Wickers

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Wickers
Market town of Hilders
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 35 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 21 ″  E
Height : 478 m above sea level NN
Area : 4.97 km²
Residents : 260  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density : 52 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 36115
Area code : 06681
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Wickers (in the south)

Wickers is one of eleven districts of the market town of Hilders in the Fulda district in the Hessian Rhön biosphere reserve .

St. Josef village church

location

The place is located in the valley of the Brandbach on the federal road 458 Hilders - Fulda between the Hilders districts of Batten in the east and Brand in the west on the edge of the Findlos Mountain (635 m) and the Ehrenberg (816 m).

history

On December 11, 1882, the congregation decided to rebuild the church. After the groundbreaking ceremony in 1893 and the laying of the foundation stone on May 3, 1894, the church tower collapsed on November 13, 1894. On July 9, 1903, St. Joseph's Church was solemnly consecrated. After the war, the church received three new bronze bells with the chimes b - c - d from the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen / Bremen in 1949 . The bells together weigh 900 kg and have the following diameters: 864 mm, 770 mm and 686 mm. On the 100th anniversary of the church, the facade statues of St. Kilian and St. Consecrated to Boniface .

On December 31, 1971, the previously independent community of Wickers was incorporated into the community of Hilders.

Culture and sights

Pretzel Day is traditionally celebrated once a year in Wickers on March 12th . Commemorates that day a plague - epidemic around the year 1635, which at that time about one-third of the population in Ulstertal extinguished. Following the example of Pope Saint Gregory, people walked through the streets of the village singing and praying. The name comes from the fact that on this day there has been evidence that since 1763 there has been a free large pretzel as a reward for the children.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Wickers, District of Fulda". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of September 8, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Population statistics of the Fulda district , accessed in September 2015.
  3. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular p. 546 .
  4. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular p. 503 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (PhD thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).
  5. ^ 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. 394 .
  6. ↑ Before that, until 1743 the parish accounts mentioned "white brod".
  7. ^ Ortschronik 850 years of Wickers
  8. ↑ Account books of the cath. St. Joseph Wickers parish

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