Ober-Beerbach

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Ober-Beerbach
Municipality Seeheim-Jugenheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 51 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 8 ″  E
Height : 304  (300-500)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.1 km²
Residents : 1417  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 175 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Incorporated into: Seeheim
Postal code : 64342
Area code : 06257
View from the south of Ober-Beerbach

Ober-Beerbach (dialect: Owern-Beerwisch) is a district of the Seeheim-Jugenheim community in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse . The Steigerts and Stettbach settlements also belong to it .

geography

The district is located east of the Seeheim district in the Bergstrasse-Odenwald Nature Park . The A5 runs 5 km to the west; the Rhine flows west, 14 km away.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1384 when Count Dieter von Katzenelnbogen pledged his villages and courts, including Ober-Beerbach, to Archbishop Adolf of Mainz for 500 guilders . Ober-Beerbach was later mentioned under the place names : Obernberbach (1423), Ober Bercher Marck (1488), ObernBerbach (1545) , Obirnberbach (1561), Obern Berbach (1568), Obernberbach (1613), Oberbeerbach and Obernbeerbach ( 1671). Properties in Ober-Beerbach are occupied by the noble families von Frankenstein , forestry masters von Gelnhausen and Schrautenbach . In the 16th century the Landgraves of Hesse were entitled to authority and authority . In 1662, the Frankensteiners sell Ober-Beerbach as an accessory to the Frankenstein Castle, which was leaned against by the emperor and empire , to Landgrave Ludwig VI. from Hessen-Darmstadt . In 1679 the part owned by the Lords of Wallbrunn in Oberbeerbach and Niederbeerbach is the Hessian fiefdom. The place was also called Dunkelbach in earlier centuries . As early as 1699, Schmal-Beerbach and Stettbach formed a community with Ober-Beerbach.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Ober-Beerbach in 1829:

»Oberbeerbach (L. Bez. Bensheim) Lutheran parish village; is 3 1 / 4  St. of Bensheim, has 58 houses and 415 inh. containing up to 7 Kath. are Lutheran. - The place appears in the Lorsch death register, which only names places and people from the 8th to the end of the 12th century. The village of Waldhausen, whose name is still used in the naming of the land, was in the district. The place came from the Lords of Frankenstein in 1662 by purchase to Hesse, and was raised to a separate parish in 1820. «

Territorial reform

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the village of Upper Beersbach was at 31 December 1971 on a voluntary basis in the community Jugenheim ad Bergstraße incorporated , with the southern tip of the district with the hamlet narrow-Beerbach separated and to the community Lautertal in Bergstraße district ceded was . On December 31, 1977, the municipalities Seeheim and Jugenheim were then merged to Seeheim powerful state law together . Since January 1, 1978, the municipality has been officially called Seeheim-Jugenheim . For the district of Ober-Beerbach, a local district with a local advisory council and a local mayor was set up in accordance with the Hessian municipal code.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Ober-Beerbach was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

dishes

The competent jurisdiction of the first instance was:

Population development

• 1629 025 house seats
• 1791: 187 inhabitants
• 1800: 187 inhabitants
• 1806: 308 inhabitants, 48 ​​houses
• 1829: 415 inhabitants, 58 houses
• 1867: 892 inhabitants, 112 houses
Ober-Beerbach: Population from 1791 to 2017
year     Residents
1791
  
 187
1800
  
 187
1806
  
 308
1829
  
 415
1834
  
 684
1840
  
 741
1846
  
 838
1852
  
 732
1858
  
 773
1864
  
 830
1871
  
 849
1875
  
 858
1885
  
 889
1895
  
 917
1905
  
 952
1910
  
 901
1925
  
 882
1939
  
 825
1946
  
 1,023
1950
  
 1,027
1956
  
 1.011
1961
  
 1,062
1967
  
 1,152
1970
  
 1,149
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 1,407
2017
  
 1,417
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 408 Lutheran (= 98.31%) and 7 Catholic (= 1.69%) inhabitants Mennonite
• 1961: 963 Protestant (= 90.68%), 90 Catholic (= 8.47%) residents

politics

For Ober-Beerbach with the settlements of Steigerts and Stettbach, there is a local district (areas of the former municipality of Ober-Beerbach) with a local advisory board and local councilor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of nine members. Since the local elections in 2016, he has had three members of the CDU , four members of the SPD and two members of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . The mayor is Christoph Massoth (CDU).

Culture and sights

Buildings

There is an evangelical church in the village . The foundations of the church are believed to be from the 11th century. The church building dates from the 12th century. In the 14th century, the Lords of Frankenstein installed a three-part Gothic window in the choir of the church. A cycle of frescoes depicting the sufferings of Christ and his resurrection was also applied. The frescoes were whitewashed after the introduction of the Reformation, but are visible again today. The last renovation in 2013 included the frescoes in the choir, the Christophorus paintings in the nave, the restoration of the baroque organ and a partial renewal of the roof structure.

One of the three Beerbach castles, today all castle stables , is next to the old castle and the old castle near Nieder-Beerbach , the little castle of Ober-Beerbach , northwest of the town.

Regular events

Nature and protected areas

The wet meadows of the Fuchswiese nature reserve near Stettbach are located in the district of Ober-Beerbach .

Infrastructure

Web links

Commons : Ober-Beerbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h 6 Ober-Beerbach, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Ober-Beerbach: 1185 inh., Steigerts: 89 in. And Stettbach: 143 in. Together make 1417 inhabitants for the district. Data from the Seeheim-Jugenheim residents' registration office, information from the press and public relations department of the Seeheim-Jugenheim community, September 20, 2018
  3. ↑ Darmstädter Echo, Monday, August 18, 2014, p. 19
  4. ^ Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : The desertions in the Grand Duchy of Hesse , Darmstadt, 1862, p. 62 ff
  5. ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg . tape 1 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt October 1829, OCLC 312528080 , p. 171 ( online at google books ).
  6. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Darmstadt and Dieburg and the city of Darmstadt (GVBl. No. 330–334) of July 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 318 , § 5 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  7. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory 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. 382 .
  8. ↑ Karl-Heinz Meier barley, Karl Reinhard Hinkel: Hesse. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation . Ed .: Hessian Minister of the Interior. Bernecker, Melsungen 1977, DNB  770396321 , OCLC 180532844 , p. 243 .
  9. ↑ a b main statute. (PDF; 53 kB) §; 5. In: Website. Seeheim-Jugenheim municipality, accessed in February 2019 .
  10. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  11. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 1 . Großherzoglicher Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1862, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 894925483 , p. 43 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  12. ↑ a b List of offices, places, houses, population. (1806) HStAD inventory E 8 A No. 352/4. In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), as of February 6, 1806.
  13. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  128 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  14. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  132 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  15. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 64 ( online at google books ).
  16. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1.8 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  17. ↑ Local Advisory Board Ober-Beerbach. In: website. Seeheim-Jugenheim municipality, accessed November 2019 .
  18. ↑ Ober-Beerbach's church renovated for 830,000 euros in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 2, 2013, page 38