Werxhausen

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Werxhausen
City of Duderstadt
Former coat of arms of Werxhausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 52 ″  N , 10 ° 11 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 196 m above sea level NN
Residents : 421  (Nov. 1, 2019)
Incorporation : 1st January 1973
Postal code : 37115
Area code : 05527
Werxhausen (Lower Saxony)
Werxhausen

Location of Werxhausen in Lower Saxony
Image from Werxhausen

Werxhausen is a place in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony and is located on the district road 105 between Desingerode , Westerode and Nesselröden , five kilometers west of Duderstadt in the middle of the Golden Mark . The village, which belongs to the Untereichsfeld , has been part of the city of Duderstadt since January 1, 1973 and has around 400 inhabitants.

history

Werxhausen was first mentioned in 1183 as "Wirechshusen". This happened in a document from the St. Michael monastery in Hildesheim , in which two members of the knightly family von Werxhausen (de Wirekshusen) were named. It is assumed that the founding of the place was preceded by an old settlement at the Hirtentore, which, depending on the location of its cultural layer, was built around 500 AD or even earlier. The village, owned by Duderstadt on January 23, 1369, was one of the city's five Kespel villages . At that time, the city council of Duderstadt bought Heinrich Mutzevall, Burgmann zu Scharzfeld , the place for 62 marks Duderstädter currency and also received the bailiwick , all rights, freedoms and customs, as well as 4 1/2 Hufen land, 3 1/2 marks, 2 chickens, 1 shock eggs and a bushel of poppy seeds. The abandonment took place in Bernshausen , before the appointed and sworn judge Hermann zu Bernshausen. The previous feudal owners of the place were the noble lords of Plesse , of whom on March 7, 1431 Gottschalk gave the town of Duderstadt 3 Hufen Landes and 3 farms in Werxhausen as a fief. However, the city had already bought these goods from the previous tenant, Heinrich Körner. Until 1525 the village was politically, judicially and economically dependent on Duderstadt. After the noble lords died out in 1571, the enfeoffment took place for the first time on October 15th by their legal successor, Landgrave Wilhelm von Hessen .

Due to their stance in the Peasants' War , in 1525 the elector and archbishop Albrecht II of Mainz withdrew the city's jurisdiction over the five Kerspeldörfer, which included Werxhausen, Desingerode , Esplingerode , Seulingen and Germershausen , and placed them under the Gieboldehausen office . Werxhausen, however, Duderstadt continued to be obliged to pay the city council fees in the form of taxes in kind, primarily chicken deliveries as a house tax, and services. The background to this was the situation that Duderstadt was still the owner of the village and part of the district .

The economic replacement of Duderstadt took place in 1831, within the framework of the Hanoverian Replacement Act. The last replacements took place in 1920.

politics

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Since 1973 Werxhausen has formed a joint local council with Esplingerode and Desingerode. The local mayor is currently from Desingerode and one deputy mayor each from Esplingerode and Werxhausen.

Local council

The local council consists of 13 councilors.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on November 3, 1951.

It depicts a rooster alluding to the local nickname of the residents of the village who refer to them as kückelhahn.

St. Urban Church

St. Urban Church

From 1741 to 1744, the Catholic St. Urban Church was built in Werxhausen, replacing a previous Gothic building from the 13th century. The Barockkirche from sandstone bears on the west roof of the nave a verschieferten skylights with a bulbous hood . The bell tower was not erected directly south of the church until 1932. Saint Urban , the patron of the church, can be found as a niche figure above the portal of the tower facade . The design of the church was in the hands of the architect Johann Christoph Fritz (1699–1757). The wall- articulating pilasters on the brightly plastered walls of the nave, the square corner projections and carved window frames as well as an accentuated wedge stone on the west portal are among his preferred design elements that he also used in Duderstadt, for example on the east window of the town hall . The interior of the church has a groin vault . The two-story altar dates from 1721. It was a gift from the Reifenstein monastery and came to Werxhausen in 1784. At the pulpit, built in 1756 by Johann Peetz, there are several putti heads in a stretched out position. The celebration altar and the ambo contrast with the older interior of the church . They date from 1976 and were made by the Hanoverian sculptor Hanns Joachim Klug . Since 2014 the church belongs to the parish of St. Georg in Nesselröden .

literature

  • Alfons Nolte: The village of Werxhausen and its Duderstädter Ratsvorwerke: a historical, topographical and sociological description . Duderstadt 1983.
  • Alfons Nolte: Localities of home in words and pictures: Werxhausen . In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift: the monthly magazine for all Eichsfelder. Volume 35. 1991, pp. 100-101, Mecke, Duderstadt 1991.
  • Ulrich Kampffmeyer : The burial mound on the Fuchsberg near Desingerode / Werxhausen: Investigations into the older Bronze Age in the Lower Eichsfeld . Göttingen 1978.
  • Wolfgang Lorke: Parish Church of St. Urban in Werxhausen . In: The Diocese of Hildesheim in the past and present: Yearbook of the Association for History and Art in the Diocese of Hildesheim. Volume 49. 1981, pp. 115-116, Bernward, Hildesheim 1981.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population statistics on the website of the city of Duderstadt, accessed on May 7, 2020.
  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. 206 .
  3. ↑ Christoph Lerch: Duderstädter Chronik from prehistory to 1973 . Mecke Verlag, Duderstadt 1979, p. 30 .
  4. ↑ https://wahlen.kdgoe.de/historie/2016kw/Daten/159010_000105/index.html
  5. ↑ Status: Local election on September 11, 2016