Wrexen

Wrexen City of Diemelstadt Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 33 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 54 ″  E
Height :	201 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.84 km²
Residents :	1527  (Jun. 30, 2020)
Population density :	195 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	November 1, 1970
Postal code :	34474
Area code :	05642
Aerial photo (2013)

Wrexen is a district of the city of Diemelstadt in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

Geographical location

The Diemel on the northern outskirts forms the state border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse. The Teutoburg Forest / Eggegebirge nature park borders directly on the railway line . At Wrexen the Orpe joins the Diemel. In the area around Wrexen, the following current and former settlement areas are known:

• Bornighausen
• Wire hammer
• Knottenmühle
• Copper mill
• Resentment mill
• Paper mill
• Ramsen
• Rest area at the Biggenkopf
• Scheuermannsmühle
• Defiance

traffic

The A 44 runs on the western edge of the village . The federal highways B 7 and B 252 lead to the village . The Upper Ruhr Valley Railway runs on the northern edge of the village . The Wrexen train station belonging to the village is located in North Rhine-Westphalia.

history

The place is mentioned for the first time in 1141 in a document signed by Archbishop Markolf von Mainz . The place name is said to come from "Vraic", the name for a sour grass. In the Middle Ages there were mills, iron and copper hammers in Wrexen. This later became sawmills, paper and cardboard factories. There were also sandstone quarries on the Steinberg.

On November 1, 1970 at the course of were municipal reform in Hesse , the city Rhodes and the community Wrexen on a voluntary basis to the new Diemelstadt together .

At times Wrexen had a certain tourist significance: In 1971 the place received the title climatic health resort and until 2011 the place was still a state-recognized resort .

church

Church in Wrexen

Today's Protestant church was consecrated on October 10, 1847. It consists mainly of Wrex sandstone. It was built in the same place as the one that was demolished in 1841 due to dilapidation. The bell tower is relatively low as the ground on which the church stands is not suitable for supporting a heavier one. The tower is divided into four floors. The three bells date from 1890.

economy

In Wrexen, “Smurfit Kappa Wrexen Paper & Board” , a subsidiary of the “ Smurfit Kappa Group ”, has around 300 employees and produces around 240,000 tons of paper and 80,000 tons of graphic cardboard per year on two paper machines .

Others

• There is a day-care center , a primary school and a village community center in the village .
• The Germanist August Raszmann advocated the thesis in the 19th century that the place Brictan of the Thidrek saga was Wrexen.
• Wrexen is one of the settings in the novel Junge Unrast (1983) by Hardy Krüger .

Personalities

• Karl Reins (1868–1919), German MP

literature

• Magistrate of the city of Diemelstadt. Ed .: Herbert Weishaupt (Ed.): 850 Years of Wrexen: 1141–1991 . Schulte, Marsberg 1991, ISBN 3-9802152-7-X .
• Friedrich Hübel and Renate Ise: Wrexen . Wrexen: Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Wrexen 2004 (= Waldeckische Ortssippenbücher 72)
• Literature on Wrexen in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

• Wrexen district. In: Website of the city of Diemelstadt.
• Wrexen, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} statistics. In: website. City of Diemelstadt, accessed August 2020 . 
2. ↑ Waldeckischer Geschichtsverein e. V., Bad Arolsen (ed.): Waldeckische Ortssippenbücher . tape 72 , 2004, p. 11 .
3. ↑ Merger of the city of Rhoden and the municipality of Wrexen in the Waldeck district to form the city of "Diemelstadt" on October 27, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 46 , p. 2179 , item 2188 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.0 MB ]).
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. 407 .
5. ^ Association history. Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Wrexen e. V., accessed on August 24, 2014 . 
6. ↑ 76th meeting of the specialist committee for health resorts, recreation areas and healing wells in Hesse on October 28, 2010; here: initial recognition, confirmation and withdrawal of predicates . In: State Gazette for the State of Hesse (StAnz.) . No. 6 , February 7, 2011, ISSN  0724-7885 , p. 199 ( ms-visucom.de [PDF; accessed on August 24, 2014] Hessian Ministry for Economics, Transport and State Development; II 6 - 067 - a - 08 - 03 # 009).
7. ↑ smurfitkappa.com
8. ↑ August Raszmann: The German heroic saga and their home . tape 2 . Carl Rümpler, Hanover 1863, p. XI ( available online in Google Book Search).