Sterzhausen
Sterzhausen
community Lahntal
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 47 " N , 8 ° 42 ′ 16" E
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Height : | 210 (205-223) m above sea level NHN |
Area : | 13.14 km² |
Residents : | 2014 (June 30, 2014) |
Population density : | 153 inhabitants / km² |
Incorporation : | December 31, 1971 |
Postal code : | 35094 |
Area code : | 06420 |
Sterzhausen from the north
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Sterzhausen is a district of Lahntal , a municipality in the central Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf with around 2000 inhabitants.
history
Both the Romanesque chapel and the village of Sterzhausen very likely originally belonged to the Diaconate Kesterburg ( Christenberg ) and the parish of Schönstadt. Near the village there is also the remains of a former find Wallenburg , the castle Eckel Church .
On December 31, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the municipalities of Caldern, which consisted of the former municipalities of Caldern and Kernbach, and Sterzhausen to form the newly formed municipality of Lahntal. The seat of the municipal administration was Sterzhausen. For Sterzhausen, as for the other former municipalities of Lahntal, a local district with a local advisory board and local chief was formed according to the Hessian municipal code.
Territorial history and administration
The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Sterzhausen was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:
- before 1567: Holy Roman Empire , Landgraviate Hessen , Amt Wetter (The Amt Wetter consisted of the places Wetter, Amenau, Oberndorf, Treisbach, Niederasphe, Untersimtshausen, Todenhausen, Melnau, Ober- and Niederrosphe, Niederwetter, Göttingen, Sterzhausen, Warzenbach and Sarnau )
- from 1567: Holy Roman Empire, Landgraviate Hessen-Marburg , Wetteramt
- 1604–1648: Holy Roman Empire, disputed between Landgraviate Hessen-Darmstadt and Landgraviate Hessen-Kassel ( Hessian War ), Weather Office
- from 1648: Holy Roman Empire, Landgraviate Hessen-Kassel, Wetter office
- from 1803: Holy Roman Empire, Electorate of Hesse , Wetter office
- from 1806: Electorate of Hesse, Marburg Office, Weather Office
- 1807–1813: Kingdom of Westphalia , Werra department , Marburg district , Wetter canton
- from 1815: German Confederation , Electorate of Hesse, Wetter office
- from 1821: German Confederation, Electorate of Hesse, Province of Upper Hesse , District of Marburg (separation of justice ( Justice Office Wetter ) and administration)
- from 1848: German Confederation, Electorate of Hesse, Marburg district
- from 1851: German Confederation, Electorate of Hesse, Province of Upper Hesse, District of Marburg
- from 1866: North German Confederation , Kingdom of Prussia , Province of Hesse-Nassau , District of Kassel , District of Marburg
- from 1871: German Empire , Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Hessen-Nassau, District of Kassel, District of Marburg
- from 1918: German Empire, Free State of Prussia , Province of Hessen-Nassau, Administrative Region of Kassel, District of Marburg
- from 1944: German Empire, Free State of Prussia, Province of Kurhessen , District of Marburg
- from 1945: American zone of occupation , Greater Hesse , Kassel district, Marburg district
- from 1949: Federal Republic of Germany , State of Hesse , Kassel district, Marburg district
- On December 31, 1971, Sterzhausen was incorporated into the newly formed community of Lahntal.
- 1974: Federal Republic of Germany, Land Hessen, Kassel , Marburg-Biedenkopf
- from 1981: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Gießen district, Marburg-Biedenkopf district
Courts since 1821
With an edict of June 29, 1821, administration and justice were separated in Kurhessen. Now judicial offices were responsible for the first instance jurisdiction, the administration was taken over by the districts. The Marburg district was responsible for the administration and the Wetter Judicial Office was the court of first instance for Sterzhausen. The Supreme Court was the Higher Appeal Court in Kassel . The higher court of Marburg was subordinate to the province of Upper Hesse. It was the second instance for the judicial offices.
