Misplaced Pages

#524475

68-618: Vöhl lies in the northern part of the Kellerwald -Edersee Nature Park on the Edersee , a man-made lake . It is located 40 kilometers southwest of Kassel . Vöhl borders in the north on the town of Korbach , in the east on the town of Waldeck and the community of Edertal , in the south on the towns of Frankenau and Frankenberg , and in the west on the town of Lichtenfels (all in Waldeck-Frankenberg). Vöhl consists of

136-637: A ski-jumping arena and a downhill skiing run were inviting people to partake of winter sports. Obernburg lies at the edge of the Kuhbach Valley on a hill. Its attractions include not only a little Protestant church but also the Drachenhöhle ("Dragon's Cave"). From the cave, lying on the village's outskirts, a secret passage leads under the pulpit in the church. In earlier times, this was used as an escape route. Archaeological finds have established that there has been continuous habitation in

204-802: A German designation for wooded wildernesses allowed to grow naturally without any human intervention. Further Special Areas of Conservation are, among others, the oak forests on the steep slopes at the Edersee, the aforesaid Keller in the southern part of the nature park and the Urff, a linear Special Area of Conservation from the source to the river's mouth into the Schwalm. In small areas, there are also nature reserves and protected scenic areas. The conservation efforts have yielded, perhaps most importantly, one of Central Europe 's last contiguous broadleaf forests of international grade. The predominant woodland type

272-718: A Germanic tribe mentioned by Tacitus in the Germania . According to him, they dwelt to the north of the Chamavi and Angrivarii , who dwelt in turn to the north of the Bructeri, between Ems and Weser, however the name of the Chasuarii most often is interpreted to mean "dwellers on the Hase [river]", a tributary to the Ems . The second century geographer Claudius Ptolemy mentions that

340-526: A Special Protection Area (for birds), a number of bird species still or once again breed, among them the black stork , the common raven , six kinds of woodpecker (among them the rare middle spotted woodpecker and the grey-headed woodpecker ), the black and the red kite (which here reach their highest population density anywhere in Hesse), the peregrine falcon , the Tengmalm's owl , the honey buzzard ,

408-455: A doubtful, valour as an unfailing, resource; and what is most unusual, and only given to systematic discipline, they rely more on the general than on the army. Their whole strength is in their infantry, which, in addition to its arms, is laden with iron tools and provisions. Other tribes you see going to battle, the Chatti to a campaign. Seldom do they engage in mere raids and casual encounters. It

476-458: A great name, Africa a greater one:     Scipio the victor has one, and Metellus has the other.   Germany granted a nobler name when the Rhine had been subdued,     and even as a boy, Caesar, you were worthy of this name.   Your brother earned Idumaean triumphs together with your father,     but the laurel given for

544-528: A hill vert upon which a castle gules with tower dexter, the whole with roof azure, before the castle an inescutcheon in which in azure a lion rampant party per fess, above argent, below gules, crowned Or, armed argent and langued gules. These arms were bestowed upon the community on 17 August 1977 with the Hessian Interior Minister's approval. Kellerwald The Kellerwald is a low mountain range reaching heights of up to 675 m in

612-636: A roughly 167 km-long loop joining mountains and places in the Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park and the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park together. Round the Edersee has run since 2005 the 68 km-long Urwaldsteig Edersee ("Virgin Forest Trail") through the oak forests on the lake's north shore and through the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park south of the lake. The Kellerwald's lowest point

680-568: A special conservation status. Almost its whole unspoilt natural area belongs to the Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park. The northern part, with an area of 57.24 km has been designated since 1 January 2004 as the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park . Furthermore, a great area is part of the European network " Natura 2000 " ( Special Area of Conservation and Special Protection Area ), as well as, in parts, Bannwald ,

748-520: A warning that these birds should also get plenty of water, as cockchafers tended to make them very thirsty. Swine , too, enjoyed cockchafers, according to the leaflet. In 1875, Basdorf's children were given a new school when a dismantled house was bought over in Asel and reassembled in Basdorf as a place for teaching the village's children. In 1878, the village bought a new hand-driven fire pump. In 1879,

SECTION 10

#1732790802525

816-403: A weeklong festival. On 1 February 1971, the communities of Dorfitter, Herzhausen and Thalitter merged into the community of Ittertal, and Vöhl formed with Asel and Basdorf a new community. On 1 January 1972, the community of Hessenstein was formed out of Buchenberg, Ederbringhausen, Harbshausen, Kirchlotheim, Niederorke, Oberorke and Schmittlotheim. The communities of Marienhagen and Obernburg for

