Dying fritz

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Dying fritz
community Sinntal
Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 46 ″  N , 9 ° 37 ′ 27 ″  E
Height : 355 m above sea level NHN
Area : 11.63 km²
Residents : 2009  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 173 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1974
Postal code : 36391
Area code : 06664
Low mountain range near Sterbfritz: The Stephanskuppe

Sterbfritz is the district and the seat of the municipal administration of the Sinntal municipality in the Main-Kinzig district of Hesse .

Geographical location

Kinzigquelle

Sterbfritz lies at an altitude of 355 m above sea ​​level , about 8.5 km southeast of Schlüchtern at the beginning of the Kinzig valley , on the foothills of the Spessart and Rhön low mountain ranges . In Sterbfritz, the Kinzig rises at the foot of the Steinfirst mountain (512 m) and flows into the Main in Hanau .

history

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of the place comes from the year 815. At that time it is said to be located in marcu Chirizichheimero . In 1167 the village, church and tithe belong to the Schlüchtern monastery . Sterbfritz belonged to the Altengronau court , which came to the Hanau rulership in 1333 as an imperial loan from an inheritance from the Rieneck family. The Schwarzenfels Office of the County of Hanau emerged from the court in the 15th century ; from 1459: County of Hanau-Münzenberg .

There are anecdotes of varying content about the origin of the name, which in its current form arouses associations that have nothing to do with its origin : In the Fuldaer Land, a driver loaded his wagon, harnessed his horse in front of it and set off. When the horse no longer wanted, he lured his horse on with the words "Come on Fritz!" (At this point on the journey is the place Gomfritz today ). So they ran over the mountains and through the valleys of the Vorder- Rhön , which was very exhausting for the horse. At some point the horse could no longer and the driver stopped and said pityingly: "Die Fritz!" There is also the variant that it was a crusader, and that the horse owner had promised the exhausted animal the Kinzig spring as watering.

Modern times

In 1643 the Schwarzenfels office - and with it Sterbfritz as well - was handed over to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel as a pledge along with other securities . It was supposed to vouch for Hanau's debts that arose in connection with the liberation of the city of Hanau from the siege by imperial troops in 1636 against Hessen-Kassel. The Counts of Hanau were no longer able to redeem this pledge from Hessen-Kassel. The office was administered like landgrave property in the following period. Even after Hessen-Kassel in 1736, after the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , which inherited the county of Hanau-Munzenberg, it was not reunited with it.

In 1803 the Landgraviate became the Electorate of Hesse . During the Napoleonic period, Sterbfritz was under French military administration from 1806, belonged to the Principality of Hanau from 1807 to 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, through which the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts, Sterbfritz belonged to the district of Schlüchtern . In 1866 the electorate was annexed by Prussia after the Austro-Prussian War .

After the Second World War, numerous displaced persons from the German eastern areas settled in Sterbfritz, which almost doubled the population from 1200 to 2000.

In 1958 there were brief efforts to rename the place because the place name was felt to be inappropriate, especially by new residents. Initially, the name Starkfried was under discussion , based on the historically documented etymology of the name, later proposals such as Strebfritz were submitted by citizens from all over the country . The discussion made the small town briefly in the national media; the name dispute was even received in Austria ( Neuer Kurier ). The request finally failed due to the rejection by the community assembly (which was almost exclusively made up of old citizens) in October 1958.

Territorial reform

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse on 1 December 1969, the formerly independent places Breuning, Sannerz and Weiperz were voluntarily incorporated . The enlarged community came under state law on July 1, 1974 to the community of Sinntal formed in 1972 and the newly formed Main-Kinzig district. Local districts with local advisory councils and local councilors were formed for all formerly independent communities .

Historical forms of names

In surviving documents, Sterbfritz was mentioned under the following names (the year of mentioning in brackets):

  • Starcfriedeshuson (815); Starcfriedeshuson was "Starkfriedshausen", that is, the dwellings of a person named Starkfried.
  • Stercfrides (1167)
  • Sterfrides (1295)
  • Sterpfritz (1549)

population

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1549: 0030 households
• 1587: 0034 riflemen, 9 philistines
• 1812: 0114 fire places, 828 souls
Sterbfritz: Population from 1812 to 2017
year     Residents
1812
  
