Hilders

Hilders is a municipality in the district of Fulda, in Hesse, Germany.

• 2.1 Amalgamations

• 3.1 Municipal Council
• 3.2 partnership

• 4.1 Structures
• 4.2 parks

• 5.1 Tourism
• 5.2 cycle paths
• 5.3 Education and Leisure

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

The municipality is located in Rhön Nature Reserve, northeast of the summit on water 460-800 m altitude in Ulster, 30 km east of Fulda. In the east, the municipality borders on Thuringia.

Neighboring communities

Hilders bordered to the north by the town of Tann ( district Fulda), to the east by the municipalities Unterweid, Oberweid, Franconia home and Birx (all in the Thuringian district Schmalkalden- Meiningen ), to the south by the municipalities of Ehrenberg and Poppenhausen and in the west on the community Hofbieber (all three in Fulda district ).

Structure

The community is adjacent to the main town of the districts Hilders

• Batten with Findlos
• Fire
• Dietges
• Dörmbach with Harbach
• Eckweisbach
• Hilders
• Liebhards with Steinbach and Oberbernhards
• Rupsroth
• Simmershausen
• Unterbernhards and
• Wickers

History

915, the area belonged to Hilders the monastery of Fulda. To 1090-1150 Hilders is occupied as a possession of the monastery Petersberg near Fulda. The Auer castle was sold in 1214 by the Counts of Neidhartshausen to the monastery of Fulda. Later Hilders was owned by the Bishopric of Würzburg and was pledged in 1350 at the Von der Tann.

First, the Auer castle was the seat of the later Wurzburg center Office Hilders with the associated Wurzburg places Brauerz, Hilders, Lahrbach, Reulbach, Rommel Rain, Schandenhof, Simmershausen, Struthof and Wickers. To centralize court also included the fuldischen places Batten, Findlos, Seifert and Thaiden that thüngisch - tannic -specific Kishen places Boppenrod, fire, Melbers and Wüstensachsen that steinrückischen places Reuelbach and Umbrastein and Auer and Schwambach. Since then Auersberg was destroyed in the Peasants' War, was Hilders official residence.

The place and the office was thus in a peripheral location of the Bishopric: to the north lay the rich free, Protestant rule Tann, a little further to the south lay the rich free, Protestant rule Gersfeld and in the west the possessions of the monastery of Fulda.

In 1803 the Bishopric of Würzburg, which belonged to the Frankish Empire Circle from 1500, secularized by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss and slammed mostly Bavaria. The Bavarian Rentamt Hilders was from 1818 to 1820 formed from office Hilders and the Office moths. As part of the administrative reform of 1862, the district office Gersfeld was formed in the Kingdom of Bavaria from the regional court districts Hilders and Weyhers.

Following the German war of 1866, Bavaria was forced to cede to Prussia the district office Gersfeld the offices Tann, Hilders and Weyhers. From the Bavarian district office Gersfeld the Prussian circle Gersfeld, which was part of the new province Hesse -Nassau was.

The circle Gersfeld was dissolved in 1932 and incorporated into the neighboring district of Fulda, which is one of Hesse since 1945.

Incorporations

On December 31, 1971, the previously independent municipalities Batten, fire, Dietges, Eckweisbach, Liebhards, Rupsroth, Simmershausen and Wickers as well as the majority of the community Dörmbach were incorporated at the Milseburg. On 1 August 1972, located in the district until then Hünfeld Unterbernhards was added.

Policy

Municipal council

The municipal election held on March 27, 2011 showed the following distribution of seats:

Partnership

• Schwallungen, district Schmalkalden- Meiningen, Thuringia

Culture and sights

Structures

• Evangelical Church, built in 1895-96, expanded in 1961
• Catholic parish church of St. Bartholomew from the late 18th century
• Castle ruins castle Auer
• Half-timbered houses from the 17th century
• Remains of the castle Eberstein on the Tannenfels the fire district.

Parks

Hilders is situated in the Rhön biosphere reserve with an area of ​​1849 km ² ( of which about 636 km ² in Hesse).

Economy and infrastructure

Tourism

The core community Hilders is a recognized health resort. The districts Batten Findlos and Simmershausen are recognized resorts.

In addition to hiking and swimming ( leisure Ulsterwelle ) the municipality was upgraded in 2004 by the Milseburgradweg, it leads to the disused railway line in 1986 Rhon Fulda Hilders - Tann- Wüstensachsen. In winter, ski trails and on the nearby hilltop water ski slopes for alpine skiing are available.

On the road to Franconia / Rhön ( Thuringia) is a youth hostel overlooking the village. In the village there are various guest houses, hotels and pensions. For around Hilders part of Buchschirm mountain that can climb in a half-day tour.

Cycle paths

• By districts Steinbach, Rupsroth and Eckweisbach the Milseburgradweg runs. He performs as part of the Hessian cycle route R3 and the railway cycle path on the former Hessen Rhön railway line Biebertal train / Rhön track on a length of 27 kilometers of Petersberg Götzenhof to Hilders by the Hessian Rhön.
• Through the town Hilders the Ulster Cycle Route leads as part of the Rhön cycleway. This has a total length of 180 km and runs from Bad Salzungen to Hammelburg, through all three states of the Rhön: Bavaria, Hesse and Thuringia.

Education and Leisure

Hilders is known by the youth educational and recreational facilities of the Youth Organization of St. Michael V. In 1958 the Capuchin Father Archangelus Löslein the first camp for boys resulted in his capacity as Freigestellter for church youth work of the diocese of Fulda near the Battensteins on Buchschirm by. To this day, of the Catholic community in the diocese of Fulda boys since 1979 on the Thomas Morus campground offered.

On the Buchschirm, the Hilderser local mountain, the Thomas Morus house is named after the English Lord Chancellor Thomas More, the patron saint of the Catholic Young municipality ( kjg ). Attached is a 17,000 m² large campground with play barn, one of the largest campgrounds in the region, which was inaugurated in 1980. In 1985, the inauguration of the Thomas - Morus - house as a youth training center by the then Bishop of Fulda, Archbishop Dr. Dr. Johannes Dyba. In 2004, the house has been extensively modernized.

The Father - Löslein hut in the immediate vicinity is a self-catering cottage, in Hesse and is used to supply a further 8,000 m² of the campground. It was acquired by the early work of St. Michael in 1977 and is used for retreats since 1978. The repeatedly modernized cottage can be used from April to October.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Werner Böckenförde, born March 21, 1928 † November 26, 2003 in Freiburg i Br, theologian and jurist, canon in Limburg, a professor in Frankfurt am Main for Catholic canon law and ecclesiastical law.
• Alexius Molitor, born November 19, 1730 † June 16, 1773 in Mainz, German Augustinian priest and composer of church music