Wagenfurth

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Wagenfurth
Municipality of Körle
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 46 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 56 ″  E
Height : 163  (160-194)  m
Area : 2.04 km²
Residents : 140 approx.
Population density : 69 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st February 1971
Postal code : 34327
Area code : 05665

Wagenfurth is a district of the municipality of Körle in the north Hessian Schwalm-Eder district .

Geographical location

Wagenfurth is located on the southern edge of the natural area Kassel Basin , directly north of the border with the Fulda-Werra-Bergland . It is located on the western, left bank of the Fulda , about 1 km (as the crow flies ) northwest of the center of the center of the Körler town on the other side of the river. Other neighboring towns are Albshausen (beyond the Fulda) in the north-north-east, Lobenhausen in the south-east, Melgershausen (both this side of the Fulda) in the south-south-west, Büchenwerra (beyond the Fulda) in the west and Grebenau in the north-north-west (this side of the Fulda). The Quillerkopf ( Quiller ; approx.  345  m ) rises south-southwest .

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1303. The place name changed from Wanforth (1341) and Waynfurt (1486) to the current name. During the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia (1807-1813) Wagenfurth belonged to the canton of Melsungen .

The previously independent municipality of Wagenfurth was incorporated into the municipality of Körle on February 1, 1971 as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

church

The half-timbered church is a column construction from the 15th century.

A church was mentioned for the first time in 1341, the current one built around 1480. It is one of the oldest preserved half-timbered churches in Northern Hesse. Built in the late Gothic style, the two-storey building was used as a fruit store at times, but also as a syringe house and has only 24 seats. From the 1960s it was used as a church again and restored in the 1960s and early 1990s (according to other sources, 1998).

traffic

By Wagenfurth leading County Road  147 (Grebenau-Wagenfurth-Körle), connecting the village earlier directly with praise Hausen, but now partially extends beyond the Fulda, therefore per village on each performs a Fuldabrücke and neighboring Körle by the Federal Highway 83 (formerly in Körle- section Guxhagen the country road  is interrupted 3221). Körle by passing bebra-baunatal-guntershausen railway on which inter alia the RegioTram Kassel-Melsungen reversed. The village is on the Fulda cycle path (Hessischer Radfernweg R1) and on the Fulda-Weser cycle path .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Municipal reform: mergers and integration of municipalities from January 20, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 6 , p. 248 , item 328, paragraph 44 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.2 MB ]).
  2. ^ 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. 404 .

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