Schenklengsfeld

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Coat of arms of the community of Schenklengsfeld
Schenklengsfeld
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Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '  N , 9 ° 51'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : kassel
County : Hersfeld-Rotenburg
Height : 317 m above sea level NHN
Area : 63.79 km 2
Residents: 4348 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 68 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 36277
Primaries : 06629, 06621 (Wippershain)Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : HEF, ROF
Community key : 06 6 32 019
Community structure: 14 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Rathausstrasse 2
36277 Schenklengsfeld
Website : www.schenklengsfeld.de
Mayor : Carl Christoph Möller (non-party)
Location of the community Schenklengsfeld in the district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg
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Schenklengsfeld is a municipality in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in eastern Hesse .

geography

Geographical location

View of the core town of Schenklengsfeld

The community of Schenklengsfeld is located in the foothills of the Kuppenrhön between the Seulingswald in the north and the Hessian skittles in the south. Bad Hersfeld is about 8 km west-northwest and about 17 km south-southwest Hünfeld (depending on the beeline ). It is located on a fertile plateau. In the west the area slopes down to the Fulda and in the east to the Werra valley . At Schenklengsfeld part of the watershed runs between these two rivers. The small river Solz , which flows into the Fulda in Bad Hersfeld, has its source in the neighboring municipality of Eiterfeld . The source of the Ransbach , which flows into the Werra at Philippsthal, is also located here .

The lowest point is 225  m above sea level. NN in the Solzaue. The highest point in the municipality is 511  m above sea level. NN high Landecker Berg .

Neighboring communities

Schenklengsfeld borders in the north on the town of Bad Hersfeld and the community Friedewald , in the east on the community Hohenroda (all three in the district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg), in the south on the community Eiterfeld (in the district Fulda ) and in the west on the community Hauneck (im District of Hersfeld-Rotenburg).

Community structure

The community consists of the districts of Schenklengsfeld, Dinkelrode , Erdmannrode , Hilmes , Konrode , Lampertsfeld , Landershausen , Malkomes , Oberlengsfeld , Schenksolz , Unterweiseborn , Wehrshausen , Wippershain and Wüstfeld .

history

The Protestant Mauritius Church

The place Schenklengsfeld was mentioned for the first time around the year 800 as "Lengesfeld in Thuringia" in the " Breviarium Lulli " of the Hersfeld monastery and quickly developed into an administrative center with a bailiwick, court and bailiff. A gallows is mentioned in 1688. From 1648, Schenklengsfeld and the entire Landeck office belonged to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel and was Reformed Protestant. During the time of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia (1807-1813) Schenklengsfeld was the main town and seat of the Magistrates' Court of the Canton Landeck .

In 1455 a Gesundbrunnen was mentioned near Lengsfeld. In addition to this source, two other sources sprang up in 1688. From April 23, 1688, there was a bathing establishment with a fountain house for several years, supervised by the bathing doctor Dr. Bachoff from Gotha .

The place had from 1912 to 1993 with the Hersfeld Kreisbahn a rail connection to Bad Hersfeld and in the Werra valley to Heimboldshausen. Today the premises of the former circular railway at the old train station are still present. On September 11, 2009, the Werra-Fulda-Bahn e.V. V. acquired this together with the section to Heimboldshausen from the Hessische Landesbahn; in the future a museum railway is to take place.

Incorporations

The small community of Lampertsfeld was incorporated into Schenklengsfeld on April 1, 1962. The large community was created in 1971 and 1972 on the occasion of the regional reform in Hesse . On February 1, 1971 Konrode, Oberlengsfeld, Unterweiseborn and Wehrshausen were incorporated. On December 31, 1971, the communities Dinkelrode, Landershausen, Malkomes and Schenksolz followed. On August 1, 1972, the communities Erdmannrode (from the district of Hünfeld ), Hilmes, Wippershain and Wüstfeld were added.

