Berkach (Hesse)

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Berkach
City of Groß-Gerau
Berkach coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 53 ′ 59 ″  N , 8 ° 29 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 87 m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.8 km²
Residents : 1128  (June 30, 2017)
Population density : 403 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 64521
Area code : 06152
The old City Hall
The old City Hall
Protestant church

Berkach (dialect: Bergoff ) is a district of the district town of Groß-Gerau in the southern Hessian district of Groß-Gerau .

Geographical location

In the north of the Hessian Ried plain , Berkach lies in a largely silted up meander loop formed by the Scheidgraben in the south and the Landgraben in the east and north, which is open to the west and which the Neckar formed 2000 years ago when it still flowed into the Rhine at Trebur . This loop cuts off the Mühlgraben , which runs through the village.

The closest localities are Dornberg in the north, Büttelborn in the east, Dornheim in the south and Wallerstädten in the west .

history

middle Ages

The earliest surviving documentary evidence documents the existence of Birchhe or Birchehe 1035. Berkach was part of Germaremarcha . At that time, King Konrad II gave the Fulda monastery a property there. Further information on the ownership structure in Berkach can be found

The place names in the historical documents include Bercach, villa (1246), Bercka (up to 1403), Berckauch (1419), Birkawe (1468), Berckbach (1508), Berckhof (1557) and Bergach (1738).

Early modern age

When the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided under the heirs of Philip the Magnanimous in 1567, Berkach came to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt . Even its first regent, Georg I , caused the collection of land law of the Upper County of Katzenelnbogen , compiled by his chancellor, Johann Kleinschmidt , to become legally binding there as well. She was in Berkach as a particular law , subsidiary supplemented by the Common Law , to the end of the 19th century. It was not until January 1, 1900, when the Civil Code , which was uniformly valid throughout the German Reich , that the old particular law was suspended.

The authorized centers were

In 1672 the village was "burned down by German soldiers".

Modern times

In 1806 the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt became the Grand Duchy of Hessen . Here Berkach was in the province of Starkenburg (since 1816), in the Dornberg district . In the course of the administrative reform of 1821, the offices were dissolved, district councils were formed for administrative tasks and district courts were set up for jurisdiction. The district of Dornberg was now responsible for Berkach and the district court of Großgerau , which from 1879 had been the district court of Groß-Gerau , was responsible for jurisdiction . In 1829 Berkach had 35 houses and 186 inhabitants. All but two were Lutheran , one Reformed , one Roman Catholic .

Circles were created in 1832 . Berkach was now in the Groß-Gerau district. The provinces, the counties and the administrative districts of the Grand Duchy were abolished on July 31, 1848 and replaced by administrative districts, but this was reversed on May 12, 1852. As a result, Berkach belonged to the Darmstadt administrative district between 1848 and 1852 , before the Groß-Gerau district was again responsible for the higher-level administration. The place remained there until today through all further administrative reforms.

The municipality of Berkach joined the city of Groß-Gerau as part of the regional reform in Hesse on December 31, 1971 . Local districts were not formed.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

• 1629: 23 house seats
• 1791: 170 inhabitants
• 1800: 145 inhabitants
• 1806: 193 inhabitants, 35 houses
• 1829: 186 inhabitants, 35 houses
• 1867: 241 inhabitants, 38 houses
Berkach: Population from 1791 to 2017
year     Residents
1791
  
 170
1800
  
 145
1806
  
 193
1829
  
 186
1834
  
 211
1840
  
 212
1846
  
 202
1852
  
 209
1858
  
 240
1864
  
 232
1871
  
 247
1875
  
 260
1885
  
 266
1895
  
 285
1905
  
 323
1910
  
 337
1925
  
 334
1939
  
 347
1946
  
 535
1950
  
 545
1956
  
 466
1961
  
 487
1967
  
 555
1970
  
 603
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 963
2013
  
 1,034
2017
  
 1,128
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 ; after 2011 website Groß-Gerau (web archive)

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 284 Lutheran (= 99.30%), 1 Reformed (= 0.35%), and 1 Catholic (= 0.35%) inhabitant
• 1961: 392 (= 80.49%) Protestant , 79 (= 16.22%) Roman Catholic residents

Culture and sights

The buildings on Rathausstrasse that characterize the townscape are the Evangelical Chapel and the old town hall from 1597, a stately half-timbered building with rich beams and carvings.

In 2016 Berkach took part for the first time in the " The circle rolls " campaign , which takes place every two years . The bicycle route ran right through the town, the B44 was closed to car traffic. Many associations and institutions took part with stands and exhibitions.

Transport and infrastructure

Touching the town center in the west, Bundesstraße 44 connects Berkach with the town center Groß-Gerau. From this traffic artery branching off to the east, the district road K 160 crosses the town center in the direction of Büttelborn.

A youth club is housed in the old town hall. There is also a village community center on site and a kindergarten adjacent to it.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Berkach, Groß-Gerau district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Groß-Gerau in numbers. In: website. City of Groß-Gerau, accessed March 2019 .
  3. ^ Family Sunday in Berkach ( Memento from October 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Darmstädter Echo, Wednesday, October 9, 2014.
  4. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 108f. and enclosed card.
  5. ^ A b c d 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. 16 ( online at google books ).
  6. ^ Ordinance on the division of the country into districts and district courts of July 14, 1821 . In: Hessisches Regierungsblatt, p. 404.
  7. ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: amalgamation and structure of municipalities of December 29, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No. 3 , p. 84, 87 , point 93, no. 60 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.0 MB ]).
  8. ↑ 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. 253 .
  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.  120 ( 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.  120 ( 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. In: 2011 census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  16. ↑ Groß-Gerau in numbers. In: website. City of Groß-Gerau, archived from the original ; accessed in March 2019 (values ​​from web archive).
  17. ↑ A day of rest in Dornheim. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse . May 4, 2016, accessed December 4, 2018 .