Acquisitions

Acquisitions Kaufungen municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 57 ″ N , 9 ° 38 ′ 1 ″ E
Height :	204 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.1 km²
Incorporation :	1st December 1970
Postal code :	34260
Area code :	05605

The collegiate church

Oberkaufungen is one of the two districts of the municipality of Kaufungen in the Kassel district in Hesse . The municipal administration is located in the village.

location

Oberkaufungen station, where the Kassel tram stops .

Oberkaufungen is located in the valley of the Losse on the Kaufunger Forest and the Söhre . In the northwest lies the Steinertsee . The place has a train station on the Kassel – Waldkappel railway (built in 1879/80), where the Kassel tram also stops. Federal highway 7 runs south of the village . Oberkaufungen is on the German Fairy Tale Route .

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1019 as Overencoufta (Oberkaufungen). Emperor Heinrich II had a Benedictine monastery built between 1014 and 1024 . It existed until 1527. The collegiate church , built in 1025 on a hill, is still preserved . It was consecrated on July 13, 1025.

In documents that have survived, the place was mentioned under the following names (the year of mention in brackets):

Choufenin (1008) [interpolated Roques, deed book Kloster Kaufungen 1, No. 4]
CoUFa (August 20, 1011)
Coufenon (1011) [UA Hersfeld]
Cofunga (1017) [Roques, deed book Monastery Kaufungen 1, No. 5]
Cohfunga (1019) [Roques, deed book Kloster Kaufungen 1, no. 8]
OverencoUFa (1019) [Roques, deed book Kloster Kaufungen 1, no. 9]
Chuofunga (1019) [Roques, deed book Kloster Kaufungen 1, no. 11]
Coupungun (1126) [Roques, Monastery of Kaufungen 1, No. 23]
Koyfungen (around 1150) [Roques, deed book Kloster Kaufungen 1, no. 26]
Coffenge (1225) [Roques, deed book Kloster Kaufungen 1, no. 38]
Cufingensis (1268) [Roques, deed book Kloster Kaufungen 1, no. 51]
Koufungen (1291) [Roques, deed book Kloster Kaufungen 1, no. 77]

The voluntary merger of the municipalities of Oberkaufungen and Niederkaufungen to form the large municipality of Kaufungen took place in the course of the regional reform in Hesse on December 1, 1970.

Attractions

Kaufungen Monastery
the collegiate church "Zum Heiligen Kreuz"
the regional museum "Old School" with a hands-on house
the brickwork museum
the sensory corridors
the "Rossgang" mine museum
the museum forge
many half-timbered houses from the 17th and 18th centuries
Schulze Boeing oak with a chest height of 6.00 m (2016).

The beater and oil mill in house Mühlenweg 6 was built in 1574 and was converted into a grinding mill in 1890. It was operated until the mid-1980s and then converted into a residential building.

There is an integrated comprehensive school in Oberkaufungen .

literature

Fritz Meyer: Acquisitions through the ages. ibid 1962.

Web links

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

Community website
"Oberkaufungen, District of Kassel". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Literature on acquisitions in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b "Oberkaufungen, District of Kassel". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
^ Fritz Meyer, Oberkaufungen, 1962, p. 10, based on the DDH certificate. II 236/237 in the Merseburg archive.
↑ Merger of the municipalities of Oberkaufungen and Niederkaufungen in the district of Kassel to form the municipality of “Kaufungen” on November 12, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 48 , p. 2253 , point 2247 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.6 MB ]).
^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 400 .
↑ Sensory walks in the brickwork museum
^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017

[lagis-1] "Oberkaufungen, District of Kassel". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[2] Fritz Meyer, Oberkaufungen, 1962, p. 10, based on the DDH certificate. II 236/237 in the Merseburg archive.

[3] Merger of the municipalities of Oberkaufungen and Niederkaufungen in the district of Kassel to form the municipality of “Kaufungen” on November 12, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 48 , p. 2253 , point 2247 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.6 MB ]).

[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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 400 .

[5] Sensory walks in the brickwork museum

[6] Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017