Hauneck

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Hauneck

Location of Hauneck within Hersfeld-Rotenburg district

Coordinates: 50°49′N 09°44′E / 50.817°N 9.733°ECoordinates: 50°49′N 09°44′E / 50.817°N 9.733°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Harald Preßmann (FW)

Area

• Total

17.75 km² (6.85 sq mi)

Elevation

232 m (761 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

3,175

• Density

180/km² (460/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

36282

06621

HEF

Website

www.hauneck.de

Hauneck is a community in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in eastern Hesse, Germany.

The town of Bad Hersfeld lies right nearby to the north. Some 35 km away lie Fulda to the south and Alsfeld to the west.

The community stretches along the Haune. A few kilometres to the north, the Haune flows into the Fulda.

The community’s Ortsteile are Bodes, Eitra, Fischbach, Oberhaun, Rotensee, Sieglos and Unterhaun.

These are Bad Hersfeld, Schenklengsfeld, Eiterfeld, Haunetal and Niederaula.

In 972 came the first documentary mention of a chapel. It is believed to have served as a pilgrimage place. The village developing here had its first documentary mention in 1217 in a document from the abbot of Hersfeld Abbey, Ludwig I to the Vogt (roughly “reeve”) Bertho von Buchenau, in which the place is named as Cruceberc. The chapel served over the centuries that followed as a village church. In the 16th century, the village was forsaken, until the late 17th century when another place, called Unterhaun, arose here. In 1736, the community acquired a new village church. Subsequently, the old chapel up on a bank overlooking the community fell into ruins in this century.

In the Middle Ages, the Knights of Buchenau (Buchenaouwe) held the Amt of Schildschlag and the court district of Johannesberg as a fief from the Hersfeld Abbey. To these areas belonged many of today’s constituent communities. The Abbey also put the knights to work as Vögte. The Vogtei (Vogt’s seat) and the court seat lay together with the St. Johannes provost’s seat at the Johannesberg. Later, under the Landgraves of Hesse, the administrative areas were ruled from Hauneck Castle (now in ruins), out of which then came the community’s name in 1971.

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