Wolfhagen

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Wolfhagen
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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '  N , 9 ° 10'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : kassel
County : kassel
Height : 274 m above sea level NHN
Area : 111.95 km 2
Residents: 13,022 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 116 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 34466
Primaries : 05692, 05606 (Niederelsungen)Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : KS, HOG, WOH
Community key : 06 6 33 028
LOCODE : DE WFH
City structure: Core city and eleven districts

City administration address : 		Burgstrasse 33–35
34466 Wolfhagen
Website : www.wolfhagen.de
Mayor : Reinhard Schaake ( independent )
Location of the city of Wolfhagen in the Kassel district
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City of Wolfhagen

Wolfhagen is a small town with a historic half-timbered core in the northern Hessian district of Kassel . Since February 21, 2019 it has been nicknamed " Hans-Staden -Stadt".

geography

location

Wolfhagen is located in northern Hesse in the far west of the Habichtswald Nature Park, east of the Long Forest . To the east of the city is the Ofenberg ( 372.5  m above sea  level ; with the Ofenberg tower ), beyond it the Isthaberg ( 523.1  m ) rises. In the west- south- west direction, the terrain rises gently to the Stöckberg ( 344.8  m ; with transmission tower and waterworks ) and to the south to the Graner Berg ( 315  m ; with Wolfhagen-Graner Berg airfield ). The city is located on the Mühlenwasser , a tributary to the Erpe , which passes the city center a little northeast; into the mill water flow at or in Wolfhagen Duse and Limeckebach .

The old town of Wolfhagen is located on a hill in the so-called Wolfhager Graben , a northern part of the West Hessian Depression . Newer parts of the city were laid out on the neighboring Teichberg and at the foot of the Ofenberg and Gotzenberg.

Neighboring communities

Wolfhagen borders in the northwest on the city of Volkmarsen ( Waldeck-Frankenberg district ), in the north on the municipality of Breuna , in the east on the city of Zierenberg and the municipality of Habichtswald , in the southeast on the municipality of Schauenburg , in the south on the municipality of Bad Emstal and the city Naumburg (all in the district of Kassel) and in the southwest to the city of Waldeck and in the west to the city of Bad Arolsen (both in the district of Waldeck-Frankenberg).

City structure

In addition to the core city, Wolfhagen (with the hamlet of Elmarshausen ) consists of eleven other districts , each of which extends as a village around the core city:

history

prehistory

Footprints of early dinosaurs have been found in the former sand pit in Wolfhager Stadtwald. Two of the dinosaurs, Protochirotherium wolfhagense and Palaeochirotherium macrodactylum , were first discovered here. Some of the traces can be seen in the Wolfhager Museum.

The first traces of human activity in the Wolfhager district refer to the Middle Stone Age. Numerous barrows in the Wolfhagen city forest attest to Bronze Age settlement.

middle Ages

At the beginning of the Middle Ages, the area around Wolfhagen belonged to the Chatti settlement area, which was soon to be part of the Frankish domain. Even if architecture and the Low German language are much more Saxon than Franconian, it can be assumed that they belong to Franconian Hesse. The founding of Gran and Langel , two settlements of Chatto-Saxon farmers in today's Wolfhager area, were dated to the end of the fourth century by a local researcher. It is more likely, however, that these places were not settled until the 8th century.

Since the 7th century the area has been Christianized by Iro-Scottish monks. It was probably St. Boniface who consecrated the archpriest church on the Schützeberg as an influential ecclesiastical center in the region around 752 in what was later to be Wolfhag's territory . A document from the 13th century names an Alkmar as its founder.

Around 1200 North Hesse became the scene of bloody noble feuds. The Landgraves of Thuringia, who were then ruling in this part of Hesse , therefore endeavored to settle the population in fortified cities in order to keep them out of the fighting and at the same time to be able to make them available for organized national defense. Wolfhagen was founded on a strategically favorable hill near the border with Waldeck , Westphalia and the possessions of the archbishops of Mainz . The residents came from the surrounding unsurfaced places, which then fell largely desolate. The construction of the fortified town and castle Wolfhagen must have begun at the earliest in 1200 and at the latest in 1226.

