Brensbach

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Brensbach
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Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '  N , 8 ° 53'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
County : Odenwaldkreis
Height : 175 m above sea level NHN
Area : 23.18 km 2
Residents: 4969 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 214 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 64395
Area code : 06161
License plate : ERB
Community key : 06 4 37 003
LOCODE : DE BNF
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Ezyer Strasse 5
64395 Brensbach
Website : www.brensbach.de
Mayor : Rainer Müller ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Brensbach in the Odenwaldkreis
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Brensbach is a municipality in the Odenwaldkreis in southern Hesse .

geography

Brensbach is located in the northern Odenwald in the Gersprenz valley .

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Brensbach seen from near Nieder-Kainsbach

Neighboring communities

Brensbach borders (clockwise) in the north on the city of Groß-Bieberau , on the city of Reinheim and the municipality of Otzberg (all districts of Darmstadt-Dieburg ), in the east on the municipality of Höchst and the city of Bad König , in the south on the municipalities of Brombachtal and Reichelsheim and in the west to the communities of Fränkisch-Crumbach (all Odenwaldkreis) and Fischbachtal (district of Darmstadt-Dieburg).

Community structure

According to the main statute, the community is divided into the six local districts Affhöllerbach (with Kilsbach ), Brensbach (with Mummenroth ), Höllerbach , Nieder-Kainsbach (with Stierbach ), Wallbach and Wersau (with Bierbach and Hippelsbach ).

history

From the beginning to the 18th century

The oldest surviving mention of Brensbach as Brendisbach comes from 1223.

From 1257, members of the von Brensbach family were mentioned in a document. They probably belonged to the Burgmannen of Schloss Erbach as early as 1214 with Fridericus de Ertbach and received the fiefdoms of Brensbach, which gave them their name, with the knight Friedrich von Brensbach between 1255 and 1257 from the lordship of Erbach. In 1266, Friedrich von Brensbach entered a document as a witness for the gifts from Erbach . The family bearing the coat of arms with the three rings in the diagonal right bar belonged to the village lords of Brensbach until they went out around 1414. Due to the similar coat of arms, a relationship between the von Brensbach and the von Echter can be assumed. It is probably rightly assumed that the "Echtersche House, still surrounded by old walls" at Brensbach was the old fortified manor of the ancestors of the Lords von Brensbach and the Echter, named after this Odenwald village.

The fiefdom of the village was exercised by the Fulda monastery . In the year 766 the Fulda monastery received the property of the Umstädter Mark from Pippin the Younger . The village of Brensbach was also created here. The Fulda monastery gave half of its property as a fiefdom to the rulership of Hanau and the counts of County Katzenelnbogen, which resulted in the Umstadt condominium with a joint central court .

From 1427 on, the Palatinate owned half of the condominium . During the Landshut War of Succession , the Landgraviate of Hesse occupied the area and until 1521 exercised sole control over the former Umstadt condominium. The situation was rearranged at the Reichstag in Worms . The Hanau lordship left the condominium and was compensated with the towns of Harpertshausen , Kleestadt , Langstadt and Schlierbach as well as 12,000  florins . The Landgraviate of Hesse and the Electoral Palatinate each received half of the condominium. Between 1648 and 1803, due to the division of Hesse, rulership over the Hessian half of the Hesse-Darmstadt , Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Rheinfels condominium in different parts. Parts of the village of Brensbach had been in the possession of the Counts of Erbach as fiefs since at least 1223 . In 1443 Schenk Philipp von Erbach received the Palatinate part from Count Palatine Ludwig IV. Dorf, the bailiwick and lower court with all accessories as a Fulda fief. The Erbach counts remained in possession of half the village, after 1806 through the Rhine Confederation Act as noblemen when the place fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse . The other half belonged to the Hessian states, from 1705 to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt .

The "high jurisdiction" over Brensbach was exercised by the Umstadt district court , while the "lower jurisdiction" was shared by the Hessian landgraves and the counts of Erbach.

