St. Ottilien (Helsa)

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St. Ottilien
Helsa municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 11 "  N , 9 ° 38 ′ 37"  E
Height : 367 m above sea level NHN
Area : 1.8 km²
Residents : 310 approx.
Population density : 172 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 34298
Area code : 05602

St. Ottilien is a district of the municipality of Helsa in the northern Hessian district of Kassel .

Geographical location

The village is located on the eastern edge of the Söhre and on the edge of the geo-nature park Frau-Holle-Land (Werratal.Meißner.Kaufunger forest) . It is located 5.1 km south-south-west of the center of Helsa and 5.7 km north-west of the center of Hessisch Lichtenau ; the next big city is Kassel, about 15 km to the north-west . From Helsa the federal road 7 leads south to Eschenstruth ; there branches off the state road  3460 leading through Eschenstruth and St. Ottilien in the direction of Wattenbach .

history

The village was probably named after the former Sankt Ottilienberg chapel located southwest above the village .

The village, founded by Huguenots , was first mentioned in 1699 . Eleven French families from the Dauphiné and Vivarais who had been expelled because of their beliefs received permission from Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel to settle on the edge of the Lossetal . The families each received a “portion” of land (house, garden, meadow and fields). A separate church and school were built in 1727 and still form the center of the village today. Around 1825, the French language was replaced by the German language in schools and churches.

Landgravine Amalia Elisabeth von Hessen-Kassel had already bought the forest, brook and pond at St. Ottilien from Johann von Meisenbug around 1640 . In 1650 she approved the common hat for the Eschenstruth and Fürstenhagen im Gehölz area. In 1688 the same permit was issued for Quentel against payment. The place belonged to the Hessian office Lichtenau until 1821 and then to the district of Witzenhausen . During the French occupation, the place belonged to the canton of Kaufungen in the Kingdom of Westphalia (1807-1813).

The municipality of St. Ottilien was merged with Eschenstruth and Helsa-Wickenrode to form today's municipality of Helsa on August 1, 1972 as part of the regional reform in Hesse by virtue of state law.

Huguenot Church
Huguenot Church (ev.) In Helsa (St. Ottilien district); inner space
Monument of the Dorfbüttel in front of the Huguenot Church

Culture and sights

church

The half-timbered church with its approximately 2.50 meter high, octagonal bell tower was built between 1724 and 1727. It is a two-storey half-timbered house. Under the umbrella of the Church were at the same school and a teacher apartment. In 1755 a gallery was built in. The base of the pulpit and the door inscription presumably date from the construction period. The inscription, written in French, reads in translation: “This is the house of God; this is the porte of heaven ”(Genesis 28, verse 17). In 1821 the first church bell was purchased.

Chapel Sankt Ottilienberg

A chapel above today's village is mentioned in a document as early as 1199 . It was located about 1 km west of St. Ottilien on a mountain spur of the 446  m high Sankt Ottilienberg. In 1304 the chapel is called St. Juliane Chapel. In 1506 it was then called St. Ottilien Chapel. Around 1506 the Kaufungen monastery transferred the chapel and a hermitage on St. Ottilienberg to the Prior of the Carmelites of Spangenberg . From 1519 pilgrimages on Easter Monday are documented.

literature

  • Seal: Lichtenau , p. 293 f.
  • R. Schmidtmann: The colonies of the Réfugiés in Hessen-Kassel and their economic development in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies 55 , 1929
  • L. Zögner: Huguenot villages in Northern Hesse . (Marburger Geographische Schriften, 28) 1966, pp. 18l – 189
  • HOL Witzenhausen, p. 116,
  • Jochen Desel: Huguenot churches in Hessen-Kassel. Bad Karlshafen, 1992, p. 86 ff.
  • Ernst Werner Magdanz: 275 years of St. Ottilien. Festschrift, 1974
  • Alexander Wolfram: 300 years of St. Ottilien. Festschrift, 1999
  • Literature about St. Ottilien in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Sankt Ottilien, Kassel district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 26, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. St. Ottilien in the municipality register 1900
  3. Law on the reorganization of the districts of Hofgeismar, Kassel and Wolfhagen (GVBl. II 330-17) 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. 225 , § 2 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 401 .
  5. The name has changed several times over the years and in various documents: St. Ilgenguth, Juliansbergk, 1519; ien Seindt Dilgenberge, 1553; St. Ottilienberg, 1575/85; Sanct Ilgen, 1614; zue St. Ilian, 1640; zue St. Julian, 1641; St. Ottilienberg, 1715; St. Ottilien Mountain
  6. Helsa history association: St. Ottilien, historical data
  7. "uff sanct Othilienbergh", document book of Kaufungen Monastery, No. 585

Web links

Commons : St. Ottilien  - Collection of images, videos and audio files