Wabern (Hesse)

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 6 '  N , 9 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	kassel
County :	Schwalm-Eder district
Height :	166 m above sea level NHN
Area :	51.41 km 2
Residents:	7303 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	142 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	34590, 34576
Area code :	05683
License plate :	HR, FZ, MEG, ZIG
Community key :	06 6 34 025
Address of the municipal administration:	Landgrafenstrasse 9 34590 Wabern
Website :	www.wabern.de
Mayor :	Claus Steinmetz ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Wabern in the Schwalm-Eder district

Wobble from above

Wabern is a municipality in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse on the Main-Weser Railway ( Kassel - Frankfurt ). The Ederseebahn runs from Wabern to Fritzlar and Bad Wildungen .

geography

Geographical location

Wabern is located in the Wabern plain (natural area 343.21), the river plain of the Eder and the Schwalm , a few kilometers south of the confluence of the Schwalm into the Eder.

Neighboring communities

Wabern borders the town of Felsberg in the northeast, the town of Homberg (Efze) in the southeast, the town of Borken in the southwest , and the town of Fritzlar in the northwest (all in the Schwalm-Eder district).

Community structure

The municipality of Wabern consists of ten districts, the core municipality of Wabern and the surrounding villages of Hebel , Rockshausen , Falkenberg with the Falkenberg castle ruins , Udenborn , Unshausen , Uttershausen , Zennern , Niedermöllrich and Harle .

history

Around 803 Wabern was first mentioned as Wabere in the Codex Eberhardi of the Imperial Monastery of Fulda . In 1209 the Petersstift zu Fritzlar received income from Wabern (until 1450), and from 1335 it operated a farm in Wabern. In 1244 the Dominican Dietrich von Apolda owned Wabern. Around 1250, the St. Stephan monastery in Mainz also had income in the village. A Wabern family is first mentioned around 1267, but it seems to have died out by 1397. In 1298 a Erning from Wabern sold a plot of land to the Haina monastery . From 1350 to 1383 the place was a landgrave village in the Wabern office , pledged to Johann von Falkenberg . A Jenne of leverage sold in 1407 the Landgrave Hermann II. Be Vorwerk in Wabern. From 1421 Wabern was also a bailiff for the neighboring town of Zennern . The lords of Löwenstein-Schweinsberg and von Löwenstein-Westerburg had joint property in Wabern from 1450. In 1494, parts of Westerburg's inheritance went to Margarete von Westerburg and her fiancé Heinrich von Löwenstein. 1502 received Eitel of Lowenstein (later Landmarschall) and his brother John of Mainz Archbishop Berthold of Henneberg , the Vogt eirechte. From 1587 the Landgrave exercised Office Homberg the court on the Schwalm out. In 1742 Wabern received the Grebenstuhl for Wabern, Uttershausen and Zennern. Around 1756 a post office was set up in Wabern .

From 1807 to 1813, during the time of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia , Wabern was the seat of a canton and peace court , responsible for the places Wabern, Uttershausen , Zennern , Ungedanken with Rothelmshausen , Kerstenhausen , Kleinenglis , Großenenglis , Gombeth , Udenborn with Kalbsburg , Betzigerode with Wenzigerode . In 1814 the palace became the headquarters of the Hessian army corps under Prince-Elector Wilhelm II ; In 1816 General Field Marshal Blücher visited the headquarters. From 1818 Wabern belonged to the Fritzlar office (previously to the Homberg office ). In 1831 Wabern became a garrison of the 4th  Squadron of the 1st Hussar Regiment for one year .

Destroyed Edertalsperre, May 17, 1943

In 1849 the Main-Weser-Bahn , Wabern– Kassel , went into operation. With the start of construction on the Wabern – Brilon-Wald railway line in 1884, in several sections, first to Bad Wildungen , Wabern developed into an important railway junction .

In 1886 the palace became a royal Prussian educational and reformatory institution . From 1936 to 1938 it served at times as a collection camp for Jews and concentration camp inmates .