In the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) Brensbach was also likely to have suffered heavy losses. The area between the Rhine and Bergstrasse remained occupied by the Spaniards for 10 years until they withdrew from the approaching Swedish troops in 1631. The horror of this war was far from over. After the catastrophic defeat of the Evangelicals near Nördlingen on September 6, 1634, the Swedish troops withdrew from Bergstrasse in 1635. Ultimately, the Catholic victory at Nördlingen prompted France to intervene in the Thirty Years' War alongside the now weakened Swedes. With the Swedish-French War, the bloodiest chapter of the Thirty Years' War began in 1635. The chroniclers of that time report from the region: "Plague and hunger rage in the country and decimate the population, so that the villages are often completely empty".

From the 19th century until today

From Napoleon to the world wars

The late 18th and early 19th centuries brought far-reaching changes to Europe. As a result of the Napoleonic Wars , the Holy Roman Empire (German Nation) was reorganized by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 and ceased to exist with the laying down of the imperial crown on August 6, 1806.

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 the Hessian share in Beedenkirchen . The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate . With this, the district of Umstadt and the district court associated with it had finally lost its function. The superordinate administrative authority was the "Administrative Region Darmstadt" which from 1803 was also referred to as the "Principality of Starkenburg".

Under pressure from Napoleon , the Rhine Confederation was founded in 1806 , this happened when the member territories left the empire at the same time. This led to the laying down of the imperial crown on August 6, 1806, with which the old empire ceased to exist. On August 14, 1806, the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt was raised by Napoleon to the Grand Duchy of France against high military contingents and membership of the Rhine Confederation , otherwise he was threatened with invasion. The remaining Erbach part of Brensbach fell to Hesse through the Rhine Federation Act. After Napoléon's final defeat, the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 also regulated the territorial situation for Hesse and confirmed the boundaries of the Principality of Starkenburg.

In 1816 provinces were formed in the Grand Duchy and the area previously known as the "Principality of Starkenburg", which consisted of the old Hessian territories south of the Main and the territories on the right bank of the Rhine that were added from 1803, was renamed "Province of Starkenburg" . On December 17, 1820, with the introduction of the " Constitution of the Grand Duchy of Hesse ", the Grand Duchy became a constitutional monarchy , in which the Grand Duke still had great powers. The remaining civil rights magnificent as Low jurisdiction , tithes, ground rents and other slope but remained composed until 1848.

In 1821, as part of a comprehensive administrative reform, the district bailiffs in the provinces of Starkenburg and Upper Hesse of the Grand Duchy were dissolved and district councils were introduced, with Brensbach joining the Reinheim district . As part of this reform, regional courts were also created, which were now independent of the administration. The district court districts corresponded in scope to the district council districts and the district court of Lichtenberg was responsible as the court of first instance for the district of Reinheim . Police power and patrimonial jurisdiction were exercised in the name of the Counts of Erbach-Erbach and the baronial families of Gemmingen . This reform also regulated the administrative administration at community level. Brensbach has its own mayor's office . According to the municipal ordinance of June 30, 1821, there were no longer appointments of mayors , but an elected local council, which was composed of a mayor, aldermen and council.

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

»Brensbach (L. Bez. Reinheim) Lutheran parish village, is located 2 hours from Reinheim, on the Gersprenz and on the road from Darmstadt to Erbach and belongs to the Count of Erbach-Erbach. There are 167 houses and 1079 inhabitants, which, with the exception of 4, are Reform. and 1 Catholic are all Lutheran. The craftsmen include 12 tailors, 13 shoemakers, 11 linen weavers, 9 bakers, 7 saddlers, 9 blacksmiths, etc. 5 markets are held annually. A Roman road coming from Heidelberg passed nearby to Frankfurt. In the Oberwald there are 8 hills that are believed to be Roman tombs. A noble family named themselves after this village: von Brensbach, after whose extinction the Genuine von Mespelsbrunn appear here. The place belonged to the Oberhof Umstadt and was an old Fulda fiefdom that was later sold by this monastery. Churpfalz enfeoffed Hessen and Erbach with this place; So in 1398 Schenk Eberhard von Erbach received the Kirchsatz as a fiefdom from the Count Palatine Ruprecht, and in 1532 the donations with the Bailiwick and the courts, as far as his share is, were enfeoffed by the Palatinate, which was renewed at least in 1722. Erbach recognized this feudal quality without objection, but Hessen tried to dispute it. Hesse and Erbach owned the Vogteigericht in separate streets and apartments. The upper jurisdiction in civil legal cases was addressed by both Churpfalz and Hessen; the cent or embarrassing cases, however, were dealt with jointly by both. In 1803 the Palatinate share came to Hesse, as did the Erbach share in 1806 under Hess. Highness; however, in 1827 the jurisdiction and police rights of Hesse were ceded to the Count of Erbach-Erbach. "

