Wülmersen

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Gut Wülmersen ( moated castle)
patio
South side
former brewery
Diemel power station Wülmersen

Wülmersen in the northern Hessian district of Kassel is a hamlet in the small town of Trendelburg . The former Gut Wülmersen (colloquially also called Wasserschloss Wülmersen ), which used to be an agricultural estate , is located in the village .

Geographical location

Wülmersen is located on the northwestern edge of the Reinhardswald at the west foot of the Eichenberg, the western slope of the Steinkopf ( 271.1  m ). It is located 3.9 km north-northeast of the Trendelburg core city and 2.3 km northeast of the Trendelburg district of Deisel ; 3.1 km (as the crow flies ) to the northeast is Helmarshausen, a district of Bad Karlshafen . The hamlet spreads to about 110  m above sea level. NHN . Directly south past Wülmersen, the Holzape runs from the south-east and flows into the Diemel , which flows in from the south-west, a little south-west of the hamlet . Beyond the Holzape, the landscape rises to the Assaburg ( 163.5  m ). The "Diemelkraftwerk Wülmersen" is located northwest of Wülmersen near the federal highway 83 .

history

overview

The village of Wülmersen was first mentioned in 1108 as Wilmeressen , when the owner, the Bishop of Paderborn , gave it to the Helmarshausen monastery, which operated it as a table good for over 200 years. In 1316 the knight Johann von Stockhausen married the heiress of Wülmersen Gertrud von Markessen. The Knights of Stockhausen obtained the fiefdom in 1330 and kept it until 1848 (conversion of landgraves' fiefs into private property). The family managed it themselves until 1844, from then on it was leased as a manor.

The southeast side of Hofgut Wülmersen was surrounded by a moat from the beginning of the 18th to the end of the 19th century; therefore the term Wasserschloss Wülmersen has survived to this day. Between 1951 and 1956 the estate was sold to the "Hessische Heimat" settlement company, which divided up the areas and built six new farmsteads for displaced families as part of the "Trendelburg example measure". The medieval building ensemble was abandoned unused and declared abandoned; 30 years of vacancy caused the medieval buildings to deteriorate rapidly.

In 1987 the association for training and further education (AuF) in the district of Kassel eV acquired the facility, which was almost entirely made of rubble. The aim of the association, to enable unemployed young people to gain professional qualifications in the context of monument preservation , was implemented here. After setting up training workshops , the young people began to secure the ruins and rebuild individual buildings and parts of the building under the guidance of experienced craftsmen .

In 1995 the reconstruction of the moated castle had progressed so far that the former farm buildings with the former orchard as a tent meadow were available as group accommodation for self-catering. In 1989 the association received the Hessian and in 2000 the German Prize for Monument Protection . In 2005, the Kassel district took over the Wülmersen moated castle with its own business "Youth and Leisure Facilities".

Historical place names

Over the centuries the place name has changed several times: Wylmerssen, (1330), (Helmarshausen Abbey); Wilmarsen, (1386), (Helmarshausen Abbey); Wulmersen, (1442), (UA Helmarshausen).

Museums

In 1997 the rural museum was set up in a former stable building, in which from May to October changing exhibitions from the subject areas of rural life and work are shown every year. In the adjacent barns, the museum magazine is set up as a display depot and can be viewed with a guided tour. A kiosk offers refreshment for museum visitors, hikers, cyclists or canoeists. Museum educational events can be booked.

There were two watermills in Wülmersen and another in the expiring Holzapetal, which is now a fish farm. Another mill in Diemelbogen at the entrance to the Hofgut was built between 1921 and 1924 as a hydropower plant and opened to the public in 1987 as a technology museum with insights into the origins and development of the electricity supply.

Traffic and walking

Almost 550 m north-west past Wülmersen runs in its section from Deisel in a north-east direction to Helmarshausen, the federal highway 83  - there with the German Fairy Tale Route (Sleeping Beauty Route) . From this road, the district road  74 leads as a spur road that crosses the Diemel and ends in the hamlet towards the southeast.

The Carlsbahn used to run through the village east of the manor on a bridge over the Holzape . The route at Wülmersen is a common section of the Diemel cycle path and the Märchenland path .

literature

  • Johan Christian Martin, Topographische Nachrichten von Niederhessen, Volume I. 1788/89
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , pp. 342-344.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Wülmersen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ The hamlet of Wülmersen - example measure for a new home , on eco-pfade.de (PDF; 645.3 kB)
  3. ^ Wülmersen, Kassel district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of April 22, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Coordinates: 51 ° 36 '  N , 9 ° 26'  E