Wellingerode (Meissner)

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Wellingerode
community Meissner
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 6 ″  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 49 ″  E
Height : 241  (238-263)  m
Area : 2.98 km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 37290
Area code : 05657

Wellingerode is a district of the municipality of Meißner in the Werra-Meißner district in northern Hesse .

geography

The village lies in the foothills of the Hoher Meissner . The classified streets run at a distance from the place

  • the state road 3242 in the north,
  • the federal highway 27 in the east,
  • the state road 3241 in the south and
  • the state road 3335 in the west.

history

The economic development of the village of Wellingerode, which was first mentioned in 1355, has been mainly determined by the carriage of salt and wine since the 18th century. Because of the poor agricultural income situation, the inhabitants had to earn their living as salt carriers, carters, bricklayers, miners and linen weavers.

On December 31, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the previously independent communities of Abterode, Alberode, Germerode, Vockerode, Weidenhausen and Wellingerode merged to form the new large community of Meißner.

politics

  • Mayor is Armin Eichelkraut ( SPD ) (as of 2009).

Culture and sights

church

The Evangelical Church of Wellingerode (Meißner) (1) .jpg

The Evangelical Church in Wellingerode was built in 1869. The simple building is accentuated by a roof turret over the facade. The interior is a simple hall with a transverse organ gallery above the entrance. On the wall behind the altar hangs a picture by the late Wellingerode village painter Rolf Werner Stuss.

When the previous building, a wooden church built in 1667, became dilapidated and also much too small for the large number of people who attended church services at the time, today's church was built on the same site. The chronicle reports a tragic event in connection with the new building. Because the statics for the left side wall were obviously incorrectly calculated, the church was considered to be in danger of collapsing and had to be torn down and rebuilt. The builder Peter Gießler is said to have taken this to heart so much that he killed himself because of this mistake.

Because of its historical and urban significance, the church is a protected cultural monument. The church is surrounded by a number of courtyards that are listed as a whole for historical reasons.

Others

  • The only privately operated telephone booth in Germany is in the village .
  • In the run-up to Christmas there is an individually designed crib in almost every front garden. That is why Wellingerode is called the village of cribs in the area .

literature

  • Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. - Cultural monuments in Hessen. Werra-Meißner district I, old district Eschwege . Peer Zietz in collaboration with Thomas Wiegand, Braunschweig; Wiesbaden: Vieweg. 1991. ISBN 3-528-06240-1 . P. 291 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wellingerode, Werra-Meißner district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b c Monument topography Werra-Meißner-Kreis IS 291 f.
  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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 388 .
  4. ↑ Constanze Wüstefeld in the Werra-Rundschau from July 19, 2018: "The builder killed himself: a tragic story lies behind the building in Wellingerode."

Web links

Commons : Wellingerode  - collection of images, videos and audio files