Wommen

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Wommen Municipality Herleshausen Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 52 ″  N , 10 ° 7 ′ 14 ″  E
Height :	215 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.61 km²
Residents :	295
Population density :	82 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st December 1970
Postal code :	37293
Area code :	05654

Wommen is a district of the municipality of Herleshausen in the Werra-Meißner district in northern Hesse .

Geographical location

Wommen lies between the Ringgau in the north, the Thuringian Forest in the southeast and the Richelsdorf Mountains in the west on the Hessian- Thuringian border formed by the Werra . It is located on the left bank of this river, into which the Nesse flows through the village . The center of Herleshausen is about 3 km east-southeast and that of the city of Eisenach is about 15 km in this direction.

history

In 1021, Emperor Heinrich II confirmed to his wife Kunigunde the donation of some goods in Herleshausen and Wommen to the Kaufungen Abbey . The place Wommen later belonged to the castle district of Brandenburg , this mighty double castle complex is four kilometers away above the Thuringian neighboring town of Lauchröden . In a document issued by the Kaufunger Stift in 1268, Burgrave Burghard von der Brandenburg ceded further possessions to this monastery, and Wommen was first mentioned as Wumena.

The goods and rights in Wommen still in the possession of the count family came in 1364 to the Lords of Kolmatsch, who had already settled in Stedtfeld near Eisenach . In 1401 Reinhard von Brandenburg also sold his last property in Wommen. The moated castle, which was probably built around this time, is said to have been built by the Kolmatsch, it was modernized in 1535 by the Hessian governor on the Lahn in Marburg , Georg von Kolmatsch . In 1562 this branch of the family died out. With the secularization of the Hessian monasteries from the middle of the 16th century, the former Kaufunger Stiftsgüter came via the Landgraves of Hesse to the noble Treusch von Buttlar family , who had already built a renaissance castle in the neighboring town of Nesselröden . Wommen belonged to the Sontra office from 1585 , to the Netra justice office from 1818 and to the Eschwege district from 1821 . The place still had many rapidly changing owners:

• 1364–1562: von Kolmatsch family
• 1562–1596: Landgrave of Hesse
• 1596–1621: Treusch von Buttlar zu Nesselröden
• 1621–1641: Landgrave of Hesse
• 1641–1665: Geyso family
• 1665–1765: von dem Brinck family
• 1765–1806: von Lindau family
• from 1806: von Kutzleben family

The organ builder Johann Adam Gundermann comes from Wommen, he was a master student of the organ builder Arp Schnitger from Stade and created the instrument in the Sontra city church St. Georg, which is famous for its euphoria.

On 1 December 1970, he was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the voluntary merger of municipalities Altefeld, Archfeld, Breitzbach, Herleshausen (with Frauenborn) Holzhausen, markers Hausen, Nesselröden, Unhausen, Willershausen and Wommen for greater community Herleshausen

Attractions

Wommen Castle

Today's Wommen Castle was built in 1911 on the foundation walls of the former moated castle and incorporating its main building (today's south wing). This and the associated estate passed into the possession of the wealthy chamberlain Rudolf von Schutzbar called Milchling in 1908 . The well-known castle researcher and architect Bodo Ebhardt was entrusted with the renovation , who was also active in nearby Eisenach and at Creuzburg Castle and had previously redesigned the manor house at Gut Hohenhaus . The last owner, Baroness Margot von Schutzbar called Milchling, handed over her property to the German Community Diakonieverband in Marburg in a foundation contract dated June 24, 1946 . According to the foundation, Schloss Wommen now serves as a retirement home for the Hephata diaconal institutions.

The church in Wommen, built at the beginning of the 16th century, was rebuilt as a baroque sermon hall from 1739 to 1744 by the then owner of the property, Albrecht Eberhard von dem Brink, due to its disrepair. The church in Wommen is a church branch of Nesselröden.

The townscape is characterized by the Wommen viaduct , which spans the northern edge of the town with the federal motorway 4 . The construction of the viaduct began in 1940 and was not completed until 1994 following the division of Germany after the Second World War.

politics

The mayor is Joachim Nölker.

Economy and Infrastructure

Steinmühle hydropower plant

• The fishing ponds at Wenigenstein are located near the village .
• The place has a village community center .
• There is a hydropower plant on the Werra, at Steinmühle Square .

traffic

Wommen viaduct

Wommen is located directly on the federal motorway 4 with a junction named after the place that only leads to the east . As a result of the division of Germany, traffic on the A4 in the Gerstunger Zipfel section, which crosses the inner German border several times, between the Obersuhl and Wommen junctions could only be started in the early 1990s; previously, the B 400 was used as a bypass road from Wommen on the Hessian side .

The state road 3251 leads through the village coming from Herleshausen to the junction Wommen of the BAB 4, which runs north of the place. At the junction the federal road 400 begins . A state road branches off from the L 3251 to Gerstungen .

On September 25, 1849, the Thuringian Railway opened the last section of its "main line" from Eisenach via Herleshausen and Wommen to Gerstungen. The Halle – Bebra railway line passes the town immediately to the south, but Wommen does not have its own stopping point. Between 1962 and 1992 Wommen was bypassed on the Förtha – Gerstungen railway line .

literature

• Rudolf Knappe: Wommen . In: Medieval castles in Hessen . Gudensberg 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 72 .
• Literature about Wommen in the Hessian Bibliography
• Search for Wommen in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library

Web links

Commons : Wommen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wommen district. In: website. Herleshausen community 
• Wommen, Werra-Meissner district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wommen. In: website. Herleshausen community, accessed in September 2019 . 
2. ↑ Information on the districts. (No longer available online.) In: Website. Herleshausen community, archived from the original on October 30, 2016 ; accessed on February 16, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Then the place name changed to the written forms Wummen, Wumna and Wompna. Wommen has been in force since 1497.
4. ↑ Flemming, Kollmann, Seib, Stöhr: The sovereignty around the Brandenfels. The fief court of Brandenfels. In: The Brandenfels in the Ringgau. A walk through its history . 1998, ISBN 3-9801957-5-9 , pp. 151-172 .
5. ↑ Dieter Großmann: The city church St. Georg in Sontra . In: Werratalverein Eschwege e. V. (Ed.): The Werraland . Issue 2. Eschwege 1957, p. 22-24 .
6. ↑ Merger of the communities of Altefeld, Archfeld, Breitzbach, Herleshausen, Holzhausen, Markershausen, Nesselröden, Unhausen, Willershausen and Wommen in the district of Eschwege to form the new community "Herleshausen" on December 1, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 51 , p. 2381 , item 2384 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 7.5 MB ]).
7. ^ Alfred Schulze: Grenzlandfahrt des WTV . In: Werratalverein Eschwege e. V. (Ed.): The Werraland . Volume 3. Eschwege 1967, p. 45 .
8. ↑ Mayor Wommen. In: Website of the municipality of Herleshausen. Retrieved August 15, 2018 .