History of Ober-Werbe
The name of the place Ober-Werbe comes from "Werva", i.e. on Latin vortex or gyroscope water. The name is derived from the brook "the advertising". For the first time Ober-Werbe 935 A.D. is mentioned documentary.
The village is appropriate for the Edersee in a beautiful valley between basket oh and, surrounded by forests. The gemarkung covers 603 hectars (Ober-Werbe 315 hectars, waiter Werba 288 hectars). At present Ober-Werbe counts 204 inhabitants and is a quarter of the greater forest-hits a corner. The place lived predominantly on the agriculture. In addition, there is a schmiede and a carpenter's workshop. The today's place is at 31.12.1970 by freiwilligen the union of the municipalities Ober-Werbe (circle forest-hit a corner) and Oberwerba (circle Franconia mountain) developed. one tried 1953 like in former times in vain to unite the two municipalities. This attempt failed however because of different financial circumstances of the two places (Oberwerba was more forest-rich). The division in two parts of the village and the gemarkung took nearly 400 years (1590 to 1970)
In Ober-Werbe rare plants, z grow. Ex. the dreizaehnige knabenkraut. This herb grows at the monastery mountain because of the Kalkhaltigen of soil on half drying lawns. The dreizaehnige knabenkraut to the Orchideen, one finds it belonged in the Waldecker country only with Lengefeld. (see also long stone)
Since newest the entire monastery mountain was explained as the landscape protection area. Thus the rare plants are to be protected.
The children of the village went until 1910 into different schools, from 1910-1965 visited them the common school into Oberwerba. From 1965 to 1971 they went visiting the school children the center school Saxonia living to the center school Voehl and since 1971.
The two municipalities were also church separate until 1937. Ober-Werbe belonged to Saxonia living and Oberwerba was its own church municipality in the Kirchspiel Basdorf Oberwerba.
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The modernization of Ober-Werbe
The oldest still standing house in Ober-Werbe was built around 1781. The old houses carry partially still house inscriptions. Until 1910 there were even two schools. Afterwards the schoolable children went into the school to waiter Werba. Between the two places (Ober-Werbe and Oberwerba) there were schneeballschlachten again and again.
1882 were finished the first bridge between the places. The telephone connection came approx. 1915. First there was only one telephone in Ober-Werbe. The owner of house, who got the connection, had to convey the messages in the village.
In Oberwerba for the first time electrical light burned on 17 December 1917. The farmers had first resisted. They had fear that the river could set their houses in fire. First there was one power source in a house only, later the lines also to other rooms was usually put. At the beginning the river was needed only for the sources of light, electrical devices was hardly present at the time and kept also slow in the future introduction only very.
The water pipelines were put 1927. Over one began 1935 with it, the roads into and around Ober-Werbe to tars. The only well removed road leads after Saxonia living.
The playground was put on 1971-1972.
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Whether with this sign the Handyempfang is meant probably in Ober-Werbe? The mobile receipt in Ober-Werbe is anyhow very bad. |