Züschen (Fritzlar)

Züschen City of Fritzlar
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 18 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 43 ″  E
Height :	208 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.07 km²
Residents :	1000 approx.
Population density :	99 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	34560
Area code :	05622

Züschen , a formerly independent Waldeck town, has been a district of Fritzlar in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse since 1974 . The place is northwest of Fritzlar on the Eder tributary Elbe .

history

Perforated stone and antechamber of the Züschen stone chamber grave

The early settlement of the area around Züschen is proven by the rock carvings in the stone chamber grave of Züschen and on the giant stone (Heiligenberg) . The Chatti maintained a place of worship in Züschen, and the place name is derived from the Chattic god Ziu .

Züschen ("Tuischinum") is mentioned in a document around 850, 1070 and then 1237, but it was definitely settled much earlier: In 1894 a stone chamber grave ( gallery grave ) was discovered east of Züschen, which dates from around 3000 BC .

The place was probably given city ​​rights in 1322 during the reign of Count Heinrich IV von Waldeck . From 1430 to 1810 the place belonged to the Lords of Meysenbug , who held it as a fief of the Landgraves of Hesse and later of the Counts of Waldeck (see also Züschen Castle ). After the death of Heinrich von Meysenbug , the last male representative of his sex, in 1810 the Waldeck court marshal Johann Friedrich Georg Heinrich von Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels-Kamp (1734-1810) was enfeoffed with Züschen; However, he died just a few weeks after Meysenbug, and his heirs sold the property for 120,000 thalers to Count Henrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , head stableman in the Kingdom of Westphalia .

In 1625, the place, previously pledged to the Counts of Waldeck by the Landgraves of Hesse for a long time, finally became the property of Waldeck. After that, Züschen first belonged to the county and later to the principality of Waldeck and from 1919 to 1929 to the Free State of Waldeck , then to Prussia until 1945 and since then to Hesse , where it was part of the Waldeck district .

The previously independent town of Züschen was incorporated into the town of Fritzlar in the Schwalm-Eder district on January 1, 1974, despite strong opposition from the Waldeck district, as part of the Hessian territorial reform . Today around 1000 people live in Züschen. The place is mainly characterized by the wood processing industry and tourism.

coat of arms

Blazon : The coat of arms of Züschen shows the eight-pointed Waldecker star on a white background and thus indicates the former affiliation with Waldeck.

Attractions

Buildings

• 

  Grachenturm

• 

  Owl Tower

• 

  church

• 

  Garvensburg

• 

  Elbe bridge

• 

  Former Meysenbug mansion

• Historic town center with half-timbered houses
• Parts of the city ​​wall with two watchtowers
• Church: Between 1604 and 1609, today's Protestant town church was built in place of a Gothic chapel from the 14th century. The sandstone pulpit, which has been preserved to this day, was created in 1611.
• Garvensburg Castle (19th century)
• River bridge over the Elbe (18th century)
• Stone chamber grave (3rd to 4th millennium BC) between Züschen and Lohne

Surroundings

Ruin of the Kreuzkirche

• Johanneskirchenkopf , 332 m high mountain south of Züschen with the remains of the Johanneskirche in the former village of Hayn
• Ruins of the Kreuzkirche (located south of the road to Wellen in a group of trees), the last remnant of the village of Hertingshausen, which probably fell into desolation before the turn of the 15th century
• Kölnische Kanzel, vantage point with a view of the Old Forest, the Knüll Mountains and the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park
• Donarquelle , mineral water spring in the Elbe valley on the road to Geismar

traffic

The next motorway connection, to the A 49 , heading south, is in Fritzlar. The closest junction on the A 49 north to the Kassel Mitte junction is in Gudensberg .

There are regular bus connections to Naumburg (Hessen) and Fritzlar. The next regional train station is in Fritzlar; Long-distance trains stop in Wabern .

Personalities

• Ludwig Ritte (1884–1936), German farmer and politician (Landbund), born in Züschen
• Wilhelm von Garvens-Garvensburg (1841–1913), industrialist, builder of Garvenburg Castle

Web links

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

• Züschen district. In: Internet presence of the city of Fritzlar.
• Züschen, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Literature about Züschen in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Züschen, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of January 22, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
2. ↑ The location on the website of the city of Fritzlar , accessed in February 2016
3. ↑ ^{a b} Steinkammergrab Züschen ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ Johann Adolf Theodor Ludwig Varnhagen: Basis of the Waldeck country and history of regents , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1825 (p. 9)
5. ↑ Major General z. D. Eisentraut: Lecture on February 19, 1917 on "The Lords of Meysenbug". In: Messages to the members of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Born 1916/17, Kassel, 1917, p. 36
6. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts Fritzlar-Homberg, Melsungen and Ziegenhain (GVBl. II 330-22) of September 28, 1973 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1973 No. 25 , p. 356 , §§ 16 and 27 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).
7. ↑ Garvensburg Castle