Sielen

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Sielen
City of Trendelburg
Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 8 ″  N , 9 ° 22 ′ 50 ″  E
Height : 137 m above sea level NHN
Area : 12.77 km²
Residents : 518  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 41 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 34388

Sielen is a formerly independent municipality in the northern Hessian district of Kassel and is now part of the city of Trendelburg .

location

The place is on the left (western) bank of the Diemel between the Warburger Börde in the west and the Reinhardswald in the east. The village of Sielen, which is situated on the rising ground, was already settled in prehistoric times.

Sielen is located 3.5 kilometers southwest of the core town of Trendelburg, 6 km north of Hofgeismar , 18 km north of Kassel , 17 km northeast of Warburg and 37 km west of Göttingen .

history

Historic half-timbered house in Sielen from 1702

Finds in the area of ​​the village testify to a settlement history going back thousands of years.

The place was mentioned in a document as "Silihem" in 1015, a church was listed in the 12th century. Since 1192 the church of Sielen belonged to the Helmarshausen monastery. At the beginning of the 13th century, Sielen belonged to the Brunswick Welfs. For a time the village belonged to the domain of the noblemen of Eberschütz (later: von Schöneberg ) before it passed completely into Hessian ownership in the 15th century .

After the destruction in the Thirty Years War , the village was rebuilt.

The main livelihood of the village population in the 18th and 19th centuries was not only agriculture but also linen weaving. 17 linen weavers are said to have worked in the village in 1790.

On December 31, 1970 , as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the municipality of Sielen merged with six other previously independent municipalities and the small town of Trendelburg to form the expanded town of Trendelburg . They make up today's districts . The city administration is located in the core town of Trendelburg.

For the listed cultural monuments of the place see the list of cultural monuments in Sielen .

Personalities

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sielen, Kassel district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of November 6, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Statistics. In: Website hrsg = Stadt Trendelburg. Accessed August 2020 .
  3. ↑ Amalgamation of municipalities to form the town of Trendelburg, district of Hofgeismar on January 7, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 4 , p. 139 , point 157 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).
  4. ^ 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. 398 .

Web links

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