Wiesenfeld (Burgwald)

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Meadow field
Community Burgwald
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 19 ″  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 301 m above sea level NHN
Area : 11.1 km²  [LAGIS]
Residents : 310
Population density : 28 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1971
Postal code : 35099
Area code : 06457

Wiesenfeld is a district of the municipality of Burgwald in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in northern Hesse .

geography

Wiesenfeld is located on the western edge of the Burgwald , about 7 km south of Frankenberg (Eder) and 27 km north of Marburg (Lahn) in the middle of the other Burgwald districts. The northern neighbor is the district Burgwald, north and northeast Bottendorf forms the border. In the south, includes Ernsthausen to, on the west Birkenbringhausen. The Senkelbach flows through the village.

history

Johanniter coming

Evangelical Church (former Johanniterkirche )

Count Werner I. von Battenberg and Wittgenstein gave after his return from the crusade of Heinrich VI. (1197/98) owned by the Order of St. John in Wiesenfeld. On this basis, he donated, or after his death (1215) his son Werner II. († 1272), a 1238 first documented Coming of St. John, which until the Reformation was inhabited by five or six monks. Werner II von Battenberg was Komtur von Wiesenfeld. The St. John's Church, built in the Gothic style in the 13th century, still shapes the image of the village today. In 1358, the Johanniter Hospital, which was later to become due, was established and administered from Wiesenfeld in Wildungen .

Huguenot settlement

Old school, built by Huguenot refugees

After the Reformation, the Hessian landgraves initially leased the secularized Kommende. In 1755 Huguenot and Waldensian families from Wiesenfeld and Todenhausen received the estate in Erbleihe. Some of them were able to move into the former convent buildings or they built their own houses.

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipalities of Birkenbringhausen, Ernsthausen and Wiesenfeld voluntarily merged to form a municipality called Burgwald on July 1, 1971 . For Wiesenfeld, as for the other formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local council was formed.

traffic

The district roads 117 run through the village between Ernsthausen and Frankenberg and 118 between Wiesenfeld and Allendorf-Haine . Wiesenfeld is a stop of the Burgwaldbahn , on which rail buses run regularly .

Others

In the 25th (1989/1990) and in the 26th (1991/1992) competition " Our village should be more beautiful " the village was Hessensieger. In 1993 Wiesenfeld was national winner and won the gold medal.

Personalities

literature

  • Gerhard Beaupain: Wiesenfeld. Johanniterkommende, Huguenot and Waldensian colony, Industriehof. A village story for the 750th anniversary celebration in 1988 . Ed .: Karl-Hermann Völker. 2nd Edition. Self-published by K. Völker, Waldenserstrasse 3, 35099 Burgwald-Wiesenfeld, Burgwald-Wiesenfeld 1989.
  • Friedrich Höbel: 750 years of Wiesenfeld. Memories, lectures, photos. Documentation on the 750th anniversary of Wiesenfeld from August 4th to 8th, 1988 . Ed .: Karl-Hermann Völker. Self-published by K. Völker, Waldenserstrasse 3, 35099 Burgwald-Wiesenfeld, Burgwald-Wiesenfeld 1988.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wiesenfeld near Burgwald. The Waldensians in Germany, Deutsche Waldenservereinigung e. V., accessed July 4, 2008 .
  2. ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 28 , p. 1117 , item 988; Para. 7. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 5.0 MB ]).
  3. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 390 .
  4. ↑ Local law. In: website. Burgwald municipality, accessed February 2019 .

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