Zella (Willingshausen)

Zella Municipality Willingshausen Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 32 ″ N , 9 ° 15 ′ 20 ″ E
Height :	218 (213-227) m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.58 km² (LAGIS)
Residents :	504 (Jan. 1, 2015)
Population density :	90 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 1971
Incorporated into:	Antrefftal
Postal code :	34628
Area code :	06691

Zella is a district of the Willingshausen community in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .

geography

church

The cluster village is located in the southern part of the Schwalm landscape, northeast of the main town on the Schwalm tributary of the Eder . The federal road 254 leads past the place to the east. In between runs the route of the Treysa-Niederaula-Bad Hersfeld railway line, which was closed in 1995 and where Zella had a train station on the Schwalm tributary Grenff .

Panorama of Zella

history

The village is mentioned for the first time in 1224. The name of the village is derived from Cella , a monastic settlement from which farms and villages were derived. During the Thirty Years' War , the village was completely burned down by the imperial troops of General Hans Rudolf von Breda on November 14, 1640, the day before the battle at Riebelsdorfer Berg , as well as Nieder Grenzebach , Steina , Leimbach , Loshausen , Ransbach and Salmshausen .

On December 31, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse Willingshausen merged with Merzhausen and Zella to form the municipality of Antrefftal , which was combined with five other places to form a larger municipality on January 1, 1974. The new community gave itself the name Willingshausen, but the community administration was settled in the Wasenberg district.

Individual evidence

↑ Economy and Transport. In: website. Willingshausen community, archived from the original on April 27, 2017 ; accessed in September 2018 .
↑ The spelling of the place name changed several times: Cellum / de Cello (1224), Celle (1254), Zell (1575), Zella (1639).
^ Topographia Hassiae: Treysa
^ 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. 411 f .

literature

Literature about Zella in the Hessian Bibliography
Search for Zella (Willingshausen) in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library

Web links

Zella district. In: Internet presence. Willingshausen community; accessed in September 2018
Zella, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 10, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[1] Economy and Transport. In: website. Willingshausen community, archived from the original on April 27, 2017 ; accessed in September 2018 .

[2] The spelling of the place name changed several times: Cellum / de Cello (1224), Celle (1254), Zell (1575), Zella (1639).

[3] Topographia Hassiae: Treysa

[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. 411 f .