Giesel (Neuhof)

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Giesel
municipality Neuhof
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 16 ″  N , 9 ° 33 ′ 58 ″  E
Height : 330 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.56 km²
Residents : 982  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density : 103 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 36119
Area code : 0661
View of Giesel with the "Egert" and the 490 m high Himmelsberg (left in the background) The hunting lodge in the (foreground, center)
View of Giesel with the "Egert" and the 490 m high Himmelsberg (left in the background) The hunting lodge in the (foreground, center)

The village of Giesel is part of the large community of Neuhof in the Fulda district in East Hesse . Giesel lies on the Giesel stream of the same name and is surrounded by the Gieseler Forest between the Rhön and Vogelsberg mountains. The location is about 10 km in a south-westerly direction from the city center of Fulda . Remains of a former moated castle , later converted into a hunting lodge , with a still recognizable moat belonging to the prince abbots of the Fulda monastery , a Catholic St. Laurentius church , old half-timbered houses and unspoilt nature characterize the face of the place.

Geographical location

Location of Giesel (Geisen) on a map of the Fulda monastery from 1574
Crossing the old route Antsanvia and the national road 3079 Gieselmann-Sieberzmuhle-Hosenfeld. Right: Old border stamp of the Karlmann donation on Sieberzheiligen

Giesel is located in the west of the Fulda district between the low mountain range Rhön in the east and Vogelsberg in the west, in the basin of the Giesel, a tributary of the Fulda west of the Fulda depression on the eastern foothills of the Vogelsberg. The district town of Fulda is 10 km northeast of Giesel.

Giesel is completely surrounded by forest in the Gieseler Forest, in one of the largest forest areas in Hesse . Only the valley, through which the Giesel flows towards Fulda, is not forested due to previous clearing measures . The country road 3079 runs through Giesel from Fulda to Bermuthshain in the Vogelsbergkreis. The state road 3206 joins the L 3079 in the center of Giesel when coming from Neuhof.

The old trade routes, the Ortweg and the Antsanvia , already passed Giesel in the Middle Ages . The Antsanvia high road ran on the "Sieberzheiligen" hill between Giesel and the Sieberzmühle . At this point the former Antsanvia Altstraße and today's Landesstraße cross to Hosenfeld . The old Wendelinus shrine from 1801 can be found between two beeches and to the right of it the old border mark of the Karlmann donation from 747.

The 490 m high Himmelsberg , northwest of the town, is the local mountain .

history

9th century to 1945

The brook Giesel (Gysilaha), where the place of the same name is located, is already mentioned in the "Vita Sturmi abbatis" written by the Fulda Benedictine monk Eigil around 820 AD. At that time this settlement area was called Eihloha , later Buchonia . Giesel (Giselaha) was first mentioned in 1140 when Cellerar Duto from Fulda Monastery settled the deserted place . Commissioned a cartulary of archived records and calendar entries to create, awarded Abt Mark Ward I (1150-65), who found the Benedictine Abbey of the 12th century in the center in an economically desolate condition. The suggestion and the necessary parchment came from the Cellerar Duto. A chapel existed as a branch of Haimbach as early as 1150 . In 1330 the ruined chapel was rebuilt by the imperial personal physician and Würzburg canon Nikolaus Roslon. The "c astrum Gysela " is mentioned in the description of Landau in 1336 . The Fulda prince abbot Heinrich VI. von Hohenberg built a " New Castle " in Giesel in 1340 . In April 1376, Gottfried (Gocze) von Sassen confirmed his commitment as a castle man at Giesel Castle. From 1717, the castle is under the Fulda Prince Abbot Konstantin von Buttlar the hunting lodge Gieselmann was rebuilt. The Fulda abbot Reinhard von Weilnau decreed in 1469 that he should be entitled to “Giesel Castle (Gisela)” “for life”.


A customs privilege existed since 1357 . Emperor Karl IV. Allowed Abbot Heinrich von Kranlucken “to take a duty of one shilling old Heller from every transport or draft horse, unless his or her imperial successor revokes it”. Antsanvia and Ortweg were the trade routes that led to the collegiate area near Giesel.

