Schmillinghausen

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Schmillinghausen
City of Bad Arolsen
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 44 ″  N , 9 ° 1 ′ 33 ″  E
Height : 228 m above sea level NHN
Area : 12.05 km²
Residents : 431
Population density : 36 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 34454
Area code : 05691

Schmillinghausen is a district of Bad Arolsen in the north Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

Geographical location

Schmillinghausen is located in the Waldecker Land north of Bad Arolsen on the federal highway 252 and is surrounded by meadows and forests. It is located on the wall into which the Schwarze Puhle flows below the village and flows from the west.

history

Schmillinghausen was probably founded as early as the second settlement period between 400 and 800 AD. The first documentary mention was in 1312, when Dietrich von Mederike ordered the chapel built by him at the "villa in Smedelinchusen" to be separated from its previous parish church in Külte and given its own people's priest (plebanus). Herbsen and Hörle belonged to the parish Schmillinghausen . The lords of Mederike, who died out in the male line by 1405 at the latest, had property in Schmillinghausen until at least 1365, which they used as pledge. In 1357 they leased the mill of the Holy Cross in Schmillinghausen to the miller Johann.

The village belonged to the domain of the Counts of Waldeck . From the year 1335 it is known that the slope of the hill from the place was given to Johann von Runst as a fief by Count Heinrich IV . In 1339 Count Heinrich IV prescribed his daughter-in-law Mechthild (Mathilde), daughter of Duke Otto III. of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , for body breeding the castle and the city of Rhoden with pensions u. a from Schmillinghausen and Recklinghausen . 1390 pledged Count Heinrich VI. von Waldeck the castle and town of Rhoden, inherited from his mother Mechthild, with goods and the like. a. zu Schmillinghausen to Konrad II. (Kurt) Spiegel zum Desenberg , the bailiff and governor of the Electorate of Mainz possessions in Hesse and the neighboring Westphalian areas. In the 15th century the place fell desolate; the reasons for this are not yet known.

In 1481, Count Otto IV von Waldeck zu Landau gave the desolate place and the Schmillinghausen church fiefdom to the Antonite monastery Grünberg with the order for the resettlement, which the Grünberg Antonites also accomplished. When Otto IV closed the Augustinian women's choir monastery Aroldessen , which had got into trouble due to moral decline and mismanagement , and also transferred it to the Grünberg Antonitern, the newly settled village of Schmillinghausen came to the monastery. The Counts of Waldeck only kept the wooden court , the high hunt , the wild ban and the bridge toll . When the Aroldessen monastery was abolished in the course of the Reformation in the county of Waldeck in 1526, the entire place fell back to the counts. It is documented that in 1537 all farms in Schmillinghausen were owned by the counts and mostly leased .

On December 31, 1970 Schmillinghausen was incorporated into the city of Bad Arolsen.

In 1989 the bypass was completed. After the dismantling of the old federal road, the entire local area, except for the district road from Herbsen to Bad Arolsen, was declared a speed zone 30. This has significantly improved the quality of living in the village, especially for the children.

church

Little has been preserved of the original chapel: the remains of a medieval square defense tower are in today's west tower; the upper part of the tower was demolished in 1618 and replaced by a wooden tower. The baroque hall church , a three-sided closed building, dates from the years 1605-18 and was extensively renovated in 1717-21 .

The pulpit altar from the Rococo period , one of the most important of its kind in the former Principality of Waldeck, is well worth seeing . It dates from the renovation period between 1717 and 1721, as does the wooden crucifix on the altar.

Other sights are the paintings on the wooden barrel vault of the church. The baroque wooden ceiling paintings from 1774 are by Christian Wilhelm Tischbein . They are divided into twelve fields, which represent a Protestant, dynastic and theme related to the parish's own church history and consist of scenes from the Bible, the principality of Waldeck and a portrait of Martin Luther with a swan.

The Noeske organ was donated by Christine Brückner and her husband, the writer Otto Heinrich Kühner , to the parish and the church in the early 1990s . It was inaugurated on Pentecost in 1990.

Economy and Infrastructure

Schmillinghausen is still characterized by agriculture today, in addition to many part-time farmers, some full-time businesses are still run.

There is a one-group kindergarten next to the church. There are two public playgrounds and a small sports field in the village.

Personalities

Christine Brückner

Schmillinghausen became known through the writer Christine Brückner , who was born in the rectory next to the church. With her novels, especially Jauche and Levkojen , Nowhere is Poenichen and The Quints , she became known. She died on December 21, 1996 and was final resting with her husband, who died a few weeks before her, in the local cemetery. The grave is an honorary grave of the city of Kassel .

Johannes Emde

Schmillinghäuser Johannes Emde (* December 1774, † August 20, 1859) founded the Evangelical Church in East Java . Emde was one of 16 children of the sawmill Johann Emde. While looking for work, he ended up in Amsterdam via detours . There he met sailors who raved about Java and the local climate and that there was no winter there, a contradiction for Emde, since he had learned from the Bible that “frost and heat, summer and winter should not stop”. This contradiction and a respectable wage let him hire him on a ship destined for Indonesia in 1801. There he was first transferred to a Dutch warship, but fell ill and had to spend some time in a hospital . After his recovery, this ship had sailed without him. While looking for work, he met a German compatriot who ran a watchmaker's workshop in the port city of Surabaya . Emde learned the watchmaking trade from him. In 1814 he met a Dutch missionary whose proclamations fascinated him. In 1815 this missionary traveled on and recommended the believing Europeans to Emde. So far there has not been a preacher . With the support of his wife Amarantia Manuel, Emde spread the Christian faith among the locals. However, Dutch law forbade missionary work among locals. A Dutch pastor reported him. Emde was sent to prison, where he converted his fellow sufferers. After this imprisonment, he was allowed to do his missionary work in peace. In 1840 he met a mosque ruler who was studying the Gospel of Mark. Emde invited him over. A friendly relationship quickly developed between the two, and this resulted in lively contacts with the villagers. In a short time he was giving baptism classes to up to 100 people according to Luther's catechism , just as he had got to know in Schmillinghausen himself. The first baptism of 35 locals took place on December 18, 1843. This date is considered to be the hour of birth of the Evangelical Church in East Java. He is still venerated there today. He died at the age of 84 on August 20, 1859. At his funeral , more than 1000 Javanese were his last escort .

Other local-born personalities

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ The written representation of the place name changed several times over the years: from Smedelinchusen (1312) to Smydelinchusen (1335), Smydelenchusen (1339), Smedelenchusen (1365), Smidelinghusen (1390), Smedelinckhusen (1481) and Schmeddelinckhausen (1537) to Schmillinghausen (1733).
  3. ↑ Ludwig Theodor August Holscher: The older diocese Paderborn, according to its old borders, archdeaconates, districts and old courts. Part VI: Archidiaconat Warburg. In: Association for history and antiquity of Westphalia (Ed.): Journal for patriotic history and antiquity , vol. 41, Regensberg, Münster, 1883 (p. 187)
  4. ^ Recklinghausen, Waldeck-Frankenberg district, in the historical local dictionary of Hesse
  5. ^ 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. 408 .
  6. ^ Noeske organ building workshop
  7. ^ Leaflet from the Schmillinghausen parish
  8. ↑ Foundation Central Institute and Museum for Sepulchral Culture (Ed.): City history in life stories: The honor graves of the city of Kassel Biographies - Portraits - Graves ; Working group Cemetery u. Monument, Kassel 2013, ISBN 9783924447526 , pp. 180–182.
  9. ↑ Article from the HNA Waldeckische Allgemeine, March 2004, from the series "The best Waldecker"