Nentershausen
Encyclopedia
Nentershausen is a community in Hersfeld-Rotenburg
district in northeastern Hesse
, Germany
.
to the west and the Werra
to the east. The municipal area lies in the Hasel drainage basin
whose namesake river empties into the river Sontra near Sontra
.
The nearest major towns are Bad Hersfeld
(some 25 km to the southwest), Eisenach
(some 30 km to the east) and Eschwege
(some 25 km to the north).
(in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis
), in the southeast on the community of Wildeck
, in the south on the community of Ronshausen
and in the west on the town of Bebra
and the community of Cornberg
(all in Hersfeld-Rotenburg).
at Helmershausen (nowadays part of the unitary community of Rhönblick
), wherein Hasels is mentioned in 1120 as Hasolo in Thuringia. Tense followed in 1195 and Susse in 1267, which Hermann von Trott had acquired as a Lauterberg
fief. The other places followed in the course of the 14th century.
About 1300, Ludwig I of Baumbach built Tannenberg Castle.
might be described thus: Party per fess embattled of six vert a chief counter-sapiné of three argent, argent a mount of three of the first, surmounted by a sledgehammer and a cross-peen hammer per saltire Or.
Although the arms shown in this article show the two tools in silver (white), the German blazon says that this charge
should be gold.
The coat of arms was conferred upon the community on 4 November 1981 by the Hessian Minister of the Interior.
The fir trees in the upper part of the escutcheon refer to the community’s wealth in woodland. The six battlements symbolize the six constituent communities and Tannenberg Castle. The mining tools refer to the community’s historical mining. Until the mid 20th century, bituminous shale (Kupferschiefer) was mined in Nentershausen.
, Indre-et-Loire
, France
since 1990 Trusetal
, Thuringia
since 1990 Bezirk Steglitz
, today Bezirk Steglitz-Zehlendorf in Berlin
, since 1966
There was once a sponsorship arrangement with 4 Company of the Armoured Reconnaissance Battalion (Panzeraufklärungsbataillon) 5 in Sontra
. This came to an end on 31 December 2007 when the battalion was disbanded.
tree that is some 600 years old.
Hersfeld-Rotenburg
Hersfeld-Rotenburg is a Kreis in the east of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Werra-Meißner, Wartburgkreis, Fulda, Vogelsbergkreis, Schwalm-Eder.-History:...
district in northeastern Hesse
Hesse
Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
.
Location
The community lies in the mountains in eastern Hesse, where it finds itself in the centre of the Richelsdorfer Gebirge (range) between the FuldaFulda River
The Fulda is a river in Hesse, Germany. It is one of two headstreams of the Weser . The Fulda is 218 km in length....
to the west and the Werra
Werra
The Werra is a river in central Germany, the right-source river of the Weser. The Werra has its source near Eisfeld in southern Thuringia. After 293 km the Werra joins the river Fulda in the town of Hann. Münden, forming the Weser....
to the east. The municipal area lies in the Hasel drainage basin
Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...
whose namesake river empties into the river Sontra near Sontra
Sontra
Sontra is a small town in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis in northeastern Hesse, Germany.The air spa of Sontra is known as Berg- und Hänselstadt, with Bergstadt referring to the time when there was bituminous shale mining in town, and Hänselstadt to the town’s former membership in the Hanse...
.
The nearest major towns are Bad Hersfeld
Bad Hersfeld
The festival and spa town of Bad Hersfeld is the district seat of Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany, roughly 50 km southeast of Kassel....
(some 25 km to the southwest), Eisenach
Eisenach
Eisenach is a city in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated between the northern foothills of the Thuringian Forest and the Hainich National Park. Its population in 2006 was 43,626.-History:...
(some 30 km to the east) and Eschwege
Eschwege
Eschwege , the district seat of the Werra-Meißner-Kreis, is a town in northeastern Hesse, Germany.- Location :The town lies on a broad plain tract of the river Werra at the foot of the Leuchtberg northwest of the Schlierbachswald and east of the Hoher Meißner...
