Wiggersen

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '59 "  N , 9 ° 3' 47"  E

Wiggersen​

Hesse

Wiggersen is a deserted village in the district of Külte , a district of Volkmarsen in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

The place was about 210  m above sea level southwest of the Külter Berg in the west of today's village location, approximately in the area of ​​the streets Kreßpfuhl and Teichweg. It may have been mentioned for the first time in 1230. Very little is known about the history of the place. In 1444 , Archbishop Dietrich II of Cologne , who from 1415 was also administrator of the diocese of Paderborn , gave Heinrich von Gudenberg a . a. with the Paderborn half of Wiggersen. In 1523 the von Twiste brothers were declared feudal owners of the Corvey Abbey from a Hube of land in Wiggersen. It is not known when the place was abandoned.

literature

• Gottfried Ganßauge, Walter Kramm, Wolfgang Medding: The architectural and art monuments in the administrative district of Kassel. New episode, Volume 2: Circle of Twist. Bärenreiter, Kassel, 1938, p. 271
• Heinrich Höhle: The submerged localities or Die Wüstungen in Waldeck , Bings, Korbach, 1931, pp. 125–126, no. 84

Web links

• Wiggersen, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).