Nentershausen, Hesse, Germany

🇩🇪 Nentershausen is a municipality in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in north-eastern Hesse, Germany.

Geography: Location The community lies in the mountains in eastern Hesse, where it finds itself in the centre of the Richelsdorfer Gebirge (range) between the Fulda to the west and the Werra to the east. The municipal area lies in the Hasel drainage basin whose namesake river empties into the river Sontra near Sontra.

The nearest major towns are Bad Hersfeld (some 25 km to the southwest), Eisenach (some 30 km to the east) and Eschwege (some 25 km to the north).

Neighbouring communities Nentershausen borders in the north and east on the town of Sontra (in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis), in the south-east on the community of Wildeck, in the south on the community of Ronshausen and in the west on the town of Bebra and the community of Cornberg (all in Hersfeld-Rotenburg).

Constituent communities Nentershausen's Ortsteile, besides the main centre, also called Nentershausen, are Bauhaus, Dens, Mönchhosbach, Süß and Weißenhasel.

History The first documentary mention of any of the constituent communities came from an interest register from the monastery at Helmershausen (nowadays part of the unitary community of Rhönblick), wherein Hasels is mentioned in 1120 as Hasolo in Thuringia. Tense followed in 1195 and Susse in 1267, which Hermann von Trott had acquired as a Lauterberg fief. The other places followed in the course of the 14th century.

About 1300, Ludwig I of Baumbach built Tannenberg Castle.

Amalgamations In the course of municipal reform, the above-named communities merged into the greater community of Nentershausen on 31 December 1971.

Culture: Museums • Heimat und Bergbau Museum (“Local and Mining Museum”), in the former Amt court,

Buildings • Tannenberg Castle, built in the 13th century in the Gothic style, since 1360 owned by the family von Baumbach • Nentershausen Evangelical Church, remodelled between 1696 and 1706 in the Baroque style • Timber-frame town hall in Nentershausen

Natural monuments In Nentershausen stands a protected village or court linden tree that is some 600 years old.

Regular events • Denser Seefest (“Lake Festival”) • Burgfest (“Castle Festival”) at Tannenberg Castle.