Cornberg

The community Cornberg the headwaters of the Sontra located in the northeast of Hesse in Hersfeld -Rotenburg. Cornberg is the smallest municipality by population of the district.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 Municipal Council
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 Coat of Arms
  • 4.1 traffic
  • 5.1 Museums
  • 5.2 Structures

Geography

Geographical location

The community is located between both 27 km away towns of Bad Hersfeld in the south and in the north Eschwege. The municipality is located between the mountains and the Stölzinger Richelsdorfer Mountains. The Sontra flows through the districts Rockensüß and king wood. By Cornberg itself flows the brook Cornberger water flowing in Berne castle (part of Sontra ) in the river Sontra.

The lowest point of the municipality lies at 254 m above sea level. NN slightly below the lower mill on the Sontra, between Rockensüß and Berne castle. The highest point in the municipality district is 485.8 m above sea level. NN Mosen high mountain. About this mountain, about two kilometers north-east of King Forest, the district boundary runs to the neighboring town of Rotenburg an der Fulda (district Dankerode ).

Neighboring communities

Cornberg borders in the north on the town forest Kappel, on the east by the city Sontra (both in the Werra- Meißner- Kreis), in the southeast on the community Nentershausen, in the south on the town Bebra and to the west by the town of Rotenburg an der Fulda (all three in Hersfeld -Rotenburg ).

Community structure

In addition to the administrative headquarters Cornberg there are the two north-west, in the valley of Sontra, lying districts Rockensüß and king wood.

History

The district Rockensüß was first mentioned in the year 1274 and the hamlet of King Forest in 1351. The actual settlement Cornberg was not created until 1938-1941 for the Mining and Metallurgical Workers of the copper shale mining in Richelsdorfer mountains and at the time was in the district of Rockensüß. It is the only resettlement in the old district of Rotenburg since the Thirty Years' War. On 1 April 1954, the former districts of Rockensüß, Mönchhosbach and diamond Hausen was the new community Cornberg formed from this settlement, as well as parts.

Since 1296 here was a Benedictine monastery, a daughter house of the abbey Hersfeld, which had previously been home to a convent of St. Nicholas in Bubenbach. The monastery Cornberg was repealed in 1526 and converted to an agricultural Hofgut the Landgrave of Hessen.

1574 was Philipp Wilhelm von Cornberg, not a legitimate son of Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hesse -Kassel, the former monastery and its lands by his father as a hereditary fief and named themselves after. Philipp Wilhelm sold it in 1598 to his half brother, Landgrave Moritz of Hesse- Kassel, who handed it in 1627 as part of the Rotenburger quart of the sons from his second marriage. It was a bailiff, was up to the extinction of the Landgrave of Hesse -Rotenburg in 1834 in their possession, and then fell back to the Electorate of Hesse.

By 1964 the former monastery was a state domain, from 1946 owned by the State of Hesse. The dilapidated commercial and residential buildings around the monastery were demolished 1957-1973. Only the gothic quadrangle is obtained; it was from 1990 to 1994 set repaired. The former two-aisled church ( the north wing of the cloister quadrangle ) to the nuns' gallery surviving is now used as a cultural stage. In two other wings, the community center and museum are housed. In the east wing there is a catering operation.

From 1945 to 1949, the whole place Cornberg and the former monastery were UNRRA DP camp. Here former forced laborers from the Soviet Union and Poland were mainly housed. Many of them migrated from here to Canada or the U.S..

Incorporations

On 1 October 1971, the Altgemeinden Cornberg and Rockensüß merged. On 1 August 1972, the former municipality of King Forest was incorporated.

Policy

Municipal council

The municipal election held 27 March 2011 yielded the following results ( in comparison to previous elections ):

Mayor

The independent Achim Großkurth was elected on 20 October 2002 with a vote share of 52.5 % to the mayor. He was re-elected on 1 June 2008 with a vote share of 91.7 %.

Coat of arms

Blazon: The coat of arms is divided. At the top of a silver border red lion. Below is a chess Tung of red and silver arranged in three rows of five seats.

Description: The coat of arms is taken from the family coat of arms of the Barons of Cornberg and is only slightly changed in color. The border lion stands for the descent of the family from the house of Hesse. The chess Tung is in family coat of arms on a chess board and is held blue, red and silver colors in the family crest. The coat of arms was awarded to the municipality by the Hessian Minister of the Interior on 26 February 1981.

Economy

Traffic

Through the district Cornberg B 27 and the railway line Bebra -Göttingen leads. From Cornberg leads the county road "K 52" by Rockensüß, from there the "K 57 " Konig forest.

Culture and sights

Museums

  • Local museum and sandstone Kloster Cornberg
  • Quartzite sandstone quarry with mineral depot; Sites of prehistoric track finds of small dinosaurs from the Upper Permian Zechstein and the Permian.

Structures

  • Cornberg monastery (built 1292-1296 )
  • Castle Rittershain
Kassel (region) Independent (politician) Sontra (river) Waldkappel Hersfeld Abbey William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel Gothic art Displaced persons camp Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor Alheim Friedewald, Hesse Hauneck Haunetal Heringen Hohenroda Kirchheim, Hesse Ludwigsau Niederaula Philippsthal (Werra) Ronshausen Schenklengsfeld Wildeck Integrated Authority File
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