Oberrosphe

Oberrosphe City of Wetter (Hessen)
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 31 ″  E
Height :	237 m above sea level NHN
Area :	21.66 km²
Residents :	752  (Jun 30, 2017)
Population density :	35 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 1971
Postal code :	35083
Area code :	06423

Oberrosphe is a district of Wetter (Hessen) in the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf in Central Hesse .

geography

The place is northeast of Wetter am Burgwald . District road 2 runs through the village .

history

Boards with an outline of the village's history

Local history museum (old forester's house with courtyard)

church

Oberrosphe is a Celtic foundation. They called the village roos-affa , which means “swampy, putrid water”. The place was first mentioned in writing in a document around 800. The first church (today Protestant) was built around 1000. In 1535, Landgrave Philip I had an official seat built in the village for the "riding forester and chief forester in the castle forest".

On December 31, 1971, Oberrosphe was incorporated into the city of Wetter (Hessen-Nassau) (the city's name at the time) .

Culture and sights

• There is a local museum in the old forest farm . The preserved residential building was erected in 1750 and replaced the previous building from 1535.
• In 1983, in the competition “Our village should become more beautiful” , the town won a gold medal at the federal level.
• Oberrosphe belongs to a Protestant parish with Unterrosphe and Göttingen .

Infrastructure

• In 2007 Oberrosphe citizens to joined in cooperative together to district heating from bioenergy to generate. For this purpose, a pipe network was laid and a thermal power station was built.

Web links

• Oberrosphe district on the website of the city of Wetter.
• Oberrosphe. Local history, information. In: www.oberrosphe.de. Private website 
• Oberrosphe, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Literature on Oberrosphe in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Budget 2016 (statistical information) of the city of Wetter (PDF 5.4 MB)
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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 402 .
3. ↑ The bioenergy village