Rhena

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Rhena
City of Korbach
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 18 ″  N , 8 ° 47 ′ 32 ″  E
Height : 438 m above sea level NHN
Area : 12.11 km²
Residents : 563  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 46 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1970
Postal code : 34497
Area code : 05631
Location of Rhena ("deer"), map from 1572

Rhena is a district of the district and Hanseatic town of Korbach in the north Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

Geographical location

Rhena is located in the western part of northern Hesse in the wooded and hilly northeastern foothills of the Rothaargebirge . It is located in the Diemelsee Nature Park, about 5.5 km (as the crow flies ) west-northwest of the Korbach town center. The Goddelsberg ( 525  m ) rises north of the 440  m high village . Rhena is traversed roughly in a north-south direction by the Neerdar tributary Rhena .

history

The place was first mentioned in documents in 980, when Emperor Otto II handed over the village of Rhena together with Korbach and Lelbach to the Corvey monastery and in return exchanged the Kaiserpfalz Memleben for it.

In 1120 the fortified church was built in Romanesque style with a rectangular and two-bay nave . The St. Thomas Church is located off the main street, on the church hill called "Kleppenberg". Here was also the seat of the Lords of Rhena, a local noble family that held the patronage of the church for a long time . A member of the family, Johann von Rhena (also Johann von Rehen) was 1543–1570 Landkomtur of the Ballei Marburg of the Teutonic Order .

The Lords of Rhena built their first castle ( Older Castle Rhena ) on a south-facing spur behind the church. This is mentioned for the first time in 1235. Nothing is left of this today. It was probably destroyed or demolished in 1755.

Reinhard von Rhena probably built the Rhena moated castle around 1555 , of which two stone houses are still preserved today. It is believed that some ornamental parts were made by Philipp Soldan . The moated castle Rhena is located on the street Zur Alten Mühle 11, south of Upländer Straße, on the Rhene.

On July 1, 1970, until then independent municipality Rhena was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse on a voluntary basis in the county seat Korbach incorporated . The municipality of Rhena had an area of 12.11 km².

The smallest elementary school in Hesse was located in Rhena, the Astrid Lindgren School , which was closed in the summer of 2013.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Rhena was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1541: 24 houses
• 1620: 30 houses
• 1650: 14 houses
• 1738: 31 houses
• 1770: 35 houses, 256 inhabitants
Rhena: Population from 1770 to 2015
year     Residents
1770
  
256
1834
  
310
1840
  
288
1846
  
275
1852
  
308
1858
  
293
1864
  
284
1871
  
294
1875
  
290
1885
  
325
1895
  
348
1905
  
323
1910
  
365
1925
  
402
1939
  
392
1946
  
617
1950
  
582
1956
  
510
1961
  
490
1967
  
516
1971
  
579
1980
  
581
1990
  
555
1995
  
587
2000
  
569
2005
  
567
2010
  
520
2015
  
525
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:
Romanesque church Rhena

Romanesque church

The Romanesque church of Rhena has the structure of a fortified church and looks very similar to that of the Willingen district of Welleringhausen . On the block-shaped altar is a beautiful crucifix from the 13th century. The massive sandstone baptismal font dates from the 12th century.

On the left choir wall are two cast-iron grave slabs that the church patron Arnolt von Rhena had his two wives Catharina, née von Padberg († 1568), and Elisabeth, née von Spiegel († 1572) put in place. The grave slab for Arnolt von Rhena bears three coats of arms above, those of Rhena, Padberg and Spiegel. The grave slabs are by the hand of the form cutter Conrad Luckeln , a student of Philipp Soldan .

traffic

Rhena is located on the Bömighausen - Lelbach section of the federal highway 251 , from which the district road  68 branches off to Schweinsbühl . The railway line Wabern – Brilon-Wald ( Uplandbahn ) with the nearby “Rhena-Lelbach” stop runs to the east of the village; To the north of this railway line is the Rhena Viaduct on a small tributary of the Rhena.

Personalities

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Rhena, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. Data & Facts. In: Internet presence. City of Korbach, archived from the original ; accessed in June 2018 .
  3. Incorporation of the municipalities of Alleringhausen, Eppe, Goldhausen, Helmscheid, Hillershausen, Lengefeld, Meineringhausen, Nieder-Schleidern, Rhena and Strothe into the city of Korbach, Waldeck district from June 19, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 27 , p. 1366 , item 1326 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.0 MB ]).
  4. ^ 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. 407 .
  5. Federal Statistical Office: Official register of municipalities for the Federal Republic of Germany with overviews of the administrative structure and information on the affiliation of the municipalities to local classes, postcode areas and some important administrative units. 1957 edition, p. 275
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. population development. In: Budget 2018. City of Korbach, p. Preliminary report VIII , archived from the original ; accessed on June 2, 2018 .
  8. Romanesque village church St. Thomas on www.semmler24.de