Altenmittlau

Altenmittlau Community Freigericht Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 41 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 28 ″ E
Height :	160 (152-184) m
Residents :	2320 (Jul 30, 2019)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1970
Postal code :	63579
Area code :	06055

Altenmittlau is a district of the municipality of Freigericht in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse .

location

Altenmittlau is located on the Birkigsbach in the Spessart Nature Park at an altitude of 160 m above sea level , 8.5 km southwest of Gelnhausen directly on the state border with Bavaria .

history

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of Altenmittlau comes from the year 1191. It is mentioned that the St. Johannis Abbey in Mainz owned a farm and a farm in the village. The village belonged to the Somborn court , which in turn was part of the Alzenau free court . This was directly imperial , but the empire pledged or forgave the area again and again. So the rulers changed, including the lords and later counts of Hanau , the lords of Randenburg , the lords of Eppstein and Kurmainz .

The village had a chapel that was consecrated to the Evangelist Mark and parish in Somborn .

Historical forms of names

Mittilaha (1191)
Alden Mittela (1366)
Mytloche (1369)
Mittelauwe (1394)

Early modern age

Catholic parish church St. Markus in Altenmittlau

In 1500 the elector-archbishop of Mainz and the counts of Hanau-Münzenberg received the free court and with it Altenmittlau together. It was now ruled as a condominate . Since ecclesiastical jurisdiction remained with the Archbishops of Mainz at the time of the condominium , the Reformation - in contrast to the County of Hanau-Münzenberg - could not prevail here. Altenmittlau remained Roman Catholic .

In 1740 the condominium was dissolved in the “recession of participation”. Altenmittlau fell to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , which had inherited the Counts of Hanau in 1736. Altenmittlau has now been added to the Altenhaßlau office .

Modern times

In 1803 the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel was elevated to the status of the Electorate of Hesse . During the Napoleonic period, the Altenhaßlau office was initially under French military administration from 1806, belonged to the Principality of Hanau from 1807–1810 and then from 1810 to 1813 to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , Department of Hanau . Then it fell back to the Electorate of Hesse. After the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, by which the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts, the office of Altenhaßlau became part of the newly formed Gelnhausen district . With the annexation of Kurhessen by the Kingdom of Prussia after the lost war of 1866 , Altenmittlau also became Prussian.

There were several mills in the local area along the trenches that branched off from the Birkigsbach:

on the southern outskirts the so-called Hüttelsmühle (grain mill, closed in 1967)
Oil mill, closed in 1936/38
Kempfmühle (closed in 1963)
the Heilosemühle on the northern outskirts (closed in 1955)
Bean grinder.

For January 1, 1970 Altenmittlau was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse on a voluntary basis with other communities to the new community Freigericht together . At the same time, the Gelnhausen district became part of the Main-Kinzig district.

Residents

1632: 0.020 conscripts
1753: 0.059 households
1895: 0.655 inhabitants
1939: 1,102 inhabitants
1961: 1,751 inhabitants
1970: 1,934 inhabitants
2012: 2,405 inhabitants
2015: 2,535 inhabitants (200 of them with secondary residence in Altenmittlau)

politics

After the independent municipalities merged to form the municipality of Freigericht in 1970, the individual municipal councils were dissolved and replaced by local advisory boards. The local advisory boards in the individual districts are to be heard in all important decisions that affect the respective district and have the right to make suggestions. The members of the local councils elect a local mayor , a kind of mayor of the respective district , from their midst as the chairman of the local council . The local councils will be dissolved at the end of the municipal electoral period in 2021.

Parties and constituencies		2016	2011	2006	2001	1997
Parties and constituencies		Seats	Seats	Seats	Seats	Seats
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	1	1	2	2	2
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	1	1	1	1	2
UWG	Independent voter community Freigericht	3	3	2	2	1
total		5	5	5	5	5

Mayor:

Joachim Lucas, UWG (1997-2006)
Stefan Hartmann, UWG (2007-2021)

Infrastructure

Landesstrasse 3269 and Kreisstrasse 983 meet in Altenmittlau .

From 1904 to 1963 the village had a train station on the then closed Freigerichter Kleinbahn .

The school on the village square is the local primary school .

Personalities

Konrad Trageser (1884–1942), German priest and Nazi victim, born in Altenmittlau

Worth knowing

In the past, Zechstein limestone and dolomite were mined near the town.

literature

Ludwig Bickell : The architectural and art monuments in the administrative district of Cassel . Volume 1: Alhard von Drach: Gelnhausen district . Marburg 1901, p. 119.
Willi Klein: On the history of milling in the Main-Kinzig district = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 40. Hanau 2003, p. 309 ff.
Heinrich Reimer : Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen . Marburg 1926., p. 331 f.

Web links

Website of the community
"Altenmittlau, Main-Kinzig-Kreis". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Literature about Altenmittlau in the Hessian Bibliography
Search for Altenmittlau in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

^ Community registration

^ Uta Löwenstein: County Hanau . In: Knights, Counts and Princes - Secular Dominions in the Hessian Area approx. 900-1806 = Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63. Marburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 , p. 212 .

↑ Amalgamation of the municipalities Altenmittlau, Bernbach, Horbach, Neuses and Somborn in the district of Gelnhausen to form the new municipality "Freigericht" on December 17, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 1 , p. 5 , point 8 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.0 MB ]).

↑ Amendment of the main statutes - local advisory board deleted. Notice of the community, accessed on February 19, 2020

[1] Community registration

[2] Uta Löwenstein: County Hanau . In: Knights, Counts and Princes - Secular Dominions in the Hessian Area approx. 900-1806 = Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63. Marburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 , p. 212 .

[3] Amalgamation of the municipalities Altenmittlau, Bernbach, Horbach, Neuses and Somborn in the district of Gelnhausen to form the new municipality "Freigericht" on December 17, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 1 , p. 5 , point 8 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.0 MB ]).