In 1231 Landgrave Konrad mentions a farm “in nostro oppido Wolfhain”, the first written document of the city's existence. This first mention marks the official founding date of the place. In 1235 the altar of the town church was consecrated. During repair work in 2010, the remains of a Romanesque predecessor building were found under the church, which made it seem conceivable that the town and church go back to an older predecessor settlement, but which probably only refer to a provisional church building. The church on the Schützeberg lost its importance after the construction of the city church and was finally given up.

In 1264 the place received city ​​rights , and from 1302 the city had a complete fortification . Organizationally, Wolfhagen was divided into four peasant communities, i.e. districts. The bailiff , sheriff or bailiff resided at the castle and was the representative of the Landgrave. He was mainly responsible for police, judicial and defense duties. The city was administered by the mayor, who was elected by a council of distinguished citizens. The council also looked after the city court, which was chaired by the Vogt. From 1313, delegates from the guilds and the peasantry also had the right to vote in the council. Since the council dignity could be inherited, large parts of the population still saw themselves excluded from co-determination. They set up their own council, which elected its own mayor. From the 15th century, Wolfhagen officially had two mayors and two councils: a local council and an ordinary council. Both elected two chamberlains to manage the finances. The Wolfhagen office comprised a judicial district of the landgrave. Own coins were minted from 1240 and the boys' school was first mentioned in 1286.

In 1268 Wolfhagen was harassed by the Westphalian troops of the Bishop of Paderborn . Landgrave Heinrich von Thuringia successfully countered these here, with 150 of the attackers being killed. Two years later, however, the Westphalians managed to set the city on fire. In the summer of 1372, the bishop Heinrich von Paderborn and part of his entourage were captured by Wolfhager citizens under the leadership of Werner and Heinrich von Gudenberg , arrested in Wolfhagen and finally forced to change sides in the Star Wars .

The hospital was founded in 1368. In January 1376 large parts of the city were destroyed by fire. From 1385 the place was pledged to the Archdiocese of Mainz for a long time. In 1420 it burned again in Wolfhagen. In the years 1464 and 1465 there were again several attacks from Paderborn. From the 14th century Wolfhagen was the seat of the Wolfhagen office .

Modern times

In 1527 the Reformation found its way into Wolfhagen. In 1576 a plague epidemic took a large part of the population. There were even more deaths in 1597 from grain contaminated with ergot fungus .

Wolfhagen - Excerpt from the Topographia Hassiae by Matthäus Merian 1655

The city ​​was almost completely destroyed in the Thirty Years War . At the end of the war, only 81 of the previously 394 residential buildings were still standing. Repairing the damage took decades. Of 370 Wolfhag citizens (i.e. all heads of household without the Jewish residents and the residents of the Garthaus Vorstadt, all of whom were not classified as legally full citizens), only 81 could be found in 1646.

From 1699 Huguenots came to the area . During the Seven Years' War there were several skirmishes in and around Wolfhagen, the largest of which cost the lives of several thousand people. At times the city was occupied by the French. In order to compensate for population losses, the colonies Philippinendorf , -burg and -thal were founded after the war on Wolfhager territory , the settlers of which mostly came from other parts of Hesse.

During the time of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia (1807-1813) it was the administrative seat of the canton of Wolfhagen . The Dörnberg uprising against Napoleon in 1809 ended so badly, not least because the Wolfhag rebels involved had acted so amateurishly that King Jerome's troops were warned in good time.

In 1821 Hessen-Kassel became an electorate. The offices of Wolfhagen, Naumburg, Volkmarsen and Zierenberg were combined to form the new Wolfhagen district. In 1866 the Electorate of Hesse became Prussian and in 1867 the Wolfhag Court was appointed a district court. In 1896 Wolfhagen was connected to the railway network.

20th and 21st centuries

Between November 1918 and February 1919 the city was administered by a workers', soldiers' and farmers' council . From around 1925 the built-up area, which had remained almost constant for centuries, increased rapidly. New building areas were developed. This process accelerated again after the Second World War. At the same time, the population increased. In 1931 the city still had 3200 inhabitants, in 1951 the number was already 5500. 30 years later there were 7000. In addition there were around 5500 inhabitants of the surrounding villages incorporated in 1971 , so that the larger community of Wolfhagen now had around 12,500 inhabitants.

