Rhoden (Diemelstadt)

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Rhodes
City of Diemelstadt
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 31 ″  N , 9 ° 0 ′ 36 ″  E
Height : 296 m above sea level NHN
Area : 28.03 km²
Residents : 1946  (Jun 30, 2020)
Population density : 69 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : November 1, 1970
Postal code : 34474
Area code : 05694

Rhoden is a district and the administrative seat of the city of Diemelstadt in the north Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg . It has around 1900 inhabitants, around 30 of them in the small hamlet of Laubach .

history

Alt-Rhoden ruins

The former settlement of Alt-Rhoden was built around 850 as a Carolingian / Franconian court. Around 1000 a parish church was built there, the ruins of which still exist. The settlement was first mentioned in a document in 1020.

A castle was built on the Hagenberg from 1228 to 1230. The fortified town of Rhoden was built on the castle hill . In 1237 it was first named in a document by Count Adolf I von Waldeck as Rothem in Castro . In 1244, Count Rhoden referred to as oppidum meum (= my city). The Alt-Rhoden settlement fell into desolation by 1330. The residents moved to today's city.

In the 13th century the first Rhod town church was built, which fell victim to the great town fire in 1540. It was rebuilt between 1560 and 1566.

After 1648 Rhoden was temporarily the residence of the count and later Prince Georg Friedrich , who had today's castle built on the foundation walls of the castle between 1647 and 1654 . Around 1650 he had the new town built. In 1664, when he inherited the county of Waldeck-Eisenberg, he moved to Arolsen .

The city fires of 1735, 1753 and 1873 destroyed 149, 10 and 98 houses respectively.

As part of the municipal reform in Hesse on 1 November 1970, the city of Rhodes and the community were Wrexen on a voluntary basis to the new Diemelstadt together .

Jewish Cemetery

The cemetery has an area of ​​33.50 acres . There are still 88 mazewot (tombstones) (as of 2017). The cemetery was occupied until 1942 and for the last time in 1966. During the Nazi era , there was only relatively little damage. 15 tombstones had to be put up again in 1946/1947. According to a report by the administration of the city of Rhoden from 1946, only two are said to have been violently overturned. In 1961, the Rhoden mayor AF Runte arranged for a memorial stone to be erected with the inscription “The victims of fascism 1933-1945”. This contains the names of the 28 Jewish residents who perished from Rhoden and Wrexen (in the left column those from Rhoden, on the right those from Wrexen).

In 1981 young people from Rhoden repaired the cemetery. The cemetery is on the outskirts (access from Warburger Weg). The new municipal cemetery has been adjacent since 1987. Since 1997, an additional entrance gate has led from the newly created cemetery parking lot to the Jewish cemetery.

coat of arms

Blazon : "A seven-pointed black star in gold, raised by a black wolf iron in the shape of a cauldron."

Attractions

Rhoden Castle
  • Rhoden Castle with the former castle garden: The castle is a typical transition building from a castle complex to a castle. Lower jurisdiction was exercised in front of the gate. In the Romanesque cellar vaults there is a stone fireplace as an architectural attraction, over which the hunted booty was roasted. A castle well around 100 meters deep was used to supply water. The garden is laid out in terraces. A population of old walnut trees and some exotic tree species no longer exist. In the period after the Second World War, the garden was used for agriculture. Today it is an ornamental garden again.
  • City Church of Rhodes
  • Rock formation Geotop Flüburg
  • Quast , panoramic mountain with surrounding FFH area

  • Aerial view

  • View of Rhoden from the Quast. In the foreground the federal highway 44

  • Church square with old town hall (yellow building)

traffic

The motorway exit Diemelstadt of the A 44 is on the northern edge of Rhoden. The B 252 leads from this exit as a bypass east of Rhodes over after Korbach .

Sons and daughters

  • Johannes Limberg (around 1650–1714), clergyman and author of travel literature
  • Henrich Miller (1702–1782), printer and newspaper editor in Philadelphia, first translator of the American Declaration of Independence
  • Rudolf Steinmetz (1801–1854), Lutheran theologian
  • Bernhard Martin (1889–1983), folklorist and linguist
  • Johannes Bach (1849–1909), member of the state parliament, baker and mayor in Rhoden
  • Christian Pröpper (1810-1894), German businessman and politician, Mayor of Rhoden from 1855 to 1892

literature

  • Karl Heinemann, Heinrich Friele: The Jewish cemetery Rhoden . Ed .: Waldeckischer Geschichtsverein. 2010 ( details - published August 13, 2010).
  • Jewish cemetery: from the shadow into the light . In: HNA . August 12, 2010 ( hna.de [accessed July 17, 2016]).
  • Hilmar G. Stoecker, Friedrich Hübel: Rhoden . Waldeckischer Geschichtsverein, Arolsen 1994 (= Waldeckische Ortssippenbücher 51); Covered period 1618–1993, 7115 families
  • Literature on Rhoden in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics. In: website. City of Diemelstadt, accessed August 2020 .
  2. ^ Diemelstadt - Sights. In: diemelstadt.de. City of Diemelstadt, accessed on July 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Merger of the city of Rhoden and the municipality of Wrexen in the Waldeck district to form the city of "Diemelstadt" on October 27, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 46 , p. 2179 , item 2188 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.0 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. ^ Rhoden (City of Diemelstadt, Waldeck-Frankenberg district). Jewish Cemetery. Alemannia Judaica, accessed September 20, 2017 .