Berfa (Alsfeld)

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Berfa
City of Alsfeld
Berfa coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 27 ″  N , 9 ° 21 ′ 27 ″  E
Height : 302  (303–331)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.85 km²
Residents : 513  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density : 75 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 36304
Area code : 06639
Local school (left) and Berfa Protestant church (right)
Local school (left) and Berfa Protestant church (right)

Berfa is a district of Alsfeld in the Vogelsbergkreis in central Hesse .

geography

Berfa is located northeast of the main town on the small river Berf , which gave the place its name, and in the valley between the Bechtelsberg and the Steinfirst. In the hit state roads 3157 and 3295th In the south leading National Highway 5 to Berfa over. Berfa is best known because of the BAB motorway service station of the same name on this motorway.

history

The area was already settled 3000 to 4000 years ago. The village, then with the place name berfe , was first mentioned in documents in 1282. Before that, the place was called biberaffa , which means beaver water . In 1750 the place had 41 homes and 211 inhabitants, in 1833 there were already 380.

In the 19th century Berfa belonged to the district of Ziegenhain .

Territorial reform

On August 1, 1972, Berfa was incorporated into the city of Alsfeld by state law as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Berfa was located or 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. In Ziegenhain, the district Ziegenhain was set up for administration and the Oberaula district court was the court of first instance responsible for Berfa. 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 Marburg district court became the royal Prussian district court Oberaula 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 Oberaula 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 of 1879, the district court remained under his name. From July 15, 1943, the Oheraula District Court was only a branch of the Treysa District Court and from March 1947 a branch of the Neukirchen District Court . The branch was closed on June 30, 1969. The district of the former Oberaula district court went on that day in the district of the Treysa district court, which was renamed Schwalmstadt district court in 1970. 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

• 1585: 42 house seats
• 1639: 17 house seats, 3 widows.
• 1681: 37 house seats, 4 board, one bachelor.
• 1750: 41 houses with 211 residents.
Berfa: Population from 1750 to 2015
year     Residents
1750
  
 211
1834
  
 370
1840
  
 404
1846
  
 417
1852
  
 444
1858
  
 441
1864
  
 483
1871
  
 489
1875
  
 472
1885
  
 523
1895
  
 519
1905
  
 548
1910
  
 600
1925
  
 633
1939
  
 669
1946
  
 862
1950
  
 853
1956
  
 708
1961
  
 754
1967
  
 751
1970
  
 728
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2006
  
 636
2011
  
 588
2015
  
 537
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 2006 :; 2011 census ; 2015:

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1861: 465 Evangelical Reformed residents, 6 Jews.
• 1885: 520 Protestant, no Catholic, 3 Jewish residents
• 1961: 721 Protestant and 31 Roman Catholic residents

Gainful employment

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1750: Workforce: two tailors, a bricklayer, six linen weavers, two millers, two blacksmiths, a messenger, two day laborers, two brandy distillers and pourers, a landlord.
• 1838: Families: 30 agriculture, 21 businesses, 28 day laborers.
• 1961: Labor force: 173 agriculture and forestry, 165 manufacturing, 28 trade and transport, 18 services and other.

religion

ev. church in Alsfeld-Berfa

The Protestant church in Berfa is a simple hall building from 1748. A Gothic window arch, which was uncovered in 2002 during work on the foundation walls, refers to an older building, probably in the same location. The church belongs to the Protestant parish of Bechtelsberg, which is part of the Ziegenhain parish in the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Berfa, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Budget 2018, preliminary report. (PDF) City of Alsfeld, accessed March 2020 .
  3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Alsfeld and Lauterbach districts (GVBl. II 330-12) of August 1, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 215 , § 2 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 347 .
  5. ^ 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).
  6. ^ The affiliation of the Neukirchen office based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hesse : 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.  84 ( 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. ↑ Berfa district on the website of the city of Alsfeld, accessed in October 2017.
  13. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  14. ↑ 2017 budget , preliminary report.
  15. ^ The Protestant parish ( Memento from February 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )