Brandau (Modautal)

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Brandau
Modautal municipality
Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 9 ″  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 16 ″  E
Height : 320  (319-375)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.89 km²
Residents : 1298  (June 30, 2019)
Population density : 188 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 64397
Area code : 06254
Old Town Hall (2015)
Brandau (2015)

Brandau (in the local dialect: Brenne ) is the largest part of the municipality of Modautal in the southern Hessian district of Darmstadt-Dieburg and the seat of the municipal administration.

geography

Brandau is located in the lower Odenwald . Roads 3099 and 3102 meet in the village . West of Brandau there is a cemetery of honor for war dead from many nations.

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1346, when Heinrich von Rodenstein sold his property in Brandau for redemption to Count Wilhelm von Katzenelnbogen . 1392 Brandau is led under the Katzenelbogischen feudal estates. In 1480 Brandau was given to the cousins ​​Erkinger and Hans von Rodenstein as a Hessian fief . In 1565, after the death of Philipp Kalb von Reinheim, the Kalb fiefdoms fell back to Hesse. Late 16th century is the village to Lords of Rodensteinstraße Mosbach and calf, while the Landgrave of Hesse , the high state and centbare government holds. Brandau 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. Brandau belonged to the "Brandauer Reiswagen", which also included Neunkirchen , Allertshofen , Hoxhohl , Herchenrod , Lützelbach , Ernsthofen , Neutsch , Klein-Bieberau and Webern . The entire district of Oberramstadt was assigned to the Lichtenberg office . This classification existed until the beginning of the 19th century.

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

»Brandau (L. Bez. Reinheim) Lutheran Filialdorf; is 3 1 / 4  St. of clean home, on two sides of a substrate on the meadow Modaubach, has 86 houses and 573 inh., up to 3 reform. are all Lutheran. Among them are 20 farmers, 36 artisans and 23 day laborers. There are 2 grinding mills and 2 brick huts. - In the years 1346 and 1347 Heinrich and Erkinger von Rodenstein pledged their entire property in this place to Wilhelm II, Count von Katzenellenbogen. This pledge, however, has never been redeemed. The Rodensteiner, the Kalben von Reinheim and the Mosbach von Lindenfels, were also court lords. The village had over 20 Huben people in 1440; there was a separate chapel here, which later fell into disrepair and was sold in 1824. "

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse on December 31, 1971, the municipalities of Lützelbach and Neunkirchen were incorporated into the municipality of Brandau on a voluntary basis. On January 1, 1977, by virtue of state law, the merger with the municipality of Modautal formed on April 1, 1971 and other municipalities to form the new municipality of Modautal. For Brandau, a local district with a local advisory council and a local mayor was formed according to the Hessian municipal code. Brandau became the seat of the municipal administration.

Historical forms of names

In the historical documents the place is documented with changing spellings over the centuries : Branda (1346); Branda (1403); Brandau (1405); Brandaw (1423); Brandauwe (1424); Brandauwe (1457); Brandau (1750).

Territorial history and administration

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

dishes

Brandau belonged to the Oberramstadt district court . 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 Brandau. 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

• 1440: over 20 people from Huben
• 1629: 055 house seats
• 1791: 395 inhabitants
• 1800: 405 inhabitants
• 1806: 479 inhabitants, 70 houses
• 1829: 573 inhabitants, 86 houses
• 1867: 698 inhabitants, 103 houses
Brandau: Population from 1791 to 2018
year     Residents
1791
  
 395
1800
  
 405
1806
  
 479
1829
  
 573
1834
  
 569
1840
  
 610
1846
  
 651
1852
  
 639
1858
  
 614
1864
  
 684
1871
  
 720
1875
  
 775
1885
  
 771
1895
  
 750
1905
  
 687
1910
  
 701
1925
  
 698
1939
  
 693
1946
  
 1,119
1950
  
 1,045
1956
  
 929
1961
  
 950
1967
  
 1,035
1970
  
 1,037
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2007
  
 1,326
2010
  
 1,358
2011
  
 1,374
2015
  
 1,324
2018
  
 1,290
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; Modautal municipality :; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 570 Lutheran (= 99.48%), 3 Reformed (= 0.52%) inhabitants
• 1961: 766 Protestant (= 80.63%), 171 Catholic (= 18.00%) residents

politics

For Brandau there is a local district (areas of the former municipality of Brandau) with a local advisory board and local councilor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of nine members. Rainer Hubertus has been the local mayor since the local elections in 2016.

Culture and sights

War cemetery near Brandau

Buildings

  • The water-powered mill, the Neumühle, which has the largest mill wheel in the front Odenwald
  • The only tower clock with only one hand (on the old town hall)
  • The copper-clad tower of the war cemetery with victims of the two world wars on the Geisberg

Regular events

literature

Web links

Commons : Brandau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Brandau, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of May 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on May 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Numbers and facts. In: website. Modautal municipality, accessed November 2019 .
  3. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Thursday, September 10, 2015, p. 21
  4. ^ Ferdinand Dieffenbach: The Grand Duchy of Hesse in the past and present . Literary Institution, Darmstadt 1877, p. 254 ( online at Google Books ).
  5. ^ 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. 23 ( online at google books ).
  6. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Darmstadt and Dieburg and the city of Darmstadt (GVBl. II 330–334) of July 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 318 , § 9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  7. ↑ a b main statute. (PDF; 36 kB) §; 6. In: Website. Modautal municipality, accessed February 2019 .
  8. ^ 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).
  9. ^ 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 ).
  10. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  122 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  11. ↑ 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 ).
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 16 ( online at google books ).
  14. ↑ Budgets for 2017 to 2019 (preliminary report: Population statistics). (PDF) In: Website. Municipality of Modautal, p. 30 ff , accessed in July 2019 .
  15. ↑ 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;
  16. ↑ Mayor. In: website. Modautal municipality, accessed November 2019 .
  17. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Thursday, September 10, 2015, p. 21