Billings (Fischbachtal)

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Billings
community Fischbachtal
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 24 "  N , 8 ° 47 ′ 40"  E
Height : 228  (211-238)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 1.33 km²
Residents : 323  (December 31, 2015)
Population density : 243 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 64405
Area code : 06166
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Fischbachtal, Billings in red
Billings from west northwest
Billings from west northwest

Billings is a district of the Fischbachtal municipality in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse .

Billings is located in the northern Odenwald in the middle of the Fischbachtal community on the upper Fischbach . State road 3102 runs through the village .

history

The village was first mentioned in a document as early as the 8th century. At that time the place name was marca Billingurae . The village was later called Böllings . In the 15th century several mills were in operation, namely an oil mill and two flour mills . Today there is a water wheel , which is used to generate electricity, in memory of the mill tradition . After the Thirty Years War , the place fell into desolation and was not settled again until 1674. Billings (formerly Waldhausen) was in the judicial district of the district of Oberramstadt . The centering was divided into so-called "rice car," each of which a top magistrate board that the Zentgrafen were subordinated. This district had to provide a freight wagon ( rice wagon ) including draft animals and servants for campaigns. Billings belonged to the "Großbieberauer Reiswagen", to which Waldhausen consists of the places Niedernhausen , Billings, Meßbach and Nonrod as well as the villages Rodau , Wersau and Steinau belonged. The entire district of Oberramstadt was assigned to the Lichtenberg office . This classification existed until the beginning of the 19th century. In 1722 Johann Rudolph von Walbrunn sold the interest and pensions he was entitled to in Billings as an accessory to Ernsthofen Castle to Landgrave Ernst Ludwig von Hessen-Darmstadt. In 1806 the places Billings, Meßbach and Nonrod are mentioned as villages of the community Waldhausen.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Billings in 1829:

»Billings (L. Bez. Reinheim) Lutheran Filialdorf; is 2 hours from Reinheim, at the beginning of a narrow, later widening valley, has 21 houses and 177 inhabitants, who are Lutheran except for 3 Catholics, and 3 grinding mills with which 2 oil mills are connected. The Billinger marca , which appears so often in letters of gift to Lorsch Abbey, is without a doubt this village. At the end of the Thirty Years War the place was completely uninhabited. "

Billings was an independent municipality until the voluntary merger with the municipalities of Steinau , Meßbach , Nonrod , Lichtenberg and Niedernhausen to form the municipality of Fischbachtal on December 31, 1971 as part of the regional reform in Hesse . For each of the former municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was set up in accordance with the Hessian municipal code. The municipal administration got its seat in the district of Niedernhausen.

Historical place names

In the historical documents the place is documented under changing place names over the centuries (the year of mention in brackets): Böllings (1430); Bollings (1436); Bul (l) inges (16th century); Billinx (1558); Billings (1671); Billings (1722).

Territorial history and administration

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

dishes

Billings belonged to the district court Umstadt and later to the district court Oberramstadt . 1630 a lower court is called Waldhausen. In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Darmstadt” was set up as a court of second instance for the Principality of Starkenburg . The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or the landlords . The Lichtenberg Office was responsible for Billings. 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 . The main courts had lost their function.

With the formation of the regional courts in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the regional court of Lichtenberg was the court of first instance from 1821 . It followed:

Population development

• After 1648 uninhabited
• 1791: 329 (with Niedernhausen, Meßbach and Nonrod) inhabitants
• 1800: 92 inhabitants
• 1806: 120 inhabitants, 16 houses
• 1829: 177 inhabitants, 21 houses
• 1867: 196 inhabitants, 29 houses
Billings: Population from 1800 to 2011
year     Residents
1800
  
 92
1806
  
 120
1829
  
 177
1834
  
 161
1840
  
 142
1846
  
 170
1852
  
 170
1858
  
 175
1864
  
 187
1871
  
 197
1875
  
 208
1885
  
 195
1895
  
 213
1905
  
 210
1910
  
 226
1925
  
 207
1939
  
 196
1946
  
 271
1950
  
 259
1956
  
 223
1961
  
 246
1967
  
 269
1970
  
 269
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 339
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: 174 Lutheran (= 89.30%) and 3 Catholic (= 1.70%) residents
• 1961: 235 Protestant (= 95.53%), 10 Catholic (= 4.07%) residents

politics

For Billings there is a local district (areas of the former municipality of Billings) with a local advisory board and a local mayor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of five members. Since the local elections in 2016, it has had one member of the SPD , one member of the CDU , two members of the FWF and one non-party member. The mayor is Gerhard Beckhausen (non-party).

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • The Evangelical Snail Chapel , inaugurated in 1967, is a concrete building in the shape of a snail shell .
  • The school building, which is now privately owned, is worth seeing.
  • There is a town house from the 1970s, a playground and a mountain lake in an old quarry .

Regular events

  • May 1st: Billings Volunteer Fire Brigade BBQ
  • 3rd weekend in August: Celebration of the Kerb ( parish fair ) with a parade , Kerbered and live music

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Billings, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of April 17, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Fischbachtal in numbers. In: website. Fischbachtal community, accessed November 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  123 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  4. ^ Wilhelm Müller: Hessian place names book: Starkenburg . Ed .: Historical Commission for the People's State of Hesse. tape 1 . Self-published, Darmstadt 1937, DNB  366995820 , OCLC 614375103 , p. 727 .
  5. ^ Ferdinand Dieffenbach: The Grand Duchy of Hesse in the past and present . Literary Institution, Darmstadt 1877, p. 254 ( online at Google Books ).
  6. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  118 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  7. ^ A b c 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. 20 ( online at google books ).
  8. ^ Hesse municipal area reform; Amalgamation and integration 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 ff ., Item 94, Para. 71 ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 6.0 MB ]).
  9. ↑ 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. 228 .
  10. ↑ a b main statute. (PDF; 237 kB) §; 5. In: Website. Fischbachtal community, accessed July 2019 .
  11. ^ 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).
  12. ^ 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 ).
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  124 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  15. ^ 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 ).
  16. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1.8 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  17. ^ Free community of voters Fischbachtal. Website. In: fwf-fischbachtal.de. Accessed November 2019 .
  18. ↑ Local Advisory Boards. In: website. Fischbachtal community, accessed November 2019 .