The Second World War cost 229 soldiers from Wolfhagen their lives. At this time, numerous forced laborers from occupied territories had to work in factories in the city, and around 773 people were liberated by the Allies towards the end of the war. The air force main ammunition facility Muna was set up in the area even before the war . This was blown up in several bursts when the Allies approached. The force of the explosions caused property damage in Wolfhagen. On March 31, 1945, the city was occupied by American and Belgian troops without a fight. From then on it belonged to the American Zone, later to the state of Hesse. Numerous refugees have now found a new home here. Due to the large number of Catholic refugees, a Catholic community was created, which in 1966 was able to move into the newly built Catholic Church of St. Maria.

On 14./15. In March 1960 the Bundeswehr base was moved to the former site of the ammunition factory in Wolfhagen. Initially, the Panzerjägerkompanie 50 from Marburg and the Panzerbataillon 54 (renamed Panzerbataillon 64 in 1981) from Wetzlar were stationed . Wolfhagen was a garrison town from April 1960. In 1964 the location was named "Pomeranian Barracks" . On August 5, 1976, Panzergrenadierbataillon 341 was stationed, later renamed Panzergrenadierbataillon 62. The barracks were closed in 2008.

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the Wolfhagen district was dissolved in 1972 and assigned to the Kassel district . As a result, the number of license plates with the abbreviation WOH also decreased; In 2013 they were re-admitted. Wolfhagen was united with surrounding villages to form the large community of Wolfhagen.

In 1992 the Hessentag took place in Wolfhagen. In 2005 the Wolfhagen district court was closed. The Bundeswehr site was closed on June 30, 2008; the site of the former Pomerania barracks built in 1958/59 was demilitarized and now houses an educational institution and several medium-sized companies.

In June 2019, the Kassel District President Walter Lübcke was the victim of a right-wing terrorist attack in front of his house in the Istha district.

The Jewish community

18 Jewish refugees from France are occupied in Wolfhagen in 1235. They were killed in a pogrom that autumn . The beginnings of a community probably date back to the beginning of the 16th century. However, Jews were not granted full civil rights, although they were subject to all duties. Instead, the mayor and city council applied to the landgrave several times, unsuccessfully, to be allowed to expel the Jews. In 1720 the community already consisted of 40, in 1788 of 59, in 1827 of 127 and in 1850 of about 236 people. In 1874 there were about 300 people, that was more than ten percent of the population. In 1929 it consisted of only 65 people.

As early as 1720 there was a teacher in the community in Wolfhagen. During the Napoleonic episode , Jews briefly enjoyed full rights, which were then initially denied and only granted again with the constitution of the Electorate of Hesse in 1831 . A synagogue was opened in 1859. The parishioners were often exposed to anti-Jewish resentment . The spirit of revolution in 1848 did little more than cause a pogrom among the citizens of Wolfhagen, in which the window panes of Jewish houses were smashed. These reservations reappeared immediately after Hitler came to power. As early as April 1933, the magistrate applied for the Jewish school to be abolished. The synagogue was burned down during the November pogroms in 1938 . The community's cult objects were destroyed, the Jewish cemetery and the school building were devastated. A Jewish house was also burned down. Numerous Jews were able to leave Wolfhagen, others were murdered. In 1942 ten Jews from the Wolfhagen district were deported to the Majdanek and Sobibor extermination camps on the D-57 special train . A list from the 1980s names 51 mostly older Wolfhager and former Wolfhager Jews as well as seven Jews from Niederelsungen who were deported, mostly to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Riga or Lodz.

At the beginning of 2013 it was decided to grant honorary citizenship to the last two members of the community, Lutz Kann and Ralph Möllerick, who were born in Wolfhagen. Shortly before, Adolf Hitler's honorary citizenship , which was granted on April 3, 1933, had been revoked.

Wolfhagen City Archives

The Wolfhagen City Archives have been kept in the Hessian State Archives in Marburg since the late 1930s (inventory 330 Wolfhagen). Around two thirds of the holdings have been developed and researched online. The deposit agreement between the State Archives and the City of Wolfhagen was canceled in 2004.

