Rattlar

Rattlar Municipality Willingen (Upland) Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 40 "  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 54"  E
Height :	574 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.98 km²
Residents :	289  (Jan 18, 2018)
Population density :	41 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1972
Incorporated into:	Willingen
Postal code :	34508
Area code :	05632
Bird's-eye view south-east to Rattlar (2013) with the Höhenkopf in the foreground

Rattlar is a district of the community Willingen (Upland) in the north Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg . With about 545 to 738  m above sea level. NHN it is one of the highest recreational areas in the Upland .

Geographical location

Rattlar is located in the Diemelsee Nature Park about 3 km northeast of the Willingen core town and is between the Willingen district of Schwalefeld in the southwest and the Ottlar district in the northeast, which belongs to the Diemelsee municipality . It is surrounded by the following mountains, among others: Schetenkopf (approx.  650  m ) and Hegekopf (approx.  641  m ) in the north, Dommel ( 738  m ) in the northeast, Hermannsberg ( 705.1  m ) in the south, Lüerberg ( 713  m) ) in the southwest and Höhekopf ( 621.7  m ) in the northwest. The southern Dommelbach tributary Wiedbach runs through the village .

history

overview

Between 772 and 804 the Frankish emperor Charlemagne subjugated the Saxons in violent fighting and enforced their forced Christianization . According to legend, St. Sturmius , a pupil of Boniface , is said to have baptized the Uplanders at the "Christenbörnchen", a small spring on the road to Rattlar. Baptism water is still fetched from this spring today.

From 1230 Rattlar belonged to the county of Waldeck . In 1529 the county of Waldeck and with it Rattlar was reformed Protestant (today the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck).

From around 1540, the economic situation of the traditionally poor Upland improved somewhat due to the iron industry emerging there. The deforestation of all forests that this triggered triggered, however, a prolonged wood shortage.

The Thirty Years War (1618–1648) and the raging plague epidemics in the Sauerland (1636–1638) hit the village and the whole area hard. The towns in the area recovered only slowly from this. From the 17th to the 19th century, famines were not uncommon in the Upland and the Upland was considered to be Waldeck's poor house. With the onset of industrialization on the Rhine and Ruhr, many people from the area moved to the Bergisches Land to find work. By contrast, the situation of those left behind barely improved. It was not until around 1870 that economic conditions improved sustainably.

Local church

A church or chapel is said to have existed in the Middle Ages, but no longer existed before 1593, without any evidence of this. The residents of Rattlar attended the Protestant service in the church in Usseln, as u. a. for 1792–1794 based on a dispute about their church stands there (HStAM, Best 123, no. 1982). In the winter of 1932/33 the Protestant parish founded a church building association to build its own church. In 1939, the Arolsen Building Department delivered a design at a cost of 22,000 Reichsmarks, but the construction work was discontinued due to the war. Only in 1952 was another attempt made. A first draft was not approved because it did not include a tower; the then amended second draft was accepted. Construction began in the fall of 1953, in which many local or local companies were involved. On November 3, 1954, the first service was celebrated in the new church.

Administrative mapping

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , Rattlar and Schwalefeld were incorporated into the municipality of Willingen on April 1, 1972 . This was again powerful state law on 1 January 1974 with the municipality of Upland for greater community Willingen (Upland) together . Local districts were formed for all former municipalities . Willingen became the seat of the municipal administration.

Until the middle of the 19th century, Rattlar belonged to the parish and free court of Usseln .

Personalities

• Wilhelm Schwaner (1863–1944), elementary school teacher, journalist, publicist and publisher, worked and died in Rattlar
• Wilhelm Saure (1899–1951), lawyer and member of the Hessian state parliament, born in Rattlar

literature

• Walther Rathenau , Wilhelm Schwaner: A friendship in contradiction. The correspondence 1913–1922. Edited by Gregor Hufenreuter, Christoph Knüppel. Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86650-271-0 .
• Helmut Göbel: Rattlar (= Waldeckische Ortssippenbücher 43). Waldeckischer Geschichtsverein, Arolsen 1990 (processed period 1650–1989, 668 families).
• Literature on Rattlar in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

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

• Rattlar district. In: Website of the municipality of Willingen (Upland).
• Rattlar, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Landmark areas. In: Internet presence. Willingen municipality (Upland), archived from the original on November 4, 2018 ; accessed in November 2018 . 
2. ↑ Population of the districts. In: Internet presence. Municipality of Willingen (Upland), archived from the original on 20181102 ; accessed in November 2018 . 
3. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
4. ↑ history and construction of the Rattlarer church. Retrieved on July 14, 2019 (German). 
5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Frankenberg and Waldeck (GVBl. II 330-23) of October 4, 1973 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1973 No. 25 , p. 359 , § 3 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).
6. ^ 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. 409 .