Hauswurz is a village in
Hesse
Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...
, Germany. Part of the
Neuhof municipality, it is 17 km southwest of
Fulda
Fulda () (historically in English called Fuld) is a town in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (''Kreis''). In 1990, the town hosted the 30th Hessentag state festival.
History ...
and ca. 70 km northeast of
Frankfurt
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...
.
Location
Hauswurz is located on the
upper course of the stream
Kemmete
Kemmete is a river of Hesse, Germany. It flows into the Fliede in Neuhof.
See also
*List of rivers of Hesse
A list of rivers of Hesse, Germany:
A
*Aar, tributary of the Dill
*Aar, tributary of the Lahn
*Aar, tributary of the Twiste
* Aarba ...
(which flows east from the nearby
Vogelsberg Mountains) between Weidenau (in the
Freiensteinau
Freiensteinau is a municipality in the Vogelsbergkreis in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
Freiensteinau lies on the southern slopes of the Vogelsberg Mountains.
Neighbouring communities
Freiensteinau borders in the north on the community of G ...
municipality, to the west) and Rommerz (in Neuhof, to the east). To the north is
Brandlos, the southernmost village of the neighboring municipality
Hosenfeld. ''
Landesstraßen'' 3141 and 3181 intersect in Hauswurz.
History
Hauswurz is first mentioned between 1090 and 1150, in the ''
Codex Eberhardi'', a manuscript from the Fulda monastery; its name is given as ''Huswartes'', and it belongs to the monastery of
Petersberg Petersberg may refer to:
* The Hotel Petersberg near Bonn, the site of the
** Petersberg Agreement, 1949, regarding the international status of West Germany.
** Petersberg tasks, 1992 and 1997, regarding European security cooperation. Also known a ...
. Local officials date the town's origin to 1165.
[ In 1972, during municipal reorganization in Hesse, it was placed in the municipality of Neuhof. An early 20th-century plan to connect Hauswurz to Fulda via ]narrow-gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard-gauge railway, standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and .
Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with Minimum r ...
was aborted. While neighboring cities and villages were hit by bombs from Allied planes during World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, Hauswurz was one of only two villages in the area where military engagement with American troops led to extensive destruction.
References
External links
Neuhof municipalityLiterature on Hauswurz
in the Hessian Bibliography
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Villages in Hesse