Incorporations

On February 1, 1971, the previously independent communities of Altenhasungen, Bründersen, Leckringhausen, Niederelsungen, Nothfelden, Viesebeck and Wenigenhasungen were incorporated into the regional reform in Hesse . Ippinghausen and Istha were added on December 31, 1971.

politics

City Council

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council
     
A total of 31 seats
  • SPD : 12
  • Greens : 3
  • CDU : 10
  • BWB : 5
  • AGW : 1
 Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 37.7 12 41.0 13 49.3 15th 48.2 18th
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 30.7 10 30.2 9 41.8 13 41.8 15th
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 11.1 3 14.2 4th 3.4 1 7.2 3
BWB Alliance of Wolfhag Citizens 17.5 5 12.2 4th - - - -
AGW Active community Wolfhagen 3.0 1 - - - - - -
WOH list / FDP Wolfhager List / FDP - - 2.4 1 5.6 2 - -
FDP Free Democratic Party - - - - - - 2.9 1
total 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 37
Voter turnout in% 51.1 58.0 52.0 59.7

mayor

The mayor Reinhard Schaake ( non-party ) was elected on January 31, 1999 with 50.9% of the vote. Schaake was re-elected on February 6, 2005 with 66.8% of the vote. On March 27, 2011, Schaake was re-elected for a third term with 73.3% of the votes.

magistrate

The magistrate elected by the city council is composed (as of June 2019) as follows:

mayor Reinhard Schaake (independent)
First councilor Peter Kraushaar ( SPD )
Councilor Gisela Nolte ( SPD )
City council Rainer Ruth ( SPD )
City council Horst Foerste ( CDU )
City council Jürgen Hildenbag ( CDU )
City council Norbert Ithner ( CDU )
City council Roman Krettek ( Alliance 90 / The Greens )
City council Klaus Steinbock ( BWB )

coat of arms

The coat of arms contains three green trees on a green background on a yellow background. In between is a black, red-tongued wolf.

Behind this picture is a legend that has to do with the founding of the city. Farmers wanted to clear the "Hagen" forest. A wolf came out of the forest who behaved peacefully and did not attack the farmers. He just kept walking. The farmers were so grateful that they named the place on the now cleared area Wolfhagen.

Town twinning

  • Tergnier (Hauts-de-France), France since 1981
  • Ohrdruf (Thuringia), since 1990
  • Meldola (Emilia-Romagna), Italy, 2008–2019 (the contact fell asleep over time)

Culture and sights

Church partnership

Heldrungen ( Thuringia , partnership between the evangelical
parish Wolfhagen and the evangelical parish Heldrungen) The partnership, which at the beginning of the 1960s was initially limited to contact between the parish priests, expanded considerably until 1989. Even after reunification , the partnership will continue with numerous visits.

theatre

  • "Spielgemeinschaft Waldbühne Erich Oberlist Niederelsungen e. V. “- Niederelsungen

Museums

  • Regional Museum Wolfhager Land: Developed from the district museum of the old district of Wolfhagen, the museum has been housed in the Renthof of Wolfhagen Castle since 1980. The club-run museum shows the history of the region from the Stone Age through the Middle Ages to the handicrafts of the 20th century. In the second house, the original prints of the Wolfhag dinosaurs, an extensive half-timbered department, a gallery and, above all, the largest presentation in Europe on Hans Staden - the author of the first German-language travel report to Brazil from 1557 - are presented. Staden was a prisoner of the Tupinambà , who are ascribed cannibalism , for nine months . Folklorist Beate Bickel has been the director of the regional museum since 2012.
  • The museum for film and video technology, operated by the Wolfhagen cultural association

Buildings

historical town hall

Historic town hall on the market square

The historic town hall, a three-storey, mighty half-timbered building , was built by the townspeople in 1657–1659 after it was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War as the third half-timbered building on a historical foundation. The inhabitants had to deliver natural produce and do manual and clamping services. The mighty oak beams come from the nearby city forest. Landgrave Wilhelm VI. von Hessen-Kassel contributed 100 guilders to the construction. The 222 margarite ornaments in the beam heads are a special decoration. The master carpenter Georg Müller from Helsa is mentioned as a builder.

Evangelical town church

Evangelical town church Wolfhagen from the southeast (Burgstrasse)

Is a three-aisled Gothic hall church from the 13th century with remarkable keystones, which together form a world judgment cycle. It is also popularly called St. Anne's Church, but this has not been proven historically. The only thing that is certain is that one of the many altars was consecrated to St. Anne when it was founded. To conclude from this that the whole Church bears her name is incorrect.