884-662: Is apparently preserved in the medieval and modern name of Hesse in Germany, which is a name that already appears early. In 723 for example, the Anglo-Saxon missionary Winfrid —subsequently called St. Boniface , Apostle of the Germans—proselytizing among the Hessians (Hessorum), felled their sacred tree, Thor's Oak , near Fritzlar , as part of his efforts to convert them and other Germanic tribes to Christianity. At

952-472: Is assumed to be in the wider neighbourhood of Fritzlar north of the river Eder . The Chatti were opponents of the emperor Domitian in 84 CE, and were allies of Lucius Antonius Saturninus in his revolt of 89 CE. They appear again during the build up to the Marcomannic wars , first attacking southwards towards Germania superior and Raitia in what is now southern Germany, in 162, and then while

1020-467: Is described as acidic-soil woodrush - beech forest. In 2005, the Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park was brought by the Federal Office for Nature Conservation ( Bundesamt für Naturschutz ) into the programme called the "Great Nature Conservation Project of Pan-Governmentally Representative Importance" ( Naturschutzgroßprojekt von gesamtstaatlich repräsentativer Bedeutung ). Since the 19th century,

1088-679: Is found at the edge of the Eder Valley on the outskirts of Affoldern , not far from, and below the water level of the Affolderner See (reservoir); the point is precisely 194 m above sea level . On the other hand, the Kellerwald's highest point is on the Wüstegarten (675 m above sea level). Among the Kellerwald's and the two herein mentioned parks' best known – albeit not necessarily highest – mountains are (including

1156-429: Is indeed the peculiarity of a cavalry force quickly to win and as quickly to yield a victory. Fleetness and timidity go together; deliberateness is more akin to steady courage. Tacitus also notes that like other Germanic tribes, the Chatti took an interest in traditions concerning haircuts and beards. A practice, rare among the other German tribes, and simply characteristic of individual prowess, has become general among

1224-471: Is just below 1000. Alongside the gymnastic club founded by Fritz and Otto Lohof, Wilhelm Bauch, Karl Müller and others, there is a men's singing club, a women's choir, the volunteer fire brigade , a senior citizens' club, the pond association ( Teichgemeinschaft ) and the Club Saskatchewan 1972. In 1959, a swimming pool was built, after a gym had already opened in 1926. By the late 1960s,

1292-511: Is named after the mountain ridge called the Keller, mentioned above. Where the name Keller came from is interpreted two different ways: Beginning about 1600, the woodlands were in heavy use in charcoal making for the many ironworks and copperworks that needed charcoal to fuel their furnaces, thus leading to the name Köhlerwald ("charcoal maker forest"), commonly pronounced Köllerwald (with an [ œ ] sound, rather than [ø] ; this [œ]

1360-461: Is not very different from the [ɛ] sound of Kellerwald ). The other interpretation holds that the name was originally Kahler Wald ("bare forest" or "bald forest"), a name suggested by heavy clearing in some parts of the woods at one time. Either process could have yielded the name Kellerwald used today through sound shifts. Wald simply means "forest" in German . The Kellerwald is subject to

1428-483: Is the beech, which is predominant here in acidic-soil (shale, greywacke, quartzite) woodrush-beech forest. Worthy of mention are the many special places on the steep slopes at the Edersee. Here are found the last remains of virgin forest and gnarled sessile oak forests with St. Bernard's lilies , and the highest incidence in Hesse of Cheddar pinks . In the higher levels grow mountain arnica and maiden pinks , and in

SECTION 20

#1732790802525

1496-570: The Batavians and Cananefates of his time, tribes living within the Roman Empire , were descended from part of the Chatti, who left their homeland after an internal quarrel drove them out, to take up new lands at the mouth of the Rhine . While Julius Caesar (100–44 BC) was well informed about the regions and tribes on the eastern banks of the Rhine, he never mentioned the Chatti by name. In

1564-681: The Büraburg , was Christianized by Saint Boniface or his followers before Charlemagne 's years-long Saxon Wars , into which the local border region was drawn. Documents surviving today show how Basdorf grew from a village of free farmers bit by bit into an estate of the Werbe Monastery and into a small part of the Berich Monastery. Furthermore, the documents show how the Ittergau, to which Basdorf belonged, many times became

