Immenhausen () is a town in the district of Kassel, 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 Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. It is located 12 km north of

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

on the

German Timber-Frame Road The German Timber-Frame Road (German: ''Deutsche Fachwerkstraße'') is a German tourist route leading from the river Elbe in the north to the Black Forest and Lake Constance in the south. Numerous cities and towns each with examples of the vernacu ...

. The town has 7,098 inhabitants as of July 2020, including the northern village of Mariendorf and eastern village of Holzhausen. Immenhausen De Merian Hassiae

Geography

The Holzkape, a tributary of the

Esse (Diemel) Esse is a river of Hesse, Germany. It flows into the Diemel near Trendelburg. 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 * Aar ...

river, flows through Immenhausen. The Osterbach, a tributary of the

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 ...

, flows through the village Holzhausen. Immenhausen is bordered by the villages of

Grebenstein Grebenstein () is a town in the district of Kassel, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 16 km northwest of Kassel on the German Timber-Frame Road. In 1762 it was the scene of a skirmish between British and French troops during the Seven Years' ...

to the north and west, Espenau to the south,

Fuldatal Fuldatal is a municipality in the district of Kassel, in Hesse, Germany. It is situated along the Fulda River, 5 km northeast of Kassel. Kassel-Rothwesten Airfield Kassel-Rothwesten Airfield is a former military airfield located in Rot ...

to the southeast, and the unincorporated

Reinhardswald The Reinhardswald () is a range of hills up to and covering an area of over 200 km²
in the

area to the east.

History

While evidence of human activity dating back to 5000 BCE has been found in the area around Immenhausen, it was first mentioned by name in 1123, named after Dudo von Immenhausen, the governor of the Rusteburg castle in Eichsfeld, Thuringia. Much of the town was destroyed by fire as part of a war in 1385, and was rebuilt only slowly. Remnants of Immenhausen's original protective wall (Stadtmauer), which encircled the entire town in the thirteenth century, can still be seen today. In 1522, Bartholomaeus Rieseberg, a student of reformist

Martin Luther Martin Luther (; ; 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, and professor, and Order of Saint Augustine, Augustinian friar. He is the seminal figure of the Reformation, Protestant Refo ...

, gave his first evangelical sermon in Immenhausen's St. George church. A bronze statue of him stands in front of the church. In 1958, the second volume of a two-volume

Gutenberg Bible The Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible, the Mazarin Bible or the B42) was the earliest major book printed using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe. It marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of printed b ...

from Rieseberg was discovered in the attic of the parish house in good condition. It was given to the

University of Kassel The University of Kassel (german: link=no, Universität Kassel) is a university founded in 1971 located in Kassel, Hessen, in central Germany. As of February 2022 it had about 25,000 students and about 3300 staff, including more than 300 prof ...

library. Immenhausen suffered extensive fire damage during the

Thirty Years' War The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (80 ...

, being burnt down four times between 1618 and 1648. In 1662, the

town hall In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or a municipal building (in the Philippines), is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses ...

(Rathaus) was rebuilt in a

timber frame 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 ...

style, and is still standing today. In 1987, the Glasmuseum, detailing historical

glassmaking Glass production involves two main methods – the float glass process that produces sheet glass, and glassblowing that produces bottles and other containers. It has been done in a variety of ways during the history of glass. Glass container ...

practices of the region, was opened in a repurposed generator building.

Transportation

Immenhausen has a stop on the

Kassel–Warburg railway The Kassel–Warburg Railway is a line that connects Kassel in the north of the German state of Hesse with Warburg in eastern Westphalia. The line was opened in 1848 and is one of the oldest railways in Germany. It forms part of the Mid-Germany R ...

. It is connected by the RegioTram 1 (RT1), to

Kassel Hauptbahnhof Kassel Hauptbahnhof is a Deutsche Bahn railway station in the city of Kassel, in the German state of Hesse. Situated in the central borough of Mitte, it is the city's second important railway station after the opening of Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe in 1 ...

. There are also a number of buses in Immenhausen that run to the villages Mariendorf and Holzhausen as well as to Grebenstein and Espenau. Immenhausen is about 9 km east of

Kassel Airport Kassel Airport (formerly ''Kassel-Calden Airport'', German ''Flughafen Kassel'') is a minor international airport serving the German city of Kassel in the state of Hesse. It is located west of Calden, northwest of Kassel and is mainly used for ...

Notable People

Albertus Pictor Albertus Pictor (English, "Albert the Painter"; Immenhusen, c. 1440 – c. 1507), also called Albert Pictor, Albert Målare and Albrekt Pärlstickare (Swedish), is the most famous late medieval Swedish painter, known for his wallpaintings survivi ...

(1440-1509), Painter. Georg Wilhelm Hartmann (1844-1909), Chairman of the German Socialist Worker's Party (

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ger ...

: ''Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands''), predecessor of the

Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been the ...

. Julius Maus (1906-1934), German cyclist. Ludwig Hobein (1911-1997),

Schutzpolizei The ''Schutzpolizei'' (), or ''Schupo'' () for short, is a uniform-wearing branch of the '' Landespolizei'', the state (''Land'') level police of the states of Germany. ''Schutzpolizei'' literally means security or protection police, but it is ...

director from 1945-1957. Immenhausen-StGeorg2-Asio

References

External links

* {{Towns and municipalities in Kassel district Kassel (district) Reinhardswald