After the Reformation, the Protestant chaplain Peter Bang worked in Giesel from 1569 to 1573, before the last inhabitants returned to the Catholic faith under Prince Abbot Balthasar von Dernbach in 1604 on the occasion of the re- Catholicization.

In 1605 the office of Giesel is mentioned in the Turkish tax register of the prince abbey of Fulda , which also lists the payments made by the subjects to the abbey as part of the “Fulda share” of the Turkish tax . The Giesel office at that time included: Giesel, Istergiesel , Hosenfeld , Brandlos , Oberrode , Mittelrode , Niederrode and Kleinlüder . Until 1687 Giesel was an independent office with its own court, then it was subordinated to the Centoberamt Fulda . However, the court stayed until 1802 and went under in the secularization of the Fulda bishopric .

Jagdschloss Giesel , view from Schlossstrasse over the overgrown moat , 2017

The Thirty Years' War reached the Fulda area in 1621 with the Protestant mercenary groups of the Dudo von Knipshausen and the " Tollen Christian ". This looted and pillaged the lands set fire to churches and monasteries in Neuenberg and Johannesberg and demanding ransoms. Nevertheless, due to its location on the border between Catholic and Protestant countries and as a traffic junction between North and South, the region was badly affected by the war. In the years between 1631 and 1650, and thus beyond the Peace of Westphalia , the villages on national road connections were almost continuously affected by troop marches, billeting, pillage and looting. Both sides were equally brutal and ruthless in collecting their claims. The war taxes also levied by the sovereigns were perceived as particularly burdensome. Giesel Castle and the residents also suffered as a result. The population losses were described as very high by the Fulda chronicler and later Fulda mayor Gangolf Hartung, mainly due to the famine during the war in 1634. In the subsequent plague in 1635, they were numbered at around 4,000 people in the bishopric, including many pastors, which is why many church chronicles are torn down in 1635. The war resulted in a widespread and profound impoverishment of the population.

1717 was by the abbot Konstantin von Buttlar on the foundation walls of Heinrich VI. von Hohenberg's castle built in 1340, the Giesel hunting lodge that still exists today . In 1727 Giesel was also called "Doeppegisel / Potty Giesel" because of the pottery that has flourished since the 15th century .

In 1731 Giesel was raised to its own parish and separated from the former mother parish of Haimbach .

With the Treaty of Lunéville between France and the Holy Roman Empire under the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II. In 1801 was of Napoleon the secularization in Germany allocated secular princes introduced and thus the spiritual areas. Therefore, the independent prince abbey of Fulda and the associated areas went to Wilhelm von Nassau-Orange in 1803 . With this, Giesel also lost his rights and duties towards the Prince Diocese of Fulda . In 1806, Nassau-Orange did not join the Confederation of the Rhine desired by Napoleon and France , so the prince-bishopric of Fulda came under the patronage of Napoleon, who formed the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt in 1810 , to which, along with other cities and prince-bishops, Fulda also belonged under the prince-prince Karl Theodor von Dalberg . In the years that followed , the first local self-government was also established in villages like Giesel, initially headed by the French local mayor , mayor and mayor .

After the end of the Napoleonic Empire, the Fulda area fell to Kurhessen-Kassel in 1816 and to Prussia in 1866 . The former prince-bishopric of Fulda came in 1816 as the Grand Duchy of Fulda to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel and in 1868 became the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau .

The First World War fell 48 Gieseler soldiers to victims. Giesel was connected to the central power supply of the Fulda power station in November 1919 .

The time of National Socialism did not play a significant role in Giesel. The Second World War also brought war privations in Giesel and again 56 dead were recorded. In their honor, the old warrior memorial erected for the victims of the First World War in 1923 was supplemented with two additional name plaques.

1945 until today

New bakery from 1994

After the Second World War from 1945 Giesel was in the American occupation zone of Greater Hesse . From 1946 onwards, 290 displaced persons came , mainly from the Sudetenland . Refugees also came to Giesel from East Prussia and Transylvania and found a temporary place to stay or a new home here by being forced to stay.

