Lichtenfels is a small town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district in northwest Hesse , Germany .
51-692: Lichtenfels may refer to: Places [ edit ] Lichtenfels, Hesse in Germany Lichtenfels, Bavaria in Germany Lichtenfels station 1. FC Lichtenfels , a German association football club Lichtenfels (district) in Bavaria Lichtenfels, Greenland , a former settlement People with the surname [ edit ] Friedrich-Karl Freiherr von Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels (1907–1940), German Major in
102-802: 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
153-526: 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 ,
204-412: A constituent community. Earlier names for the village besides Gimundia were Gemundi (1120), Gimunden (1125), Munden (1298), Gemonden (1321), Gemunden (1336, 1473) and Dreckmünden (1679). The village lies about 1 500 m from North Rhine-Westphalia and is home to about 420 people. Fürstenberg, once Waldeck's and Hesse's smallest town, was first mentioned as a town in 1254. Remains of
255-680: A heavy lift ship, built for the DDG Hansa shipping company Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lichtenfels . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lichtenfels&oldid=926461470 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists German-language surnames Hidden categories: Short description
306-468: A lordly estate. By and by arose also the lower village as a thorpe, or linear village . It harboured day labourers, workers and craftsmen. The schoolhouse was built in 1785. After the Second World War , a bigger school was built, which was closed in 1976. In this village, shaped by agriculture, live 488 people. Many of them are active in the five clubs. In 1028, Emperor Konrad acknowledged that
357-636: 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
408-568: 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 ,
459-538: A succession of other forms: Ymmichusen (about 1190), Immyngchusen (about 1200), Ymenchusen (1336), Imminchusen (about 1350), Immickhusen (1422), Imminckhausen (1537) and Immeckusen (1541). History records that in 1028 a farm at Imminghusen was transferred by the Abbot of Corvey, at Emperor Conrad's behest, to the dowager Alvered's son. In 1189 the place was a Corvey fief under the Counts of Waldeck. The church at Immighausen
510-527: A valley community in this place in the Middle Ages named Eisenbeck from the 14th century to the late 18th century. In 1598, this is recorded as Ensenbecke. The Castle Lichtenfels was built in 1189 by the Abbot of Corvey . Shortly thereafter, it was destroyed, but built anew between 1223 and 1230. On 21 July 1267, Corvey pledged to Count Adolf of Waldeck, among other things, Schloss Lichtenfels (the castle). After fierce feuds, Corvey had to pass entitlement to
561-623: Is a winged altar . The villagers are kept busy as members of various clubs, there being, besides the fire brigade and the Lichtenfels sporting community a music club with various subgroups, the "Discoteam" and the Landfrauen ("Country Women") with a dance group. Up the Nuhne at the boundary with Rengershausen was a village or farm called "Aweshausen" or "Auweshausen". The field names in the area, "Auf der Aue" and "Auf der Junkernaue" recall
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#1732775505967612-467: 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,
663-667: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lichtenfels, Hesse Lichtenfels lies at the northeast foot of the Rothaargebirge , some 80 km (50 mi) southwest of Kassel . It is not far from the western end of the Edersee in the southwest of the Waldecker Land . Bordering on the west is the Medebacher Bucht , or Medebach Bight, although this
714-679: 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
765-764: Is not a bight in the conventional sense, being dry land. Bordering on the south is the Breite Struth (hills). The municipal area, across which the town's outlying centres are broadly scattered, is crossed by the rivers Orke and Aar. In the northeast, it borders on the Itter Valley, in the east on the Eder Valley, beyond which rises the Kellerwald range, and in the south on the Nuhne Valley. With its area of nearly 100 km², almost 40% of which
816-461: 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
867-483: 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
918-627: Is wooded, Lichtenfels is among the largest and most wooded municipalities in the district. Lichtenfels borders in the north on the town of Korbach , in the east on the community of Vöhl , in the south on the town of Frankenberg (all in Waldeck-Frankenberg), and in the west on the towns of Hallenberg and Medebach (both in the Hochsauerlandkreis in North Rhine-Westphalia ). The town of Lichtenfels
969-414: The Edersee (dam) by road. The district seat of Korbach is roughly 10 km away. In 1988, Goddelsheim celebrated the village's 1100th anniversary of documentary mention. From one of King Arnulf's documents from 888 comes the first mention of Goddelsheim, but presumably, its history goes much further back. Witness to this is the discovery of some forgotten graves in the area that date back much earlier than
1020-539: 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
