Hümpfershausen

Hümpfershausen is a municipality in the district Schmalkalden- Meiningen in Thuringia. It belongs to the administrative community to Wasungen official sand, which has its headquarters in the city Wasungen.

Geography

Hümpfershausen lies at the foot of Roßberges in the Rhön.

History

The documentary first mention of the village falls in the year 1145, as Bishop of Würzburg Embricho the Klosterzella Hunfridishusen as one of his estates confirmed.

The foundation of the monastery situated on the outskirts Sinnershausen was carried out by a pious knight Godfrey of Katza. Consisting of the two courtyards Gossbachshof and Hopfenhof settlement Hümpfershausen and other places in the area were donated to the monastery. The mendicant orders of the Wilhelmiten belonging monks were sent from Weissenborn monastery in Ruhla and the tasks were found to be travelers and pilgrims to assist you.

The monastery Sinnershausen was devastated during the Peasants' War, set on fire and abandoned by the last monks. The Counts of Henneberg specific as country gentlemen, the secularization of the property, the main buildings were largely destroyed by the fire and were demolished. The residents of the neighboring village Lücker Hausen, now a deserted village in the hallway Hümpfershausen, suffered particularly from the labor services of the monasteries, therefore, almost all farmers had spontaneously joined the Werra pile. After the suppression of the uprising, the captured Lücker houses were sentenced to the death penalty, their settlement site was cremated. 1611 had brought in the area around Hümpfershausen in five weeks nearly all the inhabitants to death, the outbreak of the plague, in 1634, an incident in Croatia and in 1637 a Swedish invasion was noted in church history.

In 1603 a church was built in Hümpfershausen. The first school building was built in 1847. The place in the Official sand belonged from 1680 to 1918 to the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen. Since 1920 it belongs to the state of Thuringia.

Policy

The municipal council of Hümpfershausen consists of six Council women and councilors.

The honorary mayor Manfred Kümpel was elected on 27 June 2004.

Culture and sights

• Mountain hut Hümpfershäuser house on a mountain west of Hümpfershausen
• On the wooded God head is about two kilometers north of the village on a plateau, a small fortification with a north upstream Wall remainder. It is believed that this is a prehistoric plant.

Structures

• North of the town is founded in 1290 by former Wilhelmitenkloster Sinnershausen. In the monastery grounds, a castle was built in the 19th century, which was appropriated by the expropriation of the owners after the Second World War, the church, and later serves as Kinderkurheim and today as State Fire School and Hostel. A stone figure of the 14th century in a niche is to represent the monastery founder Gottfried von Katza.