Bleichenbach

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Bleichenbach
Bleichenbach coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 35 ″  N , 9 ° 2 ′ 52 ″  E
Height : 135 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.08 km²
Residents : 1565  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 221 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1971
Postal code : 63683
Area code : 06041

Bleichenbach is a district of Ortenberg (Hessen) in the Wetteraukreis in Hessen .

Geographical location

Bleichenbach is located at an altitude of 140 m above sea ​​level , 3 km south of the center of Ortenberg, 6 km northwest of Büdingen and approx. 35 kilometers east of Frankfurt am Main in the Bleichetal through which the Bleichenbach flows.

history

Territorial Affiliation

The oldest mention of Bleichenbach is from around 1160 / 1170 , as a Gumprath de Bleichenbach in Codex Eberhardi is called.

In the Middle Ages and in the early modern period, Bleichenbach belonged to the Ortenberg office , a condominium that was formed by three sovereigns from among the members of the Wetterau Counts' Association . For details see: here . 1601, there was a real division of Kondominats, the village Bleichenbach to the Hanau-Münzenberg , 1642: County Hanau fell. The county of Hanau fell in 1736 when the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III, died. , on the basis of an inheritance contract to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel . The Hanau, later Hessian " Amt Ortenberg " then formed part of the Grand Ducal Hessian Amt Ortenberg from 1810 onwards . In 1821 the Grand Duchy formed the district of Nidda , into which all parts of the former Ortenberg office were merged and which was called Kreis Nidda from 1832 . With the revolution of 1848 the administrative district of Nidda was briefly formed, but in 1852 the district of Nidda was revived. In 1874 the areas of the former Ortenberg district became part of the Büdingen district , which became part of the Wetterau district with the regional reform in Hessen in 1972 .

Bleichenbach was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse on 1 July 1971, the cities of Ortenberg and Lißberg and four other smaller surrounding communities on a voluntary basis to the new city Ortenberg together .

Church conditions

The oldest surviving mention of Bleichenbach from 1219 also mentions a chapel in the village, whose patronage was the Konradsdorf Monastery . In the 15th century the patronage held the Electoral Palatinate , which gave it to the Lords of Bleichenbach as a fief in 1477 . In 1504 it was bought by Hanau . Before the Reformation , the parish belonged to the Diocese of Mainz, the central church authority was the Archdiaconate of the Provost of Konradsdorf Monastery. In the course of the Reformation, all the rulers of the Ortenberg condominium joined the Reformed direction of the Reformation, including Bleichenbach.

Population development

Bleichenbach: Population from 1834 to 2018
year     Residents
1834
  
 852
1840
  
 928
1846
  
 833
1852
  
 809
1858
  
 765
1864
  
 763
1871
  
 750
1875
  
 759
1885
  
 754
1895
  
 748
1905
  
 768
1910
  
 756
1925
  
 781
1939
  
 812
1946
  
 1.317
1950
  
 1,265
1956
  
 1,115
1961
  
 1,118
1967
  
 1,180
1970
  
 1,222
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2008
  
 1,321
2011
  
 1,467
2014
  
 1,564
2018
  
 1,565
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

coat of arms

On October 21, 1963, the municipality of Bleichenbach in the district of Büdingen , administrative district of Darmstadt , was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon: In blue a golden diagonal right-hand wave bar, topped by a silver oak leaf and below by a silver ear of rye.

Culture and sights

Multi-generation house in Bleichenbach
Evangelical Church in Bleichenbach
Dorfbrunnen Brauhausborn

Buildings

  • Evangelical church in Bleichenbach from the 16th century in baroque style with paintings by Isaak Koch
  • Former School (Old School)
  • historical fountain on the Brauhausborn from the 18th century
  • Bridges: One of the special features of the place are the 12 bridges that lead over the Bleichenbach stream of the same name.

landscape

  • Lookout point on the Guten Born

Leisure and sports facilities

  • There is a children's playground at the rectory.
  • The Rudolf Höhn sports facility is located on the edge of the village.
  • There are two fishing ponds in the direction of Bergheim an der "Schönau".

Transport links

Sons and daughters of the district

literature

  • Rudolf Höhn, Bleichenbach, a look around at home. In: Büdinger Geschichtsblätter IX / X, 1980–81, pp. 241–300
  • Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hesse-Nassau area = writings of the institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau 16 (1937). ND 1984, p. 48.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel (edit.): Historical place directory for the area of ​​the former Grand Duchy and People's State of Hesse with evidence of district and court affiliation from 1820 until the changes in the course of the municipal territorial reform = Darmstädter Archivschriften 2. 1976, p. 61.
  • Heinz Wionski: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Wetteraukreis II. Stuttgart 1999, pp. 384-392.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bleichenbach, Wetterau district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 15, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Population figures . In: Website of the city of Ortenberg, accessed in April 2020.
  3. ↑ Heinrich Meyer to Ermgassen (Editor): The Codex Eberhardi the monastery of Fulda , Volume 1 (1995), Volume 2 (1996), Volume 3 (2007) and Volume 4: The book decoration of the Codex Eberhardi (2009), Marburg. ISBN 3770810449 (Vol. 1), ISBN 3770810597 (Vol. 2), ISBN 9783770813131 (Vol. 3), ISBN 9783863541378 (Vol. 4), Vol. 2, pp. 334 f.
  4. ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 28 , p. 1117 , item 988; Para. 12. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 5.0 MB ]).
  5. ^ 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. 352 .
  6. ↑ 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;
  7. ↑ Hessischer Staatsanzeiger 44/1963, p. 1246

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