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community Otzberg
Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 33 ″  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 27 ″  E
Height : 189 m
Area : 9.56 km²
Residents : 868  (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 91 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 64853
Area code : 06162
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Location of Ober-Klingen in Otzberg
Ober-Klingen and the Otzberg (2016)
Ober-Klingen and the Otzberg (2016)
The church in Ober-Klingen

Ober-Klingen is a district of the Otzberg municipality in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse and has almost 900 inhabitants.

geography

Ober-Klingen lies on the western slope of the Otzberg and is traversed by the Semme .

history

The place name "Klingen" is traced back to the old meaning "Gießbach" or "Talschlucht". The name "Klingen" could also be a reference to the various ore deposits in the immediate vicinity of the Otzberg . One of today's two blades was mentioned as early as 1223 as "Clingen". A distinction was made in 1383 for Ober-Klingen and 1357 for Nieder-Klingen . In the documents, the place is mentioned as Obern Clingen (1383), Oberklingen and Obyrclingen (1387) and Obernclyngen (1485).

It is documented by documents: In
1343 the abbot of Fulda gave Rudolf Kilian a Fulda fiefdom as an Otzberg castle fiefdom .
In 1399 Schenk Eberhard von Erbach received from Count Palatine Ruprecht one and a half Huben and half a yard as a fuldisches Mannlehen.
In 1420 Hademar zu Laber and his wife Walpurgis, b. Donate half of the village of Klingen to Erbach, Count Palatine Ludwig .

Ober- and Nieder-Klingen belonged to the Umstadt district until 1521 and were then awarded to the Oberamt Otzberg in the Electoral Palatinate as a result of the Landshut War of Succession . The Oberamt Otzberg came to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt in 1803 as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . With the exchange contract between the Hesse-Darmstadt and the Lord von Löwenstein-Wertheim on February 5, 1805, the Habitzheim office came about, which in 1806 fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse through the Rhine Confederation Act . The lower jurisdiction remained with Mr. Löwenstein-Wertheim until 1822.

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

»Oberklingen (L. Bez. Breuberg) reform. Filialdorf; Located 2 1 ⁄ 2 St. von Breuberg, belongs to the Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg and has 107 houses and 615 inhabitants, who are Reformed with the exception of 49 Lutherans, 14 Catholics and 38 Jews. There are 3 grinding mills and a quarry of red sandstones, which are of medium quality, but are hewn. The place belonged to the Palatinate and came to Hesse in 1802, and from Hesse in 1805 by swap to Löwenstein, until the same under Hess in 1806. Your Highness has come. "

Territorial reform

On December 31, 1971, Ober-Klingen voluntarily merged with five other previously independent municipalities to form the municipality of Otzberg as part of the regional reform in Hesse . For the six formerly independent municipalities, local districts with local advisory councils and local councilors were formed according to the Hessian municipal code. Lengfeld became the seat of the municipal administration.

Territorial history and administration

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

dishes

The competent jurisdiction of the first instance was:

Historical forms of names

In documents that have been preserved, Ober-Klingen was mentioned under the following names (the year it was mentioned in brackets): Clingin (1261); Obern Clingen (1383); Obyrclingen (1387); Obernclyngen (1485); Clingen (1527).

Population development

• 1633: 200 inhabitants
• 1829: 615 inhabitants, 107 houses
• 1867: 616 inhabitants, 131 houses
Ober-Klingen: Population from 1829 to 2018
year     Residents
1829
  
 615
1834
  
 644
1840
  
 694
1846
  
 784
1852
  
 686
1858
  
 646
1864
  
 644
1871
  
 624
1875
  
 645
1885
  
 670
1895
  
 605
1905
  
 594
1910
  
 610
1925
  
 581
1939
  
 551
1946
  
 882
1950
  
 845
1956
  
 733
1961
  
 724
1967
  
 731
1970
  
 760
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 888
2012
  
 883
2015
  
 867
2018
  
 865
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 ; from 2012: Website of the Otzberg municipality

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 49 Lutheran (= 7.97%), 514 Reformed (= 83.58%), 38 Jewish (= 6.18%) and 14 Catholic (= 2.28%) residents
• 1961: 597 Protestant (= 82.46%), 121 Catholic (= 16.71%) residents

politics

For Ober-Klingen there is a local district (areas of the former municipality of Ober-Klingen) with a local advisory board and mayor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of five members. Since the local elections in 2016, it has had four members of the CDU and one member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . The head of the village is Anna Schmidt (CDU).

Culture and sights

Ober-Klingen impresses with its beautiful landscape with the nearby forest. The small mountain church with the surrounding cemetery is also remarkable .

Regular events

Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Ober-Klingen, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of April 17, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Population figures . In: website. Otzberg community, accessed November 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 1 . Darmstadt 1866, p. 47 Sections 14–15 ( online at Google Books ).
  4. ^ 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. 172 ( online at google books ).
  5. ↑ 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. 238 .
  6. ↑ a b main statute. (PDF; 334 kB) §; 6. In: Website. Otzberg community, accessed in July 2019 .
  7. ^ 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).
  8. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 66 ( online at google books ).
  9. ↑ 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;
  10. ^ Local advisory board Ober-Klingen. In: website. Otzberg community, accessed November 2019 .
  11. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Monday, September 21, 2015, p. 21