Balkhausen (Seeheim-Jugenheim)

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Balkhausen
Municipality Seeheim-Jugenheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 3 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 32 ″  E
Height : 260 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.55 km²
Residents : 612  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 135 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Incorporated into: Youth home on Bergstrasse
Postal code : 64342
Area code : 06257
The Evangelical Church of Balkhausen
Notice board at the church

Balkhausen is a district of the Seeheim-Jugenheim community in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse .

Geographical location

Balkhausen is located in the Vorderen Odenwald in southern Hesse in the depression between the Melibokus massif in the west and the Felsberg massif in the east. The district encompasses the headwaters of the Quaddelbach (partly also called Quattelbach ), which leads in a northerly direction down the valley to Jugenheim , where it joins the Stettbach to the Landbach . The southern boundary follows the ridge that connects the two mountain ranges with a saddle height of around 285 meters. The southern outskirts are a few hundred meters away from this transition to the Mühltal , through which one reaches south along the Mühlbach via Hochstädten to Auerbach , which is a district of Bensheim on the Bergstrasse and on the eastern edge of the Upper Rhine Plain . Following the Quaddelbach up the valley to the east, you come either to the Felsenmeer or over the Kuralpe at the Staffeler Kreuz down to Staffel and on to Modautal .

To the east of the village towards Schmal-Beerbach lies the Quattelbach settlement , which was first documented as a hamlet in 1377 and has always been part of the Balkhausen district.

history

The first mention of the place known to this day comes from the year 1357. It is a document that was drawn up at Bickenbach Castle (today Alsbach Castle ) about the truce there. This also mentions lands in Balkhusen . In later documents Balkhausen is mentioned under the place names Balkhusen (1357), Blaghuss (1380-1388), Walkhosen and Balkhusen (1415), Balkhusen (1451), Balckhusen (1496) and Balckhausen (1553).

The Balkhausen Church is mentioned in the middle of the 14th century. It was always a branch church of Jugenheim. In 1571 Balkhausen was administered by the Auerbach Office and in 1621 by the Seeheim-Tannenberg Office.

After the Thirty Years' War , Balkhausen was completely extinct. Only in 1648 is there a resident in the chronicles, moved from the area. Only in 1660 there were 27 inhabitants again.

In the 18th century the structure of the place consolidates; one builds along the natural line of the stream, the Quaddelbach. A so-called Waldhufendorf is slowly emerging .

In 1714 the county of Erbach , which ruled over the Odenwald area for 500 years, was forced to sell Balkhausen as an accessory to the Seeheim-Tannenberg office to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt due to financial difficulties . It then remained in Hesse and its predecessor states to this day.

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

“Balkhausen (L. Bez. Bensheim) Lutheran Filialdorf; is 2 St. from Bensheim, and including Quatelbach has 37 houses and 274 inhabitants, all of which are Lutheran with the exception of 1 Catholic. The village belonged to the Daxberg Castle and was bought by Hesse from Erbach in 1714. "

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Balkhausen was incorporated into the municipality of Jugenheim ad Bergstrasse on December 31, 1971 on a voluntary basis . On December 31, 1977, the municipalities Seeheim and Jugenheim were then merged to Seeheim powerful state law together . Since January 1, 1978, the municipality has been officially called Seeheim-Jugenheim . For the district of Balkhausen, a local district with a local advisory board and mayor was set up in accordance with the Hessian municipal code.

Territorial history and administration

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

dishes

The competent jurisdiction of the first instance was:

Population development

• 1629: 009 house seats
• 1791: 130 inhabitants
• 1800: 150 inhabitants
• 1806: 171 inhabitants, 27 houses
• 1829: 274 inhabitants, 37 houses
• 1867: 302 inhabitants, 46 houses
Balkhausen: Population from 1791 to 2017
year     Residents
1791
  
 130
1800
  
 150
1806
  
 171
1829
  
 274
1834
  
 285
1840
  
 297
1846
  
 337
1852
  
 311
1858
  
 298
1864
  
 313
1871
  
 294
1875
  
 309
1885
  
 336
1895
  
 313
1905
  
 287
1910
  
 276
1925
  
 297
1939
  
 265
1946
  
 409
1950
  
 412
1956
  
 346
1961
  
 389
1967
  
 465
1970
  
 474
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 633
2017
  
 610
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 273 Lutheran (= 99.64%) and one Catholic (= 0.36%) residents
• 1961: 320 Protestant (= 82.26%), 63 Catholic (= 16.20%) residents

politics

For Balkhausen there is a local district (areas of the former municipality of Balkhausen) with a local advisory board and a local mayor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of five members. Since the local elections in 2016, it has had three members of the CDU , one member of the SPD and one member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . Mayor is Martin Bersch (CDU).

societies

In Balkhausen there are the following associations and interest groups: Balkhausen wind choir (formerly trombone choir), Balkhäuser Carneval Club (BCC), Balkhausen Volunteer Fire Brigade (FFB), Balkhausen Home and Improvement Association (HVB - formerly Transport and Improvement Association), Balkhauser Kerwemädcher and - borsch, rural women’s association Balkhausen, Sportclub Balkhausen (SCB).

leisure

The Pensionerweg is a popular short hiking trail, especially for older people. It is almost three kilometers long, is located southwest of the center of the district and runs in an almost circular manner from the Roesener Bridge to Landstrasse 3103. At the edge of the path are nine wooden benches (some with tables), which offer delightful views of the landscape of the front Odenwald.

Regular events

  • September: curb
  • October: Wine press festival and farmers' market

literature

  • zsgest. by Ludwig Helfrich: Balkhausen im Odenwald - In the course of time . Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar - 1995 ISBN 3-89570-037-1 .
  • Hans Buchmann: Castles and palaces on the mountain road . 2nd Edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-8062-0592-2 .
  • Hans Buchmann: Jugenheim, Balkhausen and the Heiligenberg . Traffic and Improvement Association Jugenheim an der Bergstrasse 1863 eV, Seeheim-Jugenheim 1978.

Web links

Commons : Balkhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Balkhausen, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Data from the Seeheim-Jugenheim residents' registration office, information from the press and public relations department of the Seeheim-Jugenheim community, September 20, 2018
  3. ↑ Certificate: HStAD inventory A 1 No. 21/2  In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
  4. ^ 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. 9 ( online at google books ).
  5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Darmstadt and Dieburg and the city of Darmstadt (GVBl. No. 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 , § 5 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  6. ^ 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. 382 .
  7. ↑ Karl-Heinz Meier barley, Karl Reinhard Hinkel: Hesse. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation . Ed .: Hessian Minister of the Interior. Bernecker, Melsungen 1977, DNB  770396321 , OCLC 180532844 , p. 243 .
  8. ↑ a b main statute. (PDF; 53 kB) §; 5. In: Website. Seeheim-Jugenheim municipality, accessed in February 2019 .
  9. ^ 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).
  10. ^ 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 ).
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  127 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  13. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  132 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  14. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 12 ( online at google books ).
  15. ↑ 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;
  16. ^ Local advisory board Balkhausen. In: website. Seeheim-Jugenheim municipality, accessed November 2019 .
  17. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Saturday, September 12, 2015, p. 21
  18. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Wednesday, October 12, 2016, p. 21