In 1832 the administrative units were further enlarged and circles were created. Brensbach was assigned to the Dieburg district . In 1842 the tax system in the Grand Duchy was reformed and the tithe and the basic pensions (income from property) were replaced by a tax system of the kind that still exists today.

The following entry can be found in the latest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all localities in the German federal states from 1845–48:

»Brensbach b. Reinheim. - Village with a Protestant parish church, belonging to the Hering parish with regard to the Catholics. - 167 H. 1079 E. - Grand Duchy of Hesse - Province of Starkenburg. - Dieburg district. - Lichtenberg district court. - Darmstadt Court of Justice. - The village of Brensbach, belonging to the Count of Erbach Erbach, is 2 hours from Reinheim, on the Gersprenz and on the road leading from Darmstadt to Erbach. 5 annual markets are held here. A part of the place belonged to the Palatinate, which in 1803, and in 1806 also the Erbachsche portion, came under Hessian sovereignty. "

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. In addition, in the provinces, the districts and the administrative districts of the Grand Duchy were abolished on July 31, 1848 and replaced by "administrative districts", with the previous Dieburg districts being added to the Dieburg administrative district. Just four years later, in the course of the reaction era, they returned to the division into districts and Brensbach became part of the Dieburg district again.

The population and cadastral lists recorded in December 1852 showed for Brensbach: a market town on the Gersprenz with 1191 inhabitants. The district consists of 2249 acres , of which 1555 acres are arable land, 258 acres are meadows and 355 acres are forest. The Hummenroth farm and the farmer's mill also belong to Brensbach.

In the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, based on December 1867, the market town of Brensbach with its own mayor's office, 188 houses, 1093 inhabitants, the Dieburg district, the Reinheim district court, the Protestant parish Brensbach with the deanery in Reinheim and the Catholic parish Herig des Deanery Dieburg, indicated. The hamlet of Mummenroth (3 houses, 16 inhabitants) was also administered by the mayor's office.

In 1870, the Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck provoked the Franco-German War with the so-called Emser Depesche , in which the Grand Duchy of Hesse took part as a member of the North German Confederation on the side of Prussia . Before its official end on May 10, 1871, the southern German states joined the North German Confederation, and on January 1, 1871 its new constitution came into force, with which the North German Confederation became the German Empire . On the German side, this war claimed around 41,000 deaths. With the Reich Coin Act , Germany only had one currency, the mark with 100 pfennigs as a sub-unit.

Time of world wars

On August 1, 1914, the First World War broke out and put an end to the positive economic development throughout the German Empire . When the armistice was signed after the German defeat on November 11, 1918, Brensbach also had many fallen and missing to mourn, while the war cost a total of around 17 million human lives. The end of the German Empire was thus sealed, and the troubled times of the Weimar Republic followed. In the period from 1921 to 1930, there were 566,500 emigrants in Germany who tried to escape the difficult conditions in Germany.