With the construction of eight new communal apartments in the so-called “Community House” instead of the former kindergarten in 1950 at Laurentiusstraße 28/30, the first steps towards creating urgently needed living space were initiated. By designating a building area "Sudetenstraße" with eight new settlement houses, which the Hessische Heimstätte built in the years 1955-1959 above the building line at that time - below the cemetery that was newly laid out in 1908 - a remedy was gradually created. In 1958, a new building area "Am Mühlberg" with 26 building lots was developed and then built on as part of a land consolidation until 1962.

In 1966, a new two-class elementary school with a teacher's apartment was built and the changing room and sports house and a new sports field were completed. In 1967 the telephone network was significantly expanded in the entire local area with the laying of a new main cable parallel to the L 3079 from Fulda to Giesel.

In 1968, the community sold the former Giesel hunting lodge (former head forester's office), which was a listed building , in private ownership.

Territorial reform 1972

With the regional reform , Giesel was incorporated into the Neuhof community on January 1, 1972. In 1975 the primary school , newly built in 1966, was rebuilt , which was later closed and incorporated into the castle school in Neuhof. During the renovation, the open break hall of the former elementary school was converted into a closed village community room on the ground floor and the three classrooms on the first floor to accommodate a kindergarten with 50 places. In 1976 a filling transmitter was installed. The 16-meter-high Kolping Cross on the Egert, erected in 1979, is a memorial that can be seen from afar and commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Kolping family.

1947 to the end of the Cold War in 1991

In the 1980s, a supply depot ("Forward Storage Site Giesel") was built and operated by the US Army in the Gieseler Forest. The depot was one of several depots set up in the Fulda Gap as part of the NATO defense concept for the storage of ammunition and supplies.

In 1988 the new building and inauguration of today's Giesel sports house took place.

With the fall of the inner-German border with the allocation of resettlers and repatriates from the former GDR as well as repatriates and late repatriates from Eastern Europe, the population of Giesel rose to over 1,200. At times, a temporary branch of the Hessian initial reception facility was housed in the former restaurant "Zur Post" . With German reunification in 1990, the Giesel NATO depot lost its function and was given up. The structural facilities such as the guard rooms and common rooms for the security personnel and the fencing of the entire storage area were later dismantled. A former bunker building was converted into a refuge for bats for nature conservation purposes. The US Army withdrew from the Fulda site in 1993. Little by little , the relics of the Cold War such as the blasting shafts in the streets between Neuhof and Giesel in the L3206 and Giesel-Hosenfeld in the L 3079 were dismantled.

In 1994 the Adolph Kolping memorial was erected next to the youth home in Laurentiusstraße on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Giesel Kolping family. In the same year, bread was baked for the first time in the newly built village bakery next to the fire station.

In the course of time, the road network, the sewer network and the construction areas were expanded, as well as numerous new construction and modernization measures.

Mayor and mayor since 1945

  • 1945–1960: Ferdinand Ruppel, mayor
  • 1960–1972: Leonhard Glotzbach, mayor
  • 1972–1993: Karl Schneider, mayor
  • 1993–2000: Karl-Heinz Block, mayor (then mayor of Friedewald )
  • 2001: Ewald Schneider, Mayor (January to April 2001)
  • since 2001: Reiner Schnell, mayor

Main town and places to live

The formerly independent community of Giesel, to which the "Schlagberg", "Hessenmühle" and "Kleinheiligkreuz" (now all Kleinlüder) residential areas belonged until 1961, became with the remaining residential area "Zwickmühle" in the valley of the "Kalten Lüder" as part of the regional reform of the State of Hesse incorporated into the Neuhof community on January 1, 1972.

The dilemma: view from the west with the sawmill (in the foreground left)
The Aussiedlerhöfe Linden- and Hermeshof (from left)
The Birkenhof

The village of Giesel includes the main town of Giesel and the Zwickmühle residential area, located approx. 3.1 km to the northwest (towards Hosenfeld) in the Gieseler Forest, in the valley of the Kalten Lüder .

Residential area dilemma

The Zwickmühle is a single farm belonging to Giesel with a former grinding mill and today's sawmill north of the "Sieberzmühle" and an agricultural farmstead that has existed for centuries in the valley of the Cold Lüder at the western foot of the Himmelsberg .