After the annexation of Kurhessen by Prussia, the judicial office of Wetter became the royal Prussian district court of Wetter in 1867 . In June 1867, a royal ordinance was issued that reorganized the court system in the areas that belonged to the former Electorate of Hesse. The previous judicial authorities were to be repealed and replaced by local courts in the first, district courts in the second and an appeal court in the third instance. In the course of this, on September 1, 1867, the previous judicial office was renamed the Wetter District Court. The courts of the higher authorities were the Marburg District Court and the Kassel Court of Appeal .
Even with the entry into force of the Courts Constitution Act (GVG) in 1877, the district court remained in existence. In 1943 the district court became a branch of the district court of Marburg and in 1946 the branch was also closed. The district of the district court of Wetter merged with the district of the district court of Marburg.
In the Federal Republic of Germany, the superordinate instances are the Marburg Regional Court , the Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court and the Federal Court of Justice as the last instance.
population
Population development
Source: Historical local dictionary
• 1502: | 20 men |
• 1577: | 40 house seats |
• 1630: | 36 house seats (10 two-horse, 9 single-horse farmers, 17 single-horse ). |
• 1681: | 28 home-based teams |
• 1747: | 47 households |
• 1838: | 560 residents (44 local residents who are entitled to use, 24 residents who are not entitled to use, 34 residents ). |
Sterzhausen: Population from 1787 to 1967 | ||||
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year | Residents | |||
1787 | 348 | |||
1834 | 567 | |||
1840 | 502 | |||
1846 | 543 | |||
1852 | 569 | |||
1858 | 607 | |||
1864 | 648 | |||
1871 | 555 | |||
1875 | 578 | |||
1885 | 611 | |||
1895 | 647 | |||
1905 | 665 | |||
1910 | 719 | |||
1925 | 838 | |||
1939 | 976 | |||
1946 | 1,324 | |||
1950 | 1,395 | |||
1956 | 1.311 | |||
1961 | 1,341 | |||
1967 | 1,352 | |||
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968. Other sources: |
Religious affiliation
Source: Historical local dictionary
• 1861: | Evangelical Lutheran , one Roman Catholic, 9 Jewish residents | 621
• 1885: | 577 Protestant (= 95.06%), no Catholic, 22 other Christian denominational (= 3.62%), 8 Jewish (= 1.32%) residents |
• 1961: | 1214 Protestant (= 90.53%), 116 Catholic (= 8.65%) residents |
Gainful employment
Source: Historical local dictionary
• 1787: | Labor force: 1 miller, 3 blacksmiths, 4 wagons, 2 carpenters, 1 bricklayer and brickmaker, 4 tailors, 19 linen weavers, 2 landlords, 3 shepherds, 3 day laborers, 3 single women. |
• 1838: | Families: 44 farming, 10 businesses, 10 day laborers. |
• 1961: | Labor force: 216 agriculture and forestry, 266 manufacturing, 104 trade and transport, 98 services and other. |
Culture and sights
Natural monuments
- Oak at the forester's house with a chest height circumference of 7.08 m (2014).
Buildings
The old fortified church typical of the region is worth seeing , the origin of which probably goes back to a Romanesque chapel, as well as a tree monument at the old forester's house on the edge of the Wollenberg forest. Coming from Wetter , the Ubbelohderadweg also runs along this path , on which there is a barbecue hut, from which Sterzhausen and part of the upper Lahn valley can be seen. The Ubbelohderadweg finally meets the Lahntal-Radweg near Caldern .
The church building
The fortified tower of the church, visible from afar, is the landmark of the place. It is by far the oldest building in Sterzhausen. It is very likely that the foundation walls of the tower go back to a Romanesque chapel . In 1383 a pastor from Caldern is mentioned who looked after the Sterzhausen chapel.
During a renovation, the oldest beams in the tower were dated to 1246 using an exact procedure. The special plaster on the east side of the tower, which was restored at that time and is unique for its time, also dates from this time. During an attack, all the villagers holed up on the upper floor of the tower. The only access (on the roof above today's pulpit) was closed by a heavy door and this was secured from the inside with a strong crossbar. This locking system can still be seen today. Secured in this way, you were reasonably safe for several days - until the defenders arrived.
