Rock sweet

Rock sweet community Cornberg Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 12 ″ N , 9 ° 51 ′ 8 ″ E
Height :	270 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.48 km²
Incorporation :	1st October 1971
Postal code :	36219
Area code :	05650

Rockensüß is a district of the Cornberg community in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district . Rockensüß is located in the upper Sontra valley and belongs to the East Hessian mountainous region . It is embedded between the Stölzinger and Richelsdorf mountains .

The place is characterized by agriculture and some handicrafts.

Transport and sights

The village, located just a few kilometers north of Cornberg, is connected to the B 27 via a side road . The Bebra – Göttingen railway runs through Cornberg ; the next stop is in Sontra .

Sights are the Rittershain castle to the west , the former Cornberg monastery , the manor district and the Menglers manor.

history

In a sales deed from 1350 you can see that the area around Cornberg belonged to the dominion of Spangenberg . The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel then acquired the entire Spangenberg estate from Hermann IX for 8,000 silver marks . from Treffurt .

The village of Rokensoze was first mentioned in 1274 in a document from the Bubenbach monastery near Cornberg. The former settlement area Rittershain, which was first mentioned in 1322, could not survive and was again designated as a desert in 1376 . Today's castle was rebuilt with the manor in 1843.

The first church building in Rockensüß dates from the 14th century. After Landgrave Philipp von Hessen introduced the Reformation in 1526 , Rockensüß became Protestant. St. Andrew's Church, which was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War , was rebuilt in 1620 and the steeple was renewed in 1653.

The place was destroyed again in a major fire in 1838, and according to a forester named Siebert, the three church bells were even melted. The new building of the church was inaugurated in 1840, this third Rockensüßer church is still standing today. After the building had to be closed in 1991 due to dilapidation, it could be used again for church services in 2006 after extensive renovation.

On June 14, 1864, Rockensüß was hit by a severe flood after the water level of the Sontra had risen two meters as a result of severe storms. A water level mark on the old school still shows the extent of the flood at that time. In the same century, over 200 residents left the village and emigrated to America. The population decreased to 650 by 1870.

On October 1, 1971, the municipality of Rockensüß had to give up its independence as part of the regional reform . It was incorporated into the neighboring municipality of Cornberg.

Place name

According to an explanation by the Kassel historian Mittermeier, the place name is probably derived from the Celtic word rocca for "rock" or "stone" and the Old High German sioza for "cattle pasture in the forest". The spelling changed over the centuries between Rokensoze (1274), Rackinsuse (1348) and Ruckensues (1527). The current spelling Rockensüß appears for the first time in 1648 at the end of the Thirty Years War.

Web links

The place on the website of the municipality of Cornberg
Rockensüß, Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Literature about Rockensüß in the Hessian Bibliography
Search for Rockensüß in the archive portal D of the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

^ "Rockensüß, Hersfeld-Rotenburg district". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of December 8, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
↑ ^a ^b Rock-sweet. In: cornberg.de. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
^ Rittershain, Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 17, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
^ Rittershain Castle. In: cornberg.de. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
^ Wilhelm Bach: § 249: 4. Rockensüß. In: Church statistics of the Protestant Church in the Electorate of Hesse. Self-published, Kassel 1835, OCLC 46258847 , p. 384. ( online )
↑ Parish Rockensüß In: ekkw.de. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
↑ Silke Schäfer-Marg: Rockensüßer Church: tower is now a construction site. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine. June 28, 2013.
^ 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. 406 .
↑ 1274. - Kothel sells his goods to the Bubenbach monastery in Rockensüss. In: archive.org. Retrieved August 28, 2014.

[lagis-1] "Rockensüß, Hersfeld-Rotenburg district". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of December 8, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[Cornberg-2] Rock-sweet. In: cornberg.de. Retrieved August 28, 2014.

[3] Rittershain, Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 17, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[4] Rittershain Castle. In: cornberg.de. Retrieved August 28, 2014.

[5] Wilhelm Bach: § 249: 4. Rockensüß. In: Church statistics of the Protestant Church in the Electorate of Hesse. Self-published, Kassel 1835, OCLC 46258847 , p. 384. ( online )

[6] Parish Rockensüß In: ekkw.de. Retrieved August 28, 2014.

[7] Silke Schäfer-Marg: Rockensüßer Church: tower is now a construction site. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine. June 28, 2013.

[8] 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. 406 .

[9] 1274. - Kothel sells his goods to the Bubenbach monastery in Rockensüss. In: archive.org. Retrieved August 28, 2014.