Berghofen (Battenberg)

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Berghofen
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 16 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 19 ″  E
Height : 325 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.74 km²
Residents : 302  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 53 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 35088
Area code : 06452

Berghofen is a district of Battenberg (Eder) in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

geography

The place is in northern Hesse , embedded in the Ederbergland , on the B 236 and is still dominated by agriculture today.

history

The place was first mentioned at the beginning of the 9th century. A noble family "von Berghofen" can be traced back to the 13th century, although its position of power in the town is not clear. Later the von Biedenfeld and von Dunzelshausen estates have goods on site, at times also those of Fleckenbühl. The von Biedenfeld finally prevailed. Around 1300 Siegfried von Biedenfeld inherited a castle seat (manor or small castle) in Berghofen from his father-in-law Heinrich Scharre, the importance of which was lost in the 16th century. Today its location is unknown. From 1476 Berghofen belonged to the Battenberg office .

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Berghofen in 1830:

"Berghofen (L. Bez. Battenberg) evangel. Branch village; is 1 ⁄ 2 St. from Battenberg, has 70 houses and 415 inhabitants, who are Protestant except for 21 Jews. In the area there are broken red sandstones. "

On December 31, 1970, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the previously independent municipality of Berghofen was incorporated into the city of Battenberg on a voluntary basis . For Berghofen, as well as for all formerly independent municipalities and the core municipality, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was set up.

The evang. The church was built in 1912–1913 by architect Ludwig Hofmann (1862–1933) from Herborn.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

• 1502: 11 men
• 1577: 033 house seats
• 1712: 040 households
• 1791: 279 inhabitants
• 1800: 279 inhabitants
• 1806: 336 inhabitants, 60 houses
• 1829: 415 inhabitants, 70 houses
Berghofen: Population from 1791 to 2015
year     Residents
1791
  
 279
1800
  
 279
1806
  
 336
1829
  
 415
1834
  
 445
1840
  
 447
1846
  
 450
1852
  
 481
1858
  
 474
1864
  
 451
1871
  
 408
1875
  
 417
1885
  
 396
1895
  
 367
1905
  
 374
1910
  
 355
1925
  
 307
1939
  
 336
1946
  
 479
1950
  
 473
1956
  
 397
1961
  
 384
1967
  
 258
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 327
2015
  
 303
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: 394 Protestant (= 94.94%), 21 Jewish (= 5.06%) residents
• 1885: 390 Protestant (= 98.48%), 6 Jewish (= 1.52%) residents
• 1961: 333 Protestant (= 86.72%), 48 Catholic (= 12.50%) residents

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Berghofen, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Population figures . In: website. City of Battenberg, accessed March 2020 .
  3. ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt August 1830, OCLC 312528126 , p. 24 ( online at google books ).
  4. ^ Incorporation of the Berghofen community into the town of Battenberg / Eder in the Frankenberg district on January 5, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 3 , p. 110 , point 117 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).
  5. ↑ main statute. (DOCX; 26 kB) §; 5. In: Website. Municipality of Battenberg (Eder), accessed in March 2019 .
  6. ^ 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).
  7. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  8. ↑ The affiliation of the Battenberg 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 .
  9. ↑ a b Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 27 ff ., § 40 point 6e) ( online at google books ).
  10. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  236 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  11. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  182 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  12. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  194 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  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;