Unterrieden (Witzenhausen)

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Dissatisfied
City of Witzenhausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 31 ″  N , 9 ° 52 ′ 57 ″  E
Height : 140  (140-145)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.15 km²
Residents : 848  (Dec. 2015)
Population density : 138 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 37214
Area code : 05542
Dissatisfied from the air (looking north)
Dissatisfied from the air (looking north)

Unterrieden is a village in the Werra-Meißner district in northern Hesse and a district of Witzenhausen . The place is a center of the cherry growing area Witzenhausen.

geography

Unterrieden located 4.8 km south-southwest of the border triangle Hesse-Thuringia-Saxony and about 1.5 km (depending crow flies ) east of Witzenhäuser main town on the Werra . North rises the sand forest ( 477.2  m above sea level. NN ), southeast the landscape passes to the depth at the top ( 508.9  m above sea level. NN ) above and beyond the Werra extend the south Soodener mountains ( 482.4  m above sea level. NN ) with the Hoher Meißner ( 753.6  m above sea level ) and southwest to west of the Kaufunger Wald ( 643.4  m above sea level ).

The village is connected to the main road network via the federal highways 27 ( Göttingen - Eschwege ) and 80 ( Hann. Münden - Heilbad Heiligenstadt ). Since December 2006, the A 38 (Göttingen– Halle (Saale) ) has been accessible via the B 27 , from which there is a connection to the federal motorway 7 at the nearby Drammetal motorway triangle .

history

overview

year event
856 up to 866 first mentioned in a donation to the Corvey monastery as "Ungretun"
1470 Parakeet von Berlepsch takes over the fiefdom in Unterrieden
1744 The von Bodenhausen family on the Arnstein has secured 2/3 of the Unterrieder “ tithe ”
1747 First use of today's spelling "Unterrieden"
1872 Completion of the railway line from Halle – Hann. Münden
1904 Founding of the Welco company for cigar production
1915 Opening of the Eichenberg-Velmeden " Gelstertalbahn " railway line . The train station is inaugurated in Unterrieden.
1935 Foundation of the volunteer fire brigade in Unterrieden
1945 The railway bridge over the Werra was blown up by German troops on April 7th. Then occupied by American troops.
1946 Complete settlement of the company Grimm & Triepel in Unterrieden, which had a branch in Unterrieden as early as 1933. Until it closed in 2016, the company was the only one in Germany to produce chewing tobacco .
1948 First fair celebration of the community since the last war
1959 Foundation of the Unterrieden eG sales cooperative for cherry marketing
1960 Construction of federal highway 27 through the district, associated land consolidation
1971 As part of the regional reform on December 31st, incorporated into the city of Witzenhausen
1989 Inauguration of the bicycle and pedestrian bridge over the Werra
2005 Beginning of the village renewal program of the state of Hesse
2006 Village anniversary 1,150 years Unterrieden
2009 Inauguration of the new youth room at the Gerhard-Schmidt-Halle and start of the conversion of the "old school" into a village community center
2011 Opening of the completely renovated village community center with a hostel for cyclists - the sponsoring association is the Unterrieder Kulturverein eV

Population development

year 1575 1681 1744 1780 1820 1834 1852 1875 1905 1925 1950 1961 1970 2006
Residents 230 220 286 292 467 543 573 574 589 553 909 866 839 914

  • Cherry Blossom

  • Protestant church

Established businesses

  • Sales cooperative Unterrieden eG "Witzenhäuser Kirschen"
  • Bioland Frischgeflügel Roth GbR
  • Rosti Packaging GmbH
  • Swetlik delicatessen
  • Transport-Logistics-Pöhlmann Witzenhausen GmbH & Co. KG
  • Tschik's motorcycle service

In December 2016, Germany's last chewing tobacco factory, Grimm & Triepel Kruse-Kautabak, was closed.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Discontinued, Werra-Meißner district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 27, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Unterrieden district on the city of Witzenhausen's website, accessed in October 2018.
  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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 410 .

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