In 1927, the district size for Brensbach with the hamlet of Mummenroth was given as 591.8  ha . On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, which marked the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship . The Hessian provinces of Starkenburg, Rheinhessen and Upper Hesse were abolished in 1937 after the provincial and district assemblies were dissolved in 1936. On November 1, 1938, a comprehensive regional reform came into force at the district level. In the former province of Starkenburg, some places were relocated from the Dieburg district to the Darmstadt district . Brensbach remained in the Dieburg district, which was only renamed the Dieburg district. On September 1, 1939, when German troops marched into Poland, the Second World War began , the effects of which were even more dramatic than the First World War and the number of victims is estimated at 60 to 70 million people. In the final phase of the Second World War in Europe, the American units reached the Rhine between Mainz and Mannheim in mid-March 1945. On March 22nd, the 3rd US Army crossed the Rhine near Oppenheim and occupied Darmstadt on March 25th. In the first hours of March 26, 1945, American units crossed the Rhine near Hamm and south of Worms, from where they advanced on a broad front towards the Bergstrasse. On March 27, the American troops were in Lorsch, Bensheim and Heppenheim and a day later Aschaffenburg am Main and the western and northern parts of the Odenwald were occupied. The war in Europe ended with the unconditional surrender of all German troops, which came into effect on May 8, 1945 at 11:01 p.m. Central European Time. Brensbach had 93 fallen or missing soldiers in this war.

The Grand Duchy of Hesse was a member state of the German Confederation from 1815 to 1866 and then a federal state of the German Empire . It existed until 1919, after the First World War, the Grand Duchy for was republican written People's State of Hesse . In 1945 after the end of the Second World War , the area of ​​today's Hesse was in the American zone of occupation and by order of the military government, Greater Hesse was created , from which the state of Hesse emerged in its current borders.

Post-war and present

As the population figures from 1939 to 1950 show, Brensbach also had to cope with many refugees and displaced persons from the former German eastern regions after the war .

In 1961 the size of the district was given as 592  ha , 112 ha of which were forest.

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse on February 1, 1971, the previously independent municipality of Affhöllerbach was incorporated into the neighboring municipality of Nieder-Kainsbach on a voluntary basis. On August 1, 1972, the municipalities of Höllerbach, Nieder-Kainsbach, Wallbach and Wersau came to Brensbach, which was at the same time reclassified from the Dieburg district to the Odenwaldkreis. For the district of Brensbach, as for the other incorporated, formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local head was set up in accordance with the Hessian municipal code.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Beedenkirchen 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 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 Brensbach. 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 lower jurisdiction and police power remained with the landlords until 1848, but were exercised in their name by the state rulers.

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 . In 1848 the regional court was relocated to Reinheim and renamed the regional court Reinheim .

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 the Reinheim District Court and assigned to the district of the regional court Darmstadt .

With a change in the court organization in 1968, the district courts were to have their seat in the district town, which led to the dissolution of the Reinheim district court and the assignment of Brensbach to the Dieburg district court . As a result of the regional reform in Hesse, Brensbach moved to the Odenwaldkreis and on July 1, 1973 in the district court district of Michelstadt . The Darmstadt Regional Court is superordinate to the Michelstadt District Court . The higher regional court of Frankfurt am Main and the Federal Court of Justice are superordinate in the next instance .

population

Population structure

According to the 2011 census , there were 5,123 inhabitants in Brensbach on May 9, 2011. Among them were 231 (4.5%) foreigners of whom 135 came from outside the EU , 77 from other European countries and 19 from other countries. The inhabitants lived in 2152 households. Of these, 565 were single households , 625 couples without children and 708 couples with children, as well as 206 single parents and 48 shared apartments .

Population development

• 1633: 0168 inhabitants
• 1800: 0568 inhabitants
• 1806: 0812 inhabitants, 119 houses
• 1829: 1079 inhabitants, 167 houses
• 1867: 1110 inhabitants, 192 houses
Brensbach: Population from 1800 to 2015
year     Residents
1800
  
 812
1806
  
 1,079
1829
  
 1,079
1834
  
 1,096
1840
  
 1,204
1846
  
 1,249
1852
  
 1,191
1858
  
 1,093
1864
  
 1,126
1871
  
 1,134
1875
  
 1,178
1885
  
 1,170
1895
  
 1,184
1905
  
 1,150
1910
  
 1,153
1925
  
 1,069
1939
  
 1,089
1946
  
 1,444
1950
  
 1,480
1956
  
 1,247
1961
  
 1,409
1967
  
 1,531
1970
  
 1,565
1972
  
 3,970
1976
  
 4,160
1984
  
 4,653
1992
  
 5.126
2005
  
 5,389
2010
  
 5,187
2011
  
 5.123
2015
  
 5,023
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 1972 :; 1976 :; 1984 :; 1992 :; 2000 :; 2005 :; 2010 :; 2011 census; 2015:
From 1972 including the towns incorporated into Hesse as part of the regional reform .

