Kehrenbach

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Kehrenbach
City of Melsungen
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 47 "  N , 9 ° 36 ′ 48"  E
Height : 309 m above sea level NN
Area : 4.57 km²
Residents : 320 approx.
Population density : 70 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st February 1971
Postal code : 34212
Area code : 05661

Kehrenbach is a district of Melsungen in the north Hessian Schwalm-Eder district .

geography

Kehrenbach is located in the Melsunger Bergland around 6 km (as the crow flies ) northeast of the center of the Melsunger core city. It is traversed by the Fulda tributary Kehrenbach , into which the small sand ditch flows a little south of the village . District road  141 leads into the village, which is surrounded by forest, as a spur road, coming from state road  3147 (Melsungen - Kirchhof - Günsterode ) not far to the south .

history

The place Kehrenbach was first mentioned in 1209 in a property register of the St. Petri Stift Fritzlar .

In 1469/70, Landgrave Ludwig II of Hesse ordered the construction of the Kehrenbach hunting lodge (south of today's town). The building stood on the Kehrenbach , a tributary of the Sälzerweg salt trade road .

The story of Köhler's son Andreas Geyer (* July 22, 1761) from Kehrenbach, orphaned in 1772 , who later went to sea, stranded on an island in the Indian Ocean and returned rich many years later for a short stay to meet his stepsister Anna Catharina Wolfrum, who was The infant also survived the house fire on today's property at Kehrenbachstrasse 39, and was repeatedly processed in literary terms: first in 1878 by Jakob Christoph Karl Hoffmeister, son of the pastor from Eiterhagen , then again in 1909 by Hermann Kohlmetz as Der Negerfürst .

The previously independent municipality was incorporated into Melsungen as part of the regional reform in Hesse on February 1, 1971.

Historical forms of names

In historical documents, the place is documented under the following place names (the year it was mentioned in brackets): Kornbach (1375); Karnbach (1452); Cornbach (1463); Kerenbach (1474); Koernbach (1575)

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1585: 12 households
  • 1747: 29 households
Kehrenbach: Population from 1834 to 1970
year     Residents
1834
  
 391
1840
  
 384
1846
  
 352
1852
  
 377
1858
  
 344
1864
  
 355
1871
  
 351
1875
  
 353
1885
  
 355
1895
  
 316
1905
  
 324
1910
  
 311
1925
  
 322
1939
  
 315
1946
  
 446
1950
  
 410
1956
  
 344
1961
  
 338
1967
  
 328
1970
  
 339
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 1970:

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 349 Protestant (= 98.31%), 6 Catholic (= 1.69%) residents
• 1961: 302 Protestant (= 89.35%), 33 Catholic (= 9.76%) residents

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Kehrenbach, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Kehrenbach. In: www.rechenbach.de. Archived from the original on June 13, 2011 ; accessed in October 2018 .
  3. ↑ See the article by Demandt in the "Zeitschrift für Hessische Geschichte und Landeskunde" 1936.
  4. ↑ The Koehler Boy from Kehrenbach - a true story , accessed on November 11, 2018
  5. ^ Municipal reform: mergers and integration of municipalities from January 20, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 6 , p. 248 , item 328, para. 41 ( online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 6.2 MB ]).
  6. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 404 .