Wickenrode

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Wickenrode
Helsa municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 26 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 47"  E
Height : 355  (335-440)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.79 km²
Residents : 1800 approx.
Population density : 376 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1970
Incorporated into: Helsa-Wickenrode
Postal code : 34298
Area code : 05604
View of the Wickenröder Church
View of Wickenrode
Wickenrode seen from the Hirschberg in winter

Wickenrode is a part of the Helsa municipality in the Kassel district .

Geographical location

Wickenrode is about 3 km (as the crow flies ) east of the center of Helsa in the Frau-Holle-Land Geo-Nature Park (Werra Valley, Meissner, Kaufunger Forest) . It is located in the Kaufunger Forest northwest of the summit of the Hirschberg ( 643.4  m above sea  level ) at about 335 to 440  m above sea level and is traversed by the Wedemann . The federal road 451 , which comes from Helsa and continues to Großalmerode ( Werra-Meißner district ), leads through it .

history

Wickenrode was first mentioned in 1293 in a deed of donation issued by the knight Burghardus Cygenberc. The certificate shows that the Knights of Zierenberg had long owned Wickenrode as a fief of the Kaufungen monastery . This is followed by further documentary mention in the years 1296, 1322, 1338, 1353, 1390, 1432 and 1433 in which reference is always made to agriculture. In these documents different spellings are used for the place: Wigkenrode, Wickenrade, Wickinrode, Wiekenrade.

Documented from the 16th century to the beginning or middle of the 19th century, Wickenrode was a center for the production of glass (with Großalmer or harbor clay ) and alum , which u. a. used in dyeing fabric. In the period between 1840 and 1880, Wickenrode was home to one of the largest chemical plants in Germany with around 300 employees. The well-known chemist Ludwig Mond had developed one of his first patents there.

On December 1, 1970 , as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the communities of Helsa and Wickenrode voluntarily merged to form the community of Helsa-Wickenrode . With the merger, Wickenrode moved from the district of Witzenhausen to the district of Kassel . As early as August 1, 1972, the municipality of Helsa-Wickenrode was incorporated into the newly founded municipality of Helsa by virtue of state law together with Eschenstruth and St. Ottilien .

Culture

legend

From the most simply as fairy-tale character of the Brothers Grimm known Frau Holle is related to Wickenrode reports the following:

On St. Nicholas Day she comes out of her mountain ( Hoher Meißner ) to help people in need. Like the Wickenröder Essias Gunkel, to whom she is said to have shown the brown coal of the Hirschberg .

Another legend reports that she came to Hirschberg on May 1st and looked into the Fulda valley. On one such day, according to legend, she freed the daughter of a glassmaker from the spell of an evil witch.

A punishing woman Holle is described in the saga of the honey farm. Since everything was doing so well on a farm on the Sandberg, the Wickenröders called it "Honighof". The farmer of the farm as well as his sons were haughty and stingy and their death in a fire that completely destroyed the farm (triggered by a lightning strike) is attributed to Mrs. Holle. Only the good-natured and compassionate daughter of the farmer was spared and henceforth blessed with happiness. The place where the farm is said to have stood has kept its name among the locals.

societies

Mandolin and Guitar Association 1923 Wickenrode eV

Plucked music has a long tradition in Wickenrode. In 1923, at the time of the Wandervogel movement, the mandolin and guitar association was founded with the aim of "preserving, cultivating and promoting plucked music". Today around 90 guitar and mandolin players play in 3 orchestras in the association. The association operates a very committed youth and youth work and can record numerous successes. The main orchestra took second place in the Hessian orchestra competition in 1995, was winner in 1999 and took part in the German orchestra competition in Karlsruhe in 2000 with good success. In the " Jugend musiziert " competition, several prizes were won by the club's youth players at state and federal level.

Partnerships

The municipality of Helsa has had a partnership with Trébes ( France ) since 1972 , which goes back to the first contacts between Wickenröder citizens and the French.

swell

  • Festschrift 750 years of Wickenrode 1293–1993 (publisher: Helsa municipality)
  1. ↑ "Wickenrode, District of Kassel". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 26, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ Herbert Brandt: Wickenrode glassworks and miners' village until the end of the 19th century. Ed .: Helsa History Association. 2nd Edition. Kassel 2018.
  3. ^ Helsa History Association
  4. ↑ Merger of the communities Helsa in the district of Kassel and Wickenrode in the district of Witzenhausen to form the new community "Helsa-Wickenrode" in the district of Kassel on November 13, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 48 , p. 2254 , point 2251 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5,6 MB ]).
  5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Hofgeismar, Kassel and Wolfhagen (GVBl. II 330-17) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 225 , § 2 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  6. ↑ Burckhard Garbe: "The most beautiful sagas - Volume 1 - Region Kassel". Prolibris Verlag, 2001, pp. 42-48
  7. ^ Herbert Brandt: "Wickenrode glassworks and miners' village until the end of the 19th century". 1993, p. 224
  8. ^ Herbert Brandt: "Wickenrode glassworks and miners' village until the end of the 19th century". 1993, p. 223
  9. ↑ Homepage Mandolin Club Wickenrode

Web links

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