1071-601: 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 the Rhenish Slate Mountains. Scenically, however, it is also grouped as a separate entity with
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#17327755059671122-583: 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 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
1173-438: The 18th century temporarily a parish in its own right. Today it belongs to the parish of Sachsenberg. The church with its rectangular nave was newly built in 1864 by the master mason Gülich from Sachsenberg where an older forerunner church had once stood which had to be torn down. How the church looked before the new building was put up is not known with any certainty, as there are no reliable indications. The first new church, which
1224-703: The 9th century. Things have not always been as peaceful in Goddelsheim as they are today. For instance, in 1548 and 1627, the Electors of Cologne tried to introduce the Catholic faith into the Evangelical village by force. Thanks to the resistance of the Schaaken Monastery, which held the patronage rights to Goddelsheim, the Electors' plans fell through. Of the formerly three noble estates in
1275-581: The Abbot of Corvey Abbey had given the dowager Alvered the estate at Gimundia for her lifelong use, thereby giving Münden its first documentary mention. Late in the 13th century, Corvey Abbey pledged the Amt of Münden to Count Otto of Waldeck. In a disagreement between Corvey and the Counts of Waldeck, Münden was awarded to the Counts in 1321 through arbitration. Münden, too, was included in Count Heinrich IV's pledge to Count Johann of Nassau as part of
1326-573: The Count's daughter's wedding. In the disputes between the Electors of Cologne and Waldeck, which had begun in 1533, the Elector of Cologne claimed, among other properties, Neukirchen. By 1663, however, Cologne had forgone its claim to the village, thus also bringing an end to the Electors' attempts to reintroduce the Catholic faith into the community. Neukirchen was a branch of the parish of Münden and in
1377-472: 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 is named after the mountain ridge called
1428-470: 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]
1479-464: 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 ,
1530-582: The Luftwaffe during World War II Julius Lichtenfels (1884–1968), German fencer Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels (1833–1913), Austrian painter Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni von Lichtenfels (1821–1891), German gynecologist and obstetrician Gustav Scanzoni von Lichtenfels (lawyer) [ de ] (1885-1977), grandson of Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni von Lichtenfels Gustav Scanzoni von Lichtenfels (1855–1924), German general of World War I Ships [ edit ] SS Lichtenfels (1929),
1581-510: The Monday before Whitsun. The town council's 23 seats are apportioned thus, in accordance with municipal elections held on 26 March 2006: Note: The last two named are citizens' coalitions. Kellerwald The Kellerwald is a low mountain range reaching heights of up to 675 m in the western part of northern Hesse , Germany . Its assets include Germany's largest contiguous beech woodland and it contains Hesse's only national park ,
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1632-424: The ages, Rhadern has had a number of different names. About 1020 the village was called Radirinhusen, about 1125, Rotheren. In 1336 when Count Heinrich of Waldeck pledged, among other things, this village to Count Johann of Nassau as a dowry for his daughter, it was called Rodern. Later names for it were Raderen (about 1350), Radehausen (1420) and Rädern (1738). In 1473, when Rhadern had its first documentary mention,
1683-478: The castle's ownership to Count Otto of Waldeck for good in 1297. The Archbishop of Cologne , as Duke of Westphalia , raised claim to the places Münden, Neukirchen and Rhadern in the Amt of Lichtenfels, which in the 16th and 17th centuries led to protracted trials and battles. In the course of these disagreements, the castle is assumed to have once again been destroyed early in the 17th century. A partial reconstruction
1734-400: The church's destruction, the community was parochially united with Fürstenberg in the 15th century. Rhadern parishioners even had their own entrance to the church there, and their own pews. About 1700, the community was parochially united with Münden. Once the chapel had been built anew in 1755, Rhadern once again had its own church, which was expanded in the 1970s. The centre of the small chapel
1785-538: The fire brigade. The Lichtenfels regional group of the Waldeck History Club ( Waldeckischer Geschichtsverein ) also has its seat in Immighausen. In the village live 402 people. With roughly 370 inhabitants, Rhadern is the smallest of Lichtenfels's constituent communities. Its first documentary mention came in 1473, though already about 830, history mentions something about a place called Ryadra. Over
1836-419: The former centre. In 1336, Count Heinrich IV of Waldeck pledged, among other things, the village of Nuwenkyrchen to Count Johann of Nassau as a dowry for his daughter (see also Rhadern above), which also gave Neukirchen its first documentary mention. Already by 1301, though, history records a Ditmar von Nuwenkyrchen, Juryman at Sachsenberg, proof that there had already been a settlement there for some time before
