Ropperode
Ropperode is a deserted former settlement in the district of Ehlen , a district of the municipality of Habichtswald in the northern Hessian district of Kassel . Today only the field name reminds of the former small village, in the place of which an existing farm was recorded on the topographic map in 1970 , which was finally demolished in 1972.
location
The settlement and the manor that was built in its place were located about 2 km southwest of Ehlen in the valley of the warmer between Ehlen in the northeast and Martinhagen in the southwest at 362 m above sea level , immediately south of the federal highway 44 (Europastraße 331) and west of the state road L. 3220, at the eastern foot of the Hundsberg (496 m), the northeastern second summit of the Wattenberg massif in the Hinterhabichtswälder peaks . In a wooded island with a small pond there are foundations and bricks from former buildings, the remains of the courtyard that was demolished in 1972.
history
The place is as Ruobburgorod first time in 1028 in a charter of the Abbey Hersfeld mentioned when Hageno, a chaplain of the court orchestra Emperor Conrad II. , Archbishop Aribo of Mainz his estate in the villages Ropperode and old field against an annual wine supply eight tuns left . Thereafter, the place appears as Ropurguroth in a document of the Hasungen monastery in 1074, when a certain nobility gave the monastery the settlement ( vicus ). The ending "-rode" is a reference to a medieval clearing settlement from the time between the 9th and 12th centuries.
In 1471 at the latest , Rupperderaide , which had already fallen desolately at that time, belonged to the Landgraves of Hesse. How the place came into their possession is not known. The few written reports about Ropperode provide no clear information about how the village, which was donated to Hasungen monastery in 1074, came into the possession of the Landgrave of Hesse; possibly this happened already with the Langdorfer Peace in September 1263, as the contentious of Mainz fief of the Monastery Bailiwick Hasungen the Hessian Landgrave Heinrich I was awarded. The demarcation of the desert was from 1471 landgrave fief of the Lords of Dalwigk , who then set up a courtyard there.
In 1515 the name Ropperode appears for the first time in the Hasunger valid register .
In the 19th century the court Ropperode in the family was in the 1780 Empire nobility raised Hessian Privy Council and Rentkammer president Friedrich Ludwig von Motz (1732-1817), father of the Hessian Minister of Finance Gerhard Heinrich von Motz .
The pottery desert
Pottery fragments can be found in large quantities in the area, since from the 11th to the 14th century there were around a dozen medieval pottery sites in the area of Ropperode, south of today's motorway and along the WARM . Several larger dump sites near the warmth, especially from the 11th and 12th centuries, have led to the place being referred to in the specialist literature as a "pottery desert". The clay was probably quarried on Hundsberg and transported to the pottery in the valley. The place was obviously very conveniently located for the pottery at the intersection of two medieval highways: the road leading from Fritzlar to the north into the Diemel area crossed the old cross-connection from the Werra valley via Kassel and the Schauenburg near Hoof to Korbach and further on about 2 km south of Ropperode to the west. From the traditional ownership since the late 11th century it is assumed that the potters, who apparently mainly produced in the 11th and 12th centuries, were somewhat dependent on the nearby Hasungen Monastery.
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 21 ″ N , 9 ° 18 ′ 6 ″ E
Web links
- Archaeological study on selected aspects of the medieval andwerk topography in the German-speaking area: inventory of the craft findings from the 6th to 14th centuries and comparative analysis
- Ropperode (desert), Kassel district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).