The flooding after the destruction of the Edertalsperre in the night of May 16-17, 1943 caused considerable property damage, particularly to the old mud houses.

Incorporations

On December 31, 1971, the previously independent municipalities of Falkenberg, Hebel, Rockshausen, Udenborn, Unshausen, Uttershausen and Zennern were incorporated as part of the regional reform in Hesse . On April 1, 1972, Niedermöllrich (previously in the Melsungen district ) was added. Harle (also from the district of Melsungen) followed by state law on January 1, 1974. At the same time, Wabern moved to the newly established Schwalm-Eder district.

Outsourcing

On July 1, 1972, parts of the area that belonged to the Fritzlar airfield and had a little over 300 inhabitants at that time were ceded to the city of Fritzlar.

Pleasure and hunting palace

Wabern hunting lodge

From 1701 to 1712, Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel had the pleasure and hunting lodge built on the plain between Eder and Schwalm for his wife Amalia von Kurland , based on designs by the court architect Johann Conrad Giesler . In 1753 Voltaire stayed at Wabern Castle. From 1760, during the Seven Years' War , the castle was temporarily the headquarters of Duke Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . In 1764, after the end of the Seven Years' War , Landgrave Friedrich II organized a peace festival, the highlight of which was a heron picking . This Friedrich II. Had the palace expanded with pavilion extensions in 1770 by the builder Simon Louis du Ry . In 1770 Adolph Freiherr Knigge , known for his book On Dealing with People , visited Wabern. In 1779 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe stayed in Wabern. Friederike von Anhalt-Bernburg lived in the castle in 1819 in order to cure herself from her “emotional breakdown”. Elector Wilhelm II had the palace renovated in 1828.

Districts

The Wabern districts are largely typical Lower Hessian villages that have been shaped by the Protestant denomination since the 16th century.

In Falkenberg there was a small synagogue until it was destroyed in 1938 . Most of the Jews were driven out or killed during the Holocaust .

The village of Harle is obviously of particular historical importance . The village is characterized by the Bonifatius Church, the tower of which was built in the High Middle Ages. The nave was rebuilt in 1492. Obviously the place where the church stands today had a cultic function about 2000 years ago. An indication of this is the orientation of the church. The church points to Heiligenberg near Gensungen, six kilometers away. From the point of view of the church on the day of the summer solstice (June 21 or 22) the sun rises up the Heiligenberg as if on a ramp. The astronomer Wolfhard Schlosser sees here an impressive indication of the special nature of the place on which the Harler Church stands today.

religion

Protestant church

A first chapel is mentioned around 1360. However, the main church was originally located in Niederzennern . When the place became desolate , around 1400, the parish of Nieder-Zennern seems to have been moved to Wabern. The parish of Wabern is first mentioned in a document around 1410. Around 1490 the church had a bell. The first Protestant pastor was Johannes Helwig (around 1527 until after 1557; possibly also 1569)

Evangelical Church Wabern

The current church was built in 1722 under Landgrave Karl von Hessen as a simple hall building. The main feature of the church that as a cross church was designed crosswise to the nave, d. H. the altar is on the south side of the church. This design was initiated by the Reformation. The landgrave had his box built directly opposite the pulpit . (. In 1889 it was removed) The church has a picturesque rococo - organ .

Catholic Church of St. Wigbert

The Catholic Church bears the name of St. Wigbert . The foundation stone was laid on November 23, 1958. Towards the end of the year, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated. The new church was consecrated on September 13, 1959 by the Fuldar bishop Adolf Bolte . In 2008, after almost 40 years, she received a five-part bronze bell ringing from the Laach bell foundry Abbey Maria Laach . The consecration of bells took place on August 10, 2008 .

Muqeet mosque

Muqueet Mosque Wabern

On May 15, 2005 the foundation stone was laid for the Muqeet Mosque in Wabern, which is operated by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community . After around two years of construction, it was opened on September 4, 2007 by Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the fifth Khalifat ul-Massih of the community.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Wabern railway station

Wabern is an ICE stop on the Main-Weser-Bahn with connections to Hamburg and Karlsruhe . For a long time, the station was an important railway junction , as the railway line to Brilon branched off here with a connection to the Ruhr area . Today the branch line ends in Bad Wildungen .

