Heßles
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Heßles since 1 December 2008, a municipality in the district of Fambach Schmalkalden- Meiningen in Thuringia.
Geography
The place Heßles is about four kilometers in a straight line to the northwest of Schmalkalden in the Valley of Fambach and ranges in the east to the Great Mountain Giesel ( 657.6 m above sea level. NN ). The place is surrounded by wooded sandstone heights. The district covers 539 hectares, of which about 400 hectares of forest.
View over Heßles
History
The village was mentioned in a document issued on February 13, 1185 deed Hesele and only two kilometers away homestead Nüßles, today part of Heßles than Neuwesesse owned by the monastery Herrenbreitungen. The place was from 1197 the fief of the lords of Frankenstein. Upon the establishment of Wallburg in Trusetal by the Franks Steiner, the inhabitants of the place were Heßles the local court and castle district allocated. The castellan of Wallburg belonged to the nobility of service Franken Steiner. In 1330, the deeply indebted gender of the Franks Steiner Count went to meet her demise, most of their possessions had to be sold to repay the debt to the Counts of Henneberg - Schleusingen. This branch of the Henneberger was also in financial straits and pledged portions of their new possessions to the Landgrave of Hesse.
The split from 1367 castle district of Wallburg became the constant nuisance to the affected residents, as they had to continue to pay their labor services and fees. The Henneberger bailiffs, who were responsible as stewards in Breitunger monastery, formally separated in 1416 the Wall Burger Castle District Bailiwick of Breitunger monastery bailiwick from district to facilitate the economic control of Mr. Breitunger monastery. 1423, the Graf von Henneberg complained about the high-handed leadership of the Office of Klosterabtes Breitungen the abbot of Hersfeld, who exercised the supervision of the monastery in 1436 the relentless Mr. Breitunger Abt even the excommunication was threatened. This scandalous conditions distressed for decades the population of the affected areas of the monastery and castle Bailiwick district.
1450 acquired the Breitunger Abbot John the Nüßleshof, who had previously served the neighboring Wallburg as farmyard. During this time the church was determined in Trusen also the parish church of Heßles.
The hill fort was in the Peasants' War, besieged and taken in April 1525 by insurgents. The consideration of the enslaved peasants as a symbol of their loads bailiwick was burned down by local tradition with all the files. With the Lord Breitunger Abbot Erasmus in 1503 led the monastery to 1536, the decline of the monastery was initiated. While still alive, was the introduction of the Reformation held in the county of Henneberg. The Lord Breitunger monastery was dissolved under Abbot Kilian bird in 1552. By the Hessian influence occurs in the religion question early tensions, because the Hessian Landgrave as followers of the Reformed faith had different opinions than lutheranisch set Henneberger count. It is 1537 in the neighboring Schmalkalden to religious discussions, which were also the reformer Martin Luther participates, the Smalcald Articles are written. First, the service in the parish church Trusener will be held in the Reformed faith form, since the place is under Hessian administration. The first Lutheran pastor of the church was Trusener 1552 John Debes Manikus. In Schmalkalder surrounding the mining and metal- processing industries already flourished before 1500. In the region of large amount of both of charcoal for the iron mining and forging, therefore, settled in the neighboring valleys of Schmalkalde and Truse Köhler and loggers, which also appear in Heßles from 1550. The place had at this time about eight farms, the population was probably well under 100 residents.
The place Heßles was purely dominated by agriculture, as the corridor of Heßles consisted in particular of fields, while the surrounding forest land owned by the rulers - the dukes of Saxe- Coburg, Saxe-Meiningen and Saxe-Gotha were. After 1800, the first time more than 100 inhabitants were counted in 1900, there were then about 200 inhabitants. In the 1970s, the Nüßleser base was expanded by the Nüßleshof to a recreation area with camping, operating cottage and swimming pool.