Sterkelshausen
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Sterkelshausen
municipality Alheim
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 34 " N , 9 ° 38 ′ 52" E
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| Height : | 263 m |
| Area : | 10.28 km² |
| Residents : | 355 (Jan. 1, 2004) |
| Population density : | 35 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | August 1, 1972 |
| Postal code : | 36211 |
| Area code : | 06623 |
Sterkelshausen is a district of the municipality of Alheim in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in East Hesse .
geography
The small village is located in the valley of the Osterbach , on the northeastern edge of the Knüllgebirge (Neuenstein-Ludwigsecker mountain range), about two kilometers as the crow flies west of the Fulda . The altitude quota in the local mark extends to the area of 232 m above sea level. NN in the tree bottom up to 520.9 m above sea level. NN meters on the dam head. The built-up area is about 250 m above sea level. NN am Osterbach and rises to about 280 m above sea level. NN on the slopes of the Chicken's Nest and the Lohs. The town center (church) is located at 271 m above sea level. NN .
history
Sterkelshausen is part of the historical region of Niederhessen and the old Hessian heartland, the settlement area of the Chatten .
The oldest surviving written evidence of the place dates back to 1003 and comes from the boundary description of the marriage ridge in a deed of donation from Emperor Heinrich II about game rights to the Hersfeld Abbey . Research into the history of the name assigns the time when the village was founded to the period from the 6th century to the 8th century. The name Sterkelshausen roughly means "the houses of the star solemn".
Sterkelshausen was the von Leimbach fiefdom of Herfeld and in 1414 was transferred to that of Röhrenfurt, hereditary marshals of Hesse. At the latest with the incorporation of the Imperial Abbey of Hersfeld into the Landgraviate of Hesse , sovereignty for Sterkelshausen also lay with the Landgraves of Hesse . From 1567 the village belonged to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , which from 1815 became the Electorate of Hessen . During the existence of the partly sovereign Landgraviate Hessen-Rotenburg within the Landgraviate Hessen-Kassel, Sterkelshausen belonged to the Rotenburger Quart from 1627 to 1834 . In 1866, Kurhessen was annexed by Prussia. Sterkelshausen has been part of the state of Hesse since 1945 .
The villagers have never been subject to feudal rule or not. The lords of Leimbach are the oldest known owners of feudal rights in Sterkelshausen, they were followed in the late Middle Ages by the lords of Röhrenfurth, which are also extinct today . The Röhrenfurther, most recently Hereditary Marshals of Hesse , built Ludwigseck Castle , about two kilometers south of the village, together with the Lords of Holzheim , which went directly to the Riedesel zu Eisenbach, Hereditary Marshals of Hesse .
Until the regional reform in Hesse , the village was an independent municipality in what was then the Rotenburg district . On August 1, 1972, Sterkelshausen was merged with 9 other communities to form the large community of Alheim.
Population development
In 2004 the population was around 355.
| year | population |
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| 1939 | 307 |
| 1950 | 488 |
| 1956 | 401 |
| 1961 | 341 |
| 1970 | 326 |
| 2004 | 355 |
Culture and sights
societies
Associations - our village, the fire brigade association including the volunteer fire brigade's operations department , the Adler rifle club and the choral society from 1888 - form the organizational framework within which an essential part of community life takes place.
Upper and lower village
Within the local situation, a distinction is made between the upper village and the lower village. Traditionally, the location is divided in the middle along Schulgasse, the part to the north of Schulgasse on both sides of the stream (lower course) is part of the lower village, the part of the place south of Schulgasse and its imaginary extension on both sides of the creek (upper course) is part of the village Oberdorf.
Up until the beginning of the 20th century, the town was mainly built within the basin of the Osterbach, which flows in a south-north direction. With the commissioning of the central water supply at the beginning of the 20th century, the areas that are higher above the creek basin could be easily supplied with drinking water for the first time and thus became interesting for residential development. From then on the structural growth of the village took place mainly in these higher areas. In the second half of the 20th century, the Osterbach was also piped and is no longer optically present in the townscape. Today, these circumstances are sometimes responsible for the incorrect naming of Oberdorf and Unterdorf, which incorrectly distinguishes the local areas according to the altitude.
Architectural style
As in almost all villages in Lower Hesse, which are characterized by small-scale agricultural structures, with the sharp decline in agriculture and small businesses, the former village character was partially lost and transformed into that of a rural place to live and sleep. Since the 1970s, space-consuming residential construction began in single-family home areas around the historic town center. The traditionally practiced area-efficient zoning of the rural properties (division of the property into different areas of use) and the typical, locally adapted cubature (shape and size of the buildings) were not further developed in these new building areas because they were not necessary. The changes of this time also included the far-reaching departure from local building traditions, including their materiality, and access to style and construction elements from other regions, such as the Upper Bavarian balcony, the north German clinker facade or the overflowing sand and stone base. Today this development is being pushed back in parts.
Buildings
In the historical center there are still some old half-timbered houses . The oldest fully preserved half-timbered building in the village is the old water mill on the southern edge of the village.
The Protestant church from 1774 is remarkable, the design of which goes back to the school of Heinrich Christoph Jussow . Before its far-reaching redesign in 2006, the color scheme of the interior was described as a particularly successful example in the volume Protestant Church Building , the standard work on Protestant church building in Hesse.
Economy and Infrastructure
Economic structure
In Sterkelshausen there is a village community center and a restaurant with overnight accommodation in the former village school. There are also several holiday apartments with a total of nine beds.
One of the last full-time basket makers, a flower shop, a carpentry business with a sawmill, a beverage trade, a specialty shop for meat products, spices and teas and several part-time businesses in the areas of internet, trade and property management offer their services from the town.
traffic
Under the organizational umbrella of the North Hessian Transport Association (NVV), the place has been connected to the rush hour from Monday to Friday with a bus every one to two hours since the timetable change in 2007/2008. Bus and AST transport (AST = collective call taxi; a local transport service that is provided after booking in advance by telephone) are synchronized with the local trains in the direction of Kassel / Melsungen and Fulda / Bad Hersfeld . From the bus stop in the town center, both the train station in Alheim- Heinebach (BUS 305, Lauf: Rotenburg - Baumbach (- Hainrode) / - Heinebach) and the train station in Rotenburg an der Fulda (BUS 306; Lauf: Heinebach - Baumbach - Licherode ) approached.
On Saturdays, the municipality of Alheim has commissioned a collective call taxi (AST), which is integrated into the NVV timetable and provides up to two connections to and from the train station in Rotenburg and two further connections from and to the train station in Heinebach.
Web links
- Sterkelshausen district on the website of the municipality of Alheim.
- Sterkelshausen In: Private website of the association "Sterkelshausen - Our Village eV".
- Sterkelshausen, Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Literature about Sterkelshausen in the Hessian Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ^ Sterkelshausen, Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of December 4, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Hersfeld and Rotenburg (GVBl. II 330-13) 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. 217 , § 1 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
- ^ 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. 407 .