Hospital chapel

Hospital chapel / cemetery chapel

Today the original hospital chapel, also known as the Chapel of the Holy Corpse or Uhlenkerke, serves as a cemetery chapel. As early as the 14th century, construction of a new church, which was planned as a pilgrimage church, began outside the city. After the completion of the choir, construction was stopped and served as a chapel for the hospital, which was built in the immediate vicinity in the 14th century. With the beginning of the Reformation, no more services were held in this chapel. Since 1931 - the 700th anniversary of the city - the building has served as the city's cemetery chapel. The chapel is a single-nave, high-Gothic building made of sandstone blocks, a two-bay nave with a five-eighth choir closure and ribbed vaults on wall services. The uniformity of the window tracery suggests Cistercian influence. A square, cross-rib vaulted sacristy is attached to the northern side of the eastern yoke. The keystones are of a remarkable level of craftsmanship and contribute to the spiritual and artistic quality of the high Gothic space.

Catholic Church

Catholic Church of St. Maria in Wolfhagen

The Catholic Church of St. Maria was built in 1966 and replaced the emergency church on Koppenberg, which was the focus of community life for the Catholics of Wolfhagen in the years after the Second World War. With the help of the Bonifatiusverein, the diocese of Fulda and the military bishop's office in Bonn, the church was able to be built with over 300 seats. When the foundation stone was laid, a stone was also walled in, which most likely comes from the church on Schützeberg dedicated to the Apostle Peter .

The church, built in exposed aggregate concrete, has four bells that were cast in the Schilling bell foundry in Heidelberg . The bells are coordinated with those of the Evangelical City Church. The main altar and the altar in the side chapel are made of limestone blue bench. In a conche behind the main altar is the tabernacle , a marble stele made of limestone blue bench for the Holy of Holies . The stele is shaped like a monstrance . The bronze door shows the Lamb of God and the book with seven seals from the Revelation of John in the New Testament . The bright depressions in the tabernacle symbolize the twelve gates of the heavenly Jerusalem. The tabernacle, priest's seat, candlestick, ambo and the Madonna in the southern part of the church are made of bronze based on designs by the sculptor Reinhold Schröder (Altlünen).

The colored windows of the church should make the salvation happening visible in the flow of time. The content of the picture is highly abstract and largely retreats behind the flow of lines and colors. From the light, embodying God, the colors and shapes develop, which in the end dissolve again in him.

From 1988 to 1992 the church had to be completely renovated.

Other structures

In the urban area

The former tithe barn, remainder of Wolfhagen Castle, south view
  • Wolfhagen Castle
  • Marktplatz and Alte Wache
  • Kattenturm (also: Chattenturm), a watchtower of the historical city fortifications

In the districts

  • Plate on the Isthaberg: Foundation rest of the beacon tower, in 1934 on the crest of Isthabergs was built for the kingdom of air traffic control and demolished 1954/1955
  • Evangelical Church Altenhasungen : Romanesque church, which was first mentioned in 1074, changed in 1740, Romanesque lintel relief from the 12th century, reconstruction in 1925
  • Evangelical Church Bründersen : built in 1543, extensively renovated in 1742, altar from 1754, renovated in 1967; in 2007 the church received three new bronze bells
  • Evangelical Church Ippinghausen : Baroque hall church over a regular rectangle, built in 1772
  • Evangelical Church Istha : Baroque hall church over a regular rectangle, Romanesque tower, nave 1744–1747
  • Huguenot Church in Leckringhausen : built in 1768, the tower was renewed in 1888; French worship took place in the church until 1840
  • Evangelical Church Niederelsungen : Romanesque west tower with saddle roof, Gothic nave, flat roof, stone pulpit from the 17th century, baptismal font, renovated in 1986/87
  • Evangelical Church Nothfelden : Romanesque choir tower, nave from 1751, tower dome from 1803
  • Evangelical Church Viesebeck
  • Evangelical Church Wenigenhasungen : built in 1787, rebuilt in 1907
  • Old school in Istha: built in 1880

Castles, palaces, towers, desolations

Weidelsburg castle ruins on the Weidelsberg in the Long Forest
Moated castle Elmarshausen near the Wolfhagen core town

