Söhrewald

Söhrewald is a municipality in the district of Kassel, North Hesse.

The church was re- formed on 1 December 1970, through the merger of the formerly independent communities Eiterhagen, Wattenbach and Wellerode in the context of local government reform. Your name was chosen by the situation in the Central Mountains Söhre. Söhrewald one of the residential communities of Northern Hesse, and has little industry. In the past, Söhrewalder villages were agricultural.

• 3.1 Municipal Council
• 3.2 Mayor
• 3.3 Coat of Arms

• 4.1 Sport

• 5.1 Education

• 6.1 Commemorative

Geography

Location

Söhrewald is located in the southeast part of the district of Kassel average of 13 km (air line ) southeast of Kassel, surrounded by forest -covered hills of the Hessian low mountain forest Söhre. Its districts are traversed inter alia, the Fulda inflows driving Bach and Mülmisch. Located on the driving Bach Wellerode district lies north of the wooded ridge of Hambühlskopf ( 445.2 m above sea level. NN ) in the west and Brandt ( 441.6 m above sea level. NN ) in the east, to the south of this ridge is located in the valley of Mülmisch influx Wattenbach the district Wattenbach and bach down further in this direction to the confluence with the Mülmisch is the district Eiterhagen.

Neighboring towns

Söhrewald bordered to the north by the municipality of Lochmaben, in the north- east on the communities Kaufungen and Helsa (all three in the district of Kassel ), to the east by the city hessian Lichtenau (Werra - Meißner-Kreis ) in the south to the town of Melsungen, on the southwest by the community Körle, and to the west by the municipalities Guxhagen (all three in the Schwalm -Eder -Kreis) and Fuldabrueck ( in the district of Kassel).

Structure

The municipality consists of the villages Söhrewald Eiterhagen, Wattenbach and Wellerode. Administrative center of the municipality is Wellerode.

History

The municipality was established on December 1, 1970 during the municipal reform in Hesse by the merger of the municipalities Eiterhagen, Wattenbach and Wellerode.

The forest-covered ridge of Söhre, who gave her name to the new church, extending from the east bank of the Fulda to the pin forest.

The Söhre is an old settlement area. Your name is derived from " thrush " or " sör " and means "dry". So it lacked the first settlers on the extensive highlands often to water, and they were soon forced to give up their land clearing. One of these settlements was discontinued since the 19th century piece of Churches. The settlement Hesse grove or Hessenhagen is probably after the epidemic, the " Black Death ", was abandoned between 1347 to 1352. Only the ruins of the " Hesse Hainer Church " still shows as a visible sign of the old settlement and is with the " bells Born" still hiking destination for many trekkers.

Wellerode, Wattenbach and Eiterhagen, located in the valleys of the driving brook, the brook watts and the Mülmisch, offered its residents plenty of water. Otherwise, people found there only a meager livelihood, because the fields of the small clearing pending district are less fertile. So they were forced to make use of the forest for livelihood. For a long time these residents had in him the Huter real. The forest also provided them with wood, berries and mushrooms. Women and children made ​​for a modest additional income. But the district Wellerode had 3560 hectares of forest and only 461 ha of fields and meadows. So many residents of Söhredörfer have subsisted as forest workers and " Culture Women ".

Hunting rights were not allowed to exercise, however. That was reserved in those days the nobles. The game-rich forests were often the scene of splendid hunts Hessian Landgrave. Even Jerome, the " Jolly King ", probably once came into the Söhre to hunt. In the past, the three Söhredörfer had a lot together. Your first documentary evidence can be defined as the turn of the 13th to the 14th century.

A written fief transfer from the year 1351 is the basis for the more than 600-year history of the village Wellerode.

All three Söhregemeinden subordinate to the "office" Oberkaufungen. Many residents had to march through the forests of Söhre and the pin forest to the high authorities " on foot " over the " official path ".

The development of Söhredörfer suffered from their seclusion from the world. The bad traffic conditions they beließen at the level of small settlers villages. The barren agriculture and the forest remained for centuries the livelihood of its inhabitants.

The big break was initiated only with the construction of Söhrebahn in the years 1911/1912. With its commissioning, the working places in Kassel could be achieved faster and more convenient. Better education and more job opportunities were offered to residents of the Söhredörfer it. Modest prosperity came to the families. Many was able to fulfill the desire to own a house.

Now it was possible to tap the local basalt and lignite deposits better and more intensive use since the Söhrebahn for the smooth transportation provided. This means that the number of jobs grew in a residential environment. So was especially Wattenbach with the colliery Stellberg to a mining village. The mountain man tradition is maintained to this day. For local events, one can admire the miners in their neat forming. The importance of equal weight with lignite mining, the work was in the basalt quarries of Söhre. So in 1927 were employed in the various breaks in the Söhre 350 workers. These jobs no longer exist today. Although medium-sized industrial and craft enterprises are still available, but by far the greater part of the labor force Söhrewalds has his work in Kassel or in the immediate environs.

The Söhrebahn was discontinued in 1966. The bus on the road has taken delivery of its task. However, most professionals from Söhrewald drive as the other surrounding residents of the city of Kassel with her ​​own car to work.

Söhrewald has become a workers' commune of residence. Its capital is the intact forest landscape. The extraordinary natural beauty of the diverse mixed forests with quiet valleys and idyllic water areas offer excellent conditions for recreation and tourism. To the old town centers with their tasteful half-timbered houses new residential areas have emerged. Meanwhile, the number of citizens has grown to 5300. Söhrewald is a place with a future. The development of an attractive community with high standard of value and high quality of life goes on.

Policy

Municipal council

The municipal election held 27 March 2011 yielded the following results:

Mayor

Coat of arms

It was a long time not common that rural communities crest led. After Gensungen, today Felsberg in the Schwalm -Eder -Kreis ( 1947), and Bad Salzschlirf in the district of Fulda (1948 ) Wellerode was the third leading country coat of arms municipality in the district of Kassel. Today, all cities and towns in Hesse lead a coat of arms. Impetus to the coat of arms ceremony was also in this case the wave Röder 600 - year celebration in 1951. For this reason gave on January 8, 1951, the Hessian Minister of the Interior in the Government Gazette of the State of Hesse announced that the municipality Wellerode was entitled to use a coat of arms. At that time it was not customary to reprint the coat of arms description in the Official Gazette, it was rescheduled at the below-mentioned approval in 1973. The citizens of the coat of arms, however, was only introduced in the summer of 1951 during a solemn act within the 600 - year celebration.

This coat of arms was adopted by the unanimous vote of the Söhrewälder municipal council of 18 October 1972 as the emblem of the greater community in 1971 formed Söhrewald and subsequently approved by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior Decree of 31 January 1973.

The basis of the coat of arms was the coat of arms of the once influential down Hessian noble family of Elves, which can be seen in the form of a seal and on the document from the year 1351, is first mentioned in the Wellerode.

The coat of arms description reads: In red a silver deer bar with expiring ends in lilies. Silvery white means in the language of heraldry. The Heraldry ever used just six colors, namely gold ( yellow ), silver ( white), red, blue, green and black, so the two brightest colors gold and silver, which call the Herald, metals ' play back, but the yellow and white, and the other four, darker colors are used for the only full colors ( hues or color mixtures, such as pink or purple and brown, are not used in good coat of arms ).

Culture and sights

The old highway bridge in Wellerode is a true landmark, but also the atoning Cross and the television tower in Wellerode.

Sports

Forest pool in the district Wattenbach and Söhrekampfbahn in Wellerode

Economy and infrastructure

Education

Primary school in Wellerode