Rasdorf

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Rasdorf (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '  N , 9 ° 54'  E
Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	kassel
County :	Fulda
Height :	319 m above sea level NHN
Area :	30.07 km 2
Residents:	1554 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	52 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	36169
Area code :	06651
License plate :	FD
Community key :	06 6 31 022
Address of the municipal administration:	Am Anger 32 36169 Rasdorf
Website :	www.rasdorf.de
Mayor :	Jürgen Hahn ( CDU )
Location of the community Rasdorf in the district of Fulda

Rasdorf is a municipality in the Fulda district in East Hesse in Germany .

The Hessian Ministry of the Interior and Sport has her with certificate of 24 July 2015, the name of Point Alpha -Gemeinde awarded.

Geographical location

Rasdorf is located in a wide, open area in the middle of the " Kuppenrhön " ( called Hessisches Kegelspiel in the region ), directly on the Hessian- Thuringian border in the Rhön biosphere reserve .

Neighboring communities

Rasdorf borders in the north on the municipality Eiterfeld (district of Fulda), in the east on the municipality Buttlar , the city Geisa and the municipality Rockenstuhl (all three in the Thuringian Wartburg district ), in the south on the municipality Nüsttal , and in the west on the city Hünfeld ( both in the district of Fulda).

structure

The districts Rasdorf, Setzelbach and Grüsselbach belong to the community .

history

The monastery Fulda and the subsidiary monastery Rasdorf owe their existence to the Saxon missioning at the time of the Carolingians . Abbot des Baugulf (779–802) received 781 “Haunfeld” (Hünfeld) and the village of Rasdorf with all its corridors in return.

The place Rasdorf must have existed before 781. A subsidiary monastery in Rasdorf is mentioned in 815. 32 to 34 monks and about 20 monastery students are proven in the 9th century in the subsidiary monastery Rasdorf. In 845, the Fulda abbot Rabanus and King Ludwig the German met for reconciliation in Rasdorf. In the dispute between King Lothar and his brothers Ludwig and Karl, Rabanus had been on the "wrong" side, namely on Lothar's side. When Ludwig became master of Eastern Franconia , Rabanus withdrew and resigned the abbot. Thanks to the Rasdorf reconciliation, which took place on the initiative of the king, Rabanus was appointed archbishop of Mainz in 847 . Rabanus stipulated that preaching was to be done in German, according to a provision by Charlemagne , "that the word of God is to be proclaimed to the people in their mother tongue ".

The subsidiary monastery Rasdorf was converted into a collegiate monastery around 877 .

On May 21, 977 Otto II visited the Fulda monastery and received a delegation from the Rasdorf collegiate monastery under the leadership of his chancellor Egbert.

The collegiate church in Rasdorf is one of the most architecturally significant village churches in Hesse.

Rasdorf gained importance due to its location on the historical trade route Via Regia ( Frankfurt am Main - Eisenach - Leipzig ).

Today's community of Rasdorf was created in the course of the regional reform in Hesse on April 1, 1972 through the merger of the previously independent communities of Grüsselbach, Rasdorf and Setzelbach.

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016   A total of 15 seats CDU : 15	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	100.0	15th	65.3	10	68.8	10	69.8	11
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	-	-	34.7	5	11.5	2	16.2	2
	CWE / FWG	Christian voter unity / Free voter community	-	-	-	-	19.7	3	14.0	2
	total		100.0	15th	100.0	15th	100.0	15th	100.0	15th
	Voter turnout in%		70.8		65.8		72.3		73.7

The 2016 election took place in accordance with the provisions of the Hessian Local Election Act according to the principles of majority voting , as there was only one election proposal. The voter is entitled to as many votes as the total number of mandates to be awarded. All applicants are listed on the ballot, among whom the voter then distributes his votes.

coat of arms

The municipality of Rasdorf in what was then the district of Hünfeld was approved on May 25, 1971 by the Hessian Minister of the Interior for a coat of arms with the following blazon : "Above a red wall in silver with a defense tower on the right, the black Fulda cross."

At the suggestion of the community, the then restored wall of their military cemetery, which is the most important preserved structure of this type in Hesse, was included in the new coat of arms. Since this suggestion could be realized in an excellent heraldic way and this wall embodies such a distinctive and valuable local historical monument, the State Archives were happy to comply with this request of the community and to connect this local symbol with the cross of the Fulda Abbey, to which just now Rasdorf has had a very close spiritual and political relationship since it was founded. In this way, a coat of arms was created that corresponds both to a very special local condition and to the political and territorial-historical conditions that have determined the fate of the community for centuries.

The design of the coat of arms was in the hands of the Bad Nauheim heraldist Heinz Ritt .

