Bersrod

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Bersrod
Municipality Reiskirchen
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 4 ″  N , 8 ° 51 ′ 7 ″  E
Height : 261 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.28 km²
Residents : 840  (June 30, 2019)
Population density : 196 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 35447
Area code : 06408

Bersrod is a district of the municipality of Reiskirchen in the central Hessian district of Gießen with around 800 inhabitants.

Geographical location

The place is about 12 km east of Gießen , on the western edge of the Vogelsberg , in the Busecker Tal , directly on the A5 . Bersrod has municipal boundaries with the neighboring towns of Beuern , Grossen-Buseck , Geilshausen, Reinhardshain, Winnerod and Reiskirchen.

history

The place name speaks for a Franconian origin of the settlement, created by clearing . The name possibly refers to a clearing by a monk with the name Berno, more details cannot be verified at this point in time. The first documentary mention can be dated to the year 1276 (± 10).

The statistical, topographical and historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on the Buseck Valley in 1830 :

“Busecker Thal (L. Bez. Giessen) area. The Busecker Thal consists of 9 towns: Altenbuseck, Großenbuseck, Albach, Beuern, Bersrod, Burkhardsfelden, Oppenrod, Reißkirchen and Rödchen, which together have 5675 inhabitants. - The foursome and heirs of Buseck came under landgrave jurisdiction in 1332. But they never wanted to be seen as country residents , but as immediate imperial residents. Large disputes arose over this in 1547, and in the settlement made in 1576 the residents recognized the sovereign sovereignty of the landgrave, but the jurisdiction of the von Buseck was recognized by the landgrave as an undisputed imperial fiefdom. In 1706, new controversies caused the imperial Reichshofrath to repeal the settlement and to declare the Busecker valley to be an immediate imperial fiefdom, to penalize those with 50 marks of solder as a penalty, and to transfer the upholding of this resolution to several neighboring imperial estates. The Landgrave then turned to the Imperial Assembly at Regensburg, whereupon the Hesse-Darmstadt House of Hesse-Darmstadt was given jurisdiction, along with fiefdom, as a permanent imperial commission, and the settlement of 1576 was confirmed. In 1827, the Baron von Buseck family ceded the patrimonial jurisdiction to which they were entitled in the Busecker Thal to the state. "

as well as about Bersrod:

"Bersrode (L. Bez. Giessen) evangel. Branch village; is 2 1 ⁄ 2  St. from Giessen, and belongs to the baron. The von Buseck family has 58 houses and 324 inhabitants, who are except 1 Catholic Protestant. The place has a church and was part of the church in Winnerod ( L. Bez. Grünberg ) as early as the 15th century . In 1827 the patrimonial judicial and police rights were ceded to the state. "

Territorial reform

On January 1, 1977, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the previously independent municipality of Bersrod was incorporated into the municipality of Reiskirchen according to the law on the reorganization of the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen . For Bersrod, as for all parts of the town, a local district with a local advisory board and mayor was set up.

economy

The place used to be dominated by agriculture, but this rural structure has changed significantly in the past 50 years. In the past, almost all of the residents were engaged in full or part-time farming, but today there is no longer a single farm in the center of Bersrod. The cultivation of the usable areas is only carried out by a few larger companies. " Aussiedlerhöfe " - instead, which are mostly outside of the old towns. The residents of Bersrod only cultivate a few smaller areas for their own use, such as gardens or smaller fields or areas for keeping and breeding horses. Nowadays, most of the residents work in the catchment area of ​​the cities of Gießen, Marburg and Frankfurt am Main .

Historical forms of names

In documents that have survived, Bersrod was mentioned under the following place names (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

  • Birnesrode, in (1266 / 76–1286 / 89) [Eckhardt, Die Oberhessischen Klöster 3, 1, Nr. 980]
  • Berensrode (before 1282/83) (early XIV) [Wagner, Die eppsteinschen Lehensverzeichnis, p. 101 No. 263]
  • Bernsrode, to (1359) [Document book of the Arnsburg Monastery 3, No. 532]

Territorial history and administration

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

Courts since 1803

In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Gießen” was set up as a court of second instance for the province of Upper Hesse . The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or the registrar and thus the "Patrimonial Court of the Barons of Buseck" in Grossen-Buseck was responsible for Bersrod. The court court was the second instance court for normal civil disputes, and the first instance for civil family law cases and criminal cases. The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate .

With the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806, this function was retained, while the tasks of the first instance were transferred to the newly created regional and city courts in 1821 as part of the separation of jurisdiction and administration. But it was not until 1827 that patrimonial jurisdiction was exercised by the " Landgericht Gießen " on behalf of the barons. As a result of the March Revolution of 1848, with the "Law on the Relationships of the Classes and Noble Court Lords" of April 15, 1848, the special rights of the class were finally repealed.

