Volkhardinghausen

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Volkhardinghausen
City of Bad Arolsen
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 30 ″  N , 9 ° 3 ′ 17 ″  E
Height : 329 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.53 km²
Residents : 113  (December 16, 2015)
Population density : 17 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1974
Postal code : 34454
Area code : 05696
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Volkhardinghausen

Volkhardinghausen is a district of Bad Arolsen in the north Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

Geographical location

Volkhardinghausen is located in the Long Forest, around 6 km south-southeast of the Arolser town center. It is located southwest of Landau and east of Elleringhausen . The western border of the Habichtswald Nature Park runs a few kilometers to the east. A stream that feeds the local “monastery pond” flows through the village and drains northeast to the Watter .

District road  9 runs through Volkhardinghausen and connects Elleringhausen in the west through the village with Landau in the northeast; At Landau there is a connection to the federal highway 251 via this road .

history

Little is known about the beginnings of the village. Even before 1221, an Augustinian choir monastery was mentioned in Volkhardinghausen . It was occupied by noble and non-noble daughters from the population living in the surrounding area. It did not achieve great importance in this first phase, and economically it was not a bed of roses, although over time it brought the whole place into its possession. The Lords of Gudenberg are mentioned as possible founders , but the Counts of Schwalenberg , ancestors of the Counts of Waldeck , can also be considered as founders or co-founders.

The monastery was founded by Pope Honorius III. (1216–1227) and Pope Urban IV (1261–1264) placed under their protection and that of the apostle Peter . The two main patrons were John the Baptist and St. Blaise . There was evidence of a plebane as early as 1283 . The collegiate church was also used as a parochial church; thus Volkhardinghausen was a collegiate parish.

Information board Volkhardinghausen

In 1465, at the invitation of Count Otto IV von Waldeck zu Landau , the Augustinian Canons of Windesheim took over the monastery. The first four friars and some lay people came from Möllenbeck Monastery in what is now Rinteln ( Grafschaft Schaumburg ). Lambert von Büren became the first prior . From 1483 to 1498 Braunsen and until 1498 Elleringhausen belonged to Volkhardinghausen. In 1498 the parish service was moved to Elleringhausen. Around 1500 there were 20 canons and 70 lay brothers living in the monastery. It had a large collegiate church , its own brick factory and a sawmill . The collegiate church must have been significant in its dimensions. No picture of her is known, but an engraving by Merian depicting the town of Landau in 1645 shows a large church on its edge in the direction of Volkhardinghausen, probably remains of the collegiate church. The bells were probably brought there, according to information can be found in the Landau town church . The choir stalls ended up in the Flechtdorf monastery .

Of the works of art in the monastery, a large crucifix was preserved, which was carved in 1492 in the Franciscan workshop in the Meitersdorf monastery , near Frankenberg . Today it is located in the choir of the church in Landau . The " Landau Christ Child ", a crescent moon Madonna from 1523, comes from the same workshop and hung in the Landau church until 1903; since then it has been owned by the State Museum in Münster . The monastery library , which comprises more than 400 works, is now largely located in the “ Princely Waldeckische Hofbibliothek ” in Bad Arolsen.

In 1525 the Reformation was introduced in the county of Waldeck . The Volkhardinghausen monastery was dissolved and converted into a count's yard . In 1526 the Volkhardinghausen Synod took place in the former monastery , which decided on the structure of the Lutheran regional church of Waldeck. In 1576 the last canon, Antonius Huppen, died and the monastery was finally closed. In 1579 the pastor and song writer Philipp Nicolai lived with his brother Jeremias for a while in the former monastery of Volkhardinghausen.

On January 1, 1974, Volkhardinghausen was incorporated into the city of Arolsen by virtue of state law as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

Religions

The inhabitants of Volkhardinghausen are predominantly Protestant and belong to the Landau parish. The Catholic residents are part of the Catholic community in Bad Arolsen.

Culture and sights

Buildings

The only monastery building that remains is a late Gothic building with a stepped gable , which contains a restored remnant of the former cloister . This is now used by the parish of Bad Arolsen-Landau, to which Volkhardinghausen is a church, as a monastery chapel for services and funeral services. The monastery pond below the monastery chapel used to be used by the monks for fish farming and is still used today as a fish pond.

  • Monastery building and monastery pond

  • Monastery building

  • Stepped gable

  • Monastery pond

Natural spaces

  • A few kilometers north of Volkhardinghausen is the Twistesee reservoir .
  • The French oak , which is near the district road 9 leading to Elleringhausen, near the "Waldschmiede", is a historical border point at the point where the districts of Landau , Braunsen , Elleringhausen and Volkhardinghausen meet.

Infrastructure

There is a village community center at the exit to Landau.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bad Arolsen. The versatile spa at Twistesee introduces itself. (PDF; 308 kB) In: Press kit. Stadt Bad Arolsen, p. 11 , archived from the original on October 19, 2016 ; accessed in October 2018 .
  2. ^ The library of the Augustinian canons of Volkhardinghausen
  3. ^ Church of the mountain town of Landau
  4. ^ The library of the Augustinian canons of Volkhardinghausen
  5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Frankenberg and Waldeck (GVBl. II 330-23) of October 4, 1973 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1973 No. 25 , p. 359 , § 1 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).
  6. ^ 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 .