Remmenhausen head

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Remmenhausen head
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height 427.6  m above sea level NHN
location at Balhorn ; District of Kassel , Hessen ( Germany )
Mountains Hinterhabichtswälder Kuppen ( Habichtswälder Bergland )
Coordinates 51 ° 16 ′ 11 "  N , 9 ° 16 ′ 22"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 11 "  N , 9 ° 16 ′ 22"  E
Remmenhausen Head (Hesse)
Remmenhausen head
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The Remmenhausener head is 427.6  m above sea level. NHN high and almost completely forested mountain in the Habichtswälder Bergland . It rises in the district of Balhorn , a district of the Bad Emstal municipality in the northern Hessian district of Kassel , Germany .

geography

location

The mountain is located in the Habichtswald Nature Park , in the southern part of the Hinterhabichtswälder peaks . Its summit is 3.1 km north-northeast of Sand and 2.5 km east of Balhorn, two districts of Bad Emstal , and 2.2 km south-southwest of Martinhagen , 3 km southwest of Breitenbach and 3.1 km west-northwest of Elmshagen , three districts from Schauenburg .

The Erzeberg ( 436.7  m ) rises to the southwest , and the Falkenstein ( 461.9  m ) with the Falkenstein castle ruins lies to the southeast . The mountain lies on the watershed between the two Eder tributaries, the Elbe (west) and Ems (east). The Ems flows along the eastern flank of the mountain; the Martinhagen creek coming along the northeast flank of Martinhagen, which is fed by the Molkenborn near the mouth, flows  into the Ems about 850 m east of the summit immediately after crossing the 3220 state road .

The L 3220 runs between Breitenbach and Sand in the valley of the Ems to the southeast past the mountain. The section from Breitenbach to Sand of the Kassel – Naumburg railway line , on which the Hessencourrier has been operating a museum railway since 1992, runs parallel to the L 3220 in this valley area .

Natural allocation

The Remmenhausen head belongs to the main natural unit group West Hessian mountain and sink country (No. 34) and in the main unit Habichtswälder Bergland (342) to the sub-unit Hinterhabichtswälder Kuppen (342.2). The landscape falls to the east into the natural area of Breitenbacher Mulde (342.10), which belongs to the subunit Habichtswälder Basin (342.1) , and to the west into the natural area of Istha Ebene (341.34), which in the main unit of Ostwaldecker Randsenken (341) belongs to the subunit Wolfhager Hügelland (341.3) .

history

The forest

The extensive Remmenhausen forest area on and around the Remmenhausen head came into possession very soon after the Merxhausen Monastery was founded and remained so after the monastery was dissolved in 1527 and converted into a Hohes Hospital in 1533 by Landgrave Philipp . It was an important source of income (from forest pasture , fishing , charcoal burning , etc.) for the monastery or hospital as well as firewood and timber for the monastery or hospital and the villages belonging to it. At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, the administration of the Merxhausen forest property was incorporated into that of the much more densely wooded Haina State Hospital . Today the Remmenhausen forest area, as well as the large forest areas of the former Haina monastery, are managed by the Haina monastery foundation forest in the sense of the landgrave's deed of foundation from 1533. These altogether almost 7,500 hectares of former monastery property are then to be preserved "forever" and sustainably managed and the surpluses from it are used for social purposes. In the past, the high hospitals received these surpluses, today they go to the State Welfare Association of Hesse , which has been the trustee of the foundation, which has since been dependent, and which manages the foundation's assets since it was founded in 1953.

The Balhorn quarries

For centuries, sandstones for the buildings in Kassel were supplied from the former Balhorn quarries on the north-eastern flank of the mountain, including those for the construction of a large castle on the Hüttenberg (555 m) about 500 m south-south-east, which began in 1696 and was abandoned after just a few years today's Hercules .

Reimboldshausen desert

At the southeast foot of the mountain in the so-called Reimershäuser Graben near its confluence with the Ems was the small settlement of Reimboldshausen . In 1236 it came into the possession of the Merxhausen Monastery as a gift, but it had already fallen in disaster by 1359 at the latest .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ Klaus Schulte: Experience the small train in the museum train "Hessencourrier" . In: Lutz Münzer (Ed.): From the dragon to the RegioTram. Railway history in the Kassel region . Kassel 2014. ISBN 978-3-933617-56-9 , pp. 152–157
  3. ↑ Martin Bürgener: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 111 Arolsen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. →  Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
  4. ↑ The Salbuch of the hospital from 1557, the so-called hereditary register above the Hohen spittal Merxhausen , describes in detail the outer boundaries of the mountain vnd Gehultz Remmenhausen . ( Heinrich Boucsein: The Forests of the Haina and Merxhausen Hospitals in the 16th Century , in: W. Heinemeyer & T. Pünder (Eds.): 450 Years of Psychiatry in Hessen . Elwert, Marburg, 1983, pp. 185–210 (205) , accessed on December 5, 2016, on geschichtsverein-bademstal.de)
  5. ↑ The seat of the forest management of the high hospitals' administration was the forestry office in Löhlbach ( Heinrich Boucsein: The forests of the Haina and Merxhausen hospitals in the 16th century , in: W. Heinemeyer & T. Pünder (ed.): 450 years of psychiatry in Hessen Elwert, Marburg, 1983, pp. 185-210 (196, 208), accessed on December 5, 2016, on geschichtsverein-bademstal.de)
  6. ↑ The forest on the Remmenhausener Kopf is managed by the Fischbach / Merxhausen district forester .
  7. ↑ From the history of Bad Emstal and its districts ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2016 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. , accessed on December 5, 2016, from bad-emstal.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bad-emstal.de
  8. ^ Topographical-statistical news from Niederhessen , Third Volume First Heft, Grießbach, Kassel, 1796, p. 107, accessed on December 5, 2016, on books.google.de
  9. ↑ Remnants of the ruins of the so-called “Little Hercules” or “Old Winter Box” are still there today.
  10. ^ Georg Landau : Historical-topographical description of the desolate localities in the Electorate of Hesse ... , (Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies; Seventh Supplement). Fischer, Kassel, 1858, p. 157, accessed on December 5, 2016, from books.google.com
  11. ↑ The architectural and art monuments in the Kassel administrative region; New episode, first volume: Wolfhagen district. , Friedrich Bleibaum (Ed.), Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel, 1937, p. 250, accessed on December 5, 2016, from uni-kassel.de