The historical origin is likely to be an old oil and saw mill. The sawmill operation still exists today to a limited extent. The water required for operation is taken from the Kalten Lüder . The work is driven by water power via an overshot iron water wheel, 4.00 m in diameter and 0.70 m wide and with a usable power of approximately 3.7 HP = 2.7 kW. The difference in altitude was 4.20 m.

A grinding mill and a sawmill were originally operated . At the discharge point there is a weir made of stones and earth . The grinding mill burned down in 1949 and was not rebuilt afterwards. The buildings of the Zwickmühle sawmill were in full fire on February 21, 2018.

Living places Schlagberg, Hessenmühle and Kleinheiligkreuz

The Schlagberg, Hessenmühle and Kleinheiligkreuz residential areas with the pilgrimage church belonged to Giesel until the re-district in 1961. In 1962, these residential spaces in the valley of the Kalten Lüder were assigned to the then still independent community of Kleinlüder . This ended the church membership in the parish of Giesel, which had its religious center in the pilgrimage church of Kleinheiligkreuz . In terms of the church, these living spaces have belonged to the Catholic parish of John the Baptist in Kleinlüder ever since . With the re- parish , the pilgrimages from Giesel to Kleinheiligkreuz, which had taken place annually over the centuries at the solemnity of the finding of the cross (May 3rd) and exaltation of the cross (September 14th), ended. It was not until the 1980s that the tradition of pilgrimages to Kleinheiligkreuz on the old pilgrimage route over the Himmelsberg / Herrgottseiche was resumed. Since then, the pilgrimage has taken place in September during the pilgrimage week "Exaltation of the Cross".

Community facilities

Gieselmann has the cemetery Gieselmann with modern cemetery chapel at the "Zellert" a Mariengrotte near the forest on "Rödchen" and a municipal fairground . The war memorial is opposite the Catholic parish church of St. Laurentius, built in 1960/62, and a parish youth home . A village community center , the Chrisoph-Kalb-Haus, has been set up and expanded into the “ Christoph-Kalb-Haus ” in the former primary school . A branch of the adult education center offers courses in the “Christoph-Kalb-Haus”.

For sporting activities, there are two football fields with a clubhouse at the sports club on the outskirts. The place has two children's playgrounds, a football field , an open community youth club , a fire station and since 1994 a new community bakery . A lively club life with 12 clubs and associations of various orientations can be found in the place.

The village has its own water supply with a spring catch , pumping station and high water tank at the “Sieberzheiligen” hiking car park. It is connected to the sewage disposal of the own sewage treatment plant in the "Giesel-Aue" in the direction of Fulda.

Cemetery and war memorials

War memorial

In 1960, the cemetery on Zellertstrasse, which was laid out in 1908, was expanded to the south as part of the ongoing land consolidation process . With the demolition of the old Laurentiuskirche in 1960, the old war memorial erected in 1926 with the additions from 1945 for the creation of the construction site was also demolished. With the completion of the new Laurentius Church in 1962, a new war memorial was erected in a contemporary form and inaugurated in 1963. Before that, the Gieselbach running on the new memorial square had been piped.

economy

Center of the pottery trade

The favorable traffic situation on the two medieval army and trade routes Antsanvia and Ortweg brought Giesel an economic advantage and thus also a modest prosperity. Giesel played a proven focus in historical research in the pottery trade .

In 1400, the pottery was first reliably proven. Prince Abbot Johann I von Merlau had moved the village and castle "Gisla" as well as a yard for 300 guilders. He only retained the right “to have eggs and pottery delivered to Fulda”. In 1584, old invoices showed that many pots were sold to Bieberstein Castle . At the request of the Häfner guild, Prince Abbot Joachim Graf von Gravenegg von Fulda issued a kind of guild order in 1660 for “Döpfergießel” . This was renewed in 1720 under Prince Abbot Konstantin von Buttlar .

