Willingshausen (district)

Willingshausen Municipality Willingshausen Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '2 " N , 9 ° 11' 51" E
Height :	248 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.51 km² [LAGIS]
Residents :	741 (December 31, 2014)
Population density :	59 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 1971
Incorporated into:	Antrefftal
Postal code :	34628
Area code :	06697

Willingshausen is the eponymous and fourth largest district of the municipality of Willingshausen in the north Hessian Schwalm-Eder district with around 750 inhabitants .

geography

The place is in the southwestern part of the municipality on the lower reaches of the Antreff . The state road 3145, which connects Treysa (7 km north) with Alsfeld (13 km south-east), runs through Willingshausen . Neighboring towns are Merzhausen in the east, Wasenberg in the north, Neustadt in the west, Bernsburg in the south-west and Fischbach in the south-east.

history

Willingshausen Castle

Willingshausen was first mentioned in a document around 1080 as Willichashuson . Later forms of the name were 1106 Willingeshusun and 1262 Willingeshusen major (to distinguish it from Willingeshusen minor , the earlier name of Gilserberg ). In 1585 the spelling Willingshausen appeared for the first time.

The Lords of Schwertzell were first mentioned in a document in the 13th century. They were early settled in Willingshausen and acquired in 1489 the local jurisdiction of Damian / Thamme of Weitershausen from Merzhausen , who de jure as hersfeldisches , de facto landgräflich-Hessian had held fiefs. In the beginning they lived in a small castle in today's castle park and built Willingshausen Castle around the middle of the 16th century .

The church of Willingshausen

The church in Willingshausen is located next to the palace of patronage family of killer cell. It dates from 1511, but goes back in part to a smaller previous building from the 12th century. Like the castle, it was partially destroyed by fire in the Thirty Years' War , but then restored with baroque changes. The patronage gallery with the coats of arms of the Hessian nobility and the altar ceiling with Schwalm whitework are worth seeing . The baroque organ by Johannes Schlottmann from 1764 is worth listening to, and he added two stops in 1765.

The painter Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern , who had married Charlotte von Schwertzell in 1820, and the art professor Ludwig Emil Grimm met for the first time in Willingshausen Castle in 1824 and founded the Willingshausen painters' colony . In the period that followed, numerous other artists came and made the Schwalm painter's village known nationwide in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The manor district Rittergut Willingshausen, which was separate up to this point and comprised 94 hectares of arable land, 38 hectares of meadows and 641 hectares of forest in 1885, was dissolved in 1928 and incorporated into Willingshausen.

On December 31, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse Willingshausen merged with Merzhausen and Zella to form the municipality of Antrefftal , which was united with five other places to form a larger municipality on January 1, 1974. The new community gave itself the name Willingshausen, but the community administration was settled in the Wasenberg district.

Cultural monuments

For the cultural monuments of the place under monument protection see the list of cultural monuments in Willingshausen (district) .

Web links

Willingshausen district. In: Internet presence. Willingshausen community; accessed in September 2018
Willingshausen, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Literature about Willingshausen in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ Economy and Transport. In: website. Willingshausen community, archived from the original on April 27, 2017 ; accessed in September 2018 .
↑ The Landgrave Hessian councilor Thamme von Weitershausen was married to Lisa von Rückershausen zu Merzhausen and therefore inherited the town of Merzhausen around 1470.
↑ In 1432, Landgrave Ludwig I of Hesse was appointed hereditary guardian of Hersfeld Abbey by Abbot Albrecht von Hersfeld and in 1434 he was enfeoffed by Abbot Albrecht with the four Schwalm villages Willingshausen, Merzhausen, Zella and Loshausen.
^ 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. 411 f .

[1] Economy and Transport. In: website. Willingshausen community, archived from the original on April 27, 2017 ; accessed in September 2018 .

[2] The Landgrave Hessian councilor Thamme von Weitershausen was married to Lisa von Rückershausen zu Merzhausen and therefore inherited the town of Merzhausen around 1470.

[3] In 1432, Landgrave Ludwig I of Hesse was appointed hereditary guardian of Hersfeld Abbey by Abbot Albrecht von Hersfeld and in 1434 he was enfeoffed by Abbot Albrecht with the four Schwalm villages Willingshausen, Merzhausen, Zella and Loshausen.

[4] 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. 411 f .