Attractions

Buildings

Catholic collegiate church

• The Rasdorf collegiate church was built in 831 by the abbot of the Fulda monastery, Rabanus Maurus . In 1274 the church was rebuilt. A new church with a Gothic exterior was created while maintaining the floor plan and using old Romanesque components. The Gothic columns are valuable in terms of art history. The eight columns with their capitals are the main attractions in the collegiate church. Art historians suspect that these columns and capitals, which are highly significant in art history, go back to Byzantine influence. Six columns in the Greek style divide the basilica (nave and two aisles). Two stocky columns (Romanesque) with rare animal capitals in the western part of the basilica are among the oldest parts of the church. The shape of the Romanesque font (12th century) is reminiscent of a depiction of St. Boniface at a pagan baptism.
• A fortified cemetery (around 1200) that has survived to this day is surrounded by a high wall in an irregular square, the side lengths between 55 and 67 m and a height between 4 and 6 m with a thickness of about 0.80 m. It also has four corner towers with pointed hoods and loopholes, which offered protection for the Rasdorf population in uncertain times. There is also a gatehouse and a covered battlement. Until 1827 the cruciform Romanesque parish church of St. Michael stood in the middle. It was demolished after being sold. The cemetery cross is from 1751.
• Northwest of Rasdorf on the Gehilfersberg lies the pilgrimage chapel “St. Maria and fourteen helpers in need ”. In place of a previous chapel, which was mentioned in 1586, it was built around 1625, first to worship a miraculous cult image ( St. Gehülf ), then the 14 helpers in need . In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Gehilfersberg was the most important pilgrimage site of the Fulda Monastery. The chapel has a baroque interior. After a fire in 1996 the chapel was completely destroyed, but was rebuilt true to the original and consecrated in May 1997. Seven wayside shrines from around 1750, each of which depicts two helpers, lead to the chapel.
• The central village square is the largest in Hessen with dimensions of 170 × 75 m. The municipal administration is also located here. In the Middle Ages it was also a court of law and offered a horse changing area for merchants on what was then Frankfurt-Leipziger Strasse. The Josefsbrunnen, which was made from clay in 1956 and has been a bronze figure since 1995, is also located on the green.
• In the Rasdorf district of Grüsselbach, a 2.20 meter high monument made of shell limestone on Lindeneck has been a reminder of the residents of the Geisa office (Thuringia) who were forcibly resettled after 1945 or who fled to the west. The memorial was made by the sculptor Johannes Kirsch on behalf of the "home district of the former Geisa office".
• On the Kleinberg belonging to the Rasdorf district , one of the volcanic cone mountains of the Hessian Kegelspiel , about two kilometers northwest of the town and only about one kilometer southeast of Großentaft are the remains of the probably Celtic small one-piece Iron Age ring rampart Kleinberg
• The oldest half-timbered house in Rasdorf is the canons' house from 1594, formerly a residence of the canons. It was restored in 1996. Today it houses the landscape information center. There is also a lapidarium on the property .

Point Alpha Memorial

Memorial at the former inner-German border at Point Alpha : “The victims of the German division . The brave of the peaceful revolution of 1989. The builders of reunification . "

The Point Alpha memorial is located on the Hessian-Thuringian border between Rasdorf and Geisa in the Rhön. A US Army observation post was located here for four decades. Two associations would like to keep the observation post here on the Hessian side and a piece of the GDR border security systems on the Thuringian side in order to keep alive the memory of the unfortunate division of Germany and the confrontation between NATO and the Warsaw Pact . The American observation tower offers a view over the Kuppenrhön and the Ulstertal .

Railway line

The Hünfeld – Wenigentaft – Mansbach railway ran from December 1, 1906 to May 28, 1972 near Rasdorf. The 27 km long skittles cycle path leading to Rasdorf has been running on the route since 2007 .

Sons and daughters of the church

• Michael Landgraf (1498–1571), Abbot of the Imperial Abbey of Hersfeld
• Josef Budenz (1836–1892), linguist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Adalbert Endert (1850–1906), born in the district of Setzelbach, theologian, Roman Catholic bishop of Fulda
• Georg Stieler (1886–1955), politician
• Johann Adam Förster (1795–1890), born in the Grüsselbach district, pioneer of democracy
• Gregor Richter (Cathedral Chapter) (1874–1945), born in the Grüsselbach district, professor
• Eduard Hartmann (1874–1952), priest, professor

literature

• Josef Leinweber (†) and Johannes Burkardt: Rasdorf . In: Friedhelm Jürgensmeier et al.: The Benedictine monasteries and nunneries in Hessen (Germania Benedictina 7 Hessen), Eos, St. Ottilien 2004, pp. 910–912. ISBN 3-8306-7199-7 .

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Rasdorf
• "Rasdorf, District of Fulda". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Literature about Rasdorf in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ State Gazette for the State of Hesse - August 10, 2015. ( PDF ) No. 33. (No longer available online.) In: ms-visucom.de. Hessian Ministry of the Interior and for Sport , p. 831 , archived from the original on March 9, 2016 ; accessed on March 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 400 .
4. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 . 
5. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
6. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
7. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the community Rasdorf, district Fulda from March 14, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1973 No. 14 , p. 619 , point 464 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.9 MB ]).
8. ^ Marianne Walther: The Rasdorfer figure capitals, their structural analysis, iconography and temporal classification. Frankfurt am Main 1993 (dissertation at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University)
9. ↑ Grüsselbacher Dorfchronik p. 9 ( Memento of the original of February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Winfried Walk: Professor Dr. Dr. Gregor Richter ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; in: Rasdorfer Geschichtsblätter issue 6/2 (2001), pp. 7–9 (pdf; 705 kB) 
11. ↑ Gisela Falkenhahn-Klee: Prof. Dr. Eduard Hartmann ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; in: Rasdorfer Geschichtsblätter Edition 9/2 (2002), pp. 1–2 (pdf; 770 kB)