Regular events

  • Every first Friday of the month: Ecumenical peace prayer in the chapel of the town church. Start: 6 p.m.
  • March, always on the first Friday: World Women's Day of Prayer
  • Easter: Celebration of Easter Vigil in the Evangelical City Church at daybreak at 5 a.m. The Evangelical Church Congregation has been celebrating this atmospheric service since 1983, in which adults and confirmands are regularly baptized.
  • April: Istha Easter Fire: Largest Easter fire with a height of 14 meters in the old district of Wolfhagen as well as with a traditional girls' auction
  • Whitsun: Every two years (even year) the Schützengesellschaft 1701 Viesebeck celebrates its Schützen- und Britzefest.
  • May: Traditional shooting festival in Wenigenhasungen of the shooting society, which has existed since 1724. The rifle brothers march in black suits with top hats. The festivities begin on "Father's Day" and the traditional shooting festival is celebrated on the following Saturday and Sunday.
  • May: St. John's Festival in downtown Wolfhagen on the third weekend
  • April: Fair in Istha: Well-known folk festival from April 25th to 28th
  • June: Wolfhagen culture tent
  • June 17th: Huguenot festival in Leckringhausen with prayer in the church and get-together in the Huguenot parlor
  • July: Wolfhager cattle market (always on the third weekend; "Christmas Eve" on Thursday; cattle awards ceremony on Friday; parade on Saturday, fireworks at the end on Sunday)
  • September: traditional potato festival , organized by the Friends of the Bründersen Fire Brigade e. V., in the district of Bründersen on the first weekend and Michaelismarkt in downtown Wolfhagen on the second weekend
  • December: Opening of the Bread for the World campaign with a community festival in the Protestant community center on the first Sunday in Advent
  • December: Advent market

Excursion destinations in the vicinity

Music culture

In the 1990s there were numerous punk rock bands such as Swoons or Lost Lyrics in Wolfhagen . The English radio DJ John Peel played the Swoons in 1992 on the soldiers station BFBS and read a letter from the record company in which Wolfhagen was referred to as "European Seattle". Seattle is the hometown of Nirvana and other grunge bands that were very popular in the early 1990s. There are also several regional samplers that deal with the city's music scene. Other musicians from the Wolfhager band scene around Haunted Henschel worked or are working, among others, such as Brezel Göring with Stereo Total , The Bates , Dog Food Five , Hara-Kee-Rees and King Khan & his Shrines . Current bands are u. a. Anyday zombie

Sports

  • The wrestling group of the Walter-Lübcke-Schule (formerly Wilhelm-Filchner-Schule) was the national winner for three years in a row from 2016–2018 in youth training for the Olympics in age group 3.
  • The Philippinenburg and -thal tug-of-war group is multiple German champions in this discipline.
  • The first team of the football club FSV Rot-Weiß Wolfhagen plays in the group league North Hesse.
  • The Schachfreunde Bad Emstal / Wolfhagen won the championship title at the German team blitz championship for three years in a row from 2016-2018.
  • The archers of the TSV in the Niederelsungen district were able to win several titles at German championships.

Culinary specialties

  • Sour cream tip: onions fried in bacon and eaten with cold sour cream.
  • Arbeten un Lompen (peas and rags): A meat soup with uncooked peas and semolina dumplings.
  • Wulfhäjer rusk, formerly known in the region as the “Echten ut Wulfhagen”: A pastry made from flour, milk, sugar and yeast.
  • Otherwise play typical local dishes such as tension hose, quiches , Storzenieren, weckewerk , sour cream cake , smoked green sauce and Ahle Wurst an important role in traditional cuisine.

dialect

The Benrath line runs through the Wolfhager Land . The Wulfhäjer Platt is one of the East Westphalian dialects of Low German , characterized by frequent diphthongs . "Muott datt sin? Geyt dat good upp Duere? Where are you tight? Dosse Froogen would like to have a little more sense. ”(“ Does that have to be? Is it going to work in the long run? Where should it end? These questions should be allowed. ”) In the course of the 20th century, Wolfhager Platt has made its way through the many in Kassel however, working commuters are increasingly approaching Central German dialects in their everyday lives and are rarely used today in favor of High German, which is often more North Hessian . As before, however, the following applies: The name Wolfhagen is emphasized on the first syllable and it is called Wolfhager (flat: Wulfhäjer), not Wolfhagener.

Local legends

How Wolfhagen got its name

Wolfhagen was built on an originally wooded hill, the Hagen. Farmers from the seven villages involved should first cut down the trees on the Hagen. During this work a wolf suddenly appeared in front of them. The farmers were now afraid of being attacked by the animal. Instead, the wolf moved peacefully on its way. The new city has since been called Wolfhagen and the wolf has been immortalized in the coat of arms.

