Stone House (Petersberg)

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Stone house
Municipality Petersberg
Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 41 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 49 ″  E
Height : 283 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.35 km²
Residents : 949  (December 31, 2014)
Population density : 283 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 36100
Area code : 0661
The catholic Wendelinus chapel near Steinhaus
The catholic Wendelinus chapel near Steinhaus

Steinhaus is a district of the municipality Petersberg in the district of Fulda in Hesse . The place is in East Hesse on the edge of the Rhön .

history

The word of Dragebodo von Steinhaus ("stone house" = stone house, castle) is still valid today as evidence of the first documented mention of stone house in 1187 as the village of the Bieberstein office of Fulda . There used to be a small castle on a spur in the northern part of the village , which has now completely disappeared. As early as 1420 there was a prayer building in the form of a chapel in the village and a campanator ( bell ringer ) is mentioned. Church history shows that Steinhaus was still part of the Margretenhaun parish in 1594 . In 1885 it became an independent parish under Bishop Georg von Kopp von Fulda . The center of this is the parish church of St. Nicholas and Valentinus .

Previously it was in 1761 in the Bieberstein Oberamt and later in 1802 the seat of a mayor 's shop of the Fulda Centers' Office .

Reorganization

Since the territorial reform on December 31, 1971, the place belongs to the municipality of Petersberg.

Infrastructure

The village has:

Special holidays of the municipality:

  • Nicholas (December 6th, titular feast)
  • Valentinus (14.2., Titular feast)
  • Wendelinus (October 20, titular festival of the chapel on the Werthesberg and hail holiday (Monday before Ascension Day ))

traffic

Local public transport is provided by the North Hessian Transport Association with bus line 6.

State road 3429 runs through the village .

Buildings and sights

Catholic parish church

In the years 1891-1892, today's church of St. Nicholas and Valentine was built in neo-Gothic style in the village . The architect of the building was Georg Kegel from Kassel . In addition to several wooden reliefs of the Way of the Cross of Christ, tombstones and a Christmas crib, the church owns two wooden crucifixes. One of them dates back to 1712 and shows a wooden figure of St. Anthony of Padua . A simple baptismal font from 1569 is also owned by the church.

Pilgrimage chapel St. Wendelinus

As early as 1712 , a wooden cross was found at the place where the pilgrimage chapel now stands. The traditional Eichsfeld Walldürn pilgrimage was held and paused there already at that time and still today .

The chapel can be found east of the village on the Werthesberg. In 1761 the foundation stone was laid for the prayer house, which was expanded in 1881. The building received its ecclesiastical blessing in 1908. The architect Hermann Mahr from Fulda designed the neo-Gothic building, around which seven additional houses are clustered in a semicircle behind the chapel. The so-called holy houses are all closed with sheet iron doors. Behind these are the seven sorrows of Mary . In front of the chapel one comes across two larger holy houses . These show on the one hand a Sacred Heart figure and a relief of a warrior - a memorial to the fallen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Population figures (main and secondary residences) in the Petersberg community , accessed in February 2016.
  2. ^ 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. 393 .

literature

  • Erwin Sturm: The architectural and art monuments of the Fulda region; First volume, Der Altkreis Fulda, Second newly written edition . Parzeller publishing house, Fulda 1989.

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