Vollmarshausen

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Vollmarshausen is a district of the municipality of Lochmaben in the Kassel district in northern Hesse and the oldest settlement in Söhreraum. To date, the townscape is dominated by historic half-timbered houses. Due to the location of Wahle stream flows.

History

The area around Vollmarshausen was in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age (about 1200 to 650 BC ) settled as the burial site discovered in 1951 by Vollmarshausen occupied. It is one of the most important finds from this period in Western Europe.

In the 10th and 11th century, the cleared areas were awarded to the east of Kassel colonists, fields and plots were allocated on a long lease. In 1019, Emperor Henry II the village to the monastery Kaufungen. This instrument is now considered the first mention Vollmar Stockhausen. At the edge of Vollmarshausen existed a royal villa. As a vicarage Vollmarshausen first appears in the 14th century, and even in 1536 it was an independent parish.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, mentioned since the early 14th century upper mill housed the armory of Johann Jakob able man; was closed down in 1924, but the building is still standing. In the center is the 250 year old lime tree and the court square of Vollmarshausen. The origins of that place Schoepp chair or Thingplace to the Middle Ages.

Until the 19th century Vollmarshausen had a church that came from a time when the town had only 850 inhabitants. 1835-39, the Evangelical Church Vollmarshausen was built to designs by Daniel Engelhard. The formal language follows the classicism, floor plan and rook same but a Byzantine basilica. Vessels of the altar, baptismal font, bells, and the cup were taken from the previous building.

In 1905 the brick plant Vollmarshausen GmbH was founded; they existed until the end of 1965, when the clay deposits were exhausted. 1933 aroused the case of the primary school teacher Ludwig Rüdiger sensation, who opposed Nazism. This was followed by arrests. As early as 1932 had requested the arrest of Vollmar Hausener mayor in the Prussian Landtag Nazis.

Near the village is a motorway was planned as their intermediate the motorway bridge near Vollmarshausen (now Söhrewald ) was born. Because of the priority shift the bridge served as a temporary production facility of the engine plant in Kassel. The bridge in the forest still exists today. During the war took the town without material losses.

On 1 December 1970, joined the community Lochmaben, consisting of Crumbach and Ochsenhausen, with Vollmarshausen the new community together. The previous Lochmaben at that time had a population of 8000, Vollmarshausen 3,000.

Etymology of the name

For the place name existed during the centuries, various spellings, was considered to be a way of writing the full Mars Homes dialect:

• Volmareshusun ( 1019)
• Volcmereshusun
• Wolcmereshusin ( 1229 )
• Volmer Husen ( 1306)
• Volmarshusin ( 1351 )
• Fulmershusen ( 1487 )

Townscape

The court on the population center is the oldest dominant. Although a very old settlement, the period 1790 imprinted - 1830 decisively the townscape, as you turned away from agriculture. Most of the buildings of the listed overall system and almost all of the 33 cultural monuments in Vollmarshausen are exported from the era of incipient industrialization and Classical. Even a brick factory in the village did not change the preferred construction of half-timbered houses. Since the 1950s, new housing estates were developed on the outskirts, which has been cultivated with terraced houses and detached houses.

Infrastructure

In Vollmarshausen there is a primary school, a district library and a daycare center. Through the town lead the county road 8 and the state roads 3203 and 3236th

In 2006, the square in front of the restaurant redesigned " Zum Grünen Baum " with the historic fountain "An Dippels Born", on the first floor of the building the restaurant has since been a family room

The former hose tower was built in 2010 16m ² large multi-purpose room, and is also used for weddings. The fire department will relocate to the completion of the new building in the town center of Lochmaben.

Events

The term Linde fair is held every year in early August, a festival in the town center instead. In 2011 with the inauguration of the new cultural center in the former hose tower of the volunteer fire department in the center. Another festival is the end of August we seh'n night.

Population

In 1585 the town had 48 households, which rose to 1747 on 55.

Personalities

• Johann Jakob Lagemann (1696-1766), arms manufacturer
• Vera Rüdiger ( b. 1936 ), German politician