Neuffreistett

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Coat of arms of Neufreistett
Landgrave Ludwig VIII granted town charter in 1745.
The former "Kompagniehaus", today: Town Hall

Neufreistett is a district of Freistett , which in turn is the capital of the Baden-Württemberg city ​​of Rheinau (Baden) .

history

In 1730, the Strasbourg banker Georg Daniel Kückh acquired real estate in the Freistett district . At that time, Freistett belonged to the Lichtenau district of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg . A few years later, Count Johann Reinhard III died. 1736 the last male representative of this house. The inheritance - and with it the office of Lichtenau with Freistett - fell to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte von Hanau-Lichtenberg , Landgrave Ludwig (IX) of Hesse-Darmstadt , and son of the ruling Landgrave Ludwig VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt.

In 1739 Kückh founded a trading company. He built a “company house” on the site of today's town hall as a starting point for founding a town. A contract with the sovereign, Landgrave Ludwig VIII, and the municipality of Freistett secured their own district area of ​​13 hectares. Kückh was granted city and market rights by the Landgrave on May 14, 1745 for his establishment and approved the name "Neufreistett". Mainly merchants and craftsmen lived here, among the former also Jewish families.

The main economic basis was to be a seven-kilometer-long raft canal that was to connect the Black Forest with the Rhine . This project was worked on from 1745 to 1753. After a lot of work and money had already been invested in the project, it failed due to the resistance of the three communities Renchen , Ulm and Waldulm . Kückh is said to have drowned in the Rhine in 1754. Rafting on the canal ceased in 1756. Part of today's Landstrasse 87 between Freistett and Achern runs along the route of the former canal. In 1783, with the exception of the castle property, Kückh's property was auctioned for 22,250 guilders by the municipality of Freistett. The land was divided into parcels and sold on to the residents of Freistetter. However, the founding of the city continued to flourish.

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss the office of Lichtenau and with it Neufreistett in 1803 was assigned to the newly formed Electorate of Baden . In 1831 a Jewish community was founded in Neufreistett, which in 1935 was merged with that of Rheinbischofsheim . Until 1887 the development of the population showed an increasing tendency. It had grown to 400, of which 84 belonged to the Jewish community. Subsequently, however, the population fell sharply, in 1925 the total population was 307, of which 46 belonged to the Jewish community. The completely impoverished Neufreistett was incorporated into Freistett on April 1, 1929.

literature

  • Nikolaus Honold and Kurt Schütt: Chronicle of the city of Rheinau. 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the city of Rheinau
  2. ^ Homepage of the city of Rheinau
  3. ↑ Honold, u. Schütt, p. 339.
  4. ^ Homepage of the city of Rheinau
  5. ^ Homepage of the city of Rheinau

Coordinates: 48 ° 40 '  N , 7 ° 56'  E