Steina (Willingshausen)

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Steina
Municipality Willingshausen
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 43 "  N , 9 ° 15 ′ 50"  E
Height : 214 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.22 km²  [LAGIS]
Residents : 265  (Jan. 1, 2015)
Population density : 82 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1974
Postal code : 34628
Area code : 06691

The village of Steina has been part of the community of Willingshausen in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse since January 1, 1974 .

geography

Steina is located south of the Schwalm -carrying Landscape Schwalm about 7 km north-east of the main town on the eastern Schwalm inflow Steina . The federal road 454 runs north-east of the village , from which the B 254 , which passes Steina to the east, branches off roughly in a south-south-west direction. District roads  108 and 109, which lead into the village, branch off from the federal roads .

The former forester's house and today's Steinatal school settlement with the Melanchthon School founded in 1948 , a state-recognized grammar school , whose school sponsor is the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck , belongs to Steina, almost 2 km east of the forest at the site of the former Obersteina settlement .

Panorama of Steina, taken from the west

history

The small village was first mentioned in writing in 782 in a document from Charlemagne . The settlements of Mittelsteina and Obersteina that existed in the 12th and 13th centuries were devastated by the 16th century at the latest . Today's Steina is the former Untersteina. The spelling of the place name changed several times over the centuries; the place appears in various documents as Steinaha (1106), Stenahe (1254), Stena (1290) and finally from 1290 as Untersteina and from 1365 only as Steina.

During the Thirty Years' War , Steina was burned down by imperial troops under General Johann Rudolf von Breda on the night of November 13-14, 1640, the day before the battle on Riebelsdorfer Berg .

In 1951, parts of the previous district of Steina were used to create the district of Trutzhain, which was newly created for displaced persons .

On 1 January 1974 Steina was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse powerful state law with other municipalities and the community formed at 31 December 1971 Antrefftal to a new Village with the name Willingshausen together . Local districts were established for all former municipalities .

Cultural monuments

For the listed cultural monuments of the place see the list of cultural monuments in Steina (Willingshausen) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Economy and Transport. In: website. Willingshausen community, archived from the original on April 27, 2017 ; accessed in September 2018 .
  2. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts Fritzlar-Homberg, Melsungen and Ziegenhain (GVBl. II 330-22) of September 28, 1973 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1973 No. 25 , p. 356 , § 2 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).
  3. ^ 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. 412 .

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