(some 25 km to the north).
Neighbouring communities
Nentershausen borders in the north and east on the town of SontraSontra
Sontra is a small town in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis in northeastern Hesse, Germany.The air spa of Sontra is known as Berg- und Hänselstadt, with Bergstadt referring to the time when there was bituminous shale mining in town, and Hänselstadt to the town’s former membership in the Hanse...
(in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis
Werra-Meißner-Kreis
Werra-Meißner is a Kreis in the north of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Göttingen, Eichsfeld, Unstrut-Hainich, Wartburgkreis, district-free Eisenach, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Schwalm-Eder, Kassel.-History:...
), in the southeast on the community of Wildeck
Wildeck
Wildeck is a community in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany lying right at the boundary with Thuringia, 54 km southeast of Kassel.- Location :...
, in the south on the community of Ronshausen
Ronshausen
Ronshausen is a community and a Luftkurort in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany.-Location:The community lies in the valley of the Ulfe, which in Bebra empties into the Fulda...
and in the west on the town of Bebra
Bebra
Bebra is a small town in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany.-Location:Bebra lies some 45 km south of Kassel on the Fulda. The town is easy to find on most maps thanks to its prominent location on the Fuldaknie...
and the community of Cornberg
Cornberg
Cornberg is a community in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany. It is the district’s smallest municipality.- Location :The community lies between the towns of Bad Hersfeld to the south and Eschwege to the north, each 27 km away...
(all in Hersfeld-Rotenburg).
Constituent communities
Nentershausen’s Ortsteile, besides the main centre, also called Nentershausen, are Bauhaus, Dens, Mönchhosbach, Süß and Weißenhasel.History
The first documentary mention of any of the constituent communities came from an interest register from the monasteryMonastery
Monastery denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of monastics, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in community or alone .Monasteries may vary greatly in size – a small dwelling accommodating only...
at Helmershausen (nowadays part of the unitary community of Rhönblick
Rhönblick
Rhönblick is a municipality in the district Schmalkalden-Meiningen, in Thuringia, Germany....
), wherein Hasels is mentioned in 1120 as Hasolo in Thuringia. Tense followed in 1195 and Susse in 1267, which Hermann von Trott had acquired as a Lauterberg
Bad Lauterberg
Bad Lauterberg is a town in the district of Osterode, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the southern Harz, approx. 15 km southwest of Braunlage, and 20 km southeast of Osterode am Harz....
fief. The other places followed in the course of the 14th century.
About 1300, Ludwig I of Baumbach built Tannenberg Castle.
Amalgamations
In the course of municipal reform, the above-named communities merged into the greater community of Nentershausen on 31 December 1971.Community council
The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:| Parties and voter communities | % 2006 |
Seats 2006 |
% 2001 |
Seats 2001 |
|
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 36.5 | 8 | 36.4 | 8 |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany... |
63.5 | 15 | 63.6 | 15 |
| Total | 100.0 | 23 | 100.0 | 23 | |
| Voter turnout in % | 61.9 | 67.1 | |||
Mayors
The former mayor Lothar Schmidt (SPD) was elected to a fourth term on 10 September 2000 with 90.6% of the vote. He had first been elected on 17 December 1982 for a term beginning on 1 January 1983. On 3 September 2006, Ralf Hilmes (SPD) was elected with 71.7% of the vote, thereby unseating Lothar Schmidt as the mayor on 1 January 2007.Coat of arms
The community’s armsCoat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
might be described thus: Party per fess embattled of six vert a chief counter-sapiné of three argent, argent a mount of three of the first, surmounted by a sledgehammer and a cross-peen hammer per saltire Or.
Although the arms shown in this article show the two tools in silver (white), the German blazon says that this charge
Charge (heraldry)
In heraldry, a charge is any emblem or device occupying the field of an escutcheon . This may be a geometric design or a symbolic representation of a person, animal, plant, object or other device...
should be gold.
The coat of arms was conferred upon the community on 4 November 1981 by the Hessian Minister of the Interior.
