Westhausen (Bodenrode-Westhausen)

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Westhausen
Municipality Westhausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 35 ″  N , 10 ° 11 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 268 m above sea level NN
Residents : 723  (Dec. 31, 2004)
Incorporation : November 6, 1993
Postal code : 37308
Area code : 03606
Church of St. Pankratius in Westhausen
Church of St. Pankratius in Westhausen

Westhausen is a district of the municipality of Bodenrode-Westhausen in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia .

location

Westhausen is located east of the Heilbad Heiligenstadt and west of the partner district Bodenrode . The state road 2021 leads through the district and the federal highway 38 touches the corridor north . The district is located in the Leinetal and the adjacent red sandstone plateaus in the Eichsfeld hill country in hilly terrain .

history

Westhausen was first mentioned in a document on September 24, 1146. The place was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War . In 1867 Westhausen was connected to the railroad in neighboring Bodenrode. On January 2, 1992 the administrative community Leinetal was founded, to which the then independent member communities Bodenrode and Westhausen belonged, which merged on November 6, 1993. The Riethmüller equestrian center is an example of the new path in the country. 700 residents live in the district in 2012. A day care center is located in town.

Lords of Westhausen

The noble family of those at Westhausen came from the place. Similar to those at Hanstein or at Uslar , the Lords of Westhausen were counted among the robber counts of the Eichsfeld. They acted as witnesses, ministerials , were in the service of various dynasty tribes ( Counts of Gleichen , Archbishops of Mainz ) and also had the right to build smaller fortifications in their villages. They first appeared in 1023, from then on they made a significant contribution to Westhausen's appearance. In the course of time they acquired properties far beyond Eichsfeld and Thuringia. Many convent members of the Beuren monastery came from the regional nobility, such as those of Westhausen. In the Peasants' War in 1525 which was Kemenate those destroyed by Westhausen. In 1548 the family died out with the last successor Pankratius entitled to inherit from Westhausen . The fiefdom was then withdrawn from Kurmainz and Westhausen was administered from the Rusteberg office. The coat of arms shows two fallen hunting horns standing side by side. Further representatives of the noble family were:

  • Ernst and Albert von Westhausen (1263) / (1293)
  • Brothers Helmbold (1320 pastors in Westhausen), Dietrich (Knappe), Lampert and Ernst von Westhausen (1315), sell their property in Hadewarderode to the monastery in Heiligenstadt
  • Apel von Westhausen (1341), Burgmann at Scharfenstein Castle
  • Homann von Westhausen (1381), citizen of Heiligenstadt
  • Thilo von Westhausen (1395), captain in Mühlhausen

Church of St. Pankratius

Interior view of the St. Pankratius Church in Westhausen

The sources for the church chronicle of the place are only incomplete and indirect. For example, Henricus von Westhusen is named as pastor in the files of the Fulda diocese archives in 1178 , but there is no mention of a church building at that time. Only as a result of the German Peasant War is a small chapel mentioned, which was smashed in 1525. The new building was again destroyed as part of the Thirty Years War . As a result, today's church was built on the foundations of its destroyed predecessor buildings. The church of St. Pankratius was built in 1719, it is kept in a simple baroque design and has an octagonal choir and a square tower on the west side of the church. The tower did not come to the church until 1792, the keystone indicates that year, it is built in ashlars, while the rest of the church is plastered. Otherwise the bell tower shows itself with a hood , an open lantern and a tail dome . The consecration took place in October 1724 by the Erfurt auxiliary bishop Johannes Joachim Hahn , the altar consecration took place on August 7, 1897 by the Paderborn bishop August Gockel .

  • Mary's Grotto
  • Fairground under the oak

Personalities

literature

  • Heinz Nolte: Chronicle of Westhausen . Mecke, Duderstadt 1996, ISBN 3-923453-74-4 .
  • Heinz Nolte, Hermann Bittner: Festschrift 850 years Westhausen / Eichsfeld . Ed .: Municipal administration Bodenrode-Westhausen. Mecke, Duderstadt 1996, p. 64, format A5 .

Web links

Commons : Westhausen (Eichsfeld)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ vg-leinetal.de
  2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 312.
  3. ^ Heinz Nolte: Chronicle of Westhausen . Mecke, Duderstadt 1996, ISBN 3-923453-74-4 , p. 26 .
  4. ↑ Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch, vol. 7 (additions), 3rd section, d: Dead Prussian nobility, Province of Saxony, excluding the Altmark. Supplement, Nuremberg 1900, page 23
  5. ^ A b Johann Wolf: Eichsfeldisches document book together with the treatise of the Eichsfeldischen nobility. Göttingen 1819 ( Treatise on the Eichsfeld nobility, as a contribution to their history. Pages 21, 32)
  6. ^ Johann Wolf: Eichsfeldisches Urkundenbuch together with the treatise of the Eichsfeldischen nobility. Göttingen 1819 ( Treatise on the Eichsfeld nobility, as a contribution to their history. Pages 14, 54)
  7. ↑ Carl Duval: The Eichsfeld. Sondershausen 1845, page 229 ff
  8. ^ Johann Wolf: History and description of the city of Heiligenstadt with documents. Göttingen 1800, page 34
  9. ↑ Johann Siebmacher's large and general book of arms: Extinct nobility of the principalities of Schwarzburg, at the same time as a draft of a lexicon of the earlier Schwarzenburg nobility. Nuremberg 1908, page 34
  10. ^ Heinz Nolte: Chronicle of Westhausen . Mecke, Duderstadt 1996, ISBN 3-923453-74-4 , p. 74 f .