Jestädt

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Jestädt is a district of the municipality Meinhard in the Werra- Meißner-Kreis in Hesse.

Geographical location

Jestädt is located on the far southwest foothills of the mountain range Gobert in the valley of the Werra. In this river flow south of the village of Mühlbach it flowing and west-southwest near town, the weirs. Neighboring towns are Motzenrode in the north-northeast, east-northeast in Neuerode, Grebendorf in the east-southeast, Niederhone in the south and Albungen in the northwest. In Jestädt the country road take 3403 and County Road 3

History

Jestädt was first mentioned in the year 876. The fortified village " Gestede " was built to defend a ford through the river Werra.

The place name is composed by Prof. Haas, Fulda, of two words, namely from the adjective Old High German gahi, medium-high German gaehe or gah, in addition to "suddenly" or " sudden ", steeply - sloping means and from the Word instead of = site. Then Gahesteti or Jestaedt is a place on the steep slope, as is the case for the position of Jestädt. In the 10th century wine was grown in Jestädt.

In the 11th century the Werra valley formed the boundary between the Kurmainzer bishops and the Guelph dukes and was therefore contested. Jestädt himself belonged to the Earl of Everstein. Later it passed into the possession of the Counts of Northeim, Otto of Northeim, who had already died before the onset of Eversteiner. His son Siegfried III. of Boyneburg finally gained possession Jestädts.

1410 enfeoffed Bernard I the Boyneburg - Hohenstein's with the village Jestädt and the local jurisdiction.

On December 31, 1971, until then independent municipality Jestädt was incorporated into the new municipality of Meinhard.

Policy

• Mayor of Jestädt is Gerhold Brill (independent), as of June 2013.

Castle Jestädt

The chateau was built Jestädt Walrab of Boyneburg -Hohenstein 1558 to 1561 built on the walls of Talburg. His son Friedrich Hermann von Boyneburg -Hohenstein (1564-1631) had the castle to expand in 1612. In the Thirty Years' War the castle was plundered and devastated; In 1637 it was renovated and was now on the Boyneburgs a noble residence.

Only when the Jestädter line of the family became extinct in 1792, the castle fell and the related areas in 1794 to the Lords of Eschwege. This property was built in 1802 by a deed of gift of George III. confirmed.

Later, the prison tower and the east wing of the castle were removed. The last time the castle was rebuilt in 1906. The south adjoining mill was demolished in the 1960s.

After the Second World War, the Eschwege refugees and relatives took up in her castle. In the 1970s and 1980s the castle was temporarily uninhabited.

In 1990 the castle was sold and renovated until 1998. Since 1999, it is inhabited again, and offers four apartments. In the courtyard, and in the hall concerts are held temporarily.

Additional points of interest

• Around Anger
• Medieval village church
• Jewish cemetery from the 17th century

Personalities

Friedrich von Feilitzsch, first prime minister of Schaumburg -Lippe was born on 14 July 1858 in Jestädt.