Population development

year 1961 1970 1972 1975 1978 1981 1986 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 2000 2002 2004 2006 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017
Residents 4748 4784 4742 4717 4643 4577 4592 4671 4850 4936 4944 4915 4921 4856 4803 4717 4670 4614 4553 4527 4437

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016
  
A total of 23 seats
  • SPD : 11
  • BGL : 12
 Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 46.8 11 49.5 11 50.5 12 62.7 14th
BGL The citizen list 53.2 12 42.4 10 - - - -
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens - - 8.1 2 - - - -
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany - - - - 38.2 9 27.1 6th
FDP Free Democratic Party - - - - 5.0 1 3.5 1
FWG Free community of voters Schenklengsfeld - - - - 6.4 1 - -
FWG rocker. Free voter community Wippershain - - - - - - 6.6 2
total 100.0 23 100.0 23 100.0 23 100.0 23
Voter turnout in% 63.4 63.2 64.9 65.7
Town hall Schenklengsfeld

mayor

The long-time mayor Horst Hannich ( SPD ) was re-elected in 1999 with 86% of the vote. After 30 years in office, Hannich did not stand for election in 2005, but was appointed honorary mayor. In the runoff election, Stefan Gensler (CDU) won 51.1% against his opponent Werner Kümmel (SPD). After 12 years in office, Gensler did not stand for re-election in 2017. There was a runoff between the candidate on the citizens' list, Udo Langer, and the independent candidate Carl Christoph Möller, who prevailed with 1,408 votes (56.30%).

coat of arms

Schenklengsfeld coat of arms
 Blazon : "In silver a split green linden branch, accompanied by a red paw cross at the top right."

The coat of arms was approved on March 14, 1955 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior .

Culture and sights

The historic cemetery with its around 270 gravestones from the 17th to 19th centuries shows the region's unique burial culture

Museums

The Judaica Museum has existed in Schenklengsfeld since 1999. It was set up in the former teacher's house of the Jewish community of Schenklengsfeld as a memorial and memorial. The residential building, built by the Jewish community in 1912, was used from 1996 to 1999 by the support group Jüdisches Lehrerhaus Schenklengsfeld e. V. completely renovated and contains two apartments on the upper floors on the ground floor, a seminar room with a specialist library and an exhibition room with exhibits on the religion and history of the Jewish minority of Schenklengsfeld. In 1925 it made up around 13% of the population with 149 souls. In the village there was a synagogue , a Jewish elementary school and there is also the Jewish cemetery, which is worth seeing. The last Jews left the place in the summer of 1940. The community has a total of 22 Holocaust victims to mourn, for whom a memorial stone was erected on the Jewish cemetery in November 1988.

Buildings

  • Landeck castle ruins on Landecker Berg (built at the beginning of the 12th century by the abbots of the monastery in Hersfeld and destroyed in the Peasants' War)
  • Mauritius Church, Protestant mother church of the Schenklengsfeld parish. Tower construction from the 12th century and nave from 1736/40. The baroque spire was put on in 1822.
  • Historic Schenklengsfeld cemetery and Jewish cemetery (Schenklengsfeld had a larger independent Jewish community until 1933 )
  • Engine shed on the former Hersfeld circular railway

Natural monuments

The more than 1000 year old summer linden tree

A lime tree over 1000 years old on the former market square. According to the ARD broadcast Germany's oldest trees , which was broadcast for the first time on April 23, 2007, the linden tree is believed to be 1120 years old and is the oldest tree in Germany.

Regular events

  • Hiking market of the municipalities (formerly Kuppenrhöner Landmarkt)
  • Linden blossom festival on the linden tree (every second year on a weekend in June)
  • Evening under the linden tree (every other year alternating with the linden blossom festival)
  • Fair in Schenklengsfeld (every year July / August)
  • Village evening of the traditional costume and folk dance group Schenklengsfeld in the community center Schenklengsfeld (every year on a Saturday and Sunday in November)

Economy and Infrastructure

Former railway depot Schenklengsfeld of the Hersfeld district railway

traffic

Schenklengsfeld is connected to the national transport network via various country roads. Above all, they create the connection to the federal highway 62 , which leads past the municipality to the north.

