Amonau

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Amonau
Amönau coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 33 "  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 14"  E
Height : 226 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.99 km²
Residents : 744  (June 30, 2018)
Population density : 93 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 35083
Area code : 06423
The Treisbach stream characterizes the village
The Treisbach stream characterizes the village

Amönau is a district of Wetter (Hesse) in the central Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf and is located 13 kilometers northwest of Marburg in the Wetschaft-Senke at the confluence of the Asphe in the Treisbach .

history

The earliest surviving documentary evidence has the place Amenowa first time around the year 1130 as an accessory of Villikation Ebsdorf of Mainz St. Stephan pin .

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the state government approved the incorporation of the municipality of Amönau and other municipalities into the city of Wetter (Hessen-Nassau) in what was then the district of Marburg with effect from December 31, 1971 .

Territorial history and administration

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

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 Amönau. 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 The previous judicial authorities were to be repealed and replaced by local courts in the first, district courts in the second and an appeal court in the third instance.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: 26 house seats
• 1577: 75 house seats
• 1580: 29 farm workers, 31 one-time  workers
• 1630: 43 house seats (6 two-horse, 18 single-horse farm workers, 18 single-horse)
• 1681: 39 home-seated teams
• 1747: 68 households
• 1838: 565 residents, 66 of whom are entitled to use, 8 local residents who are not entitled to use, 2 are  residents .
Amönau: Population from 1776 to 2018
year     Residents
1776
  
 369
1834
  
 601
1840
  
 559
1846
  
 534
1852
  
 549
1858
  
 528
1864
  
 512
1871
  
 493
1875
  
 494
1885
  
 520
1895
  
 513
1905
  
 510
1910
  
 556
1925
  
 601
1939
  
 639
1946
  
 856
1950
  
 881
1956
  
 786
1961
  
 795
1967
  
 800
1976
  
 827
1995
  
 976
2018
  
 744
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

Source: Historical local dictionary
• 1861: 509 Evangelical Lutheran and 5  Evangelical Reformed residents
• 1885; 520 Protestant and no Catholic residents
• 1961: 733 Protestant (= 92.20%), 34 Roman Catholic (= 4.28%) inhabitants.

Gainful employment

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1776: Labor force: 2 millers, 4 blacksmiths, 6 wagons, 6 carpenters, 1 lime burner, 5 tailors, 5 linen weavers, 1 landlord, 2 spirits pourers and distillers, 6 day laborers, 9 day laborers, 4 shepherds.
• 1838: Families: 58 farming, 4 businesses, 12 day laborers.
• 1961: Labor force: 216 agriculture and forestry, 131 manufacturing, 42 trade and transport, 25 services and other.

politics

The local council is headed by Sigrid Diehl.

coat of arms

On September 23, 1971, the municipality of Amönau was given a coat of arms with the following blazon : In red over a golden shield base with blue wavy bars, a silver church tower with a blue gate and a blue roof with 2 corner turrets; beset by a silver star and a silver waxing crescent.

Culture and sights

Ev. church
Amönau Castle
Old linden tree, called "judicial linden tree"

Culture and natural monuments

A distinctive and picturesque area for Amönau is the building community of fortified church and castle located slightly outside of the confluence of the Asphe and Treisbach rivers.

Fortified church

The Evangelical Church is a former fortified church and dates from the 16th century in its current form. However, parts of the church are much older. The high medieval church tower was probably built after 1200, the early Gothic choir around 1300. The church square in front of the churchyard was also the medieval court square. The historic judicial linden tree of the village stood on it .

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The Amönau castle with its famous "summer-house" (photo s. U.) On the old sandstone wall. The castle is said to have been built mainly in the 15th century by the von Hohenfels family . The family was already wealthy in Amönau before 1226. Around 1615/16 Hedwig von Bodenhausen had a tea house , the so-called "Lusthäuschen", built in half-timbered style with an octagonal bay window. The Hessen painter Otto Ubbelohde chose it as a motif for the "Rapunzel Tower", one of his beautiful illustrations of the Grimm fairy tales. The castle was renovated around 1800/05 and the "Lusthäuschen" was renovated in 1997.