The fir trees in the upper part of the escutcheon refer to the community’s wealth in woodland. The six battlements symbolize the six constituent communities and Tannenberg Castle. The mining tools refer to the community’s historical mining. Until the mid 20th century, bituminous shale (Kupferschiefer) was mined in Nentershausen.
Town partnerships
LigueilLigueil
Ligueil is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. It is twinned with the UK town of Hungerford. It is close to the former border of Vichy France...
, Indre-et-Loire
Indre-et-Loire
Indre-et-Loire is a department in west-central France named after the Indre and the Loire rivers.-History:Indre-et-Loire is one of the original 83 départements created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
since 1990 Trusetal
Trusetal
Trusetal is a municipality in the district Schmalkalden-Meiningen, in Thuringia, Germany....
, Thuringia
Thuringia
The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....
since 1990 Bezirk Steglitz
Steglitz
Steglitz is a locality of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough in the south-west of Berlin, the capital of Germany. The locality also includes the neighbourhood of Südende.-History:...
, today Bezirk Steglitz-Zehlendorf in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, since 1966
There was once a sponsorship arrangement with 4 Company of the Armoured Reconnaissance Battalion (Panzeraufklärungsbataillon) 5 in Sontra
Sontra
Sontra is a small town in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis in northeastern Hesse, Germany.The air spa of Sontra is known as Berg- und Hänselstadt, with Bergstadt referring to the time when there was bituminous shale mining in town, and Hänselstadt to the town’s former membership in the Hanse...
. This came to an end on 31 December 2007 when the battalion was disbanded.
Museums
- Heimat und Bergbau Museum (“Local and Mining Museum”), in the former Amt court,
Buildings
- Tannenberg Castle, built in the 13th century in the GothicGothic architectureGothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....
style, since 1360 owned by the family von Baumbach - Nentershausen EvangelicalEvangelical Church in GermanyThe Evangelical Church in Germany is a federation of 22 Lutheran, Unified and Reformed Protestant regional church bodies in Germany. The EKD is not a church in a theological understanding because of the denominational differences. However, the member churches share full pulpit and altar...
Church, remodelled between 1696 and 1706 in the BaroqueBaroque architectureBaroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and...
style - Timber-frameTimber framingTimber framing , or half-timbering, also called in North America "post-and-beam" construction, is the method of creating structures using heavy squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs . It is commonplace in large barns...
town hall in Nentershausen
Natural monuments
In Nentershausen stands a protected village or court lindenTilia
Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The greatest species diversity is found in Asia, and the genus also occurs in Europe and eastern North America, but not western North America...
tree that is some 600 years old.
Regular events
- Denser Seefest (“Lake Festival”)
- Burgfest (“Castle Festival”) at Tannenberg Castle
Sons and daughters of the town
- Henriette Dorothea (Dortchen) Wild, wed Wilhelm GrimmWilhelm GrimmWilhelm Carl Grimm was a German author, the younger of the Brothers Grimm.-Life and work:...
in 1825 - Franz Brandl, Theodor HeussTheodor HeussTheodor Heuss was a liberal German politician who served as the first President of the Federal Republic of Germany after World War II from 1949 to 1959...
awarded the miner the first BundesverdienstkreuzBundesverdienstkreuzThe Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany is the only general state decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has existed since 7 September 1951, and between 3,000 and 5,200 awards are given every year across all classes...
in 1951.
People associated with the community
- Adolph Freiherr Knigge, wed Henriette von Baumbach in 1773, whose Tannenberg estates and castle are found here; he also lived here for a while
Further reading
- Ludwig Büff: Zur Geschichte von Nentershausen. Blücher Verlag, Merzhausen 2004, ISBN 3-934249-06-X
- Der Gemeindevorstand der Gemeinde Nentershausen: " Nentershausen Bilder aus vergangenen Tagen " Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1992, ISBN 3-89264-733-X
- Der Gemeindevorstand der Gemeinde Nentershausen: " Süß - das Dorf und seine Menschen" Hoehl-Druck, Bad Hersfeld 2005,