The Wolfhager Stadtwald

Agnes von Bürgel had leased a lot of land between Wolfhagen and the Waldecker border from the Waldecker Count and had it cultivated. One day when the count wanted his land back, he granted Agnes another sowing and harvest. He was amazed when he came in the autumn to see whether the harvest had already been brought in. Agnes had planted oaks all over the country so that he would probably not see the harvest. Later she bequeathed the forest to the city of Wolfhagen.

Agnes von Bürgeln

When the good noblewoman Agnes von Bürgel wanted to dry her laundry, she simply tossed it into the air, where it would hang without a clothesline and dry it. But one day when she saw a hanged man, she said maliciously, "For whom it is safe to go!" Since then, her laundry fell on the floor when she tossed it in the air.

The immortal rose bush

Contrary to all claims of innocence, a Wolfhager maid was sentenced to death for a crime. When she was led to the Gotzenberg for the execution, she pointed to a rose bush and said: "As much as I am innocent, this rose bush will never perish!" In fact, the rose bush has been sprouting every spring since then, although it has been destroyed several times .

Glockenborn legend

Of the abandoned village of Todenhausen between Wolfhagen and Bründersen , only the cemetery and church remained. Since the church tower threatened to collapse, the Wolfhageners wanted the bell for their own church tower. Some citizens went to Todenhausen in a car at night, fetched the bell from the tower, loaded it onto the car and drove with it to Wolfhagen. On the way, however, the bell fell from the car. As the day was approaching, the thieves first covered it with brushwood. The following night they came again to pick up the bell. In their place, however, they only found a hole in the ground. As they poked at the bell with sticks in the hole, water suddenly began to gush out of the hole. Since then you can find the Glockenborn there , which provided Wolfhagen with water for a long time.

Werewolf legend

There was once a werewolf in Wolfhagen who tore down the farmers' sheep. One night a man found the werewolf sleeping. Knowing that the spell could be broken by throwing bare steel over the werewolf, he did so with his pocket knife. The werewolf was instantly transformed back into his original human form, and so a naked woman stood before him, whom he knew well because she came from a respected family. At her insistence, the man promised not to tell anyone what he had experienced, but the whole city knew about the incident the next day.

Hollen saga

In the vicinity of Wolfhagen live in caves the Hollen, small people with big heads, who are often good to people, but also steal their children to replace them with their own. This happened to a family. The child had a big head, did not learn to speak and preferred to play in the ashes. But at night the Hollen came to visit the child, who could then speak quite normally. The parents treated the Hollenkind so badly that the Hollenkind came, brought their child back to them and took the Hollenkind back with them.

Economy and Infrastructure

Station building with bus stop

In 2015, Wolfhagen took part in the Federal Ministry of Economics' funding program “Smart Energy Showcase” and wants to develop into a climate-neutral municipality. The impetus for this development was the abandonment of a Bundeswehr location , the “Pommernkaserne” in the Gasterfeld district .

power supply

The power supply was carried out by the year 2006 on the power of the energy provider E.ON . The city bought this network against resistance from E.ON with the help of a GmbH founded in 2001 in order to remunicipalise the energy supply against the trend at the time. The first wind turbines were put into operation in 1996. A bioenergy plant, a large-scale solar plant and the wind farm on the Rödeser Berg were added later , for the financing of which shares in Wolfhager Stadtwerke, a total of 25%, were sold to a citizens' cooperative. Since 2015, the city's electricity needs have been met 100% profitably from locally generated energy from renewable sources. In addition, there was a foundation to save energy consumption and programs for the energetic renovation of buildings and the promotion of electric mobility. The overall program is unique in Germany and was awarded the Energy Academy's Energy Award in 2015.

traffic

Wolfhagen station of the Kurhessenbahn

Wolfhagen station was opened on September 1, 1897 as a passenger and freight station. Wolfhagen is on the Volkmarsen – Vellmar-Obervellmar railway line. The railway line is part of the Kurhessenbahn network , a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn . The trains on line RE 4 of the Kurhessenbahn connect the cities of Kassel and Korbach every hour with a stop in Wolfhagen. In addition, since December 10, 2006, the RT 4 of the RegioTram Kassel has also been running every hour between Wolfhagen and Kassel. The RT 4 goes to downtown Kassel and the RE 4 to the ICE train station Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe . The travel time between Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe and Wolfhagen is around 30 minutes. The branch of the line from Wolfhagen to Gasterfeld, opened in 1938, has not been used since the barracks there was abandoned.

