, 1971 and 1974 the housing estates Grubenrain, Dornländerweg and Krümmershof were built. The youth fire brigade was founded in 1988, the cultural association in 1991, and Kassel's first children's fire brigade in 2008.

See also Nordshausen Castle

Personalities

  • Philipp Hoffmeister (1804–74), preacher, draftsman, naturalist, collector of fairy tales, pastor in Nordshausen 1840–69, author of the first chronicle of the monastery church

Web links

Commons : Nordshausen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From HNA.de of April 24, 2014: Sage about North House Church: Spook with a headless nun