Kleinenglis

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Kleinenglis is a present-day district of Borken in the Schwalm -Eder -Kreis. The first written mention of the village was carried out in 775 as Angelgise in a document of the Abbey of Hersfeld.

The district Kleinenglis mostly lies on the so-called Großenengliser plate and has a size of approximately 602 hectares. In Kleinenglis zzt live. slightly more than 1,500 people.

Church

The once consecrated to the Archangel Michael Lutheran Church in Castle Road Dog is a medieval fortified church and a cultural monument. The Gothic choir tower dates from the 14th century, the verschieferte belfry and the helmet from the year 1752. Around 1500, the late Gothic three - nave jochige was grown with cross vaults. The entire interior of the church was soon painted it with scenes from the Bible and from legends of the saints. The murals were painted over well after the Reformation; in the choir in 1925, which exposed the ship in 1963. The choir is dominating the figure of the Archangel Michael. The church interior with altar, tabernacle, staircase to the tower, etc. is preserved in late medieval original condition. The organ was built in 1832 by the organ builder Joseph Oestreich from Fulda.

History

With the Emperor cross stands a national historical monument in Kleinenglis. This was on June 5, 1400, the Duke Friedrich I of Brunswick -Wolfenbüttel, which had previously been suggested by some electors in Frankfurt as a candidate for election against the unpopular King Wenceslas, by Count Henry VII of Waldeck and his cronies Friedrich von Hertingshausen and murdered Konrad ( Kunzmann ) of Falkenberg.

A second local event of historical importance was the crushing defeat of the troops of Mainz Archbishop Conrad III. of Dhaun in Main hissing Hessian war on July 23, 1427 against the Hessian Landgrave Ludwig I, with the Kurmainz the struggle for territorial supremacy in Northern Hesse finally lost. This decisive battle in a centuries- long struggle took place north of Kleinenglis place between the calf and the castle today desolate village wood home near Fritzlar. Mainz had to then take a fief almost all his possessions in Lower and Middle Hesse of Hesse.

On December 31, 1971, the neighboring village of Hausen Kersten came to Kleinenglis. On January 1, 1974, until then independent municipality was incorporated into the city of Borken.