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 1,074 Lutheran (= 99.54%), 4 Reformed (= 0.37%) and one Catholic (= 0.09%) residents
• 1961: 1187 Protestant (= 84.24%), 199 Catholic (= 14.12%) residents
• 2011: 4184 Protestant (= 58.6%), 1256 Catholic (= 17.6%), 1704 other (= 23.9%) residents

Church history

Originally Brensbach belonged to Kollatur Fulda, later Erbach and the Archdeacon Montat. Brensbach was administered by the Archidiakonata St. Peter and Alexander in Aschaffenburg and the Landkapitel Montat. A parish in Brensbach has been mentioned since 1387. The villages Nieder-Kainsbach and Mummenroth also belonged to the parish. In 1443 Schenk Konrad von Erbach was enfeoffed with the church sentence by the Count Palatine. In the 16th century the Counts of Erbach convert to the Lutheran faith and since 1526 Brensbach has had a Protestant pastor.

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016
   
A total of 25 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 44.5 11 50.2 13 57.1 14th 63.0 20th
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 31.7 8th 31.7 8th 42.9 11 37.0 11
UWG-Brensbach Brensbach independent voter community 23.7 6th 18.1 4th - - - -
total 100 25th 100 25th 100 25th 100 31
Turnout in percent 55.3 52.9 51.6 57.1

mayor

The mayors of the independent municipality of Brensbach worked on a voluntary basis until 1964. As part of the regional reform in Hesse 1972–1977, today's districts were incorporated . The first mayor of the newly created community, which kept the name of the largest district, was Willi Riedel.

Mayor of the municipality of Brensbach since 1892:
Term of office Surname Political party
1892-1923 Martin Friedrich independent
1922-1937 Georg Wilhelm Schanz independent
1941-1945 Philipp Trinkaus NSDAP
1945-1948 Leonhard Hofmann independent
1948-1952 Leonhard Weber independent
1952-1966 Georg Groh II. independent
1966-1966 Andreas Gottmann independent
1966-1972 Gerhard Schütz independent
1972-1997 Willi Riedel SPD
1997-2014 Hans-Georg Stosiek SPD
since 2014 Rainer Müller SPD

badges and flags

Banner Brensbach.svg

coat of arms

Brensbach coat of arms
 Blazon : "In a silver shield below a blue stream, floating above a red, licking flame accompanied by 5 six-pointed stars."

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Georg Massoth according to old court seals.

The meaning of the coat of arms is reflected in the name Brensbach: In the starry glow, the eponymous brook looked, according to legend, as if it was burning. It is more likely, however, that this looked like this at sunset, because the radiance of the stars is too low.

flag

The flag was approved by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior on June 12, 1978 and is described as follows:

"The municipal coat of arms is placed in red and white flag cloth in the upper third."

Partnerships

The municipality of Brensbach has had partnership relationships with the French municipality of Ézy-sur-Eure since 1978 .

Cultural monuments

Personalities

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Main statute of August 24, 2017 (PDF; 50 KB) Brensbach municipality, p. 2 § 5 , accessed in May 2019 .
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  52. ↑ SPD thanks Willi Riedel for almost four decades of commitment on the SPD Brensbach website of January 27, 2006.
  53. ↑ Mayor Hans-Georg Stosiek left ECHO-Online on July 5, 2013 at 65 .
  54. ^ Rainer Müller becomes the new mayor of Brensbach on the website of the SPD Brensbach on February 3, 2014.
  55. ^ Brensbach coat of arms  In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
  56. ^ Approval of a flag for the municipality of Brensbach, Odenwaldkreis from June 12, 1978 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1978 No. 27 , p. 1249 , point 794 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5,6 MB ]).