On the occasion of the introduction of the Courts Constitution Act on October 1, 1879, the previous regional and city courts in the Grand Duchy of Hesse were repealed and replaced by local courts in the same place, as was the case with the higher courts, whose function was now taken over by the newly established regional courts. The districts of the city and regional court of Gießen were merged and now, together with the towns of Allertshausen and Climbach , which previously belonged to the district court of Grünberg , formed the district of the newly created district court of Gießen, which has since been part of the district of the newly established regional court of Gießen . Between January 1, 1977 and August 1, 1979, the court was called "District Court Lahn-Gießen", which was renamed "District Court Gießen" when the city of Lahn was dissolved. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the superordinate instances of the District Court of Gießen, the Regional Court of Gießen , the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main and the Federal Court of Justice are the last instance.

population

Population development

• 1577: 34 house seats
• 1630: 6 two-horse, 17 single-horse farm workers, 7 widows, 6 guardians
• 1669: 129 souls
• 1742: a clergyman / official, 37 subjects, 5 young men, 2 inmates / Jews.
• 1800: 241 inhabitants
• 1806: 293 inhabitants, 48 ​​houses
• 1829: 324 inhabitants, 58 houses
• 1867: 386 inhabitants, 73 houses
Bersrod: Population from 1669 to 2018
year     Residents
1669
  
 129
1804
  
 256
1830
  
 324
1834
  
 342
1840
  
 365
1846
  
 397
1852
  
 398
1858
  
 385
1864
  
 393
1871
  
 382
1875
  
 386
1885
  
 390
1895
  
 385
1905
  
 389
1910
  
 408
1925
  
 432
1939
  
 442
1946
  
 589
1950
  
 622
1956
  
 596
1961
  
 616
1967
  
 693
1970
  
 702
1995
  
 759
2000
  
 776
2003
  
 817
2005
  
 795
2010
  
 759
2011
  
 714
2016
  
 783
2018
  
 821
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 1970 :; 2011 census

Bersrod also shows the demographic change and, ideally, the ambivalence of the development of Hessian villages and thus the rural tradition as a whole: the houses in the village center are falling into disrepair or orphaned, as the younger generation moves to the new development areas created on the outskirts or leaves their hometown entirely. At the same time, however, there is a renaissance of old traditions. The old bakery, which has not been used for years, has been used in its function again for many years and thus serves to maintain traditional rural structures.

Gainful employment

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1961: Labor force: 142 agriculture and forestry, 107 prod. Trade, 46 trade, transport and communication, 42 services and other.

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1830: 323 Protestant and one Catholic resident
• 1961: 560 Protestant, 56 Roman Catholic residents

Culture and sights

  • The village center - Lindenplatz - is an oval square surrounded by linden trees , in the middle of which there is a fountain and at the beginning a traditional Middle Hessian bakery . It is considered to be one of the most beautiful village squares in Hesse. In the immediate vicinity is the former school (in which the local youth center and the training rooms of the volunteer fire brigade are located) and the emergency rooms of the Bersrod fire brigade. The village festivals take place at regular intervals on Lindenplatz.
  • The inhabitants of Bersrod have the nickname "Kuckucks" or "Bersröder Kuckucks". The origin and meaning of this nickname are obscure. Since the renovation of the Lindenplatz and with it the village fountain, the "Bersröder cuckoo" has been immortalized on the village fountain by chiselling.
  • Probably the oldest residential building in Bersrod ("Zur Eiche 2") is located in the immediate vicinity of the old and still current center of the village, the Lindenplatz. There are other half-timbered houses from different centuries around Lindeplatz and also in Talstraße . Most of the buildings have been rebuilt, changed and adapted to the respective conditions of the time over the years or centuries. Today there are only a few houses with visible half-timbering and in their original condition.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Budget 2020. (PDF; 12 MB) In: Website. Reiskirchen municipality, p. 14 (preliminary remarks) , accessed in August 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Bersrod, District of Giessen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ^ 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. 46 ( online at google books ).
  4. ^ A b 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. 25 ( online at google books ).
  5. ↑ Law on the restructuring of the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen (GVBl. II 330–28) of May 13, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 17 , p. 237 ff ., § 6 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  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. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  221 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  9. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 6 ( online at google books ).
  10. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 414 ( online at Google Books ).
  11. ↑ Law on the Conditions of the Class Lords and Noble Court Lords of August 7, 1848 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1848 no. 40 , p. 237–241 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 42,9 MB ]).
  12. ^ Ordinance on the implementation of the German Courts Constitution Act and the Introductory Act to the Courts Constitution Act of May 14, 1879 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1879 no. 15 , p. 197–211 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 17.8 MB ]).
  13. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  182 ( 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. 14 ( online at google books ).
  15. ^ Municipality of Reiskirchen: Numbers + data. In: www.bersrod.de. Accessed May 2018 .
  16. ^ 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. 364 .
  17. ↑ 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;