Rittmannshausen

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Rittmannshausen
community Ringgau
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 15 ″  N , 10 ° 7 ′ 45 ″  E
Height : 355  (351–376)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.04 km²
Residents : 151  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density : 37 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 37296
Area code : 05659
Rittmannshausen

Rittmannshausen is a district of the Ringgau community in the Werra-Meißner district in northern Hesse .

Geographical location

The place is located in the northeastern part of the Ringgau , on the Hessian-Thuringian border, about three kilometers east of the main town Netra . In the local area, the state road 3300 , coming from the northern neighboring town Weißenborn , meets the federal road 7 . The Netra rises in the area around the village and about 600 m southwest of the settlement .

history

Significant parts of the Ringgau came into the possession of the powerful Counts of Northeim in the 11th century , who presumably initiated the construction of the Boyneburg as an administrative center. Before that there were already several prehistoric fortifications in this area (Graburg, Schäfersburg, Hüneburg ) which served the population as refuges and a Franconian castle in Renda , the first capital of the district of Ringgau. Around 1223, the Lange-Hessen-Straße via Creuzburg was upgraded with the construction of a stone Werra bridge , it connected the Hessian possessions of the Thuringian landgraves with the capital Eisenach . This old military and trade route ran just south of today's location (field name Alte Strasse ).

After the Thuringian-Hessian War of Succession (1247-1263), Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse received the Boyneburg and associated possessions, including Rittmanshausen , in 1264 .

The place Ridanßhusen was first mentioned in 1195, when Pope Celestine III. put the Germerode monastery under his protection, but this document only exists as a copy, this document is followed by a contract - with the name of the place in the spelling Ritandishusen (settlement of a ritandis) - from April 19, 1315 as the earliest preserved specimen. In this important document on local history, a noble family is mentioned, which was resident in Rittmannshausen and in 1315 provided a councilor in the neighboring town of Creuzburg . The Scherff knight family, which belonged to the Burgmannen of Creuzburg Castle , had temporarily acquired property in Rittmannshausen, parts of which were also owned by the Lords of Netra, who sold them to the Lords of Boyneburg in 1366 . The Boyneburgers were both feudal lords and court lords. They owned a courtyard that was used as an office building; presumably this is the courtyard in the locality, which was still called the castle in 1840 . In 1525 the Peasants' War reached its climax in Thuringia. The unrest also spread to the Hessian part of the Ringgau, after which the rebels were severely punished.

Rittmannshausen belonged to the semi-autonomous Boyneburg court . In 1615, the Lords of Boyneburg initially got into a dispute with the local citizens of the community, which over the years expanded into a bitter feud against the village (Rittmanshausen rebellion). The occasion was the question of the enforcement of a "Policey Ordinance" issued by Boyneburg-Hohenstein from 1604, with which the municipality of Rittmannshausen (as well as others) were deprived of considerable self-administration rights and the validity of which the Rittmannshausen therefore vehemently contested. The von Boyneburg left no stone unturned to break the resistance of the Rittmann houses, which they only succeeded in 1620. The Landgraviate of Hesse , which had previously been the landlord of the "Germerödischen men" who had previously been subject to the Germerode monastery , bought another part of the village in 1650. The newly won subjects were the office of Bischhausen . assigned, but the village as such remains part of the Boyneburg court. Rittmannshausen has belonged to the Eschwege district since 1821 .

On December 31, 1971, the previously independent place was incorporated into the new municipality of Ringgau as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

church

The nave of the Rittmanshausen Church was rebuilt in 1828 by the master builder Johann Friedrich Matthei , the church tower comes from a previous building that was destroyed in the Thirty Years War . There are two bells from the 14th century, one of which as in the church Marie bell by the inscription AVE MARIA GRACIA PLENA DOMINUS TECUM Bened is reported.

During construction work in 1970 the remains of the old baptismal font decorated with a coat of arms were found, which experts date to around 1520.

Population development

In 1925 there were 149 inhabitants, there were 164 in 1933, and in 1939 the place had 168 inhabitants.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rittmannshausen, Werra-Meißner district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of January 25, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Geodata Center: Rittmannshausen , accessed in February 2016.
  3. ↑ Hermann von Roquess: Urkundenbuch the monastery Kaufungen Hesse . Cassel 1900, p. No. 134 .
  4. ↑ Thomas Diehl: Aristocratic rule in the Werra area. The Boyneburg court in the process of laying the foundations for early modern statehood (late 16th to early 18th century), Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse, Darmstadt and Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88443-314-0 (sources and Research on Hessian History 159).
  5. ↑ Thomas Diehl: Aristocratic rule in the Werra area. The Boyneburg court in the process of laying the foundations for early modern statehood (late 16th to early 18th century), Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse, Darmstadt and Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88443-314-0 (sources and Research on Hessian History 159).
  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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 388 .
  7. ↑ NN: The Rittmannshaus Church . In: 800 years of Rittmannshausen . 1995, p. 62-64 .
  8. ^ Gerhard Seib: The baptismal font in the Rittmannshaus Church . In: 800 years of Rittmannshausen . 1995, p. 79-81 .