Rückershausen (Neukirchen)

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Rückershausen
City of Neukirchen
Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 30 ″  N , 9 ° 19 ′ 26 ″  E
Height : 239 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.19 km²
Residents : 183  (Jun. 30, 2017)
Population density : 44 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 34626
Area code : 06694

Rückershausen is a small district of the city of Neukirchen in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .

Geographical location

Rückershausen is located in the west of the urban area of Neukirchen . It is around 500 m away from the city center and from Riebelsdorf . The federal road 454 ( Kirchhain - Niederaula ) leads through Rückershausen . The Schwalm tributary Grenff passes through the southern edge of the village , into which the Goldbach flows in a north-south direction through the village .

history

Rückershausen was first mentioned in 1142 as Ruggereshusun in the property register of the Hersfeld Abbey (documents A II Hersfeld). Presumably the place is older, however, the settlement in the second settlement period during the Frankish period around 800 AD. In the archives of the monastery Spieskappel the place was mentioned around 1197 as Rikershusen , also Rukershusen . The Lords of Rückershausen were first mentioned in a document around 1226. They owned lands and properties in Ottrau , Merzhausen , Röllshausen and Willingshausen . They had their ancestral home in a castle in Ruggershusen . Information on such Outbound castle or documentary mentions are not known.

In 1340, the Immichenhain monastery gave the Count of Ziegenhain all of its goods in the village in exchange. In the years 1336 and 1343, two lines of von Rückershausen were entrusted with the court of Ottrau. With the extinction of these lines in the male line , part of the property went to the von Baumbach family and another part to the Schleier family. With the death of Helwig von Rückershausen in 1576, his inheritance fell to von Schwertzell in Willingshausen through the marriage of his daughter Dorothea . Helwig von Rückershausen was buried in the town church in Treysa , where his epitaph can still be found today .

The place belonged to the office and court of Neukirchen in the county of Ziegenhain , which fell to the Landgraviate of Hesse in 1450 with the death of the last count, Johann II . Up until the Middle Ages, a road to the Spieß , a court and meeting place near Spieskappel , ran between Rückershausen and Riebelsdorf .

The 800th anniversary of the place was made up for in 1957. On June 30, 1979, the village community center was inaugurated with a new fire station on the former cemetery.

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , Rückershausen became a district of Neukirchen on December 31, 1971.

Population development

year Residents Houses
1777 80 20th
1895 145 29
1933 167
1939 156
1957 197
1961 189
1970 182
1971 176
1992 213 32
2006 199 41
2007 196 41
2008 191 42
2009 180 42
2012 192

religion

A chapel was built in the 13th century . In 1816 a nave with rectangular windows was added. The formerly ribbed vaulted choir from the 15th century with small late Gothic pointed arched windows has been preserved. During the renovation in 1962, a cycle of six scenes dated 1559 was uncovered in the area of ​​the choir. Presumably these portraits were a gift from Helwig von Rückershausen . After the Reformation , under Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel, all pictures and crucifixes were banned from the churches. The wall paintings were whitewashed over in 1612 and have thus been preserved. The pictures depict scenes from the life of Jesus and one of the suffering of Lazarus . In terms of color, they correspond to the time of their creation. Similar representations of such biblical scenes and architectural representations are still unprecedented in other Hessian churches.

The church is located in the center of the village. In November 1965, a memorial to the victims of World War I and World War II was inaugurated on the outer wall of the church.

coat of arms

On November 24, 1966, the municipality of Rückershausen in the district of Ziegenhain was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon : In red, a golden sheaf between two silver axes turned away.

Culture and sights

For the cultural monuments of the place which are under monument protection see the list of cultural monuments in Rückershausen (Neukirchen) .

Natural monuments

In the northern Rückershausen forest there is a dead oak with a chest height of 5.90 m (2015).

Knüllwaldbahn cycle path

On July 31, 1907, the Knüllwaldbahn from Treysa to Bad Hersfeld was opened, but without a stop in Rückershausen. The route touches the place south near the fish pond. On June 1, 1984, passenger traffic on the route between Oberaula and Treysa was discontinued, and freight traffic on August 31, 1995. In the summer of 2007, the expansion of the first section of the Knüllwaldbahn Cycle Path (R11) (part of the Europaradweg D4) began on the former railway line for nine kilometers from Riebelsdorf to Lenzenmühle near Kleinropperhausen , which was used in April 2008 and the section was also opened in September 2009 released from Lenzenmühle to Wahlshausen .

Volunteer firefighter

The local volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1935 and is the second oldest volunteer fire brigade in the city of Neukirchen after the core city brigade with the Seigertshausen fire brigade. It ensures local fire protection and assistance. It is also part of the city of Neukirchen's disaster control train.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rückershausen (Neukirchen), Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ "Facts & Figures" on the website of the city of Neukirchen (Küll) , accessed in January 2019
  3. ^ 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. 412 .
  4. ↑ Lukas Krämer: Valuable things on the church wall . Ed .: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . March 19, 2012 ( HTML [accessed August 30, 2012]).
  5. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the community of Rückershausen, district of Ziegenhain, administrative district of Kassel from November 24, 1966 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1966 No. 50 , p. 1570 , item 1170 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.4 MB ]).
  6. ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017