In 1832 there were 29 master potters in "Döpfergiesel", but only 15 of them were still active. The sales opportunities for the products deteriorated over time, also because of the competition from Steinau and Lauterbach . The decline of the pottery and the emerging industrialization became evident in the first half of the 19th century. In 1842, the Hessian Trade and Industry Association made one last attempt to save the pottery trade. A new kiln and pottery wheels were obtained and specialist instruction was given. A new mining facility for clay extraction was built on the “ Himmelsberg ”. The numerous clay chews are still clearly visible in the forest floor on the eastern Himmelsberg. In 1850 the community kiln (on the Dalles) in today's Töpferstrasse was finally dismantled and sold.

Lignite mining

Former lignite mine after excavation of the collapsed tunnel entrance

Lignite mining as a branch of industry could not be consolidated in Giesel. The 489.1 m high local mountain, the "Himmelsberg", which is of volcanic origin and can be assigned to the Vogelsberg, rises to the north-west of Giesel. Under the basalt rock from prehistoric times, lignite is stored in shallow depths , an insignificant amount of which was already mined in the period before 1900. The second attempt to commercially mine the lignite deposits was made at the beginning of the 20th century. The tunnel was on the elevation line 450  m above sea level. NN , driven horizontally from the so-called "Bergwerksstrasse" through the red sandstone into the interior of the "Himmelsberg". The lignite was brought to the surface via a track system using a freight cart , a field railway . However, it was soon discovered that the lignite still had too low a calorific value. In 1920 the mine was finally closed. The shaft entrance, foundations of the shaft and the spoil dump are still visible today. In the 1960s, there were remains of the conveyor track in front of the tunnel entrance. After that, the shaft and gallery entrance collapsed and was no longer accessible. After the designation of the "Himmelsberg" as a nature reserve in 1980, the tunnel entrance - which is located on the edge of the nature reserve on the so-called Bergwerkstrasse - was reopened by the Upper Nature Conservation Authority at the Kassel regional council and closed with a concrete pipe attachment. The tunnel now serves as a bat refuge . Until 2015 it was still accessible through metal doors, at least in the front area. During the potash mining in around 500 m underground, the volcanic vent filled with hardened basalt was also found in this area of ​​the Himmelsberg under the Gieseler district.

Potash mining

The Monte Kali von Neuhof (from the south), behind which Giesel is located in a northerly direction.

Gieselmann is above a Kalibergbaurevier of potash Neuhof-Ellers . Under the village, at a depth of around 500 m, Kassel K + S AG (formerly Kali und Salz AG or Wintershall AG ) is mining a deposit with potash salt . The underground deposit is accessed by the mine in Neuhof-Ellers and extends in the area from Neuhof to just before Bad Salzschlirf . In 1899 the salt drilling between Giesel and Neuhof began. 1905 was one in developing the deposit in the district Gieselmann in the corridor location "In the Wiebelsbach" rig operated. The then potash company Neuhof had built it. The derrick stood at the entrance to the two present-day Aussiedlerhöfe Linden- and Hermeshof in the corridor "In der Wiebelbach". In the same year the "Potash Union Hedwigsburg Neuhof" was founded by mine owner Emil Sauer, Berlin. On January 19, 1906, the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of shafts and surface facilities took place in Neuhof-Ellers. During the Second World War, the disused mine was used as an ammunition store and store for consumer goods such as fabrics and clothing. Potash mining was resumed after the war in October 1954.

Religions

Catholic Church

Catholic parish church of St. Laurentius
Mariengrotte in Giesel

Since its foundation, Giesel has been in a region shaped by the Catholic religion that belonged to the Fulda monastery . The first crumbling chapel dedicated to St. Maria Magdalena was consecrated, was mentioned in 1330 and later rebuilt. It was located in Schlossstrasse or Zellertstrasse on the old cemetery that was abandoned and leveled in 1959 (today property at Zellertstrasse 6 with access from Schloßstrasse) near the former castle or the moated or hunting lodge (today Schlossstrasse 2).

In 1693 the oldest Giesel wayside shrine that still exists today was built in today's Töpferstrasse. More preserved wayside shrines were found around 1750 at the exit to Neuhof, 1767 on the way to the cemetery (Am Mühlberg), 1821 at Wegstern on the hill "Sieberzheiligen", 1828 at the cemetery in Zellertstrasse, 1864 not far from the exit to Hosenfeld and on Beginning of the Wallweg to Kleinheiligkreuz (at the windmill).