1887-536: The former's daughter Elisabeth's dowry (see also Rhadern and Neukirchen above). As of 1473, Münden, which until then had been seat of a Corvey and later Waldeck Amt , belonged to the von Dalwigk Amt of Lichtenfels. In the disputes between the Electors of Cologne and Waldeck, Cologne also claimed Münden. However, as with Neukirchen, the Electors forwent their claim in 1663. Today, Münden, lying between Dalwigksthal and Medebach in Westphalia, belongs to Lichtenfels as
1938-463: The mediaeval chapel; only the Gothic quire is still preserved, likely built early in the 14th century. The current nave was newly built in 1620. Lichtenfels's smallest constituent community has roughly 200 inhabitants. Goddelsheim with its roughly 1,450 inhabitants is the biggest of Lichtenfels's constituent communities. The village lies 70 km southwest of Kassel. It is about 25 km east to
1989-585: 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
2040-614: The old town wall can still be seen in the historic town core. This little town in the Waldecker Land is wrapped in many stories and sagas. One of them is the Hedgehog Saga ( Igelsage ) which has also given the town the name "Igelstadt". It says that a hedgehog kept Count Heinrich of Waldeck from coming a cropper when his horse shied before it. To this day, the Igelfest (Hedgehog Festival) is still celebrated in Fürstenberg on
2091-492: The seat of the town's administration. It has a church kindergarten , a primary school and Lichtenfels's central school ( Mittelpunktschule ). The place that is now Lichtenfels's constituent community of Immighausen first came to history's attention about 850 when Countess Ida transferred her goods near Ymminchusen to Corvey Abbey . There are documents beginning in 1028. Over the ages the place has had many names, with its original name being recorded as Yraminchusen, followed by
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2142-478: 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
2193-426: The village was deserted. It was at this time that the von Dalwigk family were granted the forsaken hamlet along with the rest of the Amt of Lichtenfels as a fief. As of this time, Rhadern belonged to the Amt and the von Dalwigk Freistuhl of Lichtenfels. The chapel lying on the way out of the village towards Fürstenberg was separated from its mother church in 1260 and raised to a parish in its own right. Owing to
2244-460: The village, the last was divided up in 1904. Nevertheless, agriculture still plays a rôle. Furthermore, there are shops, handicraft businesses, a bank and a savings bank. Many people who live in Goddelsheim do not actually work there, but commute to jobs in Korbach or Frankenberg. Eleven clubs offer a variety of leisure activities. Goddelsheim is not only the biggest constituent community but also
2295-637: 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, the Wildunger Bergland ("Wildungen Highlands"), which makes up the middle part of the Kellerwald, and the Keller (also known as the Hoher Keller or
2346-468: 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
2397-511: Was built high above the Orke about 800 years ago, almost nobody gave Dalwigksthal any thought. Lichtenfels's newest constituent community celebrated 150 years of existence in 2001. As a result of the Waldeck Law of 24 January 1851, the estates of Kampf, Sand and Lichtenfels as well as the settlements and mills found there were merged into the village of Dalwigksthal. However, there is tell of
2448-430: Was done in 1631, with a broader plan carried out between 1908 and 1914. In the late 1980s, an entrepreneurial family bought the castle, which by then was once again falling into disrepair and gave it a comprehensive makeover. Dalwigksthal's church, which for ages had belonged to the parish of Münden, is now part of the parish of Sachsenberg. Once, the chapel was a burying ground for the von Dalwigk family. Not much remains of
2499-402: Was first mentioned in 1223 as being a chapel among the Schaaken Monastery's estates. The church has a square tower and a single nave. Immighausen is shaped by agriculture, but there is industry. The oldest club is the 110-year-old men's singing club "Liedertafel". Furthermore, there are the women's choir, the Landfrauen , the sport club with its subgroup the "Klostermönche" ("Monastery Monks") and
2550-538: Was made up from six communities and two towns: Dalwigksthal, Fürstenberg, Goddelsheim, Immighausen, Münden, Neukirchen, Rhadern and Sachsenberg. In 1971, as part of municipal reforms, the eight formerly independent municipalities joined together to form a new, greater municipality, choosing the name Lichtenfels after the castle, the oldest noble seat in Waldeck. For a long time after the Castle Lichtenfels
2601-442: Was the village's namesake (Neukirchen ≈ new church), must have been built sometime before 1336 – the time of Neukirchen's first documentary mention – but a more precise indication of its building date is not possible. The first part of what is today Neukirchen arose as a scattered village – one with an irregular layout – and nowadays forms the upper village. It was purely a farming community, and by all indications arose from
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