Altenburg (Alsfeld)

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Altenburg
City of Alsfeld
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 10 ″  N , 9 ° 16 ′ 33 ″  E
Height : 271  (264-326)  m
Area : 5.02 km²
Residents : 1193  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 238 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1969
Postal code : 36304
Area code : 06631
Evangelical castle church Altenburg

Altenburg is the largest district of Alsfeld after the core town in the Vogelsberg district in central Hesse .

geography

Altenburg is located in the Vogelsberg south of the city center and is separated from it by the federal highway 5 . Federal road 254 runs east of the village ; Landesstrasse 3145 and Kreisstrasse 122 meet in the village .

history

In 1193, Sifridus of Aldinburg was the first time a country nobleman was mentioned in Altenburg. A predecessor of the Altenburg Castle , which towers high above the town , was built during the Merovingian era. In the 18th century a new building was built, which still belongs to the Barons Riedesel today.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Altenburg in 1830:

"Altenburg (L. Bez. Alsfeld) evangel. Branch village; lies on the Schwalm on a basalt knoll, 1 ⁄ 2 St. von Alsfeld and 1426 Hess. (1085 par.) Feet above sea level. There are 61 houses, 446 inhabitants, who are Protestant apart from 2 Catholics, and among them 16 farmers and 20 who do civil trades, 1 castle, which is built on a steep hill and is inhabited by the Baron von Riedesel and his servants, 2 courtyards and 2 grinding mills. There has been a cloth manufacture here since 1814 with a machine spinning mill for sheep and cotton, a dye works and a fulling mill. Shawls, beavers, fists and woolen blankets are made here. The beavers should not be inferior to the English. In addition to the scraping machines, there is a coarse mill and several fine mills, which the latter transform the wool into the most perfect weaving yarn. - Altenburg was formerly a Fulda fief. Landgrave Heinrich I destroyed the town in 1293, as did several robbery castles in Hesse, because the owners did not want to receive their fiefs from him. An Alsfeld castle-man family carried Altenburg from the landgraves to fief, from which it was named, and in 1300 it was bought by Landgrave Heinrich I from Reinhard von Altenburg. "

On December 1, 1969, Altenburg was incorporated into Alsfeld as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

In 2005 Altenburg won first prize at the regional level in the regional competition Our Village . In 2006 the village became state winner.

Territorial history and administration

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

Courts since 1803

In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Gießen” was set up as a court of second instance for the province of Upper Hesse . The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or landlords and thus for Altenburg by the Alsfeld office. The court court was the second instance court for normal civil disputes, and the first instance for civil family law cases and criminal cases. The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate .

With the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806, this function was retained, while the tasks of the first instance were transferred to the newly created regional courts in 1821 as part of the separation of jurisdiction and administration. "Alsfeld Regional Court" was therefore the name of the court of first instance in Alsfeld from 1821 to 1879, today's district court, which was responsible for Altenburg.

On the occasion of the introduction of the Courts Constitution Act with effect from October 1, 1879, as a result of which the previous grand-ducal Hessian regional courts were replaced by local courts in the same place, while the newly created regional courts now functioned as higher courts, the name was changed to the Alsfeld district court and the district was assigned to the district of the regional court Pouring . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the superordinate instances are the Regional Court of Giessen, the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main and the Federal Court of Justice as the last instance.

Population development

• 1791: 302 inhabitants
• 1800: 302 inhabitants
• 1806: 243 inhabitants, 50 houses
• 1829: 446 inhabitants, 61 houses
• 1867: 450 inhabitants, 60 houses
Altenburg: Population from 1791 to 2015
year     Residents
1791
  
 302
1800
  
 302
1806
  
 243
1829
  
 446
1834
  
 476
1840
  
 478
1846
  
 465
1852
  
 462
1858
  
 443
1864
  
 416
1871
  
 471
1875
  
 475
1885
  
 553
1895
  
 585
1905
  
 705
1910
  
 773
1925
  
 766
1939
  
 777
1946
  
 1,030
1950
  
 1,054
1956
  
 907
1961
  
 880
1967
  
 896
1970
  
 857
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2006
  
 1,388
2011
  
 1,215
2015
  
 1,241
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 2006 :; 2011 census ; 2015:

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 446 Protestant and two Roman Catholic residents
• 1961: 768 Protestant, 100 Roman Catholic residents

Personalities

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Altenburg, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Budget 2018, preliminary report. City of Alsfeld, accessed March 2020 .
  3. ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt August 1830, OCLC 312528126 , p. 10 ( online at google books ).
  4. ^ 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).
  5. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  6. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  176 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  7. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 6 ( online at google books ).
  8. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  226 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  9. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 414 ( online at Google Books ).
  10. ^ Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt 1830, p. 6th ff . ( online at Google Books ).
  11. ^ Ordinance on the implementation of the German Courts Constitution Act and the Introductory Act to the Courts Constitution Act of May 14, 1879 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1879 no. 15 , p. 197–211 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 17.8 MB ]).
  12. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  186 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  13. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 32 ( online at google books ).
  14. ^ Altenburg district on the website of the city of Alsfeld. accessed in October 2017.
  15. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  16. ↑ 2017 budget , preliminary report.