Old linden tree

The so-called judicial linden tree Amönau is a natural monument in an exposed location on a meadow about 300 m northeast of the village. The exact age of the distinctive tree is not known. It is believed that it was planted around 1650 as a "peace linden tree " out of gratitude for the end of the Thirty Years' War . The name "judicial linden tree" gave it in the 1950s the local headmaster, who then revised the village chronicle.

Awards

In 1963 the village became the state winner in the competition " Our village should be more beautiful ".

In 2004/2005 Amönau took part in the European competition for village renewal locations. Amönau was chosen as the only Hessian town. In this competition for special achievements in individual or several areas of village development, the following was said about Amönau during the award ceremony:

Amönau is characterized in a special way by the fact that village renewal is primarily understood as helping people to help themselves and that people with their different needs are at the center of the development process, which is supported by an intact community and cultural institutions, like a number of outstanding projects - transitional residential home, assisted living, youth club - from the social sector. Amönau is also exemplary in terms of the revitalization of valuable buildings, job creation and the social and functional diversity achieved.

Cultural association

The stage is set up every year next to the "Rapunzel Tower". The tower is probably West Germany's oldest summer house and served Otto Ubbelohde as a template for illustrating Grimm's fairy tales. The stage is set up every year next to the "Rapunzel Tower". The tower is probably West Germany's oldest summer house and served Otto Ubbelohde as a template for illustrating Grimm's fairy tales.
The stage is set up every year next to the "Rapunzel Tower". The tower is probably West Germany's oldest summer house and served Otto Ubbelohde as a template for illustrating Grimm's fairy tales.

Since the year 2000 there has been a theater and cultural association in Amönau called "Tower Workshop - Culture in the Village". Thanks to this association and many talented people, musicals are created in the village every two years and attract a large number of visitors.

Previous musicals:

  • 2000: Rapunzel
  • 2002: Suaine - the water woman
  • 2004: Los Banditos
  • 2006: Ciella out of the clouds
  • 2008: Fairytale Night (summary of the previous four musicals, which were shown on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of Amönau in 2008).
  • 2010: Moon Land
  • 2013: Mad Night
  • 2016: Rapunzel
  • 2019: The Frog Prince

Web links

Commons : Amönau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Budget 2019 (statistical information) of the city of Wetter (PDF 5.4 MB)
  2. ↑ municipal area reform in Hesse; Mergers and integrations of municipalities of December 22, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No. 2 , p. 47 , point 50 para. 1 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.8 MB ]).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Amönau, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  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. ^ Georg Landau: Description of the Electorate of Hesse . T. Fischer, Kassel 1842, p. 389 ( online at HathiTrust's digital library ).
  6. ^ 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 .
  7. ^ Kur-Hessischer Staats- und Adress-Kalender: 1818 . Publishing house d. Orphanage, Kassel 1818, p.  123 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ↑ 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
  9. ↑ 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 ).
  10. ↑ 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 )
  11. ↑ 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 )
  12. ↑ Ursula Braasch-Schwersmann (Ed.): Weather, text booklet . Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-87707-642-4 , pp. 16 ( Online at Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen [PDF; 334 kB ]).
  13. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms and a flag of the municipality of Amönau, district of Marburg from 23 September 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 41 , p. 1950 , point 1362 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.1 MB ]).
  14. ^ "Court of Justice in Amönau", in: Court of Justice in Hessen, LAGIS
  15. ↑ a b Kulturelle Entdeckungen Mittelhessen , p. 221, Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen, Schnell + Steiner Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7954-1854-0
  16. ↑ Michael Losse: The Lahn castles and palaces , p. 42