1632-753: The Chauci . To the east, the neighbours of the Chatti and Chauci were the Cherusci , who Tacitus describes as excessively peace-loving in his time. (Caesar had described the Suevi, not the Chatti, as living between the Ubii on the Rhine and a forest called the Bacenis, which separated them from the Cherusci. This is why Caesar's Suevi are sometimes thought to be Chatti.) The Chatti successfully resisted incorporation into

1700-510: The Congress of Vienna the Elector of Hesse , restored with the fall of Napoleon , unsuccessfully attempted to get recognized as "King of the Chatti" - though by then the Chatti had long since ceased to exist as a distinct ethnic group Two tribes in northern Germany have names that are sometimes compared to the Chatti. The Chattuarii , whose name appears to mean that they are dwellers upon

1768-539: The Eurasian eagle owl and the great grey shrike . One of the Kellerwald's characteristic animals is the red deer . In the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park are found fallow deer and European mouflon . Besides these, roe deer and wild boar are also common. The wildcat is rare. In the area that is now the national park, the first raccoons , whose natural habitat is in North America , were released into

1836-842: The High Middle Ages developed in the former Ittergau. After the Lords of Itter died out, the area was split between the Landgraviate of Hesse and the Electorate of Mainz . After meanwhile being pledged to the Counts of Waldeck and the Wolff von Gudensberg family, the Itter domain became part of Hesse for good in 1589. Disputed as it was between Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) and Hesse-Darmstadt , in 1650, it passed once and for all to

1904-604: The Roman Empire , joining the Cheruscan war leader Arminius ' coalition of tribes that annihilated Varus ' legions in 9 AD in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest . Germanicus later, in 15, raided their lands in revenge, but Rome eventually responded to the Chatti's belligerent defense of their independence by building the limes border fortifications along the southern boundary of their lands in central Hesse during

1972-764: The Wildunger Bergland ("Wildungen Highlands"), which makes up the middle part of the Kellerwald, and the Keller (also known as the Hoher Keller or the Hoher Kellerwald , a mountain ridge in the south of the Kellerwald) made up of, from southwest to northeast, Jeust (585 m above sea level), Wüstegarten (675 m), Hunsrück (636 m) and Sauklippe (584 m). Geologically the Kellerwald, made up mainly of palaeozoic rocks, belongs to

2040-494: The sewer system. In 1960, the Basdorf Gymnastic and Sport Club was brought back to life as a football and sport club. In 1964, school ended in Basdorf when all school functions were transferred to Vöhl (main town). In the 1972 contest "Unser Dorf" ("Our Village"), Basdorf was deemed to be Hesse's second prettiest village. Basdorf became part of Vöhl in 1974. In 2006 Basdorf celebrated 800 years of existence with

2108-632: The "Six Hundreders", and sorted by height): This German article includes a much more exhaustive list of the Kellerwald's notable peaks. The Kellerwald is crossed or touched by many watercourses, among them: On the Kellerwald's northern edge lie these still, open bodies of water: Both are man-made. Kellerwald is also the name of a much smaller wood in Forchheim in Upper Franconia . Chatti The Chatti (also Chatthi or Catti ) were an ancient Germanic tribe whose homeland

Vöhl - Misplaced Pages Continue

2176-548: The Chatti is totally yours." For the first century AD , Tacitus provides important information about the Chatti's part in the Germanic wars and certain elements of their culture. He says that: [The Chatti's] settlements begin at the Hercynian forest , where the country is not so open and marshy as in the other cantons into which Germany stretches. They are found where there are hills, and with them grow less frequent, for

2244-537: The Chatti lands, or else Chatti people, lived near the Rhine, probably between IJssel and Lippe . They came to be seen as Franks and apparently moved over the Rhine as a Frankish people, to settle into the corner of land between the Rhine and Maas rivers. The name of the Chattuarii is in turn, sometimes compared to another people called the Chasuarii mentioned by several classical authors. The Chasuarii were

2312-443: The Chatti, of letting the hair and beard grow as soon as they have attained manhood, and not till they have slain a foe laying aside that peculiar aspect which devotes and pledges them to valour. Over the spoiled and bleeding enemy they show their faces once more; then, and not till then, proclaiming that they have discharged the obligations of their birth, and proved themselves worthy of their country and of their parents. The coward and

