Asbach (Modautal)

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Asbach
Modautal municipality
Asbach coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 36 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 9 ″  E
Height : 226 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.68 km²
Residents : 728  (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 198 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 64397
Area code : 06167

Asbach (in the local dialect: Aschbach ) is a district of the Modautal municipality in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse . The place is in the front Odenwald . State road 3106 runs northeast of the village .

history

The brothers Gerlach and Konrad von Asbach are mentioned in two documents from 1219 and 1222 . Since they occur together with witnesses from the Odenwald , there is a likelihood that it is Asbach bei Lichtenberg. Since the certificate is issued in Lichtenberg, it is undoubtedly Asbach (Darmstadt / Dieburg district).

The village is mentioned for the first time after 1331.

After the Thirty Years War in 1650, only two families lived in Asbach. There were those of Johannes Rutz and those of Martin Boßler . The latter was still settled in Asbach in 1659 and is named six years later in 1665 as a resident of Rodau .

1722 sell the brothers Johann Moritz Friedrich of Wallbrunn the Landgrave Ernst Ludwig of Hesse castle and estate to Ernsthofen with the associated villages, namely Ernsthofen, Asbach, Hoxhohl , Klein-Bieberau and Neutsch , along with gradients in twelve other places, including top-Modau , Rodau , Waldhausen , Billings and Meßbach .

Asbach belonged to the judicial district of the district of Oberramstadt . The centering was divided into so-called "rice car," each of which a top magistrate board that the Zentgrafen were subordinated. Asbach belonged to the "Oberramstädter Reiswagen", which also included the places Ober-Ramstadt with its mills and the German residents in Hahn and Wembach , Rohrbach , Dilshofen , Ober-Modau , Nieder-Modau and Frankenhausen . The entire district of Oberramstadt was assigned to the Lichtenberg office . This classification existed until the beginning of the 19th century.

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

»Aßbach (L. Bez. Reinheim) Lutheran Filialdorf; is 2 St. from Reinheim and has 27 houses and 223 inhabitants, all of which are Lutheran except for 2 Catholics. Among these are 12 farmers and 18 tradesmen. - From this village the Lord possessed of Wallbrunn half, 1 / 4 Rodensteinstraße and 1 / 4 Kotwitz, the latter two parts came finally to Wallbrunn and the whole 1722 in Hesse. "

In 1977 Asbach became the first state winner in the competition Our village should become more beautiful .

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent municipality was merged with Modautal and other municipalities by state law on January 1, 1977 to form the new municipality of Modautal. For Asbach, a local district with local advisory board and mayor was formed according to the Hessian municipal code.

Historical forms of names

In historical documents, the place is documented under the following place names (the year of mention in brackets):

  • Aspach, the lit undir Lichtenberg (after 1331)
  • Aspach, the lit undir Lichtenberg (1403)
  • Aßpach (1430)
  • Aspach (1516)
  • Assbach (1850)

Territorial history and administration

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

dishes

Asbach belonged to the Oberramstadt district court . In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Darmstadt” was set up as a court of second instance for the Principality of Starkenburg . The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or the landlords . The Lichtenberg Office was responsible for Asbach. 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 . The main courts had lost their function.

With the formation of the regional courts in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the regional court of Lichtenberg was the court of first instance from 1821 . It followed:

Population development

• 1629: 008 house seats
• 1791: 124 inhabitants
• 1800: 146 inhabitants
• 1806: 153 inhabitants, 21 houses
• 1829: 223 inhabitants, 27 houses
• 1867: 280 inhabitants, 42 houses
Asbach: Population from 1791 to 2018
year     Residents
1791
  
 124
1796
  
 137
1800
  
 146
1806
  
 153
1829
  
 223
1834
  
 212
1840
  
 242
1846
  
 300
1852
  
 241
1858
  
 250
1864
  
 271
1871
  
 290
1875
  
 304
1885
  
 296
1895
  
 254
1905
  
 288
1910
  
 312
1925
  
 300
1939
  
 295
1946
  
 475
1950
  
 434
1956
  
 405
1961
  
 415
1967
  
 519
1970
  
 289
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2007
  
 698
2010
  
 656
2011
  
 663
2015
  
 691
2018
  
 719
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources: 1796; Modautal municipality :; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 221 Lutheran (= 99.10%) and 2 Catholic (= 0.90%) residents
• 1961: 344 Protestant (= 82.89%), 69 Catholic (= 16.63%) residents

politics

For Asbach there is a local district (areas of the former municipality of Asbach) with a local advisory board and local head according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of seven members. Andre Ruppel has been the mayor since the local elections in 2016.

Regular events

  • August: curb
  • September: summer party

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Asbach, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local lexicon for Hessen (as of June 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on June 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Numbers and facts. In: website. Modautal municipality, accessed November 2019 .
  3. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Thursday, August 11, 2016, p. 24
  4. ↑ Excerpt from the letter from the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt by Dr. Eckhardt on May 17, 1971 for the first appointment of Asbach on the occasion of the 750th anniversary in 1971
  5. ↑ Herbert Wilhelm Debor: family name from the Hessian Odenwald . Ed .: District Committee of the Odenwaldkreis - Archive for Home Care. 1st edition. Michelstadt-Steinbach 1988, OCLC 722294376 , p. 34 .
  6. ↑ Richard M. Cochran: The von der Au genealogy - German ancestors and American descendants of Johannes and Elisabeth von der Au of Ernsthofen, Hesse-Darmstadt, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and Union County, Ohio - including the allied families of Ruhl, Weidman, and Kinnel . New Concord, Ohio 1984, OCLC 12009490 , p. 258 .
  7. ^ Ulrich Kirschnick: The population of the district of Ober Ramstadt-Lichtenberg from 1659 to 1695 . Ed .: Hessian Family Studies Association . tape 75 researches on Hessian family and local history. Darmstadt 1991, OCLC 31205965 , p. 12, 68 .
  8. ^ Ernsthofen, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of July 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 1, 2012 .
  9. ↑ rice car = provision of freight cars, including draft animals and servants for campaigns.
  10. ^ Ferdinand Dieffenbach: The Grand Duchy of Hesse in the past and present . Literary Institution, Darmstadt 1877, p. 254 ( online at Google Books ).
  11. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  123 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  12. ^ 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. 6 ( online at google books ).
  13. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Darmstadt and Dieburg and the city of Darmstadt (GVBl. II 330–334) of July 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 318 , § 9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  14. ↑ a b main statute. (PDF; 36 kB) §; 6. In: Website. Modautal municipality, accessed February 2019 .
  15. ^ 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).
  16. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 1 . Großherzoglicher Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1862, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 894925483 , p. 43 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  17. ↑ a b List of offices, places, houses, population. (1806) HStAD inventory E 8 A No. 352/4. In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), as of February 6, 1806.
  18. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  125 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  19. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 4 ( online at google books ).
  20. ^ Fritz Gevert: The Asbacher "Selen Tawell" (population register) from 1796. In: Odenwälder Nachrichten. dated March 14, 1931.
  21. ↑ Budgets for 2017 to 2019 (preliminary report: Population statistics). (PDF) In: Website. Municipality of Modautal, p. 30 ff , accessed in July 2019 .
  22. ↑ 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;
  23. ↑ Mayor. In: website. Modautal municipality, accessed November 2019 .
  24. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Thursday, August 11, 2016, p. 24
  25. ↑ Darmstädter Echo, Saturday, September 2, 2017, p. 18.