Blitzenrod

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Blitzenrod
City of Lauterbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 5 ″  N , 9 ° 23 ′ 30 ″  E
Height : 337 m above sea level NN
Residents : 800  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : April 1, 1939
Postal code : 36341
Area code : 06641
The Evangelical Church in Blitzenrod
The Lauter waterfall in Blitzenrod
The parish hall in Blitzenrod
The Berghaus Education Center

Blitzenrod is a formerly independent municipality and has been part of the central Hessian district town of Lauterbach since April 1, 1939 .

geography

The place borders Lauterbach in the north and can therefore hardly be separated from the actual city. About 1 km to the west is Frischborn , in the south in 1 km distance is Eisenbach with the castle Eisenbach , 3 km in the east is Angersbach and the same distance it is to Rudlos in the southeast. The course of the Lauter goes through the village and the meadows and forests surrounding the district to the east and south-east of Blitzenrod are exemplary of the special nature of the Vogelsberg .

history

The oldest known written mention of Blitzenrod took place in 1428 under the name Blitzenrode .

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Blitzenrod in 1830:

"Blitzenrod (L. Bez. Lauterbach) evangel. Branch village; Located in Vogelsberg 1 ⁄ 2 St. von Lauterbach, belongs to the Baron von Riedesel, has 7 houses and 57 evangelists. Residents; "

On April 1, 1939, the municipality Blitzenrod was in the city Lauterbach incorporated .

Place name

The origin of the name Blitzenrod goes back to the assumption that the area of ​​the place was previously cleared by lightning strikes and fire .

Hat factory

The oldest hat and cap factory in Germany, the R&M Wegener company, is located directly on the B 275 in Blitzenrod . The spacious building was taken over by R&M Wegener on March 1, 1884, after the site had been used as a spinning mill for years, but it burned down.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Blitzenrod 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 landlords and so from 1806 the “Patrimonial Court of the Barons Riedesel zu Eisenbach” in Engelrod was responsible for Blitzenrod. 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 second instance for the patrimonial courts were the civil law firms. The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate .

With the founding of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806, this function was retained, while the tasks of the first instance 1821–1822 were transferred to the newly created regional and city courts as part of the separation of jurisdiction and administration. For this purpose, the stately " Lauterbach Regional Court " was created, which was responsible for Blitzenrod. It was only as a result of the March Revolution of 1848 that the special civil rights were finally abolished with the “Law on the Relationships of Classes and Noble Court Lords” of April 15, 1848.

On the occasion of the introduction of the Courts Constitution Act with effect from October 1, 1879, as a result of which the previous grand ducal Hessian regional courts were replaced by local courts in the same place, while the newly created regional courts now functioned as higher courts, the name was changed to "Lauterbach Local Court" and allocation to the district of the regional court of Giessen .

Population development

• 1800: 37 inhabitants
• 1806: 40 inhabitants, 7 houses
• 1829: 57 inhabitants, 7 houses
• 1867: 90 inhabitants, 12 inhabited buildings
• 1875: 104 inhabitants, 11 inhabited buildings
Blitzenrod: Population from 1800 to 2015
year     Residents
1800
  
 37
1806
  
 40
1829
  
 57
1834
  
 54
1840
  
 88
1846
  
 157
1852
  
 86
1858
  
 87
1864
  
 91
1871
  
 102
1875
  
 104
1885
  
 110
1895
  
 172
1905
  
 197
1910
  
 242
1925
  
 285
1950
  
 ?
1970
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2003
  
 1,037
2005
  
 1.007
2010
  
 861
2015
  
 802
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

politics

The place belongs to the core city and is not a separate district. Therefore, Blitzenrod does not have its own local advisory board .

Culture and sights

The former community of Blitzenrod has its own Protestant church. It can accommodate around 150 people. The glass windows there were created by Alexander Linnemann from Frankfurt. The community hall , which was built a short distance away, is used for all kinds of events.

Economy and Infrastructure

Power supply

A waterfall flowing on the premises of the hat factory has been driving a turbine to generate electricity since the times of the spinning mill, which today is used to power the whole of Blitzenrod.

Other facilities

  • Retirement and nursing home "Haus Margarete" in Sonnenweg
  • Pension & education center "Berghaus" in the Sonnenweg
  • Café and bar "Zentralstation", formerly the Oberwaldbahn stop

traffic

Major roads

The federal highway 275 runs as part of the German fairy tale route through Blitzenrod and bears the name Vogelsbergstrasse within the place .

Bike paths

Along the outskirts of Blitzenrod, the volcano cycle path runs along the route of the former Oberwaldbahn .

bus connections

Blitzenrod is connected to the core city of Lauterbach via the VB-20 bus line .

Web links

Commons : Blitzenrod  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Population figures according to districts. (PDF; 55 kB) In: Internat appearance. City of Lauterbach, archived from the original ; accessed in May 2018 .
  2. ↑ Incorporation of the communities of Blitzenrod and Rudlos into the city of Lauterbach on February 22, 1939 . In: Reichsstatthalter in Hessen (Hrsg.): Hessisches Regierungsblatt. 1939 no. 5 , p. 26 , no. 1711 / J / 38 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 10.9 MB ]).
  3. ↑ a b Blitzenrod, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 4, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  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. 32 ( online at google books ).
  5. ↑ R&M Wegener: History , accessed on August 16, 2012
  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. ↑ The affiliation of the Engelrod court based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hessen : Hessen-Marburg 1567-1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604–1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567–1866 .
  9. ^ 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. 13 ff ., § 24 point d) XI. ( Online at google books ).
  10. ↑ 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. 9 ( online at google books ).
  11. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  280 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  12. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 426 ( online at Google Books ).
  13. ^ Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt 1830, p. 158 ff . ( online at Google Books ).
  14. ↑ 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 ]).
  15. ^ 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 ]).
  16. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  231 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  17. ↑ Housing spaces 1867 . In: Grossherzogliche Centralstelle für die Landesstatistik (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1877, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730484 , p. 120 ( online at google books ).
  18. ↑ Residential places 1875 . In: Grossherzogliche Centralstelle für die Landesstatistik (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 15 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1877, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730484 , p. 17 ( online at google books ).