Witmarsen

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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 38 "  N , 9 ° 10 ′ 52"  E

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Witmarsen was a village settlement in what is today the district of the north Hessian city ​​of Wolfhagen , district of Kassel , which had fallen desolate in 1515 at the latest . It was first mentioned in a document in 1234 at the latest, but perhaps as early as 1081. In the online version of the historical local lexicon of Hesse it is noted that the reference from 1081 to “in Withmari” cannot be assigned with certainty to either the town of Witmarsen or the town of Wittmar near Volkmarsen .

Geographical location

The small town was located about 2.5 km north-northeast of Wolfhagen at 228  m altitude in the Erpe valley south below Elmarshausen .

history

The place was probably mentioned for the first time in 1234 as "Withmarsen" in documents from Hasungen Monastery , and in 1245 a mill was first reported. The monastery probably had a courtyard in the village, but basically it belonged to the Counts of Everstein , from whom the Lords of Gudenberg held him as a fief , at least since the turn of the 12th century . In 1452 the von Gudenberg family received the village and court as fiefs from the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , which had inherited the last Count of Everstein, Hermann VII. When the male line of Eberhard von Gudenberg died in 1534, part of his allodial and feudal estates, including the Witmarsen, which was described as desolate in the Hasung valid register as early as 1515 , went to his son-in-law Hermann von der Malsburg , marshal of Landgrave Philip I. of Hessen . The place was mentioned for the last time in 1554, when Hermann von der Malsburg and his sons agreed after a long dispute with the city of Wolfhagen about rights of use in the Erpegrund at their Elmarshausen estate.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Witmarsen, district of Kassel, in the Historical Gazetteer Hesse .
  2. ↑ The place name appeared in changing spelling over time: Withmarsen (1234), Witmaresin (1236), Witmarsen (1240, 1245) and Wittmarsen, Weitmerssen and Witmersen (1554).

literature

  • Georg Landau : Historical-topographical description of the desolate localities in the Electorate of Hesse and in the grand-ducal Hessian parts of Hessengaue, Oberlahngaue and Ittergaue (= journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Supplement 7, ZDB -ID 200295-4 ). Theodor Fischer, Kassel 1858, p. 177 .
  • Heinrich Reimer (Hrsg.): Historical local lexicon for Kurhessen (publications of the historical commission for Hessen). Elwert, Marburg, 1974, p. 524.
  • Paul Görlich: Wolfhagen history of a north Hessian city . Historical city history Thiele & Schwarz, Kassel 1980, p. 300 .

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