Furthermore, the Autobahn 44 ( Dortmund - Kassel) runs through Wolfhager Land; the Zierenberg driveway can be reached in around seven minutes via the newly developed federal highway 450 . You drive west in almost the same time via the Breuna driveway.

Public facilities

  • Technical aid organization ; German Red Cross (DRK) - District Association Kassel-Wolfhagen e. V.
  • Wolfhagen Retirement Home Foundation (Karlstraße 18) is a member of the Diakonisches Werk in Kurhessen - Waldeck e. V. It was founded in 1963 through the merger of the associations "Evangelisches Altersheim Wolfhagen" and "Hospitalstiftung". The move into the new building took place on October 27, 1966, and has since been expanded and modernized several times. A social care service is integrated.
  • ENERGIE 2000 eV, energy agency in the Kassel district
  • The Wolfhagen district clinic is currently closed for fire protection reasons. It is unclear if and when it will reopen.

education

  • Walter-Lübcke-Schule (formerly Wilhelm-Filchner-Schule): cooperative comprehensive school with a special level and high school branch from grade 5 and an affiliated upper level; largest general education school in the Kassel district
  • Herwig-Blankertz-Schule: Vocational school in the Kassel district
  • District adult education center
  • School for learning aid
  • Primary schools: Wolfhagen, Ippinghausen and Wenigenhasungen primary school

Offices

  • District administration Kassel, Wolfhagen branch
  • Forest Office Wolfhagen
  • Until 31 December 2019, which had dekanat the Protestant church district Wolfshagen here is established. Since then, the church circle Hofgeismar for is Kirchenkreis Hofgeismar-Wolfhagen merged
  • The Catholic parish (Friedensstrasse 13) and the parishes in Naumburg, Volkmarsen and Zierenberg belong to the Wolfhager Land pastoral network

Leisure and sports facilities

  • Riding and Driving Association Wolfhagen e. V.
  • Wolfhagen-Graner Berg airfield
  • Leisure facility "Auf dem Kamp"
  • Wolfhagen adventure pool
  • Liemeckestadion
  • Shooting range at the winter light
  • City library / school library

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who worked in Wolfhagen

  • Reinhard von Dalwigk (around 1400–1461), robber baron, bailiff in Wolfhagen from 1459 to 1461
  • Peter Wertheim (around 1505 – after 1547), alias Peter Wirtheim or Peter Noyen; Protestant theologian, pastor in Wolfhagen from 1538
  • Hans Staden (around 1525–1576), travel writer, lived around 1557 in Wolfhagen
  • Ludwig Grimm (1790–1863), painter, stationed as a lieutenant in Wolfhagen in 1814
  • Karl Lyncker (1823–1855), from 1838 to 1844 clerk at the Wolfhagen judicial office, worked as a local researcher and collector of sagas
  • Max Bergmann (1874–1944), doctor and victim of the Holocaust, lived in Wolfhagen between 1899 and 1905 and worked as a doctor here
  • Gustav Kilian (1897–1960), Mayor of Wolfhagen from 1929 to 1934
  • Christian Möller (* 1940), theology professor, pastor in Wolfhagen from 1968 to 1972
  • Jochen Behle (* 1960), skier and trainer, stationed as a soldier in Wolfhagen
  • Walter Lübcke (1953–2019), member of the state parliament, from 2009 to 2019 district president in Kassel
  • Margot Käßmann (* 1958), EKD council chairwoman from 2009 to 2010, as vicar from 1983 to 1985 in Wolfhagen

literature

  • Karl Lyncker : History of the city of Wolfhagen. (= Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies Sixth Supplement). Bohné, Kassel, 1855 ( digitized version ).
  • Gustav Siegel : History of the city of Wolfhagen in Hessen . Wolfhagen 1929.
  • Literature about Wolfhagen in the Hessian Bibliography
  • Bernd Klinkhardt, Wihelm G. Winter: Wolfhagen in current affairs from 1945 . Writings of the Wolfhagen Regional Museum Association. Wolfhagen 1994.

Web links

Commons : Wolfhagen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Wolfhagen  - travel guide
Wikivoyage: Eco path cultural history Wolfhagen  - travel guide
Wikisource: Wolfhagen in Merian's Topographia Hassiae  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

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