2380-510: The Hercynian forest keeps close till it has seen the last of its native Chatti. Hardy frames, close-knit limbs, fierce countenances, and a peculiarly vigorous courage, mark the tribe. For Germans, they have much intelligence and sagacity; they promote their picked men to power, and obey those whom they promote; they keep their ranks, note their opportunities, check their impulses, portion out the day, intrench themselves by night, regard fortune as

2448-464: The Kellerwald. Another characteristic animal of the Kellerwald is the fire salamander , found here in its thousands. Further typical amphibians are the palmate newt and the midwife toad . In the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park, almost a thousand kinds of beetle from more than 80 families have been noted. Through the Kellerwald run many hiking trails, among them the Kellerwaldsteig ,

2516-602: The Rhenish Slate Mountains. Scenically, however, it is also grouped as a separate entity with the Hessian Basin, because the rivers Eder and Itter form a natural boundary. Important rock types include the so-called Kellerwald quartzite , radiolarian rock , shale , greywacke and diabase . A regional peculiarity is the dark red Kellerwald agate , an Eisenkiesel , a " quartz that is turned opaque red with hematite inclusions". [1] The Kellerwald

2584-455: The Rhine and Danube had been trying to settle. It is possible that at first the Chatti moved into place on the Rhine, in the old territory of the Ubii. Cassius Dio describes Drusus establishing a fort in Chatti territory on the Rhine in 11 BC , and that in 10 BC they moved out of an area where the Romans had permitted them. To the north of the Chatti, Tacitus places the large area of

2652-567: The Suevi. A century later, Pliny the Elder , in his Natural History (written 77–79 AD ) distinguished the Chatti and Suebi but grouped them together with the Hermunduri and the Cherusci , calling this group the Hermiones , which is a nation of Germanic tribes also mentioned by Tacitus as living in inland Germany. Some commentators believe that Caesar's Suebi were therefore possibly

2720-642: The area since the Stone Age . In the Early Middle Ages , the border between the Saxon and Frankish tribal homelands ran through what is now Vöhl, as still witnessed by the Sprachgrenze , or language border , running east to west between Central German and Low German astride which the community sits. Vöhl's municipal area is roughly coëxtensive with the old lordly domain of Itter, which in

2788-469: The bigger battles were being fought they were repulsed together with the Hermunduri from the Rhine by Didius Julianus in 175. After the early third century AD , however, the Chatti virtually disappear from the sources and are only called upon as a topical element or when writing about events of the first century. Cassius Dio is most likely not only the first author to mention the Alamanni but also

Vöhl - Misplaced Pages Continue

2856-608: The church. It's the oldest in Hesse. Marienhagen is Vöhl's second biggest constituent community. Besides the lovely village heart built around the Evangelical church, there are also two "new town" areas. After the Second World War , many Germans who had been driven from lost territories to the east – most of them were from the Sudetenland – were integrated into Marienhagen. The current (16 August 2005) population

2924-528: The early years of the first century. A major raid by the Chatti into Germania Superior was defeated decisively by the legions in 50 AD. In 58 AD the Chatti were defeated by the Hermunduri in a border dispute over a religiously significant river. Roman sources identify the fabled Mattium , beyond the Eder, as the capital of the Chatti. Destroyed by Germanicus, its location is not known today, but generally

2992-701: The east and southeast they fall off into the Schwalm Valley. In the southwest, the range goes by way of the Wohra Valley into the Burgwald range and in the west, beyond the river Eder, lies the Breite Struth (a range of hills). Within the Kellerwald are the Ederhöhen (the "Eder Heights", a mountainous region in the range's north), whose area roughly coincides with the aforesaid national park,

3060-451: The first line, an unusual spectacle. Nor even in peace do they assume a more civilised aspect. They have no home or land or occupation; they are supported by whomsoever they visit, as lavish of the property of others as they are regardless of their own, till at length the feebleness of age makes them unequal to so stern a valour. Between the Rhine and the Chatti, Tacitus places the Tencteres and Usipetes , who apparently had been moved since

3128-428: The following mostly quite small centres spread out northwestwards and southeastwards from the western end of the Edersee. Asel is the only constituent community that lies on both sides of the man-made lake. It is thus divided into two parts: Furthermore, Asel, just like Bringhausen a short way to the east, lies in a "dead end", at least from a traffic engineering point of view, meaning that it can only be reached from