In the choir are murals obtained from the 13th century, were uncovered in 1962: Crisscross, black rooster tail feathers, crosses and ten stars. On the east wall, in pale green colors, you can see a judging Christ in the mandorla with a sword in his mouth from the late Romanesque (12th / 13th century). Another old image of Christ is suspected to be below this. A hipped roof with four roof cores from a later period covers the tower and walkway. Today's nave is a classicist hall from 1836 with characteristic semicircular windows. It was rebuilt after the great fire at the beginning of the last century. The four apostles and Martin Luther with the swan - a special feature - are depicted on the west gallery. This picture was taken from the Lutherhalle in Wittenberg . In the 1960s, two tombstones for the deceased sons of Pastor Ruppersberger from 1664 and 1667 were placed in the surrounding wall next to the morgue.
regional customs
A traditional and costume association organizes well-attended markets and festivals at irregular intervals.
Infrastructure
Local supply
Besides Goßfelden , Sterzhausen is the second district with a central function and all shops for daily needs. The administrative seat of the municipality of Lahntal is in Sterzhausen. Sterzhausen has a Protestant church, a primary school, a kindergarten, a volunteer fire brigade, a community hall and gym (with a large photovoltaic system), several playgrounds, football fields, two banks, a pharmacy, an ice cream parlor and four restaurants.
traffic
Regional trains of the Kurhessenbahn stop every hour at Sterzhausen station on the Oberen Lahntalbahn ( Marburg - Biedenkopf - Bad Laasphe - Erndtebrück ) . The platform was renewed and paved in the mid-2000s. It is 55 centimeters high and easily accessible for people with reduced mobility.
Web links
- Sterzhausen district. In: Website of the municipality of Lahntal.
- Sterzhausen, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Literature about Sterzhausen in the Hessian Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Sterzhausen, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ Lahntal in figures on the Lahntal municipality's website. Archived from the original on January 27, 2016 ; accessed on January 15, 2016 .
- ^ 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. 402 .
- ↑ main statute. (PDF; 111 kB) § 5. In: Website. Lahntal community, accessed in August 2020 .
- ^ 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).
- ^ Georg Landau: Description of the Electorate of Hesse . T. Fischer, Kassel 1842, p. 389 ( online at HathiTrust's digital library ).
- ^ The affiliation of the weather office based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hessen : Hessen-Marburg 1567–1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604–1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567–1866 .
- ^ Kur-Hessischer Staats- und Adress-Kalender: 1818 . Publishing house d. Orphanage, Kassel 1818, p. 123 ( online at Google Books ).
- ↑ Ordinance of August 30th, 1821, concerning the new division of the area , Annex: Overview of the new division of the Electorate of Hesse according to provinces, districts and judicial districts. Collection of laws etc. for the Electoral Hesse states. Year 1821 - No. XV. - August., ( Kurhess GS 1821) pp. 223-224
- ↑ Latest news from Meklenburg / Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities, edited from the best sources. in the publishing house of the GHG privil. Landes-Industrie-Comptouts., Weimar 1823, p. 158 ff . ( online at HathiTrust's digital library ).
- ↑ Ordinance on the constitution of the courts in the former Electorate of Hesse and the formerly Royal Bavarian territories with the exclusion of the enclave Kaulsdorf from June 19, 1867. ( PrGS 1867, pp. 1085-1094 )
- ↑ Order of August 7, 1867, regarding the establishment of the according to the Most High Ordinance of June 19 of this year. J. in the former Electorate of Hesse and the formerly Royal Bavarian territorial parts with the exclusion of the enclave Kaulsdorf, courts to be formed ( Pr. JMBl. Pp. 221–224 )
- ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017
- ↑ kg-sterzhausen.lahntal.de: Sterzhausen parish