Local public transport is carried out by ÜWAG Bus GmbH with lines 340 and 345.

There is no traffic on the Bad Hersfeld – Heimboldshausen (Solztalbahn) line . The Solztal Cycle Path, which is now part of the Hesse Railway Cycle Path , runs through the village . This leads from Hanau on former railway lines about 250 km through the Vogelsberg and the Rhön and ends in Bad Hersfeld .

Other facilities

The village has a community center , which also includes the Großsporthalle the community. Schenklengsfeld has had a radio station called Radio Landeck since 2010 .

Schenklengsfeld's sons and daughters

literature

  • Anette Lenzing: Court linden trees and thing places in Germany. Langewiessche, Königstein 2005, ISBN 3-7845-4520-3 .
  • Konrad Schüler: The Landeck Office and its residents. Kassel (1914) 1933.
  • Peter Roßkopf: The Landecker Amt in the Hersfeld district. Bad Hersfeld 1964.
  • Christian-Jewish working group Schenklengsfeld: History of the Jewish community Schenklengsfeld. Schenklengsfeld 1988.
  • Karl Honikel: 60 years ago: Deportation of the Sally Löwenberg family from Schenklengsfeld to Riga. A contribution to remembrance and commemoration. In: Mein Heimatland , supplement to the Hersfelder Zeitung, January 2002.
  • Karl Honikel, Roland Wenzel u. a .: Heimerskirchen, prayer houses and bell towers in the former Landeck office. A study of the small village churches from the 18th and 19th centuries in the parish of Schenklengsfeld (Hersfeld-Rotenburg district). Their importance and decay in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Series of publications by the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art. Issue 5, Wiesbaden and Kassel 2007, pages 19–66.
  • Rural Women's Association Landecker Amt e. V. (Ed.): Deef eß daer Boenn - deep is the well of the past ... what is told, experienced, preserved in dialect. Bad Hersfeld-Schenklengsfeld 2005.
  • Heimatverein Landeck 1953 e. V. (Ed.): Schenklengsfeld and its districts in the Landecker Amt in pictures of bygone times. Schenklengsfeld 1989.
  • Johannes Hesse: "Our Lime Tree" - The history of the more than 1000-year-old Linden tree from Schenklengsfeld. Probably the oldest linden tree in Germany.
  • Johannes Hesse: "Almost forgotten" - Schenklengsfeld back then - 2015.
  • Literature on Schenklengsfeld in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Schenklengsfeld  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ^ Municipal reform: mergers and integration of municipalities from January 20, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 6 , p. 248 , item 328, para. 38 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.2 MB ]).
  3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Hersfeld and Rotenburg (GVBl. II 330-13) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 217 , § 11 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  4. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  5. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  6. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  7. ↑ No third term of office for Schenklengsfeld's mayor Stefan Gensler . In: https://www.hersfelder-zeitung.de . December 17, 2016 ( hersfelder-zeitung.de [accessed April 26, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Mayoral election in Schenklengsfeld: runoff between Langer and Möller . In: https://www.hersfelder-zeitung.de . September 24, 2017 ( hersfelder-zeitung.de [accessed April 26, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Carl Christoph Möller becomes the new mayor of Schenklengsfeld . In: https://www.hersfelder-zeitung.de . October 8, 2017 ( hersfelder-zeitung.de [accessed April 26, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the community Schenklengsfeld in the district of Hersfeld, administrative district of Kassel from March 14, 1955 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1955 no. 13 , p. 311 , point 342 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3,4 MB ]).
  11. ↑ Information about the synagogue and the Jewish community on the Alemannia Judaica website , as viewed on April 7, 2014
  12. ↑ Regional in four places . In: https://www.hersfelder-zeitung.de . August 26, 2014 ( hersfelder-zeitung.de [accessed April 26, 2018]).