Simmershausen (Hilders)

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Simmershausen
Market town of Hilders
Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 33 ″  N , 10 ° 2 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 511  (508-542)  m
Area : 8.64 km²
Residents : 537  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density : 62 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 36115
Area code : 06681
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Simmershausen

Simmershausen is one of eleven districts of the market town of Hilders in the biosphere reserve of the Hessian Rhön . Simmershausen was first mentioned in a document in 915. The district is a recognized resort .

location

The resort of Simmershausen lies between Auersberg (757 m), Buchschirm (746 m) and Staufelsberg (646 m). The border with the GDR ran east of the town . Hilders is located southwest of Simmershausen.

history

In the area of ​​the place was the Auersburg , which was first mentioned with the sale of the Lords of Nithardshusen (= Neidhartshausen) to the Fulda monastery in 1214. After the Fulda abbot Bertho IV. And the Würzburg bishop Berthold II. Von Sternberg had agreed to settle a feud about their border area, the Auersburg found itself in 1290 in the possession of Würzburg . Soon afterwards, around 1325, the castle was bought by the Counts of Henneberg , who had been monastery bailiffs and burgraves of Würzburg until the middle of the 13th century. In 1342, Bishop Otto II von Wolfskeel bought the Auersberg castle and office back, making the Auersburg and Simmershausen part of the Hilders office in Würzburg .

When the Bishopric of Würzburg was dissolved in 1803, the place came to Bavaria in 1803, to the Grand Duchy of Würzburg in 1806 , to Bavaria again in 1814 and to the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau in 1866 . Simmershausen has been part of Hesse since 1945 .

On December 31, 1971, the previously independent community of Simmershausen was incorporated into the community of Hilders.

Infrastructure

There is a church , a village community center , a kindergarten , a sports field , a public library and a children's playground in the village .

The following clubs exist in the village: Voluntary fire brigade , sports club, Rhön club, music club, kindergarten club, fishing club, Kyffhauser comrades and singing club.

Regular events include the foot pilgrimage from Simmershausen to Vierzehnheiligen , the Rhön cattle drive , which takes place every two years on the fourth Sunday in September, and the fair. The most recent Rhön cattle drive in 2015 had around 6,000 visitors.

religion

  • Catholic parish Simmershausen, St. John the Baptist . The church was built between 1597 and 1613 and consecrated in 1749. In the tower of the church hang bronze bells from the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen / Bremen. In 1930 Otto delivered three bells, the two larger of which were melted down during World War II. In 1953 Otto added two new bronze bells to the peal. The bell has the strike tone series as - b - c and weighs a total of approx. 1,300 kg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Simmershausen, District of Fulda". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 18, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Population statistics of the Fulda district , accessed in September 2015.
  3. ↑ 79th meeting of the specialist committee for health resorts, recreational areas and healing wells in Hesse on November 21, 2012 . In: State pointer for the state of Hesse . No. 9 , 2014, ISSN  0724-7885 , p. 187 .
  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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 394 .
  5. ↑ Cattle drive in Simmershausen becomes a tourist magnet. Fuldaer Zeitung, September 25, 2015, accessed on January 27, 2017 .
  6. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 536 and 552 .
  7. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 496 and 507 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

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