In 1832 a new rectory was built at today's Laurentiusstraße 36. In 1856 the construction of a new church began in today's Laurentiusstraße 38. It was completed in 1859 and on August 4, 1861 in honor of St. Laurentius consecrated .

The Mariengrotte Giesel am Rödchen was built by Georg Jost in 1919/20 .

In 1961 the old parish church of St. Laurentius was demolished and rebuilt in the same place and consecrated in 1962. In 1961 the old rectory was demolished and replaced by a new building. In addition, the Youth Center of the parish was Kolpingfamilie in personal contribution erected. The new parish church was consecrated in 1962.

Statue of St. Boniface from the gable end of the old St. Laurentius Church on the Giesel church square

The pilgrimage church of Kleinheiligkreuz , which has belonged to Giesel since the parish was founded in 1731 , was separated from the parish of Giesel in 1962 and joined the Kleinlüder parish curate .

Wayside shrine Sieberzheiligen, replacement cast after theft

Pilgrimage to Fulda and Holy Cross in Kleinheiligkreuz

The parish of Giesel has been participating in the traditional annual St. Boniface pilgrimages for centuries - probably since it was founded . The pilgrimage route leads from the parish church via Niederrode , Haimbach and Neuenberg to the Fulda Cathedral .

Since 1731 until Conversely My Dung and Umpfarrung in the years 1961-62 was one small Holy Cross, the blow Mountain and the Hessenmühle the political community Gieselmann and pfarrlich the Church of St. Lawrence (Giesel). Since then, two pilgrimages have led to the cross festivals from the mother parish of Giesel to Kleinheiligkreuz. With the re-parish, the pilgrimages from Giesel to Kleinheiligkreuz, which had taken place annually for the high festivals (May 3rd) with blessing of agricultural machinery and the exaltation of the cross (September 14th), ended for centuries.

It was not until the 1980s that the old pilgrimage from Giesel to the pilgrimage church of Kleinheiligkreuz was resumed on the old pilgrimage route over the Himmelsberg / Herrgottseiche during the “Kreuzwoche” (crucifixion - 14 September) . Since then, the pilgrimage has taken place around September 14th during the pilgrimage week " Exaltation of the Cross ".

Protestant church

The Evangelical Church in the Fulda area is in the diaspora . In his history, apart from the turmoil during the Reformation, Giesel only has two references to the work of Protestant clergy in the village. The Protestant chaplain Peter Bang worked in Giesel from 1569 to 1573. During the Thirty Years' War during the Hessian occupation by Swedish troops from 1632 to 1634, the Protestant preacher Magister Bremer was active in Giesel. Further information about evangelical life has not been passed down. In the course of history, as it is today, the evangelical faith was of little importance. A note can be found in the Marburg State Archives with a note from 1604, according to which the last inhabitants of Giesel returned to the Catholic faith on the occasion of a mission by the Fulda Jesuits .

Today the Protestant Christians living in Giesel are assigned to parish 1 of the Evangelical Church Community Fulda-Bronnzell-Eichenzell, which belongs to the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck . The parish office is located in Fulda-Bronnzell . The parish is divided into two parishes and extends to Giesel in the parish of Bronnzell. The congregation's meeting point is the Evangelical Peace Church in Fulda-Bronnzell.

School, education and culture

The former elementary school converted into a kindergarten (left) with Christoph-Kalb-Haus (right)

schools

In 1893 the planning of a school building began. The plans were presented to the government in Cassel in 1895. The school building was then erected to the southeast of the parish church on Laurentiusstrasse / corner of Schulstrasse (today's location of the community center).

After the demolition of the old school building, a new three-class elementary school with a teacher's house was built in 1966 according to plans by the architect Sigmund Gütter from Lehnerz.

Giesel has not had a school since 1973. The primary school was closed as a result of the Hessian school reform and incorporated into the castle school in Neuhof. The secondary schools are also located at the Neuhof school location and in the nearby city of Fulda.