3196-414: The last one to record a historical appearance of the Chatti. Writing about the Germanic war of Caracalla in 213 AD , he has the emperor fight " Κέννους, Kελτικòν ἔθνος " ("the Kenni, a Celtic people"). This is taken from an excerpt of Dio in the writings of Joannes Xiphilinus , however, whereas the Fragmenta Valesiana refer to the same people as "Chattoi". The usage of "Kελτικός" for Germanic peoples

3264-424: The latter and formed an enclave inside Waldeck territory. In 1821, as part of administrative reform, the Itter domain became the district of Vöhl, until in 1866 it passed to Prussia and was united with Frankenberg district in 1886. About Basdorf's founding and the time thereafter up until the village's first documentary mention in 1206, nothing is clear. It seems likely that, owing to soil and water factors, Basdorf

3332-444: The legendary "First King of the Franks". The story is told of the election of the first Frankish king. The much later Liber Historiæ Francorum says that after the death of Sunno , his brother Marcomer , leader of the Ampsivarii and Chatti, proposed to the Franks that they should have one single king, contrary to their tradition. The Liber adds that Pharamond , named as Marcomer's son, was chosen as this first king (thus beginning

3400-469: The men's singing club was founded by Johann Christian Bangert, whose thirst for adventure once led him on a 120-day sailing voyage to Australia , and whose homesickness 20 years later led him back to Basdorf. Basdorf farmers became milk suppliers to the Höringhausen Dairy in 1885, and in 1892, Basdorf became an independent parish with a branch in Oberwerba. In 1900, the postal coach connection came to an end. In 1919, electricity and running water came to

3468-687: The nomadic tribes in central and eastern Germania such as the Suebi. They were poor because they had fought the Romans, and had been defeated and plundered. In his second book of Epigrams , Martial credited the emperor Domitian (51–96 AD ) as having overcome the Chatti:   "Creta dedit magnum, maius dedit Africa nomen,     Scipio quod uictor quodque Metellus habet;   nobilius domito tribuit Germania Rheno,     et puer hoc dignus nomine, Caesar, eras.   frater Idumaeos meruit cum patre triumphos,     quae datur ex Chattis laurea, tota tua est.   "Crete gave

SECTION 50

#1732790802525

3536-442: The northern part of the Kellerwald (since 2004, the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park), as hunting woods for the Princes of Waldeck, has been surrounded by gates. To be found here are some particularly pristine beech forests, although they have been damaged somewhat by the high concentration of game . More than 30% of the trees are older than 140 years. The main human activity here was hunting rather than forestry . The main tree here

3604-407: The object of its stronger neighbours' disputes. In 1810 came the Kampf den Maikäfern – the "Struggle against the Cockchafers " – and its larvae, the white grubs. One leaflet sent throughout the village declared that every farmer was to decrease this pest as much as he could, sparing no effort to that end. It furthermore suggested feeding the dead cockchafers to chickens , ducks and geese , with

3672-427: The order to march with his legions through the area of the Chatti to Boiohaemum, which is the name of the area occupied by Maroboduus, cutting a passage through the Hercynian forest which bounded the region." The second ancient writer to mention the Chatti is Strabo , some time after 16 AD , who includes the Chatti in a listing of conquered Germanic tribes who were more settled and agricultural, but also poorer, than

3740-479: The same as the later Chatti, a branch of the Suebian movement of people who had become more clearly identifiable. If not, then the Chatti may represent a survival of an older tribal name, as opposed to the Tencteri , Usipetes , and Ubii who were all were forced from homelands in the same region by the Suebic incursions. The first ancient writer to mention the Chatti is Velleius Paterculus. He mentioned them in 6 AD in his book 2, 109 (5): “Sentius Saturninus received

3808-438: The same large geographical region he clearly named the Suebi as the residents in his time, suggesting that they had recently driven out Celts , and were in his time still threatening the regions around them. Strabo (64/63 BC – c. 24 AD), however, mentioned both the Suevi, who he describes as a considerable nation made up of many tribes, and the Chatti, who he described as one of the smaller Germanic tribes, and did not list among

