Twiste (twist valley)

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Twist
municipality Twistetal
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 12 ″  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 4 ″  E
Height : 251 m above sea level NHN
Area : 17.6 km²
Residents : 1258
Population density : 71 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 34477
Area code : 05695

Twiste is the second largest district of the municipality of Twistor Valley in the north Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg and the seat of the municipal administration.

geography

Twiste is located around six kilometers southwest of Bad Arolsen on the River Twiste of the same name , which is dammed a few kilometers downstream or northeast to the Twistesee . The federal highway 252 and the Warburg – Sarnau railway run through the village , on which regional trains run between Korbach and Kassel .

history

Twiste - St. Vitus Church
Municipal administration - former manor house

The place was first mentioned 1170 years ago, in 843, when Tuistai was mentioned as the property of the Corvey Monastery .

The existing since the time of foundation of the village of St. Vitus Church with a Renaissance - pulpit from 1602, named after the patron saint St. Veit . It is the largest vaulted basilica in the Waldecker Land and is the only one with a transept.

In 1349, Emperor Charles IV gave the Corvey Abbey permission to set up a free-chair court in Twiste, and the first free count was installed there in 1364. This free chair later came as a fiefdom to the Counts of Waldeck, who had received Twiste Castle with the local court in September 1455 from Landgrave Ludwig I of Hesse as part of the compensation for their waiver of inheritance claims to the County of Ziegenhain . From 1533 at the latest, Twiste belonged to the free court in Mengeringhausen .

The lords "von Twiste" , Ministeriale and feudal men of the Counts of Waldeck, had a small castle and an estate in the village for a long time from 1525 as a Waldeck fief . At the time of the Peasant Wars , Hans von Twiste stood by the Counts of Waldeck in the fight against Götz von Berlichingen . The integration of the first places (including Twiste) in the county or in the later principality of Waldeck (from 1712) formed the basis for a peaceful cohesion secured by rifle guilds.

For many centuries there was a tenth-free estate in Twiste , the so-called "Schäferhof", the Waldeck count's or princely house. This manor in the center of the village was fully cultivated until the 1970s and shaped the central village image. Today the local administration of the community Twistingal is housed in the former manor house. The former stables, barns and apartments of the milker had to give way to the new buildings of the multi-purpose hall, the fire station and a tennis court.

On December 31, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse , Twiste was merged with five other places to form the new large municipality of Twistingal.

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1541: 39 houses
• 1620: 87 houses
• 1650: 61 houses
• 1738: 94 houses
• 1770: 145 houses
Twiste: Population from 1770 to 2015
year     Residents
1770
  
 546
1834
  
 898
1840
  
 932
1846
  
 903
1852
  
 911
1858
  
 898
1864
  
 865
1871
  
 804
1875
  
 760
1885
  
 731
1895
  
 777
1905
  
 869
1910
  
 866
1925
  
 878
1939
  
 1,059
1946
  
 1,345
1950
  
 1,386
1956
  
 1,305
1961
  
 1,319
1967
  
 1,370
2008
  
 1,301
2010
  
 1,276
2013
  
 1,265
2015
  
 1,258
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; Twistan valley community

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1895: 767 Protestant (= 98.71%), 10 Catholic (= 1.29%) residents
• 1961: 1226 Protestant (= 92.95%), 63 Catholic (= 4.78%) residents

Sports

In the village he is active in the handball and athletics division of TSV 09 Twiste with over 1,000 members. There is also a tennis club and a riding club.

Excursion destinations

Well-known excursion destinations not far from Twiste are the Twistesee and Bad Arolsen .

Personalities

  • Friedrich von Twiste (around 1480 - before 1547), Waldeck bailiff, mountain bailiff and Drost and Münster Drost and chief steward
  • Karl Trainer (1816–1849), German politician and pastor in Twiste

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Twiste, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Twiste district. In: Internet presence of the municipality of Twist valley. Accessed June 2016.
  3. ^ Louis Friedrich Christian Curtze: History and description of the principality of Waldeck , Arolsen, 1850, p. 503
  4. ^ Johann Adolph Theodor Ludwig Varnhagen: Basis of the Waldeckische Landes- und Regentengeschichte. (P. 8)
  5. ^ 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. 409 .