Wethen

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Wethen
City of Diemelstadt
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 31 ″  N , 9 ° 4 ′ 36 ″  E
Height : 200  (194–220)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 12.28 km²
Residents : 407  (Jun 30, 2020)
Population density : 33 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 34474
Area code : 05694

Wethen is a district of the city Diemelstadt in Hessian Waldeck-Frankenberg .

Geographical location

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View of Wethen, in the background the Desenberg and the city of Warburg

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Wethen is located in the east of Diemelstadt at the Teutoburg Forest / Eggegebirge nature reserve . In terms of agriculture, Wethen is assigned to the Warburger Börde area . Federal motorway 44 runs to the west and south of the town . Wethen is right on the border with North Rhine-Westphalia . The next larger cities are Paderborn (approx. 40 km), Kassel (approx. 45 km) and Dortmund (approx. 100 km).

history

The place was first mentioned around 850 in the property register of the Corvey Monastery . After 980 the whole place belonged to the Corvey monastery, later to the diocese of Mainz . Around 1010 a "Whetium" is mentioned as a gift from a Sibido to the Corvey monastery. It was not until the 12th century that "Wethene" and a "Burg zu Weten" were reported. Remnants of the walls of this old castle are still present under today's church. The foundation is said to have taken place around 1230 or 1239, a knight Udo von Wethen is named as the founder of the village and the founder of the church, probably a chapel . In 1295 the Counts of Waldeck took over the place. Wethen was temporarily pledged by them to the Spiegel zum Desenberg family , but the place was also temporarily owned by the Hardehausen monastery . From the middle of the 13th century, Wethen was finally Waldeck.

On December 31, 1970 Wethen was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse on a voluntary basis in the city Diemelstadt incorporated .

church

history

Paulus Church Wethen

In 1345, today's church was first mentioned in a document, it was consecrated to the apostle Paul . Only the imposing church tower that has been preserved still bears witness to the Romanesque architecture. In 1812 the old nave had to be demolished because it was dilapidated. The new nave is a half-timbered building.

During the Thirty Years' War , Swedish troops destroyed the church, probably in 1637, and used it as a horse stable.

The nave was in a castle complex on the border between Waldeck and Westphalia . The Wethen church is one of the oldest in the Waldecker Land.

crypt

The access to the crypt is probably based on an earlier castle chapel. This is square and also has a two-meter-deep apse , which consists of two rows of columns with two round columns, each with two rectangular pillars at the beginning and end. These divide the chapel into three naves of equal width with burr, round-arched cross vaults. This crypt was discovered during construction in 1957.

In the Waldecker Land there are a number of church buildings that also date from the Romanesque period, the 11th to 13th centuries. These include the churches in Twiste and Külte . In none of these churches is there an underground chapel (crypt) as in the Wethen church, although these were mainly present in many Romanesque churches from the 11th to 13th centuries.

Others

Attractions

  • crypt
  • Old Town Hall
  • Germanic ramparts on the Gaulskopf
  • Remains of the Ossenburg located northwest of the village

Sons and daughters of the place

literature

  • Richard Lehmann and the Wethen village chronicle working group: Wethen . Arolsen: Waldeckischer Geschichtsverein 2015 (= Waldeckische Ortssippenbücher 91)
  • Robert Wetekam : Wethen . Arolsen: Waldeckischer Geschichtsverein 1959 (= Waldeckische Ortssippenbücher 8)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b statistics. In: website. City of Diemelstadt, accessed August 2020 .
  2. ↑ Incorporation of the communities Ammenhausen, Dehausen, Helmighausen, Neudorf and Wethen into the city of Diemelstadt in the Waldeck district on January 5, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 3 , p. 111 , point 122 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).
  3. ↑ 30 years of GRÜNE in Lichtenau - that's what we want to celebrate! Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Stadtverband Lichtenau, September 8, 2014, accessed on October 11, 2014 .
  4. ^ Atom Express. (PDF) In: No. 25 - July / August 1981. Göttingen Working Group against Atomic Energy, accessed on March 28, 2020 .

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