The station building was designed by Julius Eugen Ruhl . In 2018, the station was modernized to be barrier-free.

Federal highways 253 and 254 intersect in Wabern . The Wabern junction is located on the 49 federal motorway in the west of the municipality .

Long-distance cycle routes

The following cycle paths lead along the Eder :

• The 180 km long Eder cycle path begins in the Rothaargebirge in North Rhine-Westphalia and is called here Ederauenweg . The largest part leads through Hesse and is then called the Eder cycle path . It follows the course of the Eder to its confluence with the Fulda (river) near Guxhagen .
• The Hessian long -distance cycle path R4 (north-south cycle path) begins in Hirschhorn am Neckar and runs for about 385 km from south to north through Hesse, along from Mümling , Nidda and Schwalm to Bad Karlshafen an der Weser .

Sugar factory

Wabern sugar factory today

In 1836 the post keeper Thielepape built a small sugar factory in Wabern , which was shut down around 1850, presumably by order of the authorities. Farmers from Braunschweig had bought their way into the Wabern factory together with long-established farmers in North Hesse and pushed ahead with the establishment of a new factory. Originally, this should first be built in Kassel . However, the negotiations dragged on so much that 117 farmers from Northern Hesse decided on August 8, 1880, to set up the Actien sugar factory in Wabern as a farmer's own business. After around a year of construction, the factory was put into operation in 1881. Another capacity limit was reached in the 1960s; the increasing volume of beets could hardly be managed. In 1975 the Zuckerfabrik Franken GmbH acquired the majority of the shares; In 1977, the United Sugar Stock Corporation (VZAG) , based in Wabern, was founded as its subsidiary . This made extensive modernization and renovation work possible - a total of around 100 million Deutschmarks were invested in the factories in Wabern and Warburg . In 1988 Zuckerfabrik Franken GmbH merged with Süddeutsche Zucker-AG to form Südzucker AG ; five years later, VZAG was incorporated into Südzucker AG .

The sugar factory, view from the direction of Niedermöllrich

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016      A total of 31 seats SPD : 13 FDP : 2 CDU : 6 FW : 10	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	43.4	13	49.6	15th	49.5	15th	53.6	16
	FWG	Free voter community Wabern	30.8	10	22.9	7th	21.5	7th	15.9	5
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	20.4	6th	22.8	7th	23.6	7th	24.8	8th
	FDP	Free Democratic Party	5.5	2	4.7	2	5.4	2	5.7	2
	total		100.0	31	100.0	31	100.0	31	100.0	31
	Voter turnout in%		53.5		53.6		51.5		60.2

mayor

In the direct election of the mayor on June 14, 2015, Claus Steinmetz (SPD) was elected with 60.7% - against Kristian Joachim Ewald with 33.9% and Manfred Schäfer with 5.4% - in the first ballot. The turnout was 59.3%.

Town twinning

• Wabern-Uttershausen with Lormaison ( Département Oise ) in France

Buildings

• Wabern hunting lodge
• Muqeet mosque
• Church from 1722 with rococo - Organ
• Fortified church in the Harle district

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Wilhelm Dilich (1571–1650), master builder and engraver
• Wilhelm Thielepape (1814–1904), Mayor of San Antonio, Texas, USA
• Willy Klapproth (1892–1967), police chief in Frankfurt am Main and mayor of the city of Bensheim
• Ludwig Schneider (1893–1977), politician
• Arnold Strippel (1911–1994), SS-Obersturmführer, concentration camp leader, war criminal and mass murderer
• Karl Schmidt (1932–2018), football player and official
• Fabian Korell (* 1991), soccer player at KSV Hessen Kassel

