Bernbach (open court)

Bernbach Community Freigericht Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 17 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 38 ″ E
Height :	155 (149-183) m
Residents :	1988 (Jul 30, 2019)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1970
Postal code :	63579
Primaries :	06055, 06051
	Church of St. Bartholomew

Bernbach is a district of the municipality of Freigericht in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse .

Geographical location

Bernbach is located in the Spessart Nature Park , 155 m above sea level , 6 km southwest of Gelnhausen , directly on the border with Bavaria .

history

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of Bernbach comes from a document from the year 850. A castle complex is believed to be in the northeastern district of Lindenberg . The village belonged to the Somborn court , which in turn was part of the Alzenau free court . This was directly imperial , but the empire pledged or forgave the area again and again. So the rulers changed, including the lords and later counts of Hanau , the lords of Randenburg , the lords of Eppstein and Kurmainz .

The chapel and today's church was under the patronage of the Apostle Bartholomäus and was parish in Somborn .

Historical place name

Berbeche (around 850)
Bernbach (1167)

Early modern age

In 1500 the elector-archbishop of Mainz and the counts of Hanau-Münzenberg received the free court and with it Bernbach together. It was now ruled as a condominate . Since ecclesiastical jurisdiction remained with the Archbishops of Mainz at the time of the condominium , the Reformation - in contrast to the County of Hanau-Münzenberg - could not prevail here. Bernbach remained Roman Catholic .

In 1740, the condominium was dissolved with a contract called the " Partification Recess ". Bernbach fell to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , which had inherited the Counts of Hanau in 1736. The village has now been assigned to their office in Altenhaßlau .

Modern times

In 1803 the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel was elevated to the status of the Electorate of Hesse . During the Napoleonic period, the Altenhaßlau office was initially under French military administration from 1806, belonged to the Principality of Hanau from 1807–1810 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, by which the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts, the office of Altenhaßlau became part of the newly formed Gelnhausen district . With the annexation of Kurhessen by the Kingdom of Prussia after the lost war of 1866 , Bernbach also became Prussian.

For January 1, 1970 Bernbach was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse on a voluntary basis with other communities to the new community Freigericht together . At the same time, the Gelnhausen district became part of the Main-Kinzig district.

Residents

In 1592 32 households and in 1634 19 “controlling households” were counted.

Bernbach: Population from 1834 to 2012
year		Residents
1834	461
1840	466
1846	488
1852	485
1858	441
1864	434
1871	393
1875	435
1885	428
1895	480
1905	563
1910	606
1925	715
1939	855
1946	1,083
1950	1,159
1956	1,185
1961	1,223
1967	1,436
1970	1,484
2012	2.118
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: 1. The population of the municipalities 1834–1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968. Population statistics of the Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt

politics

Local advisory board

After the independent municipalities merged to form the municipality of Freigericht in 1970, the individual municipal councils were dissolved and replaced by local advisory boards. The local councils in the individual districts are to be heard in all important decisions that affect the respective district and have the right to make suggestions. The members of the local councils elect a local mayor from among their number as the chairman of the local council . The local councils will be dissolved at the end of the municipal electoral period in 2021.

Parties and constituencies		2016	2011	2006	2001	1997
Parties and constituencies		Seats	Seats	Seats	Seats	Seats
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	1	2	3	3	3
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	1	0	1	1	1
UWG	Independent voter community Freigericht	3	3	1	1	1
total		5	5	5	5	5

Mayor

Alois Aul, CDU (1970–1991)
Heribert Huth, CDU (1991–1997)
Gerda Trageser, CDU (1997-2008)
Wigbert Trageser, CDU (2009–2011)
Gerhard Pfahler, UWG (2011-2021)

Mayor of the municipality of Bernbach

Seikel (1845–1869)
Matthäus Weigand (1874–1890)
Carl Joseph Kunkel (1890–1909)
Matthäus Trageser (1909-1918)
Jakob Weigand (1918–1933)
Anton Kunkel (1933–1934)
Karl Otto Aul (1934–1945)
Siegfried Kempf (1945–1946)
Edmund Rieth (1946-1958)
Julius Iffland (1958-1970)

Infrastructure

State road 3202 and former county road 983 meet in Bernbach . State road 3269 runs directly on the outskirts.
From 1904 to 1963 the village had a train station on the Freigerichter Kleinbahn .
The Rainbow School is the local elementary school .
Headquartered in the district Bernbach SV 1919 Bernbach played in the Oberliga Hessen and was considered one of the best "village associations" Hessen.

literature

Ludwig Bickell : The architectural and art monuments in the administrative district of Cassel . Volume 1: Alhard von Drach: Gelnhausen district . Marburg 1901, p. 122.
Heinrich Reimer : Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen . Marburg 1926., p. 39.

Web links

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

Website of the community
"Bernbach, Main-Kinzig-Kreis". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Literature about Bernbach in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

^ Community registration

^ Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 380.

^ Uta Löwenstein: County Hanau . In: Knights, Counts and Princes - Secular Dominions in the Hessian Area approx. 900-1806 = Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63. Marburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 , p. 212 .

↑ Amalgamation of the municipalities Altenmittlau, Bernbach, Horbach, Neuses and Somborn in the district of Gelnhausen to form the new municipality "Freigericht" on December 17, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 1 , p. 5 , point 8 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.0 MB ]).

↑ Amendment of the main statutes - local advisory board deleted. Notice of the community, accessed on February 19, 2020

[1] Community registration

[2] Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 380.

[3] Uta Löwenstein: County Hanau . In: Knights, Counts and Princes - Secular Dominions in the Hessian Area approx. 900-1806 = Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63. Marburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 , p. 212 .

[4] Amalgamation of the municipalities Altenmittlau, Bernbach, Horbach, Neuses and Somborn in the district of Gelnhausen to form the new municipality "Freigericht" on December 17, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 1 , p. 5 , point 8 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.0 MB ]).