Wildeck - Burg Wildeck, Sommerschloss Blumenstein, Jagdschloss Blumenstein, Honebach, Obersuhl, Rassdorf, Richelsdorf, Bosserode (English, German, Paperback)

Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Wildeck is a community in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany lying right at the boundary with Thuringia, 54 km southeast of Kassel. The community lies partly in the middle Werra valley, in the Berka-Gerstunger-Becken (basin) with its small side basins, the Obersuhler Becken and the Kleinenseer Bucht. This basin is surrounded by heights. In the southwest lie the Seulingswald, in the south the outliers of the Vorderrhon, in the east the outliers of the Thuringian Forest and in the north the Richelsdorfer Gebirge (ranges), which belongs to the southern Werrabergland. The community lies partly in this last-named range. The nearest major centres are Bad Hersfeld (some 25 km to the southwest) and Eisenach (some 25 km to the east). The lowest point in the community is In der Aue ("On the Floodplain") near Obersuhl at 208 m above sea level. The highest point is the Rotestock at 456 m above sea level. Bussenrode/Bosserode monument stoneThe community's five Ortsteile are Obersuhl, Bosserode, Honebach, Richelsdorf and Rassdorf. Wildeck borders in the north on the community of Nentershausen (in Hersfeld-Rotenburg) and the town of Sontra (in the Werra-Meissner-Kreis), in the east on the community of Gerstungen, in the southeast on the town of Berka/Werra, in the south on the communities of Dankmarshausen and Grossensee (all four in Thuringia's Wartburgkreis) and the town of Heringen, in the southwest on the community of Friedewald and in the west on the community of Ronshausen (all three in Hersfeld-Rotenburg). The community's name stems from the Amt of Wildeck, to which some of today's constituent communities belonged, and which in the Middle Ages was under the Fulda Abbey's rule. The Amt seat lay at Wildeck Castle, which stood on the Schlossberg near Rassdorf. In 1277, Richelsdorf had its first documentary mention when the Fulda Abbey temporarily relinquished the community to build a convent at St. Nicholas's Monastery (Nikolaikloster) in Eisenach, whic