Personalities related to the community

• Johann Ludwig Gebhard von Alvensleben (1816–1895), musician and owner of the Falkenberg manor
• Tobias Damm (* 1983), soccer player, played for SV 07 Falkenberg
• Fritz Harney (1879–1953), industrialist, headed the sugar factory in Wabern from 1910
• Rolf Hocke (* 1942), former President of the South German Football Association and President of the Hessian Football Association , lives in Wabern
• Josef Klik (1935–2020), multiple German champion in the shot put, discus throw and decathlon, lived in Harle and Niedermöllrich
• Sarah Knappik (* 1986), reality TV participant, lived in Wabern as a child
• Philipp Losch (1869–1953), historian, lived in Wabern
• Michael Meinicke (* 1948), writer and journalist, lives in Uttershausen

literature

• HOL Fritzlar-Homberg, pp. 314-316.
• Reimer: Ortslexikon, p. 487.
• Species facti the tithing justice of the Fritzlar monastery against the community of Wabern on Oct. 27, 1702 [Marburg State Archives].
• A. Woringer: Reformatory Wabern. In: Hessischer Gebirgsbote 29 (1921), pp. 1-4.
• A. Woringer: Wabern. In: Hessischer Volkskalender for the year (1932).
• Memorandum for the 75th anniversary of the Actien sugar factory in Wabern. (1955)
• G. Sandner: Wabern. The development of a north Hessian village under the influence of traffic centrality. Geographische Schriften 10, Marburg 1958.
• Robert Pessen-Lehner: Some things about the village and Wabern Castle in Lower Hesse . In: Fuldaer Geschichtsblätter , Zeitschrift des Fuldaer Geschichtsverein, Volume 36, Fulda 1960, pp. 33–46.
• C. Dippel: The Wabern Castle. In: Heimatschollen 2 (1922), p. 91ff.
• Wolfgang Nelke: The hunting lodge in Wabern (in "1175 Years of Wabern").
• Literature on Wabern in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Wabern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Wabern (Hessen)  - travel guide

• Internet presence of the municipality of Wabern
• Wabern, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ^ Wabern, "Schwalmlager" camp for forced laborers. Topography of National Socialism in Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
3. ↑ 1943 Destruction of the Edertalsperre ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts Fritzlar-Homberg, Melsungen and Ziegenhain (GVBl. II 330-22) of September 28, 1973 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1973 No. 25 , p. 356 , §§ 17 and 27 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).
5. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 392-393 .
6. ↑ See the illustration of the bloodless heron pickling: "The six pictures depict scenes from a heron picking on the occasion of the peace festival on May 25, 1764, which Landgrave Friedrich II. For the Austrian Field Marshal Karl August Friedrich Fürst von Waldeck after the end of the Seven Years' War ( 1756-63) organized “( Heimatkalender Wabern August 2008 ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ). 
7. ↑ “The falcons trained for hunting fought an exciting aerial battle with the heron. Pushing down on its prey from above, it finally forces it to the ground. Picked up by hunting helpers, the heron was simply plucked a few fine neck feathers as a sign of success in the hunt and handed them over to the present hunter or ladies. He was then ringed and released. It should have happened that some herons with up to five rings were found. "( Heimatkalender Wabern August 2008 ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check Original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. ). 
8. ↑ "Niederzennern (desert), Schwalm-Eder district". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
9. ↑ For more details see Kathrin Ellwardt: Church building between evangelical ideals and absolutist rule. The cross churches in the Hessian area from the Reformation century to the Seven Years War . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2004, ISBN 3-937251-34-0
10. ↑ Church in Wabern  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Glocken St. Wigbert Wabern ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ^ Siegfried Lohr : Planning and buildings by the Kassel master builder Julius Eugen Ruhl 1796–1871. A contribution to the building history of Kassel and Kurhessen in the 19th century . Masch. Diss. Darmstadt [1982], pp. 347f.
13. ↑ Conversion for 15 million: Wabern station is now barrier-free. HNA, December 1, 2018, accessed December 1, 2018 . 
14. ^ History of the sugar factory in Wabern ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ^ The Wabern plant of Südzucker AG
16. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 . 
17. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
18. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
19. ↑ Mayor election on June 14, 2015 Elected: Claus Steinmetz (SPD) with 60.7%  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , HR online June 14, 2015