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Saasen (Reiskirchen)
Saasen (; ) is a village in the municipality of Reiskirchen in Central Hesse, Germany. It includes the hamlets of Bollnbach, Veitsberg and Wirberg, a former castle. The village is located on the River Wieseck, east of the main town of Reiskirchen, in the Busecker Tal region (the valley of the River Buseck), and a few hundred metres from the Bundesstraße 49 arterial road. Saasen station is on the Vogelsberg Railway. Saasen has a population of about 1100. The settlement was first mentioned in a document in the year 1111. The name of the village has changed over the centuries: * in Sahsun (1111/1137) * fon den Sassen (1249) * de Sahsen (1251) * de Sasen (1279) * von den Sayssin (1379) Division of the town The village consists of 9 hamlets or settlements: * Saasen centre (Mittelstadt) * New housing estate * Old village (Altstadt) * Western village * Eastern village * Wirberg * Stromberg * Veitsberg * Bollnbach The village square The village square in Saasen is surrounded by h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture, and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Half-timbered
Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs. If the structural frame of load-bearing timber is left exposed on the exterior of the building it may be referred to as half-timbered, and in many cases the infill between timbers will be used for decorative effect. The country most known for this kind of architecture is Germany, where timber-framed houses are spread all over the country. The method comes from working directly from logs and trees rather than pre-cut dimensional lumber. Hewing this with broadaxes, adzes, and draw knives and using hand-powered braces and augers (brace and bit) and other woodworking tools, artisans or framers could gradually assemble a building. Since this building method has been used for thousands of years in many parts of the world, many styles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church (building)
A church, church building or church house is a building used for Christian worship services and other Christian religious activities. The earliest identified Christian church is a house church founded between 233 and 256. From the 11th through the 14th centuries, there was a wave of church construction in Western Europe. Sometimes, the word ''church'' is used by analogy for the buildings of other religions. ''Church'' is also used to describe the Christian religious community as a whole, or a body or an assembly of Christian believers around the world. In traditional Christian architecture, the plan view of a church often forms a Christian cross; the center aisle and seating representing the vertical beam with the Church architecture#Characteristics of the early Christian church building, bema and altar forming the horizontal. Towers or domes may inspire contemplation of the heavens. Modern churches have a variety of architectural styles and layouts. Some buildings designe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JSG Saasen/Harbach/Ettingshausen
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Romanesque Architecture
Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe characterized by semi-circular arches. There is no consensus for the beginning date of the Romanesque style, with proposals ranging from the 6th to the 11th century, this later date being the most commonly held. In the 12th century it developed into the Gothic style, marked by pointed arches. Examples of Romanesque architecture can be found across the continent, making it the first pan-European architectural style since Imperial Roman architecture. The Romanesque style in England and Sicily is traditionally referred to as Norman architecture. Combining features of ancient Roman and Byzantine buildings and other local traditions, Romanesque architecture is known by its massive quality, thick walls, round arches, sturdy pillars, barrel vaults, large towers and decorative arcading. Each building has clearly defined forms, frequently of very regular, symmetrical plan; the overall appearance is one of simplic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göbelnrod
Göbelnrod is a village and urban district of Grünberg in the district of Gießen, in Hesse, Germany. Geography Göbelnrod is situated 2 km west of Grünberg and 20 km east of Gießen. Sights * Wirberg Wirberg is a former monastery complex in the Giessen (district), district of Giessen. It is located on the eastern edge of the municipality of Reiskirchen between Saasen (Reiskirchen), Saasen and Göbelnrod, and about eight miles north-west of Gr ..., a former monastery west of the village File:2002-06 Wirberg.jpg, Air photograph of Wirberg near Göbelnrod, June 2002 File:2008-05 Wirberg.jpg, Wirberg near Göbelnrod, May 2008 History The village was first mentioned on December 5, 1310. In documents of the 14th to 17th century the name appears in different spellings: Gebelenrade (1310), Gebelinrode, Gebillinroda, Gebillinrode (all 1320), Gebilnrode (1457), Gebelnraide, Gebeinrade (both 1480), Gobelnrade (1484), Gabelnrade (about 1487), Gebelnrode (1495), Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wirberg
Wirberg is a former monastery complex in the district of Giessen. It is located on the eastern edge of the municipality of Reiskirchen between Saasen and Göbelnrod, and about eight miles north-west of Grünberg. The church was once the Protestant Church serving the Grünberg districts of Göbelnrod, Beltershain, Harbach, Weitershain and Reinhardshain. Today, it is used as a church on special occasions. History The name "Wirberg" comes from ''Wereberch'', meaning "fortified hill". There was a fortified castle there at the beginning of the 12th century. The Premonstratensian monastery was founded as a double monastery between 1134 and 1148 by the Premonstratensian Otto von Cappenberg, who was provost of the Cappenberg monastery until his death in 1171. Cappenberg was founded as a double monastery. His brother, Godfrey of Cappenberg, had already founded Ilbenstadt Monastery. The female founder was Aurelia, the daughter of Manegold von Wirberg, who brought her inheritance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maibaum
Maibaum is a German surname meaning "maypole". Notable people with the surname include: *Richard Maibaum (1909–1991), American film producer, playwright, and screenwriter *Tom Maibaum Thomas Stephen Edward Maibaum Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) is a computer scientist. Maibaum has a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) undergraduate degree in pure mathematics from the University of Toronto, Canada (1970), and a Doctor of Phi ..., British-Canadian computer scientist See also * Heinrich Meibom (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Maibaum German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Half-timbered
Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs. If the structural frame of load-bearing timber is left exposed on the exterior of the building it may be referred to as half-timbered, and in many cases the infill between timbers will be used for decorative effect. The country most known for this kind of architecture is Germany, where timber-framed houses are spread all over the country. The method comes from working directly from logs and trees rather than pre-cut dimensional lumber. Hewing this with broadaxes, adzes, and draw knives and using hand-powered braces and augers (brace and bit) and other woodworking tools, artisans or framers could gradually assemble a building. Since this building method has been used for thousands of years in many parts of the world, many styles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vogelsberg Railway
The Vogelsberg Railway (german: Vogelsbergbahn) is a single-track main line from Gießen via Alsfeld to Fulda in the German state of Hesse. Name The name of the Vogelsberg Railway was originally used for the now closed and dismantled branch line between Stockheim and Lauterbach. In contrast to today's Vogelsberg railway the original line actually ran through the middle of the Vogelsberg Mountains, but today it is usually called the Oberwald Railway (''Oberwaldbahn''). Route The line is 105.9 km long. Its speed limit, since it was upgraded in 2011, is 120 km/h instead of the previous 90 km/h. It has 109 level crossings. One of the reasons for the many bends of the line is to link the many communities on the route. Secondly, many slopes are overcome during the course of the 106 kilometre route, of which only 13 km is level. History The project to connect the Main-Weser Railway and the Bebra Railway had been considered since the 1860s: in 1863, the parlia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district. The term is derived from French and Latin . The English word ''municipality'' derives from the Latin social contract (derived from a word meaning "duty holders"), referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction, from a sovereign state such as the Principality of Monaco, to a small village such as West Hampton Dunes, New York. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