 828
1834
  
 1,100
1840
  
 1,119
1846
  
 1,190
1852
  
 1,124
1858
  
 980
1864
  
 953
1871
  
 1,305
1875
  
 1,044
1885
  
 1,077
1895
  
 998
1905
  
 1,211
1910
  
 1,246
1925
  
 1,202
1939
  
 1,230
1946
  
 1,859
1950
  
 2,020
1956
  
 1,799
1961
  
 1,556
1967
  
 1,812
1969
  
 1,791
1979
  
 1,891
1990
  
 2.006
1995
  
 2,067
2000
  
 2,035
2005
  
 2.121
2010
  
 2.002
2015
  
 1,988
2017
  
 2.003
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; from 1969: Sinntal community

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 0884 Protestant (= 82.08%), 24 Catholic (= 2.23%), 169 Jewish (= 15.69%) residents
• 1961: 1414 Protestant (= 80.52%), 336 Catholic (= 19.13%) residents

religion

church

In the Middle Ages , the church of Sterbfritz, first mentioned in 1167, belonged to the parish of Ramholz . The church patronage lay with the Schlüchtern monastery.

In the middle of the 16th century, the Counts of Hanau-Münzenberg introduced the Reformation in their countries - initially in its Lutheran orientation (" cuius regio, eius religio "). In 1593 Count Philipp Ludwig II enforced the Reformed denomination . In the post-Reformation period, the parish in Sterbfritz belonged to the Schwarzenfels dean's office (former name: Protestant parish of the Schwarzenfels class ). From 1648 to 1683 the parish was part of the Mottgers parish . From 1663 a pastor was again in office in Sterbfritz. The parish of Breunings was parish here. In 1792 the medieval church was replaced by a new building.

Wild orchids on the Stephanskuppe

Jewish community

In Sterbfritz, documented for the first time in 1665, there was a Jewish community until 1938/42 , which maintained a synagogue , a mikveh and a primary school. The deceased were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Altengronau . 55 people who were born in Sterbfritz or who lived there for a long time were murdered in the Holocaust .

Culture and sights

There are rare, wild orchids in the vicinity of Sterbfritz .

traffic

Entrance building of the Sterbfritz train station

Sterbfritz station is on the Flieden – Gemünden line , with a connection to the Schlüchtern - Würzburg - Bamberg regional train line . Until the construction of the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg, the station was the highest station on the Munich – Hamburg connection. Trains from the high-speed line are diverted via Sterbfritz when the Landrückentunnel , the longest German railway tunnel, is impassable.

Personalities

In Sterbfritz were born and became known beyond its borders:

literature

  • Max Dessauer: From a carefree time . Frankfurt 1962.
  • Georg W. Hanna: The German Empire and Kiautschou. Gustav Adolf Baron Schenck zu Schweinsberg (1843–1909) brought Kiautschou to the Empire . In: Geldgeschichtliche Nachrichten 14 (1979), No. 69, p. 33.
  • Monica Kingreen: Lazarus Hecht from Sterbfritz - a Jewish peddler. In: Messages from the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Bergwinkel e. V. Schlüchtern Vol. 14 (1998), pp. 111-119.
  • Thomas Müller: Max Dessauer (1893–1962) . A dying Jew, his life and his memories of the "carefree time". In: Messages from the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Bergwinkel e. V. Schlüchtern Vol. 14 (1998), pp. 1-110.
  • Matthias Nistahl: Studies on the history of the Schlüchtern monastery in the Middle Ages . Diss. Darmstadt a. Marburg, 1986, pp. 57, 94, 165, 168, 200, 202.
  • Heinrich Reimer: Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen . Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 14, 1926, p. 458.
  • Literature about Sterbfritz in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Sterbfritz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Inhabitants, dates and directions. In: Internet presence. Sinntal community, archived from the original ; accessed in June 2018 . (Data from web archive).
  2. ↑ Ernst Müller-Marschhausen: Sterbfritz or Starkfried - The dispute over the village name 1958 . In: Bergwinkel-Bote, Schlüchtern 2019, pp. 119–129
  3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Gelnhausen, Hanau and Schlüchtern and the city of Hanau as well as the recirculation of the cities of Fulda, Hanau and Marburg (Lahn) concerning questions (GVBl. 330-26) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 9 , p. 149 , §§ 15 and 18 ( online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
  4. ^ 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. 376 .
  5. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 529 kB) §; 5. In: Website. Sinntal community, accessed February 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b c d Sterbfritz, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  7. ↑ Budget statute for the 2019 budget (PDF; 2.8 MB) Statistical information. Sinntal community, p. 41 , archived from the original ; accessed in January 2019 .
  8. ↑ Evangelical Church from 1792 (picture)
  9. ^ Jewish community Sterbfritz on Alemannia Judaica
  10. ↑ List of nature reserves in which orchids occur.
  11. ^ ICE accident April 26, 2008