3876-513: The time being remained independent. On 1 January 1974, the communities of Hessenstein, Marienhagen, Obernburg, Ittertal and Vöhl merged into the greater community of Vöhl. The administrative seat is in the original village of Vöhl. Vöhl's council is made up of 31 councillors, with seats apportioned thus, in accordance with municipal elections held on 26 March 2006: Note: FWG and BI-Grüne Liste are citizens' coalitions. Vöhl's civic coat of arms might heraldically be described thus: In argent

3944-401: The time of Caesar into the old homeland of the Ubii , who had in turn settled in Cologne . (Caesar had described these three tribes as under pressure from Suebi to their east, and attempting to move across the Rhine.) To the south, Tacitus also says that the Chatti's land is beyond the questionable lands, the so-called tithe lands, or agri decumates , that adventurers from the Roman sides of

4012-428: The tradition of long-haired kings of the Franks), and then states that when he died, his son Chlodio [428 AD] was raised up as the next king. The work says no more of him. The Chatti eventually may in any case have become a branch of the much larger neighboring Franks and their region was incorporated in the kingdom of Clovis I , probably with the Ripuarians , at the beginning of the sixth century. The Chatti name

4080-409: The unwarlike remain unshorn. The bravest of them also wear an iron ring (which otherwise is a mark of disgrace among the people) until they have released themselves by the slaughter of a foe. Most of the Chatti delight in these fashions. Even hoary-headed men are distinguished by them, and are thus conspicuous alike to enemies and to fellow-countrymen. To begin the battle always rests with them; they form

4148-420: The valley areas western marsh orchids and early purple orchids . Near the Jägersburg near Odershausen are found a few rare dwarf beeches . In cool and damp stream dales grows the rare, highly poisonous common monkshood . In light beech and oak forests with limy subsoil is found the martagon lily . In a few places are found great stands of the rare wild daffodil . In the Kellerwald, parts of which are also

SECTION 60

#1732790802525

4216-414: The village. In 1920, the streets were lit and a threshing community was founded. The Basdorf Gymnastic and Sport Club was founded in 1922. In 1934, the volunteer fire brigade was founded. In 1946, Basdorf took in 165 refugees from former German territories out of which they had been driven, thereby giving the school a reason to hire a further teacher in 1948. Between 1952 and 1986, Basdorf was connected to

4284-409: The western end of the lake from Herzhausen through Harbshausen, as barely any roads run through the hardly developed northern part of the Kellerwald. Basdorf lies on a mountain north of the Edersee. Part of it is a holiday village called Trappenhart, built above the village proper. Dorfitter lies next to the circuit city Korbach. There live about 900 inhabitants. Famous is the picture of the canvas in

4352-408: The western part of northern Hesse , Germany . Its assets include Germany's largest contiguous beech woodland and it contains Hesse's only national park , the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park . It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site . The Kellerwald lies in northern Hesse in the district Schwalm-Eder . Abutting the northeast, the Kellerwald's heights slope down into the Eder Valley, and towards

4420-413: The wild in Germany on 12 April 1934 by Wilhelm Sittich Freiherr von Berlepsch (1881–1948; "Freiherr" is a title, roughly equivalent to "Baron") [2] . Since that time, they have spread far beyond the confines of the Kellerwald. Foxes , badgers , pine martens , beech martens , polecats and stoats are also to be found in the Kellerwald. Of the 19 kinds of bat that live in Hesse, 14 have been noted in

4488-427: Was an archaic tradition among Greek writers. After Cassius Dio, the name "Chattus" appears among others in a panegyric by Sidonius Apollinaris in the late fifth century, now as a poetic synonym for "Germanus". The last ancient source to mention the Chatti, if only in a quotation of Sulpicius Alexander describing events of the late fourth century, was Gregory of Tours . Allegedly the Chatti were associated with

4556-409: Was an early settlement centre here in the tribal marches between the Chatti and the Cherusci . Together with the other places in the Ittergau it would hence have held an important place with regards to through traffic and north-south trade. Since the deaconate of Vöhl fell under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Mainz, it is assumed that the area around nearby Fritzlar , or rather

4624-405: Was near the upper Weser ( Visurgis ) river. They lived in central and northern Hesse and southern Lower Saxony , along the upper reaches of that river and in the valleys and mountains of the Eder and Fulda regions, a district approximately corresponding to Hesse-Kassel , though probably somewhat more extensive. They settled within the region in the first century BC. According to Tacitus ,

#524475