Martinsthal

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Martinsthal
Martinsthal coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 9 ″  N , 8 ° 7 ′ 16 ″  E
Height : 153 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.73 km²
Residents : 1226  (December 31, 2015)
Population density : 259 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 65344
Area code : 06123
Richly decorated half-timbering at the Hotel zur Krone in the center of the village
The vintner fountain with the stand-up collar vintner in front of the Hotel Zur Krone

Martinsthal was on 1 January 1977 as a local district in the Rheingau wine, sparkling wine and rose town of Eltville am Rhein in southern Hesse Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis incorporated and has approximately 1,300 inhabitants whose smallest district. Martinsthal is one of the well-known wine towns in the Rheingau wine-growing region .

Geographical location

Martinsthal is located three kilometers north of Eltville at an altitude of 154 meters in the Walluftal, which is narrow and deeply cut here, amidst vineyards. While the town center was built west of the brook, the undeveloped area of ​​Martinsthal lies exclusively on the east bank of the Walluf. That is why the local vineyards , especially the Martinsthaler Wildsau , can be found here in the east. The vineyards, which reach from the west to close to the local area, either belong to the district of Rauenthal or to the core town of Eltville. The larger part of the district north of the locality is forest area. This is where the Birkenkopf lies , at 311 meters the highest point in the town. To the north of it, at the nature reserve Rechtebachtal near Georgenborn , Martinsthal borders Wiesbaden-Frauenstein . The smaller southern part of the district, where the Walluftal opens towards the Rhine , is almost exclusively vineyard land and borders on the forests and vineyards of Niederwalluf . In the south Martinsthal has a common border with Oberwalluf along the Walluf .

history

The establishment of the place Martinsthal is connected with the establishment of the Rheingau Gebück in the valley floor. The residents of the original settlement of Rode, east of the Walluf, relocated to the Kurmainzische Rheingau, protected by the newly developed border wall , at the invitation of the Archbishop of Mainz Gerlach von Nassau and founded a new village. This was called Mertinsdal by its founder , but the name Neudorf became common . For this settlement, a small piece of the Rauenthal district was removed, just big enough for the construction of houses and farms. In order to cultivate their fields, the new settlers always had to pass the bulwark that led out of the Rheingau through the bridge and which they were obliged to guard.

Already in 1401 a pleban was recorded in Martinsthal. In 1429 the parish received the right to hire its own pastor. The place belonged to the Vizedomamt Rheingau von Kurmainz and from 1604 was subordinate to the Oberamt Eltville.

After dissolution of the electorate went Neudorf 1803 Nassau-Usingen and belonged to the time of the Duchy of Nassau for Office Eltville . After the annexation of the duchy by Prussia , the place was assigned to the Rheingau district in the Wiesbaden administrative region in 1867 .

Johanna Philomena Grainger ("Miss Grainger", 1847–1904), an Irish noblewoman and owner of Tiefenthal Abbey , founded the first kindergarten in Martinsthal in 1902. She was considered the local benefactress and was buried after her death in the Martinsthaler Friedhof next to her mother Anna Maria Grainger (1814-1897). In her honor, a path in Martinsthal was named after her.

On January 1, 1935, they officially returned to the name Martinsthal originally intended for the place by Archbishop Gerlach .

In 1941 Soviet female forced laborers were housed in Martinsthal. The women were forced to work in the nearby Efen armaments factory.

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Martinsthal was incorporated into the city of Eltville on January 1, 1977 with other municipalities by virtue of state law . For Martinsthal, as for the core city and the other parts of the city, a local district with a local advisory council and local councilor was set up. The boundaries of the local districts follow the previous district boundaries.

coat of arms

On April 26, 1966, the municipality of Martinsthal in the Rheingau district was given a coat of arms with the following blazon : Two diagonally crossed silver arrows in red.

Cultural monuments

Personalities

  • Nikolaus Kindlinger (* 1749 in Neudorf; † 1819 in Mainz), scholar in the field of archive research and German national history
  • Ulrike Neradt (* 1951 in Martinsthal as Ulrike Seyffardt ), TV presenter, singer and dialect poet
  • Franz Weißenberger (born March 3, 1938 - † May 26, 2014), last full-time mayor and honorary citizen of Martinsthal
  • Mathilde Weber (born May 13, 1933 - July 13, 2016), first Martinsthal Wine Queen and first Rheingau Wine Queen from Martinsthal

literature

Web links

Commons : Martinsthal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martinsthal, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ 3429 population figures according to Eltville's registration office , accessed in June 2019
  3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Rheingau district and the Untertaunus district (GVBl. II 330-30) of June 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 312 , §§ 7–9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  4. ^ Hessian Land Surveying Office: District map 1: 50,000 Wiesbaden Rheingaukreis Untertaunuskreis, edition 1969
  5. ^ Martinsthal, accommodation for Russian forced laborers. Topography of National Socialism in Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Rheingau district and the Untertaunus district (GVBl. II 330-30) of June 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 312 , § 8 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  7. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 70 kB) §; 6. In: Website. City of Eltville, accessed February 2019 .
  8. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the community Martinsthal, Rheingaukreis, administrative district Wiesbaden from April 26, 1966 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1966 No. 19 , p. 638 , point ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF]).