Community center Christoph-Kalb-Haus

New bakery from 1994

The school building, which had been vacant since 1973, with an attached teachers' house was given a new use. The renovation began in 1975. In the basement a hall for around 100 people was set up as a village community room, a service room for the mayor with a foyer and a kindergarten on the upper floor . On 4 August 1995 the foundation stone for the new was community center with a new hall cultivation down with club rooms. The inauguration took place on February 22, 1997. The responsible architect was Volkmar Hubert from the neighboring houseleek . In 2005 the community center was given the name

Day care centers

In Giesel there is a day-care center sponsored by the Neuhof community .

Community College

In Giesel there is a branch of the adult education center of the Fulda district. The events take place in the "Christoph-Kalb-Haus".

societies

Sports houses in Giesel (left from 1988, right from 1968)

traffic

Giesel can be reached via federal highways 27 and 254 and highways 7 and 66 . The traffic development and connection to the regional road network takes place via the state roads L 3206 and L 3079 which joins the federal road 254 (B 254) at Fulda-Kohlhaus . The L 3206 state road, which leads from Neuhof to Giesel today, has been expanded since the beginning of 2020 after around ten years of planning.

Even before the Second World War , there was a post bus route via Giesel to Jossa . This was later taken over by rail buses after the Postbus routes were discontinued and continued until the State of Hesse introduced public transport across Hesse. In public transport ( public transport ) Gieselmann is with trains running every hour line 5A (Pilgerzell-Gieselmann) to the city bus Fulda to the regional center connected Fulda.

Giesel is connected to the Intercity train station in the city center of Fulda, about 10 km away, via public transport . The regional train station can be reached on school days from the bus stop at Raiffeisenplatz in Neuhof, 7 km away, via the exempted school transport to Neuhof (line 50) .

Personalities (selection)

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Gun-Britt Tödter (* 1967), German author and specialist in general medicine who grew up in Giesel
  • Karl-Heinz Block '(* 1953), mayor of the Friedewald community until 2002
  • Winfried Lorei, born October 25, 1930 in Giesel, died on June 22, 2013 in Wiesbaden , senior public prosecutor, local researcher and author
  • Franz Valentin Kraft, born February 24, 1886 in Giesel. Under the religious name "Salesius" he was a Franciscan friar of the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in California / USA. He built the Mescalero Mission Station St. Joseph in Mescalero , New Mexico, where he had an accident in 1928 at the age of 42 building the stone church and two days later he died of the consequences of his injuries.
  • Heinrich Schnell, born October 22, 1821 in Giesel, emigrated to America at the age of 25 in 1847 and founded Schnellville , Indiana (USA) on November 27, 1865 . He died on May 25, 1900 and was buried in the Schnellville cemetery.
  • Philipp Kreisler (pastor), born August 17, 1797 in Giesel. After studying and being ordained a priest , he was first city ​​chaplain in Fulda (1821), pastor in Großkrotzenburg (1824) and builder of the local St. Laurentius Church (1826-1828), Hosenfeld (1835) and Oberbimbach (1853), where he was on December 18, 1871 died at the age of 74.

Personalities who have worked in the place

literature

  • In the "Hessische Blätter für Volkskunde", Volume 58, 1967 A. Höck, who was involved in the excavation work in Giesel (soil monument preservation Marburg), wrote a treatise on the pottery trade in Giesel.
  • Michael Mott : Once a hunting lodge, before that a water castle / The Giesel Palace: A building with an eventful history. The building from 1717 is now privately owned. In: Fulda newspaper. Nov. 30, 1995, p. 13 (Series: DENK-mal!).
  • Codex Eberhardi - Günter Ruch takes you to the Fulda Monastery in the 12th century with his historical novel “God's Forger” and tells the story of Eberhard von Giesel, a forger of writings from the monastery and the nobility with gifted skills in his field. Roman-like processing of the origin of the forged “Codex Eberhardi”, an important medieval collection of documents that can still be admired in the Marburg State Archives: Günter Ruch : God's Fälscher , Droemer / Knaur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-426-50054-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Giesel, District of Fulda". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of September 21, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Population statistics of the Fulda district , accessed in September 2015.
  3. ^ Depot Giesel near Fulda GAP , accessed in October 2015.
  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. 394 .
  5. ↑ Sawmill of the dilemma in Vollbrand - 02/21/2018 Osthessen News, accessed on July 23, 2018.
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